9/11: Tales of America’s Longest War
JAMAL KANJ*
SEP. 3, 2021
This year’s 9/11 commemoration marks
the ending of America’s longest war, leaving behind a country swirling in
confusion and fright. Like Vietnam, it’s a war ended by facts on the ground,
not military might.
Why would a war between the
strongest army and a group alienated from the world last so long and end up
with such dismal outcomes? READ MORE ...
Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood: Microcosm of the Palestine
question
Jamal Kanj*
May 19, 2021
Palestinian
diaspora narratives are broad. Sheikh Jarrah is the story of Palestinian
families, in one East Jerusalem neighborhood, under the Israeli occupation ... Through my own life experience growing up as a stateless refugee, I can
appreciate the unfortunate threat of expulsion facing Palestinian families in
Sheikh Jarrah. READ MORE...
Faux peace: Israel and Arab Gulf Royals
Jamal Kanj*
September 16, 2020
Ascribing the euphemism, peace, for formally normalizing the relationship between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the smaller Island of Bahrain with
Israel, is an abysmal attempt to repackage Jarred Kushner’s string of failures and
Donald Trump’s obsession for a pseudo achievement in a difficult election year. More ...
Why I’ll
vote for the Jewish candidate in US presidential election?
Jamal Kanj
September
25, 2016
Let me start
with a confession: I didn’t get it right when I speculated
the Republican Party
would not nominate Donald Trump for US president. I argued in
an earlier column
that if they did, the narcissistic Trump would most likely run as an
independent candidate. MORE...
Chilcot verdict: Tony B_liar
Jamal Kanj
July 17, 2016
How many words does it take for the
British to say a liar? 2.6 million words to be exact.
The Chiclot report had also painted
Tony Blair as submissive to George W Bush, and lacked rudimentary judgment when
evaluating intelligence
Mohamed Ali: An American tale
JAMAL KANJ
Sunday, June 19 2016
It is fair to assume that most readers today can’t name the
current
heavyweight boxing champion. The same people would most likely name of the
champion from fifty years ago. READ MORE
What cost Israel…
Jamal Kanj
May 15, 2016
http://www.gdnonline.com/Details/87036/What-cost,-Israel
Much had been argued about the creation of Israel and the ensuing 1948 ethnic cleansing of non-Jewish Palestinians.
Sadly however, most had become a desensitised academic debate. A lifeless abstract portrayal failing to depict what it really meant for one to be a refugee without a country.
On this 68th commemoration of the Nakba (or catastrophe), I wanted to show what it meant to one Palestinian refugee.READMORE
Israel’s
apartheid character
JAMAL KANJ
February
28, 2016
http://www.gdnonline.com/Details/69877/Israel%E2%80%99s-apartheid--character
Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom created a
maelstrom in
Israel by merely demanding a “credible investigation into deaths
of
Palestinians in order to clarify and bring about possible accountability.”
Israel declared the Swedish official persona non grata for
daring to
demand (which no Arab official has done until now) investigations
into
the extra-judicial killings of Palestinian children. READMORE
Trump: A test of American democracy
JAMAL KANJ
Feb 28, 2016
Empirical experience shows that democracy has a fatal flaw
when voters flock behind a charismatic demagogue who can skilfully exploit
people’s fear, insecurity and anger.
By exploiting the same, the democratic experiment has
brought
us in past and present the likes of Hitler, Mussolini, George
The most dangerous
Palestinian
Jamal Kanj
Feb 14, 2016
http://www.gdnonline.com/Details/66326
In the last
week’s column, I wrote on the banned love story from the
Israeli high school
reading list. The Israeli education ministry claimed
that young Jewish students
might not comprehend “the significance
of miscegenation” for “maintaining the
national-ethnic identity of
the [Jewish] people.”
Oddly enough, the Israeli argument to maintain
the Jewish “ethnic
identity” from dilution finds similar root in long gone or
irrelevant
racist movements spanning from Nazi Germany to the Ku Klux Klan
Rights of
Palestinian Israeli citizens...
Jamal Kanj*
January 31, 2016
http://www.gdnonline.com/Details/62994/Rights-of-Palestinian-Israeli-citizens
Palestinian
civic organisations inside Israel have declared January 30 the Day of
Solidarity with Palestinian Israeli citizens.
Israel was
established in 1948 on the ruins of more than 500 native towns and
villages and
the forceful displacement of approximately 780,000 Palestinians.
Only 153,000
Palestinians remained under what became Israel. Of which,
approximately 25 per
cent became refugees in their own country when their
homes were destroyed and
their land was expropriated by the new
How the deviated “war on terror” made us unsafe?
Jamal Kanj
November 22, 2015
On a Thursday night, terrorists blew themselves up in the
streets
of Beirut. The next day, co-ordinated terrorist attacks in des rues
of
Paris. The same perpetrators targeted Muslims and Christians
Is Erdogan a great
leader?
By JAMAL KANJ
November 15, 2015
It is high time for Recep Tayyip Erdogan to step aside if Turkey
to continue
progressing democratically, and flourish economically. Great
leaders know
when and where to pass their torch. Readmore
Tony Blair and the other sucker…
JAMAL
KANJ
November 8, 2015
I apologize for the fact that the intelligence we received
was wrong,”
Tony Blair told Fareed Zakaria during a CNN interview. The TV interview
came ahead of the much delayed British Chilcot―expected now by next
summer―report
investigating Iraq war. READMORE
Israel’s haunted
Temple...
Jamal Kanj
October 11,
2015
http://www.gdnonline.com/Details/27581/Israel%E2%80%99s-haunted-temple
Tension in Jerusalem has escalated to dangerous levels in
response to
deliberate Israeli provocation at Haram Al Sharif or the Noble
Sanctuary.
This fragile situation was further worsened by new Israeli
government
decrees to blow up Palestinian homes and grant its army a free rein
to
deal with protesters.
Since then, at least eight Palestinians were murdered and
hundreds
injured by live ammunition and rubber plated bullets. In the West,
the
violence became news headlines only after the killing of two armed
illegal
Jewish colonists in the occupied West Bank. Readmore...
Sharia concerns are baseless
By Jamal
Kanj
October 4,
2015
http://gdnonline.com/Details/26509/Sharia-concerns-are-baseless
Lagging in the polls, Republican presidential
candidate
Donald Trump came from behind ranting Mexican migrants.
