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Dear Secretary of State,
On 25 September I wrote a piece headlined Obama speaks at the UN… Goodbye to peace. Since then I've seen no need for me to contribute to the debate about the farce that President Obama's push for peace is and was always going to be. But the Arab League's decision to give Obama a one-month deadline to rescue the direct talks between Abbas and his quisling administration and Netanyahu and his deluded coalition government demands a comment or two.
At last somebody has said it in the most explicit way possible. The somebody also said: “The problem is Zionism and the solution is dismantling the Zionist framework and instituting a secular democracy that does not discriminate between Israelis and Palestinians.”
Short answer: Great effort is made to hunt down and prosecute suspected Nazi war criminals, no effort is made to bring Zionist war criminals to justice.
For once Israel is telling a part of the truth. It was impossible for any of its own (Israeli-Jewish) agents to get into the rubble of Arafat's compound to administer the poison that killed him. But they didn't need direct access. Israel's role was to provide the radioactive polonium for one of its collaborators in Fatah's leadership.
In Mumbai President Obama was asked by an Indian student for his "take or opinion on jihad". He began his answer with the observation that "the phrase jihad has a lot of meanings within Islam and is subject to a lot of different interpretations." In its report of the discussion, The New York Times noted that Obama "carefully avoided saying that he was opposed to jihad". (I ask - How could he be opposed if he is aware of its two real and true meanings in Islam? The Greater jihad is the inner struggle for self-improvement to become a good Muslim. The Lesser jihad is struggle against oppression - oppression as in Israel’s occupation and treatment of the Palestinians, for example).
There is a debate in Israel about whether the Zionist state is on the slippery slope to fascism or is already fascist. As far as I am aware the mainstream Western media has not drawn any attention to this.
When Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America recently, he was relaxed, charming and at his deluded best. For Jewish audiences which don't want to know the truth of history, there's nobody who can deliver Zionism's propaganda lines and lies more effectively than him. (Though he didn't say so, he was obviously delighted that President Obama had taken a hammering in the mid-term elections).
Sarah Palin (or her publisher) chose a title for her latest book with three "F" words - America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and the Flag. But surely there's something missing. Another "F" word. One with four letters. What could it be? (My answer in a moment).
It's not impossible that Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah was right when he described the tribunal investigating the assassination of Lebanon's Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005 as "an American and Israeli tool."
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Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of several books focussing on the Middle East including 'The Hundred Years' War On Palestine'. He explains some of the basic facts of the struggle for Palestinian independence and the creation of the Zionist project of Israel.