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Month: February 2007
Bassam Aramin: A Plea for Peace from a Palestinian Father
By Bassam Aramin I fought with my daughter on the day she was shot. On her way out the door to school, Abir announced, in that way children have of doing, that she would be playing […]
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe (Part II)
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Ilan Pappe. Oneworld Publications, Oxford, England, 2006. By Stephen LendmanPalestineChronicle.com The Phony and Real Wars Over Palestine As explained in Part I, Jordan’s King Abdullah cut a deal with Zionists […]
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe (Part I)
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Ilan Pappe. Oneworld Publications, Oxford, England, 2006. By Stephen LendmanPalestineChronicle.com Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and senior lecturer at Haifa University. He’s also Academic Director of the Research Institute […]
Liam Bailey: Israel’s Bedouin; Hidden Victims
By Liam BaileyPalestineChronicle.com I read the other day about a terrible act. I didn’t read it in the Guardian, the Times, the NY Post or any of the other major newspapers or mainstream media websites. […]
M. Shahid Alam: America
By M. Shahid AlamPalestineChronicle.com One day Mulla Nasruddin went to his neighbor, known to be a mean fellow. “Sir,” he explained, “your ox has gored my cow and killed her after she refused his amorous […]
The Meanness of Separation: Politics and Apartheid
By Newton Garver "Now everyone is prouder–and poorer." –Orhan Pamuk Jimmy Carter\\\’s most recent book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, has raised a storm of criticism from the Derschowitz-AIPAC wing of American Judaism, stung by his […]
Ramzy Baroud: Countdown for Iran
By Ramzy Baroud The relationship between Iran and the United States is one of peculiar temperament: intense but accommodating at times, barefaced and seemingly self-destructive at others. Currently, the latter estimation rings truer: the US […]
Paul Findley: Carter Enters Lions’ Den
By Paul FindleyPalestineChronicle.com At the age of 82, Jimmy Carter entered the lion’s den. With the publication of his latest book, " Palestine : Peace not Apartheid," he did what a patriot would do: rally […]
Book Review: America
Dangerous Nation – America’s Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century. Robert Kagan. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2006. By Jim MilesPalestineChronicle.com In an earlier essay “Of […]
Timothy Seidel: Another Round of Dangerous Optimism
By Timothy SeidelPalestineChronicle.com In her recent travels through the Middle East, United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice brought with her, many have speculated, little more than another round of optimism. This familiar optimism was […]
Joel Beinin: Silencing Critics not Way to Middle East Peace
By Joel BeininPalestineChronicle.com Last Sunday in San Francisco , the Anti-Defamation League sponsored "Finding Our Voice," a conference designed to help Jews recognize and confront the "new anti-Semitism." For me, it was ironic. Ten days […]
Agustin Velloso: Civil War or coup d
By Agustin Velloso in Madrid PalestineChronicle.com Is there a civil war going on in Palestine? No, but this question and an affirmative answer is what pro-Israeli media are disseminating all over the world. Hence, the […]
Joshua Frank: Why the Democrats Won
By Joshua FrankPalestineChronicle.com Over the past weekend Hillary Clinton pledged to end the war in Iraq if she is elected. “If we in Congress don’t end this war before January 2009, as president, I will,” […]
Ivan Eland: Wasting Billions on Military Spending
By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com Each year, one of the most important events in the nation’s capital is the release of the federal budget. Yet the media provides insufficient coverage because the budget is technical, unglamorous, and […]
Ron Forthofer: No More War Crimes in Our Name
By Ron ForthoferPalestineChronicle.com In one of his most powerful speeches, that at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967, Dr. King spoke out strongly against the US aggression in Vietnam and about […]
Ghassan Khatib: Turmoil and Confusion
By Ghassan Khatib Despite the surprise that greeted Hamas’ election victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections last year, the Islamic Resistance Movement did not come from nowhere. Hamas first emerged as a real player on the […]
Rami Bathish: Beyond Factional Antagonism
By Rami Bathish Following some of the bloodiest clashes in a year between Hamas and Fateh loyalists in the Gaza Strip, in which at least 25 people were killed and 250 injured last week, the […]
John Pilger: War with Iran is Coming
By John Pilger The United States is planning what will be a catastrophic attack on Iran. For the Bush cabal, the attack will be a way of "buying time" for its disaster in Iraq. In […]
Anti-Israel Jewish Voices Speak Louder
CAIRO – Sick and tired of blind support for Israel’s policy of aggressions by their representative body, more than 130 high-profile British Jews launched a new body on Monday, February 5, to make their voice […]
John Hilary: Time to Get Serious about Israel
By John Hilary You know that things are serious when a parliamentary select committee puts out a call for sanctions against another sovereign state. Doubly so when that state is supposed to be one of […]
Nicola Nasser: Quartet Corners PLO, Hamas into Critical Options
By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com In Washington on February 2, the Middle East Quartet of peace mediators promised the Palestinian people more of the same devastating status quo, perpetuating their 40-year old Israeli occupation, prolonging the international […]
Mike Whitney: Why the Surge will Push Us into War with Iran
By Mike WhitneyPalestineChronicle.com “If the United States continues to be bogged down in a protracted, bloody involvement in Iraq , the final destination on this downhill track is likely to be a head-on conflict with […]
Rami Almeghari: Gaza Unrest Paralyzes Movement
By Rami Almeghari in GazaPalestineChronicle.com As internal unrest in Gaza City, due to clashes between Fatah and Hamas supporters that has claimed lives of 25, wounded dozens others and caused destruction to many public utilities […]
Joschka Fischer: And Now for Iran
By Joschka Fischer Can politics learn from history? Or is it subject to a fatal compulsion to repeat the same mistakes, despite the disastrous lessons of the past? President Bush’s new strategy for Iraq has […]
Palestinian Infighting Resumes
By Hisham Abu Taha GAZA CITY – Six people were killed in a gunbattle in the Gaza Strip yesterday, bringing to an end a tentative cease-fire since Tuesday between the two main Palestinian factions. Earlier, […]
Stephen Lendman: Israel’s Kafkaesque
By Stephen Lendman Finding an equitable solution to the intractable, festering decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the Gordian Knot that must be cut to achieve peace overall in the Middle East. Today, no solution is in […]
Mike Whitney: Whitewashing the Massacre in Najaf
By Mike Whitney PalestineChronicle.com So far, there are 2 things that we can say with certainty about the massacre of 250 Iraqis outside Najaf on Monday. First, we know that there is no solid evidence […]
Mitchel Cohen: Gore and the Inconvenient Truth
By Mitchel CohenPalestineChronicle.com Al Gore’s film, "An Inconvenient Truth," raises the issue of global warming in a way that scares the bejeezus out of viewers, as it should since the consequences of global climate change […]
Faisal Kutty: Maher Arar Saga Not over Yet
By Faisal KuttyPalestineChronicle.com “My priority right now is to clear my name,” said Maher Arar during his first public appearance in 2003 upon his return after being tortured for over a year in Syria. The […]
Of Walls and Bantustans: Apartheid by Any Other Name
By Ronald Bruce St. John Former President Jimmy Carter’s latest book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, has generated considerable comment, most of it negative. Articles and reviews run a narrow gamut from circumspect criticism to personal […]