In the last few days I have been following the visits of both Vice President Joe Biden and Senator George Mitchell to the Middle East and the different and competing messages coming out of Washington, Ramallah, Tel-Aviv and Cairo the seat of the Arab League. 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 »
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 »
The Olive Harvest season in Occupied Palestine is the time when armed Jewish settlers and thugs come out of their rat holes and sewer hiding places, muster the courage under the protections of the infamous Jewish Army, energized with substantial cash infusion they get from their Jewish American sponsors, and go on a rampage burning and uprooting century old olive trees, shooting and harassing Palestinian villagers as they go about their annual ritual of “hassad al-zietoun”. Read the rest of this entry »
Without doubt, Mr. Abdul-Bari Attwan stands out as a professional journalist, dedicated Arab nationalist and a powerful and articulate voice for Palestine in his newspaper “Alquds Alarabi” and in media interviews. However Abdul-Bari Attwan got it wrong, terribly wrong when he published his column on September 25, 2009 titled” Abbas Next Move”. I say the next move should not be Abbas, but the people, the more than 7 million dead silent Palestinians who chose and for the last 60 years to be marginalized and disfranchised by a failed political leadership that brought nothing but disaster to the Palestinians and the cause of liberation. Read the rest of this entry »
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