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Month: July 2013
Canadian Aid to Palestinians Serves Israel
By Yves Engler A recently uncovered government document confirms that Ottawa has delivered millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian Authority in a bid to advance Israel’s interests. The internal memorandum also sheds light […]
Dramatic Birth Pangs of Democracy in Egypt
By Mohamed El Mokhtar A noted Mauritanian jurist and diplomat, Abdellahi Ould Kebd, once contended that democracy is first and foremost an acknowledgment and an acceptance of peaceful confrontation as means of settling disputes within […]
Israel: EU Moves against Illegal Settlements Threaten US-Led ‘Peace Process’
By Jeremy R. Hammond The European Union has proposed new guidelines for how it will do business with the state of Israel that will require any Israeli entity seeking funding or cooperation from the E.U. […]
Kerry: Agreement on Basis to Resume Mideast Peace Talks
US Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Friday that an agreement has been reached between the Israelis and Palestinians for the basis to resume Middle East peace talks. “I’m pleased to announce that we’ve […]
Will Europe Produce Israeli-Palestinian Peace?
By John V. Whitbeck On July 16, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on the publication of a binding European Union directive, to be effective from January 1, 2014, which a senior Israeli official described […]
Who is Killing the People of Iraq?
By Hussein Al-alak The United Nations has recently warned, that the ongoing turmoil inside of Syria and Iraq has formed a situation, where “the battlefields are merging” into one. One of the reasons for this, […]
EU Bans Funding Groups in Jewish Settlements
The EU has said it will bar financial assistance to Israeli groups operating in the occupied territories, underlining its concern that Israeli settlement-building harms prospects for peace with the Palestinians. Guidelines revealed on Tuesday make […]
Kerry to Hold Secret Middle East Peace Talks
US Secretary of State John Kerry is due to meet with officials from Arab nations that he regards as essential to his push to get Israelis and Palestinians to resume peace talks. His sixth visit […]
Worshipers Confront Israel Deputy FM on Aqsa Visit
Palestinian worshipers and guards confronted the Israeli deputy foreign minister during a visit to the Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem’s Old City on Wednesday, a local foundation said. The Al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage said […]
Iran’s Rouhani Dismisses Israeli Threats
Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s president-elect, has brushed off threats of military action by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu over Tehran’s nuclear program. Referring to the US and Israel, Rouhani said: “When some say that all options […]
After Morsi, Gaza Wonders
By Somdeep Sen – The Palestine Chronicle It was May 17th, 2013 that Palestinians in Gaza were once again reminded that their lives were beholden to someone else’s fate. The day before, armed gunmen in […]
On Leaks and Pseudo-Reality: The US’ Futile Search for ‘World Domination’
By Ramzy Baroud Those enchanted by pseudo-reality must have been at the edge of their seats as they watched ‘Zero Dark Thirty’, a Hollywood account of how US SEAL Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden […]
Israeli PM Threatens to Strike Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Iran is moving “closer and closer” to building a nuclear weapon and warned that his country may have to act against Tehran to curb it from achieving […]
Protesters Rally against Prawer Plan in Israel, West Bank
Demonstrations took place across Israel and the occupied West Bank on Monday to protest against Israel’s Prawer Plan, which will displace thousands of Bedouin families in the Negev desert. In Beersheba, protesters blocked the main […]
6th Annual Rachel Corrie Ramadan Football Tournament Fundraiser
[Editor’s Note: The Palestine Chronicle is a supporter of the Rachel Corrie Ramadan Football Tournament, for it builds community ties in Gaza and brings a smile to many young faces. We urge our readers to […]
‘Collective Punishment’: Frequent Border Closures Add to Gaza Gas Woes
GAZA CITY (IRIN) – Frequent closures of the only crossing for commercial goods between Israel and the Gaza Strip have left the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) short of gas for cooking and heating, businessmen say, […]
Video: Israel Detains 5-year-old Palestinian Boy
A new video has emerged in the Occupied West Bank of Israeli soldiers detaining a five-year-old boy for allegedly throwing a stone. According to human rights groups, it is the latest in a number of […]
Minister: Israel Ready to Build 10,000 New Settler Homes
Israel is ready to “immediately” build 10,000 homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem to lower housing costs, Housing Minister Uri Ariel was quoted as saying on Thursday. “To immediately alleviate the housing crisis […]
Iraq: Between Drug Dealers and Death Squads
By Hussein Al-alak As a result of nationalized oil, during the 1980’s the Government of Saddam Hussain had run literacy campaigns, which saw illiteracy drop to less than 10% of Iraq’s entire population. UNESCO applauded […]
Egypt, Failed Democratic Experiment in Polarized Nation
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Democracy cannot be reduced to a system of rules and procedures unconcerned about deep-seated social contradictions and inequalities in the political process. Democracy is not only a method aimed solely at […]
Samih Al Qasim and the Arab Men of Letters
By Talal Alyan Arab poetry has, in some circles, become regarded as being synonymous with political resistance. The role of the written word has been fundamental in reinforcing our commitment to assorted causes and marginalized […]
Israeli Court Sentences Palestinian MPs
An Israeli court on Thursday sentenced two Palestinian MPs to 30 months, a committee official said. PLC deputy Mohammad Tawtah and former Jerusalem affairs’ minister Khalid Abu Arafa were sentenced to 30 months plus a […]
‘Palestinian Settler’: Israel’s Indigenous Invaders
By Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini On June 24th the “Prawer Plan for the Arrangement of Bedouin-Palestinian Settlement in the Negev” passed its first reading in the Israeli parliament. If implemented, the Plan will constitute […]
Report: Mossad Agents Detained Gaza Man in Sinai
Israeli Mossad agents detained a Palestinian in Egypt’s Sinai in June, Israeli media reported Wednesday. An Israeli judge cleared news of the arrest for publication on Wednesday and said Wael Abu Rida, from Gaza. He […]
Amnesty Accuses Israel of Judicial Bullying
Two female Palestinian activists have gone on trial in an Israeli military court over their involvement in weekly demonstrations against an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank. Rights groups and activists said on Tuesday […]
ElBaradei’s Democracy: How Egypt’s ‘Revolution’ Betrayed Itself
By Ramzy Baroud ‘The revolution is dead. Long live the revolution,’ wrote Eric Walberg, a Middle East political expert and author, shortly after the Egyptian military overthrew the country’s democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi on […]
Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing Zones
By Jonathan Cook Were it not for the razor wire, giant concrete blocks, steel gates, watchtower and standard-issue surly teenage soldier, it would be impossible to tell at what point the barren uplands of Israel’s […]
Palestinian Babies and the Banality of Israeli Racism
By Roger Sheety A June, 2013 speech by Bill Clinton honoring war criminal Shimon Peres has highlighted the extent to which Israeli anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab bigotry has become acceptable within Western mainstream discourse. In a […]
Palestine’s Anne Frank
By Vacy Vlazna The graffiti image of Anne Frank wearing a kuffiyeh by Netherlands artist known as ‘T’ has long drawn indignation and controversy though its original intention was related to the fashionable wearing of […]
‘Creating a Feeling of Persecution’: An IDF Manual
By Tamar Fleishman “Creating a feeling of persecution” is the code name for the IDF’s activity intended to make the lives of the Palestinians a living hell, while using mental and physical terror that condemn […]