Palestine – UN Farce Promises Theatre of the Absurd

The appearance of Mahmoud Abbas at the podium of the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September was reportedly met with “rapturous applause” by those present to witness this latest farce in the ongoing efforts to create a new Arab State between Israel and Jordan for the first time ever in recorded history…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Telling the UN Some Home Truths

Israel’s Prime Minister – Benjamin Netanyahu – has announced his intention to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week in connection with the proposed application by the PLO for recognition of a Palestinian Arab State along the 1949 armistice lines…writes David Singer Read more

Palestine – Will Acceptance Ever Replace Rejection?

The expulsion of Israel’s ambassador from Turkey and the forced withdrawal of Israel’s entire diplomatic corps from Egypt have become the catalysts to ensure further virulent assaults on the Jewish people at the Durban 111 Conference on Racism to be held in New York next week and the UN meeting shortly thereafter to possibly consider a resolution calling for the recognition of a Palestinian Arab State…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Will the UN Endorse Ethnic Cleansing?

Two of the many intriguing matters facing the United Nations in dealing with any proposal to seek recognition of a Palestinian Arab State along the 1967 lines – are:

1. Who will make such application on behalf of the Palestinian Arabs?
2. What conditions will the United Nations demand to ensure that up to 500,000 Jews living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem will not ultimately face arbitrary expulsion as a result of its decision?…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – United Nations Faces the Music

The horrendous news of the bombing of the UN headquarters in Nigeria’s capital – Abuja – reportedly by a radical Islamist group – killing at least 19 people and wounding more than 60 other persons – has been rightly described by the United Nations Security Council as a “heinous crime”.…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Jerusalem challenges the United Nations

Jerusalem’s continued existence as an undivided city will remain unaffected by any United Nations (UN)  decision recognising a Palestinian Arab State based on the June 1967 armistice lines…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Duping the United Nations

Dr Ghassan Khatib, the Special Envoy of the unelected and unconstitutional Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, last week addressed the Capital Jewish Forum in the Victorian Parliament House…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Is Obama Honoring the Bush Pledge?

A  report this week claims that President Obama has now decided to honor the terms of a letter given by former President George Bush to former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on 14 April 2004…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Ending the Pretending…Facing the Facts

The debate in the Security Council this week on the situation in the Middle East was the last before the opening of the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly – affording the United States an opportunity to state its position and issue a warning to those thinking of pushing for the recognition of a Palestinian State in September…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – United Nations Needs Reality Check

Speculation continues to mount that the United Nations (UN) will be approached in September to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian Arab State in the West Bank and Gaza for the first time in recorded history – without regard to considering the right in international law of the Jewish people to reconstitute the Jewish National Home in the same area. Read more

Israel Strikes Back

The misinformation – indeed the false dissemination – of so many facts relating to the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) has finally spurred Israel’s Foreign Ministry into action.

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Palestine: Quartet Misses the Beat

The utter  futility inherent in pursuing the two- state solution – the creation of a 22nd Arab State between Israel and Jordan  – was brought home this week when the most powerful negotiating team ever assembled in history – the Quartet – was unable to come up with a jointly acceptable statement to persuade Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) to resume direct negotiations. Read more

Jordan – Abbas offers Abdullah the Kiss of Death

Jordan’s King Abdullah is clearly worried about the future direction of his country – if developments over recent weeks are any indication. Read more

Palestine – Testing the World’s Patience

The Palestinian Authority headed by an unelected President – Mahmoud Abbas – and an unelected Prime Minister – Salam Fayyad – continue to live in a fantasy dream world.

