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Month: November 2007
Adam Keller: Contemplations on the Rabin Memorial Rally
By Adam Keller PalestineChronicle.com “I am not going to that rally, not at any price. To be among Barak’s audience? Barak? Just this week, Shulamit Aloni said he should be tried for war crimes. And […]
Stephen Lendman: Punishing Gaza
By Stephen Lendman Special to PalestineChronicle.com On September 20, Haaretz reported: "The security cabinet voted unanimously yesterday to increase sanctions against the Hamas-run Gaza Strip (and declare) the region a ‘hostile entity.’ "A further statement […]
James Petras: Deadly Embrace: Zion-power and War (Part I)
By James PetrasSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Explanations for the US attack on Iraq range from military-political pretexts to accounts focusing on geopolitical and economic interests. The original official explanation was the now discredited claim that Saddam […]
James Petras: Deadly Embrace: Zion-power and War (Part II)
By James PetrasSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com War For Oil or War For Israel: The Public Record Zionist Power Configuration support for the Iraq War was an open, relentless, propaganda campaign by well-known writers, publicists, and community […]
Bush Warned of God Fury over Annapolis
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israeli rabbis are threatening US President George W. Bush of divine punishment if he did not scrap an upcoming US-sponsored Mideast peace conference, saying Hurricane Katrina and California fires were God’s punishment […]
Hasan Afif El-Hasan: Balfour Declaration
By Hasan Afif El-HasanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The Palestinians today are dispossessed and oppressed. The vast majority is either living under occupation or in refugee camps across the Middle East or living as second class citizens […]
PHR-Israel: Erez Crossing: What the Eye Doesn’t See
By Physicians for Human Rights-Israel Appeal Barely two weeks since extensive media attention successfully compelled Israel to allow access to lifesaving care for patients through Erez Crossing, Israeli policies at the Crossing lead to a […]
Jim Miles: Lords of the Land
By Jim Miles Special to PalestineChronicle.com Lords of the Land – The War Over Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007. Akiva Eldar and Idith Zertal. Nation Books, New York, 2007. In my previous article […]
Caelum Moffatt: Walking in Paradise
By Caelum Moffatt Whether a Palestinian, an Israeli settler or a foreigner currently residing in the West Bank, engaging in whatever activity that makes the days pass, all are undeniably guilty of the same crime […]
A Land with People, For a People with a Plan
By Ludwig Watzal Two rabbis, visiting Palestine in 1897, observed that the land was like a bride, "beautiful, but married to another man". By which they meant that, if a place was to be found […]
Pressure, Self-Censorship, and the Israel Lobby
By The Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine CJPIP When the Chicago Council on Global Affairs cancelled a scheduled talk by Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt on the topic of their […]
Ramzy Baroud: A Case for Arab Dignity
By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The ongoing socio-economic and political ills that mar potential progress in Middle Eastern countries can largely be attributed to the ill-defined foreign policy of the United States. Utterly desperate situations […]
Terry Walz: Gazans’ Place at Annapolis
By Terry Walz The phantasma of peace scheduled to appear in Annapolis, where an international conference is to take place some time in "November or December" – the latest Haaretz guesstimate – has been the […]
Jerusalem: The East Side Story (2007)
By Sam Bahour PalestineChronicle.com Was it sheer coincidence, sad irony, or just another day in Palestinian life under Israeli military occupation? It was hard to tell. My father and I drove through the last Israeli […]
Iqbal Jassat: Gearing up for War against Iran
By Iqbal JassatSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com In the midst of tension between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran, the big question is not whether Iran will be bombed or not. Rather, as many […]