Trump
exploited a real topical complex issue to mobilise
theWhite Republican base
and rode to the top of the ticket
deriding Mexicans.
Ben Carson was however more inventive. He created a
fictitious candidate to rally the same delusional crowd.
Carson declared that
the Muslim faith could disqualify
a person from being a US president. READ MORE
(Israeli) ethnic cleansing manifesto...
Jamal Kanj
December 07,
2014
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=391451
Israeli
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and head of Yisrael
Beitenu party published on November 28 a new manifesto outlining the
party's outlook for Israel.
The updated
platform entitled "Swimming Against the Stream"
posted on Lieberman's Facebook page demanded Israeli Arabs
who identify themselves as Palestinians
"... to forfeit their Israeli
citizenship and move and become citizens of
the future Palestinian
Israel’s new anti-democratic law
Jamal Kanj
November 30,
2014
The Israeli
cabinet voted by 14-7 majority to define Israel
as an ethnocentric nation-state
of the Jewish people, institutionalising Jewish law as the source of
legislations.
This is the
same definition Benjamin Netanyahu had
maintainedfor years that the
Palestinian Authority (PA)
must accept before signing a peace agreement. In
other
words, Netanyahu was demanding the PA to recognise
the new Basic Law long
before his own government
Negotiations to end all peace
JAMAL KANJ
November 22, 2014
Following
the historical recognition by the Swedish government,
British
legislators voted overwhelmingly on a non-binding resolution
urging
their government to recognise the state of Palestine.
Ireland's Seanad and Spain's parliament passed similar motions on
October 22 and November 18 respectively.
... On the other side of the Channel, the government of David
Cameron has
a unique opportunity to heed British legislators and
rectify a small
part of Britain's historical sin when its mandate power
transformed
Palestine from a nation of over 90 per cent Muslim and
Christian
majority into a new transplanted Jewish majority.READMORE
Islamic vs. Jewish state
JAMAL
KANJ
October 12,
2014
After more
than a decade of war and bombardment, the
"defeated" Taliban has
expanded into Pakistan while
Al Qaeda sprouted in Iraq, Libya and now in Syria.
The
killing of Bin Laden brought us Al Baghdadi, the
self-proclaimed new Muslim
Caliph.
The powers
that helped the Taliban and Al Qaeda to fight
the Soviets, and then used
Israeli lies to destroy
Iraq, are unqualified to put an end to IS. READMORE
Jamal Kanj
September 06, 2014
Animals: was my instinctual response to photos of Syrian soldiers
being
executed by members of the so-called Islamic State (IS). The same
gut
feelings two days earlier to the news of the killing of American
journalist
James Foley in cold blood.
My heart goes to Shirley Sotloff, the mother of journalist Steven
Sotloff
who was also executed by the same group. No parent should go
through
the anguish of losing a child: whether in the heartland of
America or the
Blair and the other sucker…
By JAMAL
KANJ
November 4, 2015
“I apologize for the fact that the intelligence we received
was wrong,” Tony Blair told Fareed Zakaria during a CNN interview. The TV interview
came ahead of the much delayed British Chilcot―expected now by next summer―report
investigating Iraq war. - See more at: http://jamalkanj.com/My-Latest-Spiel--updated-website-Articles-.php#sthash.FDmUtFce.dpuf
Deviated “war on terrorism” made us unsafe…
JAMAL KANJ
November 22, 2015
Israel, a
nation of hate
JAMAL KANJ
August 30,
2014
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=384878
Israel was
created from the ashes of the Nazi Holocaust. Undeniably,
Jews in Europe were dehumanised, repressed and then gassed in the
millions -an
experience Zionists purport to have shaped the psyche of Jews.
Yet this
horrible experience was wasted as most Jews learned very little
from it. The
nation that sprouted out of hatred towards Jews was founded
on the premise of
doing wrong to other people. READ MORE
US Zionist Megaphone: "Missiles Raining on Israel"
Jamal Kanj
Friday, August 01, 2014
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/section.aspx?Sn=COMM
Watching
US news coverage about Gaza for the past three weeks, I
could imagine how the
Nazis manipulated a nation to become complicit in the gassing and killing of
millions of people.
Zionist propagandists
have equally neutralised public opinion in a surreal Orwellian world of
doublespeak and doublethink.
The American media has
turned into a Zionist megaphone, rationalising
the murder of children playing
on the beach or hiding in UN shelters. Read More
Israel's atrocity and the West's
ignorance...
Jamal Kanj
Monday, July
14, 2014
Seeing
"free" Western media with headlines like "Rockets raining
over
Israel", or describing the success of Israel's Iron Dome defence
system in
intercepting missiles from Gaza, you would assume there
was a war between
equals - or even that "poor Israel" was under attack.
...Responding
to a correspondent who questioned the disproportionate
number of civilians
killed, including 22 children, CNN anchor Brianna Keilar explained: "Yes,
Gaza is just so heavily populated. That's certain
Zionist lying unchecked
By Jamal
Kanj
Saturday,
July 12, 2014
Scene one:
Disappearance of three illegal Jewish settlers in Hebron.
Israel closes the
West Bank, demolishes homes of supposed kidnappers, nonstop air raids on Gaza,
kills two dozen Palestinians and imprisons
more than 600 mostly newly released
prisoners.
Scene two: The kidnapped 15-year-old Palestinian
Muhammad Abu
Khudiar. Israel takes very measured response: No military raids
searchingfor the non-Jewish victim, no checkpoints or closure of
Jewish only colonies, no home demolishing and certainly no wholesale
Not the Iraq I remembered ...
Jamal
Kanj,
July 05, 2014
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=380508
Listening to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's
interview
with NBC Meet the Press last week…. The presumptuous Netanyahu
lectured US president thatwhen your enemies fight, "You work on both
sides - as I say, you try to weaken both."
Mind you that one of the sides in this fight was the
US-installed Iraqi government. While Netanyahu could argue that Iraqis were his
"enemies",
but for him to assume it was America's adversaries, was
typical of the
Neo-cons hypothesis when projecting Israel's foes to be the enemies
of
Lebanonization
of Iraq
Jamal Kanj
Sunday, June 22, 2014
In 1992 British born American Zionist Bernard Lewis wrote in the
Foreign Affairs journal "Rethinking the Middle East"calling for the
"Lebanonisation" of the Arab world for it was "vulnerable to such
a
process."
