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 …
Continue reading Palestine Solidarity Meetings in Birmingham and Wolverhampton
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?
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 …
Continue reading TV Interview on Palestinian Administrative Detainees
Image from the Guardian Western powers have been adamant over the years that they will not firmly criticise, let alone sanction Israel because any act could derail the peace process. Let us out to one side the fact that the process has become an illusion that has not led to peace. In fact it has …
Continue reading No more ‘we must avoid any act that will derail the peace process’ please
I attended the recording of Aljazeera's Head to Head with Professor Norman Finkelstein at the Oxford Union on the 30th of May. Finkelstein is a well known supporter of an end to the occupation of Palestine. He has been writing and speaking about this iussue for 30 years and believes that his anti-occupation stance has damaged his …
Continue reading Which Norman Finkelstein turned up to Aljazeera Head to Head with Mehdi Hasan?
Update: 2 June 2014 The Palestinian Unity Government was finally sworn in on 2 June. Ministers from Gaza were barred from travelling to the West Bank to swear the oath of office. Here is a link to my interview on Press TV about the Unity Government. Original blog Archive photo Thursday 29 May 2014 is …
Image from @ynet Pope Francis is making a historic trip to the Middle East. He was made very welcome in Jordan. He deliberately landed in Bethlehem for his trip to Palestine and at the time of writing had landed in Israel. This is a tricky trip as he manoeuvres around tricky issues including the logistics. …
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