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Tehran, Iran -- For as long as we all remember, the idea of a comprehensive peace plan between Israel and its neighbours seemed to be the textbook definition of failure. Endless cycles of violence suggest that the original idea of a safe haven for Jews is badly in need of a rethink.
Tehran, Iran -- The latest cycles of violence are part of an overall Israeli plan to keep the region unstable. It is simply another installment of the raw reality that Israel has little regard for international systems of law and order.
Tehran, Iran -- Peacekeeping is indeed the primary task of the Security Council. But that task has been neglected for such a long time that the Middle East is in urgent need of a boldly enforced peace making plan. A durable plan with foreign troops on both sides of Israel's borders is needed.
Recent events in Gaza and the West Bank are the fruits of an old classic ploy -- divide and dominate, if only to buy time and delay reality. However, this tactic has not yielded the results that Israel & Co. intended.
Tony Blair ended his 10 years at Downing Street and resigned his parliamentary seat. He left behind a series of unfinished political initiatives that he started in UK. Many Britons believe that he was a prime minister in love with media attention rather than the substance of genuine political doctrine. His successor is planning to steer Britain towards a more defined policy and a calm, even-handed style of leadership at home and abroad.
“The Lobby” has stormed Washington like Bolshevik mobs and their revolutionary jamboree at the Winter Palace. But their goal appears to be a concerted effort to make a Napoleon out of American leaders. They want to change the legal system, remove all opposition and install puppet kings in Europe. Of course, Napoleon’s quick decision to attack Russia (today’s Iraq?) proved to be a disaster that ruined French finances and reputation.
The Lobby has spread itself across a wide spectrum of organizations to achieve its goals. One is a joint American-Israeli “committee.” Others hide behind think-tank and NGO labels that push “policy” or dispense “enterprise” ideas in the form of cash, skewed analysis and hype. All promise a Kingdom brighter than any that Heaven has to offer.
Israel is gaming Washington for tactical survival. The aim is nothing more than shortsighted militarist games, but the “win” remains elusive. The Lobby cannot help it: the idea of a peaceful refuge for Jews after the atrocities of World War II has flopped. Violence and bloodshed, be it Jewish or Arab, is now the daily fare.
The Current Discussion: With the Israeli re-invasion of Gaza, it's clear that the "Annapolis Peace Process" is collapsing. Does it matter? Who's to blame?
The Annapolis Peace Process was dead at birth. It was conceived as an American project for internal politics. The cause of death is the obvious defective design of a hasty and illogical desire to decouple from the past. It might be a flashback to 1947, when Britain withdrew from the Mandate of Palestine and announced that it could not reach a solution acceptable to both Arabs and Jews. Thereafter the young U.N. General Assembly resolved to create two countries alongside each other, with Jerusalem as a specially designated city of equal access. Nevertheless, Israel declared independence and the complicated problem remains alive some sixty years later. (Didn’t we see a re-run of this show in Kosovo a mere two weeks ago?)
The Current Discussion: Vice President Dick Cheney said last week that Hamas is doing all it can to torpedo the Mideast peace process -- but Ephraim Halevy, former head of Mossad, thinks it's time to include the Islamist group in peace talks. Who's right?
The question leads to an obvious answer and a few observations to ponder upon. Is it possible to exclude a political party that won a majority in the last election of Palestinians?
I wonder which Israel we ought to consider for the fact that there are several ideas (imagined or in some stage of conception) all lumped into an opaque State of Israel and presented as the promised land of level-headedness and peace for all Jews mentioned in Siddur, the Jewish book of prayers and rites of practice. In reality, however, it is a place for experiments and fantasies practiced by a militant Jewish minority in some sort of a trial and error scheme. The ideal of peace and tranquility has remained elusive for all 60 years of the promised nation-state since a group, self-defined as Zionists, set out to form a Jewish refuge. In reality, it has been six decades of a state of siege and the presumed mindset of war, where all adults are afraid of the draft for war duty and of bloodshed the next day. Simply put, the State of Israel has served as an arena for bloodshed of the same Jews that were promised peace. The enigma of militants was truly exposed when a founding member of the Zionist movement, Yitzhak Rabin, was killed for his decision to change course and pursue real peace. The militants celebrated by ripping up a negotiated peace deal and blockading of their peace partners.
The Current Discussion: Are Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Obama on a collision course over Iran and the Palestinian problem? What would be the consequences of a breach between the United States and Israel?
After the de facto defeat in Iraq, America seems to have reached an awakening long overdue: America’s national interests are fundamentally different from Israel's. The Zionist regime has confused America’s support (initially a humanitarian assistance program) with a silly perception of a right to occupy Washington or somehow game and dictate policy to the largest economy in the world. Alas, the game is up. These childish tactics are unsustainable and incompatible with national interests of America—despite Israeli hype, lobbies and calculated ill will of mislabeling of other religions as a political ideology.
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