Lewis suggested the weakening of central power in
countries to
the point where "there is no real civil society to hold
the polity
together, no real sense of common identity."
The current Iraqi mini dictator Nuri Al Maliki and the burgeoning
Islamists
are direct by-product of the 2003 US invasion. Under the
pretence of
"war on terror" the Zion-Cons exploited America's might to break up Iraq
and the Middle East - as Lewis predicted - into
"squabbling, feuding,
fighting sects, tribes, regions, and parties,"MORE
Which Israel will be greeting Pope Francis?
JAMAL KANJ
Sunday May 25, 2014
IS it the
official diplomatic fanfare and PR machine parading Israel's
religious
"tourism,"or the unofficial welcome decorating Palestinian
churches
in Jerusalem with slogans like"Jesus is garbage" and "Mary
JAMAL
KANJ
Thursday,
May 15, 2014
Outgoing
Israeli
president Shimon Peres talked in a recent interview
about a
peaceagreement he reached with Palestinian president
Mahmoud Abbas in
2011.
....Peres
interview reveals three important issues regarding the peace
process and the botched role of the so called peace mediators. READ MORE
Kerry’s
“commitment” to a foreign nation
JAMAL
KANJ,
May 06, 2014
A day after
Palestinians reached a national unity government,
Israel announced the suspension of the never ending peace talks. The Israeli position was echoed
instantly in
Washington by one of Israel’s unofficial agents, Congresswoman
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen from Florida, calling
for “immediate suspension of US aid
to the Palestinian Authority.” Read More...
The
dangerous VIP Palestinian class
By JAMAL KANJ
Sunday, April 27, 2014
The Palestinian Authority (PA) must stop
demeaning its people. One can understand being fooled once or even twice, but
being fooled over and again every three to four years for the last 20 years is
just going overboard. More...
Outlook for the Arab world
By JAMAL
KANJ,
April 25,
2014
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=375588
Pity the nation divided into
fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation -
Gibran Khalil Gibran.
UN Economic
and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) recently published a study
prepared by close to two dozen writers and intellectuals from the Arab world.
The Arab
Integration, a 21st Century Development Imperative report addresses audaciously
many of the social, economic,political ills of the Arab world. The more
than
300-page report enumerates a litany of futile steps taken in the last 60 years
to "integrate" countries in the region. More...
Kosher theft?
JAMAL KANJ
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
AT a March 19 UN Security Council discussion, US Ambassador
Samantha
Powers was quoted as saying, "A thief can steal property, but
that does
not confer the right of ownership on the thief."
Listening to her powerful condemnation of the Russian action
in the Crimea,
I couldn't help but wonder if that was a conviction or an
ex-talented writer's
rhetorical speech.
Crimea's population is made up of 70pc Russians, 16pc
Ukrainians and 14pc
Tatars. It is a historical fact that Crimea was part of
Russia until the defunct
Soviet Union bestowed it to the Ukraine in 1954.
Russia did not transplant
new ethnic population; it did not create
"Russian only" roads nor built
"Russian
only" colonies to
benefit one race or ethnic group.
Israel did all that. What does Israel have to do with all
this, one might
Intimidation
of John Kerry
By JAMAL KANJ
Wednesday,
January 22, 2014
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=369159
Israeli
Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon articulated publicly what Israeli
leaders say
privately: Give us your tax money,weapons and your veto
power but "leave
us alone."
… Receiving
the message loud and clear, Kerry cancelled a visit scheduled
this week to the
region. Failing to commit the Israelis on a written framework agreement, his
aides are already talking about extending the negotiation past
the April
deadline.
If one thing
is very clear from past American diplomacy, the current efforts
will most
likely deliver on Israeli demands upfront, while suspending Palestinians'
concerns for a later date... READ MORE
The Red-Dead
seas canal
JAMAL KANJ
December 31,
2013
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=367810
THE agreement for the two seas Canal connecting the Red and
Dead Sea was summed up best by Israeli water minister Silvan Shalam who
jubilantly described it following the December 9 signing ceremony at the World
Bank headquarters as "a historic agreement that realises ... the dream of
(founder
of modern Zionism Theodore) Herzl."
The Zionist-envisioned project was repackaged and sponsored
by Jordan as a must to save the Dead Sea …. Read more
US: a powerless peace broker
JAMAL KANJ
December 26, 2013
security issues dwarfed the final
status negotiators while it continued to
build, at an accelerated rate,"Jewish only" colonies undermining the very
peace talks.
Palestinians and Israelis have met more than twenty times
since July
2013 with little progress.
... Today, Israel is
requesting to prequalify previous Palestinian
recognition of it, not just as a
nation of people, but as an ethnocentric
The daylight between Israel and the West
By JAMAL KANJ
Friday, November 22, 2013
THIS week the 5+1 are back negotiating the easing of economic sanctions
against Iran and new unprecedented rigid inspection regimen including daily
reactor checks to certify compliance.
Fearing an accord with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
called French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabiusurging him to delay the signing
giving him an opportunity to leach his US lobbyists to force the US
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, June 27, 2013
BUT for the chap from Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza who
emerged earlier this week as the winner of the "Arab Idol,"
the news from Palestine is grim.
Rejecting the Palestinian state, Danny Danon, the Israel's Deputy
Defence Minister, was quoted in the Times of Israel: "The
international community can say whatever they want, and we can
do whatever we want". Israeli leaders can't be more explicit in their
rejection of a viable Palestinian state, making the talk about settlement "freeze" meaningless and peace unattainable. More...
The plucky
professor and
the last
bigoted democracy
By JAMAL
KANJ
Thursday,
June 20, 2013
ISRAELI
president Shimon Peres is hosting in Jerusalem this week a presidential
conference called "Facing Tomorrow". Its theme is the
"human
factor and its role in shaping our tomorrow".
His event might
have gone unnoticed but for a towering international
scientist, who refused to
attend the conference. Stephen Hawking, the
world's foremost physicist, took an
audacious step when he turned down
the Israeli invitation.
