Presidential and congressional elections are a very busy time for the “surgical units” of the American –Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
In the 1987 Academy Award winning movie “ The Last Emperor” by the brilliant director Bernando Bertolucci, in one of the scenes, the chief custodians of the Emperor Household was seen collecting his “private” parts as he leaves the Emperor household for the last time. Read the rest of this entry »
This time around Mahmoud Abbas did it, contrary to the skeptics and I am none of them, who believed he would back out the last minute and that he would blink in a game of chicken with a shameful and shameless Obama and his White House. He did what he should have done long time ago back in 1988. He did it what the people of Palestine wanted and should have done long ago. At the UN he spoke so well, so much from the heart, so much truth, in contrast to Obama’s bankrupt and hypocritical speech and in contrast to Netanyahu’s condensing lies and make believe. Read the rest of this entry »
Do not know why every one from President Obama, to Dennis Ross, to Bibi Netanyahu to Nancy Pelosi, to Senator Lieberman to Ron Prosor to Glen Beck, to AIPAC, to Anti-Defamation League to Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organization, all are going out of whack for the upcoming September vote on a Palestinian State at the UN. A vote that will not take place any way, since Mahmoud Abbas and the PLO leadership are looking for excuses and a way out of the predicament they put themselves in. Read the rest of this entry »
Mahmoud Abbas like his predecessor Arafat and the entire PLO leadership, never held accountable to any one or by any one, will for sure disregard all the advice and the momentum leading to September and announce a U-Turn at the UN in favor of sitting at the table with Bib Netanyahu. Read the rest of this entry »
Thanks to Mahmoud Abbas and his brilliant negotiating team, they helped Israel turn around the issue of settlements from a source of punishment to a source of rewards. Not so sure if President Mahmoud Abbas whose term expired some times ago, will ever realize that his way and the negotiating team he is relying on will bring nothing but one disaster after another. Read the rest of this entry »
Any one familiar with the “special” if not strange relationship between the US and Israel would be shocked with this title, but it is true. Israel and its Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and his foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman could not have better friends these days than Mahmud Abbas, Saeb Erekat, Yasser Abed Rabbo, Nabil Abu -Rudeina and the Palestinian negotiating team. Forget about Washington, it is Ramallah that counts these days and for good reasons. Read the rest of this entry »
