UMongameli u-Obama ukhulume izinto eziningi okufanele zishiwo enkulumweni yakhe kubafundi bakwa-Israel ngesonto eledlule. Ngalokho ufanelwe yikhredithi. Ukuchaza kwakhe imbangela kanye nezifiso zabantu basePalestine kwakuhlosiwe. Inkinga ukuthi umphumela ophelele wohambo lwakhe lwakamuva lokuya eMpumalanga Ephakathi umele isinyathelo sokuhlehla.
UPhilip Stephens, umhlaziyi omkhulu wezepolitiki we-Financial Times, ukufingqa kahle ngicabanga ukuthi: โUBarack Obama unikeza inkulumo enhle,โ ebhala. "Uphinde wakwenza eJerusalema. Bambalwa abangakwazi ukufanisa umongameli wase-US ekugoqeni ukuqonda okuhlakaniphile emibhalweni yezinkondlo. Yingakho inkulumo ye-vaulting ivame ukuzala indumalo. Amagama aba esikhundleni, esikhundleni sesendulela, isenzo."
Angibheki, futhi angilaleli, uMongameli ekhuluma kulezi zinsuku. Ngike ngangeniswa - ngisho nokushukunyiswa - amakhono akhe okukhuluma izikhathi eziningi kakhulu. Ngawufunda umbhalo ngakusasa futhi ngizama ukuthola ukuthi uthini ngempela.
"Abaholi bahlukanisa phakathi kwalabo abahlonipha imingcele emisiwe yamandla nepolitiki nalabo abaphuma kuzo," kubhala uStephens March 24. "Kuze kube manje uMnu. Obama usefake isigaba sokuqala. Kubo bonke ubugagu bakhe, uhambo lwaleli sonto lubonisile. Imingcele yezifiso ze-US. I-Middle East ivutha amalangabi. Umongameli uphethe ngokuthi akukho okuningi okumele kwenziwe."
"Izikhulu zakhe zithi lokhu akulungile. Imizamo yokulungisa ubudlelwano noBenjamin Netanyahu, undunankulu wakwa-Israel, kanye nokuqinisekisa ama-Israel ngokuzibophezela okungaguquki kweMelika ekuvikelekeni kwabo bekuyisisekelo esibalulekile emzamweni wokubuyisela izingxoxo zokuthula namaPalestine," kuqhuba uStephens. . "Lo msebenzi usuzolandwa nguJohn Kerry, unobhala wezwe, olangazelela ukuzulazula endaweni yezobuchwephesha eMiddle East. Konke lokho kuhle kakhulu, kodwa izinhloso ezinhle zikaMnu. Kerry ziyize uma umongameli engakakulungeli ukuzifaka engozini. "
โLena bekuyinkulumo engasoze yalibaleka: U-Obama washo izinto ama-Israyeli adinga ukuzizwa kumongameli waseMelika,โ kubhala uMichael Cohen ephephandabeni laseBrithani i-Guardian ngeledlule. "Kodwa akukho okwenzeke ngoLwesine eJerusalema okuzokwenza lukhulu ekwenzeni isixazululo semibuso emibili sibe lula. Kunakuqala, ama-Israel namaPalestine awadingi magama, kodwa izenzo zomongameli wase-US. Kusazobonakala ukuthi noma ngabe ikuphi. lezo zizofika."
"U-Obama ubuze imibuzo engasabuzwa ngokuzwakalayo ezweni lakwa-Israel, egcwele ama-jingoistic, inkulumo-ze ye-rightwing, ehlotshaniswa nabantu abavezwa njengabakhululekile futhi abazizondayo. abashiya,โ kuphawula uChemi Shalev, intatheli yase-US ye-Haaretz kanye nowayeyintatheli yaseJerusalema yephephandaba lamasonto onke lamaJuda elizinze eNew York, iThe Forward. "Wabhekana nobuhlakani obuvamile bokuthi isikhathi sisohlangothini lwethu futhi isimo esikhona sisebenzela thina. Wabuza, ngokuhlambalaza, ukuthi ama-Israyeli azama ukubuka umhlaba ngeso lasePalestina. -umkhankaso wokuthula owasungulwa amaqembu okuthiwa ashiye phakathi abesaba kakhulu emkhankasweni wakamuva wokhetho, ngoba abecabanga ukuthi unobuthi."