By snubbing
the Israeli presidential conference, the intrepid quadriplegic prodigy is
shaping a "better tomorrow" for all of humanity by exposing the
world's last bigoted democracy. More...
US Israel: An Irrational relationship
By JAMAL KANJ
June 6, 2013
... (US soldiers) march in harm's way to the end of earth
and sail the seas, following orders from their leaders. In return, they expect leaders to
uphold the constitution and honour their sacrifices.
However, this was
not the case for the 34 American sailors who lost
their lives and the 171
injured when their leaders surrendered
them on an Israeli altar on June 8,
1967.
(the irrational relationship) It couldn't be more
striking today, when
children of American soldiers serving overseas are warned
that
budget cuts might force their schools to take furlough days next year
-
while the American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbies to
exempt Israel's
$3 billion aid package from budget sequestration… READ MORE
Iran: How to rig an election
By JAMAL KANJ
May 23, 2013
THE election landscape in Iran is becoming increasingly
clear.
According to state-run Press TV, a whopping 686 candidates registered
to
run in the presidential poll. However, only eight men remain on the
ballot for the firstround on June 14 after candidates were vetted by the Guardian Council…
To the chagrin of the West, the final candidates in Iran
might quarrel
over many issues, but they all supportIran's right to develop a
"peaceful" nuclear programme. Other than the new president forming a
new
negotiating team, there will be little change…
The irony, which many have forgotten, is that more than five
decades
ago some of the 5+1 countries introduced nuclear military technology
Lebanon: Even coffee is political
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, April 18, 2013
LEBANON commemorated the 38th anniversary of its Civil War
last week.
In the days leading up to April 13, 1975 the country was virtually
divided
across sectarian lines.
Today, Lebanon is not much wiser and no less divided…
Last week I joined a childhood friend at a coffee shop in
Beirut. I was
unaware at the time, but even agreeing on a meeting place had its
political
US aid: An opium for Palestinians
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, April 04, 2013
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas signed a $3.9 billion
national
budget for the 2013...
The government of Palestine can't continue to function on
handouts
from the EU and US, or taxes collected by Israel - especially when the
US empowers the same occupation that deprives Palestinians of enough resources
and minerals to bridge most, if not all, of the budget deficit.
…foreign aid money should not become an "opium"
with which to preserve
The proxy war destroying Syria
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, March 28, 2013
WRITING about Syria is emotionally draining and
intellectually
overwhelming. Evident by the level of destruction and killing,
the mutual hatred between President Bashar Al Assad's regime
and the armed
opposition surpasses their love of country.
More than 70,000 have been killed and, not counting
internally
displaced Syrians, there are more than one million refugees in
neighbouring countries.
Not to mention the Arab Summit's vain resolutions, four
important
local and regional events took place in the past week that offer an
insight into what's in store for Syria and the Middle East at large.
EU-funded Israeli theft
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday,
March 07, 2013
A LEAKED report commissioned by the European Union (EU) has
concluded that Israeli settlement construction"remains the single
biggest
threat" to peace in the Middle East.
While it continues to provide formal "preferential
treatment" for
other Israeli goods, informally it wants an informed public
to decide on purchases violating international trade.
By leaving the EU market open for "taxed"
settlement products,
Europe is in effect subsidising "the single biggest threat" to peace
Impostors in
a foreign land
By JAMAL
KANJ
Thursday,
February 21, 2013
The
Invention of the Jewish People was a book written by Shlomo Sand,
an Israeli
professor of history at the University of Tel Aviv. The author
wasn't probing a
belief system, but Zionist fabrications of a spurious
common lineage for people
of the Jewish faith.
Sand argues …
the notion of Judaism as a "race", rather than a religion of
various
races, is incompatible.
The results
of a recently published study by Israeli-American geneticist
Dr Eran Israeli
Elhaik at John Hopkins University have scientifically and genetically validated
Sand's research.
Today's
genetics prove unequivocally that in 1948, "the children of the
original
Jews" were replaced by converts with no roots in the Middle
The definition of insanity...
JAMAL KANJ
February 14, 2013
WESTERN media is obsessed with presenting a positive spin on
everything
related to Israel, while trivialising good and accentuating negative
news
on Palestine.
It's admirably free in many aspects, but when it comes to
discussing
Israel the Western media loses its spark. Disingenuous news spin and
Israeli pampering are doing peace a great disservice.
Israeli government of Ariel Sharon rejected a road map for
peace by
adding 14 conditions. Western media downplayed the provisions,
emphasising only Sharon's pretence at approval.
Now, the same media
wants the public to believe that Israel's anti-peace
Lobbying blow to US democracy
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, January
10, 2013
THE undue influence of single issue interest groups is
bankrupting the
essence of American democracy.
While patriot Americans are harangued for their less than
slavish
submission to the Israeli lobby, citizens with "passionate
attachment"
to a foreign country have been able to serve unchecked in US
administrations.
It is no secret AIPAC started seeding the State's Bureau of
Near
Eastern Affairs and Defence councils since the early 1980s. Replacing
cadre of professional staff, the new advocates turned the Defence
and State
Departments into parochial Zionist dens driving America
Obama and
the Jewish lobby
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, January 03,
2013
THE Israeli lobby is flexing its muscle against Barack
Obama's potential nominee to be the next Secretary of Defence.
Hagel was a Republican Senator representing Nebraska from
1996 until
his retirement in 2008. He was one of few senators who crossed party
lines on issues most important to the American people.
Ironically, patriot Americans are shoved aside by the Jewish
lobby's
"thought police" while individuals with dual Israeli citizenship or
ex-Israeli soldiers or even suspected spies were appointed
unchallenged
to the highest offices in US administrations.
New Israeli Herods and Christians
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, December
20, 2012
… the descendants of the Messiah in Palestine are marking
another
year of abominable Israeli occupation. Indulged with indifference
to
the collective sorrow cloaking the hearts of native Christians in
the holy
land, the West turns another leaf, rejoicing the birth of the
Prince of Peace.
This Christmas, new Israeli Herods abetted by Western powers
are driving Christians from their land and transforming native
churches into
Israeli tourist attractions and grand "archaeological
A supreme Mursi (Egypt) mess
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, December 06, 2012
EGYPTIAN democracy is alive and well. That is about the only
positive observation on the current pro and counter demonstrations
in major
cities across the country.
