The parallel policies that won’t bring peace to historic Palestine

The parallel policies that won't bring peace to historic Palestine First published in Middle East Eye on Sunday 7 February 2016 Once again another initiative to bring peace to historic Palestine is in the making. The last one by US Secretary of State John Kerry in 2013-14 ended in tatters and was soon followed with …

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Abbas commits to more negotiations while violence escalates

The Middle East Monitor publiched my article on 15/1/2016 Abbas commits to more negotiations while violence escalates    Image from the Middle East Monitor In his first speech of 2016, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas reviewed the situation facing the Palestinians and set out his approach for the forthcoming year. He started with the …

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What was the West’s worst crime of 2015?

I joined Press TVs comment programme with George Galloway on 31/12/2015. My contribution start 15 minutes in. View programme here    Screen shot from @presstv

Palestinians and Israelis will pay a heavy price for unchecked Jewish settler terror

The Middle East Monitor published this article on 29/12/2015    Image from the Middle East Monitor Palestinians and Israelis will pay a heavy price for unchecked Jewish settler terror The recent Israeli wedding video in which revellers danced with knives and guns, and stabbed pictures of Palestinian baby Ali Dawabsheh, who was burnt to death …

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TV Debate on increased extremism and violence within Israeli society 

24/12/2015    I took part in the Press TV debate on increased extremism and violence within Israeli society. Link here

As the Greek Parliament reognises Palestine, Turkey normalises relations with Israel

Tis the season of good will and anyone looking at a horrible 2015 from a Palestinian perspective knows they would welcome some good news. This year's Christmas present came in the form of a call for another European Government to recognise Palestine. This time it was the turn of the Greek Parlisment to overwhelmingly call …

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US presidential candidates threaten a just peace in historic Palestine

The Middle East Monitor has published this article  US presidential candidates threaten a just peace in historic Palestine 11/12/2015    Image from Middle East Monitor In recent weeks the race for the White House and the top job of president of the United States of America has been dominated by Republican hopeful Donald Trump. His …

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TV interview: World turning blind eye to Palestinians’ suffering

I was interviewed by Press TV on 22/11/2015    Link can be found here.

Palestinians have a problem with occupiers not Jews

The Middle East Monitor published this article, my first for the website. Friday 30 October 2015 Palestinians have a problem with occupiers not Jews One extremely disturbing feature of the recent clashes between Palestinians and Israelis has been what seems a deliberate framing by Israel of the reasons behind the knife attacks as simply hatred …

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TV interview about Netanyahu’s Holocaust lies

I was interviewed by RT on 21 October, 2015 about Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech in which he absolved Hitler of the Holocaust, blaming it instead on one Palestinian, Jerusalem Grand Mufti Amin Alhusseini    To watch the interview, click here