New UN Middle East Envoy Comes Up with ‘New’ Idea – Freeze Settlements
World Bank also comes up with a brainstorm: Give more money to Hamas to "rehabilitate" Gaza, or is it vice-versa?
Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz
The new United Nations Middle East envoy has swung into action like a robotic parrot by demanding that Israel freeze all building in “settlements” which by U.N. definition includes parts of Jerusalem where approximately one-third of its residents live. Nikolay Mladenov, in his first briefing to the U.N. Security Council, also said he is working with U.N. Secretary General Ban-Ki moon to come up with a “realistic options “to resume the peace process” that is buried so deep in the ground that no one can even find its ashes anymore. And how does Mladenov, who presumably is pumping new blood into the over-aged and crippled international organization, plan to reach his goals? Freezing settlement building is only the first step. He always wants a “reasonable timetable” for Israel. He also turned on the tape recorder and said:
The coming period will be critical to the future of the peace process.
If that statement rings a bell, try going back around 20 years. No senior official in the American government, the European Union and the United Nations has let a month go by without parroting the same words. Mladenov also has some other brilliant ideas, such as rehabilitating Gaza.
First of all, he described the situation there.
Mladenov said Gaza Arabs not only are angry at Israel. They are angry at Egypt for the closure of the Rafah crossing. They also are angry at the whole world for not living up ties commitments to donate $3.5 billion to rehabilitate Gaza, i.e. Hamas.
During his briefing, he said that no one in Israel should have “illusions towards the significance of unilateral actions” such as building homes for Jews in Ramot, French Hill, Talpiot, Gilo and other areas in Jerusalem as well as new homes for Jews in Judea and Samaria.
When Arabs build homes they are not “unilateral actions” because, according to the U.N.-EU-Obama agenda, a “unilateral action” is one that helps Israel.
Why?
Because the United Nations, agenda, which President Barack Obama has adopted, states that “negotiations” with the Palestinian Authority mean discussing what color ink to use to sign on the dotted line. Invisible ink is not allowed unless it is in Mahmoud Abbas’ poison pen, the one the pope gave to him two years ago.
Speaking of illusions, Mladenov’s appeal to pour money into Gaza has a nasty smell and a hollow ring. He said only 27 percent of the money pledged at a “donors’ conference” in Cairo last year has been forked over to Hamas. The United States did its bit to the tune of $212 million, as announced by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who said at the time:
Out of this conference must come not just money but a renewed commitment from everybody to work for peace that meets the aspirations of all, for Israelis, for Palestinians for all people of this region.
Freezing settlement construction and setting timetables have failed for two decades to produce anything but terror and the Palestinian Authority’s emasculation of the Oslo Accords.
If Mladenov wants to go hunting for old solutions, he can take look at the only one that has helped Arabs in Gaza enjoy a decent economy, social life and self-government of local affairs.
That was from 1967, when Egypt gladly left Gaza in the hands of Israel in the Six-Day War in 1967. Cairo had let Gaza sink into it a hell-hole. After 1967, like Judea and Samaria that was ignored and abused by Jordan, Gaza began to flower. Israelis, including hundreds whom the Begin administration expelled from the Sinai Peninsula, poured into Gaza and built greenhouses and turned sand dunes into flourishing farms that gave Gaza Arabs decent work. Israelis even taught Gaza farmers the secrets of success to help them start their own farms. Tens of thousands of Gaza Arabs worked in Israel. There was no terror. Tourists from Israel shopped in Gaza, as well as in all of Judea and Samaria.
Then, Yasser Arafat showed up for lunch.
The growing economy under the “occupation” in Gaza was a serious problem for the United Nations, whose UNRWA camps imprison tens of thousands of Arabs in Gaza, Judea and Samaria by calling them “refugees” so they can be used as a pawn to move into Israel and turn the Jews into a minority.
That is only of several reasons that Mladenov cannot look the truth in the eye and suggest rehabilitating Gaza with the only formula that has worked so far.
The United Nations prefers formulas that don’t work, like freezing homes for Jews.
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