A meeting between Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad
and Israeli deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon ended abruptly Wedensday. The
dispute followed the Israeli deputy foreign minister�s demand that the
meeting�s summary should refer to the notion of �two states for two peoples,�
rather than just �two states.�
�I wanted that at the very least it will note two states for
two peoples. I demanded to know what they meant. One Palestinian state and one
bi-national state, or another Palestinian state?� the deputy minister told
Ynet. �I made it clear that we were out of the picture if the summary didn�t
say two states for two peoples.�
The Palestinian PM could not accept such a demand for very
many reasons: Israel is located on historic Palestine. It came to life through
robbery and ethnic cleansing. It is maintained by theft. At least a fifth of
Israel�s population are Palestinians. And if this is not enough, not a single living
Palestinian negotiator is ever going to let the refugee issue go, and for a
good reason. The right of return is still the crux of the Palestinian
cause.
Interestingly enough, within the context of the two states
solution, a Palestinian state would be geographically defined: it would be a
state of its citizens, and it would also be a civilised amalgam of different
ethnicities and religions. Israel, on the other hand, would be a racially
orientated setting: it would be the Jewish State, where Jews come first. I
wonder why anyone in the international community would support such a solution
or such a state. However, I wasn�t surprised to read in Ynet that Tony Blair,
who participated in the earlier part of the meeting yesterday, �supported the
Israeli stance.� I guess that after dragging us all into a religious war with
no end, Blair has developed an affinity with Judeo-centric arguments and the
Zionist way of thinking. After all, let�s not forget, it was Zionist Lord Levy and
the Labour Friends of Israel who funded his party at the time it launched the
war in Iraq.
It also shouldn�t take us by surprise that the current
rounds of talks are leading nowhere. In fact, given that Zionism does not include
peaceful political precepts, the Israel-Palestine conflict cannot be resolved
by the current peace talks or any kind of resolution dominated by the Zionist
worldview. The Jewish state presents itself as a revival of the Biblical
Israelite nation, and this means, in practice, a disastrous conflict with no
end. This conflict is probably the greatest threat to world peace, but it is
certainly tragic also for Israelis who are being born into a doomed reality set
by a phantasmic Biblical tale.
In the meeting, Ayalon said that �Israel will continue to
support the Palestinian economy, even without its consent,� but he also noted
that �Israel�s security needs must also be taken into consideration.�
Instead of being motivated by a sincere desire for peace and
a spirit of reconciliation, Israeli policy makers are committed to the
philosophy of �carrot and stick�: they offer a combination of �rewards� and
�punishment� to induce �good subservient behaviour� amongst the Palestinians.
The Palestinians are constantly offered very little while at the same time, the
IDF is ready to unleash its deadly might.
Israelis are basically buying time, yet, by doing so, they
clearly sacrifice their future. It is no secret that for Palestinians to win,
all they need is time.
The �two states solution� is a futile idea and it is about
time the international community stopped wasting any effort in trying to
achieve such a resolution. The facts on the ground are clear, as Daniel McGowan
clearly suggested a few months ago: �Within the current borders controlled by
Israel (including pre-1967 Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights)
there is in fact a single state. It has one electrical grid, one water system,
one currency, one major highway system, one postal service, and one external
border. Goods and people entering this de facto state come through harbors,
airports, and a restricted number of crossings. Bills of lading and passports
are checked and stamped by officials of this single state.�
This one state is momentarily called Israel, and it is
dominated ideologically by Jewish racism and fuelled practically by Talmudic
supremacy. However, this will change. Against all odds, the Israeli nuclear
power, Jewish lobbies around the world, F-35 stealth planes and Israeli Deputy
Foreign Minister Ayalon�s enthusiasm, Israel will become a state of its
citizens and by the time this happens, it will be called Palestine.
Gilad Atzmon is an Israeli jazz
musician, author and political activist.