Think Palestine: To Unlock Us-Israelis & Arabs Conflicts Vol. Ii

By Jamil Effarah

Dr. Effarahs weekly editorials and articles in this volume are based on developing events that took place involving the USA Administrations and their policies of support to Israel in the conflicts among Palestinians, Arabs and Israelis. This book is intended to those students, teachers, politicians, executives, policy makers, and others who are interested or involved in the Middle East.

Dr. Effarah interprets these events and policies as reflected by his six years (2007-2012) of writings that started since 1952. As an Arab American independent thinker, he judges events according to their merits while acting as a participant observer to the one-sided American policy toward the Middle East. He records and highlights the facts in an attempt to find the key to unlock the Palestinian, Arab and Israeli conflicts. His personal feelings and interpretations towards the proceedings represent a major part in presenting the events that took place in that period.

Dr. Effarah attempts to create a voice for Arab Americans to stand up and be counted and act as an integral part of the American society. He keeps pressing for more American-Arab participation in the political process, for more transparency, and for faster and farther reaching to the Americans hearts and minds by trying to make them understand the Arabs situations, and Arab Christian Patrimony, culture and heritage.

Dr. Effarah attempts to create an Arab American balanced policy to reach Americans and convince them that there are special interests groups and influential lobbyists in Washington, D.C. who misinform media and try to spin around while beholding to the fabricated Israeli points of view. To counterbalance the Zionist efforts, Arab Americans should think Palestine and ask the American citizens to find answers for why the American citizens, the taxpayers, give money outright to Israel: more than $8.5 million per day, according to the CIA Factbook in 2012.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Sep 13, 2013
• ISBN: 9781491815991

Jamil Effarah

Dr. Jamil Effarah has been a resident of Ventura County, California, since 1978. He is an Arab American from Lebanon, born in Haifa, Palestine. He is married to his cousin Mathilda Effarah and has two sons and six grandchildren. He obtained a BA degree from the American University of Beirut (AUB), a MEd from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge (LSU), an MS degree in computer science from University of Southern Louisiana in Lafayette (ULL), an MBA from California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks (CLU), and a PhD from University of Oregon in Eugene (U of O). He published his first book in Arabic in 1958, The Political Problems of the Sudan, and an updated second edition in 2000. He established, owned, and directed Kfarshima College in Kfarshima, Lebanon, in 1962. His dissertation “The Impact of Electronic Data Processing on Business Education in the Secondary Schools of Oregon,” is classified at the foundation level of the Mathematics Genealogy Project at North Dakota State University (NDSU) and is being taught as part of the Mathematics Subject Classification: 97—Mathematics Education at the University of North Dakota in Fargo. Dr. Borg and Dr. Gall quoted Dr. Effarah and added another chapter, “Evaluation Research,” in the third edition of their book Educational Research, 1979. Dr. Effarah has originated a baseline to measure the unmet needs. He has published over one thousand articles in Arabic and English in different newspapers and magazines in United States and in the Middle East. He published a number of books in English online through the Author House (www.authorhouse.com) and a number of other published books in English and in Arabic, and more written books are still waiting to be published.

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CONTENTS

Preface

The Year 2007

Introduction

Is the Year 2007 going to be a Happy New Year?

Palestine, Peace not Apartheid complements It’s Palestine NOT Israel

Should Palestinian Leadership Use Undemocratic and Illegal Measure against its People to Please the Israeli government?

Revisiting Madrid Peace Conference: Madrid + 15 / Madrid Fifteen Years Later.

Dr. Rice Suggests a Temporary Palestinian State Border within the Apartheid Segregation Wall.

The United States Is Squandering International Prestige and Goodwill and Intensifying Global Anti-American Terrorism.

Does President Bush Remember His Solemn Pledge:

I will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity through civility, courage, compassion and character?

With the New Palestinian National Unity Government, Will Israel Declare its Members legitimate Target for its Death Squads?

General Shlomo Goren tried to convince Uzi Narkis to blow up Al-Aqsa Mosque in 1967 once and for all

Will the New Palestinian Unity Government Bring a Real Two-state Solution?

Palestinians’ Moral Values Do NOT Allow Them to Recognize Israel in Historical Palestine.

The Right to Preserve the Palestinian Heritage and Culture

Who Gave Permission to Slaughter Palestinians Not Egyptians?

Did the Nineteenth Arab Summit and Dr. Rice set the Stage for the Establishment of the Palestinian State?

Pelosi: The Road to Damascus is the Road to Peace. Will President Bush Change Course?

Will the International Community Apply Sanctions on Israel until it complies with International Law?

The Need for a Microscope to Look for What Remains of Palestine 

Azmi Bishara challenges the State of Israel.

Why should the International Community support Israel—the Military State?

Private Military Contractor Companies lead the War in Iraq.

How can the Palestinian Unity Government defend the Palestinians from the Continuous Israeli Aggression?

For All Practical Reasons Palestinians should never Recognize Israel’s Right to Exist

June 5, 2007 Marks the 40-Year Anniversary of Illegal Occupation of the Palestinian Territories.

Does the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have any Solution to the Palestinian Issue?

Who deserves to be the Next President of the United States of America?

How to understand what is going on in Palestine? Part (1/2)

How to understand what is going on in Palestine? Part (2/2)

How to find the Solution to the Current Palestinian Crisis?

How does President George W. Bush spread the virtue of Democracy?

How do the Zionists Plan to make Israel the Strongest, the Biggest, and most Advanced Country in the Middle East?

Who can faithfully describe the Current Events in the Arab World?

What Heroic Role is assigned to Mahmoud Abbas in Solving the Palestinian Dilemma?

Arab Americans should support an American important voice called Dr. Franklin Pierce Lamb.

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)

Arab American Academics Should Boycott Palestinian-Israeli Peacemakers’ Formless Meetings

Will the American-Israeli Strategic Alliance solve the Palestinian Situation?

Does Abu Mazen plan a new non-violent resistance to stop the Israeli violations of humanitarian laws in the Occupied Palestinian Territories?

Marking the Sixth Anniversary of the 9/11 by Speaking about American Strategy in Iraq

Think Palestine to unlock US-Israelis & Arabs Conflicts

To Have a Fair and Just Solution for the Palestinian Dilemma: Start with Tearing Down the Apartheid Wall.

Why Israel considers the Palestinians residents in Gaza and West Bank not real people?

Is Annapolis another Camp David?

How serious is Israel in preparing for the November Summit?

Is Dahlan set to succeed Abbas after Annapolis?

A Just Solution or No solution in the Annapolis Summit

On the verge of the Annapolis Summit: Do Americans identify with the Palestinians Conflicts with Israel?

What do Americans know about the Israeli Occupation Authorities Committing Gross Violations in Palestine?

The Annapolis Conference: A Comedy of Errors

Annapolis is the Newest Location Added to the Long List of Fruitless Peace Meetings

After Annapolis: What is Olmert’s Vision of a Palestinan State?

After Annapolis: The Economic Annapolis Conference in Paris

After Annapolis: What is the New Role Set for the Palestinian Authority?

