Analysis on Palestinian history, Middle East politics, and the ongoing struggle for justice.
May 15, 2014 at 9:42 am by Jamal Kanj jamalkk Outgoing Israeli president Shimon Peres talked in a recent interview about a peace agreement he reached with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in 2011. According to Peres, the Israeli prime minister rejected the draft understanding telling him “to wait a few
March 24, 2014 at 3:43 pm by Jamal Kanj jamalkk 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.” He called the US peace efforts “not worth the paper it is printed on,”
January 25, 2014 at 4:18 am by Jamal Kanj jamalkk In America, the Jewish community’s Anti-Defamation League (ADL) promotes racial integration, equality and multiculturalism within American society. The ADL and other Jewish organisations work closely at local levels with school administrators across the US to educate young children about the
January 25, 2014 at 4:01 am by Jamal Kanj jamalkk It is ironic that Western nations seeking to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions are the same countries which sold nuclear technology to Tehran in the first place. Iran has worked with the US and Western nations since the 1950s to develop
January 25, 2014 at 3:53 am Jerusalemites go about daily life before the Six Day War of 1967 in ‘Zahrat Al-Madain’ by Jamal Kanj jamalkk Last Tuesday was the 45th anniversary of the outbreak of a war between Egypt and Israel that reshaped the Middle East. At 7.30am, on 5
January 25, 2014 at 3:49 am by Jamal Kanj jamalkk What started as an extension of the Arab Spring is pushing Syria to the verge of civil war. Bashar Al-Assad must stop deluding himself by blaming the frustration of the Syrian people on a foreign conspiracy. Indulging in such self-denial
January 25, 2014 at 3:29 am by Jamal Kanj jamalkk 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 bill was drafted by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and co-sponsored by Israeli firsters Barbara
January 25, 2014 at 3:20 am by Jamal Kanj jamalkk WESTERN and Israeli media are full of purported leaks giving details of the joint efforts by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defence Minister Ehud Barak to enlist reluctant military chiefs to their plan to attack Iran. All this
January 25, 2014 at 3:04 am by Jamal Kanj jamalkk On the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a new “sanitised” kind of war is reshaping the future of America’s military industrial complex. The use of unmanned drones – robotic war – is carried out through a string of military sites
January 25, 2014 at 2:59 am by Jamal Kanj jamalkk ZIONISTS and right-wing Christian evangelists appear to be exploiting America’s freedom of speech to fuel sedition and hate between the people of two great religions. In response, right-wing religious elements are manipulating Muslims’ righteous indignation by turning lawful protests into
