Tagged: netanyahu

Sarkozy: “Netanyahu is a liar.” Obama:”I have to deal with him every day!”

Sarkozy: “Netanyahu is a liar.” Obama:”I have to deal with him every day!”

Reported by Reuters – true sentiments come out ! French President Nicolas Sarkozy told US President Barack Obama last week he was fed up with dealing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and considered him a liar. Sarkozy made the comment during a private conversation with Obama during a G20 summit in the French riviera town of Cannes last week...

Did words ever end an occupation? Still, Unity First

Did words ever end an occupation? Still, Unity First

by Tariq Shadid – September 23, 2011 was a memorable day. On that day, we watched the President of the Palestinian Authority unleash a barrage of strong words against the Zionist colonialist state of Israel, using language and meanings that we had rarely heard him use before on the international diplomatic stage.   He mentioned the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing, the racist annexation wall,...

Palestine is Full of Heroes

By Tariq Shadid This article was originally published at the Palestine Think Tank and the Palestine Chronicle. Republished here because basically, nothing has changed. Although people in our modern times have been educated to believe that having the ‘right’ ideas, methods or ideologies is what causes revolutions, history teaches us that drastic changes usually happen when the majority of the...

‘Peace of the Slave’: a dead end street on a journey to independence

‘Peace of the Slave’: a dead end street on a journey to independence

Palestine Think Tank – by Tariq Shadid – Albert Einstein, a man recognized as one of the greatest geniuses in the history of mankind, once said: “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” It seems blatantly clear that those who are in power in the Palestinian ‘National’ Authority have either never read this...