[Peace-discuss] Geneva Accords

[Morton K.Brussel]

An analysis by www.al-awda.org

Regarding Geneva
The Reality of the "Geneva Accord"

The Geneva Accord was signed Monday, December 1, 2003, amid great media 
and political fanfare. The 50-page document lays out a plan for a 
presumed "peace agreement" between Israel and the Palestinian people. 
We, the undersigned, consider this initiative as inconsistent with the 
prerequisites of a just and durable peace for the following reasons:

1. It attempts to nullify the Palestinian right of return, both as a 
collective national right and as an individual right. By doing so, it 
strengthens existing attempts to relocate and scatter Palestinian 
refugees throughout the world and gives credence to plans to abrogate 
international law pertaining to the inalienable nature of the Right of 
Return. The net result would be to extract the very anchor of the 
Palestinian struggle for self-determination: the indivisible oneness of 
the Palestinian people and their right to their homes, properties and 
homeland.

2. It provides a Palestinian-Arab cover for the exclusive nature of the 
Israeli polity as a "Jewish State", thus abrogating the national 
character of the Palestinian people within 1948 borders. It therefore 
fails to recognize the right of the 1.2 million Palestinian citizens of 
Israel to live in a democratic state for all its citizens: Jews and 
Palestinians, and it sets stage for mass transfer and ethnic cleansing 
in the future to maintain demographic Jewish dominance.

3. It accepts the reconfiguration of Jerusalem based on Israeli 
annexation plans, and grants Palestinian-Arab legitimacy to the 
colonial process that altered the Arab character of Jerusalem, making 
it impossible for the Palestinians to exercise control over "East 
Jerusalem," not to say anything about "West Jerusalem," which was 
conquered and ethnically cleansed in 1948.

4. It permanently accepts the presence of the vast majority of Israeli 
settlement colonies, particularly those that surround Jerusalem from 
the east, south, north and northwest, where most post-1967 settlers 
live, and alters the geography of Palestine to accommodate such 
colonial seizures.

5. It codifies a process that would limit the upper ceiling of a 
potential Palestinian polity to a truncated and demilitarized entity 
void of sovereignty, and sets in motion a process of expanding Israeli 
political oversight and control over any potential Palestinian entity.

6. It paves for an economic/political relationship that subordinates 
the Palestinian people to an exclusive and dominant Israeli polity, 
thus strategically de-linking the Palestinians from the Arab people and 
subjugating the national interests of all Arabs to the singular power 
of an
Israeli-US alliance.

7. It allows for Israeli military and economic penetration and 
permanent outposts into the presumed Palestinian entity.

8. It leaves open all Israeli claims to the region's water resources, 
natural wealth, and airspace. The text makes several references to 
annexes, but these issues have, in effect, been deferred, and may 
become the "final status" issues of the Geneva understanding.

9. It dilutes the international consensus on the conflict and attempts 
to transform the basis of the Palestinian struggle from one of national 
self-determination and return to that of modified civil rights within a 
prescribed political framework.

10. Most importantly, it weakens the national unity and resolve of the 
Palestinian people leading to the potential defeat of the current 
Intifada in the same manner Madrid and Oslo destroyed the first a 
decade ago.

11. It diminishes European commitment to Palestinian sovereignty, and 
most importantly, it expands the margin of Palestinian concessions, 
which have been bottoming out during the past two decades, making it 
very difficult for future Palestinian negotiators to back away from 
these concessions, including the renunciation of the Right of Return.

12. It assumes the Palestinian victims of Israel are the criminals, and 
the new judges allegedly more liberal than previous ones in the 
sentencing.

The Geneva Accord is a natural extension and an inevitable result of 
the "Road Map" and all associated models. The outcome of all, if 
allowed to succeed, would be to terminate the Palestinian march to 
freedom, to nullify indefinitely and de-legitimize the Palestinian 
right to return, and to subordinate the Arab nation to a heavily 
militarized outpost with normalized relationships with its surrounding.

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