Solana said it.
Ahmed Hany
July 31, 2009
The EU Foreign Policy Coordinator Mr. Javier Solana asked the UN Security Council to declare a Palestinian State if both Palestinians and Israelis failed to agree on the final status after a limited period of negotiations. What he said is very important development that the Arabs´ diplomacy should build on to achieve permanent peace.
Many Arab writers wrote about this suggestion before but the Arab diplomats gave them a deaf ear. Perhaps the Arab diplomacy consumes its efforts in the endless mission of the Arab reconciliation. Now there is reconciliation between Palestinian factions exhausts the Arab capitals to unite some factions´ leaders who think about dividing the cake before having it. Between Arab and Palestinian reconciliations all regional powers gain while the Arab diplomats had no time to formulate an exit strategy of the stalling of the peace process.
Unfortunately after Arabs had become science, arms, food, and other goods and services consumers they became strategy, policy and diplomacy consumers. Strange enough, there were no Arab diplomatic comments on Solana´s suggestion.
What does Solana´s suggestion really mean? Fifteen years ago, Sharon asked the Israeli government and Parliament not to support the NATO actions in former Yugoslavia because he predicted that that might be repeated in historical Palestine. Solana asked the UN Security Council and not the UN general assembly. This opens the way for the seventh carter to be applied.
The Israeli Foreign Minister said that Israel will not accept any imposed solutions. Khaled Meshall, the leader of Hamas politobureau accepted a Palestinian State in 1967 borders. In fact since they accepted to share in the elections that were based on Oslo accords then they should have accepted the peace process. However when there was a suggestion that joint Arab-NATO forces enter the West Bank and Gaza Strip to safeguard the lives of Palestinians Hamas refused as if letting Israel kill innocent Palestinians and arresting them are the real struggle.
The relentless efforts by Cairo to achieve inter faction reconciliation are simply against the interests of warlords who could ruin everything by instigating their followers to kill each other or to fire ineffective rockets.
Therefore the conclusion is that despite the international and Arab efforts to achieve peace the partners can not decide. The Israeli government complicates the situation to play time. The Palestinian factions´ leaders have no interest to solve the problem. On the Syrian track, Damascus is waiting for an American promise that Israel would withdraw from Golan. On the Lebanese track, the Hezbo-Allah is ready to explode peace efforts to let Tehran find a relief of its internal crisis until reconciliation between the government and the reformists succeed to empower the Persian state again to play the Syrian and the Lebanese card. Worse is that Tehran should find an exit strategy and if the influence of the hard liners is eroding, they will have two options. The first is to accelerate manufacturing a nuclear devise and test fire it. The second is to instigate border clashes with one of its neighbors. The weakest neighbor is Iraq and Kurdistan and the central part is the most suitable for Iranian army to act. These developments will lead to forgetting what Solana said.
The Arab diplomacy has a chance in Moscow Parley. It should go there with defined red lines. If the Arabs declared and recognized Palestine in this Parley it would be a matter of time that they would see their Palestinian state.
For the negotiations, the Palestinian Authority should be ready to negotiate but after freezing of settlements. If inter faction crisis led to more weakness of the Palestinian Authority, the Arab Foreign Ministers should give the full authority to Mr. Amr Mousa the Arab League Secretary General to negotiate on behalf of Palestinian people after declaring the Palestinian State. Even if the resistance axis objected, the majority could take this decision provided that a referendum for agreements will be held later on. This gives the full legality for the AL to negotiate.
The Arabs should ask for Solana´s suggestion to go directly to the UN if Moscow Parley did not achieve success. The opportunity is that the international community and the US find resolution of the Middle East problems vital for their strategy. Peace in the region means solving nuclear files while addressing nuclear files before peace means spread of mass destructive weapons. The US is busy in Iraq and Afghanistan and the exit is present in Jerusalem. Imposing peace by US, Russia, NATO and Arab forces will succeed to resolve much of the international and regional conflicts especially if that are accompanied by a Marshal plan for development.
