Netanyahu advocated a reversed order of priorities and has
succeeded in pushing the Palestinian -- Israeli conflict down from the top of
This rearrangement of
However, developments prove this rearrangement of
priorities counterproductive and playing in Iranian hands, making the regional
Iranian alliances stronger, perpetuating the Syrian crisis, around which a new
multi-polar world is emerging, and sidelining the Palestinian peace partners, leaving
them with no other option but to take their deadlocked peace process to the
United Nations, to bring back on track the Palestinian -- Israeli conflict to
the top of the international agenda in the Middle East, thus creating a fait
accompli that will make impossible the Arab -- Israeli -- U.S. front against Iran
that Washington has been trying to build up over the past few years.
Cornering the Palestinians longer in their United Nations
option, similarly changing nothing on the ground to end the Israeli military
occupation, would in no time see them loosing faith in peace making to be
pushed involuntarily to realign regionally to the other side, which would
exacerbate the Iran "threat" rather than containing it.
* Nicola Nasser is a veteran Arab journalist based in Bir
Zeit, West Bank of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. He can be
contacted at Email address removed .
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