PLO

 
Image above: Palestinian inmates stand together in a prison in the West Bank town of Jericho

The antics of BICOM and its subsidiary Fathom look suspiciously like a clumsy attempt to rejig the Israeli occupation narrative by putting words into the mouth of the ambassador and driving a wedge between him and his boss, President Abbas.

Palestinians are yet to achieve national unity despite the elation over the ‘national unity government’ now in operation in Ramallah.

The U.S. Israel Lobby has continued apace bribing, threatening, and intimidating members of the U.S. Congress and the President to move incrementally towards an awesome “clash of civilizations” between the United States and the Muslim world over Jerusalem as forecast by Harvard’s Samuel Huntington

 
 

After 66 years of brutal occupation “peace talks without applying the principles of International Law are an exercise in delusion”

Questions activists want answered are posted here

 
by Franklin Lamb
Yarmouk Palestinian camp, Damascus
 
This observer does not write these words causally and he is no huge fan of most intellectually lazy quick spun internet conspiracy theories, too many of which appear given to flights from reality when facts get complicated and dispositive information is obscure.

With no hopes in sight for ending the Israeli Occupation, let alone ending the ever-expanding settlements, certainly for a “two states solution” time for Mahmoud Abbas to keep his often-stated promise (last one on December 28, 2012) to disband the PA/PLO and hand over the Keys to Bibi Netanyahu, Barack Obama and John Kerry.
 

by Alan Hart
On the face of it that’s a silly question and the speculation it represents – that Palestinian “President” Abbas could replaced by an Israeli agent or asset – is not worthy of discussion. But before dismissing it readers might do what I did and consider two things.