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Month: May 2008
Ratcheting Up for War On Iran
By Stephen Lendman Led by Dick Cheney, Bush administration neocons want war on Iran. So does the Israeli Lobby, but it doesn’t mean they’ll get it. Powerful forces in Washington and the Pentagon are opposed […]
Book Review: Common Wealth
By Jim Miles Common Wealth – Economics for a Crowded Planet. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Penguin Press, NY, 2008. Economists…some so intent on their money, not able to truly release themselves from their fundamental neoliberal values, […]
Nakba and Our Cultural Heritage
By Reham Alhelsi As Palestinians all over the world commemorate the Nakba and 60 years of on-going zionist ethnic cleansing, murder and apartheid, there is one aspect of our Palestinian identity that survived despite all […]
Israeli Raids Kill 5 Palestinians in Gaza
GAZA CITY – At least five Palestinians were killed and eight others injured late on Friday during two Israeli air raids that targeted two police stations in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian doctors […]
Hilary Clinton: Anything for the White House
By Suzanne Baroud Nothing seems to work right for Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton in her attempts to once more dwell in the White House. Senator Barack Obama, despite inflated controversies continued his glide to the […]
Hezbollah Eases up and Beirut Opens Its Shutters
By Franklin Lamb in Beirut Saturday Afternoon May 10 2008 witnessed a pronounced easing of tension. Is a solution at hand? Based on a US Congressional source, the Siniora government is reportedly able, with US […]
Lebanon: Opposition’s Patience Wears Thin
By Rannie Amiri "If we wanted to stage a coup, you would have woken up this morning in prison, or in the middle of the sea. We do not want that. It is a political […]
Gaza Fuel, Cooking Gas Shortages Beginning to Bite
JERUSALEM/GAZA – Intense political divisions in the Gaza Strip have split people on most issues, except one: the situation has never been worse, nearly everyone agrees. "I never remember Gaza being this bad," said one […]
Terror Report: Selective Data, Wrong Lessons
By Ramzy Baroud The data provided in the US State Department’s annual terrorism report for 2007 points to some interesting if puzzling conclusions. The much publicised document, made available 30 April via the State Department’s […]
Palestinian Spirit – A Poem
By Katherine Mukhar (Dedicated to the Palestinians in their continual fight for freedom) Vultures swoop aboveWhile I, their future prey,Must stand aloneBeneath the sunTo face my deathWithout an ounce of fear.I will not succumbTo what […]
Gitmo: America’s Shame
By Aijaz Zaka Syed My youngest one is as old as the young son of Sami Al Hajj, the Al Jazeera cameraman who was carried home to freedom on a stretcher this week, after seven […]
Lebanon: A Country on the Brink
By Franklin Lamb,Outside Beirut’s Closed Airport "The question is no longer why, for the answer has become clear. However, what is the secret behind the timing of this? What is being prepared for the future […]
As Israel Celebrates, Palestinians Mourn
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – Israel on Thursday celebrated its 60th anniversary with displays of military might and parties as Palestinians marked the plight of hundreds of thousands who lost their land to the Jewish state. Military […]
Falling from Heaven: Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By Kim Bullimore Abu Zureyk, Al Abbasiyya, Abu Shusha, Ayan az Zaytun, Awlam, Azz Zema, AHaiqia, Balad ash Sheikh, Bayt Daras, Beer Sheba, Bi’ne, Burayr, al Dawayima, Dayr el Asad, Deir Yassin, Eilbourn, Haifa, Hawwassa, […]
The Second Palestinian Intifada
By Stephen Lendman Ramzy Baroud is a veteran Palestinian-American journalist and former Al-Jazeera producer. He also taught Mass Communication at Australia’s Curtin University of Technology and is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Chronicle, […]
Nader, Rare Among Candidates
By Suzanne Baroud Media pundits can say what they may about Ralph Nader, but the fact remains that he is an upright man of political prudence, foresightedness, and principles rarely matched by the highly touted […]
For Arabs in Israel, 60 Years Adrift
For Jamal Abdulhadi Mahameed, Israel’s 60th birth anniversary is no reason to celebrate but to reflect on decades of discrimination and injustice. "We are prohibited from using our own land," the 69-year-old Israeli Arab told […]
Executive or Imperial Branch?
By Ivan Eland More memos recently have surfaced that were written early in the Bush administration by John C. Yoo from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel — the man who gave us the […]
Book Review: Our Eyes, and Dreams of Home
By Jim Miles Our Eyes and "Dreams of Home" created by the children of Lajee Center with Rich Wiles. Lajee Center, Bethlehem, Palestine. 2007. (For more info visit: www.Lajee.org) Our Eyes The pictures arrive at […]
‘Progress’ on Palestinian Borders
"Significant progress" has been made on the issue of future borders of a Palestinian state in talks between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, officials say. Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister hosted Mahmoud Abbas, the […]
Reflecting on Cultural Boycott
By Omar Barghouti In 1965, the American Committee on Africa [1], following the lead of prominent British arts associations, sponsored a historic declaration against South African apartheid, signed by more than 60 cultural personalities. It […]
There is Hope in Gaza
By Miko Peled Israel’s assault on the people of Gaza is so horrendous that it will not soon be forgotten. This vicious attempt by Israel to destroy an entire nation has tipped the scales for […]
The Birth of Anti-American Arab Terrorism
By William James Martin Former President Jimmy Carter’s independent Middle East diplomacy is nothing less than a coup of the American foreign policy of the Bush administration. Carter has now met twice with the representatives […]
Israel at 60: Crusader Anxiety
By Uri Avnery Every time I hear the voice of David Ben-Gurion uttering the words "Therefore we are gathered here..," I think of Issar Barsky, a charming youngster, the little brother of a girl-friend of mine. […]
Persecution of Palestinian Christians
By Dr. Elias Akleh Greek Orthodox Christian celebrations of Saturday’s Holy Fire and Sunday’s Easter in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem late April were violated and spoiled by aggressive interruptions of Israeli […]
The Winds of the Right over Europe
By Gaither Stewart I feel sick.She says I’m sick in the head.Actually I’m sick in the heart, sick in my viscera. My head reels, I feel chronic vertigo.She says it’s only paranoia.I tell her the […]
60 Years of Displacement and Suffering
By Stephen Lendman On May 14, Israelis will commemorate the 60th anniversary of their "War of Independence" and founding of the Jewish State. It also marks 60 years of Palestinian Nakba suffering. The web site […]
The Middle East ‘Last Chance’ Dance
By Tim Collins If the recent flurry of Mideast diplomatic activity is any indication, a new chapter in Israeli-Palestinian relations may soon unfold. En route to London to meet with the Middle East Peace Quartet […]
An Offer Hezbollah Cannot Refuse? Part IV
By Franklin Lamb in Lebanon Part IV: Bait, Hook and Switch: the US Offer and the Quid Pro Quo "Absolutely not! Without a credible deterrent force, there is no real Lebanese sovereignty. Israel came very […]
Is Sadr City Becoming the Next Gaza?
By Rannie Amiri “They have now completely surrounded Sadr City. The media is talking about Gaza, while we now have a second ‘Rafah Crossing’ in Sadr City. The hospitals are jammed with dead bodies…the occupation […]