Tag Archives: State of Palestine

  Editor’s note: Once again and excellent piece from Arlene Kushner. ~~~~~~~~~~ Mahmoud Abbas would certainly like us to think it is a crisis.  He wants us cringing in fear.  But he’s going to be disappointed on this score: On Wednesday, Abbas made a show of filling out membership forms …

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom’s announcement on 30 October that Sweden has recognised the State of Palestine elicited a response from Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman that will surely go down as one of the most memorable diplomatic quotes of 2014: “It is too bad that the government of Sweden …

  Easter 2014 will be remembered as the time when PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas tried to resurrect the Palestinian Authority (PA) that he himself had declared dead and buried on 3 January 2013.   Adopting US Secretary of State Kerry’s terminology – “Poof – that was the day that signalled …

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 …

Written By David Singer. US Secretary of State John Kerry and the US State Department continue to cling to the illusion that the Palestinian Authority still exists – despite PLO insistence that it does not following this Decree on 3 January 2013: Decree No. 1 for the year 2013 On …