Israel signals positively for Palestine state

 

-DR. ABDUL RUFF COLACHAL 

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It is for the first time since  Gaza Strip was  granted  freedom during the  Ariel Sharon era  from Zionist occupation that a positive signal  has now emanated from Israel about the possible  settlement of  world’s  longest  regional crisis in Mideast. Israeli premier has hinted that Palestine state would come into existence sooner than later.

UN vote for the Palestinian demand for much delayed Palestine state  and the follow up developments  have made the Israeli regime to finally realize  the crude fact that  Zionist must end occupation as  the establishment of Palestine state is inevitable now and therefore Israel should end crimes against  humanity inside Palestine to enable the peace  talks to  succeed.

Needless to sate that the pressure the Obama government has kept constantly on the Israeli leadership has indeed worked for the better” better for future Palestine-Israeli relations for Mideast and world as a whole.

Hawkish Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is turning positively to the peace momentum mediated by Washington,  now insisting that Jewish settlers in the West Bank have a right to remain under Palestinian rule in any peace deal.

That is indeed encouraging for the peace supporters in Mideast and humanity at large seeking peace in Mideast and prosperity of .Palestine.

More than 500,000 Israeli settlers live among 2.4 million Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem against the international legal community’s objections.

Israel captured the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East war. Palestinians seek to establish a state in those areas and fear that settlements, which most countries view as illegal and an obstacle to peacemaking, will deny them a viable country.

In 2005, Israel under PM Ariel Sharon, ignoring the  firm opposition by many Israeli leaders, pulled its troops and settlers out the Gaza Strip, only to strangely fall sick and losing  consciousness and  he was in a coma condition for many years before  he was declared dead last month.

Gaza is now ruled by Hamas Party of Islamists as the elected body of Palestinians, is opposed to the U.S.-brokered peace efforts as they do not in fact trust the Israeli   talks  and  doubt their terror intentions. .

 

The apparent trial balloon of peace momentum also drew angry words from Naftali Bennett, an extremist occupation party and a key pro-settlement partner in his governing coalition. “The idea of Jewish settlements under Palestinian sovereignty is very dangerous and reflects an irrationality of values,” Bennett said..

The Israeli report quoted an official in Netanyahu’s office as saying he did not intend to uproot Jewish settlements anywhere in the West Bank, land that Palestinians seek for a state under U.S.-brokered peace talks showing few signs of progress since they resumed in July after a three-year break.

Netanyahu would “insist that settlers be given the free choice of remaining in place and living under Palestinian rule, or relocating to areas under Israeli sovereign rule,” the official was quoted as saying.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Netanyahu said he did not intend to uproot a single settler in a future Palestinian statehood agreement. The Times of Israel quoted the unidentified official as saying Netanyahu’s idea of allowing settlers the option of staying in their homes under Palestinian rule fell under that pledge.

Some Israeli political commentators suggested the leak was aimed at heading off settler opposition to a framework deal, or as guidelines for a final peace agreement that US diplomat John Kerry has been trying to formulate. Bennett, leader of the Jewish Home party and an advocate of Israeli annexation of the West Bank, demanded that Netanyahu immediately to refute this “dangerous” peace proposal. They oppose peace in Mideast.

There was no immediate Palestinian reaction to the report. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has already balked at an Israeli demand to keep an Israeli troop presence in the Jordan Valley, an area likely to be the eastern border of a Palestinian state.

One thing is clear; Jews generally do not hate Palestine people as their policy. but only some hawkish and high  selfish Israeli leaders and military-Mossad  want the Jews to hate Palestinians.  This fact can easily be ascertained by the way Arieal Sharon handled the issue, giving the Palestinians freedom in Gaza Strip. Jews did not protest but hey appreciated the Sharon’s intelligent politics.  But the trouble started in the Likud party, which he had founded, as some leaders opposed Ariel Sharon’s positive approach towards the besieged Palestinians.  Upset, Sharon quit his own Likud party to float a new party, Kadima to pursue positive diplomacy for permanent peace in the region.  Kadmia party won the parliamentary poll and he resumed power once again. But very soon he was admitted to military hospital where, after years of intense treatment for coma, he was declared dead by authorities.

Whether Sharon was poisoned by military-Mossad is a speculative question, but it is enough here to say that people of Israel, the Jews did support the Sharon policy for Palestine and overwhelmingly voted for his new party .   .

Hopefully, Palestine-Israel peace talk which  looks now somewhat serious  in character would continue and  results in  permanent peace in Mideast where Israel and Palestine coexist as  not just neighbors but  also close allies to help each other..

It is quite likely that Israel, as its former occupier, would help Palestine develop its economy and infrastructure.

After all, then, a strong Palestine would strengthen Israel, its security.

 

Of course, this is just the speculation but, all the same, the necessary one. If Netanyahu convert his words  into deed Palestine would come into existence soon. 

 

Peace has been evading Mideast for a long time.  Now  the  issue if Netanyahu would  continue the Sharon policy for Palestine and help establish  a home for the Palestinians. . 

 

 

 

–BY DR. ABDUL RUFF COLACHAL has been an Educationist, Columnist-Commentator  on world affairs Expert on Mideast Affairs,  Former university Teacher;  Editor:INTERNATIONAL OPINION; FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES; Author of books;website: http://abdulruff.wordpress.com/  Phone: 91-8129081217—(Account: No 62310377429 – CIF No: 78215311481- State Bank of Hyderabad, India) abdulruff@gmail.com

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