Companions in Statehood
Well, how about that? The misunderstood underdogs of the world, wholly innocent of any charged wrongdoing but guilty as charged of wishing to be respected, independent, sovereign, as good citizens of the world, take lessons from one another.The Palestinian Authority, once more reconciled with Hamas in Gaza - the former covertly encouraging its citizens to violate the peace with Israel, the latter fomenting violence overtly with the unmistakable message of intending to obliterate the State of Israel - will no longer make its usual strenuous efforts to reach an amicable agreement with the Oppressor.
Come September 20, it will approach the United Nations General Assembly - to consolidate its prior extremely successful lobbying efforts among its various members now prepared to recognize the PA as a genuine government and its territories and people as comprising the newest sovereign nation to be welcomed into the United Nations' nest of respectable and respected members.
As for territory-and-border agreements with its neighbour; mutual agreements on the right of 'refugee' Palestinians to return to the new Palestinian state; an agreement on the prickly heritage of Jerusalem - well, it will all be ironed out eventually, without completely discounting the potential and possibility of border assaults and fully-engaged warfare.
Mahmoud Abbas, with the authority vested in him by the Palestinian Authority and Fatah, has assured Sudan's Omar al-Bashir that the PA and Abbas personally are behind whatever he may decide to do, in oblique reference to North Sudan's 'problems' with the upstart and newly oil-rich South Sudan which has deprived North Sudan of its oil income.
Taking its cue from the Palestinians' successful-before-the-fact foray into state-declaration to the United Nations, Sudan, whose president, al-Bashir, is wanted for genocide on an international warrant, has submitted an official complaint to the UN Security Council, disclosing the devious wrong-doing of South Sudan in causing instability in the geography.
Southern Kordofan state is in a marked state of tension. Predictable and certainly anticipated when the United Nations delightedly declared and welcomed its newest member to be the legally voted-for-secession-and-independence, South Sudan. Which has defiantly claimed its geographic possession of its own oil production.
When the Security Council claims to be gravely concerned about the prospect of ongoing violence in the volatile border territory, and complain that their officials are being restrained (by North Sudan) from entering and observing the area, they have in mind the frail condition of South Sudan to defend itself from well-armed North Sudan.
But then, vicious, psychopathic predators are not known for the sensitivity of their audacious self-entitlements. And the UN has been adequately forewarned.
Labels: Africa, Palestinian Authority, Political Realities, United Nations
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, August 31, 2011
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