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ME peace died on Monday

West's outcry and Arab lip-service do nothing for the lonely Palestinians

CNN Online
The triumphal parade of trucks and cars crawled from the Rafah border crossing with Egypt to Gaza City. Waving the V-for-victory sign, a laughing Yasser Arafat was returning to his native Gaza after 27 years in exile. Women ululated and threw flowers. Children on their fathers' shoulders waved their arms. Boys and girls ran alongside the motorcade. The date was the first of July 1994.
Less than a year after the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords in the White House Rose Garden, on that hot, humid, hectic day it seemed the Middle East's Gordian knot was starting to unravel. Peace in our time.
It was an illusion. This Monday, May 14, 2018 was the day the last, fleeting remnants of that illusion finally died.
On the same day Israeli troops killed 60 Palestinians taking part in what they called the Great March of Return, Israel and American leaders studiously ignored the bloodbath in Gaza and celebrated the inauguration
of the US Embassy in Jerusalem.
Of course, the leaders of the Arab world are going through the motions of condemnation and anger at Monday's bloodshed. The moribund Arab League called for an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in Gaza. Low would be a wildly optimistic description of expectations of the meeting.
Saudi Arabia joined in the condemnation, but it was lip service. Arab condemnation is a debased currency. It counts for nothing. Riyadh has made it clear its main concern is Iran.
Wars in Syria, Yemen and Libya, an insurgency in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, the ever-present threat of a resurgent IS, economic woes and political insta-
bility have all pushed the once hallowed Palestinian cause into near obscurity.
Today the Palestinians are alone, divided between bickering factions. There is still emotional support among ordinary Arabs for the Palestinian cause, but it doesn't translate into action. For now.
The Arabs are distracted, while the Israelis live in what they call their "bubble," life in a modern, fast-paced society that keeps them isolated from the ugly reality of a grim, decades-long military occupation.
The more than 2 million Palestinians crammed into Gaza will not disappear or begin to accept their fate or forget the homes their grandparents or great-grandparents lost in what was Palestine. The Palestinians in the West Bank won't quietly accept their slow, relentless relegation to reservations hemmed in by walls and barbed wire.
It might seem that nothing will change. For now. But nothing remains the same. A problem ignored is not a problem solved. A storm is coming.