Letter to Another Dishonest 'Peace' Broker

...bent on bypassing the justice process.

US Sec of State John Kerry

(LONDON) - Well John-boy, how do you think history will judge you?

The whole world has heard about your brilliant breakthrough - persuading trigger-happy US-subsidised Israel and the strangulated, unarmed Palestinians to agree "in principle" to resume the one-sided negotiations abandoned three years ago.

The reason they were abandoned, you’ll remember, was simple. The talks were fundamentally bogus, pursued in bad faith and going nowhere, just like all the other talks over the last 20 years. It was talk, talk, talk while the Israelis build, build, build their illegal settlements, illegal annexation wall and Jews-only highways.

The rest of the world, watching from outside the ludicrous peace process circus, will be forgiven for wondering why any of it was ever necessary when the key issues have already been defined, decided and ruled on by international law and a whole heap of UN resolutions.

In spite of that, John-boy, you’re frantically trying to restart a failed and discredited process that has little to do with peace. The aim is plainly to bypass the justice process afforded by international law and UN resolutions and push the Palestinians into pleading for their rights and property directly with the criminals that seized their land, ethnically cleansed it and still have their jackboot on the necks of the Palestinians who remain in the disconnected remnants of their homeland.

Has it not crossed your mind, John-boy, that this charade won’t work because there can be no lasting peace without justice? Didn’t they teach you that at law school? But never mind. The great thing is that it buys more time for the Israelis to establish even more irreversible facts on the ground that will help make the illegal occupation permanent.

Remember what Miko Peled, the Israeli general’s son, said: "The name of the game [is] erasing Palestine, getting rid of the people and de-Arabizing the country...”

Nice game, huh?

Do tell us where there's a shred of nobility or honesty in what you’re doing, John-boy, we’d love to know.

And what bent you to the Zionist cause in the first place?

The heroic ‘partners for peace’

Now let’s meet the lovely people you’re bringing together for these historic 'negotiations'.

In the Israeli corner we have the thug regime's pin-up, Tzipi Livni. Her parents were both members of the Irgun, the notorious Jewish terror group. Her father, Eitan, was its chief operations officer. In 1946 the Irgun blew up the King David Hotel, Jerusalem, which housed the British mandate administration, murdering 91. She served in a Mossad unit and became a member of the Knesset in 1999. As Israeli foreign minister she was responsible for the slaughter and maiming of thousands, including women and children, when she launched Operation Cast Lead against the overcrowded civilians of the tiny sealed-off enclave of Gaza. Tzipi Livni is up to her pretty neck in Palestinian blood and shredded body-parts.

In the Palestinian corner we have one of President Abbas's closest aides, Saeb Erekat. He's their chief negotiator and has occupied that vitally important position for 20 years, during which he has achieved… well, what? He must be the most unsuccessful negotiator on the planet. Why is he still there? We know perfectly well why. He's a loser and can be relied on to fail.

In the background is the Israeli prime minister Netanyahu, a menace to his own nation and the whole civilized world. The best place for him is a padded cell.

Facing him, but quite possibly skipping around hand-in-hand with enemy when off-camera, is the obnoxious quisling Abbas. As everyone knows, this ‘grey suit’ is living a privileged life on borrowed time. His term as Palestinian President officially expired in January 2009, but the western-backed parasite has clung like dried excrement to power.

Thanks to this Palestinian dinosaur I have two vivid images of Palestinians. The first, in Gaza, is the memory of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and the crusty old Catholic priest, Fr Manuel Mussallam, who had guarded his flock through the darkest of days, standing shoulder to shoulder in front of the microphones and cameras, each proclaiming that he was Palestinian first and Muslim or Christian second.

That’s unity of a most welcome sort.

The other image is of surly election losers Fatah now playing the part of Israel's armed rottweiler, harking back to the days of the Vichy French militia which was set up to fight the French Resistance and do much of the Nazis’ dirty work. Is Fatah prepared to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Gaza Palestinians against the common enemy – the occupier - and proclaim themselves "Palestinians first" and Fatah/Hamas second? Judging by their track record, no. Arrest and torture of their own people is more their style, though I daresay there are honourable exceptions.

That’s disunity of a particularly nasty kind.

One of the most grotesque Wikileaks revelations was the disclosure that Abbas knew in advance about the murderous blitz on his countrymen in Gaza in 2008/9. Whether we believe the allegation or not, documents claimed that in a June 2009 meeting between Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and a US congressional delegation, Barak said that the Israeli government "had consulted with Egypt and Fatah prior to Operation Cast Lead, asking if they were willing to assume control of Gaza once Israel defeated Hamas".

Fatah deny it. But Abbas's sidekick Erekat is reported as saying: "We knew about the war because the Israelis were saying there was going to be a war." Several months before it started, at a meeting that he, Erekat, attended, Abbas asked Israel's then-prime minister, Ehud Olmert, not to go to war, saying he would not go to Gaza on an Israeli tank. So it seems they were talking about it…

I put it to the Palestinian ambassador in London, Professor Manual Hassassian. He replied: "I am surprised as you are, and cannot confirm the Wikileaks revelations whether they are authentic or not." No flat-out denial then, nor did he say he would refer the question upwards for clarification. You'd think the embassy would at least wish to show a clean pair of hands.

© Stuart Littlewood 2013

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