David Singer

Palestine - Negate The Debate On The Jewish State

Any prospect of creating a new Arab State between Israel and Jordan took another nosedive this past week with an extraordinary outburst by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak saying he could not accept the existence of Israel as a Jewish State.

Palestine - G8 Novate The Great Debate

The creation of a new Arab State between Jordan and Israel -the so called “two state solution” - is by no means an assured certainty - despite the confident predictions emanating from such influential sources as President Obama and the Quartet over recent weeks that it remains the only viable solution to resolving the 120 years old conflict between Jews and Arabs over the territory once called Palestine.

Palestine - Freeze Settlements Or Freeze Negotiations?

The demand by President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Israel freeze all settlement activity in the West Bank including “natural growth” has now been endorsed at a meeting of the Quartet - America, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations - held at Trieste on 26 June 2009.

Palestine - Obama and Netanyahu On A Journey To Nowhere

President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu appear on the surface to have found common ground in agreeing on the need to end the 120 years old conflict between Arabs and Jews by creating a new Arab State between Israel and Jordan.

Palestine - Twelve Billion Reasons To Change Direction

International donors have now started to renege on US$12 billion dollars in pledges made by them in Paris in December 2007 and at Sharm El Sheikh in March this year. Their decision threatens to send the Palestinian Authority into financial meltdown and political oblivion.

Palestine - Obama, Some Home Truths And Missed Opportunities

Jews and Arabs are destined to become engaged in many years of further fighting, trauma and suffering unless President Obama does a complete backflip by adopting a different stance to that he expressed in his long awaited speech at Cairo University on 4 June.

Palestine - Jordan Jittery But Not To Worry

King Abdullah of Jordan has obviously got a bad attack of the jitters as Israeli politicians now focus their attention on Jordan returning to re-occupy the heavily Arab populated areas of the West Bank - as Jordan had done so successfully before between 1948-1967.

Palestine - Pope Abandons Morality For Politics

Pope Benedict has given Jews and Catholics throughout the world every reason to believe that if you can’t trust the Pope to keep an agreement then who can you trust?

Palestine - Abdullah’s Plea Is Obama’s Poisoned Tea

“Mr Churchill, if you were my husband I’d poison your tea“. - Lady Nancy Astor “And if you were my wife I would drink it” Winston Churchill

Palestine - Pressure Points and Predictions

“A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.” - Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Passionate State of Mind, 1954

Palestine - Passover and Perfidy

Jordan’s King Abdullah - in talks with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on 8 April - highlighted the importance of the role of Europe and the world community "in pushing forward the peace talks between the Palestinian and Israeli sides towards the establishment of a just peace based on relevant UN resolutions and the Arab peace initiative." according to a royal court statement [RTT News 9 April 2009]

Palestine - Annapolis Aborted and Road Map Thwarted

April Fools Day was an appropriate day for Israel’s newly elected Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to tell the world what every Government feared would happen when Benjamin Netanyahu formed Israel‘s new Government:

Palestine - Netanyahu’s Knockout Narrative

As Benjamin Netanyahu struggles to form Israel’s next Government there are many politicians around the world hoping against hope that he fails in the mission entrusted to him by President Shimon Peres.

Palestine - Clinton Comes Calling

It didn’t take long for US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to take a running jump into the quicksand which so spectacularly claimed her husband - President Bill Clinton - in 2000.

Palestine -  Perpetual Pantomime Pursues Peace

Benjamin Netanyahu has finally been given the go-ahead by Israel's President Shimon Peres to try and form Israel's next Government. This heralds the next round in the farce that passes for "the peace process" in the Middle East.

Palestine -  The Lieberman Factor

It has not taken long for media commentators to jump on the bandwagon and label the biggest winner in the Israeli elections - Avigdor Lieberman - as an "anti-Arab politician" (Scotsman 12 February) and a person "who holds abhorrent views" (Telegraph 12 February).

Palestine - Obama Quicksteps Into The Quicksand

America's Ambassador to Jordan - Robert Beecroft - lost no time in maintaining the illusion of momentum created by America's Special Envoy to the Middle East - George Mitchell - following Mitchell's departure from the region last week after first visit there as President Obama's nominee.

Palestine - George Mitchell Munches on Middle East Lunches

President Obama's newly appointed Middle East Envoy - George Mitchell - has been traipsing through the Middle East on a look and listen tour to learn the views of players in Cairo, Jerusalem, Ramallah and Amman on the present state of play in resolving the Arab-Jewish conflict that has raged unresolved for the last 130 years.

Gaza - Cranky Ban Ki Engages In Hanky-Panky

The dust has settled temporarily in Gaza with at least one fact clearly established - a badly bloodied but unbowed or unrepentant Hamas still remains firmly entrenched in occupation and control of Gaza's civilian population.

Palestine - Bye Bye Bush, Onwards Obama

President Bush's Roadmap has been unceremoniously dumped at the Senate Foreign Relations confirmation hearing nominating Senator Hillary Clinton to be America's next Secretary for State.