The year 2008 begins with President Bush Trip to Palestine.

The Year 2008

Introduction

Is It Possible to have Peace in Palestine in 2008?

Analysis: The Palestinian Situation after President Bush’s Visit to Palestine

President Bush Green Light to Terror State Israel Forced the Palestinians in Gaza to knock down the Wall Separating Gaza from Egypt

What Does the Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas Want? Does He Really Know?

Do Americans Know What Zionism is?

Facts from Palestine that Americans should know

For the Arab Americans Solidarity: Vote Ralph Nader

The Israeli’s Holocaust in Gaza

Is it true that Hamas seized Power in a Bloody Coup D’état in June 2007?

The Need for a Palestinian Solidarity, Unity and Resistance to the ongoing Israeli state Crimes

Support the Palestinian Call for Boycott, Divestment, and Actions against Israel

The Arab League Summit calls for Arab Cooperation to Solve the Palestinian Predicament

No Respect for Palestinians’ Human Rights under Israeli Occupation

Palestinians cannot have Progress in Talking Peace with the Israeli Occupiers

Jimmy Carter Brings Honesty and Pragmatism in Dealing with Hamas

Israeli Rabbis Call for the Total Annihilation of the Palestinians

Americans should Recognize Al-Nakba as Palestinian Equivalent to the Nazi Holocaust

Think Palestine: Americans should Listen to President Jimmy Carter’s Critical Analysis of the Palestinian Catastrophe

Senator Joe Biden: President Bush’s Speech in Israel is bullshit

Does the Rule of Law Protect the Palestinian Human Rights and Apply their Right to Return Home?

Is it possible for Our Government to Claim Impotence in the Face of Israeli Measures?

Is It Possible for the American Peace Supporters to Counter the Impact and Control of AIPAC on U.S. Foreign Policy?

The Time is NOW to Restore the Palestinian National Unity.

An End to the Occupation of the Arab Territories is the Price for Peace.

Young Generations Should Know Who the Real Terrorists are

Solutions for the Palestinian Tragedy should be based on the 1948 Nakba.

Dr. Rice is proud that the Middle East had improved since President George W. Bush took office

Is It Possible for President Bush to Mitigate the Verdict of History?

Americans Should Not Allow the Israelis Create their Own Facts in Palestine

There will be No Peace as Long as the Israelis are exploiting the Palestinian Lands as They like When They Like

President Bush Vision to create a Palestinian State is relatively a Hallucination

Palestinians would never live at Peace with the Israelis in Palestine

Breaking the Israeli Cruel Blockade of the Gaza Strip

President Bush Peacemaking Efforts have a negative effect in the Peace Process

Do Americans Believe in Justice, Humanity, Liberation, and Resistance against Tyranny?

How Do First Generation Arab Americans Seniors Cope with the American Way of Life?

The Israeli Government enforces the Judaization of the Palestinian Capital of East Jerusalem

The Head of the 63rd UN General Assembly Urges the Implementation of the UN Partition Resolution 181.

No Peace without the Establishment of the State of Palestine

The Outgoing Olmert Acknowledged No Peace in Palestine without giving back almost all of the Territory Seized During the Six-Day War in 1967

The Riot in Akka (Acre) Explains How the Israeli Religious Fanatics Control of Israel

The Cornerstone of the Israeli’s Strategy is to Divide and Rule Palestine

When and How Was the Jewish People Invented?

Palestinians Believe in Justice Despite the Israelis’ Injustice

It is Time to Think Palestine without Blaming the Victims.

The Establishment of an Independent Free Palestinian State within 1967 Borders

The Thanksgiving Nightmare continues in the Gaza Strip of Palestine

Do Not Allow the Israeli Security Plan Destroys the Palestinian Holy Struggle to End Occupation?

The Comedy of Error is going on the Palestinian Authority Stage.

When the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people will be brought to fruition?

No prospects for Palestinian-Israeli Peace and Stability in 2009

The Year 2009

Introduction

The American People and the World deserve a fuller and more Credible Investigation of the Israelis’ Cruelties in 2009

President Bush leaves Office in Shame for Supporting the Genocide in Gaza

(1) Facts that President Obama Should Remember

(2) More Facts that President Obama Should Remember

(3) A Fair and Bold Obama Peace Plan Needed for Peace in the Middle East

(4) Mr. President, Palestinians have Legitimate and Moral Rights to Defend Themselves

(5) Mr. President, Beware the Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors of World War II

(6) Mr. President, What do You Know about the Illegal Jewish Settlements Built on the Occupied Palestinian Territories?

(7) Mr. President, The World Expects You to remove all Obstacles to Peace in the Middle East

(8) Mr. President, Know the Truth to Achieve Justice: Support the Palestinian Resistance.

(9) Mr. President, How do you react if you are a Palestinian?

(10) Mr. President, Are you sure your Administration will boycott Durban II World Conference against Racism?

(11) Mr. President, Is it still too politically Dangerous to say anything Critical of Israel?

(12) Mr. President: Is it True that Israel’s Interests are those of the United States?

(13) Mr. President: What Rights given to Israel to Attack and Demolish Palestinian Homes?

(14) Mr. President: Most faithful Americans Respect Your Commitment to the Two-State Solution in Your Middle Eastern Policy.

(15) Mr. President: We Don’t Expect You to Achieve Miracles. We expect you to set a Positive Path in the Direction of Reestablishing Law and Justice by helping the People of Palestine to have their own Free and Independent State.

What is new in President Obama’s Middle Eastern Policy?

Netanyahu wants to persuade President Obama to support Israel’s plan to create a Greater Israel?

After 61 years: Remember the 1948 Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe

Palestinian Unity leads to the Creation of the Independent State of Palestine

Is Mahmoud Abbas a legitimate Palestinian President to be welcomed in the White House?

President Obama calls the Creation of an Independent Palestinian State the Only Resolution to Peace in the Middle East

Will President Obama Show His Tough Love Diplomacy?

Netanyahu’s Pathetic and Hypocritical Rhetoric Attempt to Distort History

Palestine is the Palestinians’ homeland

Has President Obama the Audacity to Solve Crucial Palestinian Issues?

Netanyahu is misleading the World Community by Substituting a Ghetto for a Palestinian State

The 5th Anniversary of the International Court of Justice Decision—The Wall is Illegal.

Israel Escalates Racist and Terrorist Actions in Occupied Palestine to Block any Plan for a Peaceful Agreement

Will the Global Community have Time to Bring Security and Attention to the Palestinian Humanitarian Crisis?

What did Fatah’s Sixth Congress Accomplish?

Israel and the US succeeded in maintaining President Abbas and Fatah as the Center of Gravity on the Palestinian Scene

Does President Obama have the Political Backing to Squeeze the Right-Wing Government of Benjamin Netanyahu to accept the Palestinian rights?

For the Sake of Academic Freedom: Boycott Israeli universities

Implementing the Call upon Global Civil Society Organizations to Boycott Israel

Is There a Time of Hope For the Palestinians?

The Disappointing Address of President Obama at the UN General Assembly

Is it Possible for Abbas to Resolve the Palestinian Arab-Israeli Conflict by Negotiations?