UMongameli u-Obama ukhulume izinto eziningi okufanele zishiwo enkulumweni yakhe kubafundi bakwa-Israel ngesonto eledlule. Ngalokho ufanelwe yikhredithi. Ukuchaza kwakhe imbangela kanye nezifiso zabantu basePalestine kwakuhlosiwe. Inkinga ukuthi umphumela ophelele wohambo lwakhe lwakamuva lokuya eMpumalanga Ephakathi umele isinyathelo sokuhlehla.
"U-Obama ubuyela e-US namuhla nasezinkingeni zayo, zasekhaya nezingaphandle," kubhala uNahum Barnea ephephandabeni lakwa-Israel i-Yedioth Ahronoth.
Ngokuphambene nombono oqhutshwa iningi lemithombo yezindaba enkulu yaleli zwe, ama-Israel awazange avumelane ngazwi linye ekwaziseni amazwi kaMongameli wase-US, hhayi amalungu kahulumeni kaNdunankulu uNetanyahu.
Nakuba, uNgqongqoshe Wezobulungiswa, u-Tzipi Livni, weqembu le-Hatnua ebiza amazwi ka-Obama "abalulekile futhi akhuthazayo," ilungu le-Knesset, uMiri Regev, weqembu likaNetanyahu i-Likud libize inkulumo ka-Obama ngokuthi "icasula uNetanyahu." โBengicabanga ukuthi u-Obama ufike enolwazi olunzulu ngenqubo yokuxoxisana phakathi kwethu namaPalestine, kodwa ngiyabona ukuthi akakashintshi isimo sakhe, hhayi mayelana nokwakhiwa kwezindawo zokuhlala hhayi ngezifunda ezimbili zezizwe ezimbili, futhi wanquma ukuthi abantu abasha. kumele bagqugquzele abaholi babo ukuthi bafake ingcindezi yomphakathi kuhulumeni ukuze afeze i-ajenda [ka-Obama]," kusho yena.
Omunye omele iLikud ephalamende, uMoshe Feiglin, uthe inkulumo ka-Obama iqukethe "ukungcola okuningi."
UNgqongqoshe Wezomnotho Nezohwebo, uNaftali Bennett, ukuphikisile ukugxeka kuka-Obama ukwakhiwa kwezindawo zokuhlala zamaJuda eWest Bank kanye nokumela kwakhe umbuso wasePalestine. "Izwe lasePalestine akuyona indlela efanele," esho. "Sesifikile isikhathi semibono emisha kanye nobuchule bokuxazulula izingxabano zaseMpumalanga Ephakathi."
โNoma kunjalo, isizwe asiwudli umhlaba waso,โ kwengeza uBennett.
U-Bennett uzobe eseNew York ngenyanga ezayo engqungqutheleni yaminyaka yonke ye-Jerusalem Post, ekwabelana ngesikweletu nomunye ophika umsebenzi, uCaroline Glick, isekela lomhleli wephepha nowayengumsizi womeluleki wenqubomgomo yezangaphandle kuNetanyahu, kanye noklebe wase-US, owayeyiNxusa le-UN. John Bolton, lapho bezoxoxa khona "Izifunda ezimbili zabantu ababili?")
U-Ayelet Shaked we-Jewish Home Party uphawule wathi: โEkugcineni kosuku kuzofanele sibambe imiphumela edabukisayo nelimazayo yokubunjwa kombuso wasePalestine. Yingakho isizwe sakhetha uhulumeni ongafaki ukwesekwa kwamazwe amabili. -isixazululo sezwe emiqondisweni yalo, kanye nomongameli wase-US, lowo intando yeningi kuye ngomgomo oqondisayo, kufanele akuhloniphe lokho."
Ukwakhiwa kwezindlu zokuhlala "kuzoqhubeka ngokuhambisana nenqubomgomo kahulumeni ebiyikho kuze kube manje," uNgqongqoshe wezeziNdlu u-Uri Ariel, oyisafiki futhi oyilungu le-Home Party, etshela izethameli zethelevishini ngobusuku bangaphambi kokufika kuka-Obama. Uthe ukwakhiwa kuzoqhubeka eWest Bank "kancane noma kancane njengoba bekwenzeka phambilini. Angisiboni isizathu sokukushintsha."
