Zoon on June 8th, 2009

Gaza has become a basket case as Arab kills Arab in a fight for power and control between Fatah and Hamas.

Simultaneously Kassam rockets are being fired indiscriminately from Gaza into civilian population centres in Israel inviting retaliation by Israel that has so far been remarkably restrained but threatens to erupt into all out war.

Gaza’s population [...]

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President Bush appears to have abandoned any hope of creating a new Arab State between Israel and Jordan.

His closest confidante – the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice – suggested as much when she made this blunt observation after her visit to the Middle East this past week:

“I spent a lot of time on [...]

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Zoon on June 8th, 2009

President Bush will be bitterly disappointed if he is expecting a historic breakthrough in negotiations over the next twelve months between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).

The doublespeak and hype emanating from Annapolis about those ongoing negotiations needs to be understood in the context of the following key statement made by Israel’s Prime Minister [...]

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Zoon on June 7th, 2009

Jordan’s King Abdullah and Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert certainly had a lot to talk about when Mr Olmert made a surprise visit to Amman yesterday for a two hour working lunch with the King.

High on their agenda would have been the disastrous performance of PLO Chairman and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas [...]

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Zoon on June 7th, 2009

PLO Chairman and President of the Palestinian Authority – Mahmoud Abbas – was clearly not happy with the remarks made by President Bush on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of Israel‘s reconstitution as an independent Jewish state within its biblical homeland 2000 years after it had last flourished there.

In what [...]

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Zoon on June 7th, 2009

Subdivision of the West Bank between Jewish and Arab claimants has always been an essential ingredient of President Bush’s 2002 vision to create a new Arab State between Israel and Jordan.

Indeed such a subdivision had been pursued by President Clinton in 2000 before negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) broke down after [...]

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Zoon on June 7th, 2009

Concern for Gaza’s civilian population has engendered a wave of demonstrations around the world over the past few days as Israel’s army enters Gaza to try and effectively end the incessant barrage of rockets and mortars that have been fired indiscriminately into Israel’s population centres by Hamas for the last eight years.
Significantly missing from those [...]

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For better or for worse Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) are the parties that will – for the next 12 months – be negotiating the resolution of sovereignty in the West Bank with a view to ultimately creating a new independent Arab State between Israel and Jordan. These identical parties have been [...]

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Zoon on June 6th, 2009

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack revealed this week that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been talking to ex-Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton about their experiences in trying to negotiate peace between Israel and its Arab enemies.

Carter successfully brokered a peace treaty at Camp David in 1978 between Egypt and Israel, which [...]

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Zoon on June 5th, 2009

Ex-President Jimmy Carter has hogged the media spotlight this week over his intended – and subsequent – meetings with Hamas head honcho Khaled Meshaal and other Hamas leaders – thereby incurring the wrath of Israel, the United States, the European Union and the Palestinian Authority.

Meeting with terrorists whose charter demands the elimination of Israel and [...]

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