Category: Palestine

29 standing ovations

Why the US applauds Israeli defiance By Rupert Cornwell, Thursday, 26 May 2011 … Accounts vary on whether Benjamin Netanyahu received 28 or 29 standing ovations during his address to the US Congress on Tuesday. But the exact figure scarcely matters. Suffice it to note that they were two or three more than the 26 …

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His predecessors wallowed

Shalom, Netanyahu By Gideon Levy, 02:51 26.05.11 … The “speech of his life” must now quickly become the speech of Prime MInister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political demise. The hour is pressing, there is no time and nothing is going to come of Netanyahu any more. Even the snake oil peddlers who proffered masses of expectations in …

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Sold to the highest bidder

Congress to Palestinians: Drop dead By MJ Rosenberg, 25 May 2011 15:42 … If anyone had any doubt about whether the Palestinians would declare a state in September, they can’t have them now. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu delivered a speech to Congress that essentially was a series of insults to Palestinians and every insult …

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An iron wall high enough

Time for Netanyahu to ditch his do-nothing policy By Richard Cohen, Monday, May 23, 6:39 PM … Every man has a father, and Binyamin Netanyahu’s is worth knowing. He is Benzion Netanyahu, born 101 years ago in what was soon to become Poland and living now in what has become Israel. He is a historian …

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Summer is on its way

Nakba day: we waited 63 years for this By Karma Nabulsi, Thursday 19 May 2011 … It was the moment for which we had all been holding our breath for decades – for 63 years to be precise. Palestinians everywhere watched the unfolding scene transfixed and awed. The camera followed the movements of a small …

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No such thing

From the lying lips of Mike Huckabee (a likeable liar), a man who has known Palestinians, who has children who were educated by a Palestinian:  “There’s no such thing as a Palestinian.”  Haram… – Monsieur d’Nalgar [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DYB5YGTFRg[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DYB5YGTFRg

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The bi-national one-state solution

Netanyahu and the one-state solution By Neve Gordon, 23 May 2011 14:43 … Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address US legislators on Tuesday. He will, no doubt, tell members of Congress that he supports a two-state solution, but his support will be predicated on four negative principles: no to Israel’s full withdrawal to the 1967 …

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