David Singer

David Singer is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International--an organization calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the Mandate for Palestine. Previous articles written by him can be found at: jordanispalestine.blogspot.com

Most Recent Articles by David Singer:

One of the most damaging comments ever made by a head of state on the Jewish-Arab conflict - effectively prolonging the dispute rather than helping to resolve it.

UN member states would do well to heed Jordan’s apprehension that by recognizing Palestine at the UN

How automatic majorities at the UN had been used to incite institutionalized hatred against Israel

The UN should be seeking to enforce international law not subvert it.

The refusal of the Arabs to accept the right of the Jewish people to independence in their ancient and biblical homeland will ensure the continuation of the 130 years old Jewish-Arab conflict.

PLO: "The Balfour Declaration, the Mandate for Palestine, and everything that has been based upon them, are deemed null and void"

According to Resolution 242, there is no Israeli obligation to withdraw prior to the achievement of a comprehensive peace

Will the UN rise to the challenge and defend the unity of Jerusalem against the latest attempt to divide it again?

The road ahead is strewn with potholes. The United Nations is incapable of repairing them - only making them deeper.

President Obama has been very coy in publicly acknowledging that he intended to honor the Bush Pledge.

Like it or not, the Palestinian Arabs - and those who support their quest for an independent State - will have no option but to accept the division of the West Bank between Israel and any Palestinian State.

Speculation continues to mount that the United Nations (UN) will be approached in September to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian Arab State in the West Bank and Gaza for the first time in recorded history

Seven years of failed diplomacy by the Quartet has to come to an end at some time.

The King's self fulfilling pessimism

The world has bent the knee for far too long trying to do appease the Palestinian Arabs

The struggle for the hearts and the minds of the Palestinian Arabs is set to continue for a long time - whilst these fundamental differences of philosophy divide Hamas and Fatah

The Palestinians have never comprised a separate and unique group in recorded history

Six Day War: Jordan paid a high price for joining in an alliance with Egypt and Syria - the loss of the West Bank and East Jerusalem

FIFA President Sepp Blatter: "I feel at home in Palestine"

Israel has learned by bitter experience since its unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in 2005

President is talking utter nonsense

Obama’s position will be viewed by Israel and its supporters as a shift that does no honor to America and badly damages its reputation and integrity.

The only hope of avoiding further conflict and bloodshed is to bring Jordan to the negotiating table

Given the violent Jihadist philosophy of Hamas and its call for the destruction of Israel - one can predict that the PLO and Fatah will be the losers in this latest attempt at reconciliation

The sooner this reality is faced and alternative solutions are explored the more chance there is of averting another conflict of massive proportions between Arabs and Jews.

This is a boycott full of holes that is slowly sinking to the bottom of the sea of deception that created it.

International Law, International treaties, War

The decent and fair thing for them all to do now would be to formally advise the Human Rights Council to tear up their Report and for all UN proceedings discussing the Report to be expunged from the UN records

The United Nations makes itself a laughing stock when it attempts to define Gaza as being occupied and Libya as not

The President must make it clear that this grossly immoral and heinous conduct and the culture that espouses and encourages it be ended