Palestine – Israel Sheds PLO As Negotiating Partner

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has concluded that completing successful negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) on the allocation of territorial sovereignty in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), Gaza and East Jerusalem is a mission impossible to achieve. Read more

America’s Political Mistakes Give Islamic State Big Breaks

America’s ongoing insistence on wanting Syria’s President – Bashar al-Assad – removed from power -continues to hinder American policy on removing Islamic State as a threat to international peace and security…writes David Singer. Read more

Russia and America Must Jointly Confront Islamic State

The possibility that Russia and America may at long last be seeking common ground on confronting Islamic State has been increased with US Secretary of State John Kerry revealing that his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov has approached America proposing military talks over Syria. Read more

Palestine – European Union Risks “Jew-hater” Label…writes David Singer

The European Union (EU) runs the risk of being labelled “Jew-hater” – should it proceed with its plans requiring supermarkets and other retailers to label products made by Jews in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) differently from those made by Jews in Israel. Read more

BDS – Sinister Hoax With Genocidal Objective…writes David Singer

 

The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign (BDS) instituted in 2005 by “Palestinian civil   Society” against Israel and its civil society continues to attract people from all around the world – including Jews and Israeli Arabs – who support the campaign without realising its genocidal objective. Read more

Beating the BDS Jew-haters…writes David Singer

Recently, a group of 52 Harvard students – of all backgrounds and faiths – visited Israel for 10 days during the Harvard Israel Trek 2015. Read more

Russia Demands American Capitulation To Help Eradicate Islamic State…writes David Singer

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called on America to end its attempt to remove Syria’s President Assad from power in return for Russia’s co-operation to militarily confront Islamic State. Read more

Carter causes consternation with election call for Palestinian Arabs

 

Former US president Jimmy Carter has created a stir with his call for Palestinian Arabs to hold elections to end the internecine struggle between Hamas and the PLO in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and Gaza…writes David Singer. Read more

Nuclear Knockout Not Nearly Nailed…writes David Singer

President Obama seems to have been unduly optimistic in triumphantly proclaiming the success of the P5+1 talks with Iran in Lausanne. Read more

Palestine – Obama Admits Defeat On Renewed Negotiations For Two-State Solution

President Obama has finally admitted the death of any renewed negotiations for a two-state solution between Israel and the PLO for the next several years – telling the media on 24 March: Read more

Hakoah: She said…he said..he said

The future of Sydney’s Hakoah Club is the focus of intense campaigns by both the incumbent board and a group focused on a different plan for the development of the sporting organisation’s White City site.  David Singer responds to Andrew Boyarsky and Victor Grynberg joins the debate. Read more

Netanyahu Puts Behaviour Change By Iran On Negotiating Agenda

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – addressing the American Congress – has made behaviour change by Iran an essential pre-requisite to the successful conclusion of negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 – France, Germany, United Kingdom, China, Russia and the United States…writes David Singer. Read more

Islamic State: Egypt wakes up – when will America and Russia?

Whilst the American–led coalition continues its largely ineffectual air strikes in Iraq and Syria – Islamic State has spread its barbaric tentacles into Libya with alarming rapidity. Read more

European Union Causes Peace Process And Quartet Meltdown

David Singer writes on the EU’s illegal funding of buildings in the West Bank. Read more

United Nations Security Council Abandons Humanity…writes David Singer

In a supposed show of unity by the world powers against Islamic State – the United Nations Security Council is reportedly preparing to adopt a legally binding resolution intended to choke the terrorist group’s ability to trade in oil, antiquities and hostages. Read more

Obama Honouring Presidential Commitments Trumps Protocol…writes David Singer

The furore engendered by House Speaker John Boehner inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress on March 3 – supposedly in breach of Presidential protocol – marks the first step in Congress flexing its muscles to persuade President Obama to re-think his concerted attempts to undermine the written commitments made by President Bush to Israel’s then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in his letter dated 14 April 2004 – as overwhelmingly endorsed by the House of Representatives 407-9 on 23 June 2004 and the Senate 95-3 the next day (“American Written Commitments”). Read more

