solve the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
At the very end of the Clinton administration, the world witnessed the only real hope of solving this conflict, and the week of negations in Taba in Egypt was a result of a stance by president Clinton which was the only constructive and helpful stance taken by the US since the crucial year of 1967.
The negotiations in Taba were unfortunately broken off by Israel due to their upcoming elections, and since then Bush and Sharon have done their best to totally demolish any real chance of peace. These negotiations did have one positive outcome though, they lead to the formation of the Geneva Accord – a document arrived at through unofficial negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, and a document which outlines the international consensus on the solution and what the solution must look like in the end since the majority of both countries would accept it.
The only thing stopping the Israelis and Palestinians from picking up the Geneva Accord and using it as the foundation for a renewed peace process, which ultimately must result in peace, has been that the US so far has agreed to fully back the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Everyone in the world knows that both Israel and the US are both much more secure if this occupation is ended and a peace deal is reached. It must then follow that most Israeli and US administrations since 1967 have not seen their people’s security as a high priority. Now we can only hope that president Obama views the security of all parties as a high priority and ends the occupation.
When the Palestinian unity government is formed, which it must and will be, president Obama will have a new partner in Palestine which will desperately welcome a renewed peace process and is at the same time able to lead their people. Obama should then take this opportunity to invite the heads of the Israeli parties, which will form the new Netanyahu administration, to Washington.
He should then sit down with them in the Oval Office and congratulate them all heartily on being the leaders which will end their country’s occupation of Palestine, an occupation which has made their country an outcast in the world and a notorious breaker of international law.
Obama should explain that the new Israeli administration can follow two paths to peace.
Either they can agree to sit down and negotiate peace with the new Palestinian unity government using the Geneva Accord as the foundation for their negotiations. If the Israeli administration agrees to this then every single country in the world will support them both in the UN General Assembly and in the Security Council. Israel will be granted extremely beneficial trade deals with Europe, every Israeli settler which leaves occupied territory in the West Bank will be handsomely compensated by the international community and the US will guarantee the security of Israel within the borders agreed upon in the negotiations.
If the Israeli administration refuses to negotiate with the Palestinians and reach a deal along the lines of the international consensus, then this is what Obama should do: He should go to the UN Security Council and get a unanimous vote declaring that the borders between Isreal and Palestine are the 1967 borders, and that the world will create peace along those borders now. He should then get a vote in the UN General Assembly where every single country in the world will vote for his proposal except Israel. He should then completely cut all military assistance to Israel. Obama should then form an international force in the West Bank which will enforce international law. This force will both protect Israel, dismantle all illegal settlements and dismantle the parts of the Israeli separation wall which are on Palestinian land.
Since every other country in the world would stand with the US on this second option given to the Israeli administration, and because Israel cannot stand isolated against the entire world, its leaders would have no choice but to accept president Obama’s first proposal, and start negotiations again.
Everyone knows there is much hate. Everyone knows it will be hard. Everyone knows there are many risks, but when the entire world agrees on what must be the solution to a problem, then it is only time before the will of the world must be implemented.
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