Syria – Putin To Dictate Terms Of UN Security Council Resolution…writes David Singer

Russia’s President Putin will dictate the terms of any UN Security Council Resolution calling for the collection and destruction of chemical weapons in Syria – no matter what bluster or spin emanates from America, the United Kingdom and France. Read more

Syria – Obama And Kerry Converted On Road To Damascus…writes David Singer

The swiftness with which attention is now being focused on collecting and destroying chemical weapons located in Syria has been truly breathtaking. Read more

Syria – Obama Hell-bent On Creating Hell…writes David Singer

President Obama has lost a golden opportunity at the G20 Summit in St Petersburg to step back from undertaking a military assault on Syria – that promises to create hell for Syria’s civilian population and to unleash consequences that can extend far beyond Syria’s borders. Read more

Syria – Obama Left Red-faced Over Red Line…writes David Singer

President Obama has tripped over his own red line – leaving the prestige and authority of his Office and America’s reputation in tatters. Read more

Palestine – Rudd, Carr And Labor Sink In Silence…writes David Singer

Australia’s Prime Minister – Kevin Rudd and Foreign Minister – Senator Bob Carr – remain hell bent on consigning the Labor Party to Opposition and the political wilderness in this week’s elections. Read more

Palestine – Rudd And Carr Tightlipped On Anti-Jewish Policy

Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Foreign Affairs Minister Senator Bob Carr have gone underground since Carr announced on 8 August at the  Lakemba Mosque in Sydney that Rudd personally as well as the Labor Party had adopted as policy that Jews had no right to legally live in the West Bank…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Carr’s Lakemba Mosque Declaration – Policy On The Run?…asks David Singer

Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr’s announcement in the heat of an election campaign that Labor Party policy does not recognize the legal right of Jews to live in the West Bank – seems to have been hastily cobbled together without any serious discussion or consideration by the Labor Party. Read more

Palestine – Carr Commits Labor To Anti-Jewish Policy…writes David Singer

Australia’s Foreign Affairs Minister – Senator Bob Carr – has made the long running Jewish-Arab conflict an issue in the forthcoming elections on 7 September. Read more

Palestine – Kerry’s Confidentiality Curtain Runs Off The Tracks…writes David Singer

US Secretary of State John Kerry’s assurance of total confidentiality in the conduct of negotiations between Israel and the PLO has come crashing down on his head within 48 hours of making his claim. Read more

Palestine: Kerry Commits Harakiri…writes David Singer

US Secretary of State John Kerry has fallen on his sword in attempting to seek a renewal of negotiations designed to culminate in the creation of a new Arab State between Jordan and Israel for the first time ever in recorded history. Read more

Palestine – European Union Can’t Be Judge And Jury…writes David Singer

The decision by the European Union (EU) to boycott Jewish organisations and institutions based in the West Bank and East Jerusalem will bring much joy to the Arab world’s on-going vicious hate campaign of denigration and demonization of the Jewish State. Read more

Palestine – Jordan/West Bank Bi-National State Under Discussion…writes David Singer

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have been discussing the creation of a bi- national State in the West Bank and Jordan according to Professor Richard Falk  – United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967. Read more

Palestine – Accentuate The Positive Eliminate the Negative…writes David Singer

Jordan’s Minister of Culture Barakat Awajan recently received Palestinian Minister of Culture Anwar Abu Aisha in Amman and reportedly took the opportunity to highlight these fundamental facts… Read more

Palestine – The Bi-National State That Can Work…writes David Singer

It is a pity that US Secretary for State John Kerry still believes that a two-state solution is possible after 20 years of failed negotiations between Israel and the PLO to achieve such a result under the Oslo Accords and the Bush Roadmap. Read more

Palestine – Clinton’s $500,000 Speech Leaves One Speechless…writes David Singer

The thought that anyone was prepared to contribute to paying former American President Bill Clinton $500000 to deliver a 45 minute speech at the Peres Academic Centre during the festivities marking Israeli President Shimon Peres’s 90th birthday is truly staggering – especially after hearing what he had to say. Read more

