1. Israel is still controlling the decision making process within the U.S.A., by far the major player in the region and in the conflict. In extension, Israel is also affecting the decision process within the Quartet, which is once again rendered redundant.
2. Arab peace initiatives are not acceptable to the west, the U.S. and to Israel. The reason is simple: Israel does not want peace which is not on its own terms and without which it does not have a control on the Palestinians.
3.  The issue of Jerusalem, the holy city for the Muslims, Jews and Christians remains in the hands of the Zionist regime and this is the major stumbling block in the peace talks. Any Palestinian leaders who compromise on this issue will be treated as a traitor across the Islamic world. Hence there is little chance for peace to advance as long as the ‘international community’ or the Quartet does not understand that Israel should not be the only one controlling Jerusalem.

The supposed idea of a pro-Israel divide of the city of Jerusalem floated by the Olmert government is yet to be confirmed. Israel is probably playing a ‘game’ in which it pressures the Palestinians to accept its ‘peace’ plan in exchange of the dividing of Jerusalem. There is no reason to believe that Israel is really willing to divide the city, giving a portion to the Palestinians. This issue is an ‘International’ Islamic issue and should not be discussed without prior consultation with other Muslim nations, including the OIC. Israel’s ruse can be seen at work in this issue as it will do everything possible to delay peace and the creation of a Palestinian state.

In an article on why Israel does not want peace, and published in Haretz newspaper in Tel Aviv, it is said that Israel makes a point of setting prerequisites in any talks and believes that it has an exclusive right to do so. The end of the occupation of Palestinian lands, the continued destruction of the economy of the Palestinian people and the un-ending handing over of Palestinian lands to Jewish settlers will make it impossible for peace to be achieved in the Middle East.

The article can be seen at: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/846420.html

Israel’s Prime Minister Olmert did not react with excitement to the recent Arab initiatives for peace? The answer is: real estate. The real estate of the settlements

Israel has a dangerous plan in mind, which is the continued occupation of lands that belongs to the Palestinians. No sound Palestinians will agree to peace if that is not resolved! The Quartet, now with Tony Blair as negotiator, will remain redundant on the issue and will continue to play into the hands of the Jewish state and the U.S.A. if they fail to understand that land is important for the Palestinians as it is important to the Jews. The Jews have total control of the lands that does not belong to them according to various U.N. resolutions. If these resolutions are not respected, even a deal between Mahmoud Abbas and Israel will not end the conflict. Instead, it will create far greater conflagration of the conflict and will endanger the region severely. No peace deal between Abbas and Israel can be acceptable to the Palestinians in general if it does not include the following:

1. The return of stolen Palestinian lands
2. Compensation for the economic war launched by Israel against the Palestinians
3. The return of all the refugees of Palestinian origin to Palestine and Israel.

Israel is also afraid of the peace, stability and economic progress that peace with Palestine will bring to Gaza and the West Bank and in extension to the rest of the Arab world. Israel is currently benefiting largely from the ‘war’ that it is maintaining and perpetuating because it destabilizes the Palestinians economically and socially and it puts pressure on no other than the Arab nations, who have to take in the millions of refugees from Palestine.

End of the day, it is the economic loss that Israel will incur in the event of a true peace deal in Palestine.

Action to be taken by Russia in Palestine-Israel conflict is to either pull out of the Quartet and offer a peace treaty or simply ally with that of the Arabs indeed. This will have for effect the collapse of the U.S. backed Abbas regime, the abandonment of the pro-Israeli peace deal in the making and the throwing of the U.S. in jeopardy in the Middle East.

It will have for effect the rise of Russia as a potential negotiator in the region, ally with the Arabs and the Palestinians, thus forcing Israel to either accept the Arab peace treaty or declare war against the Arabs.

It will be impossible for Israel to maintain a long and sustained war against the Arab nations as a block, certainly not if the block is supported by Russia.

To prevent such an event, the U.S. will be forced to abandon Israel’s no-peace policy by working harder to achieve the creation of a Palestinian state before it is too late.

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