Thursday, February 12, 2009

The End for the Pal. Authority? He Said It

I noted here that the Pals. were beginning to threaten mass violence, again.

George Giacaman teaches at Bir Zeit University and he has an article in Lebanon's Daily Star, entitled: The end for the Palestinian Authority?

Excerpts from his thinking:

As usual, the future Israeli government will be a coalition...this does not bode well for the Palestinian Authority (PA), which is entering the third stage of its turbulent life, and perhaps its last.

The first stage began with the Gaza-Jericho agreement of 1994...The second stage ushered in Mahmoud Abbas, with his election as president of the PA in January 2005...

...The PA knows it cannot pin any hopes on the new Israeli coalition government.

In a year or possibly two, much will be clear. If there is no credible progress leading to the two-state solution as Palestinians and Arabs understand it; if the expansion of settlements is not stopped, making a two-state solution nearly impossible, then the PA will be doomed...There is no reason to expect anything different from the forthcoming Israeli government, whoever forms it and participates in it.

If the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is allowed to remain inside the dark tunnel of internecine Israeli politics, it will never emerge without outside pressure and no solution will be possible. Palestinians will have no choice other than to pursue resistance, and the PA will face its final demise in this last stage of its career....

6 comments:

g said...

Nothing new! That has been Israel's strategy for many years now. It's fine, only take off the mask of a victim and stop whining about how much you want peace and Palestinians reject your offers.

YMedad said...

Gali,

do you write all these comments all by yourself?

g said...

The only problem if you do it, you will lose the support of US and probably the rest of the world. And what can israel do without US :)?

YMedad said...

In March 1948, we lost US support when Marshall went for Trusteeship but we got it back

Anonymous said...

Smiles at YMedad ;)

Does Israel really care anymore ? It's are just a "shitty little country" with nukes (too bad about that, lol)

Really, Galia, Israel doesn't have the world's support as it is now, and it manages somehow.

g said...

Then just go for it! Go for your own destruction!