... Egyptians long ago shattered the wall of fear in toppling
their last
dictator and are determined never to revert to tyranny…
To preserve the people's achievements, a sustainable
democracy
must be inclusive, all citizens should be empowered to influence
change and leaders should be elected on a rotational basis.
The protesters are
now demanding a reversal of the latest dictatorial
declarations. If not
resolved soon, Mursi could face being stripped
War and peace incompatible
By JAMAL
KANJ
Thursday, November 22, 2012
ISRAEL's wars on Gaza have not ceased since Palestinians
exercised
their free, democratic election in 2006. The relentless warfare has
alternated between bloody and
muted, but let's clarify some distortions.
Contradictory to most Western media reporting, the current
escalation
was sparked by Israel's extra judicial assassination of Ahmad Al
Jabari,
a Hamas military leader - not by rockets fired from Gaza.
… Israelis should not continue to enjoy peace while
Palestinians
suffer under occupation. Reconciliation and repression are
Israel: guaranteed US election winner
Thursday, November 08,
2012
THE
results of US elections are eccentric. While re-electing Barack Obama to the White House, voters also chose members of the opposing party as
their representatives in Congress. Pundits refer to this as division of powers at its best.
… 80 per cent of the cash that funds Super PACs "comes from fewer than 200 donors". Statistically,
this means that less than 0.0000007 of the US population has the
largest impact in shaping the outcome of the American election. Israel: guaranteed US election winner
Israeli threat to US democracy
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, October 25, 2012
THE US State Department is circulating a confidential letter
urging European Union (EU) members and other "friendly" countries to
help block Palestinian attempts to secure non-member Observer State status at
the United Nations (UN) General Assembly.
Why is the US concerned about this? Read the whole story Israeli threat to US democracy
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, October 11, 2012
LAST week I referred to Edward Said's scholarly work on Western media
coverage of Muslim and Arab countries, shaped by discreet
or political motives. This fact couldn't be more pertinent than in recent coverage
of protests against the film deriding
… The combination of a formidable Israeli lobby charting US foreign policy in
the Middle East, juxtaposed with special interest reporters
America's public opinion, suggest more US involvement in new,
Israeli-contrived adventures akin to the invasion of Iraq.
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may have been to
Harvard University, but his recurring gaffes suggest he is not ready
to be commander-in-chief of the world's biggest superpower.
… Parroting his advisers' remarks is Romney's main predicament. He
lacks ingenuity and, like George W Bush,
would let his advisers run
Such traits are not those of a national leader, but of a man who
poses a dangerous threat to America
The death of justice [Rachel Corrie]
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, September 06, 2012
LAST week an Israeli
court ruled the state of Israel was not at fault
for the death of US
activist Rachel Corrie, who was crushed to death
by an Israeli military
bulldozer on March 16, 2003.
… This is
Israel, using its legal system shamelessly to legitimise
military
criminal acts.Absolving the army in the killing of Corrie
was just
another outward manifestation of a nation infatuated
with protecting the
guardians of the professed Zionist ideals, not
Diplomatic terrorism
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, August 30, 2012
HERE we go again! Evet Lvovich Lieberman, the Moldavian
who became Avigdor Lieberman when in 1978 his religion
uniquely qualified him for instantaneous Israeli citizenship,
is demanding removal of Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas.
… Two days later, speaking to Israeli public radio, unrelenting
Lieberman accused Abbas of waging a "diplomatic terror"
campaign.The foreign minister was referring to a Palestinian
initiative to obtain UN recognition of a state on 22 per cent of
historical Palestine.
… The absence of Israeli accountability remains the crux of
New frontier
in US fundraising?
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, August 09, 2012
Mitt Romney has just ended an international tour intended to
prop
his political credentials as a world leader. In the first leg of his trip,
he angered the otherwise
temperate Brits by voicing an unwarranted
opinion on London's readiness for the
Olympic Games.
His second gaffe soon followed during the now common US
presidential campaign pilgrimage to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem…...
Following his successful outsourcing career, fundraising in
foreign
US veto
for sale
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, August 02, 2012
Pre-empting Mitt Romney's campaign visit to Israel,
President
Barack Obama last Friday signed the United States-Israel
Enhanced
Security Co-operation Act of 2012.
… The omnipresence of Israeli lobbyists at the signing of
the "rare bipartisan" bill provided a perfect background
display of
the foreign lobby's power in the US.
The foreign lobby-sponsored act is making farce of the
veto
powers,as the legislative and executive branches
of the world's foremost
superpower blatantly barter its
authority at the council in exchange for
pro-Israeli
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Gaza must prepare for Israel’s next war
Jamal Kanj*
May, 27, 2021
Eleven days of another asymmetrical Palestine/Israel confrontation.
America’s most sophisticated technology left behind a trail of devastation,
including the life of more than 60 children, and a generation born under years
of Israeli blockade with little hope for a future. READ MORE ...
Islamophobia and the elephant in the room …
By Jamal Kanj*
March 18, 2019
It is impossible to have constructive discourse on Islamophobia absent of confronting the elephant in the room: Islamophobia is the creation of an unholy alliance between political Zionism and neocons in the West. The depraved alliance made it easy for Islamophobes to normalize Muslim hate and castigate Islam as “radical” religion. Read More ...
Arafat, the leader I knew
Thirteen years ago, I published my first article in a major US newspaper, San Diego Union Tribune. It was unwittingly published on the same day news came out of Paris that Yasser Arafat had passed away. READ MORE..
US election: The two death options
JAMAL KANJ
April 08, 2016
Defeating Israel
Jamal Kanj
March 6, 2016
last week Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qiq ended a record 94
days hunger strike protesting the so called administrative detention in Israeli
jail.
... Israeli jailers continued to monitor his deteriorating
health hoping the “self-torture” pain would eventually force him to end his
strike. Driven by pure devilish schadenfreude, Israeli authorities watched him
on closed circuit TV screaming in agony as his internal organs started to fail.
