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Sonja Karkar: Raiding Nablus

By Sonja Karkar Every overture of peace made by the Palestinians in recent times, has been met with Israeli silence or violence. Last week, Israel said it would not negotiate with the Palestinian unity government […]

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Rami Almeghari: No Fishing in Gaza

By Rami AlmeghariPalestineChronicle.com Since the abduction by Palestinian resistance groups of an Israeli soldier Gila’d Shalit in June25, 2006, the Israeli gun ships have prevented Palestinians from fishing off the coast. This has severely affected […]

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Uri Avnery: The Book of Esterina

By Uri AvneryPalestineChronicle.com  "PATRIOTISM," SAID Dr. Samuel Johnson over 200 years ago, "is the last refuge of a scoundrel." If we substitute racism for patriotism, then we have a perfect match with the Esterina Tartman […]

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Book Review: Empire

Empire’s Law – The American Imperial Project and the ‘War to Remake the World’.  Amy Bartholomew, Ed.  Pluto Press, London; Between the Lines, Toronto.  The foremost phrase concerning law in modern news stories is that […]

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M. Shahid Alam: American Mamlukes

By Prof. M. Shahid AlamPalestineChronicle.com It is a fact little known in the West, outside the circle of historians of Islamicate societies, that Islamicate states often employed soldiers and bureaucrats who were ‘slaves’ of the […]

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Michael Jansen: Apartheid in Israel

By Michael Jansen  The latest report published by the UN rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories compares Israel’s policies there to those of South Africa during the apartheid era. John Dugard, a South African […]

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Eurovision to Ban Israeli Song

CAIRO — The Eurovision, the world’s most-watched song contest, is threatening to ban the entry of a controversial Israeli song over its improper political message, the Independent reported on Friday, March 2. "It’s absolutely clear […]