Palestine – Intellectual Ignorance Insults Israel

Novelist Ian McEwan displayed crass ignorance of the Arab-Jewish conflict when recently accepting the US$10000 Jerusalem Prize – awarded to a writer whose work best expresses and promotes the idea of the ”freedom of the individual in society.” Read more

Israel, the Arab World – The Blessing and the Curse

“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”

These two somewhat surprising statements by Winston Churchill – the savior of democracy in the Second World War – need to be revisited as civilian populations in the Arab world rise up to be allowed to exercise their right to determine their own futures – freed of the dictators and dictatorial rule that have dominated their lives for decades. Read more

Egypt, Israel and Gaza – Flashpoint for Future Confrontation

The Egyptian Revolution has raised questions as to the possible termination of the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty by Egypt. Any such concern – in the short term – seems to have been allayed by the Fourth Egyptian Military Statement issued on 12 February declaring:

“the country’s ministers will stay in power for the time being and international agreements and commitments will be honoured.” Read more

Egypt and Tunisia – The Power of Prediction

The West has been caught with its pants down following the popular revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia during the past month. I wonder why. Read more

Palestine – Jimmy Carter Caught in Court Disaster

Former US president Jimmy Carter faces the prospect of paying damages exceeding five million dollars if he is unsuccessful in defending legal proceedings against himself and his publisher Simon & Schuster Inc resulting from the publication of Carter’s book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid – which had an initial print run of 300,000 copies. Read more

Palestine – Remembering the Past to Protect the Future

A telephone poll of a representative sample of 506 Israeli Jews age 15-18 carried out by Maagar Mohot Survey Institute (headed by Professor Yitzchak Katz) for the Committee of Gush Katif Residents between 16-18 January 2011 revealed an appalling lack of knowledge by these teenagers concerning Israel’s evacuation and disengagement from Gaza in 2005. Read more

Palestine and the Arab League – Fake Freedom Fighters

The Palestinian Authority, Hamas and the Arab League member States continue to deny their populations basic political rights and civil liberties – according to a Report recently published by Freedom House. At the same time the Arab League is mounting an intensive campaign to delegitimize Israel – the only State in the Middle East where such freedoms exist. Read more

Palestine – Time for Hard Questions and Even Harder Answers

The international failure to accept the final breakdown of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority was yet again highlighted in the communique issued in Sydney on 18 January 2011 at the conclusion of  the Australia-United Kingdom Ministerial Consultations between Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Kevin Rudd and Minister for Defence Stephen Smith, and the United Kingdom’s First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs William Hague and Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox. Read more

Palestine – No Jews, Soon No Christians

“All these attacks prove that settlers are dangerous and that it’s impossible to live with them. If these settlers are allowed to stay, that would mean more friction and confrontation. Peace can be achieved only if Israel withdraws to the last centimeter of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967” – Ahmed Qurei, Head of Palestinian Authority Negotiating Team, Jerusalem Post December 13, 2008.

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Palestine: Tea for Two and 242

“I’m discontented with homes that I’ve rented

So I have invented my own.”

The above  lines from the refrain of the well known song “Tea for Two” could well have been sung by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to Brazil’s outgoing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as Abbas laid the cornerstone in Brasilia for his nation’s first embassy in the Western hemisphere. Read more

Palestine – Lawyers, Hot Air and no Clothes

John V Whitbeck – described as “an international lawyer who has advised the Palestinian negotiating team” – has recently written an article published in Al Jazeera pointing out that 106 members of the United Nations have now recognized the State of Palestine, whose independence  was proclaimed on 15 November 1988. Read more

Palestine – Hark the Herald Devil Sings

“The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily broadsheet newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia.”

