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Month: January 2008
Omar Barghouti: European Collusion in Israel
By Omar BarghoutiSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The European Union, Israel’s largest trade partner in the world, is watching by as Israel tightens its barbaric siege around Gaza, collectively punishing 1.5 million Palestinian civilians, condemning them to […]
Yossi Wolfson: Economic Warfare in Gaza
By Yossi Wolfson Israel is saying at last what, in the past, it always refused to acknowledge: its war is against the Palestinian population. Until now, in discussions about the separation wall, closures, blockades, house […]
Book Review: The Scar of David
Reviewed by William James Martin PalestineChronicle.com The Scar of David, by Susan Abulhawa, is about a scar and a man named David who bears the scar, and another scar — the scar worn by Amal, […]
McCarthyism Comes to Europe, Levant
By Franklin Lamb in Beirut and Ann El Khoury in SydneySpecial to PalestineChronicle.com You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency? — Joseph […]
Letters to the Editor
Blind, Pro-Israel Policies To the Editor: A few days ago, my family and I, watched Occupation 101. I find it hard to believe that a nation such as Israel is still breaking every International law […]
Ramzy Baroud: Guantanamo as a Symbol
By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com 11 January marked the sixth year anniversary of the establishment of the Guantanamo detention camp. Mere months after the start of the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan, a large […]
A Week of Funerals in Gaza
GAZA CITY — The boy loved riding with his father and his father wanted to take him along. He works so much he never gets time to spend with him. Venturing outside together, they were […]
Serge van Erkelens: Recognizing Israel
By Serge van ErkelensSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com No country should officially recognised Israel as a Jewish state, for the same obvious reason that no country has or should recognize France as a state with a particular […]
Jamil Toubbeh: On Walls, Castles and Embassies
By Jamil I. Toubbeh, PhDSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Walls, Castles and Imperious-Embassies Walls, castles and embassies: none is home for one’s soul.Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it And […]
Agustin Velloso: Killing in the Name of Peace
By Agustin VellosoSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com In the early hours of Tuesday, January 15th 2008, the Israeli occupation army in Palestine killed 20 Palestinians and injured about fifty others, some critically. Once again, it was just […]
Palestine Chronicle to Syndicate Content to Wider Audience
By Palestine Chronicle Staff SEATTLE/LONDON (January 17, 2008) – After years of hard work and an ever-growing readership, the Palestine Chronicle (www.PalestineChronicle.com) is pleased to announce a new collaborative effort soon to be underway with […]
Franklin Lamb: Bombing at Qarantina, Lebanon
By Franklin Lamb in Qarantina, LebanonSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com That word again, Qarantina. Qarantina was the site of January 15th message to the Bush administration where a 33lb bomb killed three and wounded 21. The explosion […]
Ahmed Yousef: Israelis Hear No Objections
By Ahmed Yousef, PhDSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com We, the representatives of the Palestinian people, write as we mourn the victims of another massacre in our midst. The Israeli Defense Forces committed a crime against humanity on […]
William Cook: Iraq: Seeking Victory in Defeat
By Professor William A. CookSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com “Iraq will be a central challenge – perhaps the central challenge – for whoever succeeds President Bush and has to repair the profound damage he has wrought with […]
Layla Anwar: Not an Ordinary Blogger
By Garda GhistaSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Layla Anwar is the pseudonym for an Iraqi blogger, in her early to mid-forties, who appears to be writing directly from Baghdad, right in the line of fire, so to […]
Dan Lieberman: Face to Face with Hezbollah
By Dan LiebermanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com They speak English, carry I-pods and listen to Santana and Guns and Roses. They don’t approach with anger and don’t behave overbearing. They seem well-educated, mostly from Beirut’s American University, […]
Canada and Palestine: Canada Report 2007
By Jim Miles Special to PalestineChronicle.com Previously I had looked at several factors that tend to indicate that Canada’s actions with foreign policy and with domestic policy are increasingly following American policies. One of the […]
The Death of the Stalinist Left in Palestine
By Haidar Eid To understand the reasons behind the rapid deterioration of the Palestinian Left, especially following Hamas’ June 2007 take-over of the Gaza Strip, one needs to scrutinize the verbalized positions of its’ leaders. […]
Holocaust Lessons: Interviewing Hedy Epstein
By Silvia CattoriSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Hedy Epstein, is a German Jewish Holocaust survivor, born in 1924, whose parents were sent to Auschwitz in 1942, where they perished. In 1948, Hedy Epstein went to live in […]
Gilad Atzmon: On Music, War and Empathy
By Gilad Atzmon Special to PalestineChronicle.com Rather often I face the same question when interviewed by Arab media outlets: “Gilad, how is it that you observe that which so many Israelis fail to see?” Indeed, […]
Eileen Fleming: Vanunu Encounters
By Eileen FlemingSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com On July 2, 2007, the whistle blower of Israel’s WMD Program, Mordechai Vanunu was sentenced to six more months in jail for interviews he gave foreign media in 2004. As […]
Gazans Expect Nothing From Bush
GAZA CITY – As US President George W. Bush starts on Wednesday, January 9, a much-publicized visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank, besieged Gazans are watching from the sidelines, expecting nothing but another […]
Mazin Qumsiyeh: Bush
By Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD Special to PalestineChronicle.com The President’s visit to the Middle East this week will show once and for all that status quo lives on under the attempt to validate the old saying […]
Josh Reubner: Double Standard on Divestment
By Josh ReubnerPalestineChronicle.com Today, two movements for the promotion of human rights in Sudan and Palestine seek to emulate the successful role played by boycotts, divestment, and sanctions in achieving democracy and equality in South […]
Ben White: Media Distortion by Omission
By Ben WhiteSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com In the second such incident since the 2006 war, two rockets fired from within Lebanon struck Israel Monday night. The news understandably made headlines in Israel, and was featured as […]
Jim Miles: Canada Report 2007
By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Canadians have always prided themselves on the “goodness” if not the “greatness” of their country. Sitting north of the United States, Canadians struggle with an ideal that rejects many American […]
Israel Conceals Settlement Report
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — The Israeli government is refusing to publish a report on settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian lands, fearing it could harm relations with main ally Washington. "State security, as well as protection […]
Sherri Muzher: The Real Freiers
By Sherri MuzherSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Freier. In Yiddish slang terms, a freier is better known as a sucker or a fool, and this principle guides most every aspect in Israeli society even in international relations. Back in […]
Ramzy Baroud: No Good News from Iraq
By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com In recent months, we have been inundated by media reports bringing good news from Iraq, with countless testimonials to the great improvement in security enjoyed by the country in general […]
Ron Moore: The Ron Paul Revolution
By Ron Moore Special to PalestineChronicle.com Ron Paul has earned his reputation as “President of the Internet.” Receiving enough hits, page views, myspace friend requests and you tube views that dwarfs the other candidates, the […]