Negotiations until death

By: Mohammad Yahya

I can claim that negotiating with Israel became a great target in the minds of Arabs' elites for which they would sacrifice money and children.

Why not if it is the thin veil that still covers their defects, secures their fears and furnish the students of the Jews with "weak" pretexts.

However, negotiations are amusing and suppressing for whoever tries to criticize this method or give advice for his government to change the way it deals with Israel, which is now more willing than the Arabs to make direct talks with Palestinians.

This secures for Netanyahu a peaceful Judaization of Jerusalem, an easy drainage of all that is Palestinian in the West Bank, a legal organized theft of the Arabic and Islamic heritage of Palestine in addition to a political gain over his internal rivals especially Kadima Party.

The man then will be achieving every thing for his country including peace with the Arabs in the shape of eternal negotiations that will last until "the Doomsday" or "just before it" when a peaceful wind takes the faithful souls. Then the first round will end. As for the second round, it will be scheduled later on. This is what we understood from Saeb Erekat's announcements.

The dominating Arab elites are not less satisfied than Netanyahu since they negotiate to reach a final solution, which all knows how it is difficult and painstaking and no one knows when it will end but Allah.

Some people say: what do you want more than this, you rash extremists?

Who wants to fight, can go and fight. But we are negotiating here until victory or death.

What happens between the Arabs and Israel has no relation to real negotiations, which are considered major means to reach targets and which have scientific rules.

But these talks don't give any of the parties more than what they already have. The whole matter is a mere visual illusion and political game that is played by clever magicians to gain personal interests. And it is not far fetched for me that the two sides are scheming together to reach certain results.

But in this case they will say to you:

Power balance is in Israel's favor. We are poor and weak. We cannot enter a war.

This is nonsense. History can disprove such claims and any body that has weight of a grain of mustard seed of religion, courage or wisdom can refute this for the following reasons:

First: who said that we have nothing? Arab countries control 70% of the world's energy reserves. Oil supplies the whole western world with keys of life and without it people in Israel will die. This weapon was successfully used before during 1973 war.

If they say "we cannot use it today". I will answer "the fault is in you not in what you have". There is a great difference between the two things. There are many other abilities the Arabs have that we cannot mention here.

Second: the Arabs own more than 30.000 tanks, 6.000 warplane, great numbers of rockets and missiles of different sizes and they have chemical and may biological weapons. The Arabs spend more than half of the national income on arming and every day they celebrate the graduation of batches of officers, etc.

If you will not fight Israel, then for whom you prepare such armies?

I swear that if the Arabs stop buying Western weapons for only one year, west Europe will announce bankruptcy. This is not my own view. It depends on real studies and statistics. I dare anyone proves the opposite.

It is well known that most of Arab arms deals are covered bribes for things that we all know. Some of these bargains have revived the English, French and American economy at times.

Third: did any of the Arab countries expel the Israeli ambassador even for a short period of time?

They didn't and will not because the existence of such an ambassador became part of their legitimacy. I will not say more.

Fourth: is it logical that the size of intra-regional trade between some Arab countries and Israel is larger than that between Arab countries themselves?

It is the reality. I call all Arabs to directly or indirectly boycott Israel and we'll see the results that may change the balance of power.

There are many other reason that I will not mention in order not to cause problems or embarrassment to any one.

Now, I go back to the negotiations that Mr. Abbas refused to start until he gets an Arabic plain permission. He may be conditions that to avoid Hamas's undesired reactions.

It is worth mentioning that Mr. Amr Moussa, the Secretary-General of the Arab League, has rejected direct talks with Israel for not having a reference or a time table.

However, Netanyahu has got three things during his last visit to Barak Obama:

First: forcing the Arabs to start direct talks with Israel.

Second: putting no pressures on Israel during any stage of the negotiations.

Third: assuring US commitment to Israel's security.

Many Arab writers were very happy for the misunderstanding between Obama and Netanyahu and went far with their imagination to utilize the situation. But unfortunately, they got up to see Obama accompanying Netanyahu to his car patting his shoulders gently and respectfully.   

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