Regrettably the Sydney Morning Herald seems to be going the way of a growing number of media outlets that publish factually inaccurate  or misleading statements and analysis on the Jewish-Arab conflict – which still defies resolution after 130 years of trying. Read more

Palestine – the BBC and the History Channel Bias Distort Debate

The BBC and the History Channel stand accused of denigrating Israel by the use of factually incorrect statements or misleading and deceptive statements that are factually correct but only tell half the story. Read more

Palestine, Brazil and Argentina – Outing the Jew-Haters

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas openly espouses Jew-hating qualities under the three hats he currently wears. Read more

Palestine – Doublecrossing Obama Signals Problems for Abbas

President Obama has been doublecrossed by the extraordinary behaviour of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas in seeking Brazil’s recognition of a Palestinian State “within the 1967 borders”. Read more

Palestine – European Union Hustles in Brussels

The Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union is just one of many organisations and political institutions that have been caught up in the rhetoric of their own statements leading them to repeat ad infinitum the false claim that Israeli settlements established in the West Bank during the last 43 years are illegal in international law and an obstacle to peace. Read more

Palestine: Obama Should Quit While he is Ahead

President Obama has now shown his hand on what he believes is possible in order for a new Palestinian Arab state to be created between Israel, Jordan and Egypt. Read more

David Singer’s Reply to Peter Slezak

Peter – I gave you five specific cases of Arab lies and propaganda that you propagated in your article – which I claimed were factually false or misleading. The veracity of these five matters relied on by you are critical to a proper understanding of the conflict, the reasons that have failed to see it resolved for the last 130 years and that are preventing it being concluded at the present time. Read more

Palestine, UNESCO and Legal Realities

The cynical Arab use of UNESCO to pass resolutions concerning two Jewish sacred and biblical sites – the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem – is part of an ongoing Arab obsession to deny any Jewish claims to sovereignty in any part of the West Bank. Read more

Anna Who? David Singer adds his view

Palestine – Peter Slezak’s Statements Do Not Add Up…. Read more

Palestine – Obama’s White House Showing Settlement Cracks

With the mid term Congressional elections only a week away – President Obama is struggling to gain Israel’s agreement to some form of freeze to stop Jews who wish to live in the West Bank or East Jerusalem from building houses there. Read more

Palestine – Mandela’s Elders Malign and Vilify Israel

The Elders – an independent group of eminent global leaders  founded in 2007 by airline mogul Sir Richard Branson and co-founder of Genesis Peter Gabriel – has sent four of its members – including Mary Robinson and  Jimmy Carter – on its second visit to the Middle East this week. Read more

Palestine and Israel – Change of Name Can Change the Game

Israel’s plea to be recognised as the Jewish State in return for the implementation of a new building freeze in the West Bank very quickly got the thumbs down from the Palestinian Authority. Read more

Palestine: Serious Negotiations or Spurious Nonsense?

The threat by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to walk away  from direct negotiations with Israel following Israel’s refusal to extend its ten month moratorium on some residential building construction in the West Bank – has brought forth an almost universal plea for Israel to reconsider its position. Read more

Palestine: What Obama and Abbas Didn’t Tell the U.N.

President Obama and Palestinian Authority  President Mahmoud Abbas both addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations this week and left more unsaid than was actually stated. Read more

Palestine: Clinton opens Alternatives to Two-State Solution

Palestine: Jew Haters – Like Koran Burners – Cannot be Condoned

It did not take very long for the Palestinian Authority to make its unequivocal rejection of a Jewish State crystal clear following the pomp and circumstance of resumed negotiations between it and Israel in Washington last week. Read more

The Palestine Quartet – Out of Time and Out of Tune

The Quartet – America, Russia, The European Union and the United Nations – continues to miss the beat  in attempting to revive its artificially orchestrated two-state solution – the creation of a new Arab state between Israel, Egypt and Jordan for the first time ever in recorded history. Read more

Palestine – One Arab, Two States, Three Hats, No Jews

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas continues to vacillate on resuming direct negotiations with Israel to create a new Arab State between Israel and Jordan. Read more

Palestine: Obama Can’t End the Racist Rant

US Middle East Special Envoy  George Mitchell  has again been rebuffed by Palestinian Authority President  Mahmoud Abbas  in refusing to resume direct negotiations with Israel. Read more

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