Buying Palestine for peanuts
Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada / June 24, 2019
Over the weekend, the White House released “Peace to Prosperity,” the economic component of its so-called Deal of the Century.
It calls for $50 billion in “investments” spread over 179 projects. Half the money would be spent on Palestinian infrastructure over 10 years, with...
Dead horse
The cart before a dead horse
Mazin Qumsiyeh
popular-resistance.blogspot.com / June 23, 2019
This is a letter I address publicly to Mahmoud Abbas and all Palestinian (and other) people
A while back I was invited to a meeting of Palestinian business and political leaders. One of the prominent speakers was a prominent member...
An open letter to my fellow American, civil servant Jared Kushner
From one American to another: Get out of the car. Go home.
Sam Bahour
medium.com / June 22, 2019
The White House today finally released the much-anticipated economic plan of what the Trump administration has infamously coined “the deal of the century.” This release is being made days before the planned economic workshop...
White House’s Kushner unveils economic portion of Middle East peace plan
Matt Spetalnick & Steve Holland
Reuters / June 22, 2019
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Saturday outlined a $50 billion Middle East economic plan that would create a global investment fund to lift the Palestinian and neighbouring Arab state economies, and fund a $5 billion transportation corridor to connect the...
In rebuff to Trump, Palestinian businesses call for freedom, not cash
Rami Ayyub
Reuters / June 20, 2019
RAMALLAH (Reuters) - Palestinian businessmen boycotting the Trump administration’s Bahrain workshop designed to encourage investment in the territories say only a diplomatic path to statehood can end decades of conflict with Israel.
The United States has billed the June 25-26 gathering in the Gulf kingdom...
This is what Kushner’s plan for the Palestinian economy looks like
Ahead of Bahrain conference, Kushner shares key points of Middle East plan which envisions major financial support from Gulf states to go to West Bank, Gaza and neighbouring countries
Reuters / June 22, 2019
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner is to formally unveil the first part of his Middle East...
Breakfast with Tony Blair? Program leaks for Kushner’s Bahrain ‘workshop’
Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada / June 21, 2019
Expectations were already at rock bottom for US presidential adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner’s Bahrain “workshop” intended to kick-start the economic aspects of the Trump administration’s “Deal of the Century.”
But they managed to sink even lower after the draft program of the meeting, set...
Israel minister: ‘I intend to Judaise the Galilee’
Middle East Monitor / June 21, 2019
Newly-appointed Israeli transportation minister Bezalel Smotrich has declared that one of his main objectives is to ‘Judaise the Galilee’, in light of the region’s number of Palestinian citizens.
In an interview with Israel Hayom, the notorious right-wing nationalist also vowed to boost settlement infrastructure in the occupied West Bank.
Smotrich,...
Israel minister urges annexation of settlements, calls for Abbas’ ouster
Middle East Monitor / June 17, 2019
Israel’s Public Security, Strategic Affairs and Information Minister Gilad Erdan yesterday called for the ouster of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, alongside the annexation of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to reports in Arutz Sheva and the Jerusalem Post.
Speaking at a conference organised by the...
Post Scriptum – Israeli general: Israel was behind coup against Egypt’s Morsi
Middle East Monitor / April 3, 2019
Israel worked to overthrow Egypt’s first democratically elected President, Mohamed Morsi, and to orchestrate a coup against him in 2013, Israeli army Brigadier General, Aryeh Eldad, wrote in a local paper.
The writer said in an article in Maariv newspaper that “the outbreak of the January revolution...