Waiting for the Israeli government to decide and waiting for Palestinians to unit are losing time and losing the opportunity.
Many Arab writers wrote about this suggestion before but the Arab diplomats gave them a deaf ear. Perhaps the Arab diplomacy consumes its efforts in the endless mission of the Arab reconciliation. Now there is reconciliation between Palestinian factions exhausts the Arab capitals to unite some factions´ leaders who think about dividing the cake before having it. Between Arab and Palestinian reconciliations all regional powers gain while the Arab diplomats had no time to formulate an exit strategy of the stalling of the peace process.
Unfortunately after Arabs had become science, arms, food, and other goods and services consumers they became strategy, policy and diplomacy consumers. Strange enough, there were no Arab diplomatic comments on Solana´s suggestion.
What does Solana´s suggestion really mean? Fifteen years ago, Sharon asked the Israeli government and Parliament not to support the NATO actions in former Yugoslavia because he predicted that that might be repeated in historical Palestine. Solana asked the UN Security Council and not the UN general assembly. This opens the way for the seventh carter to be applied.
The Israeli Foreign Minister said that Israel will not accept any imposed solutions. Khaled Meshall, the leader of Hamas politobureau accepted a Palestinian State in 1967 borders. In fact since they accepted to share in the elections that were based on Oslo accords then they should have accepted the peace process. However when there was a suggestion that joint Arab-NATO forces enter the West Bank and Gaza Strip to safeguard the lives of Palestinians Hamas refused as if letting Israel kill innocent Palestinians and arresting them are the real struggle.
The relentless efforts by Cairo to achieve inter faction reconciliation are simply against the interests of warlords who could ruin everything by instigating their followers to kill each other or to fire ineffective rockets.
Therefore the conclusion is that despite the international and Arab efforts to achieve peace the partners can not decide. The Israeli government complicates the situation to play time. The Palestinian factions´ leaders have no interest to solve the problem. On the Syrian track, Damascus is waiting for an American promise that Israel would withdraw from Golan. On the Lebanese track, the Hezbo-Allah is ready to explode peace efforts to let Tehran find a relief of its internal crisis until reconciliation between the government and the reformists succeed to empower the Persian state again to play the Syrian and the Lebanese card. Worse is that Tehran should find an exit strategy and if the influence of the hard liners is eroding, they will have two options. The first is to accelerate manufacturing a nuclear devise and test fire it. The second is to instigate border clashes with one of its neighbors. The weakest neighbor is Iraq and Kurdistan and the central part is the most suitable for Iranian army to act. These developments will lead to forgetting what Solana said.
The Arab diplomacy has a chance in Moscow Parley. It should go there with defined red lines. If the Arabs declared and recognized Palestine in this Parley it would be a matter of time that they would see their Palestinian state.
For the negotiations, the Palestinian Authority should be ready to negotiate but after freezing of settlements. If inter faction crisis led to more weakness of the Palestinian Authority, the Arab Foreign Ministers should give the full authority to Mr. Amr Mousa the Arab League Secretary General to negotiate on behalf of Palestinian people after declaring the Palestinian State. Even if the resistance axis objected, the majority could take this decision provided that a referendum for agreements will be held later on. This gives the full legality for the AL to negotiate.
The Arabs should ask for Solana´s suggestion to go directly to the UN if Moscow Parley did not achieve success. The opportunity is that the international community and the US find resolution of the Middle East problems vital for their strategy. Peace in the region means solving nuclear files while addressing nuclear files before peace means spread of mass destructive weapons. The US is busy in Iraq and Afghanistan and the exit is present in Jerusalem. Imposing peace by US, Russia, NATO and Arab forces will succeed to resolve much of the international and regional conflicts especially if that are accompanied by a Marshal plan for development.
Waiting for the Israeli government to decide and waiting for Palestinians to unit are losing time and losing the opportunity.
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