Njengoba lezo zitatimende zicacisa ngokusobala, kukhona okunye ngaphandle kokuvumelana "ngesixazululo semibuso emibili" emibuthanweni ebusayo yakwa-Israel. UStephens waphawula ukuthi uNetanyahu "akakufihli neze ukudelela kwakhe isivumelwano semibuso emibili" futhi ukwandiswa kwezindawo zokuhlala ezingemthetho kwa-Israel "kuklanyelwe ukudala amaqiniso phansi avimbela izwe lasePalestine uMnu. Obama akubona kubalulekile ukuze kube nokuthula okuhlala njalo."
Njengoba kucatshangwa ngabasekeli "besixazululo semibuso emibili" - ngokusekelwa iningi likahulumeni womhlaba - izwe elisha lasePalestine lizoba seWest Bank, eGaza nasempumalanga yeJerusalema, izindawo u-Israyeli azithumba ngo-1967. Le ndawo isibunjwe ngamakoloni ama-Israel angaphezu kwesigamu sesigidi, angama-60,000 kubo kusukela ekugcotshweni kuka-Obama.
U-Obama "ubonakale esondela esimeni sakwa-Israel ngoLwesine mayelana nokuqala kabusha kwezingxoxo zokuthula osekunesikhathi eside zamiswa namaPalestine, eyeka ukugcizelela ukuthi kumiswe ukunwetshwa kwezindawo zokuhlala zakwa-Israel njengoba enzile ekuqaleni kwehlandla lakhe lokuqala," kubhala uMark Landler. I-New York Times yangoMashi 21 "UMnu. Netanyahu angase aduduzeke ngokuthi uMnu. Obama usondele esimeni sakhe sokuthi amaPalestine kufanele axoxisane ngaphandle kokuthi aqale amise yonke imisebenzi yokuhlalisana," kubhala uLandler e-Amman ezinsukwini ezimbili kamuva.
"Isethembiso sokuthi unobhala wakhe wezwe uzosebenzisa isikhathi namandla ukusiza ama-Israel namaPalestine ukuthi asondelane sincane kakhulu, empeleni kuwukuziphatha okuhle," kusho iphephandaba laseJalimane i-Center-right German i-Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "Ngaphandle kwalokho, ngaphandle kokungabaza okungakaxazululwa, u-Obama usemukele ngokuphelele inkambo kaNetanyahu."
Njengoba u-Jonathan Tobin akubeka ephephabhukwini laseMelika le-neo-Conservative, i-Commentary, u-Obama "uthe ukuxazululwa kwakungeyona indaba eyinhloko yengxabano nokuthi uma zonke ezinye izici ezihlukanisa izinhlangothi zombili zingaxazululwa ukuxazululwa ngeke kuvimbele ukuthula. okubaluleke kakhulu, ukugcizelele ukuthi akumele kube nemibandela ebekwe yinoma yiluphi uhlangothi ngaphambi kokuthi kuqalwe kabusha izingxoxo zokuthula."
Njengoba ngokusobala ebone ukukhanya futhi waphetha ngokuthi ukuqhubeka kwesimo esikhona ngeke kuholele lutho oluhle, umlobi wephephandaba i-New York Times, uThomas Freidman, ubhale ngeSonto eledlule ukuthi amaPalestine "kudingeka alahle yonke imibandela yawo futhi angenele izingxoxo" futhi u-Israyeli udinga " misa izindawo zokuhlala." Lokho kuwubulima nje. Uma amaPalestine eyeka ukugcizelela kwawo ukuthi ukunwetshwa kwezindawo zokuhlala ngeke kube nesidingo sokuthi kwenzeke. Uma ama-Israyeli emisa ukuqhwagwa komhlaba akusekho umbandela. Inqobo nje uma i-juggernaut yamakholoni akwa-Israel isaqhubeka abukho amathuba okuba kuxazululwe, futhi ukuqhubeka "kwenqubo yokuthula," njengoba bekunjalo, kuzovumela i-Tel Aviv kuphela isikhathi esengeziwe sokudala "amaqiniso phansi," amaningi. yilokho nje abakwa-Israyeli abakufunayo.
