Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Jerusalem. On the morning of June 5, 1967, I was shift leader at Reuters in Beirut, and also a university student. That year, I was at work, and my shift was supposed to be six hours, but war soon erupted. That shift ended up lasting 5 days, which led to the Israeli thieves occupying the Holy City. I left my longtime friend and work assistant Hannan Anbar at the office, and went to the Sanayeh Park to cry alone, before I went back, saddened and depressed. In those days, the Arabs could still say No once or many times, so Jerusalem was lost, and the hope remained that it will return to our hands. Nowadays, the Israeli neo-Nazi government is appropriating our homes, parks, mosques and churches every day. Jerusalem is being lost all over again. There is no hope, and everyone is responsible. - The Palestinians in the West Bank did not revolt against the occupation. They did not protest, even when their homes in Jerusalem are being stolen, to make way for residential units for the thieves from around the world. Instead, they only rose up to protest the economic crisis, and rising prices of sugar and coffee, because this seems to be more important to them than their own capital. Do all these protesters know half of what Salam Fayyad knows about the economy? - Hamas does not want Palestine or Jerusalem. It is content with an Islamic fiefdom in Gaza, aided by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. For this reason, Hamas does not want Palestinian elections. Instead, it has suspended the work of the electoral committee, because it fears it may lose at the ballot boxes. - The Arab countries are failures, both individually and as a whole. During the Sirte Summit in 2010, the Arab countries pledged to spend $ 500 million to protect Arab Jerusalem from abuses by the Occupation. But so far, only $32 million dollars have been released. - The Islamic countries do not know where Jerusalem is and what we see there is terrorism by extremist groups and bombings on an almost daily basis, with Muslims dying at the hands of terrorists who are outside the pale of religion and humanity. Yet perhaps the worst example of this is Iran, which supports the Palestinians, but attacks Israel on a racist basis and threatens it with (impossible) genocide, giving Israel a convenient weapon against the entire nation. - Israel is a Nazi terrorist state, but at least, it acts consistently with all those qualities. - The United States, specifically the Obama administration, has sold its soul to the Israeli devil, or the Israel lobby, neocons and other Likudniks in the media and the government. All the administration has to say to President Mahmoud Abbas, is to wait or stay quiet until after November 6, 2012. - Western Europe is also responsible. The Nazi Germans mass murdered Jews, in collusion with neighboring countries. The collaborators were thus more numerous than resistance fighters, and then they made the people of Palestine pay the price of their crimes against the Jewish people. - I am responsible for the loss of Jerusalem, since I belong to a generation that lost its second half, after a generation who had lost its first half. Then, we were succeeded by a generation that squandered any hopes of recovering it. All three are generations of failure. I know the majority of Palestinian leaders personally. Yet, I will limit myself today to President Mahmoud Abbas, and the leader of Hamas Khalid Meshaal. Abu Mazen was at his best at the UN General Assembly last year, when the states of the world welcomed his bid for a Palestinian seat at the UN. The delegates all applauded him, chanted and some were even tearful. Today, Abu Mazen is in an abysmal situation, and all I ask him to do is to insist on an end to settlements and on the pre-1967 borders, in order to preserve his political legacy. Khalid Meshaal, meanwhile, is content with the Gaza Strip out of all Palestine, and a bureau for Hamas in Cairo, sponsored by the new regime. Hamas does not want neither reconciliation, nor elections, even if Abu Mazen promises not to run in them for a second time. Hamas does not even want to resist the occupation, for fear of Israel invading the Strip and ruining its project for an Islamic fiefdom. Everyone is responsible for this situation, me included. Tomorrow, the Palestinian president will go to the UN General Assembly, and will reapply for membership at the UN – a bid that will be discussed only after the U.S. presidential election, as the U.S. administration requested. If Barack Hussein Obama returns to the White House, he will not deal with the Palestinian issue before his inauguration for a second term in the first month of 2013, giving war criminals like Benjamin Netanyahu a few extra months to gobble up and annex what is left of Jerusalem. Maybe Mitt Romney will win the presidency, and enter the White House as an overt ally of Israel, and an enemy of the Arabs and Muslims everywhere. In other words, Romney will be another Netanyahu, in a different name. [email protected]