Yemen Crumbles, Iraq Stumbles, America Fumbles…writes David Singer

There are some 60 States in the American-led coalition pledged to degrading and destroying Islamic State – but only 21 – regarded as “key members” were at the Conference in London on 22 January – which UK Foreign Minister Philip Hammond described in these terms: Read more

CharlieHebdomania Plunges World Into Whirlpool Of Islamic Violence

The sale of seven million copies of the magazine Charlie Hebdo featuring a front page cartoon depicting an image purporting to be that of Muhammad has brought forth its first bloody response from the Islamic world – Niger – where reportedly three people have been killed and six churches attacked and looted…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Mapping The Truth Erases A Long-running Fiction

The US State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs has featured a map on its website – which both rejects and corrects the misleading use of the terms “1967 boundaries” and “1967 borders” – which have never existed in relation to any territorial subdivision between Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Read more

Remembering Australia’s First Jihadist Attack – 1 January 1915

The Department of Veteran’s Affairs announced last March that the centenary of the Battle of Broken Hill on 1 January 2014 would not be formally commemorated by the Australian Government…writes David Singer. Read more

Islam Must Degrade And Destroy Islamic State

The impassioned plea by the father of a Jordanian F16 fighter pilot captured by Islamic State has shot down attempts by American President Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to distance Islam from the Islamic State (ISIL)…writes David Singer. Read more

Islamic State – The Bogeyman Haunting The Lindt Chocolat Café

The joint press conference given by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on 16 December after the siege at the Lindt Chocolate café in Martin Place had finally ended – was particularly noteworthy for certain viewpoints expressed by Mr Abbott during that conference…writes David Singer. Read more

Pope Slams International Indifference To Ending Islamic State Barbarism

Pope Francis has considerably upped the ante in enlisting spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians – Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I – to sign a joint Common Declaration demanding an end to international indifference regarding Islamic State barbarism being perpetrated against religious minorities in Syria and Iraq…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Continuing Jew-hatred Must Extract A Heavy Price

The slaughter of four Rabbis with axes, knives and guns whilst praying in a synagogue along with the serious wounding of six other Jews caught in this horrific blood bath – and the murder of a Druze police officer who went to their rescue – is the end result of endemic Jew-hatred…writes David Singer Read more

Islamic State – APEC A Fizzer – G20 Promises No Better

The 2014 APEC Conference in Beijing this past week has been and gone and the G20 Conference in Brisbane is taking place in Brisbane this weekend…writes David Singer. Read more

Skirt-fronting Putin Can Help Eradicate Islamic State Crisis…writes David Singer

The possibility of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott shirt-fronting Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit in Brisbane next month over the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH 17 in Ukrainian sovereign territory with the loss of all on board – including 38 Australians – has receded following Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop’s 25 minute meeting with Putin on the sidelines of the Asian Europe Summit held in Milan this week. Read more

Syria Hysteria Dooms Obama’s Plan To Destroy ISIL…writes David Singer

President Obama’s failed policies in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Egypt and the West Bank do not bode well for the success of the President’s current plans to end the threat to world peace posed by the meteoric rise of both the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant (ISIL) and the Al-Nusrah Front (ANF). Read more

Gaza – Australian Politicians Duped By Dud Declaration…writes David Singer

The Canberra Declaration on Gaza signed by 76 current and former Federal and State parliamentarians displays their total factual ignorance and political naiveté concerning the war raging between Hamas and Israel for the last six weeks. Read more

Palestine – Israel Takes Off The Gloves…writes David Singer

Israel’s disastrous unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in August 2005 faces possible reversal with the Israeli army’s re-entry into Gaza in July 2014. Read more

Palestine – Australia Rejects Fiction To Recognise Reality…writes David Singer

Australia will no longer be referring to East Jerusalem and the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) as “occupied territories”. Read more

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