2010-11-30

Wikileaks: USA likgiltig för Palestinaafrågan


Robert Fisk, en av vår tids främsta krigsreportrar, kommenterar här Wikileaks dokument i frågan. Han har hittills läst ett tusental dokument.

There is virtually no talk of illegal Jewish colonial settlements on the West Bank, of Israeli "outposts", of extremist Israeli "settlers" whose homes now smallpox the occupied Palestinian West Bank, of the vast illegal system of land theft which lies at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian war. And incredibly, all kinds of worthy US diplomats grovel and kneel before Israel's demands, many of them apparently fervent supporters of Israel, as Mossad bosses and Israel military intelligence agents read their wish-list to their benefactors.

There's a wonderful moment in the cables when the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, explains to a US congressional delegation on 28 April last year that "a Palestinian state must be demilitarised, without control of its airspace and electro-magnetic field [sic], and without the power to enter into treaties or control its border". Well goodbye, then, to the "viable" (ergo Lord Blair of Isfahan) Palestinian state we all supposedly want. And the US Congress lads and ladies appear to have said nothing.

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