Palestine Blogs

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was in London recently. Did anyone know? Did western media care? No. Not until reports appeared that Jewish community leaders cancelled a meeting with him after...

Poor President Barack Obama, ops, Uncle Shlomo, it seems the litmus tests of his loyalty to Israel and Israel First is a war on Iran. No matter what he does for Israel and Israel’s supporters within...

Part I – Two Democratic Elections 　 There have now been two democratic elections in the Middle East as a consequence of the Arab Spring. One was in Tunisia in October 2011, and the recent...

There can be few things more despicable than robbing a family of their home then destroying it in front of their eyes. But this is Israeli policy. And when the following news item arrived in my inbox...

  An Analysis (22 January 2012) by Lawrence Davidson Part I – The Spanish Front Among the numerous wars that are perennially being waged worldwide is the one between truth-tellers and...

“ISRAEL HAS no foreign policy, only a domestic policy,” Henry Kissinger once remarked. This has probably been more or less true of every country since the advent of democracy. Yet in Israel, this...

With the world in such an economic, financial, political and social mess and has been for a number of years one has to wonder what the role, purpose and mission of the World Economic Forum and the...

The ‘consultation’ on a statutory lobby register may be a window of opportunity The Queen needs a new royal yacht. But the British government says it can’t afford to buy her one. The £80...

In this week in history: Filastin newspaper closed by the Ottoman authorities after Zionist complained (1914), bylaws of the “Muslim-Christian Association” approved in Jerusalem (1919),...

The human body is an amazing creation. It’s not only the most complex system known to mankind, but it embodies within it signals that tell its owner that something has gone wrong. A similar...

When I was growing up in Palestine, I remember the first picture I ever took with my family, and it was a picture in clothes we got from a Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE)...

  Part I – Zionist Reality Last month Amira Hass, one of Israel’s best, bravest and most disliked journalists wrote a short piece in Haaretz entitled “When ‘fascist’ is not a rude...

The wheel is turning full circle. Last week the Israeli parliament updated a 59-year-old law originally intended to prevent hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees from returning to the land...

Almost three years ago, Richard Perle, also known as “Prince of Darkness,” brazenly attempted to deny his own existence as a leading pro-Israel architect of the Iraq war, when he stated, “There is no...

Fuel oil for power generation becomes a black market item The British government gets hot under the collar at the very thought of Gaza smuggling anything in. So much so, that as Israel’s murderous...

Nazareth – Already-strained relations between Israel and Europe hit an all-time low this week after a leaked internal European report on the so-called peace process criticised Israel in...

“I saw a motorcycle. They were wearing ski masks — black ski masks. They were two people. I saw the motorcycle speed by. I saw them. It seemed as if they had something in their hands,” this is how a...

From the start Israel has shown contempt for the EU Agreement and its rules, so… Why don’t they pull the plug on Israeli trade? The imprisonment and collective punishment inflicted on the civilian...

Check out these videos of Israeli soldiers at a Machsom (Security Checkpoints). The behavior of these soldiers raises serious questions about “Jewish values” promoted by the Israeli state. These are...

2011 was a turbulent year for the world. With chained revolutions in the Arab world, mounting financial crisis in Europe and the unprecedented wave of protests and mass demonstrations in the U.S....