News reports continue to suggest that one of the primary roadblocks to any agreement in the current round of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations is the understandable Palestinian refusal to accept the Israeli demand that Palestine explicitly recognise (...)
If oil producing Arab states turned up the economic pressure, Israeli recalcitrance in the face of international law would collapse, writes John V Whitbeck*
The awkward visit of the Egyptian and Jordanian foreign ministers to Jerusalem 25 July, (...)
JEDDAH & PARIS: There will never be a durable peace in the Middle East without a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict acceptable both to most Israelis and to most Palestinians. That is a fact. There will also never be a lasting (...)
What is really being asked of the Palestinians is that they concede they are subhuman and thus deserve the horror to which they have been subject, writes John V Whitbeck*
Now that the Palestinian civil war long sought after by Israel, the US and the (...)
Having gained an unquestionable mandate, Hamas should feel empowered to propose clear alternatives where previous leaders but followed Israeli whims, writes John V Whitbeck*
The coming weeks offer an unparalleled opportunity to leapfrog over the (...)
De-demonise Hamas and support democracy, writes John V Whitbeck
If one views the world through the eyes of Israeli and Western governments and media, one is likely to believe that the primary obstacle to Middle East peace has for the past several (...)
John V Whitbeck* outlines a four-tiered plan that will insure a face-saving departure for American troops from Iraq
With polls showing that only two per cent of Iraqis consider Americans "liberators" while solid majorities favour an immediate (...)
John V Whitbeck* finds much to applaud in the Geneva Accord signed by Yossi Beilin and Yasser Abed Rabbu a little over a month ago
The "Geneva Accord", signed on 1 December at an impressive ceremony in which President Jimmy Carter and other Nobel (...)
John V Whitbeck* ventures into heresy
In early June, the respected Pew Research Centre in the United States released the latest of its global opinion surveys, which polled more than 15,000 people in 21 countries in the wake of the invasion and (...)