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Month: September 2008
Remembering Edward Said Five Years On
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Said was passionately against Palestine being turned into an isolated prison wherein Israel repeatedly attacked mostly defenseless civilians with tanks and F-16s.Born in West Jerusalem in 1935. Exiled in December […]
Turning the Palestinian Cause into Medusa
By Sherri Muzher – Michigan In Greek mythology, there is a famous story about the beautiful Medusa who was turned into a horrific monster with hair of serpents. The transformation came about as “punishment” by […]
A Sexy Fundamentalist and a White-Haired Zionist
By Robert Weitzel Mention 9/11 to most Americans and the two numbers are considered sufficient to give meaning to that day. But mention 9/12, the day after when ‘terror’ became our national mantra and the ‘smoking […]
West Bank Settler Riot: What the Media Left out
By Kim Bullimore On September 13, in response to a 9-year-old Israeli settler child living in the ‘wildcat’ outpost of Shalhevet, about half a kilometre from the illegal Israeli colony of Yitzhar, being stabbed by […]
Fly, Tzipora, Fly!
By Uri Avnery The polls were wrong, as usual. And in a big way. As usual. Instead of winning by a huge margin, as predicted until the very last moment by all the polls, she […]
Book Review: The Secret War with Iran
By Jim Miles The Secret War With Iran. Ronen Bergman. Free Press (Simon & Schuster), New York, 2008. If one knew little about the Middle East and its many strands of religious, political, military, and […]
The Big Bailout: A Win-Win For Speculators
By Kevin Zeese The bailout is corporate-government on display — the corporate representatives (the Fed is the banking and finance system) go in the back room to meet with the congressional leadership of both parties […]
Watching the Wall – A Poem
By Carolfrances Likins Walls built by themthrough the middle of usare not built to protect us from us,but to protect themfrom our coming to realize thatweareanus. walls between enemies might be shieldsbut wallsbetween people and […]
Fatah Team in Egypt for National Dialogue Talks
A delegation representing Fatah movement arrived in Egypt on Sunday for talks with officials aimed at starting a national dialogue between rival factions, the Egyptian MENA news agency said. The Fatah delegation, headed by President […]
Israel’s Scandal-hit Olmert Formally Resigns
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert handed his resignation to President Shimon Peres on Sunday but the scandal-hit premier could stay in office for weeks or months until a new government is formed. "Prime Minister Ehud […]
Syria Gives Russian Spy Tips to Hezbollah: Israel
Israel believes Russia passes intelligence it gathers about the Jewish state to Syria and indirectly to the Hezbollah resistance group in neighboring Lebanon, a senior military officer said on Friday. The allegations were made by […]
Book Review: The Neoconservative Agenda
By Bill and Kathleen Christison Stephen J. Sniegoski, The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel, Enigma Editions, Norfolk, Virginia, 2008 Not a few honest political […]
Obama’s VP Pick Right for Israel?
By Susan Abulhawa He eclipsed the democratic convention buzz, gained women voters, simultaneously reassured middle to far right conservatives and may have positioned a female presidential candidate for the Republican ticket for future elections. It […]
Israel and Palestine Can Still Achieve Peace
By Mahmoud Abbas This month marks 15 painful years since the Arafat-Rabin handshake on the White House lawn. Palestinian children who started school when the Oslo Agreement was signed in 1993 are now young adults. […]
Israelis and Palestinians Eye Plan B
By Joshua Mitnick – Tel Aviv Over the past two decades of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, deadlines for peace agreements have come and gone with precious few treaties. Now, amid low expectations for an agreement before the […]
Attacking Pakistan? Don’t Do It
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai Back home in the sub-continent, they say you should always stay away from the cops; their friendship as well as adversity is bad for one’s health. I am reminded […]
Keeping the Sea-Lane to Gaza Open
By Stuart Littlewood – London Not a lot of people know this, but the success of the ‘Free Gaza’ boats in breaking the siege, and their safe arrival and departure, was due to the intervention and […]
India: The Kandahal Massacre
By Vijaya Rajiva On August 23 2008, in the district of Kandamahal in Bihar province (India) an 81-year-old Hindu Swami (holy man) and his four assistants, one of whom was a Swamini (a Hindu nun) […]
Injured Arab Children Come to the US for Free Medical Care
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Over the past decade, hundreds of sick and injured Palestinian, Iraqi, Lebanese and Syrian children have been brought to North America for free medical care that is not available to them […]
Scant Water Cripples Palestinian Farming
Ziyad Sawafta gets only enough water to plant half of his 125-acre (50 hectare) plot in Bardala in the northern Jordan Valley. "We get only the ear from the whole camel," Sawafta, 60, told Reuters […]
Livni Wins Kadima Leadership
Israeli Foreign Minister and former Mossad spy Tzipi Livni won Kadima leadership vote on Wednesday, September 16, putting her on track to succeed scandal-plagued Premier Ehud Olmert. "The good guys won," a victorious Livni told […]
Remembering Sabra and Shatila Massacres
By Mahmoud El-Yousseph Sabra and Shatila are two Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon where over two thousand Palestinians were massacred during three days in September 1982 by hundreds of Lebanese Phalange and Haddad militiamen […]
Palestinian Unity: Goal or Mantra?
By Ramzy Baroud Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa used exceptionally tough language during a Cairo news conference 9 September, when he lashed out at Palestinian factionalism, saying that the League is going as far as […]
Israel Postpones New Round of Talks with Syria
A fifth round of Turkish-brokered indirect peace talks between Syria and Israel has been postponed at the request of the Jewish state, Syria’s foreign minister said on Wednesday. "When Israel is ready to resume the […]
Could a Binational State Be Olmert’s Legacy?
By Joharah Baker Today, September 17, the Kadima party will vote for a new leader, thus ousting the corruption-riddled Ehud Olmert from his seat of power as both Party leader and eventually, as Prime Minister […]
Israel Casts Cloud over Ramadan
By Al-Arabiya.net and Agencies As most of the rest of the Islamic world welcomed Ramadan with festive treats and family get-togethers, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank found Israel playing a significant role […]
A Voting Strategy for Arab and Muslim Americans
By Sam Husseini The vast majority of Arabs and Muslims totally disagree with McCain/Palin and Obama/Biden on the issues many of them care most about. But they will likely on election day vote for one […]
Are American-Iranian Relations the Same?
By Abid Mustafa On 15 September 2008 the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that Iran had repeatedly blocked a UN investigation to probe allegations that it had tried to make nuclear weapons. The findings of […]
Bolivia: Fascism Seizes Power
By James Petras Bolivian fascists have seized power in five of the richest states in Bolivia, forcefully ousting all national officials, murdering, injuring and assaulting leaders, activists and voters who have backed the national government […]
Hamas Held Secret Leadership Election: Official
Thousands of Hamas members voted in a secret internal ballot in the Gaza Strip that re-elected the Islamist group’s most prominent leaders to its highest bodies and signaled no change in policy. "The election showed […]