St. Anne Melkite Greek Catholic Church Celebrates the 100th Anniversary (1909-2009) in Southern California

From The New York Khalil Gibran Pen League to a New Arab American Cultural Network

Israel is leading the World in Villainy and President Obama gives it the Green Light

Will President Obama be the Leader Most of the World is Hoping He Will Be?

A Slide in the American Policy toward Destroying Peace in the Middle East

Jews Have the Right to kill non-Jews. Are the Jews Allowed to Take the Law into Their Own Hands?

Remember Palestine after the past 62 years since the establishment of the illegal state of Israel in 1948

The Year 2009 is Over; But Remembering Palestine Continues…

The Year 2010

Introduction

Palestinians Should Return To Pre-1948 Borders

Will the Year 2010 Put an End to the Illegal State Implanted in the Holy Land of Palestine?

Facts to Remember: The Need to Support the Palestinian People

The Palestinian Children in Gaza Join Together to Help the Earthquake Survivals in Haiti

One Year after Operation Cast Lead Tragedy in Gaza

Stop the Palestinian suffering

Why The Establishment of Israel is Illegal

Listen to the Palestinian Christians Moment of Truth

Why do the US and the World Community Allow for the Survival of an Illegal Existence?

The New Initiative Measure Act: California Public Divest from Israel

When Will the International Community Declare Israel as a Pariah Apartheid State?

The Only Language Israel Understands to Accept Peace is that of Threat. Do Americans have a Better Language?

From General David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army Commander U.S. Central Command Statement: Defining The Central Command Area of Responsibility (CENTCOM AOR)

From General David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army Commander U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND Statement: Insufficient Progress toward a Comprehensive Middle East Peace

Another Fruitless 22nd Arab League Summit Took Place Last Month

Americans Should Know the Following Accurate Facts:

Apartheid is a crime against humanity: Do Not Support Israel as Long as It Continues to Maintain Illegal Settlements in Occupied Palestine

Jewish Zionists Made and Still are Making Fateful Decisions for US Foreign Policy in the Middle East

Jewish Zionists Made and Still are Making Fateful Decisions for US Foreign Policy in the Middle East

The 63rd Anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba Catastrophe

The Proximity Talks Allow the Apartheid State of Settlers to Cover for Building More Illegal Settlements

Why Should the Zionist Apartheid Settlers’ State Take Responsibility for Its Brutality?

The Israeli Culture of Terrorism and Violence: Hatred, Grudge and Extremism

When will the Undisciplined American Politicians and Mainstream Media in the West Stop Distorting Realities?

The Apartheid Zionist State of Settlers Are Razing Palestinian Christian and Muslim Holy Places

Positive Reactions Needed to Stop Israel’s Atrocious Attacks on the Citizens of Palestine.

Why the International Community Allows Israel to Get Away with its Occupation and Atrocities in Palestine?

Why Americans should cave in and accept the U.S. Unbreakable Bond with an Apartheid State of Zionist Settlers without objections?

Time to Read a Fiction to Reflect on Civil War Atrocities

The deceitful face of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu

Stop the Apartheid State of Settlers’ Discriminating Policy in the Palestinian Occupied Territories

How could moderate Arab Leaders’ Brains Indirectly compete with the Intricate Computer Brain?

What should be learned from Reading History?

How to find out who are Those Worthless and Irrational Zionist Members in the US House of Representatives?

Will the World Communities Able to Put an End to the Zionist Criminal Atrocities in Palestine?

Israel is a Nazi Criminal State par excellence

Christianity Categorically Reject Christian Zionist Doctrines as False Teaching that Corrupts the Biblical Message of Love, Justice and Reconciliation.

Religious Prophecies for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ

Palestine will Rise Once Again and will Stand Proud is the Real Palestinian Article of Faith

Is the Obama Administration Serious about Peace through Direct Talks?

The Zionist Absolute Power and Control over Washington’s Policy toward the Middle East

President Obama Know How To Implement the International Law in the Holy Land—Palestine?

George Washington’s Signed Handwritten Letter to Muhammad Ibn Abdullah III—Emperor of Morocco on the first of December 1789

Why the U.S. and its Military State of Settlers in Palestine reject the Palestinian National Unity Government

Does Abbas have any Real Role in Direct Talks?

Will the Unites States Accept the Legitimacy of the Terrorist Military State’s Security Needs as Defined by Netanyahu?

How the leadership of the international community has handled the Middle East conflict?

Who Can Stop the Terrible Ordeal that Continues to Confront the Palestinian People?

Should Americans Accept Their President Cave In to Israel’s Demands to wipe out the Palestinians?

The Palestinians, Christians and Muslims, Connectedness to Palestine is a Genuine and a Natural Right

What Kind of Surprises Will the Year 2011 Bring?

The Year 2011

Introduction

How Do the Zionist-Israeli Military Courts Treat the Palestinian children?

No Justice, No Fair Solution in the Holy Land of Palestine

To Prevent the Establishment of an Independent Palestinian state, Palestinians are pushed off Their Lands and Out of Their Homes

Palestinians are the Largest Refugee Population in the World Living in Refugee Camps run by the United Nation Organization (UNRWA)

Palestinians are looking for the World Recognition of the Independent Palestinian State

The Palestinians Relieved from the fall of the Egyptian Despot

Nothing Secrets in the Revealed Confidential Palestinian Papers

The Egyptian Uprising is the Spark to Force the Palestinians’ Unification and Liberation

Now is the Time for the Palestinians to Help Themselves and Put their Act Together

The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Continuous Favoritism for the Israeli Occupiers of Palestine

What Form of a Palestinian State Both Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad will create?

Palestinians’ New Uprising Needed to Fight for Freedom

The Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will Never Expire or Negotiated

The Apartheid State of Israel (ASOI) is a Zionist State of Settlers

No validity in Judge Richard Goldstone Apparent Retractions and Biased Rethinking

Americans and the International communities should fight for the Palestinian People’s Rights of Return

When Will Our American Administration and Public Opinion Support Justice in Palestine?

May 4, 2011 Brought Practical Steps to Just Peace with the Unification of the Palestinian People

Justice Delayed for the Palestinians does not Mean that Justice will Forever Be Denied

Egyptians and Palestinians Are Playing a New Role in Solving the Palestinian Dilemma

Just another Speech: The President Talks without Concrete Actions

No More Occupation! Stop Israeli War Crimes! And Equal Rights for Palestinians!

May 15 & June 5, 2011 Mark the Starting Point of the Third Palestinian Intifada (Uprising)

The Fabricated Narrative of Jewish Right to Exist in Palestine

Does the Zionist State of Illegal Settlers Create a Jewish State?

Is It Treason to Raise Awareness About Conditions in the Gaza Strip of Palestine?

No Peace in Palestine without the Restoration of the United Nations Resolutions

The Zionist Uncontrollable Democracy is a Zionist-Designed, Zionist-Enforced Kiss of Death to the Arab and Palestinian Uprisings

Time to Remember the Zionist American Clean Break Policy Document for Israel to Achieve (1/2)

Time to Remember the Zionist American Clean Break Plan Israel to Apply (2/2)

What Options do the Palestinians Have to Achieve Statehood?

