I have sent the following email to the White House:

“The Israeli press reports that the US has backed down on the settlement freeze demand, that a "compromise" has been worked out. I hope this isn't true, I hope that we are still standing firm that "freeze" means… Read full post »

Addition June 24, 2009. From Foreign Policy:

The other group said to be concerned by Ross's perceived takeover of Middle East turf is the team of Middle East Peace special envoy George Mitchell, which now has to contend not only with resistance from all quarters of the region, but also/… Read full post »

As reported by the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, Neve Gordon is hung up on one word in Obama’s Cairo address: “continued.” (http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.net/)

Gordon is the author of “Israel’s Occupation” which exposes the cynical and ingenious planning… Read full post »

On Thursday evening June 4 I gave a talk about the peace process, Obama's Cairo address that morning, and what we can do to help. The result is the list of links below.

First read my talk (first link in the list below) and then contact your members of congress.… Read full post »

High on the hilltop overlooking the village the armed illegal aliens survey the people below, whose only weapons are the sticks and stones they can manage to pick up. The people on the hilltop commute over high-speed highways to work in the land whose army protects them while the villagers spend… Read full post »

That's the headline in today's (May 17) paper. Way down at the bottom of the item we read: "Barak said he thought an agreement with the Palestinians could be achieved within three years. However he did not explicitly use the word state in his remark, leaving other options for Netanyahu."

Aside… Read full post »

Zionist terrorists who became Israeli Prime Ministers 

Golda Meir

Menachen Begin

David Ben Gurion

Yitzhak Shamir

In my campaign for US recognition of Palestine I am often asked what about Hamas? What about the terrorists? The four I have named above were all… Read full post »

By continuing to build new settlements or even expand existing ones Israel is making it ever harder for itself to accept a Palestinian state. By continuing to subsidize Israel  we are making this policy possible. (At last count half a billion dollars of "taxpayer money" a year were being devoted… Read full post »

A reply to Alan Nothnagle who proposes that Israel absorb the occupied territories to create a single state where the British Mandate of Palestine once stood. He poses as a model South Africa, which ended apartheid peacefully. He also points out that the swiss cheese West Bank, where the Palestinians… Read full post »

Faced with determined opposition while supporters remain passive even strong-willed presidents may fold.

President Ford wanted to “reasess” the Israel policy that Kissinger had developed with Nixon. “Reassessment provoked a furious response from the American friends of Israel. On M… Read full post »

I generally support the J-Street principles:

• Consistent and concerted diplomatic engagement by the United States to achieve Israeli-Arab peace. A negotiated end to the Israeli-Arab and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts serves both U.S. and Israeli strategic
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The "roadmap" and all peace programs hitherto proposed envisage granting stateho0d to Palestine at the end, when the "final status" has been defined.

So the State of Palestine will be created at the end...of an endless process.

About 100 nations  have already recognized Palestine, not including… Read full post »

At international “peace” conferences, including summits the Palestinian delegations sat at the table as “equals” with the Israelis. But when they arrived home they had to pass humiliating checkpoints like any other Palestinian Arab. They did not have diplomatic passports recog… Read full post »

Reading over my last posting the thought occurs: If Israel suspects we are waiting for them to act first, they never will! They are super clever at finding excuses and pretexts not to act even on previous signed agreements.

Ever since Eisenhower US presidents have been striving to bring peace to the land between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, with no continuity of policy from one administration to the next.  The only common thread has been an abiding fear of offending Israel—or its surrogates here, sometim/… Read full post »

The chatter this week has been how Netanyahu and Lieberman have no problem telling our special representative George Mitchell that they do not accept the two-state solution supported by Obama and that they will not talk to the Palestinians or any Arab state.

The US has always pushed for… Read full post »

 The Israeli government has spent more than 40 years weaving a web in the Occupied Territories that so entangles us that we have no choice but to continue to support Israel's "peace" campaign, piece by piece. Prof. Daniel Breslau shows us how Israel wove this web, strand by strand.

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From Roger Cohen’s opinion piece on the Obama administration’s options with respect to Iran:  “To avoid that nightmare Obama will have to get tougher with Israel than any U.S. president in recent years. It’s time.” Here’s a link to the entire piece: http://www… Read full post »

Aaron David Miller's whimsically and appropriately titled "The Much Too Promised Land" (Bantam, paperback 2009) is at once autobiographical and a deep analysis of the prickly situation. He shows deep understanding and sympathy for both (?) sides in this struggle over land.

His description of an Israe… Read full post »

Book Review
Neve Gordon's book on "Israel's Occupation" gives amazing and frightening insight into the cynical planned ethic cleansing, nay genocide that has been going on since 1948 and especially with its full implementation after 1967. Gordon doesn't say it in so many words but it would appear to a… Read full post »