Archive for the 'Arabs' Category
Palestinian prosperity tied to Israeli security
0 Comments Published by Paul D. Boyer November 24th, 2008 in Palestinians, Mahmoud Abbas, West Bank, Arabs, PeaceAbu 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 […]
The real nakba
0 Comments Published by Paul D. Boyer May 19th, 2008 in Refugees, Israel, Palestinians, Politics, Arabs, Peace, PropagandaPalestinians 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 […]
Palestinian intransigence - the “Right of Return”
1 Comment Published by Paul D. Boyer April 19th, 2007 in Israel, Refugees, Palestinians, Final Status Negotiations, Arabs, Propaganda, Right of ReturnMost 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 […]
Is Israel the problem?
1 Comment Published by Paul D. Boyer March 4th, 2007 in Israel, Borders, Arabs, PeaceIf Israel made peace with the Palestinians and its Arab neighbors would the Middle East experience a golden age of peace without precedent in which all current conflicts between various states with no ties or interests in Israel suddenly dissipate? The smart guys who wrote the Iraq Study Group (ISG) and Kofi Annon seem to […]
If life was so great, why not just put Saddam back in power?
0 Comments Published by Paul D. Boyer December 29th, 2006 in Arabs, Saddam HusseinSaddam Hussein will probably die by hanging before Saturday evening for crimes against humanity. If not by Saturday, then very soon.
Meanwhile, Arab editorials around the world proclaim how great life was under Saddam’s iron fist having so quickly forgotten how he gassed, murdered, tortured and raped his own people.
The Palestinian owned daily Al Quds […]