With the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu today for an overnight visit, let’s give him a warm welcome and also take the opportunity to look at the ME conflict in perspective and set the record straight. By now, it…
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From time to time, as a community, we tend to react when we feel There’s injustice done to certain groups of people we feel are oppressed. These may include the Rohingyans, Palestinians, Syrians etc. We do this by for E.g….
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Under the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, which prohibits countries from moving population into territories occupied in a war, Israeli settlements in the Israeli-occupied territories are considered illegal by the international community. The United Nations Security Council, the United Nations…
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“Israel has just opened the ‘floodgates’, and crossed a ‘very, very thick red line’.” These were the words of Nickolay Mladenov, United Nations’ Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, in response to the passing of a bill at the Israeli Knesset on…
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Despite ongoing police investigations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned visit to Singapore and Australia is “very much still on,” an Australian official said on Wednesday. Planning for the late February visit is proceeding apace, according to the official. Netanyahu will…
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