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Happy Eid?

For the Zionist occupiers of our land fair and open negotiation is not in their game plan. What they have in mind and have planned for decades is expansion, intimidation and war by all means available.

(LONDON) - I doubt it. How could it be a happy Eid when we, Arabs and Moslems, cannot even agree on the sighting of the crescent moon at the beginning or at the end of Ramadan? A sorry state of affairs indeed.

I stopped celebrating any Eid in June 1967 when Israel defeated the inept and ill-prepared Arab armies, mainly from Egypt, Jordan and Syria and usurped the remainder of the historical land of Palestine, plus a large chunk of the Sinai Desert and the Golan Heights.

`God of our Weary Years, God of our Silent Tears` -James Weldon Johnson

The recent decision of the European Union to cease all EU expenditures for Israeli activities in the occupied territories was a shock to Netanyahu.

(CHICAGO) - This blog has an internal statistics page which reports a daily compilation of the number of “visits” to the current posting. The same page also reports on visits to previous postings.

A few days ago I noticed a few “visits” to the January 20, 2009, Wall Writings posting.

Peace Not Capitulation

To Mr Abbas and those at the helm in Ramallah I say, please, collect your papers, go home, dissolve the PA and put the burden of the occupation onto the occupiers not the occupied.

(LONDON) - Call me a cynic, but when it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck why do they insist on calling it a swan?

I am having a moment of déjà vu here. The talks about talks about how to conduct talks are underway in Washington and I cannot feel

Left, Arabs and The `Israeli Democracy`

The truth of the matter is that I don’t hold my breath, but I also hope to be wrong. And if I am wrong, we would have to congratulate Netanyahu for achieving the impossible – Bonding the Israeli elitist Left with Israel’s working class i.e. the Arabs

(LONDON) - In the ‘Only Democracy in the Middle East’ the Government decided to get rid of marginal opposition.

The Knesset passed yesterday a bill that seeks to raise election threshold to 4%. The new law is set to block the Arab and Left parties in Israel from participation in the political game.

Japan, Indyk and Negotiations

Netanyahu said it even more clearly: that he refused to accept borders of 1967 or a settlement freeze and that this move to negotiations is merely to strengthen Israeli positions.

(BETHLEHEM) - Public Negotiations began amid great fanfare in Washington DC. Saeb Ereklat sat next to a war criminal (Tsipi Livni who is responsible for massacre of hundreds of civilians in Gaza) and across from the Israeli lobbyist Indyk (representing the US) after giving up on the requirement for a settlement freeze and settling for informal verbal assurances.

This is the same Erekat who has been fruitlessly “negotiating” for 20 years along the same lines (hence his book titled “Life is negotiations”).

As Bogus Peace Talks Begin Again...
How UN Schemers Screwed up Middle East Peace Prospects for All Time

...with one 3-letter word

(LONDON) - Why, after 65 years, is the Palestinian homeland still under foreign military occupation and total blockade when international law and the United Nations say it shouldn't be?

And why have the Palestinians been pressured – yet again - to submit to ‘direct negotiations’, lamb versus voracious wolf, to haggle and plead for their freedom?

Netanyahu and Abbas on Negotiations

This is the same Netanyahu who also explained (when he thought no cameras were around) how he prevented implementation of the very minor withdrawal required under Oslo.

(BETHLEHEM) - From a letter in Hebrew by the Israeli Prime minister Netanyahu to the Israeli Jewish public explaining things:

“From time to time, prime ministers are called on to make decisions that go against public opinion – when the matter is important for the country..."

Kerry Stumbles Into a Peace `Bully` Role

The U.S. Secretary of State cannot meet with a delegation from the 22-member Arab League in Petra, Jordan. as Kerry did on July 17, and expect his strategy to retain confidential.

(CHICAGO) - Nicola Nasser, a blogger from Bir Zeit, Palestine, has delivered a stinging rebuke to John Kerry on the eve of the meetings with the U.S., Israeli and Palestinian negotiators.

Nasser’s blog, allarabi. exposed a “new tactic” in Kerry’s preparation for the peace conference, scheduled to begin Monday.

Letter to Another Dishonest `Peace` Broker

...bent on bypassing the justice process.

(LONDON) - Well John-boy, how do you think history will judge you?

The whole world has heard about your brilliant breakthrough - persuading trigger-happy US-subsidised Israel and the strangulated, unarmed Palestinians to agree "in principle" to resume the one-sided negotiations abandoned three years ago.

Caving to White House Pressure... Livni Squeals, Kerry Deals and the EU Picks Up the Tab

One of Livni’s demands was the EU doing what it did and targeting with the ‘terrorist’ label Hezbollah’s military wing.

(BEIRUT) - It was reportedly a hectic and intense past weekend in Washington and London according to an emailed report from a Capitol Hill source.

The Obama and Cameron administrations tracked down and button-holed the leaders of the 28 European Union delegations gathering in Brussels to finally vote on whether Hezbollah’s ‘military wing’ should be sanctioned...