What next for Palestine? My prediction, with lots of health warnings

Throughout the Israeli terrorist attack on Gaza, the question I have been asked repeatedly has been "What next for Palestine"? I have resisted committing to an answer or at least to expressing a view because it is a very complicated situation to understand, analyse and then gaze through a crystal ball and see beyond the …

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The PA should note, Authority comes from the People, not from the name

I am not sure of how long it took for the name of the Palestinian Authority to be conceived and then born after Oslo, but I would love to know what the alternatives were. What is beyond doubt is the fact that the PA now has little credibility amongst the People it supposedly has authority …

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The more Abbas appeals to the Israeli public, the more Netanyahu belittles him

You have to take your hat off to Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinain Authority and Chairman of both the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Fatah. That is if you live long enough to recover from repeated heart attacks and strokes his unbelievable comments can give you. The man is a master of causing Palestinain jaws …

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