Notwithstanding the legal opinion submitted by the Foreign Ministry to then prime minister Levi Eshkol of the “Illegality” of sending Jews to settle the West Bank, each of the subsequent Israeli governments whether Labor, Likud or Kadima continued with an aggressive settlement policy through funding, authorization, land confiscation, and army protection, knowing well that Jewish settlements not only will kill the peace, but will kill the chance of any negotiated agreement of a two state solutions based on 67 borders and a shared Jerusalem. Settlement activities continued since 67 and will not stop now or in the future; peace was never a priority neither in Tel-Aviv nor in Washington or for that matter for Diaspora Jews. Read the rest of this entry »
For years marauding criminal and armed Jewish settlers have been terrorizing Palestinians villagers in and around Hebron, Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah, Tulkarem, Qalqillia among other places. These criminal gangs have engaged in cold blooded murder on almost daily basis, attacking and burning olive orchards, killing life stock and poisoning wells, yet not the Israeli leadership, certainly not the Palestinian leadership ever spoke up against this daily well organized and Israeli army protected campaign of terror.Read the rest of this entry »
Unlike former President George Bush, President Obama is well known for his smart, intelligence and savvy as a leader and as a politician and is critical and independent thinker who listens to his advisors but in the end he is his own man. However his approach to the conflict in the Middle East and his efforts to push for a two state solution through “proximity talks” raises some serious doubt if he really believes in such a solution. Read the rest of this entry »
The issue of continuing and expanding Jewish settlements came back to haunt the Palestinian leadership that negotiated Oslo and continued to negotiate with Israel for the last 16 years while Israeli continued to build and expand its settlements, not to mention building the Apartheid Wall. Read the rest of this entry »
Few weeks ago, when the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority Salam Fayyad announced his plans to develop and implement a complete plan for the total infrastructure of the Occupied Territories within two years the Israeli Prime Bibi Netanyahu promised this will never happen since the Occupied Territories are “disputed territories” and Israel has total control of area C representing 59% of the total territories occupied by Israel in 67. Read the rest of this entry »
It is written in the Torah if any one cares to read and know “ Destroy all the land, beat down their pillars and break their statues and waste all of their high places, cleansing the land and dwelling in it for I have given it to you for your possession” number 33:52,53. “ And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city both men and women, young and old and ox and sheep and ass with the edge of the sword” Joshua 6:21 Read the rest of this entry »
