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Bumbling Obama bullies Bibi. Bibi hits back with AIPAC speech

Posted on 4 March 2014 by

President Obama did it again – he poured a great bucket of icy cold water on Binyamin Netanyahu’s head by implicitly threatening Israel with isolation and worse if they don’t cave in to every Palestinian (and American) demand in an … Continue reading →

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The artificial Palestinian identity and the “right of return”

Posted on 2 March 2014 by

The Palestinians claim that since they are separate national identity, they are entitled to “the right of return” as a basic inalienable right, and this forms a central, irrevocable platform in the “peace” negotiations with Israel. I have addressed this … Continue reading →

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This is how to do Hasbara

Posted on 26 February 2014 by

Naftali Bennett shows how it’s done on BBC’s Hard Talk program. The interviewer, Stephen Sackur, is quite hard-hitting, and is fairly irritating in places when he keeps harping on the purported instability of Netanyahu’s government and on the dangers of … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: The Palestinians – the people who always refuse a state

Posted on 24 February 2014 by

This is another guest post by frequent contributor and reader Brian Goldfarb. Abba Eban it was who came up with two of the greatest quotes on the post-1967 Israel/Palestine situation. The first was that “I think that this is the … Continue reading →

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The impossibility of dividing Jerusalem

Posted on 16 February 2014 by

The only country in the world whose municipal construction and zoning plans make international headlines is Israel. The latest manufactured outrage was triggered by a Jerusalem city council planning committee’s announcement of plans to build another 768 housing units in … Continue reading →

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John Kerry: dishonest broker, a petulant, thin-skinned bully

Posted on 6 February 2014 by

When I wrote in a recent post that it is unconscionable for Israel to have to negotiate under threats and menaces, I made no mention of the one person who ought to know better, and upon whom Israel depends to … Continue reading →

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