|  | Mere Words Won't Change - UAE Press EditorialsMar 12, 2010 - 01:33 - WAM Abu Dhabi, Mar 12th, 2010 (WAM) -- "We've had enough of rhetoric. It's time for President Obama to show with action that America indeed believes in what it says", said a UAE daily in its editorial today.
Khaleej Times said that it seems the more things change for the Palestinians, the more they remain the same. As many even in the unabashedly pro-Israel US media have acknowledged, Israel's unveiling of 1600 plus new Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank couldn't have come at a more inappropriate time. By announcing it just ahead of US Vice President Joe Biden's visit, Israel delivered a slap in the face of visiting US leader.
The paper opined that the move is nothing but a deliberate snub to the Arabs as well as the United States. This after the League gave its blessings to indirect Palestine-Israel talks giving them a four-month window following pressure from the US administration and a visit by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The Arabs agreed for talks even after Israel outraged people across the Middle East by assassinating Hamas commander Mahmoud Al Mabhouh in Dubai, noted the paper.
Vice President Biden condemned Israeli actions as "unhelpful" both in Jerusalem and during his visit to Ramallah. Rebuking Israel, Biden has agreed that the Jewish state is undermining the US peace efforts. UN chief Ban Ki-Moon and European leaders have followed suit. But is that enough?, asked the paper.
"If words had been enough to rein in Israel, we wouldn't be in the unholy mess we are in today", said the editorial.
The paper reminded that it is past time for effective and immediate steps to check the aggression and continuing tyranny of the rogue state, which has turned the Mideast the most dangerous region in the world.
Biden says the US remains committed to the creation of "a viable Palestinian state." This is what all the US and Western leaders have assured us all these years and look where it has got the Palestinians. They are prisoners in their own land. They have less than 20 per cent of their original land in their possession now. So where's that "viable Palestinian state" going to come up, if it ever does?, the paper reasoned.
"If the US is indeed committed to what it says, it must make Israel withdraw from all Palestinian land, at least to the 1967 borders", Khaleej Times demanded.
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