Middle East Pundit

The Palestinians cannot form a unity government because they refuse to recognize Israel.
The International community has made this one of their conditions and Hamas will not give in.
And who’s the intransigent one?

Abu Mazen says Israeli roadblocks have caused the failure of Palestinian industry…that if only Israel removed the roadblocks, the Palestinians could become financially independent and grow their private sector.
What he fails to take into account is whenever Israel has removed the roadblocks, suicide and car bombings have increased exponentially.
If Abu Mazen […]

Both Ayatollah Khatami of Iran and now Hamas’ Ismail Haniyah have said the U.S.’s financial crisis is divine punishment from Allah.
My question to both of them naturally is this - then what does Iran’s and the Palestinian’s economic crisis stem from? Why is the former punishment from Allah and the latter not? […]

Here’s what we know according to corroborated news reports: five Palestinians died due to Egyptian security forces blowing up tunnels Palestinians use for smuggling.
Here’s where the story differs…
Reuters says Egyptian security forces blew up two tunnels beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border due to “smuggling” but with no qualifier.
The Jerusalem Post reports Egyptian security forces […]

Palestinians use Israel’s independence as an opportunity to denounce Israel and the media complies in this false narrative making Israel out to be the bourgeois perpetrator of evil with the Palestinians as helpless victims who had everything taken from them.
The Palestinians have designated this day as “al nakba,” aka, the disaster, which they refer to […]

Everyone’s witnessed the spectacle that goes by the name Jimmy Carter these past few weeks. Perhaps in an attempt to redeem his very public and very disastrous track record in the Middle East during his brief tenure in office, Carter has decided to meet with Hamas and Syria, much to the protest of the […]

The NY Time argues the Bush Administration has had a huge policy shift in the Middle East, seeking to facilitate peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, whereas previously the Administration has had a very hands off approach.
The story says,
At President Bush’s first National Security Council meeting in January 2001, he announced that he did […]

Most fair minded inviduals recognize the Palestinian “Right of Return” is an illusion, political posturing, in desperate need of context and completely unrealistic.
Of course, these are not my words alone, but I do agree with them.
Saudi columnist Yousef Nasser Al-Sweidan says the “Right of Return” is a “utopian ideal and a recipe for disaster” and […]

To say the West has put an economic embargo on the Palestinians is not merely misleading…it’s a flat out lie.
Aid to the Palestinians has increased 200 million in 2006 over aid provided in 2005, going from 1 Billion (U.S. dollars) to 1.2 Billion (U.S. dollars).
Hamas has asked Israel to implore the international community to “end […]

A group of Israeli Arabs expressed their support for the Palestinians in an appalling way - by raping Jewish girls…
Instead of protesting, writing op/ed pieces, running for office or any other civil type of protest, they reverted to the basest form of behavior, deciding the best way to get back at the Israelis was by […]