Don’t let Olmert fool you with his peace plan

offer­ing the olive branch to Pales­tini­ans.

- Offer­ing to resume long stalled peace talks to shore up a ten­u­ous two-day ceasefire

- Israel was pre­pared to release a con­sid­er­able num­ber of Pales­tin­ian pris­on­ers in exchange for Shalit,

The same Olmert who rejected the new Mid­dle East peace plan pro­posed by Spain, France and Italy 10 days ago.

- An imme­di­ate cease-fire.

- Exchange of pris­on­ers — includ­ing the Israeli sol­diers whose ‘kid­nap­ping’ sparked the war in Lebanon and fight­ing in Gaza this summer.

For sure the US wel­comed this cease of fire and the peace agree­ment, but what changed?

Answers your ques­tions [and mine], this excel­lent arti­cle by “Bari Attwan” from alquds news­pa­per, He will explain how Bush’s and Cheney’s visit to Jor­dan are con­nected to Olmert’s peace initiative:

Sud­denly, with­out any warn­ing, Israeli Prime Min­is­ter Ehud Olmert shows an unprece­dented sym­pa­thy with his Pales­tin­ian neigh­bors promises them with­drawal, a geo­graph­i­cal inde­pen­dent state, release of the with­held money, the estab­lish­ment of indus­trial projects near the bor­ders pro­vides them with jobs.

I won­der? what has caused this dra­matic change in Olmert’s atti­tude.

Until two days ago, he was send­ing his mil­i­tary air­planes and tanks to kill the largest num­ber of the Pales­tini­ans and their chil­dren, destruc­tion of their homes and plans for the inva­sion of the Gaza Strip.

The answer lies in the recent George Bush’s tour, , which will start tomor­row in the Jor­dan­ian cap­i­tal, Amman, pre­ceded it, a visit by Mr. Dick Cheney, the Amer­i­can vice pres­i­dent to Saudi Ara­bia [and Iraq], and before them Mr. Orda­gan Prime Min­is­ter of Turkey as well.

All these move­ments pours in one goal, the for­ma­tion of a legit­i­mate Sunni axis to cover a present US strike, or per­haps an Israeli strike, on the Iran­ian nuclear reac­tor, which Wash­ing­ton sees as a threat to its hege­mony on the cur­rent Arab Gulf region, where two thirds of oil reserves in the world…..…..

Jor­dan, Saudi Ara­bia, Egypt], requires throw­ing a car­rot to Pales­tini­ans to silence them, or rather dis­tract them again, just like in the first Gulf-War against Iraq by the Bush the father, when he promised of an inter­na­tional con­fer­ence to resolve the issue, and Bush the son pledged that an inde­pen­dent Pales­tin­ian state in 2005 to pass the sec­ond Iraq-War.