Swedes warned Netanyahu

After 60 years of conflict, the first Western recognition of Palestine is warning Netanyahu that the solution to the crisis can not be delayed.

Written by: Bosko Jaksic

Open manifesting dissatisfaction with the policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is widely considered responsible for the unsustainable status quo and a key obstacle to achieving peace with the Palestinians, Sweden broke the hitherto nepremostvivu barrier and became the first Western country to recognize a Palestinian state.

"This is an important step that confirms the right of Palestinians to self-determination," explained the decision of the new center-left Swedish Government Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom in an article in Dagens Nyheter.

Palestinians are understandably called the decision "historic" and could easily prove to be one it is, bearing in mind the decades of patronage protection that the West, especially the United States, provides Israel.

"This decision is a message to Israel and the response to his continued occupation of Palestinian land," said Nabeel Abu Rdeineh, spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Israel officials do not hide the feeling of "irritation and nausea" because of "useless decision which does not contribute to the return of the negotiations."

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, the founder and leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu party's right wing, whose electorate is made up of immigrants from the former USSR, is Sweden's decision said it was "regrettable". "The Swedish government should understand that the Middle Eastern relations more complicated than a piece of Ikea furniture for the conclusion, and that the problem should be approached responsibly and sensitive," ironically commented Moldavian Jew who immediately its ambassador in Stockholm called for "consultation".

No time to gloat

To make matters worse after Netanyahu, leader of the right-wing Likud, the recognition that could be followed by other members of the European Union took place just three months after the bloody Israeli attacks on Gaza, amid serious Palestinian unrest in Jerusalem, and direct mail by an unnamed White STAFER house called "chicken go..ncetom."

Crown evidence of an unwillingness to continue the peace dialogue with President Abbas, was the decision by the Israeli government to speed up plans to build new Jewish settlements on occupied Palestinian land.

Palestinians can celebrate, but not the time to gloat. Officially dissatisfaction West Netanyahu can pass, as so many times before, but Palestinian politicians have to solve their problems, because of their reputation in the world is not ideal. They have the authority to increase the effectiveness of the fight against corruption and to leave behind the paralyzing political divisions that much blocking.

At the same time, these potential opportunities to Palestinians a loud wake up call for the people of Israel, who will have to answer the question: how much is a good idea to choose leaders who are solely focused on sabotaging every initiative aimed at achieving a just, comprehensive and lasting peace?

The problem is that Netanyahu has done everything that the negotiations, canceled the last time in April, not reconstruction. A drop in the glass, the crowning proof of unwillingness to continue the peace dialogue with President Abbas, was the decision by the Israeli government to speed up plans to build new Jewish settlements on occupied Palestinian land - the key obstacles that complicate the solution according to the formula of the two countries.

Sweden has estimated that it is enough, and that the recognition of a Palestinian state, announced in his inaugural speech of Prime Minister Stephen Lofvena before Parliament in October, intensify international pressure in order to right-wing Israeli government finally forced to begin solving the longest conflict of the modern world.

The greatest ally of Israel, Americans expected their abstention decision and Sweden are considered "premature". No, Strikes Minister Wallstrom and before Washington officially announced. "Some will say that this decision is coming soon. I am afraid, however, that is too late. "

Israel, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which have long been under the control of Jordan, occupied in the Six Day War in 1967, when the Gaza Strip. East of the city was later annexed, which the international community has never accepted. At the beginning of his second mandate as Prime Minister in March 2009, Netanyahu declared Jerusalem "the eternal and indivisible" capital of the Jewish state, and since then rejects any negotiations on the subject.

Decision Sweden does not differ from the EU policy against the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Union back in 2009 calling on Israel to Jerusalem with the Palestinians in order to be awarded its eastern, Arab part, was the capital of a future Palestinian state. Sweden and then, as chair of the EU at the forefront of draft documents that defined "State of Palestine, consisting of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip."

