"Long Live the (Dead) Peace Process": Abbas Prioritizes US Ties over Palestinian National UnityArchived Message
Posted by sashimi on December 10, 2020, 8:34 am
Ramzy Baroud, 9 December 2020
(quote) Despite the fact that the Biden Administration has made it clear that it will not be reversing any of the pro-Israel steps taken by the departing Trump Administration, Abbas remains confident that, at least, the 'peace process' can be restored.
This may seem to be an impossible dichotomy, for how can a 'peace process' deliver peace if all the components of a just peace have already been eradicated?
It is obvious that there can be no real peace if the US government insists on recognizing all of Jerusalem as Israel's 'eternal' capital. There can be no peace if the US continues to fund illegal Jewish settlements, bankroll Israeli apartheid, deny the rights of Palestinian refugees, turn a blind eye to de facto annexation under way in Occupied Palestine and recognize the illegally-occupied Syrian Golan Heights as part of Israel, all of which is likely to remain the same, even under the Biden Administration.
The 'peace process' is unlikely to deliver any kind of a just, sustainable peace in the future, when it has already failed to do so in the past 30 years.
Yet, despite the ample lessons of the past, Abbas has decided, again, to gamble with the fate of his people and jeopardize their struggle for freedom and a just peace. Not only is Abbas building a campaign involving Arab countries, namely Jordan and Egypt, to revive the 'peace process', he is also walking back on all his promises and decisions to cancel the Oslo Accords, and end 'security coordination' with Israel. By doing so, Abbas has betrayed national unity talks between his party, Fatah, and Hamas. (/quote) -- Cont'd at https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/12/long-live-the-dead-peace-process-abbas-prioritizes-us-ties-over-palestinian-national-unity/