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Israel, by its own free choice, appears to
be moving into a state of apocalyptic confrontation with the entire
world.
Israel, with its large arsenal of weapons
of mass destruction -- biological, nuclear and chemical -- and with its genius
for polarizing the entire world against it, including its best friends, has the
strong potential to become the world's ultimate suicide
bomber.
Israel angers the Bush administration
Ariel Sharon is
surely feeling lonely these days. Tension is building between him and the Bush
administration, which feels that mounting Muslim hostility toward the USA, and
particularly its troubled occupation of Iraq, is being fuelled by Israel's
treatment of the Palestinians.
Following a stinging public rebuke of his
policies by Israel's top soldier, Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon, on 28 October, no
less than four former directors of the Shin Bet security service, intimately
involved in fighting the Palestinians, added their sharp criticism on 14
November. They warned of a catastrophe if Israel did not reach an accommodation
with the Palestinians soon.
US impatience with Sharon became evident as
the new Palestinian prime minister, Ahmed Qurie, an architect of the Oslo
Accords universally known by his nom de guerre of Abu Aala, has formed a
government that seeks to breathe some life into the badly battered US-backed
peace initiative known as the 'road map'.
With US forces in Iraq under
constant and escalating attack by resistance fighters - be they 'Saddam regime
remnants', 'foreign fighters' or plain old up-in-arms nationalists - the USA
needs Sharon's policies against the Palestinians, which stoke up Islamist
passions, like a hole in the head. They would like him to moderate his hard line
- quickly.
Paul Wolfowitz, the US Deputy Secretary of Defense and the
spearhead of the neo-conservative hardliners in the Bush administration, has
endorsed the so-called 'Geneva Initiative', the unofficial peace plan agreed by
Ayalon and a Palestinian academic, Sari Nusseibeh, last month. Given Wolfowitz's
support for Sharon and Israel's other hardliners over the years, his unexpected,
and remarkably under-reported, endorsement of the informal peace pact that calls
for a Palestinian state in the pre-June 1967 West Bank and Gaza Strip and the
partition of Jerusalem, carries immense political weight and clearly had the
approval of the White House.
"Clearly, one huge factor in our relations
with the Muslim world, as well as one of the greatest obstacles to peace in that
region, is the continuing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians," said
Wolfowitz.
That echoed, with the weight of the Bush administration
behind it, much of what Yaalon and the Shin Bet quartet had to say: Israeli
action against the Palestinians was creating hatred that would eventually
explode; that the Palestinians had to be given feasible political targets if any
progress toward ending the intifada was to be achieved; and help must be given
to a moderate Palestinian government (Israel did little to help the short-lived
government of Abu Mazen). On 13 November, Bush's people opened fire again.
William Burns, President Bush's Middle East envoy, took aim at Jewish settlement
building in the Occupied Territories and at the wall the Israelis are building
in the West Bank, ostensibly to keep out the suicide bombers, but in fact
gobbling up Palestinian land, probably for ever. The security wall, said Burns,
"prejudices negotiations and, like settlement activity, takes us further from
the two-state goal."
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