Why the Signed Reconciliation Accord Between Fatah and Hamas Is Frozen?

No Archaeological Evidence that the Supposed Temple of Solomon Ever Existed in the Palestinian City of Jerusalem

Support the International Court of Justice to destroy the Illegal Apartheid Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Is the Palestinian Act of Self-Defense an Act of Terrorism?

Palestine as Treated in the Israeli School Books

The Vagueness in the Proposal for Recognizing a Palestinian Statehood

President Obama’s Double Standards for Praising the Arab Spring Protests While Seeking to Block Palestinian dreams

Steps to Indemnify the Basic Strategies for the Palestinian self-determination and Freedom

The Palestinians Are Not Looking For a Home… Their Home is Palestine

After Destroying Palestine, the Zionists Hands are moving stealthily into Syria

Palestinians Should Take Matters in Their Own Hands to Survive

Palestinians’ Massive Campaign of Active Nonviolence Resistance is Vital to the Palestinian Continuous Struggle

A Global Intifada Week Worldwide Actions in Support of the Palestinian Struggle for Liberation

The Criminal Prime Minister of Israel is a Big Pretender & a Liar

The International Community Is Requested to Support and Strengthen the Palestinian Resistance for Liberation and Self-Determination

The Russell Tribunal on Palestine reaffirms the supremacy of international law as the basis for a solution to the Palestinian dilemma

The Un-American Laws that the American Congress Passes in Support Of Israel Occupying Palestine

Palestinians Will Never Stop Speaking Up For a Free and Independent Palestine

The International Quartet fails to Secure Peace in the Middle East

What Options Do the Palestinians Have in 2012 Without Falling in the Trap that Sadat’s Scheme Tried to Achieve?

The Year 2012

Introduction

The Future of the Palestinian Authority in 2012 in Light of the Continued Zionist/Israeli Occupation of Palestine

Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinian People is Ongoing

What Options Do the Palestinians Have in 2012 Without Falling in the Trap that Sadat’s Scheme Tried to Achieve?

Miko Peled’s Published Book The General’s Son in February 2012 Speaks the Truth about Reality in Palestine

Is There a Palestinian New Vision to Liberate Palestine in 2012?

Is it True that the United States has no foreign policy, only a Zionist Domestic Policy to Tolerate?

Let the Palestinian People live in Peace in their homeland

Palestinians should Translate Public Opinion into Political Action to Liberate Palestine from Zionism

The Illegal Zionist State Israel in Palestine Revitalizes the Old Myth by a Federation of Several Major Demographic-Cultural Blocs

The BRICS Organization Cares for Justice to the Palestinians in Its Fourth Summit Meeting

What did the Criminal Prime Minister Netanyahu Visit to the United States achieve?

Zionists Consider the Palestinians Foreigners in Their Own Country Palestine. How can The Palestinians Protect Their Own Ethnicity?

Netanyahu New Game: Writing a Modern Book of Esther

Does the BRICS organization Bring Justice to the Palestinians?

Is Going to War in Iran Serve American Interests or the Zionists?

Palestinian Human Right of Return is Spelled Out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

What is expected from the Palestinian Authority to Do Next for the Recognition of the State of Palestine?

Why did President Obama confer America’s Highest Civilian Award upon a Criminal?

Why Netanyahu is the Hottest Hebrew Prophet to Transport Zionist Jews to the Palestinian Occupied Territories

When Will the Palestinians Have Their Own Independent State?

Abu Mazen Named a New Cabinet: Will It Answer the Palestinians’ Legal Rights to Live in a Free and Independent State?

Instead of establishing a State, the Zionists are building a Large Ghetto called Israel

After 64 years and Palestinians are still Resisting the Zionist Occupation and Struggling for their Fundamental and Inalienable Rights

Our Administration and our Congress Fail to Hold Israel Accountable for its Human Rights Abuses

The Israeli Situation and the Palestinian Struggle as seen by Dr. Fouzi Al-Asmar (Part 1/5)

The Israeli Situation and the Palestinian Struggle as seen by Dr. Fouzi Al-Asmar (Part 2)

The Israeli Situation and the Palestinian Struggle as seen by Dr. Fouzi Al-Asmar (Part 3)

The Israeli Situation and the Palestinian Struggle as seen by Dr. Fouzi Al-Asmar (Part 4)

The Israeli Situation and the Palestinian Struggle as seen by Dr. Fouzi Al-Asmar (Part 5)

The Palestinian Struggle and the One-State Solution as Dr. Fouzi Al-Asmar Used to Promote

Mitt Romney needs to learn a Lesson in the Palestinian Culture

Shaul Mofaz criticizes our President Barack Obama for permitting Iran to have a Civilian Nuclear Program

The West and the United States Turn Their Eyes and Ears Away From Justice in Palestine

The Tehran Sixteenth Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement Confirm the Palestinian Refugees Rights

Is the United States Adopting the Principle: The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend

How a President is made in the United States Using the Republican Formula

Al-Kuds Al-Shareef (Jerusalem) is and will always be the Capital of Palestine

Netanyahu Wants the U.S. to Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Program to Justify the Zionists’ Anxiety

The Fourth Session of Russell Tribunal on Palestine dealt with US Complicity and UN failings in Dealing with Zionists’ Violations of International Law towards the Palestinian People

The Presidential Candidates Debate Erased Palestine from the Map of the World

After the Russell Tribunal, the Elders Condemns the Zionists Actions in Occupied Palestine

Welcome Back President Obama to choose between chaos, extremism, and violence, or a new peace process to justify the Palestinian Dilemma

Palestinian Authority Leader Mahmoud Abbas Represents himself with no Palestinians’ Support

Will Palestine be admitted as a Non-Member Observer State in the United Nations?

About the Author

PREFACE

Dr. Effarah published Volume I of THINK PALESTINE and included the articles and editorials written from 2001 to 2006.

In Volume II, Dr. Effarah is including most of his editorials and articles that contained commentaries and opinions previously published weekly in Al-Arab Newspaper of Los Angeles from 2007 to 2012.

The editorials are based on developing events that took place involving the United States of America’s Administration and its one-sided policy of supporting Israel in the struggle among Palestinian Arabs and the Zionists in occupied Palestine.

Dr. Effarah interprets events as reflected by his own experiences since 1947. Dr. Effarah is an Arab-American from Lebanon, born in Haifa, Palestine; he acts as a participant observer to the American policy toward the Middle East. He records and highlights his personal feelings towards the proceedings that took place in an attempt to find the key to unlock the Arab-Zionist-Israeli struggles, mainly in dealing with the issue of Palestine.

The author interprets these events and policies based on more than sixty five years of research and his own experience while living in the Middle Eastern countries, and is convinced that to Think Palestine will bring the real key to the solutions of all problems in that region of the world.

