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"(N)o matter what happens or doesn't happen in the United Nations, unless we can get the Palestinians and the Israelis to negotiate over the boundaries of the state, the security provisions, what happens in Jerusalem, what happens with refugees, water, all of the issues we know so well have to be resolved, we're going to raise expectations without being able to deliver."
Clinton, of course, knows Palestinian rights again will be denied. Negotiations now will be as futile as decades of failed attempts because they have no willing partner allied with its Washington paymaster/partner supporting its most outrageous acts.
Moreover, dealing with collaborationist leaders like Abbas and Prime Minister Fayyad assure no prospect of achieving long denied justice.
In his September 27 Electronic Intifada article, Jonathan Cook discussed core problems, including Middle East envoy Tony Blair (a reinvented war criminal), acting more as an "Israeli diplomat" than an impartial arbiter.
More important is lack of legitimate Palestinian leadership supporting their interests, not Western ones and Israel's. As long as Abbas and Fayyad represent them, long denied justice won't be achieved.
As long as the PA accedes to this type leadership, its credibility will erode. Cook calls it a "casualty" of a failed UN bid.
However, he believes America, Europe and the UN will only have a "marginal" role to play ahead. "The Palestinian old guard are about to be challenged by a new generation that is tired of" same old, same old "pander(ing) to Israel's interests...."
Wanting change and knowing how social media work, they're "better equipped to organize a popular mass movement, and refuse to be bound by the borders that encaged their parents and grandparents."
Fossilized PA leadership is the "problem, not the solution." Emerging new leaders want what older ones never demanded or remained tied to failed policies benefitting them at the expense of people they're supposed to serve.
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