Palestine papers reveal risks for peace | Robert Grenier | Comment is free

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  • Robert Grenier est, sans doute, ce qu’on peut imaginer de pire pour produire un commentaire sur la géopolitique palestinienne (ancien responsable des coups tordus de la CIA pour préparer les invasion de l’Afghanistan et de l’Irak). Il tente ici de faire le grand écart : toutes les apparences des #Palestine_papers représentent l’Autorité palestinienne comme une bande de collaborateurs, mais dans le même temps, ils ne sont pas des « quislings », seulement des négociateurs dans une situation impossible.

    À la lecture des premiers rapports sortis, je dois avouer que je trouve, effectivement, un aspect pathétique à la situation des négociateurs palestiniens face à la morgue israélienne et à la nullité américaine. Mais en même temps, depuis quand les larbins espèrent-ils le respect de la part de leurs maîtres ?

    Palestine papers reveal risks for peace | Robert Grenier | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/24/palestine-papers-palestinian-israeli?CMP=twt_fd

    The picture that clearly emerges from these pages of the Palestinian leadership and of the peace process negotiators themselves is that these are no quislings. For month after month, year after year, through endless, mind-numbing subcommittee meetings and plenary sessions, through interminable exchanges of letters and legal briefs, slogging from hotel meetings in Jerusalem to conferences in Egypt to “summit meetings” in Washington, the Palestinian negotiators tirelessly advocate on behalf of their people’s interests. In the face of Israeli condescension, obfuscation and endless legalistic pettifogging they continually push back, insisting on application of relevant international law, despite the Israelis’ obvious contempt for their international obligations.

    They persist in the face of the Americans’ blatant advocacy on behalf of the Israelis, refusing to cave in to consistent American pressure designed to force the Palestinians to compensate for Israeli inflexibility with ever-greater concessions of their own.

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    There is much in the Palestine papers that the PA’s detractors will seize upon, and often deservedly so. But the context in which these charges are being, and will be, made is set precisely by what the Palestinian leaders of the peace process have feared all along: that their failure to make any long-term, tangible gains for their people – despite their complicity in the process, despite their documented willingness to make far-reaching concessions, and despite having accepted American and Israeli support to repress their enemies and maintain themselves in power with at best threadbare legitimacy – all conspire to open them to charges of collaboration.