In his editorials, Dr. Effarah attempts to create a voice for Arab Americans to stand up, be counted, and act as an integral part of the American society. He keeps pressing for more Arab-American participation in the political process, for more transparency, and for faster and farther reaching to the Americans’ hearts and minds by trying to make them understand the Palestinian Arabs’ situations, and some of the Arab Christians Patrimony, culture, and heritage. Some of the articles try to highlight the important role of Christians in building the Arab civilization and culture. Arab Christians should be proud to be the corner stone in the Arab culture. They were the link between the Arab culture and all the old Eastern world cultures and in building bridges, understanding the Arab culture to the western world, mainly in explaining the current critical Palestinian tragedy.

Dr. Effarah attempts to create an Arab American balanced policy to reach Americans and convince them that there are special interest groups and influential lobbyists in Washington, D.C. who misinform media by trying to spin around while beholding to the fabricated Israeli’s points of view.

THE YEAR 2007

INTRODUCTION

D r. Effarah starts the year 2007 by keeping his emphasis on thinking PALESTINE. His in depth analysis of the Palestinian situation presents clear and honest opinion to the Palestinian points of view on the obstacles that delay them from liberating their land.

The writer tries to help Americans know more about the Establishment of the Jewish State called Israel that was implanted in Historic Palestine. No one denies the fact that the Middle East is mostly ruled by autocratic, oppressive, and despotic regimes. However, Americans should know that such regimes were mostly founded and funded based on Israeli and Jewish-American wishes.

The sweeping victory of Hamas can be attributed to Israeli government policies that President Bush supported, policies that systematically weakened the Palestinian Authority and reinforced public sympathy for Hamas in Palestine. Dr. Effarah’s editorials during most of the year 2007 dealt with President Bush Administration stupid policy in handling the Palestinian situation with applying his pledge to maintain justice and opportunity through civility, courage, compassion and character. The writer shows how Annapolis peace conference has turned into A Comedy of Errors.

IS THE YEAR 2007 GOING TO BE A HAPPY NEW YEAR?

E very New Year, we renew our hopes to live in peace and prosperity. What do we expect from year 2007? It is possible to have more bad times and conflicts, more blood and more death in the Middle East? What to expect when we hear our U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledging his intention to increase the U.S. naval military presence in the Arabian Gulf? Is it a message that the United States an enduring presence in this part of the world? Or is it to win a war in Iraq? Is it a preparation for a new war with Iran? Why do we hear more about the Israeli leaders’ intentions to attack Syria and to wage a new war against Lebanon?

What attracted my attention is a new approach that the American-Israelis are taking in welcoming the year 2007. They are creating "The Israel Project" (TIP) to take initiative in researching for facts and information as they pretend, and email them to 15,000 journalists worldwide every week just to stop the reaction that Jimmy Carter’s book "Palestine, Peace not Apartheid made in explaining truthfully the suffering of the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Israel’s supporters in American are starting to host press conferences with Israeli spokespeople to help" journalists learn first-hand of Israeli government positions and to provide access for journalists to Israeli sources for interviews and to fly journalists in helicopters over Israel to view Israel’s tiny size and enormous security threats with their own eyes.

No doubt, the only facts and information they are going to have, I assume, are going to be fabricated, biased and mutilated against Palestinians in order to stop Jimmy Carter’s book from hurting Israel. TIP intends to prevent President Carter from his talk show where they think that he demonizes Israel in pursuit of peace.

TIP rejects Carter calling Israel the primary obstacle to peace in the region and reminding us that the UN Resolution 242 demands that Israel return to Palestinians all land up to the 1967 borders and calling the West Bank as Palestine and that Israel is an apartheid state. The Israelis do not want President Carter to say the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) has never advocated the annihilation of Israel or to affirm that voices from Israel dominate in the U.S. media and Israel is responsible for the exodus of Christians from the Holy Land

The courageous President Jimmy Carter made it clear that his knowledge of the Palestinian-Israeli subject is based on his visits to Palestine during the past 33 years, and his detailed study and involvement in peace talks as president, and his leadership role in monitoring the Palestinian elections of 1996, 2005 and 2006. He also witnessed multiple deaths of innocent civilians that have occurred on both sides, and wished that this violence and all terrorism must cease.

Carter added: For 39 years, Israel has occupied Palestinian land, and has confiscated and colonized hundreds of choice sites. Often excluded from their former homes, land and places of worship, protesting Palestinians have been severely dominated and oppressed. There is forced segregation between Israeli settlers and Palestine’s citizens, with a complex pass system required for Arabs to traverse Israel’s multiple checkpoints.

Former President Jimmy Carter has come under sustained attack for having dared to use the term apartheid to describe Israel’s policies in the West Bank. However, not one of Carter’s critics has offered a convincing argument to justify the vehemence of the outcry, much less to refute his central claim that Israel bestows rights on Jewish residents settling illegally on Palestinian land, while denying the same rights to the indigenous Palestinians. Little wonder, for they are attempting to defy reality itself.

Carter witnesses that Israel maintains two separate road networks in the West Bank: one for the exclusive use of Jewish settlers, and one for Palestinian natives. Is that not apartheid? Palestinians are not allowed to drive their own cars in much of the West Bank; their public transportation is frequently interrupted or blocked altogether by a grid of Israeli army checkpoints—but Jewish settlers come and go freely in their own cars, without even pausing at the roadblocks that hold up the natives. Is that not apartheid?

Carder rejects the Israeli system of closures and curfews that has strangled the Palestinian economy in the West Bank—but none of its provisions apply to the Jewish settlements there. Is that not apartheid? Whole sectors of the West Bank, classified as closed military areas by the Israeli army, are off limits to Palestinians, including Palestinians who own land there—but foreigners to whom Israel’s Law of Return applies (that is, anyone Jewish, from anywhere in the world) can access them without hindrance. Is that not apartheid?

Carter verifies that persons of Palestinian origin are routinely barred from entering or residing in the Palestine (West Bank)—but Israeli and non-Israeli Jews can come and go, and even live on, occupied Palestinian territory. Is that not apartheid?

The only thing wrong with using the word apartheid to describe such a repugnant system is that the South African version of institutionalized discrimination was never as elaborate as its Israeli counterpart—nor did it have such a vocal chorus of defenders among otherwise liberal Americans.

Do Americans deny that Israel loudly proclaims itself to be the state of the Jewish people, rather than the state of its actual citizens (one-fifth of who are Palestinian Arabs)? They believe that There is no Israeli nation separate from the Jewish people. Obviously this leaves non-Jewish citizens of Israel in, at best, a somewhat ambiguous situation. Isn’t this racism? Why does the American neo-conservatism or the supporter of Israel condone the naked racism that Israel practices? Why do they heap criticism on our former president Jimmy Carter for speaking his conscience about such a truly unconscionable system of ethnic segregation?

One important fact the Americans should not deny that the UN resolutions, the Camp David accords of 1978, the Oslo agreement of 1993, official U.S. policy and the international road map for peace are all based on the premise that Israel withdraw from occupied territories to June 1967 borders. And that the Palestinian people are now being deprived of the necessities of life by economic restrictions imposed on them by Israel and the United States because 42 percent voted for Hamas candidates in this year’s election. Teachers, nurses, policemen, firemen, and other employees cannot be paid, and the UN has reported food supplies in Gaza equivalent to those among the poorest families in sub-Sahara Africa, with half the families surviving on one meal a day.