Gravely ill but not total collapse, the Israeli supreme court rejected Al Qiq’s
petition on February 16 to transfer him to a Palestinian hospital. The court
sided with the military’s secret evidence that he would represent a threat if
he was released from Israeli custody. READMORE
Forbidden love tales in Israel …
JAMAL KANJ
February 7, 2016
http://www.gdnonline.com/Details/64658How can a
two-year-old novel become a best seller? Censorship is the short answer. The
most important question is, however, why would the “Jewish democracy” censor a
love fiction between a Jew and non-Jew? Readmore …
How can a two year old
novel become a best seller? censorship is
the short answer. The important question
is however, why
could the “Jewish democracy” censors a love fiction between a
Jew and non-Jew? - See more at: http://jamalkanj.com/Published-Articles.php#sthash.r4ZXmw9d.dpuf
Israeli self-inflicted hate…
Jamal Kanj*
October 25,
2015
Haftom Zarhum, a 29-year-old Eritrean was lynched by Jewish
Israelis simply
because he looked different. After being shot in the legs, a
mob circled him like
a bench over his head and chanting the unofficial Zionist’s anthem of
hate:
“Death to Arabs”, “Arabs out!” and “Am Israel Hai”. ReadMore
UK Labour Party revolution
Corbyn’s victory was a rejection of Tony Blair’swing as much as it was a
Jamal Kanj
September
12, 2015
Diego, I met an adorable toddler named Farah... Read More
Europe
refugees’ threat
Jamal Kanj
September 06,
2015
Many years ago I read Men in the Sun, a novel by late
Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani. He, along with his young niece Lamis, were
blown up by Israel in 1972. In the book, Kanafani told the tale of three desperate
Palestinian refugees from Lebanon who hid in an empty water tanker trying to
reach Kuwait where they hoped to find work. Read more: Europe refugees’ threat
A Day of reckoning, 39 years later…
Jamal
Kanj
March 29,
2015
If you are
like me, I am sure you are tired of reading about the results of
the last
Israeli election. Or on Benjamin Netanyahu's Hebrew pledge
running up to the
election and his flip-flopped English version after winning
the election.
I
want instead to highlight the native Palestinian Israeli citizens who... Readmore
Dilly-dallying
must stop...
Jamal Kanj
December 27,
2014
On January
first, it will be 50 years since the start of the modern
Palestinian
revolution; and on the 15th it will be 10 years since
Mahmoud Abbas was first,
and last, elected as the President of
the Palestinian Authority (PA).
Two years after becoming a non-member UN state,
the PA is
circulating a UN Security Council draft resolution to set a time
frame for full Israeli withdrawal and the establishment of an
“US”: torturers and drone killers
Jamal
Kanj
December 20,
2014
Press' programme
trying to defend and redefine his role in the
'authorised' CIA torture. Whenever he was asked about a specific
torture
case, Cheney always referred back to the 'tortured'
Americans
Whitewashing a murder
Jamal
Kanj
December 13, 2014
Israel had just committed another high profile murder in the
West Bank killing 55 years old Ziad Abu Ein, a minister without portfolio in
the Palestinian government. According to the BBC he “was among dozens of
foreign and Palestinian activists taking part in a protest against land confiscations.” READMORE
Netanyahu's Chutzpa
JAMAL KANJ
Setember 28, 2014
I have followed the megalomaniac performance of Benjamin
Netanyahu
since he was Israel's representative at the UN in the mid-1980s. I
watched with keen interest his debates, and must confess I was taken
by his
chutzpa. Netanyahu has special abilities to twist facts without
blinking an
eye: he can lie with a smile.
This is not my subjective opinion. It is a fact attested by
almost every
other international political figure he has met over the years. MORE
JAMAL
KANJ
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=372824
The Israeli-centric overextended use of US' privileged veto
power at the UN
Security Council has become the main obstacle to reaching peace
in the
Middle East.
… Acting on behalf of Israel, the US has turned the UN
Security Council from
a guardian of world peace to a club of hubris kingpins
violating international
'How butcher Sharon massacred my relatives'
Tuesday, January 14,
2014
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=368663
While human rights organisations, along with relatives of
murdered
civilians, lament Sharon's escape from justice on earth, morally
corrupt
leaders of so-called world democracies are absurdly calling this
same
person - who massacred women and children - a "man of peace".
In memory of my cousin Saleh and for all those people he
massacred
throughout his murderous career, I will forever remember Sharon as
Hijacking hope...
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=366751
LONG before the self-righteous Islamists turned genuine
street grievances into violent movements, Egypt was the crown of the Arab
Spring and Syria was the second best hope to reap the flowers of the spring.
Today, however, hope and optimism have been hijacked by
pretentious religious demagogues and tunneled vision ideologues with a pedantic
monopoly on God.
It
was the demagoguery that changed the tide of change forcing the Syrian
people to choose between a ruthless dictator or Al Qaeda inspired bearded doctrinaires. More ...
Palestinian lost opportunities
By JAMAL KANJ
Tuesday, December 03, 2013
... Palestinian leadership has been very successful at condemning Israel and
investigating its crimes, but chronically fails to take advantage of its diplomatic gains, eviscerating international findings from any value.
There is no guarantee that Palestine's application for the World Court would not face strong opposition, but waiting for another nonproductive US/Israeli public relation exercise before joining ICJ is great political blunder.
Unlike
stealing land for Jewish only homes, joining UN organizations - symbol
of international harmony - couldn't be counterproductive to peace
negotiations. More
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By JAMAL
KANJ
Thursday, June 13, 2013
The collapse of the Rana Plaza building in the Savar
district of
Bangladesh's capital last April, killing more than 1,100 workers,
highlighted the plight of exploited garment labourers in Asia.
Labour organisations, trade unions and human rights groups
in
the EU and North America should bring the fight home and lobby
unscrupulous
retailers not just to sign the safety plan, but take
it a step further and force these sweatshops to abide by
internationally accepted labour standards
with an eight-hour
day- putting an end to modern slavery. READ MORE
Israel's ethnocentric experiment...
The case against a Jewsih state, Part I
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, May 02, 2013
ISRAELI leaders are masters at muddling the international
community
with trivial issues while turning the peace negotiations into a
temporising process "to end all peace."
Unlike Machiavellian Israeli leaders, the late Knesset
member Rabbi Meir Kahane was more candid in articulating the ethnocentric
state's vision in
his 1981 book They Must Go. He wrote that in a "Jewish
state," Arabs will
suffer from discrimination. In such case they will
become alienated and antagonistic; therefore the only sensible solution is to
"get rid of them."
