Europe Rapidly Becoming Fertile Recruiting Field For Islamic State…writes David Singer

Islamic State now has the potential to break out of Syria and Iraq and into the heart of Europe without a shot being fired in anger by the Europeans to repel Islamic State’s stated aims of re-establishing the Caliphate and with it the supremacy of Islam world-wide. Read more

Carter causes consternation with election call for Palestinian Arabs

 

Former US president Jimmy Carter has created a stir with his call for Palestinian Arabs to hold elections to end the internecine struggle between Hamas and the PLO in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and Gaza…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Sharon’s Ghost Returns To Haunt Obama

Michael Oren – one of seven members of the recently formed Kulanu party elected to Israel’s new Parliament – seems destined to play a pivotal role in torpedoing President Obama’s proposals for a two-state solution aimed at resolving the 100 years old Arab-Jewish conflict…writes David Singer. Read more

Islamic State Morphing Into Global Gehenna…writes David Singer

Growing support for – and pledges of allegiance to – Islamic State by diverse Islamic terrorist groups world-wide are now creating horrific humanitarian problems for Christian communities in many countries – some far removed from the Middle East. Read more

Nuclear Knockout Not Nearly Nailed…writes David Singer

President Obama seems to have been unduly optimistic in triumphantly proclaiming the success of the P5+1 talks with Iran in Lausanne. Read more

Palestine – Obama Admits Defeat On Renewed Negotiations For Two-State Solution

President Obama has finally admitted the death of any renewed negotiations for a two-state solution between Israel and the PLO for the next several years – telling the media on 24 March: Read more

Palestine: Words Matter – But Their Meaning Matters More

“Words matter” – White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters this week…writes David Singer. Read more

Israel Teeters On Cusp Of Security Suicide…writes David Singer

Economic issues have been identified as the top issue in the forthcoming Israeli elections to be held tomorrow – with security issues trailing far behind. Read more

Netanyahu Puts Behaviour Change By Iran On Negotiating Agenda

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – addressing the American Congress – has made behaviour change by Iran an essential pre-requisite to the successful conclusion of negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 – France, Germany, United Kingdom, China, Russia and the United States…writes David Singer. Read more

Netanyahu Flies into Washington on a Wing and a Prayer

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to Washington this week is going ahead despite unsuccessful attempts from far and wide to shoot him down in flames before he was even airborne….writes David Singer. Read more

Islamic State: Egypt wakes up – when will America and Russia?

Whilst the American–led coalition continues its largely ineffectual air strikes in Iraq and Syria – Islamic State has spread its barbaric tentacles into Libya with alarming rapidity. Read more

European Union Causes Peace Process And Quartet Meltdown

David Singer writes on the EU’s illegal funding of buildings in the West Bank. Read more

United Nations Security Council Abandons Humanity…writes David Singer

In a supposed show of unity by the world powers against Islamic State – the United Nations Security Council is reportedly preparing to adopt a legally binding resolution intended to choke the terrorist group’s ability to trade in oil, antiquities and hostages. Read more

Obama Honouring Presidential Commitments Trumps Protocol…writes David Singer

The furore engendered by House Speaker John Boehner inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress on March 3 – supposedly in breach of Presidential protocol – marks the first step in Congress flexing its muscles to persuade President Obama to re-think his concerted attempts to undermine the written commitments made by President Bush to Israel’s then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in his letter dated 14 April 2004 – as overwhelmingly endorsed by the House of Representatives 407-9 on 23 June 2004 and the Senate 95-3 the next day (“American Written Commitments”). Read more

Yemen Crumbles, Iraq Stumbles, America Fumbles…writes David Singer

There are some 60 States in the American-led coalition pledged to degrading and destroying Islamic State – but only 21 – regarded as “key members” were at the Conference in London on 22 January – which UK Foreign Minister Philip Hammond described in these terms: Read more

