Veterans Today
Interview with Scholar and Journalist, Mark Bruzonsky
Mark Bruzonsky, a Jewish-American Scholar and Journalist, has
been a key member behind the scenes of the Israeli Palestinian peace
initiative in the 1980s, meeting with Former Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat and with Palestinian officials.
In this exclusive interview with Press TV’s Autograph,
Mr. Bruzonsky talks about the challenges and missed opportunities he
witnessed first-hand, and how Zionist groups infiltrated American
politics, US institutions and organizations.
He goes further to explain the specific time and day Obama sold out to the AIPAC (American- Israeli Public Affairs Committee) lobby, and how President Obama would never dare oppose the stronghold of the Zionist, Israeli Lobby in the US.
Press TV: In 1982, Mr. Bruzonsky, you authored the Paris Declaration - a breakthrough event that greatly contributed to political developments of the time. Please tell us about that.
Bruzonsky: In the 1980s, in a sense, a lot of us
knew there was this political cancer; it was very bad, it was eating up
the patient and needed to be dealt with and cured. I was in Paris
sitting in a hotel room, a big event in my life, with four very
important people – I was there to do the work and write the document.
These people were the former president of France – Pierre Mendis France; the founder of the World Zionist Organization and the World Jewish Congress – Nahum Goldman;
his successor, who was the only Jewish leader in America who had ever
been president of B’nai Brith and World Jewish Congress and Secretary of
Commerce. The man who inspired it was the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Isam Sartawi, the head of the PLO in Europe. They signed this document called the Paris Declaration, I wrote it and it was on the entire front page of Le Monde newspaper; Arafat responded and that was on the front page also.
But then we ran out of steam. The organizations that had founded were
not willing to even entertain a discussion on what they had signed;
they disassociated themselves from the people who founded their own
organizations.
So then the Donahue show asked me to be on their show. The Donahue TV show
was the only talk show in America at that time, there was no other
competition and I went on it after no other Jewish leaders would accept
to go on the program. The timing of the show was pre-intifada,
pre-apartheid and there were very few Israeli settlements on Palestine
occupied land at the time and the discussion was all about how to bring
peace to the region. The two-state solution (with ‘Solution’ emphasized)
was in fact a possible solution – it wasn’t going to be totally fair,
the Palestinians were going to get a small piece of territory compared
to their homeland, but at least there was a lot of support from
political people to make it happen. That world is gone. The two-state
solution is now dead with the possible exception that you would have to
roll back a tremendous number of things that have happened; that’s not
going to happen.
The
reason that is not going to happen is not because President Obama is
not a smart man, not because he doesn’t know that cancer has gotten a
lot worse; he knows all that.
He also knows that politically he is totally blocked. There
is no way in the world he can come up against the Israeli Jewish lobby
and their great group of institutions, personalities and foundations –
no way.
He knows it.
So he continues to talk the language of two-state solution,
but that’s largely to keep Abbas and the Palestinian Authority (PA) from
being totally discredited.
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