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Year: 2006
Tariq A. Al-Maeena: Murder is Not Technical Error, Mr. Olmert
By Tariq A. Al-MaeenaFor PalestineChronicle.com If the Israeli government is suffering from any delusions that the Saudis are warming up to Israeli policies and designs on the region, they better dispel them fast. For […]
Azmi Bishara: A Selective Memory
By Azmi Bishara David Brooks, one of the most ardent advocates of the war against Iraq, has turned into a history buff. In a recent column in The New York Times (2 November 2006) he […]
M. Shahid Alam: Zionism: Pitting the West against Islam
By M. Shahid AlamFor PalestineChronicle.com It is tempting to celebrate the creation of Israel as a great triumph, perhaps the greatest in Jewish history. Indeed, the history of Israel has often been read as the […]
Uri Avnery: An Evening in Jounieh
By Uri Avnery For PalestineChronicle.com During the first Lebanon war, I visited Jounieh, a town some 20 km north of Beirut. At the time, it served as a port for the Christian forces. It was […]
Abid Mustafa: Israel Between Rhetoric and Reality over Iran
By Abid MustafaFor PalestineChronicle.com The recent American overtures to induct Iran in any political settlement over Iraq have immensely troubled the Israel. So perturbed has been the government in Tel Aviv that she has mounted […]
Letter to the Editor: Hezbollah Not Iran Agent
Dear Editor, In reply to Israel’s rationale for going to war with Hezbollah, I would like to argue that while Israel claimed that the abducted Israelis soldiers provoked its disproportionate response to Lebanon, it was […]
Ramzy Baroud: Democrats Must Truly Change Course
By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com The astounding results of the US Congressional elections of Nov. 7 were undoubtedly a welcome sign of change, not in the American political apparatus per se, but in the unmistakable public reclamation […]
Palestinian Scholars Discuss Ethnic Cleansing in London
Palestine Chronicle Staff LONDON – In a notable event that brought together a number of well known Palestinian scholars, the Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) launched its latest publication, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by British author […]
Rami Bathish: Goodbye Palestine, We Are Sorry
By Rami Bathish In the mid 1990s, an evident sense of optimism had prevailed among Palestinians; the signing of the Oslo Accords between the PLO and Israel was seen by both Palestinians inside the occupied […]
Dror Etkes: A Settlements Mafia
By Dror Etkes The figures published yesterday by Peace Now’s Settlement Watch team on the ownership of land on which the settlements sit presents a scary picture of the State of Israel’s behavior in the […]
Walid Salem: The Situation and Ways Out
By Walid Salem The Palestinian Arena: The National unity Government might not come! Opposite to the optimism that was till the last week, the Palestinian Unity Government might not come to existence, five points about […]
Behind the Wall: Palestinian Teens Speak Out
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Palestinian youth finally have a spot on the world stage. At least that’s true for 10th graders at the Ramallah Friends School, an American Quaker-owned institution with a 100 year history in […]
Ben White: Fragmenting Palestine and Palestinians
By Ben WhiteFor PalestineChronicle.com Before leaving for Palestine earlier in the summer, a friend of mine gave me a postcard by a Palestinian artist that expressed, he said, the fact that “the situation in the […]
Massacre at Beit Hanoun: How Can We Allow This to Go On?
By Kathleen ChristisonPalestineChronicle.om Ha’aretz correspondent Gideon Levy described the situation in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun in a searing article on Sunday. He proposed, half seriously, that the Israeli colonies removed last year […]
Gilad Atzmon: Palestinian Solidarity in Time of Massacres
By Gilad Atzmon Every PSC campaigner I have ever spoken to admits to me that only very few Palestinians find interest in the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign. In fact, the statement by Machover provides the reason. […]
Amira Hass: No More Hitching in the West Bank
By Amira Hass The OC Central Command, Yair Naveh, dropped a cluster bomb early this week. He signed an order barring Israeli citizens from taking Palestinian passengers in their Israeli vehicles within the West Bank. […]
Daud Abdullah: Beit Hanoun; a Deliberate Mistake
By Dr. Daud AbdullahPalestineChronicle.com It was a calculated and willful attack on defenseless civilians while they slept. The systematic killing of Palestinian civilians has been central pillar of the Zionist project from its inception. Beit […]
For West Bank, It’s a Highway to Frustration
By Greg Myre ROAD 60, West Bank (NYT) — For four years, the separation barrier Israel has been building just inside the West Bank boundary has drawn protests from Palestinians and international censure for the […]
Gaza Suffering ‘Massive’ Rights Violations – U.N.
By Nidal al-Mughrabi Beit Hanoiun, Gaza (Reuters) – A senior United Nations official described Gaza as suffering "massive" human rights violations during a visit to the territory on Monday and urged all sides to be […]
Joharah Baker: Settlements Should Always be a Priority
By Joharah Baker One of the most dangerous, and most insidious, powers of time is that it can slowly neutralize issues that once evoked strong sentiments. Of course, this has a positive side to it, […]
Book Review: Target Iran
Target Iran – The Truth About the White House’s Plans for Regime Change. Scott Ritter. Nation Books, New York, 2006. Review by Jim MilesFor PalestineChronicle.com The mid-term elections have gone against the Republican desires and […]
Jason Yossef Ben-Meir: The Alliance of Civilizations
By Jason Yossef Ben-MeirFor PalestineChronicle.com The United Nation’s High Level Group for the Alliance of Civilizations recently issued its final report, which included ambitious and important recommendations to bridge the divide between Western nations and […]
Swedish Human Rights Worker Attacked by Jewish Extremists
HERBON (ISM) – A 19-year old Swedish human rights worker had her cheekbone broken by a Jewish extremist in Hebron today. Earlier the same day at least five Palestinians, including a 3-year-old child, were injured […]
How Religious Movements Prolong the Arab-Israeli Conflict
By Carlton Cobb To a full audience on Capitol Hill, Oxford scholar of religion Karen Armstrong argued last week that fundamentalist movements within each of the three faiths involved in the Arab-Israeli conflict, Christianity, Islam, […]
Uri Avnery: It Was a Massacre
By Uri Avnery For PalestineChronicle.com Thank God for the American elections," our ministers and generals sighed with relief. They were not rejoicing at the kick that the American people delivered to George W. Bush’s ass […]
Ralph Nader: How Karl Rove Lost the Senate
By Ralph Nader Bush’s Brain, Karl Rove, outsmarted himself and lost a chance to keep control of the Senate in Republican hands. It started and ended in the Connecticut Senate race with Democratic Senator Joseph […]
Kathy Kelly: Sources of Violence
By Kathy Kelly For PalestineChronicle.com Barely a day goes by when I don’t learn a new report about a beleaguered Iraqi refugee, or of an entire family, in desperate need of help. We think hard, […]
Ramzy Baroud: Killing Hope in Beit Hanoun
By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com “God is greater than Israel and America,” was the echoing cry of tens of thousands of Palestinians, who descended into the graveyard in grief stricken Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip. […]
Jennifer Loewenstein: Alice in Erez; the Gaza Crossing
By Jennifer LoewensteinFor PalestineChronicle.com A clear and warm November evening; sun sets in a violence of color to the west over the sea and a full luminescent moon on the rise over Beit Hanoun in […]
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha: The Writing on the Wall
By Lena Khalaf TuffahaPalestineChronicle.com President Carter’s latest book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" (Simon and Schuster 2006), released this week, has been primed for controversy. Weeks before it hit the bookshelves, election-hungry Democrats were disavowing it […]