While Israel continues to mind any serious negotiations with the Palestinians about the final and important issues, the Palestinian leadership made a visit to [singlepic id=245 w=320 h=240 float=right] the White House and considered it a successful one. The Israelis are still suffering from the results of their use of violence while dealing with the Freedom Flotilla and an Iranian ship is on its way to support Gaza.

Although the Palestinian team considered its visit to the White House a successful one, there are no signs that anything has been achieved. After complaining about the Israeli attitude in the negotiations and the situation in Gaza, President Obama only made a statement that the siege on Gaza must be reexamined and new ways must be found. New ways mean that the siege will continue but in a different way. The Palestinian leadership hoped that President Obama would discuss the points they showed up with Prime Minister Netanyahu in his next visit to the White House.

In other words only a hope of a change is what came as a result of the latest Palestinian American meeting and no real achievement was made. Even diplomatically nothing was achieved through this meeting. On the other hand Turkey’s latest movement in the area is creating a real challenge for Israel especially after the former invited Head of Hezbullah Hassan Nasrallah to visit Turkey. It is clear that Israel have lost a strategic ally in the area and that Turkey is moving towards a serious relation with Syria. Lebanon and Iran. The Turkish ambitions to play a good role in the area were faced by an Israeli refusal to compromise anything and the only way which Turkey have after an American refusal to stop Israel’s actions or even convict them is finding a new alliance which would respond to the Turkish interests in the region.

The Turkish policy and reaction to the Israeli policy in the area proved that only hard diplomatic efforts and a little of risk can make a real change and improvement. Turkey is considered an important alliance in the eyes of the United States and even Israel. Therefore, it would be hard to ignore such a change in the Turkish policy in the area. The problem is that the tens of the Arab countries who are considered extremely important in the eyes of the West failed to make any kind of change in their policy since the beginning of the Second Intifada. Even a withdrawal of the Arab Peace initiative that Israel laughed at was not made. The Arab leadership prefers to send anything it has to decide about to the UN Council rather than being responsible and deal with it.

If the mission of the Arab University is only to meet and then ask from the UN Council to deal with the Arab’s problems then why do we need the Arab University at all? We can find countries which are ready to do this work for us and let us close the Arab University and save all the expenses we pay their in order the Arab peoples which are starving for both food and new thoughts and ideologies that would take them out of one of the worst situations they are going through.

Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad

A Palestinian-Arab living in East Jerusalem, Ziad graduated from College Des Freres in Jerusalem in 2003. Ziad finished his major in International Relations and English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ziad is a former President of the Watan student movement at the university. He is interested in Middle Eastern political issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Founder of the Middle East Post and MEL (Middle East Future Leadership Network), he represents Palestinian youth at several international conferences.

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