Maybe something good will come out of the Trump plan, after all. By pushing the Middle East peace process to its logical conclusion, Donald Trump has made crystal clear something that was supposed to have been obscured: that no US administration has ever really seen peace as the objective of its “peacemaking”.
Press TV – February 5, 2020 The US, Israel and the UAE held a secret meeting at the White House to conspire against Iran, a report reveals. According an Axios report on Tuesday, the secret meeting was held on December 17, 2019. The sit-down, which involved a nonaggression pact between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv, […]
By Ramona Wadi | MEMO | February 4, 2020 Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas continues to provide proof of his worthlessness when it comes to political decision-making. If the US “continues” with the so-called deal of the century, Abbas has threatened only the possibility of a full boycott. The US “peace plan”, which enhances Israel’s […]
By Omar Olimat | Addustour | February 4, 2020 After the American president announced his plan for peace, the PA categorically and justifiably rejected the deal due to its undeniable injustice against the Palestinians’ right to establish an independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital. No one denies that the PA and other countries […]
MEMO | February 4, 2020 The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture declared arable lands in eastern Gaza to be a disaster zone on Monday, after the Israeli army repeatedly sprayed the area with chemical herbicides. Despite a year-long break from such practices, the Israeli authorities confirmed on 22 January that they have resumed unannounced the spraying […]
MEMO | February 4, 2020 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly been discussing a three-way agreement that would see the United States recognise Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara in exchange for having Rabat take steps to normalise ties with Tel Aviv, Israeli broadcaster Channel 13 reported. Netanyahu has been trying in recent months […]
Palestinians lose again By Philip Giraldi • Unz Review • February 4, 2020 Many interested parties have already weighed in on President Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century.” Even though it sounds like a phrase that a used car dealer would use, the “Deal” is dead serious in that it effectively denies to the Palestinians […]
By Ramzy Baroud | MEMO | February 3, 2020 After several postponements, US President, Donald Trump, has finally revealed the details of his Middle East plan, dubbed ‘Deal of the Century’, in a press conference in Washington on January 28. Standing triumphantly beside Trump, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, must have surely understood that the […]
By Alastair Crooke | Strategic Culture Foundation | February 3, 2020 President Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ has been published this week. Mostly, it has been examined as a purely political project – whether in terms of the domestic needs of Trump and Netanyahu, or as a maximum squeeze on Palestinians, which may, or may […]
RT | February 3, 2020 The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which consists of more than 50 Muslim-majority countries, has asked member states not to cooperate in any way with US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Israel and Palestine. During a special session in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Monday, the OIC’s executive committee called […]
