After the celebration of the White House signing of normalization accords among Israel, Bahrain and UAE, invoking Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton’s signing of Israeli-Palestinian peace accords in 1979 and 2000, euphoria is wearing off and a sober realization is setting in: they may not be all they’re cracked up to be. Of course, […]
Where Deals of the Century Go to Die
Jared Kushner on why the Palestinians would accept his Middle East peace plan: “I’m not here to be trusted…They’re gonna judge it based on the facts and then make a determination. Do they think this will allow them to have a pathway to a better life or not?” @DCTVny @HBODocs pic.twitter.com/TVISoMmDBc — Axios (@axios) June […]
Can Ethiopia-Eritrea Reconciliation Offer Hope for Israel-Palestine?
A young girl in Asmara celebrates. She will get to grow up only knowing #Eritrea & #Ethiopia as two independent countries at peace w each other. May she know her history and never see the loss, fighting, suffering & trauma of war so many of us grew up with. She is our future. pic.twitter.com/QbeF7aEYDb — […]
Thinking He’s Off-Mike, Bibi Disses EU and Obama, Concedes “Dozens” of Israeli Attacks on Syria
NOTE: Middle East Eye has just published my latest article, Unprecedented and combustible: Why the boycott of Al-Aqsa matters. It deals with last week’s attack on the Haram al Sharif and the Muslim boycott of the holy sites. It hasn’t been a good week for Bibi Netanyahu. A few days ago he left for Europe […]