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Month: December 2006
Ramzy Baroud: Aljazeera, The Plot Thickens
By Ramzy Baroud The launch of Aljazeera International on November 15, the English arm of Aljazeera Satellite Television was hardly an ordinary event. It was another notable addition to the growing global efforts aimed at […]
Caught on Tape: Olmert Filmed ‘Coaching’ Prodi
JERUSALEM – An Israeli television station has broadcast footage that appears to show Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, coaching Romano Prodi on what to say during a joint press conference. The footage, broadcast on Israel’s […]
Timothy Seidel: Advent, Bethlehem and Beyond
By Timothy SeidelPalestineChronicle.com “How can the international community contribute?” The question is an important one and as relevant as it ever has been. Especially during this season of Advent, when the world once again looks […]
Michael Brown: MK Avigdor Lieberman’s Visit to US
By Michael F. Brown Israel’s most notorious anti-Arab politician and provocateur, Avigdor Lieberman, spoke at Brookings’ Saban Center Forum in Washington, DC this past weekend. It will probably come as a surprise to most Americans […]
Haniyeh Bodyguard Killed as Convoy Comes Under Fire
By Amos Harel, Avi Issacharoff and Akiva Eldar A bodyguard of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh was shot dead Thursday night when Haniyeh\’s convoy came under fire as he returned to Gaza from Egypt, after […]
Jonathan Cook: The Recognition Trap
By Jonathan Cook The problem facing the Palestinian leadership, as they strive to bring the millions living in the occupied territories some small relief from their collective suffering, reduces to a matter of a few […]
Gaza Crisis Prompts Haniya’s Return
GAZA CITY – The Palestinian prime minister is cutting short a foreign tour and returning to Gaza on Thursday. Ismail Haniya was due to be travelling for a month after he left Gaza on November […]
Amira Hass: No Palestinian Fishing Rod
By Amira Hass The world is applauding Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus for applying the folk wisdom that a poor man should be given not a fish but rather a fishing pole. That is, […]
Daniel Ben Simon: Baker Redux
By Daniel Ben Simon One Friday afternoon 15 years ago, the U.S. secretary of state, James Baker, sat in prime minister Yitzhak Shamir’s bureau in Jerusalem and discussed with him the need to implement the […]
William Cook: Investing in Hate
By William A. CookPalestineChronicle.com One might hope that the newly elected Democrats that constitute the majority in both houses would be able to think for themselves on the issue of Israeli apartheid and not be […]
Ramzy Baroud: Hudna or No Hudna
By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com Palestinian groups have recently suggested a ceasefire, in exchange for a cessation of Israeli violence. Ehud Olmert responded with a conciliatory speech, cleverly timed with President Bush\’s arrival to Jordan on November […]
Book Review: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By Jim MilesPalestineChronicle.com The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Ilan Pappe. Oneworld Publications, Oxford, England, 2006. Ilan Pappe’s work The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine places him in the forefront of the recent burst of excellent information […]
James Brooks: US and Israel Targeting DNA in Gaza?
By James Brooks PalestineChronicle.com “Horrific” wounds in Gaza may be warfare of the future In early July, shortly after the beginning of Israel’s bloody military siege of the Gaza Strip, reports began to appear that […]
Jim Miles: Farewell John Bolton
By Jim MilesPalestineChronicle.com American democracy is truly a wonder, not because of its own self-inflated glory and rhetoric of its greatness, but because, contrary to that, of its shallowness and lack of democratic processes that […]
Liam Baily: IDF: Killing Peace; Keeping Misconceptions Alive
By Liam BailyPalestineChronicle.com The Gaza ceasefire was born in a hurry, Israel’s hard-line leaders want to kill it just as quickly. The ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian militant factions is still holding, but everyday […]
Virginia Tilley: Apartheid Israel
By Virginia TilleyJohannesburg, South Africa On November 27, Ehud Olmert responded to frantic international pressure and US hand signals by delivering what was billed as a "landmark" policy speech. The BBC has raised a faint […]