from those "who thwart the resumption of direct talks systematically - both on the Palestinian side and elements at home and abroad who are not thrilled ... "said Bibi [Netanyahu] this week before the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee of the Knesset. He provided no details and named no names. But he tied himself to an ultimatum, as he announced the settlement tree oratory would end as determined after ten months and "not a day later.
Lo and behold, the tenth month is approaching, and the Palestinians are still not ready to enter into direct negotiations with Israel. And despite the pressure, the U.S. president, Obama and the European Union on the leadership of the Palestinian Palestinian Authority (PA) exercise, and the ticking of the clock in Israel. What do you get that to waste ten months of the moratorium? Wait for the resumption of terror? Or do they simply try to time to play, or is it here to the inability of Abu Mazen, his feet into cold water to put the peace (as Moshe Dayan's a nice phrase)?
remember The settlement terms of the PA-tree oratory at the time when Israel, negotiations with the Palestinians on the condition "first stop terror", tied out from the assumption that this would not happen anyway. The Time stopped the terror, but peace is not broke.
This week was Jibril Rajoub, former head of PA security forces and now a trusted Abu Mazen, in the Council for Peace and Security as a guest, where he took part in a discussion about what happened between the two nations and not happened. He spoke fluent Hebrew, and one of the participants praised him for his language skills. The answer was: "I do not wish to study at the university where I learned my Hebrew" (he was 17 years in one of our prisons).
General of Res Mendi Meron asked him, "Why she hesitates to enter into direct talks with us? A house, a hundred houses, which means even if we do final status negotiations on a grand scale, involving exchange of territory? "Rajoub avoided the answer to the question, and be even indirectly. He stressed once again that he is for the holding of direct talks, but a convincing explanation of why the PA does not use the moratorium to enter into direct negotiations, he did not deliver. Thus, even after the end of the moratorium to ask: What does a house have more or less, if the question is a non-exchange at the table?
Some at the meeting Present had the impression that it probably give opposition from the inside or the PA do not really believe that the Netanyahu government is really willing to reach an agreement, while the international climate favors the Palestinians. Can it be that it is the ruling Hamas in Gaza, which exerts pressure on the PA, not to start direct talks? Rajoub Answer: Gaza belongs to Palestinians, that is our problem and we must be even from the inside done. In parallel, it recommends us to start any negotiations on the refugee issue. So you wait until the end, it was an international affair.
The idea, why it really should not be possible during the time of the moratorium to conduct direct talks were certainly more than one of the participants in the meeting with Rajoub through the head. Understood as the PA leadership is not that the radical right in Israel will be only too happy, the slogan that there is no other party to hear and be heard and bring it to use as a weapon against extending the moratorium? Since every future agreement will be anyway connected with changes in the borders of 1967, wondering what the ultimatum Abu Mazen's from an interview with the Irish Times is this week in which he said that despite international pressure he does not intend to enter into direct talks before Netanyahu agrees in advance to the principle of a Palestinian State based on the 1967 borders?
Perhaps Abu Mazen moves to direct talks, because he does not trust Netanyahu really. He would also wait to see if it is within the power of President Obama, to urge Netanyahu to make a greater commitment to the end of the moratorium on concessions. A sort of bargaining de Luxe, which presented the U.S. administration, the Palestinian answers to all their demands on a silver platter.
As it looks now, the moratorium is Bibi may extend even as a "confidence-building measure," without leading to an uprising by the extreme right wing and part of the Likud. And maybe that's what the Palestinians expect - that unite the U.S. government and the European Union to Israel to impose an agreement.
In view of what goes on in the world and especially in our region because of the Iranian threat to himself, it is doubtful whether President Obama will express themselves against Israel, as expected, the PA leadership. It would be pathetic if the Palestinians who have missed no opportunity to miss an opportunity ihre Lektion nicht lernen und auch diese verpassen würden.
von Yoel Marcus
Der Berliton
Ha-aretz.com