Talks to replace the Fayyad Government with yet another unelected Government comprising the two arch rival Palestinian factions – Hamas and Fatah – continue to founder despite the pomp and fanfare that accompanied the signing of  a heads of agreement between them in Cairo on 4 May. Read more

Palestine: Forget Reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah

The much vaunted reconciliation between rival Palestinian Arab groups Hamas and Fatah still remains a mirage almost two months after the widely publicized signing of a reconciliation agreement in Cairo between the two groups on 4 May. Read more

Palestine – Unleashing the Self-Determination Genie

It is hard to believe that the possibility of the Palestinians successfully approaching the UN in September and obtaining  “a license to statehood “ is even being seriously contemplated. Read more

Limmud-Oz

David Singer visited Limmud-Oz in Sydney and reports for J-Wire…. Read more

Palestine – an Arab West Bank is a lost cause

The 44th Anniversary of the Six Day War occurred this week on 5 June 1967.

It is therefore opportune to recall some of the significant events that led to Jordan’s loss of the West Bank in that War ending 19 years of uninterrupted occupation – and to understand why all of the West Bank – or its equivalent area – will never again return to Arab control.  Read more

Palestine: FIFA Relents but Rules are Still Bent

FIFA has been in the media spotlight this week as its practices and procedures have come under increasing scrutiny and its conduct has become of great concern to many of its member countries. Read more

Palestine – Jordan Land Grants: Not Israeli Land Swaps

President Obama has been widely praised since his speech to the State Department on 19 May when he stated: “We believe the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states.“ Read more

Palestine – Obama Continues to Fudge on America’s Commitment to Israel

Palestine – Obama Sinks America’s Integrity and Reputation

Remarks made by President Obama at the State Department in Washington on 19 May indicate he is prepared to honour some – but not all – commitments made to Israel by former American President George W Bush in his letter to Israeli Prime Minister Sharon on 14 April 2004 (the Bush Letter). Read more

Hamas and Fatah Sign Unreal Deal

The announcement this week in Cairo of the long awaited reconciliation between rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah has turned out to be to nothing more than an agreement to continue negotiating on a range of so far unresolved – and apparently irreconcilable – issues. Read more

Palestine – Abbas negates further negotiations with Israel

The Palestinian Authority (PA)  announcement abdicating to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) the conduct of any future political negotiations with Israel effectively sinks any further hope of direct negotiations being resumed with Israel over the future sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza. Read more

Israel – A Boycott Without A Buoy

The recent attempt by the Marrickville Council in Sydney to impose a boycott on its purchase of Israeli goods and products spectacularly collapsed after the Council was advised by its Chief Officer that enforcing the boycott would cost its ratepayers four million dollars. Read more

Goldstone Gazumped on Gaza

Richard Goldstone now faces bitter condemnation from Israel following his belated admission that his infamous Report was wrong in finding that Israel had intentionally targeted civilians during its invasion of Gaza in December 2008. Read more

Palestine – Understanding the Present by Remembering the Past

An article recently written by a retired Commodore of the Royal Saudi Navy – Abdulateef Al-Mulhim –  titled “What if Arabs had recognized the State of Israel in 1948?” – has been acknowledged by many as  a brave initiative by a prominent Arab to step outside the almost monolithic Arab viewpoint that has consistently refused to recognize Israel in the 73 years since its establishment in 1948.  Read more

Gaza and Libya – the UN Speaks with Forked Tongue

The double standards employed by the United Nations when it comes to dealing with Israel were thrown into sharp focus with the Security Council’s passing of Resolution 1973 on 19 March. Read more

Obama – Confronting the Killing Culture in Palestine

The brutal murder of five members of the Fogel family including three children aged 11, 4 and 3 months – whilst asleep in their house – could only elicit the following pathetic response from President Obama:

“We condemn in the strongest possible terms the murder of five Israelis in a terrorist attack in the northern West Bank, and we offer our condolences to their loved ones and to the Israeli people. There is no possible justification for the killing of parents and children in their home. We call on the Palestinian Authority to unequivocally condemn this terrorist attack and for the perpetrators of this heinous crime to be held accountable.” Read more

Palestine – Pontification, Prediction and Poppycock

The world has been agog this week at the news that Israel’s Prime Minister – Benjamin Netanyahu – is to announce a new peace plan in May – possibly in an address to the United States Congress – in an effort to end the conflict between Jews and Arabs in former Palestine. Read more

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