イスラエルについてのオバマ氏への提言　ウリアブネリ氏　Part I ( 中東情勢 ) - あらぶだからぶら Dubai the Wonderland

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イスラエルの平和運動グループグシュシャローム Gush Shalomの創設者、代表、ジャーナリストである　ウリアブネリ氏から次期アメリカ大統領オバマ氏へのパレスチナ問題、中東平和実現に関する提言

ウリ・アブネリ（Uri Avnery）氏はドイツに生まれ、1948年のイスラエル建国戦争に軍事として参加し、1950～1990年までイスラエルの国会議員も努めました。イスラエルによるパレスチナ占領の停止とパレスチナの独立国家創設、平和裏な実現を目す団体「グッシュ・シャローム」の設立（92年）に大きく寄与しています。

興味深い論説記事を頻繁に発表、アラブ人ジャーナリスト、平和運動家、知識層とも親交を結び、広範に活躍する現役のイスラエル人ジャーナリストです。

A Memo to Obama on Israel

December 29, 2008

The following humble suggestions are based on my 70 years of
experience as an underground fighter, special forces soldier in
the 1948 war, editor-in-chief of a newsmagazine, member of
the Knesset and founding member of a peace movement:

•A Memo to Obama on Israel

Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
Uri Avnery: The following humble suggestions are based on my 70
years of experience as an underground fighter, member of the
Knesset and founding member of a peace movement in Israel.

1) As far as Israeli-Arab peace is concerned, you should act
from Day One.

2) Israeli elections are due to take place in February 2009.
You can have an indirect but important and constructive impact
on the outcome, by announcing your unequivocal determination to
achieve Israeli-Palestinian, Israeli-Syrian and Israeli-all-Arab
peace in 2009.

3) Unfortunately, all your predecessors since 1967 have played
a double game. While paying lip service to peace, and sometimes
going through the motions of making some effort for peace, they
have in practice supported our governments in moving in the very
opposite direction. In particular, they have given tacit approval
to the building and enlargement of Israeli settlements in the
occupied Palestinian and Syrian territories, each of which is a
land mine on the road to peace.

4) All the settlements are illegal in international law.
The distinction sometimes made between "illegal" outposts and
the other settlements is a propaganda ploy designed to obscure
this simple truth.

5) All the settlements since 1967 have been built with the
express purpose of making a Palestinian state--and hence peace--
impossible, by cutting the territory of the prospective State
of Palestine into ribbons. Practically all our government
departments and the army have openly or secretly helped to build,
consolidate and enlarge the settlements--as confirmed by the
2005 report prepared for the government by lawyer Talia Sasson.

6) By now, the number of settlers in the West Bank has reached
some 250,000 (apart from the 200,000 settlers in the Greater
Jerusalem area, whose status is somewhat different.) They are
politically isolated, and sometimes detested by the majority of
the Israel public, but enjoy significant support in the army
and government ministries.

7) No Israeli government would dare to confront the concentrated
political and material might of the settlers. Such a confrontation
would need very strong leadership and the unstinting support of
the President of the United States to have any chance of success.

8) Lacking these, all "peace negotiations" are a sham. The Israeli
government and its US backers have done everything possible to
prevent the negotiations with both the Palestinians and the
Syrians from reaching any conclusion, for fear of provoking a
confrontation with the settlers and their supporters. The present
"Annapolis" negotiations are as hollow as all the preceding ones,
each side keeping up the pretense for its own political interests.

9) The Clinton administration, and even more so the Bush
administration, allowed the Israeli government to keep up this
pretense. It is therefore imperative to prevent members of these
administrations from diverting your Middle Eastern policy into
the old channels.

10) It is important for you to make a complete new start, and to
state this publicly. Discredited ideas and failed initiatives--
such as the Bush "vision", the Road Map, Annapolis and the
like--should by thrown into the junkyard of history.

11) To make a new start, the aim of American policy should be
stated clearly and succinctly. This should be: to achieve a peace
based on the two-state solution within a defined time span
(say by the end of 2009).

12) It should be pointed out that this aim is based on a
reassessment of the American national interest, in order to
extract the poison from American-Arab and American-Muslim
relations, strengthen peace-oriented regimes, defeat
al-Qaeda-type terrorism, end the Iraq and Afghanistan wars
and achieve a viable accommodation with Iran.

　　to be continued ....

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