Israel will never 'voluntarily' allow an independent Palestinian State.

One of the more sickening spectacles that we have to witness whenever Israel starts a genocidal war against one of its weaker neighbors, is US and European  liberals refusing to condemn out right the Israeli aggression, instead they look for ways to spread the blame equally with the victims of the Zionist State. We saw it two years ago when Israel invaded southern Lebanon and bombed and fired missiles into the densely populated Shia communities of West Beirut, leaving  death and destruction in their wake. We got much the same from Barak Obama yesterday, when he attempted to equate home made rockets occasionally falling into a small area of Israel, with the full scale artillery and missile barrage that was followed by the IDF's land invasion of Gaza. One cannot help feeling that deep down, for Obama and his fellow liberals, the Palestinian’s real crime is they refuse to be locked up silently in Israel’s very own hell hole of a Bantustan,

These liberal apologist for murder make no mention of the continuous IDF military incursions by air, sea and land, that the Israelis have made into Gaza since it withdrew in 2005. And like Israel's western political gofers Bush, Brown and Blair, never miss a chance to press the point if Hamas stopped firing rockets into Israel none of this would have happened. Or as one liberal in the Guardian put it, “If only Hamas did not suffer from delusion’s that it is as powerful and as unassailable as Hezbollah in Lebanon and stopped believing that it can bring Israel to the negotiating table through further punitive strikes.” 

Nothing could be further from the truth, only last week a Hamas representative said that he realized rockets fired into Israel are little more than an irritant to the Israeli government. But like resistance movements the world over under the UN Charter Hamas has the right to resist occupation and invasion. Whether it be the French resistance in WW2, the anti colonial Liberation movements, or Hamas, they all understood clearly that they can never match the military might of their oppressors, but nevertheless believe they have a right under international law to resist with any means at their disposal; and indeed they do. 

In any case to blame Israel’s Palestinian victims for resisting oppression is contemptible, and wrongly presupposes they are equals with their oppressors before a court of morality. When nothing is further from the truth, as all Israel need do to end the violence is leave, stop tormenting the Palestinians and stop blockaded Gaza and occupying the West Bank.  

Some have even held up the north of Ireland peace process as something Hamas would be wise to emulate. Even if one believes the Good Friday Agreement is a pretty poor example of human freedom, one need only pose three questions to understand it is a non runner.

1/Would Israel accept the Palestinian Diaspora’s right to return to a Palestinian State.

2/Would Israel accept East Jerusalem being the Capital of a Palestinian State.

3/Would Israel accept the democratic will of the Palestinian people no matter whom they elected.

The answer to all three question from the Israeli government is No, as consecutive Israeli governments have made clear over the last few years they would be unwilling to even negotiate on these issues. Why would they without massive outside pressure, for since the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993 the number of Israeli settlers on occupied land has risen from 93,111,600 to 462,000 in 2008.  The total number of official West Bank settlements is 120, with 12 within East Jerusalem, the proposed Capital of any independent Palestinian State. In addition the Israelis have built 100 so-called “outposts” that don’t have the status of settlements in the Interior Ministry’s eyes, but do enjoy the same protection from the Israeli military. Between December 2007 and July 2008 alone, Over 1000 new buildings totaling 2,600 housing units were built in the settlements, an increase by a factor of 1.8 in comparison with the same period the previous year.

It has become increasingly clear that the Israelis have never had any intention to allow the  creation of an independent Palestinian State, quiet the opposite in fact, they have used the Oslo Accords as a holding exercise to maintain the status-quo, which has then enabled them to steal and confiscate ever more Palestinian land. They have done this by a number of ways, most of which replicate the US governments move Westward in the 19^th Century onto lands occupied by native Americans. Those native American’s the US government of the day could not bribe and intimidate into signing worthless treaties, they demonized as criminal savages. Whilst building settlements protected by the US cavalry they pushed ever deeper until eventually the native Americans became landless and pauperized. 

Is it any wonder that the US government is Israel’s banker and armorer.