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| Zaka ,
São Paulo SP |
01/23/09 |
| Peace for Palestine |
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I agree that USA is not a reliable facilitator for Palestinean, as the country has been supporting the genocidal policies of Israel for years. USA could help just by preventing Israel from devastating the Gaza and by pushing the Israeli criminal leaders stop the concentration camps of Gaza by opening the borders for basic supplies of food and medicines.
I agree that a third country could replace USA in the negotiations and Brazil is the ideal choice for that purpose. The arab and jewish comunities living in Brazil are huge and friendly to each other. Brazil is a neutral coutry and has already offered itself to facilitate the talks and I think it would be an opportunity for the peace to engage Brazil in this proccess.
Remember, for example, that a ONU peace mission in Haiti leaded by the Brazilian Army has been succesfully accomplishing its duties in that country for several years. The Haitians accept Brazilians and approve the peaceful methods employed by the army. Such results are not common when European or American peace task forces are is in service in Third World countries.
For all this reasons I think Brazil should be chosen to intermediate talks between Hamas and Israeli, and Mr. Obama should support all the peace efforts, not only supporting Israeli barbarian bombings as usually Mr. Bush did.
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| John Cabral,
Chicago IL |
john_cabral@sbcglobal.net
01/23/09 |
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I'm grateful for this article. Thanks mediate.com for putting it on this site, thanks to the author for the work of writing it and sending it around.
What response do we have to those on both sides, especially on the "pro-Israeli" side, who say "oh sure we've tried negotiations, over and over, and look what they've achieved--nothing!"
I don't trust the quality of the mediation and conferencing and circling that has been done thus far between the Palestinian and the Israeli leaders. I'm not confident that it has been more than superficial "solutions-based" "settlement-oriented" negotiation where both sides are only looking for benefits for themselves. Each side's enemy images remain substantially intact. There is no true dialogue. I don't think peace will result from this kind of negotiation.
I agree, the Obama administration can get the two sides sitting down together immediately, and that will be good no matter what. (Even though I wonder about the credibility of any United States facilitator in the eyes of the Palestinians: perhaps a more neutral 'third side' party from some other part of the world, say Brazil...)
But once they are sitting down again, we could try to see if they would utilize more transformative forms of mediation, the forms that the Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts "on the ground" surely have been using with the expected gratifying though not always perfect results.
John
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