Jamal Kanj

The daylight between Israel and the West

By JAMAL KANJ
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.

Unattainable peace…
US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Amman, Jordan, on Friday, June 28, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
By JAMAL KANJ
 
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.

The plucky professor and the last bigoted democracy
In a just world, the Israeli president would be arraigned at the ICC (Courtesy Palestine Chronicle)
 
By JAMAL KANJ
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”.