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Year: 2011

Israeli Air Strike Kills Palestinian in Gaza
At least one Palestinian has been killed and another five injured by an Israeli air strike east of Gaza City, Palestinian medical officials have said. Hamas officials confirmed that Moamen Abu Daff was killed on Friday […]

UK Condemns Israel’s ‘Provocative’ Plans in Jerusalem
Britain’s Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Alistair Burt on Friday condemned Israel’s plans to expand an illegal settlement and build a tourism center in occupied East Jerusalem. Jerusalem municipality on Wednesday approved […]

US Releases $40mn in Aid for PA
The US congress has released $40 million in aid for the Palestinian Authority (PA), previously suspended over the Palestinians’ UN membership bid, a State Department official said. "We have been working with Congress for some […]

Anatomy of Israel’s Survival – Book Review
Reviewed by Jim Miles (The Anatomy of Israel’s Survival. Hirsh Goodman. Signal/McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2011.) The “Anatomy of Israel’s Survival” rests on a single backbone: military strength. I have always said that Israel will survive […]

Israel and the Rise of Islamic Movements
By Uri Avnery – Israel If Islamist movements come to power all over the region, they should express their debt of gratitude to their bete noire, Israel. Without the active or passive help of successive […]

Middle East’s Fragile Democracy in Danger
By Ramesh Jaura – Berlin If the year 2011 appeared to be a beacon of hope for freedom and democracy in the Middle East and North Africa, indications are that 2012 will be marked by […]

EU Blasts Israel on Discrimination
European Union (EU) envoys in Israel have criticized Tel Aviv’s maltreatment of Arabs living in Israel, a report on the human rights violations says. "While the international community is focused predominantly on restarting the Israeli-Palestinian […]

Gaza Lives: Reflecting on ‘Operation Cast Lead’
By Mohammed AlNadi – Gaza In Israel, nothing is more rewarding than committing systematic mass killings and war crimes against Palestinians. It seems, according to Israel’s moral system and code of conduct, nothing is more […]

The Sad, Sad World of Israel’s Big-time Liars
‘A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes’ — attributed to Mark Twain By Stuart Littlewood Meet another of Israel’s undesirables, Yuli Edelstein. He is the regime’s […]

White House Still Playing Saleh’s Game
By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. In accordance with the demands of America’s presidential office, Barack Obama has been flooded with a river of updates throughout his Hawaiian vacation. From economic hardball with the GOP […]

Israel: Political Mayhem or Height of Brinkmanship?
By Amjad Yamein – Amman Last night, Israel conducted two air strikes within hours and opened fire at Palestinians, killing three and injuring ten, in the second aerial attack against Gaza in the last Month. […]

Israel Preparing for another Gaza War
Israel has threatened to launch another all-out war on the Gaza Strip, saying attacking the Palestinian territory is not a matter of choice, but a war of necessity for Tel Aviv. Marking the third anniversary […]

Israel Approves More Homes in East Jerusalem
The Jerusalem municipality has approved the construction of 130 new homes in the east of the city. The homes are to be built in Gilo neighbourhood on land captured from Jordan in the 1967 war. Municipal spokesman […]

Gaza PM Arrives in Sudanese Capital
Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh arrived in the Sudanese capital on Tuesday night as part of his first international tour since the siege on the coastal strip. Haniyeh told reporters in Khartoum that his visit […]

Palestine: Those Who Inspired Us in 2011
By Ramzy Baroud Mustafa Tamimi was a 28-year-old resident of the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. His meticulously trimmed beard served as the centerpiece of his handsome face. In December 2011, when an Israeli […]

2011: The Year that Shook the World
By Eric Walberg – Cairo A Tunisian fruit vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire in a public square in a small town in December 2010, sparking protests that brought down dictators in Tunisia and […]

Israeli Raids Kill One, Injure 10 in Gaza
Two separate Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip have claimed the life of one Palestinian and left 10 others wounded, Palestinian medics say. In one of the strikes, which took place on Tuesday evening, a […]

Hamas PM Meets Egypt’s Brotherhood Leader
Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas in Gaza, has visited headquarters of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt on his first trip outside the blockaded territory since 2007, when it came to power. "The Brotherhood centre has always embraced […]

Unity Government Needed to End Division: Mashaal
Hamas chief in exile Khalid Mashaal said Monday that a unity government must be formed to end the division between the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Speaking to Palestine TV, Mashaal said that Palestinian factions […]

Israelis Rally against Gender Segregation
A shy eight-year-old schoolgirl has unwittingly found herself on the front line of Israel’s latest religious war. Naama Margolese is a ponytailed, bespectacled second-grader afraid of walking to her religious Jewish girls’ school for fear of […]

J Street Jeremy: Being Pro-Israel Never Talking about Palestinian Rights
By Ira Glunts On a dreary, rainy evening in late November my friend Pat Carmeli and I were driving to Syracuse to hear Jeremy Ben-Ami speak. I smiled when Pat turned to me and said, […]

Open Letter from Gaza: Three Years after the Massacre
Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine We, Palestinians of Gaza, 3 years on from the 22-day long massacre in Israel’s operation ‘Cast Lead’, are calling on international civil society to make 2012 the year when solidarity with […]

Assembly Time: Winter in Kabul
By Kathy Kelly – Kabul Arab Spring, European Summer, American Autumn, and now the challenge of winter. Here in Kabul, Afghanistan, the travelers of our small Voices for Creative Nonviolence delegation share an apartment with […]

Rudd, Bonhoeffer and the War on Gaza
By Vacy Vlazna For Christians, Christmas and New Year revivify reflection on core values – good will to all and peace for humankind. Between these two dates, on the 27th December, falls the third anniversary […]

Remember These Children Mr. President
By Clive Hambidge Happy Christmas Mr President or may I call you Barack this Yule Tide? As you know ‘Christmas is the day that holds all time together’ (Alexander Smith) certainly as you rustle through […]

The Car Downstairs
(In commemoration of the third anniversary of the Israeli war on Gaza, the Palestine Chronicle publishes excerpts from Ramzy Baroud’s book, My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story. The book, published soon after […]

Over 3,000 Palestinians Arrested in 2011: Study
A report published on Monday has found that over 3,000 Palestinians were arrested by Israel’s military in 2011. Researcher on prisoner affairs Abdul Nasser Ferwaneh said that the average number of arrests in 2011 numbered […]

Israeli FM: Abbas is Not Peace Partner
Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli’s foreign minister, has accused the Palestinians of attempting to avoid negotiations, saying that Israeli-Palestinian peace is currently unachievable. Addressing a meeting of Israeli diplomats in occupied Jerusalem on Sunday, Lieberman said that […]

The Re-emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood
By Mohamed El Mokhtar One of the most significant consequences of the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ is the forceful emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood as an influential political force and social movement in the Middle East. […]

A Doomsday View of 2012
By James Petras The economic, political and social outlook for 2012 is profoundly negative. The almost universal consensus, even among mainstream orthodox economists is pessimistic regarding the world economy. Though even here their predictions understate […]