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Month: February 2007
Ramzy Baroud: Democracy in Crisis: Who is Really in Control?
By Ramzy Baroud PalestineChronicle.om Years back, an old and astute professor at the University of Washington ended a fascinating lecture to a small group of freshmen with the following contention: "Our country might find itself […]
Joharah Baker: Finding the Silver Lining
By Joharah Baker Unfortunately, Israel never fails to bring us back to the dismal reality in which we live just in the nick of time. For months now, Palestinians across the board have been watching […]
Felicity Arbuthnot: The Locusts
By Felicity ArbuthnotPalestineChronicle.com "From our thousand year old sleep, From our crippled history, Comes a sun without ritual, To the country that’s dug in to our lives like the grave, To the drugged and murdered […]
Tariq Ali: The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan
By Tariq Ali It is Year 6 of the UN-backed NATO occupation of Afghanistan, a joint US/EU mission. On 26 February there was an attempted assassination of Dick Cheney by Taliban suicide bombers while he […]
Benn and Ronsner: What Else can be Asked of Bush?
By Aluf Benn and Shmuel Rosner A well-worn joke about former secretary of state Colin Powell’s mission to Ramallah and Jerusalem in 2002 that began with an attempt to achieve a cease-fire and ended in […]
Factions Untied by Government Stances: Abbas
CAIRO – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asserted Monday, February 26, that factions whose candidates will assume posts in the incoming national unity government are not required to abide by the cabinet’s stances. "The government is […]
Occupied Gaza like Apartheid South Africa, Says U.N. Report
By Rory McCarthy JERUSALEM – A UN human rights investigator has likened Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories to apartheid South Africa and says there should be "serious consideration" over bringing the occupation to the […]
Ivan Eland: Another U.S. Escalation in Afghanistan?
By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com While media attention has been focused on the U.S. quagmire in Iraq, an equally failed war in Afghanistan has received little coverage. As in countless militaristic U.S. nation–building fiascos, “mission creep” in […]
Benita Ferrero-Waldner: The European Path for Israel?
By Benita Ferrero-Waldner Two years ago, Israel and the European Union decided to upgrade their relations through a comprehensive joint action plan, in the framework of the European Neighborhood Policy. While up to then, EU-Israel […]
Akiva Eldar: Closed-door Policy
By Akiva Eldar The United States has requested that Israel refrain from even sending out feelers to assess Syria’s negotiating proposals, Ze’ev Schiff reported in Haaretz Friday. "Exploratory talks," Condoleezza Rice explained during her recent […]
Nablus under Attack: Israeli Raids Continue
NABLUS, West Bank – A Palestinian man was shot dead as the Israeli army continued their crackdown in the West Bank city of Nablus. The largest Israeli raid in the West Bank for months entered its second […]
Bernard Sabella: Time for a Palestinian National Agenda
By Bernard Sabella We Palestinians have grown accustomed to complain and there are a myriad of reasons why we should continue on this course. Yet, the challenges we are facing at present and the opportunities […]
Uri Avnery: ‘You and I and the Next War’
By Uri Avnery PalestineChronicle.com "WE ARE ready for the next war," a reserve soldier told a TV reporter this week, on the scene of a brigade-size maneuver on the Golan Heights. What war? Against whom? About […]
Jonathan Bean: Wilberforce and the Roots of Freedom
By Jonathan J. BeanPalestineChronicle.com William Wilberforce is one of the great forgotten men of history. But, all that is about to change as America marks Black History Month with Amazing Grace, the remarkable new film […]
Jonathan Cook: Apartheid Looks Like This
By Jonathan Cook The scene: a military checkpoint deep in Palestinian territory in the West Bank. A tall, thin elderly man, walking stick in hand, makes a detour past the line of Palestinians, many of […]
Stephen Lendman: Hugo Chavez’s Social Democratic Agenda
By Stephen LendmanPalestineChronicle.com Hugo Chavez Frias was reelected by an overwhelming nearly two to one margin over his only serious rival on December 3, 2006 giving him a mandate to proceed with his agenda to […]
Kathy Kelly: Do Something Good
By Kathy KellyPalestineChronicle.com This past Tuesday, in Fairbanks, Alaska, nine people entered the office of Senator Ted Stevens to deliver their "emphatic request" that the Senator vote against supplemental funding for the war and then […]
Remi Kanazi: All Roads Lead to Checkpoints
By Remi KanaziPalestineChronicle.com There may have been a period when all roads led to Rome, but for the Palestinian people, all roads lead to checkpoints. The latest checkpoint Palestinians find themselves at is not manned […]
Ira Glunts: Rice Jerusalem Summit about Regime Change
By Ira GluntsPalestineChronicle.com Despite the grand and hopeful proclamations of Condoleezza Rice [1] in which she pledged a major US commitment to promoting a two-state solution in the region, the real reason for her visit […]
Stephen Lendman: Ecuador’s President Embraces Bolivarianism
By Stephen LendmanPalestineChronicle.com Hugo Chavez Frias gained an Ecuadoran ally last November when voters rejected Washington’s choice and the country’s richest man and elected Raphael Correa its President by an impressive margin. Correa is a […]
Ivan Eland: Iraq: Enough Blame to Go Around
By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com As President Bush continues his Nixonesque policy of “exiting” Iraq by escalation and intimidation, both Republican and Democratic politicians are also imitating the Vietnam-era rhetoric of blaming the citizens of the chaotic […]
Ramzy Baroud: The Final Punch
By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com The configuration of the New Middle East — as envisaged by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during the Israeli war against Lebanon in July-August 2006, most certainly has no place for […]
Nicola Nasser: Bush Administration Shuns ME Peace Talks
By Nicola Nasser PalestineChronicle.com Instead of building a diplomatic momentum on the political breakthrough mediated by their Saudi Arabian ally who succeeded in developing an Arab and Palestinian consensus on going along with the U.S.-steered […]
Joharah Baker: Where Do We Go from Here?
By Joharah Baker Political developments are speeding up in the Palestinian arena, and this time, seemingly in the right direction. The Hamas-led government and the Fateh-led presidency have finally put down their guns and are […]
Interview with Noam Chomsky: It All Comes Down to Control
Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author and foreign policy expert. On February 9, Michael Shank interviewed him on the latest developments in US policy toward Iran, Iraq, North Korea and Venezuela. 02/21/07 "FPIF" — […]
Mike Whitney: The Second Great Depression
By Mike Whitney PalestineChronicle.com "The US economy is in danger of a recession that will prove unusually long and severe. By any measure it is in far worse shape than in 2001-02 and the unraveling […]
James Zogby: What Should be Rice’s Agenda?
By James Zogby If the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had wanted to make a real contribution to enhancing future prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian peace, she would not be spending her time in the […]
Gidi Greenstein: Mecca Deal an Opportunity
By Gidi Greenstein Israel has put itself in two kinds of a catch-22 situation in its relationship with the Palestinians. The first one has to do with the question of partner: it was decided not to […]
No Progress at Three-way Talks
JERUSALEM – A summit between Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, and Palestinian leaders in Jerusalem in a bid to re-start the Middle East peace process has ended without progress. Rice met with Ehud Olmert, the […]
Ron Jacobs: The Mecca Agreement
By Ron Jacobs In the territories of Palestine, an internecine war ebbs and flows between the factions that represent he Palestinians. Simultaneously, the military forces of Tel Aviv wage their own battle against the Palestinian […]