Saturday, December 1, 2007

Footnote to Annapolis

In an 'entrefilet' in the inner pages of 1 December 2007 edition of 'The New York Times', the roving eye of the weekend reader will find that the United States using its threat of a veto at the United Nations Security Council tabled a resolution of the Israeli-Palestine negotiations because Israel objected to the text that it didn't write.
If anyone nourished the illusions that the Annapolis meeting was anything but flimflam, he can no longer believe that the gathering of 40 countries at America's military academy was nothing but a big nod and wink and a not-so skilled sleight of hand.
So the Palestinians will continue the fight against the Goliath that is the colonising state of Israel. Israel's brutal occupation of the West Bank, its crisscrossing of the land with colonisers will not bring it a moment's peace nor will it slake the militarist taste of Mr. Bush who like his backers in Tel Aviv will reap the whirlwind.

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