by Saed Bannoura
IMEMC News Report post

Israeli sources reported that two Israeli boats will be sailing Saturday
from northern Israel in order to counter the Freedom Flotilla bringing 600 peace
activists and humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip.

Edited Transcript of Remarks by Professor John J. Mearsheimer
Transcript No. 327 (29 April 2010)

To view the video of this briefing online, go to
http://www.palestinecenter.org

The Palestine Center
Washington, D.C.
29 April 2010

Professor John Mearsheimer:

It is a great honor to be here at the Palestine Center to give the Sharabi Memorial Lecture. I would like to thank Yousef Munayyer, the executive director of the Jerusalem Fund, for inviting me, and all of you for coming out to hear me speak this afternoon.

Prof. M.H. Jawahirullah, President, Tamilnadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam Kunangudi Haniffa one of the fouders of Tamilnadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam and the first treasurer of Pattali Makkal Katchi and 7 others who were languishing in prison for 13 years were acquitted of all the charges by the Poonamalle special bomb blast cases court.

By HASAN ABU NIMAH

US Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell was in the region again last week. His visits no longer stir much interest or speculation about what he has brought with him to break the deadlock. Most concerned parties know well by now that he has not much left in his sack.
He came anyway, because all that is left for the bankrupt American-sponsored "peace process" is to keep trying the same old things in the hope that what failed before might suddenly show different results now. But apart from rearranging the words and trying to devise face-saving formulas, the results are no different.

Despite an intense campaign by Israel's US lobby to incite confrontation and war with Iran, and blame the Palestinians' supposed "preconditions" for the deadlock, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to be seen as the main culprit, obstructing American as well as international efforts to broker a peace deal. Netanyahu has rejected all the American proposals intended to enable Fateh leader Mahmoud Abbas to resume talks, and to enable Arab states, in addition, to reciprocate by taking further normalisation steps with the Jewish state.