Annapolis Middle East Peace Talks Anchored to Tried and Failed Policies
Constitutional Legal Precedent and Model Formula for Conflict Resolution by Territorial Adjustment
NEW YORK, NEW YORK * 31 OCTOBER 2007 Citizen of the USA Stephen M. St. John addresses the international community in Washington and here in New York City, all members of the US Congress as well as other organizations and individuals, public and private, and gives two sure indications that a Rambo-esque quest for peace through strength has triumphed over a more thoughtful peace through better understanding, thereby making the upcoming Middle East peace talks in Annapolis utterly futile. One comes from an endless font of experience, information, insight, understanding and wisdom, Yuri Avnery, a former Irgun fighter, Knesset member and now a long-time peace activist with Gush Shalom. His most recent article, Say It with Flowers (http://www.avnery-news.co.il), makes clear that the Zionist military mindset is so pervasive in the Jewish state's institutions that it will automatically short-circuit diplomatic efforts at peacemaking and statecraft. Reinforcing this obstacle to peace is the steady flow of arms and economic support from the USA, where breathtaking purchase orders drive the peace process so long as it is just a process and nothing more. The other indicator that the Annapolis talks will not go beyond process came during the summer with Henry Siegman's frank and useful article The Great Middle East Peace Process Scam (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n16/sieg01_.html). Siegman, director of the US/Middle East Project, describes a Zionist policy stuck on divide and conquer and supported by British Empire nostalgia buffs and American Empire wannabes, with the inevitable prospect of -- God forbid -- something like American Indian reservations for the Palestinians. He rightly says UN Security Council Resolution 242 makes the pre-5 June 1967 borders the default setting, and fears the consequences of appeasement with respect to the Zionist state's four decades of accumulated "facts on the ground." Cheney, Bush and most members of the US Congress are now so unhinged from international law and their own Constitution that good advice from Avnery and Siegman is of no effect. Still, rediscovering their own law of the land offers hope that they will find in the only provision of the Constitution of the USA which has never been exercised a legal precedent and model formula for territorial adjustments conducive to peacemaking in the Middle East and perhaps elsewhere. Is such process patentable?
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1. The Annapolis event… or the Autumn “peace” talks which shall take place in winter.. are the laughing stock of Arab media and people. Everybody knows here that this conference called for by Bush has nothing to do with peace negotiations and is just a propaganda stunt for him to have something that looks good to put on his record. After all, his record consists only of a series of failed wars.
2. The Annapolis “peace” talks have no agenda so far…lol… because Israel and the US refuse to pinpoint which issues shall be discussed. Ms. Rice kindly told the world that it shouldn’t forget that this was the “beginning” of a process. “Beginning”???? Did Ms. Rice not notice that past 60 years??? Did she not notice all the UN resolutions that were passed as result of negotiations during those past 60 years???
3. The United States has lost its position as broker and moderator of peace between the Arabs and Israelis. The US today is an active enemy many Arab states and 99% of the Arab people cannot accept the US as a neutral party when they can clearly see that the only reason Israel exists is US money and support.
Conclusion: This Annapolis sham event is a huge farce and a huge waste of money.