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

Palestine – Backtracking Begins As Democracy Dies…writes David Singer

Arab attempts to undermine and trash the Bush Roadmap and end any hopes of a negotiated peace between Israel and the PLO were flagged with some remarkable comments made by James Zogby in his article published this week headlined “Putting the Blame on “Palestine’s Democratic Deficit”. Read more

Palestine – Tongue Tied and Terrified…writes David Singer

“The State of Palestine” is not a place that encourages or tolerates freedom of speech   – if recent events are any guide. Read more

Palestine – Bring On The Elections…writes David Singer

Democracy continues to be seen nowhere in “the State of Palestine” – whilst Israel’s choice for next Prime Minister – Benjamin Netanyahu – is engaged in the usual machinations involved in putting a coalition together to govern Israel for the next four years. Read more

Palestine – Jews Will Not Be Suckers Anymore…writes David Singer

Amos Oz  represents the perfect example of a writer of stories and tales who should stick to writing and not trade on his unrivalled excellence and international recognition in that field to try and influence the course of Israeli politics. Read more

Palestine – Morsi Minces Two-State Solution…writes David Singer

Any hope of a negotiated two-state solution being achieved under the Oslo Accords and the Bush Road Map has been blown away following the publication of statements made by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi in September 2010 – which have recently surfaced and come back to haunt him in January 2013. Read more

Palestine – Carr Crash Cause For Concern…writes David Singer

Australia’s Foreign Minister – Senator Bob Carr – and his advisers at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) are obviously unaware that the Palestinian Authority (PA) no longer exists – following the issue of a Presidential decree to this effect by Mahmoud Abbas on 3 January. Read more

Palestine: Trojan Horse Exposes Duplicitous Doublecross

Any doubt that the Oslo Accords and the Bush Road Map are dead and buried has been put to final rest by John V Whitbeck – an international lawyer who has served as an advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team in negotiations with Israel…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine: Abbas, Attitude and Annexation

Annexation of large areas of the West Bank by Israel has now become a distinct possibility with the unilateral decision this week to scrap any trace of the existence of the Palestinian Authority by its President Mahmoud Abbas…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine: Creative Compromises Can Conquer Conflict

It has taken less than a month for the euphoria generated by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution conferring non-member observer status on the “State of Palestine” to dissolve into a farcical denouement…writes David Singer.
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Palestine: Violating Vatican Vows

Diplomatic relations between Israel and the Vatican are set to considerably cool following the Pope granting a private audience to Mahmoud Abbas on 17 December…writes David Singer. Read more

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

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