CharlieHebdomania Plunges World Into Whirlpool Of Islamic Violence

The sale of seven million copies of the magazine Charlie Hebdo featuring a front page cartoon depicting an image purporting to be that of Muhammad has brought forth its first bloody response from the Islamic world – Niger – where reportedly three people have been killed and six churches attacked and looted…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Mapping The Truth Erases A Long-running Fiction

The US State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs has featured a map on its website – which both rejects and corrects the misleading use of the terms “1967 boundaries” and “1967 borders” – which have never existed in relation to any territorial subdivision between Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Read more

Remembering Australia’s First Jihadist Attack – 1 January 1915

The Department of Veteran’s Affairs announced last March that the centenary of the Battle of Broken Hill on 1 January 2014 would not be formally commemorated by the Australian Government…writes David Singer. Read more

Islam Must Degrade And Destroy Islamic State

The impassioned plea by the father of a Jordanian F16 fighter pilot captured by Islamic State has shot down attempts by American President Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to distance Islam from the Islamic State (ISIL)…writes David Singer. Read more

Islamic State – The Bogeyman Haunting The Lindt Chocolat Café

The joint press conference given by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on 16 December after the siege at the Lindt Chocolate café in Martin Place had finally ended – was particularly noteworthy for certain viewpoints expressed by Mr Abbott during that conference…writes David Singer. Read more

Pope Slams International Indifference To Ending Islamic State Barbarism

Pope Francis has considerably upped the ante in enlisting spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians – Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I – to sign a joint Common Declaration demanding an end to international indifference regarding Islamic State barbarism being perpetrated against religious minorities in Syria and Iraq…writes David Singer. Read more

Islamic State – Pope Calls For International Consensus

Pope Francis has made public his thoughts on the action necessary to counter Islamic State…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Continuing Jew-hatred Must Extract A Heavy Price

The slaughter of four Rabbis with axes, knives and guns whilst praying in a synagogue along with the serious wounding of six other Jews caught in this horrific blood bath – and the murder of a Druze police officer who went to their rescue – is the end result of endemic Jew-hatred…writes David Singer Read more

Islamic State – APEC A Fizzer – G20 Promises No Better

The 2014 APEC Conference in Beijing this past week has been and gone and the G20 Conference in Brisbane is taking place in Brisbane this weekend…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Obama Confronts Embarrassing About Face…writes David Singer

The Republican Party’s stunning victory in the American mid-term elections offers real hope that President Obama will now be held to honouring the written commitments made to Israel by President George W Bush in his exchange of letters with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on 12 April 2004 – as overwhelmingly endorsed by the House of Representatives 407-9 on 23 June 2004 and the Senate 95-3 the next day. Read more

Palestine Wallows With Sweden In Ikea La-La-Land…writes David Singer

Sweden Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom’s announcement on 30 October that Sweden has recognized the State of Palestine elicited a response from Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman. Read more

Skirt-fronting Putin Can Help Eradicate Islamic State Crisis…writes David Singer

The possibility of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott shirt-fronting Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit in Brisbane next month over the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH 17 in Ukrainian sovereign territory with the loss of all on board – including 38 Australians – has receded following Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop’s 25 minute meeting with Putin on the sidelines of the Asian Europe Summit held in Milan this week. Read more

Eradicating Ebola Outbreak And Islamic State Scourge Require Same Prescription…writes David Singer

Ebola has now claimed over 4000 lives mainly in Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Read more

Unscrambling Mandates Omelette Guarantees More Egg On Obama’s Face…writes David Singer

President Obama’s mission to degrade and destroy Islamic State (ISIL) in Syria and Iraq has been seriously undermined by these poor political judgement calls…. Read more

Obama, Putin And Rouhani Can Do A Deal On Destroying ISIL…writes David Singer

President Obama’s sudden about face in deciding to attack ISIL in Syria on 21 September – without express approval of Syria or a resolution of the United Nations Security Council – has provoked a strong response from Russia and Iran – President Assad’s main supporters in his three years struggle to remain in power in Syria. Read more

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