Jerusalem News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
The so-called prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, Salam Fayyad, said Sunday that the 1993 Oslo Accords signed between the Rabin government and the PLO promised the Arabs a state including the entire "West Bank" and eastern Jerusalem. "Our goal is to stop the occupation of all the territories occupied in 1967 and to establish a state on that land," Fayyad said. According...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | yesterday
Two recent articles in the Israeli press indicate the direction some of the Middle East debate is moving. Praise the “moderate” Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad while ignoring the ever-growing colonies in the West Bank. We should always be suspicious when occupiers praise the occupied: First, David Horowitz in the Jerusalem Post: Steadily and methodically, the PA [...]
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Palestinian panel to sidestep vote ABBAS WOULD STAY IN POST Move embodies 'political consensus of the PLO' The Washington Post "JERUSALEM -- To keep the Palestinian Authority government working after its term expires in January, Palestinians are turning to an unelected group of political insiders instead of holding new elections , according to Palestinian officials and outside analysts. The Palestine...
The Washington Note (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The is a guest note by Fadi Elsalameen, publisher of the Palestine Note. For the past several years Palestine Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's name on the streets of the West Bank and Gaza has become synonymous with the words credibility,...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
In an interview published Thursday in the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat , a Hamas spokesman said that the jihadist movement is loyal to "Palestinian principles" in its policy of terrorism against the Jews until Israel ceases to exist. Palestinian Authority Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas claimed earlier this month that Hamas had agreed to the establishment of a Palestinian...
Right Truth (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Unilateralism Is Our Only Option By Ted Belman, Israpundit Last August, PM Salam Fayyad released a Plan to “establish Palestine as an independent, democratic, progressive, and modern Arab state, with full sovereignty over its territory in the West Bank and...
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
By Ted Belman Last August, PM Salam Fayyad released a Plan to “establish Palestine as an independent, democratic, progressive, and modern Arab state, with full sovereignty over its territory in the West Bank and Gaza, on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.” within two years. Israel took little notice of it. In early November Haaretz reported it included a secret provision...
The Australian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
SALAM Fayyad's two-year plan for statehood should be taken seriously.
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
An Important Report By Jon Elmer "MUWAQQAR, Jordan, Nov 17 (IPS) - In the bleak and seemingly endless desert expanse that unfolds east of Jordan's capital city, Amman, lies a crucial cog in the ambitious regional designs of the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East. Commonly known by its acronym JIPTC, the Jordan International Police Training Centre is ground-zero for the transformation of U.S.-allied...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
By Aaron Klein TEL AVIV – A top Palestinian Authority negotiator told WND that the Obama administration won't stand in the way of a Palestinian threat to unilaterally ask the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state outside of negotiations with Israel. Despite widespread assumptions the U.S. would veto any such U.N. Security Council resolution, the PA negotiator said that in initial discussions,...
Foreign Policy Watch (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Nathan Brown, over at Carnegie, notes that one of the central flaws of the Obama administration's strategy towards Israel-Palestine is that they have essentially recycled many of the ill-considered policies of the Bush era. These poor policy choices include : A "West Bank First" strategy that favors backing Palestinian moderates in the West Bank while largely ignoring the situation in Gaza....
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
By Linda S. Heard Online Journal Contributing Writer Oct 15, 2009, 00:11 Courtesy Of The Online Journal Isn’t there something seriously wrong with our world when a people who have been wronged for over a half-century are treated as pariahs? Wherever the Palestinians turn, they find every door shut. Whatever they do to obtain even a fraction of their rights, they face insurmountable obstacles....
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Whatever lies ahead after Abbas's notification of not seeking the Palestinian presidency again, the status quo ante is over for good By Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah From Al-Ahram Weekly ".....Hence one Fatah leader in Ramallah questioned the "wisdom" of appointing a successor to Abbas under the current political conditions. "What would any potential successor to Abbas be able to do?...
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Over God's Dead Body. From Babba : An article in today’s Haaretz reports that the Netanyahu government is now struggling to deal with the possibility that the Palestinians may unilaterally declare statehood. In and of itself, this is not necessarily shocking. Yasser Arafat used much the same threat to pressure Netanyahu during his previous term as prime minister in the late 1990s. A new twist...
THE OUTRAGED SPLEEN OF ZION (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
An article in today’s Haaretz reports that the Netanyahu government is now struggling to deal with the possibility that the Palestinians may unilaterally declare statehood. In and of itself, this is not necessarily shocking. Yasser Arafat used much the same threat to pressure Netanyahu during his previous term as prime minister in the late 1990s. A new twist has been added, however, by the apparently...
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