Palestine – International Scandal Checkmates Israel…writes David Singer

The 2013 World Youth Chess Championships just held in Abu Dhabi have been marred by the scandalous behaviour of the 120 national Chess Federations that agreed to compete against Israeli players as an unidentified group under the banner of FIDE – the World Chess Federation. Read more

Palestine – European Union Embroiled In Financial Scandal…writes David Singer

The European Union (EU) has become embroiled in a financial scandal of massive proportions in relation to the financial assistance given by it to the Palestinian Authority (PA) since 1994. Read more

Palestine – No Elections, No Solutions

The PLO negotiating team – headed by perennial negotiator Saeb Erekat – resigned this week in the middle of a nine month period set aside for intense and secret negotiations with Israel to achieve the creation of a second Arab state – in addition to Jordan – in former Mandatory Palestine. Read more

Palestine – Kerry Destined for Political Scrapheap

US Secretary of State – John Kerry – has again succeeded in muddying the waters with the following headline-grabbing sentence uttered by him after meeting PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem this week: “Let me emphasise that the position of the United States is that we consider now, and have always considered, the settlements to be illegitimate”…writes David Singer. Read more

Internet – Fertile Field Promoting Jew-hatred and Jew-bashing…writes David Singer

The Internet has become one of the major contributors to the growing spread of Jew-hatred and assaults on Jews world wide. Read more

Palestine – Bandar Candour Can Help End Arab-Jewish Conflict…writes David Singer

Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief – Prince Bandar bin Sultan – made a secret visit to Jordan this week – according to a report in Ammon News dated 25 October – reportedly meeting with Jordanian officials to discuss recent developments in the region – especially the Syrian file. Read more

Palestine – Billions In International Donor Funds Allegedly Go Missing…writes David Singer

Billions of euros in European aid to the PLO and Hamas between 2008 and 2012 may have been misspent, squandered or lost to corruption – according to an unpublished report by the European Court of Auditors – a Luxembourg-based watchdog – disclosed in an article appearing in The Sunday Times on 14 October. Read more

Palestine – World Bank Exposes PLO’s Disastrous Miscalculations…writes David Singer

The failure by the PLO to accept two offers made by Israel in 2000/1 and 2008 ceding Israel’s claims in more than 90% of the West Bank have been political and economic catastrophes for West Bank Arabs – as substantiated by a World Bank Report published this week titled “West Bank and Gaza , Area C and the Future of the Palestinian Economy”. Read more

Syria – Security Council International Conference Pure Pipe-dream…writes David Singer

It seems incredible that after 17 months of wrangling, the best the U.N. Security Council could agree on is calling for another International Conference, which has no possible chance of convening –  let alone helping –  to peacefully resolve an end to the 30 months old conflict in Syria. Read more

Israel Invited To Help Destroy Chemical Weapons In Syria…writes David Singer

The passage of Security Council Resolution 2118 (2013)  on  27 September  calling for the collection and destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons – is a welcome breakthrough in ending the deadlock that has paralysed the Security Council’s ability to act constructively to end the civil war in Syria for the past thirty months. Read more

Syria – London Eleven Need Help From Heaven…writes David Singer

Only divine intervention now seems likely to justify continuing support for the anti- Assad forces in Syria by the group known as the London 11 – United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Read more

Syrian Free Army Signing Own Death Warrant…writes David Singer

The swift agreement between Russia and America to collect and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons has been an impressive diplomatic achievement – marred only by the fact that it has taken three weeks longer to reach this point because of their joint failure to focus on ending the use of chemical weapons in Syria – rather than focusing on who was responsible for the atrocity that caused the deaths of 1429 Syrians on 21 August. Read more

Putin puts International Law before War…writes David Singer

Russia’s President – Vladimir Putin – has trumped America’s President – Barack Obama – in urging the American nation to put international law before war to prevent any armed attack on Syria threatened by President Obama as a result of the chemical weapons atrocity perpetrated on 21 August that killed 1429 people. Read more

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

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