"Akuwona nje umbono wethu wokuthi ukuhlaliswa kwabantu akukho emthethweni," kusho uMongameli wePalestinian Authority uMahmoud Abbas. "Kungumbono womhlaba wonke. Wonke umuntu ubheka ukuhlaliswa kwabantu hhayi nje njengesithiyo, kodwa ngaphezu kwesithiyo esixazululweni semibuso emibili," esho. "Asiceli lutho ngaphandle kwemvume yamazwe ngamazwe. Kungumthwalo kahulumeni wase-Israel ukumisa imisebenzi yokuhlaliswa kwabantu ukuze okungenani sikhulume. "Sithemba ukuthi uhulumeni wakwa-Israel uyakuqonda lokhu, esho. "Sithemba ukuthi bazolalela imibono eminingi ngaphakathi kwa-Israel uqobo ekhuluma ngokungekho emthethweni kwezindawo zokuhlala."
"Kufanele siqaphele ukuthi amarokhethi adutshulwe eGaza ayiswa eningizimu ye-Israel ngoLwesine - isenzo sokunganaki futhi esivusa inkanuko - kuyilapho ama-Israel abonisa ukholo oluhle ngokugwema izinhlobo zezenzo ezidelelayo, njengokumemezela izindawo ezintsha zokuhlala, eziye zaphazamisa ukuvakasha kwaseMelika esikhathini esidlule, "I-New York Times Editorial Board ithe ngoMashi 21.
Hhayi, hhayi ngqo.
Ngenkathi u-Obama esesendaweni futhi ecaphuna ukuhlasela kwamarokhethi - okwenziwa yiqembu elingaziwa elixhumene ne-al-Qaida eliphikisana nohulumeni weHamas eGaza - njengesizathu, uhulumeni wakwa-Israel wasika ingxenye yolwandle lapho. kuzovumela abantu basePalestine eGaza ukuthi badobe, okusongela ukuphila kwabantu basePalestine abangaba ngu-3,000 abathembele olwandle. "Akukho lutho ongalubamba endaweni engamakhilomitha amathathu ukusuka ogwini," umdobi oneminyaka engu-62 ubudala, u-Talal Shweikh, etshela iphephandaba i-Ahram, "Zonke izinhlanzi ozibona emakethe namuhla zivela eGibhithe."
Ngaphansi kwemibandela ye-Oslo Accords ka-1993, abantu basePalestine babevunyelwe ukudoba amamayela angaba ngu-20 ukusuka ogwini. Nokho, ngo-2006 lo mkhawulo wehliswa waba kathathu. Ngokombiko othile imingcele, ephoqelelwa ibutho lasolwandle lakwa-Israyeli, ibangele ukuba inani labadobi abakhuthele lehle lisuka cishe ku-10,000 2000 ngonyaka ka-3,500 laya cishe kwabangu-XNUMX XNUMX namuhla.
Iziphathimandla zakwa-Israel ziphinde zavala i-Kerem Shalom, okuwukuphela kwendlela yokuwela ezentengiselwano phakathi kwe-Israel neGaza.
"Uma kunokuthula, izinqubo ezilula izimpilo zezakhamuzi zaseGaza zizoqhubeka. Futhi uma kukhona umlilo we-Katyusha (rocket), khona-ke lezi zinyathelo zizoncipha futhi zimiswe futhi, uma kunesidingo, zihlehliswe," umsakazo osemthethweni we-Army Radio. kusho. "Asizimisele ukuyeka ilungelo lethu lokuphendula okwenzeka eGaza ngenxa yesivumelwano namaTurkey."
NgoMashi 22, usuku uMongameli u-Obama ahamba ngalo kwa-Israel, i-United Nations Human Rights Council yaphasisa izinqumo ezinhlanu ezigxeka i-Israel ngokwakhiwa kwezindawo zokuhlala kanye nokuhlukumeza okwenziwa kubantu basePalestine. I-US bekukuphela kwelungu lomkhandlu wezizwe ezingama-47 ukuvota ngokumelene nezinyathelo. Yebo, iningi lemithombo yezindaba yase-US ayizange izihluphe ngokubika isenzo se-UN.
