La Opinion

By Antonio Flores-Lobos
News Editor
The massacres, wars between Jews and Muslims by the piece of land called Palestine and Israel, surely will continue for generations, thanks in large part to the intransigence of Israel and the weakness of the United States to say no to state Jewish.

The Israelis can not understand that in signing a long and genuine peace, the "Holy Land", especially Jeruzalem, must be shared between Muslims and Jews. It's that simple! Not to recognize the undeniable right of the parties, Israelis, Palestinians and Americans will be plowing in the sea.

The latest negotiations are on track to fail because Israel continues to build Jewish settlements on land that belongs to the Palestinians.

The policy of the United States government with regard to Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is kidnapped by the "Lobby" Jew in this country. And therefore, the United States keeps sending billions of dollars in loans that, in most cases, Israel did not have to pay. This money is used, directly or indirectly to finance the settlements themselves which are boycotting the "negotiations" for peace.

For illusions that there will be peace in Israel and Palestine, or the Middle East, if you are not negotiating in good faith, is not negotiating with any Palestinian. The Palestinian Authority is not the government of the Palestinians. To negotiate seriously, you have to include the Hamas government which was elected in the polls, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Peace is negotiated with enemies, not friends.

It is a shame to lose let opportunity after opportunity, because the common people of both sides of the Israeli wall crying out for peace. Nobody wants their children grow up in a state of war and uncertainty.

The Jews have been persecuted and for many centuries and the Palestinians have seen their land occupied and for several decades. Where are the thought-leaders that are indexed to display a real peace.

The Middle East is a powder keg that can explode if politicians do not solve the conflict. In recent days the Atomic Energy Agency, the UN approved of (reluctantly) a resolution that Israel did not have that cliff to the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which would have forced the Jewish state to reveal the nuclear arsenal that the community International thinks he has.

United States, by tradition, (or because it is forced) supports keeping secret Israeli nuclear weapons, while invading countries (read Iraq) in search of "weapons of mass destruction, or threat to Iran, saying it has all cards on the table, including bombing and invasion if the country persists not desist from continuing its nuclear program ... which, according to the "ayatollahs" is for peaceful purposes.

Not be amiss to say that negotiations with Iran, including negotiations with the Palestinians, are not being conducted in earnest, or goodwill.

A negotiation should include something for every part of the conflict. But if the Palestinians do not get their independent state, free of Jewish settlements will be very difficult to reach peace.

In the case of Iran, which is surrounded by Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kuwait, Iraq, Turkey and the Persian Gulf, areas where the United States has countless military bases, where their ships and aircraft walk around with the most sophisticated arsenal (nuclear or no), there is a legitimate safety concern pore.

2-sided policy of the United States, to tell Iran not manufacturing a nuclear bomb, while helping to finance (or conceal) the Israeli nuclear arsenal does not work now, nor work in the future.

It's time to create a realistic, neutral and without government interference or "lobby" of Israel. Otherwise, continue on the same, or rather worse, because no one eternindad occupation lasts, no one who's staying power. Amen!

Antonio Flores-Lobos is the editor of "The News." Contact him at (845) 331-5000, Extension 412 / 79 Hurley Avenue, Kingston, NY 12401 / Aflores-Lobos@Freemanonline.com