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Obama's Administration Loses out to Pro-Israel Lobbyist

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Will a Palestine state ever be realized? That is an interesting question which need to be answered. What we have seen in the past are merely efforts on “paper” to materialized a nationhood for the people of Palestine which are in stark contrast with the reality on the ground. At every turn and corners, invisible hands worked equally hard to derail the peace train from reaching its final destination. The world is polarized, including the Arab world themselves, over the issue of Palestine. The election of President Barrack Obama, with his slogan of change, had initially brought some hope that his administration would bring in a new impetus towards the Palestine-Israel issue. But the hopes seems to be fading fast. His administration given the benefit of doubt, might have the earnest desire to see the resolution to the issue but his hand are tied. It looks like his administration will still be dictated by the strong pro Israel lobbyist group.

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The latest saga over the confirmation of the to head the National Intelligence Council directly points to the direction of the current administration on the Middle East issue. Indirectly, it will also impacted the new administration policy directions on of terrorism and Muslims and others.

It could thus be concluded that the Middle East issue will remain status quo (though efforts at resolviing it will continue to hog the media) until the day the US administration can sincerely be an honest broker or the day the international community jointly dare to take up the issue on their own and leaving behind the Americans (which most likely will never ever take place) or perhaps until the total annihilation/cleansing of the Palestine population or driving out the Palestinian out of their lands, whichever comes first.



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Pledging Conference for the Reconstruction of Gaza

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The donor conference in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt was successfully concluded with international donors pledging nearly USD4.5 billion to rebuilt war battered Gaza. But as usual it comes with conditions – the money will not be channeled through Hamas and there must establish a unity government in Palestine. If one were to recall, this is not the first of its kind pledging conference for the cause of Palestine. The last one was held in 2007 in Paris and it has not led to anything to-date. So were the earlier conferences. All the pledging conferences in the past had not led to anything. So will the latest pledging conference if the international community still fail to address the core issue of peace. Despite the 22 days onslaught by Israel on Gaza, the international community could only muscle the economic strength to pledge knowing fully well that it would not lead to anything. It is like some kind of political obligation (cowardice) for others to take note and guilt for having allowed the onslaught to take place. [Picture: Courtesy of Al- Jazeera]

While the conference was going on in Egypt, Israel was herself busy with plans to build settlement in the West Bank. And the world could only offer a muted or silent voice to all these illegal actions. The mainstream media of the West by design will ensure that this story will never be heard. Perhaps the issue would be raised at the UN and another resolution passed to add to all the other resolutions that is gathering dusts in the annals of the UN history. Nobody dares to question Israel's authority! And worst still the Americans taxpayers will continue to finance all these illegal settlements

There will be no peace between the two countries until the "powers that be" dared to take a neutral stand on the issue. The issue can only be resolved through justice and as it is, there is none in sight. Though not wishing to sound pessimistic, I will not be surprised if the world will witness the same cycle of "truce, war (onslaught on Palestine), international outcry, donors conference" once again in the not too distant future. Unless there is a serious concerted effort to impose laws and regulations on all parties – Palestine and Israel, there will be no peace.

OR PERHAPS SINCE THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD HAVE FAILED TO FIND A LASTING SOLUTION TO THE ISSUE OVER THE PAST 60 YEARS, WHY NOT ALLOW THE PEOPLE AND THE CIVIL SOCIETIES OF THE WORLD TO SIT TOGETHER AND FIND A SOLUTION. THEY HAVE LESS POLITICAL BAGGAGE OR CONSIDERATION BUT JUSTICE, FAIRNESS AND HUMANITY.


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