Palestine: Reunification Trumps Confederation

 Reunification of the Arab populated areas of the West Bank with Jordan – as existed between 1948-1967 – has again emerged as the most viable solution to the Jewish-Arab conflict…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine: Democracies In Diplomatic Disarray

It has only taken 10 days for 22 of the top 25 leading democratic nations listed in the Democracy Index 2011 to fall into abject diplomatic disarray…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Hands Up Those Who Hate Jews

The Jew-hating genie has been spectacularly unleashed onto the world stage once again following the decision by 138 of the 193 member states of the United Nations General Assembly to accord non-member observer State status to the non-existent state of Palestine…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine: Sharon’s Gaza Gambit – Brilliant Move or Tactical Disaster?

The end of the eight day bombardment of Israel’s civilian population by hundreds of rockets indiscriminately fired from the Gaza Strip has caused many respected commentators such as Caroline Glick to roundly criticise former Israeli Prime Minister – Ariel Sharon – for having unilaterally disengaged from the Gaza Strip in 2004 by withdrawing its army and 8000 Israeli citizens – many of whom had lived there for almost 40 years…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Gaza Conflict Sure To Resume

One would have to be a supreme optimist to believe the Agreement of Understanding For A Ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will result in anything but a brief lull in what has been a very difficult eight days for the civilian populations in both Israel and the Gaza Strip…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Jordan Preparing To Jettison PLO

Jordan appears ready to fill the negotiating void that will be left by the PLO – should its expected application to be admitted as a non-member observer state at the United Nations be successful on 29 November…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine: Realities Overtaking Fairy Tales

The idea of reunifying a substantial part of the West Bank with Jordan received a further boost this week – when former head of the PLO Political Department – Farouk Kaddoumi – told the newspaper London-based newspaper Al – Quds Al – Arabi that giving the West Bank back to Jordan would be a “positive move.”…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Falk’s Failed Philosophy Guarantees Continuing Conflict

Professor Richard Falk – United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 – has returned to world headlines with another controversial annual report…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Obama’s Befuddled Thinking Sends Peace Prospects Sinking

President Obama has dramatically lowered his support for Israel over the past four years when one compares his latest response to a questionnaire from the American Jewish Committee to the answers he provided  before the 2008 elections…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Merging Banks Can Reap Huge Dividends

Prince Hassan Bin Talal – Jordan’s former Crown Prince and the uncle of Jordan’s current ruler – King Abdullah – has floated a possible new diplomatic initiative by reminding the world that the West Bank was once part of Jordan…writes David Singer Read more

Palestine: Great Expectations That Founder On Fiction

Israeli novelist David Grossman is working with Algerian writer Boualem Sansal to launch a writers’ drive for world peace at the World Forum For Democracy in Strasbourg this week…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Cutting Abbas Down To Size

PLO Chairman and Palestinian Authority President – Mahmoud Abbas – continues to promote the deceptive and misleading claim that the areas lost by Jordan and Egypt to Israel in the 1967 Six Day War constituted 22% – not 5% – of historic Palestine…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine: End the Jew Hatred – End the Conflict

The universal international condemnation of the anti-Islamic film “Innocence of Muslims” – whilst defending at the same time the freedom of individuals to express those abhorrent views – has come in response to the anger and violence that has broken out in many Moslem populations around the world and cost the lives of the American Ambassador to Libya – J Christopher Stevens – and three other members at the Embassy in Benghazi on September 11…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine: Romney Recognizes Reality – Rejects Arab Revanchism

Republican Presidential Nominee Mitch Romney has made a valuable contribution to the public debate in exposing the utter folly of those who continue to still believe in the possibility of the creation of a second Arab state in former Palestine – in addition to Jordan – for the first time ever in recorded history…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – A Match Made In Heaven

Yasser Arafat and Yitzchak Rabin were reportedly overheard having the following spirited conversation in heaven recently – frankly reflecting on the mistakes they both had made in trying to reach the “Peace of the Brave” for which they and last surviving member of the trio – Shimon Peres – had received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994.  Read more

Palestine – Narrowing The Great Divide

The political rift between Hamas and Fatah arising from their struggle to control the minds and the hearts of the Palestinian Arabs has continued unabated and unresolved for the last six years…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine: Jordan – part of the problem – part of the solution

A new strategy to resolve the 130 years old Jewish-Arab conflict is urgently needed with the growing recognition that the “two-state solution” proposed by the Oslo Accords and the Bush Roadmap for the last 20 years is dead and buried …writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Where To From Here?

