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 …
Continue reading The PA should note, Authority comes from the People, not from the name
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 …
Continue reading The more Abbas appeals to the Israeli public, the more Netanyahu belittles him
26/6/2014 Birmingham 7:30-9:00 Public meeting: Solidarity with Palestine </a The Vice President of the NUT, Philipa Harvey visited Palestine as part of the NUT delegation last year. She will be reporting on her visit to a meeting organised by the West Midlands Palestine Solidarity Campaign and sponsored by the Birmingham Trades Council. It will be …
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Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Olmert enjoyed periods of rule during which the Palestinians, or to be more accurate Fatah and Hamas, have been divided. The divisions which started in 2007 have remained largely intact since then and through pretty turbulent times in the Middle East. Repeated attempts at reconciliation under the auspices of a number …
Continue reading Is Netanyahu’s divide and rule strategy unravelling?
Here we are again. The blame for an incident, the taking of three Israelis reportedly teenagers in the West Bank, has once again been laid on the PalestinIans alone. Netanyahu holds PA President Abbas responsible because he says this took place in the West Bank. Considering Abbas's commitment reiterated again recently, to joint security cooperation, …
Continue reading When will Israelis get it? It’s the occupation stupid.
سعادة السفير عهدناك متحدثاً قويا ومدافعاً شرساً عن حقوق الشعب الفلسطيني منذ قدومك الى لندن عام ٢٠٠٥. فمع شح الموارد للسفارة مقارنةً بالطرف الاخر سمعتك تتحدث في العديد من المؤتمرات والمظاهرات وكنت دائماً أشعر بإخلاصك لقضيتها العادلة. وهاذا ما زاد من هول الصدمة عندما قرأت المقال المشترك بينك والبروفيسور رافائيل كوهين -الماغور في مجلت فأقوم …
Continue reading رسالة مفتوحة الى السفير الفلسطيني لبريطانيا الدكتور مانويل حساسيان
Action alert from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign here as the Bedouin citizens of Israel have their village demolished again.
Image from the Daily Telegraph Israeli leaders would like us all to think that resolving the Palestinian injustice is now an issue that is past its sell by date. Nobody cares of a 47 year old occupation simply continues forever. They point to events in Syria, Libya and now Iraq and place these way above …
Continue reading The Palestinian issue is still the key to peace in the Middle East
Here are links to my appearance on the 'Debate' programme on Press TV on 8/6/2014. This covered Administrative detainees as well as the peace talks. The other guest just could not see that the Pope's gesture in bringing Abbas and Peres to pray at the Vatican had limited value as I argued here. Part 1 …
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The Observer 8/6/2014 Link A group called Breaking the Silence has spent 10 years collecting accounts from Israeli soldiers who served in the Palestinian territories. To mark the milestone, 10 hours' worth of testimony was read to an audience in Tel Aviv. Here we print some extracts Israeli soldiers arrest a Palestinian after clashes at …
Continue reading Stories from an occupation: the Israelis who broke silence
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