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Month: May 2007

Drones in the Skies of Gaza
By Yousef AlhelouSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The aerial Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have continued for the 10th day. 59 Palestinians have been killed so far. 17 of the victims are civilians, including 7 children. […]

Shafiq Morton: The Forgotten Lebanese
By Shafiq Morton Special to PalestineChronicle.com When I saw palls of black smoke rising from the over-crowded alleyways of the Nahr al-Barid Palestinian refugee camp outside Tripoli in northern Lebanon, I was not surprised. Nor […]

Joharah Baker: No One is Immune
By Joharah Baker Israel is apparently taking its war on the Palestinians up a notch. As the Gaza Strip continues to burn in the flames of factional infighting and Israeli missile attacks, Israeli officials have […]

Background: What is Behind the Latest Crisis in Lebanon?
By Alexander JennichesPalestineChronicle.com Two conflicting theories are circulating these days about the renewed violence in Lebanon. One says, Syria is behind the group that clashes with the Lebanese Army, trying to stir again turmoil in […]

Chris Cook: Getting with the Pogrom
By Chris CookPalestineChronicle.com It is the best of times, and worst. Not since the banking crisis of the 1930’s, now known as ‘The Great Depression,’ has the global situation looked so grim, its challenges seeming […]

Jim Miles: Canada: Serving the Empire
By Jim milesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com There has been recent commentary in Canada about its role in the world as a neutral and independent arbiter in international affairs. That role has been seriously compromised if not […]

Franco-Arab Ties Could Yet Survive Sarkozy
By Nicola NasserSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The defensive and guarded Arab reaction to the self-pronounced and reported pro-Israel and pro-America statements of Nicolas Paul Stephane Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa, who was sworn in as the new President of […]

Gordon and Bronner: The Death of Samir Dari
By Neve Gordon and Yigal BronnerSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Almost a year and a half has passed since our friend Samir Dari was gunned down by an Israeli policeman. Samir, an Israeli resident and father of two, […]

John Petrovato: Omitting Inconvenient Truths
By John PetrovatoSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com On May 6, 2007, the New York Post ran a column by Ralph Peters entitled: “What do give up…. and what land to hold: Israel’s toughest choice”. Peters, author of […]

Death’s Face – Poems
Death’s Face By Patricia WeissTo the Palestinian People I saw deaths face today, it shattered my heart.Young warrior, eyes locked shut. Do you still feel the pain and carnage,your blood shed into the reddened earth.All […]

Book Review: Cockburn’s and St. Clair’s End Times
By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair are both veteran journalists and authors doing the kind of muckraking political and other investigative writing only found in the US online and in […]

Refugees Warn Clashes may Spread Amid Fury at Lebanese Army
By Duncan Campbell in Beirut and Clancy Chassay in Badawi refugee camp Lebanon’s worst internal violence for two decades is in danger of spreading throughout the country, politicians, diplomats and refugees warned yesterday, as anger […]

Khaled Amayreh: As Gaza Burns
By Khaled Amayreh Careful to ensure that the "shortcomings" of last year’s war with Hizbullah were not repeated, the Israeli army continued to bomb Palestinian residential neighbourhoods in Gaza and surrounding areas, inflicting death and […]

Roger H. Lieberman: Position Two, Or Position One?
By Roger H. LiebermanPalestineChronicle.com Perhaps the most telling indicator of how historically, geographically, and morally impoverished “mainstream” American discourse on the Middle East remains is the fact that the most crucial question for the future […]

Joshua Frank: The Iraq War: Hillary Clinton
By Joshua FrankPalestineChronicle.com Senator Clinton is sure trying hard to court the antiwar vote while still sustaining a muscular U.S. foreign policy agenda as she runs for the presidency. On May 16, Hillary Clinton sided […]

Franklin Lamb: Who’s Behind the Fighting in North Lebanon?
By Franklin Lamb in Tripoli, Lebanon Wearing a beat-up ratty UNCHR tee-shirt left over from Bint Jbeil and the Israeli-Hezbollah July probably helped. As did, I suspect, the Red Cross jersey, my black and white […]

Hasan Efif El-Hassan: Israel
By Hasan Efif El-Hasan, Ph.DPalestineChronicle.com Many Arab analysts have over-rated the March 2007 Arab summit decision to re-launch the land-for-recognition initiative that had been offered by Saudi Arabia in 2002 to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict. […]

Available for Interviews: Enough! Coalition, Demonstration
Press release: Enough! demonstration in central London on 9 June calling for an end to occupation and justice for the Palestinians Enough! is a coalition of charities, trade unions, faith and other campaign groups that […]

Timothy Seidel: Water and Resistance
By Timothy SeidelPalestineChronicle.com The view from the Palestinian village of Nahhalin, in the west Bethlehem area, is sobering. This small village—along with the villages of Husan, Battir, Wadi Fuqin, and Al Walaja—are becoming more and […]

Stephen Lendman: Forty Years of Occupation
By Stephen LendmanPalestineChronicle.com This June will mark an anniversary that will live in infamy for the people affected by the event it commemorates following a far greater one 19 years earlier on May 14, 1948. […]

Cape of Good Hope: One Apartheid Regime Down; One More to Go
By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com I stand at the southernmost corner of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope. The grand mountains underneath and behind infuse a moment of spiritual reflection unmatched in its depth and meaning. Before […]

Samah Jabr: Stop another Nakba against Palestinians
By Dr. Samah Jabr Finally, a Palestinian National Unity Government has been realized, but aid and international goodwill have not been showered over the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinians are still starved, haunted, isolated […]

Tom Wallace: Media and the MEMRI Mouse Trap
By Tom Wallace Normally CNN, FOX, MSNBC and the New York Times have little in common with each other, let alone blogs like little green footballs, Americablog or the Huffington Post. But when it comes […]

George Bisharat: For Palestinians, Memory Matters
By George Bisharat Why do some people have the power to remember, while others are asked to forget? That question is especially poignant at this time of year, as we move from Holocaust Remembrance day […]

Michael Neumann: Two States, One State and Snake Oil
By Michael Neumann Those familiar with the Israel/Palestine conflict know that people propose one-state and two-state solutions. Two states means Israel plus a Palestinian state. One state means a single state covering all of Palestine. […]

Ramzy Baroud: Darfur and the Hourglass of Blood
By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com The Darfur crisis in Sudan is perhaps the most politically convoluted conflict in the world today. Its underpinnings involve local, regional and international players, all selfishly vying for power and economic interests. […]

The Palestinian Struggle for Survival: A Stark Record of Injustice
By Ruth Tenne RAMZY BAROUD- THE SECOND PALESTINIAN INTIFADA: A CHRONICLE OF A PEOPLE’S STRUGGLE – PLUTO PRESS 2006 (Buy Book) The unique strength of Ramzy Baroud’s book – The Second Palestinian Intifada – lies in […]

Azmi Bishara: Why Israel is After Me
By Azmi Bishara AMMAN, Jordan – I am a Palestinian from Nazareth, a citizen of Israel and was, until last month, a member of the Israeli parliament. But now, in an ironic twist reminiscent of […]

Yousef Alhelou: The Unbearable Life in Gaza
By Yousef AlhelouPalestineChronicle.com GAZA CITY – The Palestinian Authority has been starved of funds since Hamas was elected in January 2006. Israel has also been withholding the millions of US dollars it owes the Palestinian […]

Jeff Halper: The Livni-Rice Plan
By Jeff Halper For years I have been one of the doomsayers, arguing that the two-state solution is dead and that apartheid has become the only realistic political outcome of the Israel-Palestine conflict– at least […]