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

Israel Over the Moon With Ban Ki

Israel is to be applauded for its agreement to participate in the Inquiry announced yesterday by UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon into the aborted attempt by a flotilla of six ships to break the naval blockade imposed by Israel on the entry of goods and supplies into Gaza. Read more

Comment – FIFA: Palestine and Reality

The World Cup presently being contested by 32 countries in South Africa has already achieved a certain amount of notoriety and controversy for the number of red cards and yellow cards handed out – or failed to be handed out – to offending players by referees whose interpretations of the rules continue to come under ever increasing scrutiny. Read more

op-ed: Obama – Dancing with the Devil in the West Bank

As the proximity negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority continue to meander aimlessly along the road to nowhere – two remarkable articles written recently by the Palestinian Arab journalist – Khaled Amayreh – indicate the direction that America and Israel need to follow if they wish to see a possible end to the 130 years of conflict between the Jews and the Arabs in former Palestine. Read more

Gaza Gazing and Hamas Blockading

David Singer writes on the current situation in Israel and its impact around the world….. Read more

Obama, The West Bank and a Tale of Two Letters

An essay by David Singer – “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead” – Benjamin Franklin. Read more

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