Annapolis M-E conference
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Many times on many occasions, at different venues, places, cities and capitals, the USA has arranged, invited, proposed, promised and lured the leaders of the Arab World for statehood and freedom of Palestine on the basis of 'two state solution' of Arab-Israel conflict for comprehensive peace in the Middle East. But all the meetings and discussions proved futile due to US-Israel secret deals, intrigue and dilly-dally tactics. We feel the Annapolis conference sponsored by US President George Bush would again end in a fiasco. The synopsis on Palestine-Israel history is that with the advent of Islam in the 7th century AD, Palestine came under the peaceful and benign Muslim governance. Its earlier record is very sorrowful, gruesome and tragic. In 931 BC the Hebrew kingdom broke into two states-- Israel and Judah-- due to internal feud. Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, Greece and Rome in turn conquered Israel and Judah, Killed many Jews, turned them into slaves and transported them to distant countries. The Jews were lost in wilderness and the existence of Israel and Judah was wiped out. The Palestinian Arabs, on the other hand, are born and brought up in Palestine and they have been living in Palestine for over 1,300 years. Israel is an illegal state within the state of Palestine. The Jews in Israel are not the citizens of Israel. They are not born and brought up in Israel. They are the immigrants from various countries that faced the great Holocaust, Nazi Germany and many European and American countries, who have been pushed to Israel as part of an international conspiracy to meet and protect the geo-political, military, diplomatic and economic interest of the west. Israel is living in a fools' paradise. It is surrounded by Arab countries. How long the USA can give Israel huge economic and military aid for its survival? Israel must realise the gravity of the situation, have vision, wisdom and self-respect and live in peace and harmony with the Arabs. When the illegal making of Israel was under process, the USA and the UK applied the theory of 'two state' solution for comprehensive peace in the Middle East. They created one illegal 'state' Israel in 1948. But why the original and legal state of Palestine has been deprived of its statehood, freedom, and human rights for over 60 years? If the 'black' and 'White' can live in peace, harmony and democracy in South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and many other African countries, why not the people of Palestine and Israel?
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