David Singer

Palestine - A Match Made In Heaven

Yasser Arafat and Yitzchak Rabin were reportedly overheard having the following spirited conversation in heaven recently - frankly reflecting on the mistakes they both had made in trying to reach the "Peace of the Brave" for which they and the last surviving member of the trio - Shimon Peres--had received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994.

Palestine - Narrowing The Great Divide

The political rift between Hamas and Fatah arising from their struggle to control the minds and the hearts of the Palestinian Arabs has continued unabated and unresolved for the last six years.

Palestine:  Jordan - part of the problem - part of the solution

A new strategy to resolve the 130 years old Jewish-Arab conflict is urgently needed with the growing recognition that the “two-state solution” proposed by the Oslo Accords and the Bush Roadmap for the last 20 years is dead and buried .

Palestine - Where To From Here?

Israel’s Foreign Minister - Avigdor Liberman - has written to Her Excellency Baroness Ashton - High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security “to demonstrate Israel's goodwill, desire to build trust and sincere desire to create a positive atmosphere vis a vis the PA, with the goal of bringing our neighbors back to the table of direct negotiations. “

Palestine - Burying the Past - Faking the Future

Richard Falk - United Nations Special Rapporteur on "the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967" - provides compelling proof of how successful the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has been in its attempt to bury historical fact and international law regarding the former territory of Palestine.

Palestine - Don’t Repeat the Syrian Fiasco

Australia's Foreign Minister - Senator Bob Carr - has been visiting Israel and in the time honoured tradition of all such visiting dignitaries - has met with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Palestine - UN Special Rapporteur Fostering Jew-Hatred Again

Richard Falk - UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights on Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 - appears to have landed himself in hot water once again - as his web site “Citizen Pilgrimage” - has hosted a series of posts that contain comments that are highly offensive and insulting of Jews.

Palestine - Jews and Arabs, the Mandate and the Law

The Levy Commission's resurrection of the Mandate for Palestine as the legal title deed establishing Israel's entitlement to claim sovereignty in the West Bank has come 48 years after the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) first tried to bury it.

Palestine - United Nations Perfidy Exposed

The canard - supported by countless United Nations General Assembly Resolutions - that Jewish settlements in the West Bank are illegal in international law - has been dealt a crushing blow with the the recent release of the Levy Committee Report in Israel rebutting that claim.

Palestine - Foreign Political Interference Dressed Up As Humanitarian Aid

Attempts by foreign Governments and international aid agencies to politically influence the outcome of negotiations begun under the Oslo Accords in 1993 - now seriously threaten the total abandonment of those Accords.

Palestine, Peoplehood and Presbyterians

The attempt by the Palestinian Arabs to create a second state - in addition to Jordan - reached the hallowed halls of the two million members of the Presbyterian Church in America this week.

Palestine - Israel Readies To Extend Its Sovereignty Into West Bank

A confluence of events is increasingly pointing to Israel taking action in the very near future to extend its sovereignty over a substantial part - if not all - of the 61% of the West Bank it has totally controlled since 1967 - unless Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas ends his posturing and submits to considerable loss of face by announcing he is now prepared to resume negotiations with Israel without preconditions of any kind.

Palestine - Semantic Skullduggery Sinks Solutions

The Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of Information has now issued a book instructing Palestinian Arabs on the words they should use to replace " the Israeli and American dissemination of poisoned terms".

Palestine - Rabbis for Human Rights Become Political Power Brokers

Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR) - a leading non-government human rights organization (NGO) in Israel - has made an unprecedented attack on the integrity of Israel's High Court - whilst simultaneously attempting to undermine what little is left of the stalled Peace Process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Palestine - Ulpana decision answers Israel’s detractors

Israel has effectively answered its detractors in its measured response to a ruling by Israel's High Court ordering the demolition of five stone structures in the West Bank settlement of Ulpana - erected on what the Court deemed to be private Palestinian land.

Palestine - Racist and Apartheid Policies Plague Peace Proposals

Mahmoud Abbas - President of Palestine and the Palestinian Authority - Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Movement (PLO) and Fatah - the PLO's largest faction - has doomed to the garbage bin any possible peace proposals that might be offered by Israel's new National Unity Government - following his latest outburst in the Lebanese newspaper An-Nahhar:

"We won't agree to recognize something called the Jewish state. Why wasn't this issue raised when Israel negotiated with Jordan and Egypt?"

Palestine - UNWRA and UNESCO promote a state of confusion

A crisis of diplomatic confusion seems to have arisen between two affiliate organizations of the United Nations following the announcement by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNWRA) of its intention to upgrade the dilapidated conditions in some of the refugee camps under its control - rather than taking progressive steps to close them down following recognition of the State of Palestine by UNESCO on 31 October 2011.

Palestine - Israel Has Had Enough

The Palestinian Authority’s decision to unilaterally seek Palestinian statehood at the United Nations and UNESCO - in breach of its obligations under the Oslo Accords and the Roadmap - has propelled Benjamin Netanyahu and Shaul Mofaz into forming Israel’s government of national unity this week.

Palestine - Two Opportunities Better Missed

Israel's former Foreign Minister - the late Abba Eban - is remembered for his many wise and pithy comments - of which the following is probably the most memorable:

"The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity"

Palestine - Statehood Supersedes Oslo Accords and Roadmap

The Middle East changed dramatically with the recognition and admission of the State of Palestine to UNESCO on 31 October 2011 - resulting finally in the achievement of the two-state solution unsuccessfully sought for the last 19 years in negotiations conducted between Israel and the Palestinian Authority pursuant to the Oslo Accords and the Bush Roadmap.