September 11, 2013

Converted on the Road to Damascus

The swiftness with which attention is now being focused on collecting and destroying chemical weapons located in Syria has been truly breathtaking. Last Friday 6 September President Obama was waving a joint declaration signed by Australia, Canada, F...

September 10, 2013

Lost Chance at G20

President Obama has lost a golden opportunity at the G20 Summit in St. Petersburg to step back from undertaking a military assault on Syria, that promises to create hell for Syria's civilian population and to unleash consequences that can extend far ...

September 1, 2013

Australian Labour Stumbles over Anti-Jewish Policy

Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Foreign Affairs Minister Senator Bob Carr have gone underground since Carr announced on 8 August at the Lakemba Mosque in Sydney that Rudd personally as well as the Labor Party had adopted as policy that Jews...

July 29, 2013

Kerry Commits Harakiri

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has fallen on his sword in attempting to seek a renewal of negotiations designed to culminate in the creation of a new Arab State between Jordan and Israel. He has apparently learned nothing from the failed attempt...

July 26, 2013

European Union Plays Judge And Jury

The decision by the European Union (EU) to boycott Jewish organisations and institutions based in the West Bank and East Jerusalem will bring much joy to the Arab world in its ongoing hate campaign of denigration and demonization of the Jewish State....

July 2, 2013

Palestine -- the Binational State That Can Work

It is a pity that U.S. Secretary for State John Kerry still believes that a two-state solution is possible after twenty years of failed negotiations between Israel and the PLO to achieve such a result under the Oslo Accords and the Bush Roadmap. Whi...

May 28, 2013

Palestine -- Beware The Snake Oil Salesman

Paul Larudee, one of the founders of the Free Gaza and Free Palestine Movements and an organizer in the International Solidarity Movement, has made some incredibly misleading statements in his latest article "The Palestine Liberation Movement is not ...

April 16, 2013

Two New Palestinian Myths

Two new Arab myths have surfaced in the past week to complicate attempts by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to procure the resumption of the long-stalled negotiations between Israel and the PLO. The first myth can be directly attributed to Mustaf...

July 28, 2007

Israel's Illusion - Fatah feted is Hamas hated

Israel's unilateral decision  earlier this month to release 250 Fatah terrorists from Israeli jails continues the insane policy of appeasement adopted by successive Israeli Governments since the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993. This decision co...

July 18, 2007

Quartet Quartered, Road Map Thwarted, Palestine Aborted

The Quartet's Road Map has failed according to the ten foreign ministers of the European Union's Mediterranean States - Bulgaria, Cyprus, Spain, France, Greece, Italy , Malta, Portugal, Romania and Slovenia - ("the Mediterranean Ten"). In a...

June 29, 2007

Tony Blair and the Preconditions for Peace in the Middle East

Tony Blair couldn't even wait for the announcement of his appointment as special envoy for the Quartet - America, Russia, the European Union, and the United Nations - to repeat this famous mantra in the House of Commons: "The only way of bringin...

June 25, 2007

Palestine - Partition and Propaganda

President Bush and Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stubbornly and foolishly continue to push for the creation of an independent Palestinian State between Israel and Jordan, as Hamas and Fatah turn the proposed site for such a state - Gaza and the...

March 6, 2007

The Arab League, Apple Pie and Indigestion

Jordan's King Abdullah is at it again, repeating the mantra of the Arab League, of which Jordan is a foundational member:"The principal problem in the region is the Palestinian issue and, if it is not solved, it will be impossible to solve other...

February 22, 2007

Quartet Goes Gaga Over Gaza

Gaza has all the trappings of a State except declared Statehood. The 22 members of the Arab League and the Quartet - America, Russia, the United Nations and the European Union - have allowed this farce to continue for the last 18 months. Gaza, larger...