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It’s useful to remember from time-to-time that the peace process is a joke, whose only aim is to continue. No one who participates in it cares much about a just final settlement. They care about keeping the appearance of caring about a just final settlement visible, while legitimizing ongoing occupation and settlement.
Here is the PA violently breaking up a press conference protesting the renewal of direct talks. When the human rights group Al-Haq attempted to document the attack, its investigators were attacked by PA security forces. “Today’s incident is a further example of the increasing climate of violence and intimidation that is effectively transforming Palestinian society into a ‘police-state,'” it said. Two weeks ago, eleven Palestinian factions, including the PFLP, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the DFLP, the General Command, among others, attacked direct talks as
an attempt to provide cover for the U.S. and Israel’s aggressive plans for the region…in a time of a growing international movement in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their just cause, and increasing isolation of Israel as a racist state, the U.S. and Israel are insisting on direct negotiations in order to provide a lifeline to lift the isolation of the criminal occupation state.
an attempt to provide cover for the U.S. and Israel’s aggressive plans for the region…in a time of a growing international movement in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their just cause, and increasing isolation of Israel as a racist state, the U.S. and Israel are insisting on direct negotiations in order to provide a lifeline to lift the isolation of the criminal occupation state.
The PFLP also issued a separate release and called for a national unity government. Mainstream journals will continue to report on and analyze ongoing peace talks, although now with a slight acknowledgment that they are reporting on a performance. Because that’s all it is: highly sophisticated political theater. Paraphrasing Einstein, you can’t simultaneously deepen occupation and prepare to end it.
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