Arab peace initiative: Why Israel is uneasy with Peace
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Israel is not bound to accept the Saudi peace plan, which is now the Arab peace plan after it was adopted by countries of the Arab League and that of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC). The reason is simple. Israel fears it will not cope with the potential development of the Arab world once peace is established in the Middle East region. It also trust that Washington will soon launch attacks against other Muslim states, hence there is no rush to accept any plans. However, it will be up to the European Union, the Russians and the Americans to force the plan upon the Israelis.
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh too does not believe that Israel will accept the revived Arab initiative for peace with the Jewish state, he told AFP in an interview at the Arab summit in Riyadh.
Proving Haniyeh right, the Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told a Palestinian newspaper in an interview published Thursday that Israel could not accept a 2002 Arab League peace initiative in its current formulation.
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The Israelis does not want border issues to be resolved with the peace plan, a plan which is being hailed by the Muslim world as a major step forward in the Middle East. Yet Tel Aviv sees this plan as too simplistic and is showing signs of rejection of the plan well in advance.
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu told United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that the Arab peace initiative was unacceptable. He is referring to the return of the hundred of thousands of Palestinian refugees. Their return is significant to the return of more land to the Palestinians by Israel.
“Not a single refugee will return,” the Likud leader told Mr. Ban Ki Moon, secretary of the UN, referring the Arab demands that Palestinian refugees who left there homes in 1948 be allowed to return to Israel.
World Futures believe the plan is the most progressive one that has ever been offered by Muslims to the Israelis yet the problem as Haniyeh said, “does not come from the Palestinians or the Arabs but from Israel, which refuses to deal with the Arab peace plan.” WFOL raised the issue of an Arab peace plan and said there were no real American plans for the Middle East or Palestine in an article entitled The OIC should revive the Saudi peace road map. We suggested that the Arab peace initiative be given credence by the West and by the Quartet if they were really interested in ending the conflict in the occupied Palestine.
In another article we clearly indicated that Israel, by the nature of its agenda and thanks to the support it gets from the west, will never accept a peace deal with the Palestinians or with the Arab world.
We also believe the Quartet, composed of the Americans, the EU, Russia and the UN were not in a position to impose a peace plan in occupied Palestine. The group of four either has little interest in the region or has a blunt ignorance of the real issues in the conflict between the Muslims and Israel. The Quartet is believed to be under the influence of Israel and has proven to be rather one sided in the negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
The team of international peace brokers - the United States, United Nations, Russia and the European Union - has demanded that the PA government recognize Israel, renounce violence and abide by previously signed peace agreements in order to lift the sanctions imposed in the wake of the 2006 Hamas election victory. There are no demands made to the Israelis, indicating the biasness of the Quartet in the negotiations.
However, the Israelis will reject the plan for two main reasons:
1. They are lobbying the US to start fresh wars in the Middle East against Syria, Lebanon and Iran. With this they expect the creation of a serious ‘buffer zone’ that will extend from the borders of Iran-Iraq to Syria and Lebanon. This buffer zone will be the ‘security cordon’ the USIsrael. has promised Tel Aviv it will establish in order to prevent any further attacks by Muslim militants against
2. Tel Aviv is not willing to see the creation of a Palestinian state right next door to it, fearing it will lose in terms of investment and other aids – which are currently keeping Israel’s economy floating – that will be diverted to Palestine and other Arab states.
Peace is not an ingredient that is favorable to the Israelis since the Israeli state was built on the basis of fuelling and pursing a state of violence through military and political conflicts in the midst of the Arab world.
One way to enforce the Saudi Arabian peace initiative is for the UN, the Russians and the EU to press the US to accept the peace plan and endorse it as the peace initiative for the Quartet. This then would be pressed upon the Israelis, whose good faith in the attempts to end the Palestine conflict is at stake here.
By rejecting the peace plan, the Israelis are once again exposing their warring characteristics and this should be clear indication to the rest of the world who are those that are really after war and who really want peace in the Middle East.
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