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Drones in the Skies of Gaza

By Yousef AlhelouSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The aerial Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have continued for the 10th day. 59 Palestinians have been killed so far. 17 of the victims are civilians, including 7 children. […]

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Shafiq Morton: The Forgotten Lebanese

By Shafiq Morton Special to PalestineChronicle.com When I saw palls of black smoke rising from the over-crowded alleyways of the Nahr al-Barid Palestinian refugee camp outside Tripoli in northern Lebanon, I was not surprised. Nor […]

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Joharah Baker: No One is Immune

By Joharah Baker Israel is apparently taking its war on the Palestinians up a notch. As the Gaza Strip continues to burn in the flames of factional infighting and Israeli missile attacks, Israeli officials have […]

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Chris Cook: Getting with the Pogrom

By Chris CookPalestineChronicle.com It is the best of times, and worst. Not since the banking crisis of the 1930’s, now known as ‘The Great Depression,’ has the global situation looked so grim, its challenges seeming […]

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Jim Miles: Canada: Serving the Empire

By Jim milesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com  There has been recent commentary in Canada about its role in the world as a neutral and independent arbiter in international affairs.  That role has been seriously compromised if not […]

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Franco-Arab Ties Could Yet Survive Sarkozy

By Nicola NasserSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The defensive and guarded Arab reaction to the self-pronounced and reported pro-Israel and pro-America statements of Nicolas Paul Stephane Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa, who was sworn in as the new President of […]

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Death’s Face – Poems

Death’s Face By Patricia WeissTo the Palestinian People I saw deaths face today, it shattered my heart.Young warrior, eyes locked shut. Do you still feel the pain and carnage,your blood shed into the reddened earth.All […]

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Khaled Amayreh: As Gaza Burns

By Khaled Amayreh Careful to ensure that the "shortcomings" of last year’s war with Hizbullah were not repeated, the Israeli army continued to bomb Palestinian residential neighbourhoods in Gaza and surrounding areas, inflicting death and […]

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Hasan Efif El-Hassan: Israel

By Hasan Efif El-Hasan, Ph.DPalestineChronicle.com Many Arab analysts have over-rated the March 2007 Arab summit decision to re-launch the land-for-recognition initiative that had been offered by Saudi Arabia in 2002 to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict. […]

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Timothy Seidel: Water and Resistance

By Timothy SeidelPalestineChronicle.com The view from the Palestinian village of Nahhalin, in the west Bethlehem area, is sobering. This small village—along with the villages of Husan, Battir, Wadi Fuqin, and Al Walaja—are becoming more and […]

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Jeff Halper: The Livni-Rice Plan

By Jeff Halper For years I have been one of the doomsayers, arguing that the two-state solution is dead and that apartheid has become the only realistic political outcome of the Israel-Palestine conflict– at least […]