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– Dr. M. Reza Behnam is a political scientist specializing in the history, politics and governments of the Middle East. He contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle.

The Times that Try Men’s Souls: America in 1776 and 2025

May 13, 2025

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam America as a safe haven for liberty is linked to Gaza. What happens there, the decisions made, will affect the freedom of Palestinians and Americans. Two hundred forty-nine years ago, […]

Iran and the United States: Nuclear Argy Bargy, Propaganda, and the Politics of Power

April 23, 2025

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” –  Voltaire, Enlightenment author and philosopher (1694-1778) Since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the United States and Israel have […]

Complicit in Genocide: Is Israel an Outpost or a Country?

April 10, 2025

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam The United States has, to its misfortune, invested heavily in its Zionist outpost, masquerading as a law-abiding moral country. In the Orwellian world in which we now dwell, countries and […]

Palestinian Rights are Human Rights: A History of Denial and Resistance

March 20, 2025

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam Human rights are rooted in the ancient ideas of civility, equality and justice. The term is used frequently, but less often reflected upon. The philosophical belief that certain rights are […]

The US and Israel: An Alliance of Blood, Politics and Money

March 10, 2025

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam It is important to know the origins of the Israeli lobby to realize the significant sway it has had on American politics and politicians. For that, we have to go […]

From Truman to Trump: Palestine: America’s Fork in the Road

February 23, 2025

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam The genocide of the Native people of North America was a 200-year catastrophe. Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, begun over 78 years ago, has never ended. For Palestine and Palestinians, May […]

Palestinian March of Defiance and Israeli Trashing of International Conventions

February 6, 2025

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam Israel’s defiance of international law and US complicity have perpetuated Palestinian dispossession, but Palestinians remain steadfast in their struggle for self-determination. Palestinians for decades have stood their ground and against […]

‘The Scorpion and the Frog’ – Catastrophe in Palestine

January 25, 2025

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam The resiliency to free themselves from the yoke and sting of colonialism is forever etched in the rubble of Gaza. The world has focused its attention on the humanitarian pause […]

When Israel Bombs, America Yawns and Gatekeepers Silence the Truth

January 12, 2025

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam In a world where press freedom is under siege, journalists in Gaza risk their lives to report the truth, while the global media remains complicit in silencing their voices. As […]

Deception and Politics: From Washington to Tel Aviv

December 24, 2024

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam The United States has, particularly since 1967, been the bulwark for Israel’s expansionist dreams. US-Israeli supremacist intentions, papered over and buried for decades, are now clear for all to see. […]

Israel and the United States: Who Rules the Roost?

December 8, 2024

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam We had several other people in the country (USA), even among the Jews,the Zionists particularly, who were against anything that has to be done if they couldn’t have the whole […]

Retreat from Reason: Palestine in the Time of Monsters

November 20, 2024

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam Israel, empowered by the United States, has gone beyond the pale, beyond reason and beyond humanity. Palestine is a test of our morality. Our times are fraught. This is especially […]

‘The Fault is in Ourselves’ – The Arabs and Their Leaders

November 9, 2024

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam For over a year, Palestinian resistance has not only unmasked Israel’s genocidal character, it has also bared the soul of the Arab regimes. The question often asked but rarely explored […]

‘Burying the Truth under Rubble of Gaza’ – Israel Unmasked

October 20, 2024

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda For over a year, the masters of war in Israel and the United States, […]

The Agony and Ecstasy of an Empire – The United States in the Middle East

October 8, 2024

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam The war on Palestinians in Gaza is remaking the Middle East, but not in the way the United States and Israel had hoped. Over the past year, mindful that I […]

Palestinians in Occupied Palestine: Defying Zionism and Imperialism

September 19, 2024

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam The United States has had no qualms about casting its lot with the most openly and thoroughly racist regime Israel has ever produced. That fact has been obscured, or intentionally […]

On the Frontline of Resistance – The Women of Palestine

September 3, 2024

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam Women have been the political spine of the struggle for freedom and liberation of Palestine across generations. It has been their strength, resilience and fearlessness that have kept the resistance […]

Does Any Other Country besides Israel have the Right to Defend Itself?

August 20, 2024

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam The narrative has finally begun to shift. Voices have grown increasingly louder demanding that Palestinians have a right to defend themselves. Despite the countless atrocities, assassinations and violations of humanitarian […]

Born and Dwells in Violence – Israel’s Mission in the Middle East

August 10, 2024

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam Israel’s Zionist founders did not come in peace. They fashioned a country based on force and intimidation. With each decade, their progeny have intensified the violence. The future is uncertain […]

The Politics of Water under Occupation: Israel in Palestine

July 23, 2024

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam Israel’s objective has always been to decrease the supply of water to Palestinians so that they will inevitably have to leave.  The International Court of Justice released its historic advisory […]

Stolen Land, Stolen Lives: Israel’s War on Palestine

July 4, 2024

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam Israeli Zionists have always lusted after Palestine but loathed its people. Today is no exception. Ever since the birth of organized Zionism in 1897, its adherents have been bent on […]

Intruder at Large – The United States in the Middle East

June 10, 2024

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam The radical and profound change in the region’s social, political and economic order can only come about if the United States departs, Zionism ends and Palestinians return to a free […]

Lifting the Veil of Cruel Deception: Demystifying Israel

May 22, 2024

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam The heroic, noble, democratic faux Israel story has been methodically insinuated into the American psyche by the Israeli state hasbara (explaining and propaganda) machine. Israel has, for decades, created many […]

Palestinian Resistance: Upsetting the US-Israel Apple Cart

May 9, 2024

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam The desire to return and reclaim their homes have kept Palestinian hopes alive for 76 years. For all that time they have had few allies. Students on campuses across the […]

Manipulation Politics: Israeli Gaslighting in the United States

April 25, 2024

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam Although the pro-Israel camp and their allies continue to dominate and influence Congress and the executive branch, they have slowly begun to lose control of the narrative.    The Middle East […]

Defending the Indefensible – The United States and the Cult of Israel

April 4, 2024

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam For many in positions of power and influence, common sense has been supplanted with Zionist mythical ideology and a cultish belief in heroic Israeli leaders, noble warriors and peace makers. […]

Democracy vs. Hypocrisy: United States in Palestine

March 21, 2024

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam After so much suffering, the United States, in its hubris, continues to act as if Israel can be integrated into the region. For generations to come, October 7 will be […]

Cut From the Same Cloth: The United States and Israel in Palestine

March 7, 2024

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam After a half-century of steadfast support, it has become virtually impossible for Washington to imagine a regional reality that does not have Israel at its core. Revolutionaries in Iran in […]

A Locus of Instability – For Israel the Writing is on the Wall

February 22, 2024

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam Israel is the creation of European colonialism and US imperialism. They have abetted and sustained a predatory settler-colonial regime and a society that has become adjusted to injustice. The October […]

‘How Long? Not Long’ – Tomorrow Belongs to Palestine

February 2, 2024

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam From its inception, Israel has sought to remove the native population and build a settler state on Palestinian land. Its leaders have used international organizations and the Western powers that […]

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