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Titolo: perche' i palestinesi rifiutano il negoziato

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Scared of Netanyahu
Palestinians shun Bibi because they view him as serious statesman
Sever Plocker
The Palestinian leadership has thus far refused to engage in talks with
the Netanyahu-led Israeli government. This is not an insignificant
matter: The Palestinians engaged in talks with all Israeli governments
since the Oslo Accords.
Arafat – yes, Arafat – conducted intensive negotiations with Netanyahu
during the latter’s first term in office. Mahmoud Abbas was happy to
talk to Ariel Sharon. However, a while after Netanyahu had been sworn-in
as Israel’s prime minister for the second time, in April of last year,
the Palestinian leadership is coming up with constant excuses in order
to avoid significant dialogue with Israel.
The difficulty to explain the current Palestinian position has reached
all the way to the White House. Those who carefully read the full Obama
interview with Time Magazine realize that he has lost patience with the
Palestinians’ elusive conduct. Officials around Obama have spoken
harshly: They charged that the Palestinians humiliated the president and
screwed up his policy.
What prompts the Palestinian leadership to adopt such stubborn refusal
and shun the initiative of a US Administration that may be the most
convenient for them? The Palestinians do not wish to negotiate with
Netanyahu because they perceive him as a practical politician seeking
practical solutions; this is the kind of mess the current Palestinian
leadership wishes to stay away from. It doesn’t even want to get close
to it.
Palestinian leaders did not mind talks with former PM Olmert, because
they knew he had no mandate to finalize any deal, and certainly not a
“final-status agreement” which the talks focused on. They in fact liked
the futile talks and arguments. Yet when the possibility of a practical
agreement first came up and they had to respond to it, they left the
talks and did not return.
In the backdrop to the talks with Olmert and Livni was the Bush
Administration, which the entire Arab world loved to hate, and whose
involvement could be used to explain the failure. Yet with Obama and
Bibi negotiations can take a different path. Both of them are
politicians who seek results and who are unwilling to waste time on
verbal and ideological quarrels.
Palestinian consensus of refusal
Netanyahu, with Washington’s support, therefore offers the Palestinians
two parallel tracks. One track will see endless negotiations on a
“final-status agreement” where each side will be presenting its version
of absolute justice. The second track of dialogue will be practical,
closely linked to reality, and brief; it will conclude with the
Palestinian Authority being upgraded to the status of state, or at least
“state in progress.”
Yet this is precisely what the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank
wishes to avoid like the plague.
“We won’t be signing yet another interim agreement with Israel,” a very
senior Palestinian figure says in closed-door sessions. “Ever since the
Camp David talks, no agreements have been signed with Israel, and the
Abbas government will not breach the Palestinian consensus of refusal.
We also don’t wish to get our ‘state in progress’ from Israel. We
already have it. We got it on our own.”
“The current situation serves us well. Palestine is growing, the
security situation is decent, Hamas is under siege in Gaza, and global
public opinion endorses us and opposes the occupation. There is no rush
for us. The demographic clock is ticking and the option of a bi-national
state is being realized. We have no incentive for entering talks with an
Israeli prime minister who wants to get down to business, that is, who
wants to show results.”
This then is the absurdity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2010.
The Palestinians are willing to engage in vague negotiations with the
Netanyahu government while knowing in advance that this will not lead to
any results, but are unwilling to embark on practical talks as long as
there is a chance that this will lead to results on the ground. They
fear a situation whereby they will be asked to reject or accept a viable
interim agreement, which includes the evacuation of some settlements and
the transfer of more land to their control.
The Palestinians are shunning Bibi, because in their view he is a
serious statesman.

 Palestinians shun Bibi because they view him as serious statesman
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