Israel Matzav: Abu Bluff clamoring for attention

Monday, March 05, 2012

Abu Bluff clamoring for attention

For 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President ~~Mahmoud Abbas~~ Abu Mazen, it's tough suddenly not being the center of attention after all these years. One thing Prime Minister Netanyahu has finally succeeded in doing after three years in office is to put Iran on the table as the main item on the menu, and to relegate the 'Palestinians' to the back burner. And while it's possible that Obama may demand a quid pro quo vis a vis the 'Palestinians' in return for doing Israel's bidding on Iran, it's hard to believe that making such a demand wouldn't discredit Obama entirely in the eyes of the American people. So these are desperate times for the attention-starved Abu Mazen. What can he do to make his 'people' the center of attention again? Abu Mazen is going to write a letter.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is about to send Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu the "mother of all letters" regarding the future of the peace process, a PA official in Ramallah said Sunday.

The official said that the letter was not ready yet and that Abbas has so far completed the "historic introduction" in which he details the major reasons behind the failure of the Oslo Accords.

The Palestinian leadership is scheduled to hold a meeting in Ramallah on Wednesday to discuss the contents of the letter, which will also be sent to the UN secretary-general.

The letter will hold Israel fully responsible for the failure of the peace process because of its failure to stop construction in the settlements and east Jerusalem and refusal to accept the pre-1967 lines as the basis for a two-state solution, the official said.

He added that the "mother of all letters" would be brought to the attention of the current US administration and some EU countries before it is delivered to Netanyahu.

The Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV station said last weekend that Abbas was planning to send the letter to Israel through the Jordanian government.

Oslo failed because the 'Palestinians' have not made a single concession in more than 60 years. Oslo failed because the 'Palestinians' never fulfilled a single obligation they undertook with Oslo, from legally amending their charter to stop calling for Israel's destruction, to destroying the Hamas terrorist organization that they are coddling. Oslo never required Israel to cease construction anywhere, and it certainly never required Israel to accept the 1949 armistice lines as the basis of anything - that would contradict UN Security Council Resolution 242. In fact, Oslo never even contemplated the creation of a 'Palestinian state,' only that the sides would reach an agreed solution. Prime Minister Rabin was quite clear in his last speech to the Knesset in 2005 that he had no intention of allowing the establishment of a 'Palestinian state.'

But it doesn't matter right now. Netanyahu has bigger fish to fry.

Labels: 1949 armistice lines, Abu Mazen, Oslo accords, UN Security Council Resolution 242