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
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 …
Continue reading TV Interview on Palestinian Administrative Detainees
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
Geographically, the EU covers the whole of Europe but scientifically and culturally it includes only one non- EU state, Israel. It plays football and other sports in Europe, sings in the Eurovision Song Contest and is now to join the UE's Horizon 2020 research programme. A signing ceremony is to take place on Sunday 8/6. …
Continue reading The European Horizon exceptionally includes Apartheid Israel, why?
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. …
As Israel marks its 'Independence Day', it remains an entity torn between its geographical location, in the Middle East, and the nations it aspires to be amongst, the US and Europe. The Zionist movement decided, and Britain colluded in planting the Zionist state in Palestine. Perhaps they thought the 'Arabs' will eventually have to accept …
Birmingham city centre stood in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners, particularly 200 Administrative detainees on hunger strike since the 24th of April. The month of May is particularly poignant when one considers that 66 years ago, Zionist terrorists were busy ethnically cleansing 500 Palestinian towns and villages, forcing 800,000 native Palestinians into exile. The West Midlands …
Continue reading Birmingham vigil in support of Palestinian Hunger Strikers 3 May 2014
Over 200 Palestinian prisoners started an open-ended hunger strike a week ago to protest their administrative detentions by the Israeli occupying forces without any guilt or charges leveled against them. The West Midlands Palestine Solidarity Campaign (WMPSC) will hold a vigil as part of the May Day event outside Waterstones, on Sat 3rd May 12pm …
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