 

Israel’s Foreign Minister – Avigdor Liberman – has written to Her Excellency Baroness Ashton –  High Representative  of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security “to demonstrate Israel’s goodwill, desire to build trust and sincere desire to create a positive atmosphere vis a vis the PA, with the goal of bringing our neighbors back to the table of direct negotiations. “…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Burying the Past – Faking the Future

Richard Falk – United Nations Special Rapporteur on “the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967” – provides compelling proof of how successful the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has been in its attempt to bury historical fact and international law regarding the former territory of Palestine…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Don’t Repeat the Syrian Fiasco

Australia’s Foreign Minister – Senator Bob Carr – has been visiting Israel and in the time honoured tradition of all such visiting dignitaries – has met with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…write David Singer . Read more

Palestine – Jews and Arabs, the Mandate and the Law

The Levy Commission’s resurrection of the Mandate for Palestine as the legal title deed establishing Israel’s entitlement to claim sovereignty in the West Bank has come 48 years after the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) first tried to bury it…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – United Nations Perfidy Exposed

The canard – supported by countless United Nations General Assembly Resolutions – that Jewish settlements in the West Bank are illegal in international law – has been dealt a crushing blow with the the recent release of the Levy Committee Report in Israel rebutting that claim. ..writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Foreign Political Interference Dressed Up As Humanitarian Aid

Attempts by foreign Governments and international aid agencies to politically influence the outcome of negotiations begun under the Oslo Accords in 1993 – now seriously threaten the total abandonment of those Accords…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine, Peoplehood and Presbyterians

The attempt by the Palestinian Arabs to create a second state – in addition to Jordan – reached the hallowed halls of the two million members of the Presbyterian Church in America this week…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Israel Readies To Extend Its Sovereignty Into West Bank

Palestine – Semantic Skullduggery Sinks Solutions

The Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of Information has now issued a book instructing Palestinian Arabs on the words they should use to replace ” the Israeli and American dissemination of poisoned terms”…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Rabbis for Human Rights Become Political Power Brokers

Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR) – a leading non-government human rights organization (NGO) in Israel – has made an unprecedented attack on the integrity of Israel’s High Court  – whilst simultaneously attempting to undermine what little is left of the stalled Peace Process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Ulpana decision answers Israel’s detractors

Israel has effectively answered its detractors in its measured response to a ruling by Israel’s High Court ordering the demolition of five stone structures in the West Bank settlement of Ulpana – erected on what the Court deemed to be private Palestinian land…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Racist and Apartheid Policies Plague Peace Proposals

Mahmoud Abbas – President of Palestine and the Palestinian Authority – Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Movement (PLO) and Fatah – the PLO’s largest faction – has doomed to the garbage bin any possible peace proposals that might be offered by Israel’s new National Unity Government – following his latest outburst in the Lebanese newspaper An-Nahhar:

 “We won’t agree to recognize something called the Jewish state. Why wasn’t this issue raised when Israel negotiated with Jordan and Egypt?” Read more

Palestine – UNWRA and UNESCO promote a state of confusion

A crisis of diplomatic confusion seems to have arisen between two affiliate organizations of the United Nations following the announcement by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNWRA) of its intention to upgrade the dilapidated conditions in some of the refugee camps under its control – rather than taking progressive steps to close them down following recognition of the State of Palestine by UNESCO on 31 October 2011…writes David Singer. Read more

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