Here is a text simply named “It snows”for the simple reason that it was snowing when I wrote it. It’s about the Middle East
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The United States dropped Arafat and confined themselves 100% behind Sharon and his policy of violence escalation. I do not see what Arafat did to deserve to be to treated this way by Washington. Unless to fight for the liberation of his people is a crime (which is not the case, I checked), the total support of Ariel Sharon (whose list of the crimes is quite as impressive that those of Arafat) is not only one serious error, but also legitimating of the imperialist policy of Israel towards the Palestinians. Policy whose objectives are clear. In the short run: isolating the Palestinian authority to have in front of them extremists (the Hamas) with whom it would be completely legitimate not to discuss. In the long run: transforming the Palestinian people into a Diaspora to be able to colonize their land.
As always, the homo americanus is unable to understand a conflict in other way than a conflict of personality. But, as in any conflict, it is not only a disagreement between two persons (Sharon and Arafat), but the proper aspirations of two people to be. One to be in security, and the other to govern itself.
Admittedly, Arafat made some errors. The predecessor of Sharon (Ehud Barak) and Arafat were close to an agreement (it seems), when Arafat started to move back somewhat. More recently, the issue of the ship full of weapons coming from Iran and intended for the Palestinian authority was undoubtedly badly managed (The Palestinian authority initially denied the facts before its implications was acknowledged by the traffickers themselves). Whereas it would have much simpler to acknowledge while recalling the inefficiency of Kalachnikov towards M16!
In all of this, the Israeli falcons, faithful to the law of retaliation (eye for eye, tooth for tooth), use their military superiority to strangle a little more each time the Palestinian authority. To stop one asks of Arafat the impossible: to control his people. How can he control all the elements of his people when he needs his identity papers to to go to the John? And this on behalf of another people which could not prevent one of its citizens from assassinating its Prime Minister in 1995! I do not know how long this policy can last, nor even if it can succeed (no matter how much you dislake a policy, one must always acknowledge that it CAN succeed), but I am certain of this: No one is always the most powerfull.
“Eye for eye will make the world blind” (Mohandas Gandhi).
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