"Get rid" of the out-group was an expensive
European experiment not
taken seriously until it was too late. Read more
Counting the cost of war
By JAMAL
KANJ
Thursday, April 11, 2013
ON October 10, 2002 I was driving the family during a short
vacation
at Yosemite National Park. I scanned the radio for the best AM
reception … trying to follow the US House of Representatives'
debate on
authorising force against Iraq.
… Baghdad fell on April 9, less than three weeks after the
start of war.
On May 1, President George W Bush gave a premature
"mission
accomplished" speech on board the USS Abraham Lincoln
aircraft
carrier. At about the same time, I participated in an antiwar teach-in
panel at the University of California, in San Diego. Unlike the
Israeli appetite for US welfare funds
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, March 14, 2013
FAILING to agree on ways to reduce the deficit, the US
president
was forced earlier this month to enact the Budget Control
Act (BCA)
into law. Known as sequestration, it forces across the
board spending cuts by
over $85 billion in 2013, increasing to $109bn thereafter reaching $1.5
trillion by 2021.
It is certain when considering the impact of budget cuts on
taxpayers
neither political party gave much consideration to foreign
beneficiaries.
Not until now at least.
Last week Israeli Ambassador to Washington Michael Oren
echoed
AIPAC's objectives and in what sounded like lecturing US
legislators, he
warned in the Jerusalem Post: "This is no time to
critical
assistance which would only result in greater
Palestine Spring in the making?
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, February 28, 2013
A THIRD Palestinian uprising is simmering slowly, fuelled by
the
denigrating policies of Benjamin Netanyahu's government.
With the chances for a political resolution steadily
diminishing, and
lacking other options, the conditions are ripe for a new
Palestinian Intifada.
The international community's gutless stance on the
continued
building of "Jewish only" colonies in Palestine - combined
with
daily racist humiliations at the hand of illegal settlers, Israeli
checkpoints, torture and extra-judicial detention - means it is only
a matter
of time before the Palestinian street takes matters into its
own hands and
starts managing relations between occupied
Israel's racist and ethnocentric view
The Case
against a Jewish state, part III
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, May 16, 2013
After 65 years of the Palestinian Nakba, Zionism is
constructing the
basis of another tragic human experiment.
Israel is the only
nation where religious ethnicity is an automatic
qualifier for citizenship and
where the rights ofindigenous people
are denied for "deficient"
maternal genetics.
In fact, it is the only country in modern history demanding
recognition
not as a country,but as a nation of a single creed, for a people
of one
PALESTINIANS are this week commemorating the 65th
anniversary
of Al Nakba (the disaster).
It's all about appeasing Israel...
The case against a Jewsih state, Part II
By JAMAL
KANJ
Thursday, May 09, 2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry has succeeded in tailoring
yet another peace initiative to appease Israel. But it took Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu no time to effectively reject the offer, telling
Kerry and company it was not occupation - it was all "about a Jewish
state".
The danger is that recognising Israel as a Jewish ethnocentric
state would pre-empt the right of return for Palestinians expelled from their
homes in 1948 and render the rights of native, non-Jewish Palestinian-Israeli
citizens second to Ashkenazi converts.
... If ethnocentrism is not good for the US or Europe, it must
not be Kosher for Israel. Read More
No short cuts in Democracy
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, February 07, 2013
EGYPT is an experimental democracy in progress, but when the
evolution of this process turns bloody it begs the question:
is it worth it?
There are umpteen occasions when Mursi has made poor
choices, from his backing down from early promises to reach outside the MB
hierarchy to his handling of a vote on the constitution. But should that
disqualify him from serving his elected term? I say no.
There are no shortcuts in democracy and the ballot box is
its best guarantee. To violently force an elected official to step down sets a
dangerous precedent.
Tolerating a one-term, despised, elected president is safer
than unpredictable anarchy on the streets. There are no short cuts in democracy
Megalomaniac vs monomaniacs in Syria
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, January 31, 2013
SYRIAN President Bashar Al Assad has a penchant for blaming
outside conspirators for the troubles in Syria….
He, like other dictators, is far removed from
reality in "forbidden"
palaces - surrounded by a culture of
professional sycophants….
Al Assad is supported by Iran and the self-professed
"resistance block",
while the opposition is a collage of incongruous
actors ranging from
totalitarian regimes, Western democracies and Al
Qaeda-inspired
fighters swarming into Syria from their underground dens.
…, the outcome of the conflict will leave the US and Russia,
next to the
(ISRAELI ELECTION) A vote against common sense
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, January 24, 2013
ISRAELIS voted on Tuesday to kill the prospect of peace. Out
of 34
factions contesting election, voters chose right wing parties
advocating
land annexation and "Jewish-only" settlements.
… Protesting against illegal land theft should not be
limited to
boycotting negotiations and oral condemnations. In the absence
of a
viable, independent Palestinian state, a single-state option
should become part
of a new strategy.
Israelis want to continue their occupation and have peace.
They can't
2012: hype and realism
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday,
December 27, 2012
The year 2012 was the last in the 21st century to have
matching day,
month and year (12-12-12.) It will be another nine decades before
new congruent calendar is possible.
That wasn't, however, the only unique phenomenon ending the
year.
Hyped by Nostradamus 500 years ago, the ancient Mayan
calendar - long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar - predicted
December 21, 2012 to be the conclusion of year
5125 or the end of
life on earth….
Recognising the hype, I thought that
would also be a
Unsettling realities...
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, December
13, 2012
A DAY after the UN vote to upgrade Palestine's status at the
UN, the right-wing Israeli government responded by adding 3,500 illegal
Jewish-only homes in occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
Europe and the US can't continue to claim to promote peace
while empowering and shielding Israel at the UN Security Council.
The US annual direct and indirect financial aid amounting to more than
$5 billion and
European Union special trade tax breaks are enabling
Palestine a new UN member?
JAMAL
KANJ
Thursday, November 29, 2012
TODAY, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas
will formally request the UN General Assembly to vote on
Palestine's
application for an observer member state....
A year ago, the Israeli proxy US veto at the Security
Council delayed the inevitable course of history for one year.