Palestine – Pantomime and Paradox…writes David Singer

Any cynicism or disbelief that Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu was seriously interested in trying to reach a two-state solution with the PLO was dispelled this week with the revelation that Netanyahu last year offered to free 50 long term Palestinian security prisoners sentenced before the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993 – in a vain bid to entice Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas back to the negotiating table. Read more

Palestine – The Abhorrent Arab Aberration…writes David Singer

Continuing international demands for an Israeli withdrawal from every square metre of the territory occupied by Israel in the Six Day War – now misleadingly termed ” The occupied Palestinian Territories ” (OPT) in countless UN General Assembly and Security Council resolutions – acquires particular resonance on the 46th anniversary of the outbreak of that War on 5 June. Read more

Palestine – Pouring Money into a Bottomless Pit

US Secretary of State John Kerry at a meeting of the World Economic Forum in Jordan this week proposed investing another four billion dollars in trying to resolve the 130 years old Jewish-Arab conflict…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Beware The Snake Oil Salesman…writes David Singer

Paul Larudee – one of the founders of the Free Gaza and Free Palestine Movements and an organizer in the International Solidarity Movement – has made some incredibly misleading statements in his latest article “The Palestine Liberation Movement is not about Anti- Semitism” – published in Dissident Voice on 23 May. Read more

Palestine – Turning Unreality Into Reality…writes David Singer

A TV show – “The President” – now being aired on Maan TV – a popular independent Palestinian radio station – presents an opportunity for the election-starved Palestinian Arabs to have their say on what they would do on a variety of subjects if they were elected as the President of Palestine. Read more

Palestine – Hawking Needs to do More Talking…writes David Singer

The decision by eminent physicist Stephen Hawking to not attend the Presidential Conference organised by Israel’s President Shimon Peres has aroused dismay by his Israeli hosts and applause from the Palestinian academic community. Read more

Palestine – Google Goes Ga Ga…writes David Singer

Google has spoken – Palestine is now indeed recognized as a country by the internet giant following the change of tag line on the homepage of its Palestinian edition from “Palestinian Territories” to “Palestine”. Read more

Palestine – Balfour Declaration Raises Arab Hackles…writes David Singer

The Palestinian Arabs are up in arms at the news that the original 1917 Balfour Declaration will be released by the British Library for display in Israel  alongside Israel’s Declaration of Independence at the opening of a new museum in Tel Aviv in 2015 on the site where Israel declared its independence in 1948. Read more

Palestine – Singing From The Same Hymn Book…writes David Singer

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has now claimed that a “country” exists in  that area of the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority’s complete administrative and security control prior to the Authority’s demise in January 2013. Read more

Palestine – Two New Arab Myths…writes David Singer

Two new Arab myths have surfaced in the past week to complicate attempts by US Secretary of State John Kerry to procure the resumption of the long stalled  negotiations between Israel and the PLO. Read more

Palestine – Obama Chooses Zionism Over Rejectionism…writes David Singer

Veteran Israeli peace activist and former Knesset member Uri Avnery points out in his latest article “Obama’s Empathy Deficit in Palestine” that there are  two completely divergent Jewish and Arab narratives driving each other’s current claims to the territory once called Palestine. Read more

Palestine – UN Special Rapporteur Bans Free Speech…writes David Singer

United Nations Special Rapporteur on “the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967” – Professor Richard Falk – has taken the extraordinary action to ban posts on his blog page “Citizen Pilgrimage”. Read more

Palestine – Obama utters the magic word “Annapolis”

President Obama’s use of just one word – “Annapolis” – stands out among the thousands he uttered during his three day visit to Jerusalem, Ramallah and Amman. Read more

Palestine – The One Question President Obama Must Answer

Is there one intrepid reporter – among the scores following President Obama during his momentous visits to Jerusalem and Ramallah this week – who will be prepared to ask President Obama this one critical question face to face at one of his scheduled press conferences: Read more

Palestine: Suspending Disbelief Is An Unbelievable Hoax…writes David Singer

Beware failed negotiators like Dennis Ross when they continue to pontificate on the possibility of the two-state solution. Read more

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