From: William Gladys <william.gladys@tiscali.co.uk>
Date: Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:59 AM
Subject: Fw: 'Israel in pursuit of war in ME'
To: world_Politics@googlegroups.com
Cc: Al-Hilal <Al-Hilal@sky.com>
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/181642.html
'Israel in pursuit of war in ME'
Wed May 25, 2011 10:14AM
Interview with author and Middle East expert Saeb Shaath
Israel has rejected a US demand to withdraw to borders set before the 1967 Israeli-Arab war as the basis for negotiations with Palestinians.
The following is the transcript of Press TV's interview with author and Middle East expert Saeb Shaath about the issue:
Press TV: While Netanyahu called on Abbas to rip up the unity deal with Hamas, Abbas' spokesman said he is just putting more obstacles in the way of the peace process. Is Israel really for peace? Or is Israel trying to buy time?
Shaath: Even Obama himself [has] tried to sabotage the unity deal between Hamas and Fatah. They want to bribe the authority in Ramallah to buy Obama's plans. He shamelessly took a U-turn. He contradicted himself within two to three days and ... went farther than [former US President] George Bush in 2004 when he promised [former Israeli Prime Minister Areal] Sharon the annexation of settlements in the West Bank.
Press TV: What do you think Netanyahu or the Tel Aviv regime is trying to seek here by making these statements, putting conditions that the Palestinians are calling impossible?
Shaath: There is no one in the Israeli leadership right now wanting peace. All they want is just obstacles. They [want to] create havoc and destabilize the area. Even [now] ... that the US has a lot of financial hardship and is going nearly bankrupt, it is financing the Israeli military at record levels. That is a sign [which shows that] they are trying to create a military conflict in the Middle East by allying Jordan, Israel, and [Persian] Gulf states to sabotage the Arab revolution and to try to create a conflict between Iran and these states.
So, they are running for war in the area. They are not running for peace.
Press TV: Some Western politicians say the problem is that acting Chief Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas should start to negotiate with the conditions that have been set there. They also say that the Hamas-Fatah unity deal is making problems in the way of negotiations. What is your view?
Shaath: Mahmoud Abbas accepted the land swap... in 2004 when Bush promised that the Israelis can annex the bloc of settlements in the West Bank. Mahmoud Abbas compromised nearly half of East Jerusalem (al-Quds) and nobody is moving from the Israeli side.
So the Israelis are about to grab all the West Bank and not give the Palestinians anything. If we look closely at what Obama is saying in here, [an earlier] resolution talked about a nearly 50-50 [share] of land for Arabs and Israelis. Then in 1967, another resolution talks about 22 percent [of the land] to the Arab side. Now five percent of the land is left for the Palestinians and they even want to sit to talk about it.
So, the term is over for negotiation and talking. What Obama and the Israelis are now doing is that they are preparing the gun for military action this summer, this year to create havoc and abort the Arab revolutions and to sustain Saudi Arabia and Jordan and the [Persian] Gulf states against what is happening in Bahrain to try to threaten Iran.
This is what is happening. There is no peace ... The local super power, Israel, and the disarmed Palestinians are going to negotiate. Who is going to impose his will here?
They try to [impose] democracy to us by Cruise missiles and guns. It has cost us millions ... they want to impose it to the region, because they want to suck the resources of the area. We do not buy this. The Arab people are awake now and will not buy this.
The US is irrelevant in the Middle East right now. Nobody is even listening to what Obama was saying [in his speech on the Middle East] on Thursday. As a political analyst I am not interested in what he is saying anymore. The United States has lost its control and credibility in the area. It is out of the picture. Nobody is listening to the messages coming from the White House.
ASH/MMA
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