Americans should start the year 2007 by reading what the Hamilton-Baker report recommends the renewal of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians to promote peace with justice for all who live in the Holy Land and find out why the Israeli government rejects such recommendation?

PALESTINE, PEACE NOT APARTHEID COMPLEMENTS IT’S PALESTINE NOT ISRAEL

B oth authors, former President Jimmy Carter and Dr. Jamil Effarah are American citizens. The only difference is that the former was born in The United States and became the President of the United States while the latter was born in Palestine and down-to-earth citizen. Both have recently published. In President Carter’s book Palestine, Peace and Not Apartheid we read about his offer for an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine, starting a traditional historical chronology based on biblical vague stories that we can get from any traditional history book. What important is to consider Carter’s role in the White House, he negotiated peace between Israel and Egypt and later his numerous trips to the Holy Land and most recently as an observer in the Palestinian elections of 2005 and 2006.

In Dr. Jamil Effarah’s book "It’s Palestine NOT Israel", we read about Palestine as one of the oldest known places to the civilized world since Mesolithic period. Dr. Effarah puts the archaeologists before a new challenge to reconsider their assumptions that they based on their arguments almost entirely Biblical evidence, wrongly interpreted, scholars have assumed that the Arameans were originally the inhabitants of the area of northern Syria west of the Euphrates. However, according to Dr. Salibi in his book "The Bible came from Arabia" he shows by toponymic analysis that the Biblical land of Canaan was on, the maritime side of Asir and not in Palestine and coastal Syria, as is commonly supposed. A re-examination of the Biblical evidence shows that what the Hebrew Bible refers to as Aram (consonantal ‘rm) was actually in West Arabia. Aram Naharim (‘rm nhrym, Genesis 28:2 etc.), for example, was certainly not Mesopotamia but present-day Naharin (nhrym) near Taif (al-Ta’if), in the southern Hijaz. Therefore, one must conclude that Paddan-aram (pdn ‘rm, Genesis 28:2 etc.) was nearby Dafinah (dpn) in the vicinity of Mecca, not somewhere in Mesopotamia…

Dr. Effarah tells us that we are facing a critical question mark about the truth about the greater part of ancient history that past in which the Jewish people anchor their claim to Israel. History shows that the Gaza Strip was not part of a Jewish state in Biblical Palestine. Who can explain how the first Hebrew, the patriarch Abraham, may have understood God, at least on paper (or papyrus), to include this narrow strip of territory in his promised domain. In reality, the Gaza Strip and the coastal towns to its north, for most of the years between, say, 1250 B.C. and 135 A.D. has never been mentioned as part of the era in which the Jews lived in or whether they ruled historic Palestine. It is not even clear whether the great Hebrew kings David and Solomon, ruled Palestine under whom the Israeli kingdom reached its vastest expanse, and there is no evidence that Hebrews ever controlled the Gaza area.

In antiquity, Gaza was part of Biblical Pleshet or Philistia—the domain of the Philistines who migrated from Arabia. But some old Historians, from whom President Carter copied his historic references in his book, believe that the Philistines are a non-Semitic sea people hailing from the Greek isles who probably invaded and settled along the coast in the 12th century B.C. during the time the Hebrew tribes crossed the Jordan River and pushed into Palestine in the 13th and 12th centuries B.C., settled and established their rule along its hilly central spine, between Ishtamua (present-day Samua), Hebron and Shechem (present-day Nablus).

Modern archeologists could not prove that this stretch, with the Palestinian Jerusalem at its center, comprises the area that the Bible and many Israelis consider it Judea and Samaria. We read some of the new Historians about their beliefs that the historical heartland of the Jewish people is somewhere in Arabia, in Asir District. It was never in Palestine. Palestine in what they call today (West Bank) is largely populated by Palestinian Arabs, who claim it as their own and are demanding that Israel evacuate it after Israel settled one quarter of a million of its habitants in it.

Both President Carter and Dr. Effarah are looking for prospects of peace in the Holy land by attempting to define the future, the basic character in creating two nations with known geographical boundaries based on the lines that were known before the 4th of June 1967 as the conditions to honor the legitimate rights of the Palestinians as recognized under international law.

President Carter wants to explore a blueprint he recognizes as a formula for peace with justice in this small unique portion of the world compatible with international law and sustained American government policy and conformed to agreements and UN resolutions.

Dr. Effarah, as a teenager living in Palestine, has experienced firsthand the nightmare of Haifa on April 22, 1948, and became aware that history has a tendency to leave some of the chapters of the book unwritten for the meek do not always have the strength and the opportunity to write the untold chapters. There are many empty tears and silent screams that Palestinian children, women and men have endured with little compassion, and this may be the true tragedy.

To those who want to read Carter’s book, they are requested to complement their information by reading Dr. Effarah’s book "It’s Palestine Not Israel."

SHOULD PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP USE UNDEMOCRATIC AND ILLEGAL MEASURE AGAINST ITS PEOPLE TO PLEASE THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT?

W hat is going on in Palestine at the beginning of 2007? Is it a continuation of what was going on in the year 2006 with more hunger and more blockades in every sense of the world? This has nothing to do with extremism or terrorism; it has to do with oppression under occupation with no justice and no freedom for the Palestinians who, in an honest, fair, orderly and peaceful election, elected Hamas. Hamas won the democratic Palestinian Legislative Council elections on 25 January 2006; the Palestinian government has to become exclusively Hamas. The United States refused to accept it, and many followed suit including the Israelis who stopped paying tax revenue due on trade; and all agreements, payments and aid were cut in March, any monies owed or gifted to the Palestinian Authority from the European Union and others were stopped.

One year after the Hamas victory Palestine is still occupied. Its politicians are not allowed to make independent decisions. The failure of the Palestinians to form a government of national unity was not for want of trying. They made several attempts but each was aborted after claims that it was unacceptable to America. It seems that the Palestinian leadership is asked to use undemocratic and illegal measure against its people as long as there is no place for legality; there is a need for complete coordination with illegality to please the Israeli occupier.

Do Americans know why the mere presence of Hamas representation in a Palestinian government was reason enough for the American Administration objection?

What happened to the formation of Unity Government? Quoting from page 182 of Jimmy Carter’s book "Palestine Peace not Apartheid, Carter says after witnessing the Hamas election: Hamas leaders had expressed their desire to form a unity government with Fatah and the smaller independent parties, but Abbas’s intension was not to cooperate with them, and he resisted my urging him to reconsider."

Today, despite repeated overtures of a long-term truce with Israel and acceptance of a state in the 1967 territories Hamas has not allowed making any progress toward a government of national unity. Though entitled to at least 16 of the 24 ministries based on their 60% membership of the parliament Hamas accepted 9 ministerial posts in order to break the deadlock. With their backs against the wall they even agreed to the resignations of Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, foreign minister Mahmud Zahar and minister of interior, Saeed Siyam. All three are seen as the figureheads of the movement. None of these proposals were accepted. Is this why Abbas would not back down on holding early presidential and legislative elections?

