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Sarkozy Succumbs in Mediterranean Mismatch
France's President Sarkozy was forced to bite his tongue when the only non-state among 43 members present to form the Mediterranean Union - the Palestinian Authority - refused to sign the final summit declaration because it would have amounted to recognition of Israel as the Jewish State. Read
By: david singer | 19/07/2008 | Politics
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The Pope, Palestine and Papal Politics
The appointment by the Pope of a new Latin Patriarch for Jerusalem signals a dramatic change in relations between the Vatican and the Jewish State Read
By: david singer | 14/07/2008 | Religion
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Jerusalem's Judgement Day
An Arab from east Jerusalem rampaging through Jerusalem on 2 July 2008 trying to kill as many people as he could before being shot himself has signalled the final demise of President George Bush's Roadmap. Read
By: david singer | 05/07/2008 | Politics
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Palestinian Parentage Generates Jordanian Jitters
An unconfirmed report that Republican Presidential Nominee John McCain was going to declare Jordan the Palestinian State was enough to send Jordan's King Abdullah into a state of denial that he could well regret. Read
By: david singer | 27/06/2008 | Politics
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Petulance and Pandemonium in Petra
Arab League Secretary Amr Moussa's verbal attack on Israel's President Shimon Peres has backfired very badly and exposed the Arab League's ineffectual policies in relation to the objectives and desired outcomes sought by President Bush. Read
By: david singer | 20/06/2008 | Politics
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West Bank Vision Requires Subdivision
President Bush's vision to create a new Arab State between Jordan and Israel cannot ever eventuate without the subdivision of the West Bank between Jews and Arabs. Read
By: david singer | 15/06/2008 | Politics
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Obama Torpedoes the Palestinian State
Barak Obama has rejected the 40 years old Arab demand that millions of former Arab residents and their descendants be allowed to emigrate into Israel. In publicly supporting Israel's refusal of this demand, Obama has ensured no new Palestinian State has any chance of being created should he be elected the next American President. Read
By: david singer | 08/06/2008 | Politics
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Abbas Loses the Plot
It is time for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to step down following his criticism of President Bush's speech on the occasion of Israel's 60th Anniversary. Abbas's continuing refusal to recognise Israel as a Jewish State ensures that he cannot possibly negotiate any successful realisation of President Bush's Roadmap. Read
By: david singer | 24/05/2008 | Politics
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President Bush, Condoleezza Rice and Forgotten Letters
The attempt by President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to play down the significance of the exchange of letters between America and Israel in April 2004 threatens to implode the Roadmap and and lay the blame for its inevitable collapse on the President himself. Read
By: david singer | 17/05/2008 | Politics
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Abbas Tears Up President Bush's Roadmap
The insistence by Abbas that the West Bank and Gaza remain one unified entity and that Hamas be allowed to take part in future elections signals the end of the Roadmap. Read
By: david singer | 17/05/2008 | Politics