What are the real reasons that would lead to the failure of the November peace conference?

In these days, one can see that both the Israeli side and the Palestinian are doing their best to show that they want to go to the peace conference the United States is preparing for in November. So many reasons make them work hard to leave the best impression about their will to make peace in the Middle East. One of these reasons is the strong demanding of Bush and the United States to make this conference happen even if it wont bring back the results that are needed for a real improvement in the Israeli – Palestinian conflict. Even after Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister declared that he is ill and needs health care, Condoleezza Rice made it clear to him that they must continue to the Peace conference with any price. Well I see that the American insistence to go to this peace conference comes from the knowledge of the real bad results that could result if no improvement, even a little improvement happens in the Palestinian – Israeli area of conflict. Now if we look at the work the both sides are doing to show their good will to achieve something, it will be clear that neither one of them wants to mess up with the American leadership and its preparations, although both the Palestinians and the Israelis know that with their meanwhile suggestions and plans, nothing real could be achieved. As always before going to any negotiations, the both sides prepare their selves to ask for the most they can ask for in order to lose the minimum and win the maximum, and that was the main reasons for the failure of all the attempts that were made after Oslo to achieve anything. So the simplest question we should ask ourselves is how far can both the Israelis and the Palestinians go in order to seek a real peace? Is the Israeli leadership ready to risk in order to achieve? Can the history return itself and bring a prime minister like Rabin that could risk and sign an agreement like the Oslo agreement, so the peace direction in the Palestinian community could become strong again and return the statement ” The Peace of the Brave” back to life? And can the Palestinians rearrange their lines and bring out a real leader like Yasser Arafat who can take decisions and also control and make the people follow him and support him in his decisions? How can we return the situation back to the period before all the extremist parties came to lead the both peoples?We should return to the base, which are the people so we can achieve and change the culture in Israel and Palestine. Now some may think that I blame those people for what they think and believe, indeed I do sympathize with them because they felled as the victims of violence and changed their way of looking to life because of what they suffered from and also because of the mistakes their leaders did. The idea that came up in Israel about obtaining security only by using force and army came because of some leaders that did their best to influence their people and make them believe in this. Ariel Sharon said that he could end the Intifada in One hundred days and make the Israeli people live in complete peace by using force with Palestinians, and what he only did was bringing more pain and suffering for the Israeli people, and also helping in making the Palestinians believe that no peace could be achieved with Israel and only force and violence can be used to make Israel stop its military operations of killing and imprisoning in the Palestinian territories. So the first victim is the nation that follow the leader and that’s why a leader is the one who can build and improve or destroy and make damage. So before planning for peace conferences and spending money on improving army and military capability to face another forces, all the efforts should be centered on making the daily life of each person that lives in Israel and Palestine better, how? Simply show them that they can live a better life and see it from a different corner. Why we never saw any support for improving the economical situation in the west bank and Gaza, why the Palestinian is living his daily life with difficulty even when he goes from his home to his work and the way back because of the check points. With all these things, of course the Palestinian citizen will believe in supporting anyone but not those who wants to go in the peace path. Imagine that a boy’s or girl’s father is killed or put in prison from any of the both sides, what do you think he will think when he or she becomes a man or women? Do you think they will forget what happened to their closest family members? That’s why the change must start from the roots. Ehud Olmert and Abu Mazen should go back to their people to convince and influence them to believe in peace before going to sign anything. This will bring back the people who are needed for both of them to support them or any other leaders in achieving something called peace. Israel should admit that force is not the choice and the recognizing of the right for the Palestinian people to live beside them and giving them their minimum rights that the meanwhile leadership is asking for, is the right beginning for peace. The press of the both sides should think again of how they are affecting the situation and how can they change. Think of it.

Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad

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