In Response to: Palestinians remember Arafat amid political crisis, Nasir Khan wrote the following comment:

The betrayal and isolation of the Palestinian people has run its full course. The imbecile Arab regimes, more in the nature of pre-historic shapeless oddities, have failed to support the cause of an occupied and brutalized people. Instead, they have furthered the American geopolitical interests in the Middle East so that the United States remains the prime guarantor of the continued support to their corrupt and decadent dynastic rule and their antidemocratic system.

The present leadership of the Palestinian people is divided; the myopic PA President Abbas has been dancing to the tunes of Tel Aviv and Washington for long. A growing number of the suffering people of Palestine regard him a traitor and puppet of the US and the Israeli Zionists.

The talk of peace and peace negotiations under the various US administrations served only Zionist expansion and further colonization of the occupied Palestine. If President Obama had any intention to stop Israel’s ever-increasing expropriation of the Palestinian land then he has failed miserably. Obviously, Secretary of State Clinton, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli/Zionist lobby struck at his intentions and nullified him.

Where can the Palestinians go from here? The question of establishing a viable state is in the doldrums. The occupied land has been eaten up by Israel.

That leaves the possibility of one-state solution the only alternative for the Israelis and the Palestinians.

But if Israel turns its back on its previous history of colonization and expropriation, accepts the UN resolutions and reverts to the pre-1967 borders by vacating all its illegal settlements then the two-state solution has a chance to materialize. But this is more of a long shot in the dark.

Nasir Khan