Topic: America in no position to mediate peace in Palestine

topic by
John Calvin
12/4/2001 (20:44)

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Press-Israel-US /POL/
Daily blasts US for lack of profundity
Tehran, Dec 4, IRNA -- Iran Daily, an English-language paper, censured
the United States for having no vision and its support of Zionist
regime in its Wednesday editorial.
Hope, like so many other things in the Middle East, was already in
short supply. This week Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon saw to it
that whatever little was left of it was buried, said the daily.
The deadly suicide bombings in Haifa and Beit-ul-Moqaddas which
killed 30 people and wounded more than 200, and Israel's revenge
attacks are a disturbing reminder of how things could get fully out of
control.
For those who have eyes to see, it is now abundantly clear that
American mediation in the conflict which is getting more bloodier by
the day, has now run out of ideas and strength of purpose, noted the
article adding 'the fundamental reason for this failure is that for
the past half century the so-called sole superpower has systematically
sided with one party.'
The latent terror and trauma on both sides of the conflagration is
an undisputed document of the fact that the US government was never on
the side of peace, warned the editorial.
Had it been otherwise, at least a semblance of reason and
rationality should have come out of Washington's marathon efforts to
put the volatile region on the stability index, it ridiculed and added
regretfully: 'Sadly enough, that has not happened so far and the
possibility of reasoning and wisdom is getting bleaker as more blood
and tears flow out of Israel's `determination' to continue the
military occupation until the Palestinian humiliation is complete!'
The human missiles and suicide bombers visiting Israel and the
occupied territories with increasing momentum and fury is enough proof
that peace is not a commodity which can be imposed on a nation
fighting for liberation, it further noted.
For all its claims of fighting international terror and exporting
peace, democracy and freedom to the outside world, it is amazing that
the US has still to acknowledge the existence of Israel's military
occupation. And this lack of profundity, vision and responsibility has
not transformed into peace or stability for the Israelis and their
leader who before coming to office pledged to make their lives more
secure.
Mr. Sharon, whose past is as tainted as any other military despot,
has not only failed to deliver to his constituency, but instead
created a terrible climate of pain and anguish for both sides. There
is enough reason to believe death, destruction and instability is here
to stay because of Israel's aggressive behavior, its continued
policies of assassinations and occupation, closures, settlements and
omination, added the article.
The fact that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has now come to be
known as a war, should hammer the right messages home to all those
working for lasting peace in this part of the world, it said
concluding it must also convey that Israel is not embarked on a
course of peace, but on continued hostility with the Palestinians.
KK/AR
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