TOWARDS LASTING PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, POSSIBILITY OF A BROADLY ACCEPTED SETTLEMENT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE.
Though it was not quite clear some twenty five years ago but now it is crystal clear that most Arab dictators used the seemly ‘unsettle able’ dispute between Israel and Palestine, to perpetuate themselves in the office. In fact it appears that, apart from the, understandable position of the Palestinians themselves, that those other Arab dictators incite the Palestinians to pose much more difficult stance as regard peace with Israel. Those Dictators drop a few millions of Dollars here and there in the hands of Palestinian hard elements and the crises continue to gather flame! Mean while the Arab Dictators at their home countries pose as fighters of the ‘OPPORESSED’ Arab! However the big question is who is really the oppressor of the Arab citizens? It is actually the dictators themselves. Can you imagine a country being ruled under a state of emergency for thirty years by one single dictator?
In virtually most Arab states, the dictators suppress individual freedom to the extent that if you dare one single word of discontent at night you would be whisked away and if your family is lucky they would find your body in the desert without head on the other hand if luck ran out of the family you would miss without trace. The women? In most cases their freedom is completely depleted that they may not even have access to quality education and even to the ridiculous restriction that women should not drive a car and a host of other human right issues!
However as the saying goes “You can deceive some people for some time but you cannot deceive all the people all the time” THE ARABS HAVE AWAKEN AND MATCHING FORTH TO SWEET CITIZENS FREEDOM! Recently the president of Syria, Bashar Al-Assad thought he could divert world attention from the intense discontent going on in Syria to Israel by deceiving some Palestinians in Syria to ‘free across boarder into Israel when he know that Israel would not permit such rascality but of course the Israeli defense warded off the misguided miscreants and the escapees realizing it was a mad setup by the Syrian dictator and PLO leadership in Syria immediately on getting back to Syria set the PLO office in Syria on fire. Before this wouldn’t have been what the miscreants would have done. THE ARABS HAVE AWAKENED!
The assessment by president OBAMA that things have changed in the minds of the Arabs and as such that the state of Israel should some how consider the pre-1968 boarder with Palestine as an all time permanent solution to Israeli-Palestine conflict is correct but of course the change in the mind of the Arabs and particularly the Palestinians should and must include recognition of the fact that Israel have a right to existence in the middle East! Once this right of existence is acknowledged by he Palestinian government then I believe it is time that Benjamin Natanyahu and Mahumood Abbas should sit down frankly and with a sprit of give and take and with deep respect for Israel and Palestine security carve out a way to have a redesigned Palestinian / Israeli boarder t5hat is a close as can be to the pre -1968 boarder. President Obama believe that this is possible and I too believe that it is possible and indeed the two leaders should grab this chance to ensure lasting peace in the Middle East and that also means peace in the world.
Concluding all Arabs should ensure that freedom for every body rains in the Arab world. Why? Because freedom not only makes the soul of man top sour but it ultimately brings better development. It is great for the citizens to chose its leader and when he starts to do what no one sent him to do should be shown the way out by their people. With freedom I believe that the kind of money oil has provided for most Arab states is enough to trigger all time industrial revolutions that would further better the lives of the common Arab man on the street.
