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Month: September 2007
Roni Ben Efrat: Three Lame Ducks: Never, Never Land
By Roni Ben EfratPalestineChronicle.com After Hamas was elected, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) attempted to cooperate with it. This led Israel to claim there was no one to talk to. After Hamas took over […]
Sherri Muzher: My Unsung Palestinian Hero
By Sherri MuzherSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Is this really happening? I sat frozen as the Orthodox priest swung the censers during the Trisagion Service. The smell of incense filled the air and I looked passed the […]
Deaths in Israeli Raid on Nablus; Hamas to Maintain Truce
An Israeli soldier and a Palestinian fighter have been killed during an Israeli raid on a refugee camp in the West Bank town of Nablus. The Israeli military said another of its soldiers was wounded […]
George Bisharat: Double Standard on Academic Freedom
By George Bisharat Two hundred thousand Palestinian children began school in the Gaza Strip this month without a full complement of textbooks. Why? Because Israel, which maintains a stranglehold over this small strip of land […]
Ruth Tenne: Married to Another Man
Reviewed by Ruth Tenne in London Special to PalestineChronicle.com One Complete Palestine – A Utopia, or a Feasible Solution? Ghada Karmi -Married to Another Man: Israel’s Dilemma in Palestine, Pluto 2007 From the outset of […]
M. Shahid Alam: The Zionist Question
By M. Shahid AlamSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com In recent times, no nationalist project has been so completely mythologized by its partisans as Zionism. In the construction of nearly all aspects of its history, the official Zionist […]
James Petras: Defending the Cuban Revolution
By James PetrasSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Revolutions and the Cuban is no exception, advance in a contradictory process: in the course of solving basic immediate problems they confront new challenges. There are revolutionary writers who recognize […]
Pablo Ouziel: Recession Too Mild a Word
By Pablo Ouziel Special to PalestineChronicle.com Except for a select group of corrupt politicians, powerful businessmen, media barons and pundits of the law, the rest of the world was fooled into the Iraq war. Granted […]
Hasan Afif El-Hasan: Yet Another Peace Conference!
By Dr. Hassan Afif El-Hasan Special to PalestineChronicle.com Conferences, meetings, summits, initiatives and envoys became the life support of the so called peace in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict since 1991. Peace is a big industry in […]
Sabra Shatila Massacre Recalled
By Iman Azzi in Beirut, Lebanon Aljazeera Net English Twenty-five years after surviving the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, Jamila Khalife still mourns family members who were killed at the […]
Sonja Karkar: On Massacres, Atrocities and Holocausts
By Sonja KarkarSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The Massacre It happened twenty-five years ago – 16 September 1982. A massacre so awful that people who know about it cannot forget it. The photos are gruesome reminders – […]
Stephen Lendman: The Greatest Story Never Told
By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com No issue is more sensitive in the US than daring to criticize Israel. It’s the metaphorical "third rail" in American politics, academia and the major media. Anyone daring to touch […]
Ramzy Baroud: Diverted from 9/11’s Lessons
By Ramzy Baroud Special to PalestineChronicle.com Osama bin Laden has once again managed to occupy the stage and to insist on his relevance to the 9/11 story. In his most recent video message, released by […]
Jim Miles: Canada – Time to exit NATO
By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com NATO has recently had one of its regular meetings of the “Military Committee” in Victoria, B.C., Canada, with appropriate demonstrations against it for Canada’s role within NATO and Afghanistan. Phil […]
Octavius Satire: Just Change the Name
By Octavius Bin Sheik Special to PalestineChronicle.com To put an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict, all that must be done is for the name to be changed, to something like the Angolan-Mauritius conflict, for example. […]
Timothy Seidel: Who is
By Timothy SeidelSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us.—Ephesians 2:14 “On […]
A Letter to Janet: 25th Anniversary of Sabra and Shatilla
By Franklin Lamb Special to PalestineChronicle.com Dearest Janet, It\’s a very beautiful fall day here in Beirut today. wenty-five years ago this week since the Massacre at the Palestinian refugee camps at Sabra and Shatila. […]
Nicola Nasser: Sustaining Palestinian Division
By Nicola NasserSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Saving a Palestinian partner, whom they have rejected until Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in mid-June, has become the most important mission preoccupying the U.S. Administration and the […]
Jim Miles: The Logic of Withdrawal
By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Iraq – The Logic of Withdrawal. Anthony Arnove. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2007. With George Bush having General Petraeus tell him that success is possible in […]
Stan Goff: The Petraeus Report
By Stan Goff In military drill there is something called the preparatory command and the command of execution. These were the two commands, followed in lockstep by the press yesterday: Prepare to kiss ass. Kiss […]
Paul Craig Roberts: 9-11, Six Years Later
By Paul Craig Roberts On Sept. 7, National Public Radio reported that Muslims in the Middle East were beginning to believe that the 9-11 attacks on the WTC and Pentagon were false flag operations committed […]
Fred Habachi: In The Belly Of The Nazis
By Fred Habachi Special to PalestineChronicle.com I never knew John J. M. too well and I shall not be eager to know him better in the near future. This is because, writing about Professor Norman […]
Joharah Baker: Fasting for the Right Reasons
By Joharah Baker It is the Muslim month of fasting once again. Tomorrow, September 13 marks the first day of Ramadan, a month of fasting off food and drink from sunrise to sunset, worship, contemplation […]
Gaza Rockets Wound Many Israeli Soldiers
GAZA CITY – Scores of Israeli soldiers have been wounded by two rockets fired into Israel by Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip. The rockets hit the Zikim base north of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday […]
Uri Avnery: A Victory Against the Wall in Bil’in
By Uri Avnery PalestineChronicle.com When my friends fall prey to despair, I show them a piece of painted concrete, which I bought in Berlin. It is one of the remnants of the Berlin wall, which […]
Joharah Baker: The World of Legal Loopholes
By Joharah Baker Even as we continue to hope beyond hope that our leaders will come to their senses and see that internal disunity will only lead us down a path of destruction, more statements […]
Ramzy Baroud: The Shiite Power Struggle
By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The decision made by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to halt his Mahdi Army’s attacks on occupation forces and Iraqi security is likely to be considered the single most promising breakthrough […]
Stephen Lendman: The Unrecognized Palestinians
By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Israel’s population today is about 7,150,000. About 5.4 million are Jews (76%) plus another 400,000 Jewish settlers in over 200 expanding settlements on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank […]
Hussein Al-alak: Between Dealers and Death Squads
By Hussein Al-alakSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com As a result of nationalised oil, during the 1980’s the Iraqi regime led by Saddam Hussain had run literacy campaigns, which saw the decline of illiteracy, an anti-social disease drop […]
Iqbal Jassat: The Road Map to Nowhere – Book Review
Reviewed by Iqbal JassatSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The Road Map to Nowhere: Israel/Palestine Since 2003 by Tanya Reinhart In her book “The Road Map to Nowhere”, late Professor Tanya Reinhart recounts a poignant observation made by […]