Today, however, the US' fruitless opposition for Palestine's
membership will go down in the annals of history - along
with the ill-treatment
of native Americans and slavery - as
one of the most abominable and darkest
eras in American
US a partner in Israeli war
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, November 15, 2012
… why did these United Nations resolutions (242 &338)
become so critical in America's political lexis?
In 1975, he (Kissinger) pledged there would be no
negotiation
with the PLO as long as it did not recognise Israel and accepted UN
Resolutions 242 and 338.
In 1982, I was privy to one instance of backdoor
negotiations
when Ronald Reagan's administration and the PLO were on the
verge
of establishing formal contacts….
Kissinger's vow and AIPAC's irrational supremacy over
Congress
and the White House have turned America into an inferior partner
in
Israel's maniacal, bloody and political wars. Today, US opposition
to Palestine getting Observer State status at the UN is inseparable
from Israel's continued
attempts to drag America to the abyss
Another global disaster derailed
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, November 01,
2012
LAST August I predicted that as the US election drew closer,
and
as the President's re-election became certain, a credible scenario
would be
for Israel to strike Iran - pre-empting Barack Obama's
new term in the White
House.
… ( the) ex-furniture salesman Netanyahu was blinded by his
condescending view of American democracy - failing to appreciate
the role the
US military might play.
Refusing to back down, the US military went on the
offensive. General Dempsey was quoted… "I don't want to be complicit if
they [Israel]
choose to do it."
… Unlike the myopic view of elected officials, military
leaders
understand the cost of war and the limitation of its own might in
UN-ilateral politics...
JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, October 18,
2012
…Negating the president's speech [in 2010], the US
successfully
led an Israeli proxy campaign last year to block a Security
Council
vote on the application for full UN membership….
… Thomas Mooerer, a former chairman of the US Joint Chiefs
of
Staff, once summed up this relation stating: "I've never seen a
president stand up to them. They (Israelis) always get what they
want. If the
American people understood what a grip those people
have got on our government,
they would rise up in arms."
Until they "rise up", the US economy is
struggling, American
taxpayers are footing Israel's occupation bill, while
Israelis are
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, October 04, 2012
LAST week was the ninth anniversary of Edward Said's death. He
died in New York following 12-year battle with lymphocytic leukaemia.
… the charge of anti-Semitism has become a psychological weapon
in the hands of Zionists, who use it to numb Israel's opponents and
stifle its critics.
Said questioned this dilemma extensively in his 2003 book Culture
and Resistance, pointing out that "there is a great difference
between acknowledging Jewish oppression and using that as a cover for
the
oppression of another people".
…. For Said, "injustice was to be rectified, not rationalised".
Who gains from anti-Islam film?
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, September 20,
2012
… the latest Islamophobic film Innocence of Muslims is part
of
a trend designed to deceptively turn the memories of 9/11
into a lasting
conflict between Islam and the West, just one facet
in a calculated Zionist
crusade to discredit anyone challenging Israel…
In the east, Muslims must be circumspect when rejecting
hate-
inspired provocations. Violence only plays into the hands of
those attempting to divide followers of religions who share the
same reverence for
Jesus and
21st century robotic wars
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, September 13,
2012
ON the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a new
'sanitised war' is reshaping the future of America's military
industrial
complex....
Like the intercontinental missiles in the sixties, and Star
Wars technology in the 1980s, robotic drone warfare is
reinventing the military
industrial complex of the 21st century.
The only victor in this longest of US foreign wars is a
coalition of
single-issue think tanks, political leaders and business hucksters
driven by mutual interest fostered by a culture of killing, vengeance
By Way of Deception
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, August 23, 2012
WESTERN and Israeli media are lush with purported leaks on
joint
efforts of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defence
Minister Ehud Barak trying to enlist reluctant military brass on a plan to attack Iran.
All
this is hogwash. Israel has no intention to move solo.The leaked
information published in the US media is a distraction from an
Israeli
plot to drag Washington into a new Middle Eastern quagmire.
The Arab Spring derailed...
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, August 16, 2012
… What started as a genuine extension of the Arab Spring had
been derailed from civil uprising to full-blown military conflict.
The ruthless
killings from both sides are polarising Syrians
across ethnic-religious lines,
pushing the country further into
the abyss of destruction.
… Widespread civil disobedience exposing the brutal regime
and shifting the centre of power back to the home-based
opposition is Syria's
last hope for genuine egalitarian system.
Violence will only replace a thug
with another minion dictator;
Israeli voters in US election...
WITH the conclusion of the presidential primaries in the 50
US states,
a new election campaign is shaping itself in the unofficial 51st
state, otherwise known as Israel.
A parade of US officials and politicians are lining up to
visit Israel this
month, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just
completing her
homage.
… It is reprehensible to see both parties pandering to
citizens with
sworn loyalty to another nation for votes that could influence
the
outcome of a US election, particularly as it is based on issues that
Obama riding on economic cycle
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday, July 12, 2012
...Every 10 years or so, the average life of an economic cycle,
free market economies experience two extremes: boom and bust. At least since
the Great Depression, the US and the world economies have experienced identical
lows and highs.
… In layman's terms, the boom turns into bust when the
surplus fund is replaced with deficit, putting the national budget into the
red.
…I can't figure out if the much anticipated boom and bust
cycle is purely an inherent weakness or plain ingenuity in the capitalist
system. However, repeating the same alternations fits Albert Einstein's
definition of insanity: "Doing the same thing over and over again and
expecting different results." Obama riding on economic cycle
Never-ending negotiations?
Thursday, June 28, 2012
... Two decades
later, all succeeding Israeli governments with
no exception, from the spurious left to the devious right, committed to
the Judaisation roadmap through protracted negotiation, "demographic
revolution" and simultaneously proceeding with land appropriation that
benefit Jews only.
... Palestinian leadership must rethink its strategy and
viable options. Doing nothing is not an alternative. Winning over the world's
public
Egypt voting
for a change
By JAMAL KANJ
Thursday June 14, 2012
...last-minute
fielding and the Supreme Presidential Electoral
Commission decision
disqualifying Mubarak's vice-president
Omar Suleiman before ultimately
sanctioning ex-premier Ahmad Shafik's candidacy, was a masterful,
theatrical stunt by the
old guard to ensure their place at the
presidential polls. | |