By Robert Fisk
Is there no humiliation left for the Palestinians? After Oslo, after
the “two state solution”, after the years of Israeli occupation – of
“Area A” and “Area C” to define which kind of occupation the
Palestinians must live under – after the vast Jewish colonisation of
land thieved from its Arab owners, after the mass killings of Gaza, and
Trump’s decision that Jerusalem, all of Jerusalem, must be the capital
of Israel, are the Palestinians going to be asked to settle for cash and
a miserable village? Is there no shame left?
For the Palestinians are soon to be awarded the “ultimate
deal” – “ultimate”, as in the last, definitive, terminal, conclusive,
no-more-cards-to-play, cash-in-your-chips, go-for-broke,
take-it-or-leave-it, to-hell-with-you, cease-and-desist, endgame “deal”.
A pitiful village as a capital, no end to colonisation, no security, no
army, no independent borders, no unity – in return for a huge amount of
money, billions of dollars and euros, millions of pounds, zillions of
dinars and shekels and spondulix and filthy lucre, the real “moolah”.
“I believe,” quoth Crown Prince Kushner this week, “that Palestinian
people are less invested in the politicians’ talking points than they
are in seeing how a deal will give them and their future generations new
opportunities, more and better paying jobs and prospects for a better
life.” Is Trump’s son-in-law – “adviser” on the Middle East, real estate
developer and US investor – delusional? After three Arab-Israeli wars,
tens of thousands of Palestinian deaths and millions of refugees, does
Jared Kushner really believe that the Palestinians will settle for cash?
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Source: The Independent
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