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Month: October 2007

Caelum Moffatt: Disorder in the Ranks of Hamas?
By Caelum Moffatt Last Sunday, Hamas government spokesperson, Ghazi Hamad, was alleged to have issued a five page letter in which he criticized and questioned Hamas’ takeover of the Gaza Strip in June. The former […]

Kris Petersen:
By Kris PetersenSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Khalil laughs and shakes head as we dine along the seaside terrace of Gaza’s luxurious al-Deira Hotel. “This is not Gaza,” he says, dismissively gesturing towards the hotel’s maroon exterior […]

Lisa Hajjar: Israel’s Military Court System is Model to Avoid
By Lisa Hajjar Last week’s issue of Atlanta Journal-Constitution published an essay by two Atlanta attorneys who represent detainees at Guantanamo. The two harshly criticized U.S. policies toward the detainees and said the U.S. should […]

Stephen Lendman: The Bank of the South
By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com In July, 2004, the IMF and World Bank commemorated the 60th anniversary of their founding at Bretton Woods, NH to provide a financial framework of assistance for the postwar world […]

Palestinians Resist Media Demonization
By Catherine Manfre corporate news programs give the wrong impression of the Palestinian people by referring to them as "terrorists," former Al-Jazeera producer and professor Ramzy Baroud said at a panel discussion at Kimmel last […]

Syria-sponsored Lebanon Assassination Plot Alleged
By Sana Abdallah and Agency Dispatches CAIRO – Lebanese lawmaker Saad Hariri claimed Tuesday that he had evidence of a Syrian plot to assassinate Prime Minister Fuad Siniora and himself, reviving Lebanon’s anti-Syrian camp’s accusations […]

Iqbal Jassat: Annapolis: Winners and Losers
By Iqbal JassatSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The following few weeks leading up to year-end is the subject of intense debate and being closely monitored by South Africans and Palestinians. In the case of the former, the […]

Hamilton Declaration: An Open Letter to Abbas
(Approved by 18 Palestinian Canadian community Associations – Toronto, Mississauga, Ottawa, Halifax, Vancouver, London Ontario, Hamilton, Branford, Montreal, A-lawda, Resistance Art) We the Palestinian Canadian community assembly at the Palestinian National Voice Preparatory Conference in […]

Felicity Arbuthnot: Iran: The Road to Armageddon?
By Felicity ArbuthnotSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Reminder to the crusading Armageddonists ….. “Thou shalt not kill.” Exodus 20: 13.They are at it again. Remember when Milosovic was labelled “the butcher of Belgrade”, the new Hitler? Then […]

Desmond Tutu: Realizing God’s Dream for the Holy Land
By Desmond Tutu Whenever I am asked if I am optimistic about an end to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, I say that I am not. Optimism requires clear signs that things are changing – meaningful words […]

Hasan El-Hasan: The Annapolis Conference
By Dr. Hasan Afif El-HasanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Israeli Prime minister Ehud Olmert described Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently with affection and admiration as one of the Palestinian leaders who “recognize Israel as a Jewish state”. […]

J.A. Miller: 90th Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration
By J.A. MillerSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com It becomes, therefore, specially important to foster and develop any strongly-marked Jewish movement which leads directly away from these fatal [socialist] associations. And it is here that Zionism has such […]

Jim Miles: Uncertain Outcomes: The Israeli-Palestine Question
By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com After 9/11, 2001, when I first started examining the various landscapes – physical, political, cultural, military – of events relating to that day, I had no real idea that it […]

St. Clair and Frank: Iraq
By Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua FrankPalestineChronicle.com The ecological effects of war, like its horrific toll on human life, are exponential. When the Bush Administration and their Congressional allies sent our troops in to Iraq […]

Mike Whitney: Our Overflowing Morgues
By Mike Whitney Special to PalestineChronicle.com “Everyday, under the pretext of either Al Qaeda, insurgents, militants, or whatever imaginary name you coined, you have not ceased, not even for one day, slaughtering our innocents. For […]

M. Shahid Alam: Will History Repeat Itself?
By M. Shahid Alam Special to PalestineChronicle.com In January 2002, when President Bush named Iraq, Iran and North Korea as the first targets in his ‘global war against terror’ – the putative ‘axis of evil’—few […]

Israel Slaps Gaza Sanctions, Kills Six
GAZA CITY — Israel approved on Thursday, October 25, electricity and fuel cuts against the besieged Gaza Strip, while its war machine killed more Palestinians. "Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved recommendations from defense officials for […]

Michael Birmingham: What Happened in Nahr Al Bared?
By Michael Birmingham Special to PalestineChronicle.com Nahr Al Bared is a Palestinian refugee camp in the north of Lebanon which has been home to about 40,000 Palestinian people, most of whom are the children and […]

Aref Assaf: Palestinian Americans Unite
By Aref AssafPalestineChronicle.com First, Fatah vs. Hamas and the winner is Israel. Now it is the ATFP vs. Al-Awda et al., and the loser is the Palestinian cause. Much has been said about the seemingly […]

Stephen Lendman: Torture, Occupation and Genocide
By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com On October 5, George Bush confronted a public uproar and defended his administration claiming "This government does not torture people." That claim was hardly accurate. Once secret US Department of […]

Letter to the Editor: Blair, Bush and Armageddon
To the editor of the Palestine Chronicle: Tony Blair’s psychologically challenged speech in New York (18th October) warning of a new era of Iranian led fascism similar to 1930’s Europe, a threat to the whole […]

Rest in Power, Sherri Muzher – Prioritizing Palestinian Dignity
Sherri Muzher, a Palestinian intellectual and activist from Michigan passed away on June 26, 2018 at the age of 48. Sherri contributed regular articles to the Palestine Chronicle since its inception in 1999 till her […]

Ramzy Baroud: Peace Conference: New Case for War
By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The Middle East peace conference proposed by the Bush administration is clearly a smokescreen, aimed at concealing the true intentions of US foreign policy in the region. In the predictable […]

Hammam Farah: UCU: Between Boycott and Apartheid
By Hammam FarahSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com After passing a motion in May that called for the circulation and debate of the Palestinian call for the academic boycott of Israel, Britain’s University and College Union (UCU)’s strategy […]

Ivan Eland: Double Standard at Home and Abroad
By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com The Bush administration is attempting to soothe the Turkish government’s apoplectic reaction to the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s label of “genocide” on Turkey’s slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians, which occurred almost a […]

Roger Lieberman: Annapolis and the Mandate of Heaven
By Roger H. LiebermanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Last night, I had a brief but vivid dream pertinent to the crisis in the Middle East. I saw myself watching a documentary on Public Television about Syrian villagers […]

Stephen Lendman: Nobel Hypocrisy
By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Alfred Nobel was a wealthy nineteenth century Swedish-born chemist, engineer, inventor of dynamite, armaments manufacturer and war profiteer who remade his image late in life by establishing the awarding of […]

Fred Habachi: Islamo-Fascism: Their Week Of Panic
Fred HabachiSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com There is apprehension in the air among people of goodwill about the proposed designation of a week by members of the Zionist Lobby, their lackeys and mouthpieces to draw attention to […]

Israel Shaken by Troops’ Tales of Brutality
By Conal Urquhart in Jerusalem A study by an Israeli psychologist into the violent behaviour of the country’s soldiers is provoking bitter controversy and has awakened urgent questions about the way the army conducts itself […]

Priyamvada Gopal: A shameful silence
By Priyamvada Gopal We have become accustomed to theatrical displays of intolerance: death threats against writers, bonfires of novels, plays shut down, vandals defacing paintings. The danger, however, is that this obscures the more insidious […]