DIRECT HAND/U.S. TO PUPPET/ABBAS TALKS SCHEDULED FOR SEPT 2
AUG 23 2010
THERE IS CLEARLY A PEACE DEAL BEING HAMMERED OUT BEHIND THE SCENES.
DEBKAfile's Washington sources reports Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is misleading his ministers by
presenting the direct talks opening with the Palestinians on Sept. 2 as a diplomatic victory. He has omitted to
disclose that the Obama administration has reneged on the secret deals for paving the way to the talks it concluded
with Netanyahu's senior aides Yitzhak Molcho and Uzi
Arad.
Part of the deal was for Israel to line up
with the Obama administration's non-reaction to
Iran's activation of its
Russian built nuclear reactor at Bushehr last Saturday, Aug.
21.
The United States promised, for its part, to deliver the
Palestinians to the negotiating table for face to face talks
after dropping their pre-conditions (determination of the 1967 lines as the
final borders of a Palestinian state and a
moratorium on Jewish construction on the West Bank and Jerusalem).
But most of all, the secret deal obliged Obama to refrain from twisting
Israel's arm on behalf of the Palestinians
should the dialogue founder as it is widely expected to do.
With this deal in the bag, Netanyahu was able to showcase the Obama
administration's endorsement of his diplomatic
strategy and is rejection of Palestinian demands.
However, the deal was shown to have sprung a leak in the formal announcements
in Washington of Friday, Aug. 20,
debkafile discloses.
Whereas Secretary of State Hillary Clinton kept faith with Israel and turned
down a last minute White House demand
to insert this phrase in her announcement: "The United States could offer
bridging proposals if necessary," into
her announcement, the euphemistic phrase turned up in special presidential
envoy George Mitchell's remarks elaborating
on the Clinton statement.
The US sources consulted by debkafile Monday, Aug. 23, made no bones about
White House intentions. Those "bridging
proposals" referred to Obama's views on the most intractable disputes at issue
between Israel and the Palestinians,
i.e. final borders, Jerusalem and Israel's security demands. They would be put
forward as friendly gestures to lift
the talks out of a ditch, but Israeli would be left in not doubt that it must
bow to the US president's take or else.
In Ramallah, debkafile's sources report, Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the
Palestinian Authority, was accused of failing
to stand up to US pressure when he agreed to meet Netanyahu face to face on
Sept, 2 after 20 months of ducking direct
talks. Abbas assured them that the Palestinians had no cause for concern
because the White House had promised him that
the "bridging proposals" would be tilted in the Palestinians' favor and
Netanyahu would be hustled into backing down
on every important issue.
Our sources add that Washington also reneged in the first half of its
commitment to Israel too. Instead of staying mum
on the Bushehr plant when it was started up on Saturday, Aug. 22, as did the
Netanyahu government, the state department
spokesman responded a few hours later by saying that Washington sees no
"proliferation risk" from the launch of Iran's
first nuclear power plant.
This went down badly in Jerusalem as a form of US approval for the reactor, a
surprising deviation from their accord and
another ill omen that the Obama administration may seek to grind Israel down
in the way it manages the talks with the
Palestinians.
Obama is already under fire from several groups of Israel's defenders for what
is regarded as his unfair and unbalanced
treatment of Israel and favoritism for the Arab and Muslim side of the Middle
East rift. The drift of Jewish and
pro-Israeli voters away from the Democrats ahead of November's midterm
congressional elections is reflected in more
than one poll. According to the latest Pew Research Center report earlier this
month, whereas in 2008 the Democrats
enjoyed three times as many Jewish supporters as the Republicans. The ratio
has now sunk to less than two to one.
In Israel, the US president's ratings, exceptionally high after his election,
have plunged unaffected by the effort
Obama made to give Netanyahu a warm White House welcome in July.
The Israeli prime minister may be counting on the November midterm elections
to hold Obama's hand from weighing too
heavily in favor of the Palestinians if the talks manage to stagger on that
long.
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