UK Labour Friends of Israel: Steps before negotiations can begin
The list is unrealistic and naive, but then perhaps peace is as well. Unless one takes another look at the latest Saudi plan. Op-ed.
David Singer
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Australian lawyer, Zionist activist. Founded the "Jordan is Palestine" Committee in 1979.
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Lapid rejects Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution
One cannot expect every Israeli politician to embrace the Saudi Solution, but then they should publicly state their opposition. Op-ed.
Biden and Blinken silent on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine
This latest Saudi plan supersedes the 1981 and 2002 Saudi Peace Plans. Blinken should go for it but is ignoring it. Op-ed
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Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine:Gantz Ignoring or ignorant?
Five questions sent to current Defense Minister and prime ministerial candidate Benny Gantz await his answers. Op-ed.
Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine – Netanyahu breaks silence
Security control west of the Jordan is to be negotiated in Shihabi’s plan. Netanyahu’s demand for security control is not negotiable.Op-ed.
Interviewing 'Hashemite KIngdom of Palestine' plan initiator, author Ali Shihabi
Will an Israeli De Gaulle emerge to endorse Mr Shihabi’s plan as part of his platform in the upcoming Israeli elections? Op-ed.
Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine: Vote winner for Lapid, Gantz, or Bibi
Promising voters to negotiate with Jordan on implementing this Saudi Plan is an assured vote winner.Op-ed.
Wennesland in La-La Land ignoring Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine
Tor Wennesland addressed the Security Council on the current situation without telling that body of a significant new proposal. Op-ed.
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Op-ed: UN will rue burying debate on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine
The Security Council and its vast bureaucracy certainly can not claim ignorance of the Saudi proposal.
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The way is being paved for the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine plan
Israel, Jordan and the PLO/PA seem to be moving along on the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine plans. Can it be? Op-ed.
100 years ago, the Mandate for Palestine Saga began
July 24, 1922 marks the centennial of the British Mandate's start. It could also be the start of a new solution to the conflict. Op-ed.
Biden rejects Saudi plan for Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine
Biden’s return to the Obama/Biden two-state solution enunciated by President Obama on 19 May 2011 is unfathomable. Op-ed.
PLO & Hamas give silent nod to Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine
Accusations by a firend of MBS pulling the rug from under both the PLO and Hamas, were allowed to pass unmentioned. Why? Op-ed.
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The Saudi Peace Plan: The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine
UN, EU, Jordan and USA keep mum on the Saudi idea of creating the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine, one that just might work.
Saudi Arabia gets it right
Saudi Arabia tells Biden and UN: No State between Israel and Jordan. Op-ed.
Centennials to celebrate in Washington, Israel and at the UN
The area set aside for the Jewish National Home in Britain’s 1922 Memorandum included Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem. Op-ed.
UN and PLO are the cause of journalist Akleh's death
UN & PLO rejection of Trump Peace Plan is the reason the bullet, no matter from which gun, was fired at all. Opinion.
Something must be done about Palestinian Arab human rights
Closing Jenin and Jabalia and resettling their 128000 inmates would be a good start.Op-ed.
A workable plan for peace in Jerusalem
An alternative one-state solution that separates Jews and Arabs - reducing conflict- is feasible and doable. Op-ed.
Fueling Jew hatred on the Temple Mount
Jordan, the Arab League, the UN and the US, all fuel raw antisemitisim at Judaism's holiest site. Opinion.
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The San Remo Conference gave Arabs and Jews independence, the Arabs said no
San Remo granted the Arabs independence in Syria and Mespotamia. In the end, Israel got only 3% of the areas discussed. Op-ed.
Jew-hatred in Jerusalem
Jordan, committed to promoting interfaith relations with Jews and Christians, let antisemtism grow and made peace with Christians.Op-ed.
UN General Assembly majority greenlights Russia’s rape of Ukraine
Results of the vote to suspend Russia from the UNHRC show again that the UN General Assembly has completely lost its moral compass. Op-ed.
King Abdullah will have only himself to blame
Jordan & Israel can end the 100 years old Jewish-Arab conflict. Can Abdullah do it? Op-ed.
Can the Negev Summit pave the way for Israel-PLO-Egypt-Jordan negotiations?
Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman al-Safdi will be meeting PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah during the Summit and may then join it. Op-ed.
UN Sec.Gen. Guterres fiddles while Ukraine burns
Do you wonder where the UN is? Guterres: “We cannot afford to be distracted or deterred from our essential work by the current crisis.”Op-ed
The UN is an irrelevant fossil
Offices, salaries and condemning Israel is all the UN is made up of. Even the vote on condemning Russia was a joke. A sad one. Op-ed.
UN should try using its Israel-bashing model on Russia
The UN accusations against Israel are antisemitic lies.Now that Russia is a real culprit, will they do anything? Op-ed.
End the jaw-jaw – redraw the Israel-Jordan border
Guterres said there is no Plan B - only the two state solutioon. No plan B? Is Guterres that blinkered? Op-ed.
Amnesty hops on the UN Antisemitism bandwagon
An arsonist who starts a bushfire is responsible for its consequences, Amnesty is responsible for any violence its report causes. Op-ed..
Back to June 5, 1967?
A circuit breaker is needed – until one legitimate, democratic Arab Palestinian authority emerges. Opinion
The long arm of UN Resolution 2334
The UN Security Council institutionalized Jew-hatred thanks to Obama and Biden. Opinion
Israel must negotiate with Jordan, not with anti-peace Mahmoud Abbas
A missed opportunity: Gantz met with Abdullah of Jordan and did not discuss Jordan's taking the place of the PA in negotiations. Op-ed.
Grovelling before Abbas
Abbas runs rings around Biden and Bennett. Op-ed.
Christian leaders in Jerusalem playing anti-Semitic political games
Requesting talks on threats to Christians in the Holy Land without saying who is at fault and inviting 'Palestine' is a political ploy.Op-ed
The Trump-Netanyahu legacy
Trump had a vision of peace that goes beyond ego and that is what wil be remembered. Op-ed.
The UN can deter an Iran-Israel conflict
Pres. Herzog said: 'Israel will welcome a comprehensive, diplomatic solution which permanently solves the Iranian nuclear threat,' Opinion.
Does the UN have a moral compass?
When the UN was founded, it knew right from wrong. Today, even the words it uses show ithe immoral depths to which it has fallen. Opinion.
If Israel swallows Arab propaganda on Judea and Samaria why shouldn't EU and UN?
Israel’s MFA website has given some of the Arab revisionist rewrite of history unwarranted credibility. Opinion.
UN anti-Jewish bias blocks the road to peace
November 29 is the UN's farcical International Solidarity Day for the "Palestinian People" - with none for the Jewish people. Opinion.
