Kerry himself acknowledged that, when Israel celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2018, Palestinians will mark a different anniversary: 70 years "since what they call the Nakba, or catastrophe". The 600,000 Israeli settlers there are a privileged class.Kerry recalled that a prominent Israeli minister had boasted that "the era of the two-state solution is over". In the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, over 4. Israel’s cruelties have increased steeply. The latter was inspired by Henry A.US secretary of state John Kerry’s long speech on peace between Israelis and Palestinians offered the wronged party (the Palestinians) little, and is unlikely to win support either in the US or in Israel, to whom it was really addressed.
The resolution questions the legality of the settlements.5 million Palestinians live under military occupation in humiliating conditions — and without a vote.7 million Arabs inside Israel have a different experience. It was a futile effort to defend the US’ abstention on UNSC Resolution 2334, which was adopted on December 23, 2016. Kerry endorsed both in his speech. It is an insult to the Palestinian’s pride and self-respect. Their leverage has weakened disastrously.Both the resolution and Kerry’s speech must be read in the context of a virtual end to the peace process and the much-vaunted two-tale solution. It acquiesced in this outrage for its own reasons — one was domestic, for fear of alienating the powerful Jewish lobby; the other was to keep on the right side of its ally, Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu first raised this demand.The main theme of Kerry’s speech was that Israeli settlements must stop, else "the two-state solution is now in serious jeopardy". In Kerry’s words, it will be a "non-militarised state" that will somehow provide protection for their population even "without a military of their own". Israel was established not only by force but also by the systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs.
Israeli settlements on the West Bank have so radically altered the status quo as to reduce the idea to a teasing illusion.The 1. But, then, to Kerry, as to most Americans, Israel is "a special country". A conference on peace in West Asia, due to be held in Paris on January 15, will change nothing. The US already knew this all too well, even as it ignored the spread of Israeli settlements over time. If Israel opts for a one-state solution and annexes the West Bank, it would cease to be democratic (if Palestinians are denied a vote) or Jewish (if they become full citizens, as they would be the largest demographic). The demand that Palestinians renounce their perception of history comes, strangely, from those who would criminalise any questioning of the Holocaust. The resolution’s rejection of "acquisition of territory by force" will be inconsequential as its reference to "two democratic States, Israel and Palestine" living in peace "within secure and recognised borders".Palestinians find themselves forsaken by those on whose support it has legitimate claims — Egypt, Jordan and, after the Iran nuclear accord, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. The ICJ had ruled on precisely that in 2014 with greater authority. There are around 130 Israeli settlements east of the 1967 lines, often located on private Palestinian land and strategically placed.In the last decade or so, Israel made two new demands — its recognition as a Jewish state by the Arabs and an end to any question of its legitimacy.
It is perfectly acceptable to the US and its allies that Israel should be a nuclear weapons state. Kissinger — do not question Israel’s legitimacy, i.The set of principles Kerry propounded was an old hat with a relatively new ribbon — agreed changes to the 1967 lines; equal rights for all citizens; solution to the refugee problem; accord on Jerusalem; respect for "Israel’s security needs" after it ends its occupation; and peace with "all of its (Israel’s) Arab neighbours" in a regional security framework.e. the illegitimacy of its birth.By arrangement with Dawn.At the end of this process, the state of Palestine will emerge as an Israeli protectorate, a kind of SINGLE SIDE WOVEN EDGE SATIN Bantustan.