"The EU member states have confirmed their willingness to 2009 recognize the state of Palestine when it is opportune," reminded the Minister Wallstrom. "Now we are ready to take leadership. We hope it can show the way for others. "

Diplomatic success Palestinians

The European Union all the time, asking that the status of Jerusalem and other core issues of peace talks - such as the construction of Jewish settlements, the borders of a future Palestinian state or the status of the descendants of refugees from the time of the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 - to be resolved through negotiations.

Sweden recognition reasoned as giving equal status to Palestinians and Israelis during peace negotiations, as well as giving hope to young people on both sides, the biggest diplomatic success of the Palestinians after the decision of the UN General Assembly from 2012 on de facto recognition of the Palestinian state.

Will other Europeans to follow the example of Sweden and 135 countries have already recognized Palestine, including Malta and Cyprus as well as some Eastern European countries that have done so much before joining the EU? Have to admit a country whose Palestinian Authority President Abbas does not have full control over Palestinian land, which the government does not know the limits?

The British Parliament in early October in the non-binding vote, admitted Palestine, a similar vote ahead in Spain, France and Ireland - all of which suggests a new diplomatic breakthroughs "Palestinian cause."

Some EU members, closer to Israel, they are not satisfied by the decision of Sweden, so the spokesperson for the European Commission in May Kocijančić had to repeat five years ago adopted a more general formulation: "What is the position of the EU regarding the recognition is concerned, the Union has in the past announced it will recognize Palestine when it is opportune. "

All this could help you in the UN Security Council passed a resolution that was recently announced by Chief Palestinian peace negotiator, that November 2017 is the deadline for the creation of two states within the limits before the war in 1967.

After six decades of conflict and 21 years after the signing of the first Israeli-Palestinian agreement in Oslo, after more than two decades of unsuccessful negotiations, the first recognition that arrived from the West is a great diplomatic success of the Palestinians and a stern warning from Prime Minister Netanyahu that the solution to the crisis can not be disposed of in indefinitely.

"Our decision comes at a critical time because we are in the last year saw the peace talks stopped, as the decision on the new (Jewish) settlements on occupied Palestinian land complicate the solution of the two countries and that the violence have returned to Gaza," explained Swedish motives Minister Wallstrom.

Administration decision on the construction of new 1000 housing units in East Jerusalem, Netanyahu is not only speed up the determination of Stockholm, but was again irritated Washington that the new settlement as "provocative and unjustified."

The Obama administration tried in 2010 serving two strong diplomatic pressure to force Netanyahu to announce a moratorium on building new Jewish settlements, but in December dropped. The Palestinians are now, after only three months of negotiations, withdrew.

Back bloody conflicts

The problem has further contributed to the cooling of US-Israeli relations, already disrupted by a declaration of one unnamed White House officials who said in an interview for the magazine Atlantic Netanyahu called "chicken go..ncetom" - a man who only thinks about his stay in office, unprepared to resolve the conflict with the Palestinians .

As usual, provocative decision on Jewish settlements near Jerusalem's Old Town was soon followed by an incident that turned into a dangerous unrest. A Palestinian man tries to kill the ultra-right American-Jewish activist Yehuda Glick, the leaders of the campaign to allow Jews to pray at the third holiest site of Islam, the area of the Haram al-Sharif, the Temple walls, where there is a mosque of Al-Aqsa.

Three hours after the incident, when police tried to arrest osumnjčenog 32-year-old Palestinian, there was an armed conflict in which he was killed. Immediately followed fierce riots by East Jerusalem. The ultra-orthodox Jews tried to protest the assassination to move towards an Islamic shrine, the Haram al-Sharif was closed for almost the whole day - the first time in 14 years.

President Abbas is the actions of the police said they were straight "declaration of war", while his Fatah declared a day of wrath - it's all obese return to bloody conflicts during the second Palestinian intifada, uprising, already started in 2000 immediately after the then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon provocative went to the Haram al-Sharif.

6 Nov, 2014
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