Shimon Peres – R.I.P.
First
I would like to pay a personal tribute to the man who could have
brought a permanent peace to the Middle East.
I
always believed, for most of my lifetime, that Peres, together with
Golda Meir were the two singular individual leaders with the potential and capability of achieving this elusive Nirvana.
His
passing ends an era where there existed leaders in Israel with a
genuine desire for a true, a just and a permanent peace with the
Palestinians.
I
only met him on one occasion – and we had a disagreement which,
thankfully, fell short of a publicly voiced argument, as I held my
counsel; and which I never capitalized on afterwards for personal
benefit.
My
disagreement with Shimon Peres can partly be gauged when I was
invited to address a B'Nai B'rith function (which has had more
prominent individuals than me - such as the Israeli Ambassador) as the
guest speaker.
(For
security reasons and as it was a private function, I will not say
here where it was held.)
I
was asked a particular question after my talk to several hundred
members and that was 'did I believe the Peace Process (at that time)
would succeed? ' My answer was that I did not and that it would be a
total failure.
It
was just not sustainable with such unreliable partners as Saudi
Arabia lurking in the background and the Palestinians running off to
Riyadh, Baghdad and Damascus to ensure that finance would not be cut
off when a final peace accord was signed with Israel.
The
Saudis are one of the most untrustworthy and duplicitous of partners,
for a Middle East permanent peace, you could ever hope or imagine to
have.
They
always were and they always will be whilst the House of Saud holds
sway.
(In
this world, there are usually good and bad tyrants. The House of
Saud however, is just rotten to the core. Even more frustrating,
given the present situation in the region, the only thing worse than
the House of Saud is it's removal.)
Besides,
the absence of a peace between Israel and Palestine and the concept
of 'Arab renewal' in the form 'Islamic States' similar to ISIL/ISIS,
keeps the minds of the Arab populace, as a whole, across North Africa
and the Middle East, off democratic reform issues inside all these
Muslim tyrannies (Sunni and Shia) throughout the region.
So
Shimon Peres, God give him rest, never delivered on a permanent peace
- for which he (falsely) accepted a Nobel Peace Prize (!) None of
them -Yitzhak Rabin, Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat, delivered permanent
peace.
Just
you look at the chaos and barriers of separation in the region today
- with their (unresolved) political problems (and our stupid Western
Christian politicians' military interventions and overthrowing Muslim
regimes in Muslim lands - fueling the chaos and instabilities) are now
overspilling into the whole of Europe and directly affecting
political and social stability across Christendom.
The
whole 'peace' process was a complete sham and farce from beginning to
end, in my opinion.
Indeed
I would argue that, at one level, we have ended up with the Islamic
State (ISIS/ISIL/Daesh) and its extremist proponents as a direct
result of the absence of a permanent peace process (from that failed
Camp David accord) which gives security to Israel and a homeland
State with secure internationally recognised borders, to the
Palestinian people.
Shimon
Peres was surprised (and I think a little annoyed and upset) at my
'response' to his gesture of friendship – but there were issues I
could never reconcile about a peace treaty with such an unreliable
partner and its even more unreliable allies.
I
said so in as many words during question time (when attending members
were invited to quiz me about any issues I had raised in my talk.)
We
never met again. I still to this day maintain that the peace process
was (and is) doomed since there was not (nor is there today) a
democratic nor reliable peace partner anywhere in the region.
[Until
last year, Israel has been (unwisely) treating ISIL/Daesh fighters
who managed to reach the Golan Heights and 'volunteers' assisting
with 'health emergencies' in Jordan and elsewhere. You didn't know
this? You need to be better informed than what you see on CNN.]
In
the absence of a peace process, better to say today that there exists
converging interests (for oil, gas, mineral resources exploration,
development and water management sustainability) between antagonists
and protagonists rather than any real and genuine desire for
permanent peace amongst any of the
conflicting
entities.
The
history books will give, as they do in all countries, the usual false
account of Shimon Peres' role in the Middle East 'Peace Process' and
fail to point out that this particular whole process was a complete
and utter failure.
I
ask you to ask yourself: where is the peace for which Mr Peres
received his Nobel Peace Prize?
(Indeed
where is 'the peace' for which President Obama received his Nobel
Peace Prize?)
Such
is the planet we live on (!)
Perhaps
it's just me. I probably have a few defective brain cells and genes
- so the 'traditional' industrial mass populace media 'brainwashing'
to facilitate my acceptance of war=peace and
peace=war, 'love is hate and hate is love' never quite
succeeded down on 'the farm'1 I was tagged for processing
at, as 'useable' fodder (!)
©Patrick
Emek, September 2016
[Just to avoid any confusion, the reception I met Shimon Peres at was different from the B'nai B'rith event. I have linked both because of the topic discussed.]
1Animal
Farm by George Orwell
Addendum (29/09/2016)
2.The Oslo accord has been widely mentioned in the media as a 'revolutionary' development - by 'cub' reporters who known nothing about it and probably couldn't even mention to you any of it's stipulations. Don't believe a word of what they are telling you in the mainstream press. If you are really interested in why it failed, you could do worse than start by reading the references which I cite below. I didn't even bother to mention it in this blog because it was a total failure - and to pick through it's shortcomings here would serve no useful purpose. PE
http://www.matthewaid.com/post/98963816866/lessons-for-the-obama-white-house-and-us-intel
http://www.anajnu.cl/2015/articulos/305/israel-s-iron-lady.html
http://www.anajnu.cl/2015/articulos/305/israel-s-iron-lady.html