From: William Gladys <william.gladys@tiscali.co.uk>
Date: Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:29 PM
Subject: Fw: 'Israel bribes UN to reject Palestine'
To: world_Politics@googlegroups.com
http://www.presstv.com/detail/184545.html
'Israel bribes UN to reject Palestine'
Mon Jun 13, 2011 6:19PM
Interview with Eugene Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars Magazine, Indiana
Israel is working on several strategies to derail the Palestinian plan to obtain recognition of statehood at the UN General Assembly in September.
Israel's foreign ministry has ordered its ambassadors to fuel the media hype against Palestinian statehood.
Meanwhile, Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu and nine of his ministers are in Italy in a bid to secure Rome's support in their anti-Palestinian statehood campaign.
To further discuss the issue, Press TV interviewed Eugene Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars Magazine from Indiana.
Press TV: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to meet Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to focus on Israel's efforts to get world leaders to reject Palestine's plan to seek United Nations recognition and membership in September. Is that correct?
Jones: Yes, that is right.
Press TV: Why won't Netanyahu let the Palestinians back onto their own land that they were forced out of?
Jones: Well, he is trying to get back the front in charge again of the situation in Palestine which changed after the revolutions in the Middle East but this biggest change was of course the Hamas-Fatah unity government. Now there are variables happening right now. There is a snag in the unity government; apparently Hamas has rejected Fatah's suggestion for prime minister. That is going to weaken the Palestinian case.
So he is trying to get support to defeat that unity government and the statehood in the fall. It already depends on all of these variables that are taking place right now.
Berlusconi is not a popular leader in Italy. He is in the same situation as the United States Congress is in, except I think he is more vulnerable because the Italian people are less happy with his government and its connection with Israel. There are all of these governments in Europe that are facing popular rejection because they do not go along with what looks like a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli problem.
So Netanyahu can put pressure on the leaders but then the leaders have to answer to their own people and I think there is weakness there right now. This is the gist of what the retiring Secretary of Defense [Robert] Gates said. He said these people are not supporting the attack on Libya. Again that is an indication of the weakness that NATO has at this moment and that is why Netanyahu is trying to get the leaders on board before hand.
Press TV: How is Netanyahu going to be able to get the UN to prevent the recognition for Palestine?
Jones: Bribery. This is what for the Jewish leaders has always worked in the past. They bribe the leaders. After president Obama gave a speech about 1967 borders, Netanyahu was there a day later and the next day he addressed the Congress of the United States of America and doing that address, there were people situated throughout the Congress who were going to jump up and give a standing ovation whenever he said certain points in his speech.
AIPAC, the Israeli lobby in America, informed the Congressmen that the state was not enthusiastic in their support of Benjamin Netanyahu's speech that they will get no campaign contribution. That is a sort of bribery. You bribe the official but it is the people who recognize this then they vote the people out. So that is the dynamic, they use bribery to get the leaders but then the leaders lose their credibility when they realize that they are being bribed and so the people vote them out.
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