Peace talks
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With settlement activities back in full swing and Israel showing no interest at all in a peaceful and just solution to the Middle East conflict, one can say that Palestine, as we know it, is lost. The two hundred UN resolutions that Israel has violated, and continues to violate without accountability, is a wake-up call for all those who have faith in the UN. It is an institution that is used to maintain a certain world order and NOT to enforce international law and bring justice to the weak, the oppressed and occupied. The US State Department's Philip J. Crowley has expressed “disappointment” to Israel for resuming illegal settlement building in East Jerusalem. Disappointment has given way to disbelief, fury and a sense of betrayal for the rest of the world that is aching for a just solution to the conflict. After decades of occupation and negotiations, with successive US presidents playing partial and biased negotiators, Palestinians have got nothing. The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has inexplicably chosen to indulge the current US president and endorse a continuation of the comatose peace process. The PLO leadership has relinquished its ancestral lands to the Israelis without much resistance, choosing monetary gains over principle. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has played the game of lies and deceit, so typical of the Israeli leadership, and come up trumps, for now it seems the peace process is dead. Those hanging on to it are in denial. Who will help Palestine and bring justice to the Holy Land?
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