After abducting UN workers and making apparently false allegations against the UN, Israel was able to have its actions against everyone get excused by a US veto.
On the heels of this, Israel made statements that the Issue of a Palestinian state has been indefinitely postponed with American approval...
Pertinent quotes from this Reuters article....
Israel's unilateral plan to evacuate some occupied land and keep the rest will indefinitely prevent a Palestinian state with Washington's blessing, a senior Israeli official said...
"The significance of our disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process. It supplies the formaldehyde necessary so there is no political process with the Palestinians," said Dov Weisglass, key adviser to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
...Officials in Israel's right-wing government have for months privately written off the internationally-sponsored "road map" peace plan and rejected frequent appeals by Palestinian leaders to conduct negotiations...
..."When you freeze the process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state ... Effectively this whole package called a Palestinian state, with all it entails, has been removed indefinitely from our agenda," Weisglass told Haaretz.
"And all this with ... a presidential blessing," he said, referring to President Bush's approval in April of Sharon's plan to quit tiny Gaza in 2005 while retaining swathes of the West Bank, superseding the moribund "road map."...
..."What I effectively agreed to with the Americans (in talks leading to Bush's endorsement of 'disengagement) was that part of the settlements would not be dealt with at all, and the rest will not be dealt with until the Palestinians turn into Finns."
Is this true? Should this be our policy at this point? And why are the Palestinians expected to turn into Finns, when the Finns as far as I can tell do not live under occupation with many of them refused right of return to their lands?
Doesn't this signal that the real breach of peace is coming from the Israeli government, with credited support from the US?
holmes
"...what a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.."(D. Bros)