David Singer

Palestine--France Embarks On Flight Of Fancy

The announcement by French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault that France will host a meeting of ministers from 20 countries in Paris on May 30 to try and relaunch the Israel-Palestinian peace process seems to be yet another flight of fancy that is destined to end up where the Oslo Accords and the Bush Roadmap presently find themselves after decades of fruitless negotiations.

Palestine – Internet Intifada On Free Speech Intensifies

An increasing number of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel websites are banning comments made by me in response to articles or readers’ comments published on their sites.

Palestine – Internet Manipulation Fuels Anti-Israel and Jewish Hatred

Internet manipulation of readers’ comments in response to articles published on overtly anti-Israel and anti-Jewish web sites is allowing those web sites to spew out their venom unchecked and uncontrolled.

Palestine – Politics Precede Humanity In Brussels Bombings

The European Union has been increasingly expressing its growing antagonism towards Israel by

1. imposing specific labelling laws for goods produced by Jews emanating from Judea and Samaria (the West Bank)
2. building structures in Area C of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) without consent or authorisation by Israel - which exercises full administrative and security control over this area under the Oslo Accords to which the European Union is a signatory.

Palestine - Internet Intifada Denies Free Speech

Many Palestinian websites are stifling free speech by refusing to publish comments answering anti-Israel articles published on their sites.

Clinton Silent On Honouring Bush-Congress Commitments To Israel

Marco Rubio's withdrawal from the Presidential race this week will not relieve Hillary Clinton from affirming or disavowing the following pledge made by Rubio during his failed campaign:

Palestine - Trump Must Blow His Own Trumpet With Greater Clarity

One of the world's greatest negotiators - Donald Trump - has walked straight into a political minefield when telling the GOP presidential debate in Miami last Thursday how he would resolve the 100 years old Jewish-Arab conflict:

Palestine - Rubio Challenges Clinton's Support For Israel

Marco Rubio has directly challenged Hillary Clinton--and every other Presidential candidate--to honour the commitments given by President Bush to Israel on 14 April 2004. Speaking at the Republican Jewish Coalition Presidential Forum Rubio said:

"I will revive the common-sense understandings reached in the 2004 Bush-Sharon letter and build on them to help ensure Israel has defensible borders,"

Palestine - End The West Bank Refugee Gravy Train

With more than three million Syrians fleeing war-torn Syria seeking safe havens in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Europe--scarce United Nations resources continue to be used supporting and maintaining about 760000 Palestinian Arabs currently living in the West Bank and registered as "refugees" with the United Nations Relief And Works Agency (UNRWA).

Syria – End The Diplomatic Doublespeak Start Getting Serious

The deadline for a ceasefire in Syria by 19 February has passed with no indication that it will be achieved at any time in the foreseeable future. Hopes for that ceasefire were high after the UN Security Council had unanimously passed Resolution 2254 on 18 December 2015 requesting:

Palestine - France Signals Surrender To PLO And Muslim Pressure

France's extraordinary decision to try and resurrect the dead two-state solution smacks of:

1. Abject surrender to PLO demands for unilateral recognition of a Palestinian State outside the parameters defined by Security Council resolutions 242 and 338, the Oslo Accords and the Bush Roadmap.
2. A desperate attempt to appease France's 4.7 million Muslims as they protest against the continuing state of emergency declared after the series of co-ordinated attacks by Islamic State in Paris last November that saw 130 people murdered and 368 wounded.

Palestine - Security Council And Quartet Silence Dooms Two-State Solution

The UN Security Council and the Quartet--Russia, America, the United Nations and the European Union--have ended any expectations they had of successfully negotiating a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation - after failing to categorically reject UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's highly offensive remarks before the Security Council and in the New York Times.

European Union Becomes Irrelevant In Resolving The Jewish-Arab Conflict

The Council of the European Union (EU) has disqualified itself from influencing any resolution of the 100 years old Jewish-Arab conflict following the release of its "Council conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process" on 18 January.

Palestine - Obama's Ignorance Becomes His Nemesis

President Obama enters his final year as President having given up on trying to resolve the Jewish-Arab conflict - following in the footsteps of so many other American Presidents whose similarly-shared lofty and noble aspirations ended in abject failure.

Palestine - European Union Drowns In Sea Of Inconsistencies

The European Union (EU) has concluded an unhappy 2015 with the introduction of racist and discriminatory labelling laws for Jewish goods and products originating from Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and East Jerusalem.

Palestine – Elections Key To Ending Senseless Acts Of Self-Destruction

Elections in the West Bank and Gaza – last held in 2006 - increasingly appear to be the key to ending the past three months of random Arab stabbing and car ramming attacks on Israel’s Jewish civilian population, armed forces, border police and security guards.

European Union Suffers Continuing Backlash Over Racist Labelling Laws

The Czech Parliament’s lower House -- by an overwhelming majority with all parties except the Communists supporting it -- has joined fellow European Union (EU) members – Greece and Hungary – in urging the Czech Government to refuse implementing EU racist and discriminatory labelling laws for Jewish goods produced in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.

Israel--European Union In State Of Disunion

Hungary and Greece have broken ranks with the European Union in signalling they want nothing to do with the recently introduced EU labelling laws requiring Jewish products originating in Judea and Samaria (West Bank), East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights to have special labels and not be marked "made in Israel". These decisions follow hard on the heels of European Parliament delegation for relations with Israel chairman - Fulvio Martusciello - warning:

"The decision to label products was a mistake. Europe is loud about Israel, but quiet about 200 other conflicts around the world."

Palestine – Israel Sheds PLO As Negotiating Partner

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has concluded that completing successful negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) on the allocation of territorial sovereignty in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), Gaza and East Jerusalem is a mission impossible to achieve.

Israel Ensures European Union Swallows Poison Pill

The European Union's (EU) discriminatory and racist labelling requirements for Jewish goods and products originating from Judea and Samaria has now seen Israel effectively label the EU as "persona non grata" in the diplomatic process between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs under the Oslo Accords and the Bush Roadmap.