The only message, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was keen on addressing to the Arabs on the eve of their leaders' summit in Sert, was his ability to continue defying President Barack Obama, his goals and the policy of his administration, whenever the latter disagrees with the project to Judaize Jerusalem completely. In form, Netanyahu's visit to the White House should have involved doubts that accumulated in the space of the American-Israeli alliance, which is “unshakable” either now or later, as manifested by the American containment of “reprimanding” the Israeli rioter, after what the latter did during the visit of US Vice President Joe Biden to the region. Netanyahu made himself at home, and once again, he announced his plan to expand the settlements in Jerusalem, while the heavy guest was meeting with Obama, aside from the curiosity of the cameras. As such, no one knew who was reprimanding who. Before and after the White House dinner, the Israeli prime minister's message stated that the settlements in Jerusalem are the Hebrew State's business, and that the American ally is only entitled to interfere to provide whatever it takes to protect it and maintain its “qualitative supremacy.” It is not a controversy over who is embarrassing who, but in order to picture the extent of challenge, which Netanyahu insists on, in the face of Obama's strategy to negotiate on all the tracks on the Middle East, it is enough to remember that the Biden's tour (which ignited the first crisis) and the visit of the leader of the Likud to Washington were two weeks apart, and that a few days later, the Quartet Committee (which includes the United States) issued a statement insisting on the need to cease the Israeli settlement activities and complete the negotiations over the establishment of the Palestinian State in two years (the issues of Jerusalem, the border, and the refugees). It could be said that some “conspiracy” exists between Washington, London and Paris. This was apparent when Britain and France raised again the scandal of the Mossad forging of European passports to assassinate Hamas's leader Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh, in a bid to tighten the international pressures on Israel. At the same time, Obama's administration insists on launching the negotiations with the Palestinians, by forcing the extremist government in the Hebrew State to stop devouring the Palestinian lands in East Jerusalem and the West Bank in general. Even if the theory of “conspiracy” is a mere Arab mirage or wish, it is a constant fact that since Netanyahu formed his government a year ago, he announced the death of peace many times, and he has been attempting to deceive the Palestinians with his lies, in order to lure them into participating in nominal negotiations that fulfill Obama's aspirations, while in fact, he continues plundering the land. Regardless of the reservations of the sides opposing Mahmoud Abbas's track and policy, no one can claim his easygoingness with the Palestinian rights, while the indications of some of them to an alternative of the Arab peace initiative only fall in the context of generalizing vacuum. Only such vacuum that would evacuate the arena for the extremists from both sides. Is this not the wish of the Likud and the evil figures like Minister Lieberman? Netanyahu squeezes Obama'a government in the corner of maneuvers and blackmailing, under the pressures of the Congress, which celebrated the visit of the Israeli prime minister, as though the latter was saving it from the White House demands. While the heavy guest defies the administration's plan, from Washington in particular, he appeared as though addressing every Arab moderate person on the eve of the summit, insisting that wagering on Obama does not bear fruit. The Israeli blackmail of the American president, before and after his dinner with Netanyahu, will not change. It all started with manipulating the card of the Iranian nuclear threat, and turned into a flagrant insistence on excluding Jerusalem from the negotiations, during the year when midterm elections of the Congress are held. Netanyahu, backed by prominent members of the Congress, threatens to twist the arm of the Democratic administration in the United States, while the “Jerusalem rescue plan”, which is supposed to be adopted by the Arab foreign ministers on the eve of the Sert Summit, is more like curing a cancer-stricken person with an Aspirin pill. It seems clear that the cancer of Judaizing anything that is Palestinian in Jerusalem is spreading at a quicker pace. Certainly, the Arab Summit is held under circumstances that do not qualify it to put forth any alternative of the Arab peace initiative, or any practical plan that lifts off the embargo of Judaization on the city, only if we assume that there is a realistic alternative to the initiative. Hamas wants the summit to lift off the embargo on Gaza, while the pressures emanating from the conflicts besiege everyone. Yemen's unity is at stake, along with that of Iraq after the elections, the fate of the infiltrations that have dogged Arab decision-making, the Arabs' suspicion in Obama's ability to fulfill any of his promises, and their concern over their expanding fragmentation that enables Israel to achieve more gains than it could obtain by wars… and enables other sides to infiltrate, under the cover of guardianship.