This inflexibility and disproportion has been a distinguishing feature of the Fatah led National Authority. In 1999 the Oslo group that now opposes Hamas had a security budget that was larger than the health, social services and education budgets combined. Protests by parliamentarians, academicians and civil society leaders in November 1999 failed to gain the attention let alone intervention of the US Congress. The lesson from this episode remains the same today. Some observers commented that in order to be an acceptable partner, the Palestinian leadership must be prepared to use undemocratic and illegal measures against its people.

The deterioration of the Palestinian situation was remarkably serious. Public sector employees, including teachers, stopped being paid and declared an open strike at the beginning of last September. The continuation of the aggressive Israeli military occupation with an escalation in arrests and incursions, raids and mass killings never stopped. It all increased on 25 June when the Israeli soldier was captured while invading the southern Gaza Strip. The three armed resistance groups who did the kidnapping asked to exchange some of the approximately 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. Instead of trading, the Israelis killed 683 Palestinians, including 141 children, in 2006.

According to statistics by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem; Israeli forces rendered 1,769 Palestinians, mostly in the Gaza Strip, homeless by demolishing around 300 houses. In addition to the occupation, Israel waged major attacks on the Gaza Strip and on Lebanon, leading to massive destruction and mass killings at the same time that the internal Palestinian dispute between the presidency and the government was heating up.

Major negotiations took place with several Arab governments and particularly Egypt doing overtime to help bring the internal Palestinian crisis to a resolve; while the Israeli forces kept conducting major attacks on the Gaza Strip leading to the death of more Palestinians; in turn, Palestinians began to fight back by using nonviolent resistance. Thousands of Palestinians stood atop houses on the verge of aerial bombardment to prevent the Israeli warplanes from dropping their missiles.

The Palestinian predicament will continue in 2007 and their own territory will be broken into ever-smaller fragments and their economic system would be disastrous and force the young generation to move out of their homes allowing the Israelis to expand on the Palestinians’ sacrifice in the name of democracy.

Long lives the new democratization of the new American-Israeli Middle East—the new name for Greater Israel.

REVISITING MADRID PEACE CONFERENCE: MADRID + 15 / MADRID FIFTEEN YEARS LATER.

Y ear 2007 started with hope. Hope for justice, fairness, security and peace. To reach such goals for a happy state of affairs, Pontiff Benedict XVI addressed the diplomatic corps assembly of diplomats endorsed by the Holy See talking about the need for a global approach and pressing for an international peace conference referring directly to tensions between Israel and Lebanon and also—as was evident from the context—to those between Israelis and Palestinians. He also reiterated that Israelis and Palestinians should enjoy, peacefully, equal dignity and rights.

Benedict XVI warned that "it is no longer possible to be satisfied with partial or unilateral solutions and instead he called for a global approach, which excludes no one from the search for a negotiated settlement, taking into account the legitimate interests and aspirations of the different peoples involved."

No peace and security in the Middle East without the existence of two-state solution—the Israeli one, already planted in historic Palestine since 1948 and a Palestinian one, yet to be established in its own historic Palestine.

The European Union: France, Spain and Italy have alluded to a renewed Peace Conference—a real presentation of a global approach for attaining peace between Israelis and Palestinians with a truly global effort and the participation of directly involved states to resolve the plight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Syria and—especially—in Lebanon, where they are still living in particularly difficult conditions. The Bush Road map proved to be limited to a confusing gradual pacification of relations between Israelis and Palestinians and is fallen apart.

Furthermore we heard last week the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in statements to Egypt’s Middle East News Agency (MENA), urging Israel to seek peace talks with Syria in order to establish a just, comprehensive and permanent peace in the Middle East and according to Mubarak Syria wishes to enter into peace talks with Israel.

Such global approach brings to mind Madrid Conference that was initiated back in 1991 by the then US president George H. Bush and which was attended, as it happens, by Syria and Lebanon as well as the Israelis and Palestinians. It aimed to produce a series of bilateral peace treaties sustained and reinforced by another series of multilateral treaties with the wider support of the international community.

On January 10, 2007, Five groups: International Center for Peace, Search for Common Ground, Fundacion Tres Culturas, the FAFO Institute and the International Crisis Group joined efforts and called for this conference to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 1991 Madrid peace conference aiming to re-energize and re-start Middle East meaningful negotiations and peace talks despite all the obstacles.

The reunion honoring the 1991 Madrid Conference took place at the Santa Cruz Palace. The three-day conference in Madrid, called Madrid +15 or Madrid 15 Years Later was hosted by Spain and included representative of the Arab League and Israeli delegates in an international climate favorable to facilitating the peace process.

The Conference tried to find a peace initiative somewhere among all the previous attempts, including the Oslo Accords, the road map, Clinton’s parameters and the Saudi initiative supported by the Arab League.

What outcome did we get from Madrid +15? I do not see much difference than what took place in Madrid in 1991 as long as the same players are playing on the same court of just talk and do nothing.

Some optimists see positive signs. I don’t but I hope for the best, for fairness and justice that are lost in the darkness while searching for security and peace. If the European countries are serious in calling for a meaningful peace conference, there should be no American role that always side with Israel.

The only possible solution is to have the United Nations involvement stressing the fulfillment of its resolutions within a timescale, mainly, to create the Palestinian State based on Israel’s withdrawal from the territories occupied after June 4, 1967 boundaries.

The world community should comprehend the fact that there will be no solution without ensuring a halt to Israel building new settlements in the occupied territories and demolishing Palestinian houses, assassinations and having approximately 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails.

DR. RICE SUGGESTS A TEMPORARY PALESTINIAN STATE BORDER WITHIN THE APARTHEID SEGREGATION WALL.

A rab Americans were expecting from US Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice in her last trip to the Middle East to propose a new peace initiative by bringing progress on issues under discussion between Israel and the Palestinians and start fresh with forcing the international law in solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to realize President Bush’s vision to have two independent states living peacefully next to each other.

To the disappointment of every Palestinian and Arabs, Dr. Rice took no specific peace plan, except boosting Israeli plans at the expense of the Palestinian people’s legitimate rights with her peace plan to establish a Palestinian statehood with temporary borders based on the actual route of Israel’s segregation or separation Apartheid wall reaches deep inside the occupied territories.

Totally ignoring the internationally recognized Green Line (which follows the 1967 borders), the Apartheid Wall reaches far into the Occupied Palestinian Territories cutting them into chunks and taking large swaths of Palestinian territory on which the huge Jewish settlements have been erected, as well as the entire city of Jerusalem with its surrounding hinterland. Dr. Rice’s plan is legitimizing Jewish-only settlements/colonies, and denying the rights of Palestinian refugees by allowing the illegal route of the separation wall to be such temporary/interim borders and without addressing the 1948 refugee problem in humanitarian and politically relevant terms.

