Tag Archives: Saeb Erekat

John J.  Xenakis

4-Jan-12 World View — Europe: Another Year Older And Deeper In Debt

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Israel says that Assad ‘only has weeks’ to rule Syria Israeli and Palestinian envoys meet, promise to meet again Europe: Another year older and deeper in debt Greece issues blunt warning that it will leave the euro without a deal Germany’s unemployment rate falls to post-reunification low Gunfights between rival militias erupt in Tripoli, Libya Afghanistan [...]
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John J.  Xenakis

2-Jan-12 World View: Palestinians Plan to Put Israel Under ‘International Siege’

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. No birthday party for 10th anniversary of euro currency Syria’s regime makes fools of the Arab League Israelis and Palestinians to resume non-negotiation negotiations Palestinians plan to put Israel under ‘international siege’ Chinese shoppers flood London after Christmas No birthday party for 10th anniversary of euro currency 500 euro bill No one is celebrating on the [...]
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Sun Tzu

Palestinians: Violence and Terrorism in Region Caused by… Newt Gingrich? UPDATE: Gingrich Reaffirms Support for Palestinian Statehood

Call us crazy, but maybe–just maybe–at some point you’re only looking for an excuse. From Reuters: Palestinian leaders said on Saturday U.S. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich had invited more conflict in the Middle East by calling the Palestinians an “invented” people who want to destroy Israel. Saeb Erekat, a senior Palestinian official, described [...]
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Caroline  Glick

The Israeli Left’s Faustian Bargain

The Palestinians’ decision to place the issue of the establishment of a Palestinian state before the United Nations for a vote next month repudiates of the principles of the 1993 Oslo peace framework, through which the Palestinian Authority was formed out of the PLO. The Oslo framework dictated that the final status of Judea, Samaria, [...]
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John J.  Xenakis

Palestinians Slam Netanyahu’s Speech To Congress

America was always a religious nation, but prior to WW II, America was really a Protestant nation, and was fairly hostile to Jews and Catholics, according to historian William G. McLoughlin. (See my 2006 article, “President George Bush talks about a ‘Third Awakening,’ but he has his history wrong.”) Benjamin Netanyahu Two major world events changed this [...]
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Caroline  Glick

Playing Israel’s Good Hand

On Wednesday night, Israelis received our first taste of the new Middle East with the missile strikes on Beersheba. Iran’s Palestinian proxy, the local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood known as Hamas, carried out its latest war crime right after Iran’s battleships entered Syria’s Latakia port. Their voyage through the Suez Canal [...]
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John J.  Xenakis

‘Palestine Papers’ Reveal Major Splits Between Palestinian and Arab Factions

Ten years’ worth of previously secret documents on the Mideast peace process from the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Fatah have been leaked to Al-Jazeera. Al-Jazeera has been releasing them from Sunday through Wednesday as a series of “revelations.” They were also released by the center-left London Guardian newspaper. The precise source of the [...]
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Caroline  Glick

Israeli ‘Human Rights’ Groups Are Political Agents of Influence

On Sunday December 19, the self-proclaimed “Israeli human rights” group B’Tselem disseminated a shocking story to the local and international media. B’Tselem claimed that the previous day Palestinian shepherd Samir Bani Fadel was peacefully herding his sheep when he was set upon by a mob of Israeli settlers. He alleged that these kippah-clad Israelis drove [...]
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Caroline  Glick

The Israeli Left’s Loser Message

The Israeli Left was once an optimistic place. But that is no longer the case. It once promised peace and happiness. But that is no longer the case. Today the Left is marked by equal doses of doom and gloom, irrationality and delusion. It operates in a closed universe in which reality has no place and [...]
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John J.  Xenakis

Mideast Peace Talks Take on a Comic Flavor

It could be a comedy Broadway play if the consequences weren’t so serious, but it’s increasingly obvious that everybody involved in the so-called Mideast “peace process” — with the possible exception of the Obama administration — does not really want to change the status quo. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Benjamin Netanyahu (AP) The comedy began in September [...]
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