Will Mr. Obama adhere to the values and morals of democracy, justice and peace that he calls for, or will he cave in once again to his Zionist Masters

Israeli lopsided logic

Samia Khoury

We are damned if we do, we are damned if we don’t.  One more time the Israeli lopsided logic prevails.  The first official reaction of Israel to the Palestinian reconciliation was that it will be an obstacle to peace.  Ironic as it may sound, it was only a short while ago that Israel used the Fateh-Hamas in-fighting as a justification for not moving ahead with the peace process.  Despite all the settlement building and the continuous onslaught on Jerusalem,  Israel insists on giving the impression that it is  actually  offering us peace on a silver platter, and it is we, the Palestinians,  who have fouled it all up. 

Unlike last week,  when the press of the whole world was busy with the Royal wedding, and I must admit it was a nice break for all of us to relax on that Friday morning watching a real fairy tale.   The young couple,  William and Kate were really lucky to be in the limelight for the whole week end.  Nobody would have bothered about a royal wedding when the Breaking News flashed “Bin Laden is Dead”.  Ten years after the 9/11 Mr. Obama succeeded in achieving what his predecessor had failed to achieve.  And it seemed to me that Mr. Obama has certainly   guaranteed a good start for his election campaign, especially when his popularity had been losing ground lately. 

Ever since I heard Mr. Obama’s  inaugural speech in 2009  in which he stressed the importance of justice more than once, I have been  hoping that the resolve for bringing about justice to our Palestinian people,  whose cause has lingered not only for one decade but for  more than five decades, will bear fruit.  But what happened was  contrary to our expectation; it was the USA administration that has been blocking any chances for that justice to prevail even when it was glaringly clear that Israel has been the perpetrator of this grave injustice inflicted on the Palestinians ever since 1948.

For us in the occupied territories the best breaking news was the reconciliation between Fateh and Hamas.  A long awaited demand of the Palestinian people so that we can have a united front to deal with all the  challenges of the Israeli  military occupation.  We have already made enough concessions since the signing of the  Oslo accords in 1993, and settled for relative justice  by accepting the establishment of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders (22% of historic Palestine.)      It is so illogical to demand of Hamas to recognize the state of Israel, when  Hamas itself  is not a state, but a faction in an occupied territory  that has not even been recognized yet as a state.  However,  Hamas was very clear in its announcement during the ceremony of  the signing of the reconciliation agreement, that it will agree to the  establishment of  the Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.    

Mr. Netanyahu is already touring Europe and the USA to foul any plans for the establishment of a Palestinian State.  Will Mr. Obama adhere to the values and morals of  democracy, justice and peace that he  calls for,  or will he cave in once again, and have his  election campaign justify his silence regarding another round of injustice? 
Dare we hope for another breaking news announcing the establishment of a Palestinian State in September?

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