Like this article from Haaretz claims, that the United States Senate "Resolution 185 calls on Palestinians to halt bid for unilateral recognition at UN"
I believe this is a mistake on the part of the US senate in just proves that the US government and all its branches do not learn from their mistakes.
For all the promises that Obama made in his 2009 Cairo speech now seem to be, more so than before, empty words.
Granted that the Palestinians have resorted to barbaric methods to fight for their lands, killing innocent Israeli citizens, one should not deny the very real fact that the Israelis are guilty of the same barbaric acts against the Palestinians and the Lebanese. The difference is that Israel always had, and always will have, the upper hand with their American funded, technologically advanced, morally deficient military.
Granted that the Israeli citizens have suffered greatly at the hands of Palestinians. But the Palestinians have suffered far more and continue to do so. I am not sure if the American politicians are ignorant or simply ignoring the fact that it is the Israeli government that they blindly support that displaced an entire population from their home and land or that it is the Israeli government that that continues to build illegal settlements on land that belongs to the Palestinians.
Everyone punishes the Palestinians. The Israelis punish the Palestinians, the Lebanese punish the Palestinians, the Jordanians punish the Palestinians, and now, it would seem, the US is about to take an active role in punishing the Palestinians.
Again, it is granted that the Palestinians have engaged in violent campaigns against the Israelis, but the proportion of force used by the Israelis against a stateless population, made stateless by the Israeli state, is by far of a much greater magnitude.
The US should not be punishing and already punished people. This move will achieve nothing but further aggravate the situation by making the already abysmal lives of Palestinians even more intolerable. The more intolerable a situation that a people live in the more likely they are to eventually revolt. There is nothing more dangerous than a man with nothing to lose.
The US senate move is morally wrong and will cause extremism to increase. Extremism threatens the security of Israel. There for this motion by the US senate is designed to “de-legitimize” Israel…. Inevitably.
What the senate should have done, had it been a moral and conscientious body, is to threaten Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu with the suspension of Aid should he continue to refuse to take real, solid, and coherent steps to make peace with the Palestinians. What the US senate should do is fall in line with many other nations who do consider Israel to be an apartheid state.
It is all fine and dandy that Israel is America’s closest ally. But Israel is an ally who is alleged to be racists and is allegedly accused of crimes against humanity. An Israel has one of the most powerful lobbies in the US.
The good thing is that the Palestinian authority is being defiant in the face of this unconscionable threat.
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