David Singer

Gaza – Oust Hamas Or Surrender To Terror

Concern for Gaza's civilian population has engendered a wave of demonstrations around the world over the past few days as Israel's army enters Gaza to try and effectively end the incessant barrage of rockets and mortars that have been fired indiscriminately into Israel's population centres by Hamas for the last eight years.

Gaza – The Solution Ain’t Rocket Science

Gazan Arabs have no one but themselves to blame for voting Hamas into power and allowing Hamas to destroy their lives in the traumatic manner that has suddenly befallen them in the past week.

Palestine –The Ten Commandments That Must Be Broken

The United Nations Security Council in passing Resolution 1850 on 19 December 2008 solemnly noted "that lasting peace can only be based on an enduring commitment to mutual recognition, freedom from violence, incitement and terror and the two-State solution .."

UN Security Council Flirts With Racist Fantasyland

"All these attacks prove that settlers are dangerous and that it's impossible to live with them. If these settlers are allowed to stay, that would mean more friction and confrontation. Peace can be achieved only if Israel withdraws to the last centimetre of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967" - Ahmed Qurei , Head of Palestinian Authority Negotiating Team – Jerusalem Post - 13 December 2008

Palestine – Consolation and Consolidation

The failure of the Palestinian Arabs to grab the opportunity of statehood offered to them in 1937, 1947, and between 1948 - 1967 and 1993 - 2008 must surely now be testing the international community's patience.

Palestine and Obama - Ego Trip Or Meaningful Journey?

Hillary Clinton's appointment as Secretary of State will afford many future opportunities to compare her performance with her predecessor Condoleezza Rice in bringing finality to the allocation of sovereignty in the West Bank and Gaza - where no internationally recognised sovereign ruler has reigned supreme since Britain left in haste in 1948 with its lion's tale firmly planted between its legs.

Palestine - Fantasy and Fiction Feature at United Nations

The gross ignorance displayed by current United Nations General Assembly President - Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann - highlights the difficulty in having any kind of rational discussion at the United Nations about finally resolving Jewish and Arab claims to the territory once called Palestine.

Palestine - Lame Ducks, Dead Ducks and Revived Ducks

President George Bush became a lame duck on 20 November 2008 - giving up his unfettered executive authority to begin working closely with President-elect Barack Obama on important policy matters of significant national importance until his retirement from office at noon on 20 January 2009.

Palestine, President Peres and Poppycock

"The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock." - Sam Ervin

Remembering Rabin’s Roadmap for Palestine

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold." - Tolstoy Israel's current President - Shimon Peres - and Prime Minister - Ehud Olmert - have used the 13th anniversary of the assassination of former Israeli Prime Minister - Yitzchak Rabin - to misrepresent the pursuit of their own failed and discredited political agendas as being somehow aligned with - and a continuation of - Mr Rabin's vision.

Palestine Exits Centre Stage - Enter Jordan

The first Presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama remarkably failed to raise or even mention their future involvement in President Bush's proposal to create a new Arab State between Israel and Jordan.

Paulson’s Prognosis Pinpoints Palestine’s Panacea

"This needs to be big enough to make a real difference and get at the heart of the problem" - US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson [Times Online 20 September 2008] - The Paulson Prognosis The threat of a world economic meltdown does wonders in helping concentrate the mind on how to resolve the intractable 130 years old conflict between Arabs and Jews over a piece of land once called Palestine that today comprises two sovereign States - Jordan and Israel - and two tiny slivers of land that currently belong to no one - the West Bank and Gaza.

Palestine - Buy Up Or Sell Out?

The West Bank - known only as Judea and Samaria until 1950 - is indisputably the biblical heartland of the Jews.

Jordan Prepares To Prevent West Bank Collapse

("You know its just one small step from legacy to lame duck" - Bill Clinton) President George Bush, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Mahmoud Abbas are clearing their desks as they prepare to vacate their positions of power and influence - now having virtually assumed caretaker roles as lame ducks until their replacements are known within the next few months.

Palestine - One Big Yawn and Yawning Chasms.

Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) have reached an agreement according to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

Palestine - Death Throes or Rigor Mortis?

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein Israel's Foreign Minister and frontrunner as next Prime Minister - Tzipi Livni - had the courage to finally say this week what every one else in Israel's Government knows but has been extremely reluctant to acknowledge.

Palestinian Authority Catches Olympic Games Fever

The opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing was initially rated a spectacular success. However it now turns out that lots of smoke and mirrors were used to introduce an air of present reality where none really existed.

Palestine, Cocktail Parties and Prejudice

"The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil" - Elsa Maxwell If you happen to be Jewish and live in the West Bank then you have certainly blown your chances of ever being invited to a cocktail party again at the British Ambassador's residence in Israel.

Unscrambling Olmert’s Omelet

"No clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet" (CS Lewis). This adage best sums up one possible outcome for Israel following the announcement of Ehud Olmert's intended resignation as Israel's Prime Minister at some unspecified date after his successor as head of the political party - Kadima - is named on September 17.

No Drama from Obama

Barack Obama's visit to Jordan and Israel this week turned out to be one very big yawn as he endorsed President Bush's fundamentally flawed and totally failed plan - the so called "two state solution" - designed to create a new Arab State between Jordan and Israel - where none has ever existed before.