Arab/Palestinian – ME

Abbas seems to think that the ‘State of Palestine’ being an ‘observer State to the UN’ gives him the right to do what he wants to do, when he wants to do it.   Israel’s envoy to the UN says Palestinians “forget the surprising concept that joining international treaties also …

  Palestinian Media Watch   As if we didn’t know.!! “Fatah spokesman: We “blackmailed” Israel to release the prisoners” As if Israel wasn’t aware of the game the Arabs play. What I don’t get though is why Israel releases murderers and terrorists to once again do what they were gaoled …

  US Secretary of State John Kerry’s unshakeable belief that he could succeed in facilitating what had eluded former American Secretaries of State for the last 20 years – the creation of a 22nd Arab State in the West Bank and Gaza for the first time ever in recorded history …

The Elder of Ziyon has a recent piece entitled, Peter Beinart cannot tell the difference between a “narrative” and a fact. Speaking before a group of Democrats and progressives, former New Republic editor, Peter Beinart, said the following concerning conservative billionaire Sheldon Adelson: In 2008, when Tel Aviv University’s Shlomo …

The current situation regarding “peace negotiations” has evolved into one beyond imagining.  I do not use the term “evolved” to suggest progress to a higher state, I assure you. What is more, everything is in almost hour-to-hour flux.  And so, while I hope to send this out today, I advise …

This is an important piece to get out from Palestinian Media Watch with all the false information flying around as to who said what to whom, and about whom. Here: It is a site that everyone should subscribe to, you would be amazed what comes of of the fictitious State …

    US Secretary of State John Kerry has seen his reputation and prestige shredded to tatters over the past few weeks. On 13 March Kerry told members of the House Foreign Relations committee that:   International law has already declared Israel a Jewish state, and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s insistence on …

United With Israel reports the following: Israel has cancelled the scheduled release of 26 terrorists from prison on Saturday night. “The Israeli government has informed us through the American mediator that it will not abide with its commitment to release the fourth batch of Palestinian prisoners scheduled for tomorrow,” senior …

In 1967, meeting shortly after the 6 Day War in Khartoum, Sudan, the Arab League issued its famous “Three No’s.“  When it came to the Jews of the Middle East there would be no peace, no recognition, and no negotiations.  This is hardly surprising given the fact that for thirteen hundred …

The ongoing kerfuffle over politically incorrect Israeli Minister of Defense, Moshe Ya’alon, is instructive.   Ya’alon argues that there will be no meaningful peace agreement with the Arabs and that American weakness makes the world a more dangerous place because it emboldens hostile powers.  Because power abhors a vacuum it …

Weekly Israel Advocacy Update. Written by Emily Gian. Media and Advocacy Director, Zionist Federation of Australia.. Some years ago, whilst researching an assignment for University, I came across an interview with Israeli author Amos Oz. He was asked if it is true what they say about a writer writing the …

Written and submitted by Arlene Kushner.   Where to start?  Last Tuesday, four IDF soldiers on the Golan Heights were injured – one severely – by an explosion near the border.  The IDF, convinced that Assad’s forces and not rebels were responsible, retaliated with several “strategic” hits on Syrian army …

Clearly the ‘invented people’ revel in failure. Reportedly Palestinian rallies on Abbas’s return from Washington are reminiscent of Arafat’s return from Camp David in 2000. Mahmoud Abbas returned from Washington on Thursday to a hero’s welcome in Ramallah, where he pledged not to give up the Palestinians’ rights or betray …

Written by David Singer. “But now the holy dollar rules everybody’s lives – Gotta make a million doesn’t matter who dies” [Queensrÿche – Revolution Calling] US Secretary of State John Kerry has increased the possibility of renewed conflict in the Holy Land with some very confusing remarks this week refuting …

In a Y-Net piece written by Noam (Dabul) Dvir entitled, Temple Mount: Arabs hurl stones at MK Feiglin we read: Hundreds of young Arabs gathered Thursday morning at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to protest the visit of Knesset Member Moshe Feiglin (Likud) to the disputed scene. Several of the rioters hurled stones towards …

Written and submitted by Arlene Kushner. When it comes to the “peace negotiations” with the Palestinian Arabs (to which I will return below), I’m able to sigh, and shake my head in exasperation. But the negotiations between P5+1 and Iran?  This leaves me breathless because of the dangers implicit and …

Written and submitted by Arlene Kushner. With a Sigh… So the laughter of Purim is past, and we’re back to the world of the “negotiations” – with the distortions, and posturing, and lies.  And so, I sigh.  Needless to say, I like Purim better. There are, in fact, two negotiating processes …

In a piece for Commentary entitled Lying About Abbas Won’t Bring Peace, Jonathan Tobin writes the following: In short, peace process advocates believe the only way to plow ahead to an agreement is to keep the pressure up on Netanyahu to give the maximum while treating Abbas with kid gloves, all the …

Written by and posted with the permission of  Paula R. Stern. A few weeks ago, I wrote an open letter to John Kerry. I called it, Great Men Have Tried. And though I had no doubt my letter would fall on Kerry’s deaf ears, it served a purpose. First, it …

Written by David Singer. It boggles the imagination that Australia’s national broadcaster the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) could have been involved in a joint investigation between its premier Public Affairs show – “Four Corners” – and one of Australia’s leading newspapers – The Australian – in producing a 45 minute …