Palestinians pushing very different story about aims of peace process from what you’re seeing in the Western media

Robin Shepherd
robinshepherdonline.com
28 September '10

As obsession with the settlement issue as the “great barrier” to peace in the Middle East continues along its oh so predictable journey through the ministries and media establishments of the West, now might be a good time to reflect on some really rather significant items of recent news from the Palestinian side that somehow or other have not made it into the western public discourse.

The reason why you probably haven’t heard about them is that they paint an entirely different picture of Palestinian sincerity in the current peace talks than would support the narrative of oppressed Palestinian David battling vainly for peace and justice against a ruthless and exploitative Israeli Goliath, continually “stealing” Palestinian land.

So here, courtesy of the invaluable Palestinian Media Watch media monitoring organisation, is a summary of a few choice items about what the Palestinians have been telling their own people about the talks and just how sincere they have been in cultivating an atmosphere conducive to peace.

First off, time for a sing-song, just so the whole family can join in, kids and all. Here’s a ditty that Palestinian TV was pumping into homes across the West Bank on September 21, the very day that Mahmoud Abbas told Jewish leaders in the United States that any peace accord in the current negotiations would be taken by the Palestinians as marking “the definitive end to the conflict”:

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