By Alan Hart*
On Monday 12 October, Prime Minister Netanyahu opened the Knesset's winter session by blasting the Goldstone Report that accuses Israel of committing war crimes and vowing that he would never allow Israelis be tried for them. But that was not his main message. It was an appeal, delivered I thought with a measure [...]
By Dr. Alan Sabrosky*
There is always something compelling about a "David and Goliath" confrontation. Most of us prefer winners to losers, and almost everyone feels a thrill when the underdog takes a stand and prevails.
This is the surprising situation now unfolding in the rising drama of the Goldstone Report on Gaza. Goliath — in [...]
WRITTEN BY RAMZY BAROUD
World events have taken an interesting turn recently, with the Goldstone report, which wreaked havoc in the beginning of the week being nearly completely overshadowed by Iran’s revelation of another nuclear facility, according to diplomats in Vienna on September 25.
The Iran nuclear threat – although theater is a more suitable term – [...]
WRITTEN BY Khalid Amayreh
This article was written a few hours before the New York meeting
One doesn’t have to be a prophet to predict the outcome, or more correctly failure, of the three-way meeting between President Obama, the Israeli premier Benyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, which is to take place later today in [...]
PM Netanyahu addresses National Defense College graduates
The Israeli Prime Minister’s speech, disseminated by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (what I like to call the Science Fiction Department of the Globe for their interpretation of reality) is another exercise in using rhetoric to pre-emptively set the scenario for the next battle against the impending global [...]
WRITTEN BY Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria
The current standoff between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the issue of 'settlements' has raised the prospect of defining a new chapter in US/Israel relations.
Media reports suggest that since Obama’s administration took office a new sense of optimism prevails regarding a “peace deal” between [...]
Hagada Hasmalit, 17 June 2009
Translated from Hebrew by George Malent
Netanyahu’s speech [of 14 June 2009] was perceived in Israel and the world as a reply to Obama’s speech in Cairo, and as such it has provoked a great deal of interest.
The content of the speech itself was fairly typical of those given by previous prime [...]
WRITTEN BY Ahmad Barqawi
“The simple truth is that the root of the conflict has been and remains – the refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish People to its own state on its historical homeland”. Never have I heard the entire Arab-Israeli conflict summed up so concisely yet so deceptively.
Of course those were the [...]
A special political vocabulary prevents us from being able to recognize what's going on in the Middle East.
On Sunday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech that — by categorically ruling out the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state — ought to have been seen as a mortal blow to the quest for [...]
