Parts Of A Battleship

Coincidence

The title of this book may seem pessimistic for those cough continues to campaign for the creation of a Palestinian state while in fact this process has been stalled for nearly twenty years. After Edward Said
, Ziyad Clot concludes that the occupation for sixty-four years has created a de facto binational state
, but neither the government nor the leaders of Israel Palestinian in West Bank (Palestinian Authority) and Gaza ( Hamas), who collaborate with the occupier has an interest in recognizing for different reasons but converging. There will be no Palestinian state, according to the author, because there is more than a geographical basis to ensure its viability. The borders of 1967, which deprived the Palestinian people already in the Galilee, a large part of the Gaza Strip and associated territories before the war to the West Bank does already provide a minimum sentence to life. The ongoing fragmentation of Arab lands in the West Bank, under the effect of colonization, occupation by the Israeli army of a strip of land along the Jordanian border and a wall that bisects the farm property , plus traffic conditions difficult because of checkpoints .

There will be no Palestinian state, according to Ziyad Clot, because the current Palestinian Authority has neither the power nor the moral authority to conduct negotiations that may lead to its creation. Faced with an Israeli state militarily-powerful, sustained and flawless without any objectivity by beating the United States and many international news channels, although this is changing rapidly, Sulta only manage the emergency, in terms of symbols most often.

There will be no Palestinian state finally Always according to the author, because there are few parts that really interest them. Never Israel and the United States accept to give the prerogatives of sovereignty, which include foreign policy and the establishment of an army, without this being taken by his opinion as a sword of Damocles. This PA provides just the Jewish state not to include within it the millions of Palestinians while preventing the emergence of another hostile power. The surrounding Arab states, which so often have exploited the Palestinian cause, have no interest in such a state to emerge which none of them will have total control. One wonders, reading the long series of denials of the Sult, if it has an interest in this emerging state, democratic, could pay dearly for the PLO and Fatah their corruption and remoteness.

This bleak picture is not complete without talk of a quartet of actors whose silences are deafening, namely the European Union. The latter is the main provider of funds but never Sulta expression "thing", used by General de Gaulle to characterize it, has been so carrier of truth. Its role in the Annapolis process, to read the author comes down to that of an ectoplasm without hands or voice or a kind of useful idiot of the United States and Israel. The European Union condemns the consequences of colonization, destruction of Palestinian homes in breach of basic rights, which also won for Cast Lead. His indignation, variable often follows closely that of the United States the attitude of France is hardly detached from this

together.
Spirit Review Interest Ziyad Clot's testimony is summarized by Alain Gresh

: Franco-Palestinian does not speak Arabic, he was recruited by the Department of negotiations Liberation Organization (PLO). Must participate in the peace process launched by President George W. Bush at Annapolis in November 2007, expected to lead to the creation of a Palestinian state in 2008. It launches headlong into work to discover, step by step

that these talks only mask what is happening on the field: colonization, Judaizing Jerusalem, checkpoints, arbitrary arrests, etc..
The popular revolts that ousted Zine Ben Ali Tunisia and Egypt Hosni Mubarak, might spill over into Palestine where the people live in poverty under the yoke of Israeli occupation and the collaborators of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza [



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12/02/2011 Serge Lefort World Citizen

Ziyad CLOT, There will be no Palestinian state - Diary of a Palestinian negotiator
, Max Milo, 2010 [

Spirit Review No. 100 p.12 to 14 - EuroPalestine

- Info-Palestine - Le Monde Diplomatique ].

"I bought a plane ticket Destination El Al Ben Gurion Airport. Tel-Aviv. Israel. 60 years ago, my mother was born a few tens of kilometers away. In Haifa, Palestine. "

Thus begins the story of" return "Ziyad Clot, grand-son of exiled Palestinians. In Ramallah, he accepted a position as legal adviser to the Organization for the Liberation of Palestine ( PLO) and became a negotiator at the talks that would lead to the creation of a Palestinian state before the end of 2008. But he quickly solves the obvious: "The peace process is a show, a farce , played to the detriment of the Palestinian reconciliation, the price of bloodshed in Gaza. And I'm becoming much against me one of the actors in this drama. "

The author takes us to the heart of the peace process, reveals the false pretenses, the parties conducted maneuvers in the wings and internal rivalries and international help to feed the fantasy of the two-state solution. This testimony edifying impregnated with personal history, shows how and why the negotiations to create the Palestinian state has become futile. For the former negotiator, a solution peaceful resolution to this conflict can not spend more than a single state in which Palestinians and Israelis should live together. This country hybrid "Israeltine" is already there. See also : • Interview with Ziyad Clot: The Palestinians had no interest in negotiating with Israel, Jeune Afrique, 10/02/2009. • Interview with Ziyad Clot: "Middle East: Can we dream of a Palestinian state?" Public Senate, 16/09/2010. • The Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, RFI
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