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William Cook: Unmasking AIPAC

By William A. Cook PalestineChronicle.com VRay Suarez (PBS News Hour Reporter, October 2, 2007): "You’re saying that the national legislature of this country, rather than doing the will of the citizens of the United States, […]

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Sonja Karkar: The Right to Exist

By Sonja KarkarSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com It is a curious phrase this “right to exist”. Israel wants the world to accept its “right to exist” as a state, but it denies the indigenous Palestinians their right […]

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Stephen Green: Israel

By Stephen GreenPalestineChronicle.com In the days after Israel’s September 6 air strike into northeast Syria at what may or may not have been a nuclear or strategic weapons facility, I read the major papers and […]

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Dan Lieberman: The Road to Pieces

By Dan Lieberman PalestineChronicle.com Failure to understand the driving forces in the Middle East violence will lead to disaster.  Henry Siegman, in an article, titled: "The Great Middle East Peace Process Scam", London Review of […]

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Ira Glunts: The Israeli Lobby

By Ira GluntsSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Review of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, 484 pgs. When the article entitled “The Israel […]

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Jim Miles: Empire and Commonwealth of God

By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The American Empire and the Commonwealth of God – A Political, Economic, Religious Statement. John Cobb, Richard Falk, David Griffin and Catherine Keller. Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, Kentucky, 2006. […]

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Syria: Israel is Warmongering

DAMASCUS – Syria’s deputy president has accused Israel of making excuses to start a war by spreading false reports that an alleged Israeli air raid targeted a site linked to weapons of mass destruction.  Damascus […]

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Ben White: It

By Ben White Special to PalestineChronicle.com The clinking champagne glasses on Engage’s website said it all. The movement established to oppose the proposed boycott of Israeli academic institutions was celebrating a victory, as the British […]

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Uri Avnery: So What About Iran?

By Uri Avnery PalestineChronicle.com A respected American paper posted a scoop this week: Vice-President Dick Cheney, the King of Hawks, has thought up a Machiavellian scheme for an attack on Iran. Its main point: Israel […]

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Gideon Levy: The Children of 5767

By Gideon Levy It was a pretty quiet year, relatively speaking. Only 457 Palestinians and 10 Israelis were killed, according to the B’Tselem human rights organization, including the victims of Qassam rockets. Fewer casualties than […]