By Nicola Nasser**
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A surplus of mediators have been around all the time, including the heavy weight Quartet of the UN, U.S., EU and Russia, as well as heaps of terms of reference of UNSC resolutions, bilateral signed accords and “roadmaps,” in addition to marathon bilateral talks that have left no stone unearthed, international as well as regional conferences were never on demand to facilitate the “peace process,” which has been lavishly financed to keep moving.
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John V. Whitbeck
There was visible and audible euphoria at the UN General Assembly in September when President Mahmoud Abbas announced Palestine’s application for UN membership, at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters in October when Palestine was admitted as a member state and at UNESCO again in December when the Palestinian flag was formally raised in Abbas’s presence.
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by URI AVNERY
AFTER THE founding of Israel, God appeared to David Ben-Gurion and told him: “You have created a state for my chosen people in my holy land. This merits a great reward. Tell me what you wish, and I will grant it.”
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By George S. Hishmeh
The carnage under way in Syria, particularly in Homs, is reprehensible. The bloody conflict, which has so far cost the lives of some 7,000 people, threatens to precipitate a civil war in this key Arab state adjoining several other prominent countries in the Middle East.
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Uri Avnery
Is there no limit to the villainy of Hamas? Seems there isn’t. This week, they did something quite unforgivable. They stole a war. For some weeks now, our almost new chief of staff, Benny Gantz, has been announcing at every possible opportunity that a new war against the Gaza Strip is inevitable. Continue reading →
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D.
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The Western political leaders and public institutions indulge in rhetoric of peace making but lack the vision, capacity, and courage to take challenging steps to make it happen. It is all politics of peacemaking – an illusion on the screen and not the real peacemaking. Continue reading →
By Ramzy Baroud
Sooner or later, there will be no escape from conducting a significant operation [in Gaza],” said Israeli army Chief of Staff Lieutenent General Benny Gantz on December 27, the third anniversary of Operation Cast Lead.
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By Adel Safty
The October 1973 Arab-Israeli war was recently in the news. Last October, the most famous Egyptian spy Ahmad Al Hawan died. For over 10 years, Al Hawan achieved for Egyptian intelligence against their Israeli rivals the kind of victory that legends are made of and paved the way for the honourable Egyptian military performance in the October 1973 war.
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By Ramzy Baroud
Ever since Hamas emerged victorious in the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections, myriad public opinion polls revealed that its popularity in the Occupied Territories was on a steady decline.
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By Linda S. Heard
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ultra-nationalistic sidekicks must be praying for Barack Obama’s departure next January. Continue reading →
