Alan Hart: What do Obama and Abbas Have in Common?

Short answer: Both like to grovel. The president of the United States of America demeans himself for the Zionist lobby, and its neo-con and Christian fundamentalist allies. The Palestinian president demeans himself to Obama , as well as Israel's leaders often. Obama and Abbas are idiotic twins, but now there is the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for that sort of thing, which should be awarded to Obama. If, when he leaves the office, Israel is still able to impose its will in the occupied and oppressed Palestinians, he should hand the Nobel Peace Prize back to the one who gave it to him. The idea for this article was inspired by Daud Abdullah, in a piece he wrote for the Middle East Monitor. His main point was, that the Palestinian national reconciliation talks have become a "process", and that like the peace process, "they are without progress and an apparent end" As long as Abbas continues to grovel to the Americans and Israelis, it will remain an illusion."The Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1843-1881) had one of his characters say, that the choice was "either to be a hero or in the mud. There was nothing in between." I'll get to my suggestion, about what Abbas could do to become a hero in a moment, but first let's explore the terminology. The Norsemen were early Scandinavians, and during the Medieval period, some of them traveled to the British Isles to trade, raid and settle. In the final decade of the 8th century, Norse raiders attacked a series of Christian monasteries located in the British Isles. In the most literal sense, lying or crawling on the ground in abject humility or fear. As perceived by people today, who use the terminology, they had to behave in a demeaning and servile slave to master way, often apologizing when no apology is needed. Put another way, when an American says "Kiss my ass"which is more or less what the Zionist lobby says to Obama from time to time, the one who responds positively says, I'll do whatever you want. So, to the question" What could Abbas do to end his groveling and become a hero? In the coming days, and the sooner the better, he could say, in the most polite and gentle way: If President Obama is coming here without a concrete plan to get a real peace process going, I regret to say there will be no point in me meeting with him."