"Ingabe uMnu. Obama naye uzozifaka engozini ezizodingeka ukuze abe umxazululi othembekile futhi aqhubekisele phambili amaqembu?" kusho iNew York Times ngesonto eledlule. "Unobhala wakhe omusha wezwe, uJohn Kerry, uzimisele ukuqala futhi uzoba kwa-Israel kule mpelasonto, kodwa ingabe uzoba nesikhala sokuqhuba izingxoxo zangempela? Futhi ingabe kukhona umuzwa wokuphuthuma ohlangothini lwanoma ubani? bakhe izindawo zokuhlala eziningi kangangokuthi izinketho zokuthola isisombululo semibuso emibili ziyancipha."
"UMnu. Obama uchithe iminyaka emine elungisa ubudlelwano bakhe no-Israel. NgoLwesine, uthe `ukuthula kungenzeka.' Umbuzo uthi: Uzotshala malini yena, uNdunankulu uBenjamin Netanyahu wakwa-Israel kanye noMengameli uMahmoud Abbas wePalestinian Authority ukuze kwenzeke lokhu?
"Azisekho izimfuno zika-Obama," kubhala umlobi weWashington Post, uDana Milbank ngesikhathi u-Obama ebuyela eWashington. "Izifiso zakhe eziphakeme zazicindezelwe. Futhi zazingekho izinto ayezilindele, ezilalelini zakhe kanye naphakathi komphakathi waseMelika, ukuthi uzozuza impumelelo yokuthula. Kwakuwukuvuma buthule ukwehluleka, kodwa wonke umuntu wayebonakala ejabule kakhulu ngezifiso zokuhlehla." NgeSonto, ikhasi eliku-inthanethi le-Middle East lokuphawula, i-Mondoweiss, liphendule. "Ngabe uDana ukholelwa ukuthi abantu basePalestine bebejabule kakhulu 'ngezifiso ezihlehlisiwe' ezishiya umsebenzi endaweni?"
Iphephandaba lansuku zonke lakwa-Israel i-Haaretz labeka lo mbuzo ngale ndlela ngoMashi 21: "Nansi ingozi eyinhloko yokuvakasha. Uhulumeni wase-Israel nomphakathi bangaphetha, ngokusekelwe ezwini elihloniphekile likamongameli kanye nokuntuleka kosongo noma ingcindezi yokubonisa, ukuthi u-Israyeli manje ukhululiwe ekubeni kuqalwe izinyathelo zokuqalisa kabusha inqubo yokuthula."
โLesi kungaba isiphetho esibi,โ kuqhuba uHaaretz. "U-Obama kanye ne-United States abahlangene nombango we-Israel-Palestine. Umongameli wase-United States akuyena okumele ahlale emphakathini oguqulwayo ngenxa yokuhlukunyezwa futhi uphushelwe emaphethelweni omhlaba. UNetanyahu uqinisile uma ethi, njengoba iWashington ikubeka kwacaca izikhathi eziningi, ukuthi i-United States ayikwazi ukufuna ukuthula ngaphezu kwamaqembu ngokwawo. yi-Israel okufanele inikeze izinhlelo ezintsha neziphakamiso futhi ithuthukise ukuqaliswa kwefomula yezizwe ezimbili okuvunyelwene ngayo.
"U-Obama angakwazi futhi kumele akucacisele u-Israel ukuthi ukuqhubeka komsebenzi kungathinta kanjani ubudlelwano bamazwe amabili, kulimaze isikhundla se-US esifundeni futhi kuqede ukwesekwa komphakathi waseMelika ku-Israel. Lokhu ukweleta u-Israel kanye nezakhamizi zezwe lakhe. UNetanyahu , ngakolunye uhlangothi, akakwazi "ukusinda" ekuvakasheleni noma ukumbambathwane emhlane. Unomthwalo wemfanelo wokuvuselela izingxoxo namaPalestina.
"Yebo, umongameli waseMelika unamandla okudida abangabazayo." UStephens wabhala ku-Financial Times. "Ukhumbuze umbuso wase-Iran ukuthi usekulungele ukusebenzisa amandla ezempi aseMelika ukuze avimbele uTehran ukuthi akhe ibhomu lenuzi. Zonke izingxoxo engibe nazo nabasondelene naye zingitshela ukuthi akabhubhisi. Kodwa kukhona okuxakayo. Angaba kanjani umongameli. ngokuzimisela okwanele, uma kudingeka, ukuqala impi ngokumelene ne-Iran yehluleka ukutshala amandla nodumo lwehhovisi lakhe emzamweni wokuthula eMpumalanga Ephakathi?"
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