We know that on July 9, 2004, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague concluded and affirmed in its Advisory Opinion that the Wall that Israel is building on occupied and not disputed Palestinian land, is illegal and must be dismantled, while Palestinians who have suffered damages as a result of the construction of the Wall must be compensated by Israel. In addition, the ICJ confirmed the illegality of all settlements that Israel has built on occupied Palestinian land, including East Jerusalem. The court also confirmed that the Geneva Conventions, as well as international humanitarian and human rights laws are binding on Israel.

The ICJ explicitly reminded the international community of its obligation to ensure Israel’s compliance with basic and binding rules under International Humanitarian Law, which is violated by the Wall and other Israeli policies.

By suggesting her plan, Dr. Rice seemed to forget that 32.7% of the West Bank villages would suffer from lack of access to health system in each region that number will raise to 80.7% in the enclaves. More than 10,000 Palestinian chronic patients will suffer from lack of access to essential health services and more than 133,000 Palestinian children under the age of 5 may not be able to get all vaccination necessary on time or at all because 52% of the doctors working in these clinics will not be to reach work at all due to the Wall.

Americans have a moral obligation and it becomes their duty to justify the application of the principles of Democracy, Human Rights, Peace and Freedom equally and should consider the struggle against the colonial Israeli Apartheid Wall as a part of the relentless fight to liberate Palestine from Israeli occupation, rather than challenging international law and allowing the Wall to be the temporary border of the Palestinian State.

The Separation Wall built inside Palestinian territory cutting communication between Palestinian people and communities, separating farmers from their own land, and disrupting Palestinian economic and social life.

We remember that Former President and Noble Prize winner, Jimmy Carter, described the huge concrete separation wall as encapsulating or grabbing about half of the Palestinian West Bank urban areas and more rural parts of Palestine. It means that such barrier or the temporary border, as Dr. Rice suggests, is not located on the internationally recognized boundary between Israel and Palestine, but entirely within and deeply penetrating the occupied territories.

We should remember also the words of President Bush that Israel erecting of the apartheid wall is a temporary structure for the purpose of security; despite the fact that the wall leaves more than 200,000 Palestinians trapped between the wall and the green line.

After Dr. Rice suggestion, we are becoming aware that the purpose of erecting the 725 kilometer barrier by Israel in and around the West Bank, that President Bush believed it is built for the security of Israel, is in reality designed to leave the Palestinian areas dry and thirsty within a feeble state with temporary borders with a Bantustan solution ignoring the recognized 1967 border.

Americans should know that the wall is built on privately owned Palestinian land, resulting in the loss of Jerusalem and most of Bethlehem’s fertile and economically prosperous agriculture lands and many of Jesus Christ major landmarks?

Dr. Rice plan is based on discriminative actions turning what rest of the Palestinian Palestine into impoverished ghettos and planning later on stripping thousands of Arabs living in Israel of citizenship without their approval and consign them to a Bantustan of a Palestinian state under the threat or reality of constant domination by Israel and supported by the current US Administration.

THE UNITED STATES IS SQUANDERING INTERNATIONAL PRESTIGE AND GOODWILL AND INTENSIFYING GLOBAL ANTI-AMERICAN TERRORISM.

T he title is taken from the former US President Jimmy Carter last paragraph of his book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid (p. 216). The paragraph reads as follows: " The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the Roadmap for Peace, with official American policy, with the wishes of a majority of its own citizens—and honor its previous commitments—by accepting its legal borders. All Arab neighbors must pledge to honor Israel’s right to live in peace under these conditions. The United States is squandering international prestige and goodwill and intensifying global anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation and colonization of Palestinian territories.

It will be a tragedy—for the Israelis, the Palestinians, and the world—if peace is rejected and a system of oppression, apartheid, and sustained violence is permitted to prevail."

The former President of the United Stated, Jimmy Carter, is no anti-Semite. He belongs to a prominent group of American presidents who made more important contributions toward the advancement of the Zionist project than the Zionists themselves. Apart from President Woodrow Wilson who helped deliver the Balfour declaration, President Harry Truman who recognized the State of Israel ten minutes after it was created and President Bill Clinton who ushered the Oslo accords, no other US president has served Israel more. President Carter was one who engineered the 1978 Camp David Accords that neutralized Egypt in the Middle East and tipped the regional balance of power in Israel’s favor. Quoting the Time Magazine, June 21, 1976, that Carter, during his presidential campaign, told a gathering at the Synagogue of Elizabeth in New Jersey, The survival of Israel does not come down to politics. It is a moral duty. After declaring his moral commitment to Israel, President Carter was apparently not blinded to the reality of it injustices and inequities. Now, it appears that former President Carter, in his writings, intends to speak out and let his American citizens open their eyes and understand the true facts to what is going on in historic Palestine.

On January 18, 2007, Carter wrote an article: "A New Chance for Peace?" started by stating "I am concerned that public discussion of my book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid has been diverted from the book’s basic proposals: that peace talks be resumed after six years of delay and that the tragic persecution of Palestinians be ended. Although most critics have not seriously disputed or even mentioned the facts and suggestions about these two issues, an apparently concerted campaign has been focused on the book’s title, combined with allegations that I am anti-Israel. This is not good for any of us who are committed to Israel’s status as a peaceful nation living in harmony with its neighbors."

We must keep in mind that Israel since its 1967 occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip has exercised, for example, almost total control and denial of the Palestinians’ right to their fair share of the water in accord with the Oslo II Interim Agreement (Annex III, Appendix 1, Article 40). It has, also, been in a dreadful violation of Article 54 of the Fourth Geneva Convention that states: "The Occupying Power may not alter the status of public officials or judges in the occupied territories or in any way apply sanctions to or take any measures of coercion or discrimination against them, should they abstain from fulfilling their functions for reasons of conscience."

What is more ridiculous to see punitive measures taken by the international community subjecting the Palestinian Occupied Territories to an economic blockade in support of the Israeli Occupying Power, which after six decades of forcing its implant in Palestine still refuses either to define its international borders or recognize an independent Palestinian state on 22% of historic Palestine, the territories that the Israeli occupied in 1967. Still Israel continues to build settlements for its citizens in the illegally occupied territories and removing Palestinians from the territories without charge and tries them before military courts.

It is eye opening to keep quoting Jimmy Carter’s writings in the coming articles and learn from his in-depth experience while he was in charge of the United States Administration.

DOES PRESIDENT BUSH REMEMBER HIS SOLEMN PLEDGE:

I WILL WORK TO BUILD A SINGLE NATION OF JUSTICE AND OPPORTUNITY THROUGH CIVILITY, COURAGE, COMPASSION AND CHARACTER?

I n January 2001, President George W. Bush affirmed a new commitment to live out his nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character. President Bush confirmed that a civil society demanded from him good will and respect, fair dealing and forgiveness.

In January 2007, President Bush declared that he is the decision-maker. He told the United States Congress, I’m the decision-maker about sending 21,500 troops to the war and challenged skeptical lawmakers not to prematurely condemn his buildup.

Bush said in an Oval Office meeting with senior military advisers: "I’ve picked the plan that I think is most likely to succeed." The president had strong words for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who are