– 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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam Israel’s birth certificate has been stained with the blood of Palestinians. It has no place in the Middle East until it puts down the gun and rejects the ideology of […]
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam Biden has supported Israel’s objective of eliminating Hamas; seen by Washington as an obstacle to their misguided two-state solution strategy. Among the many memories I have of growing up in […]
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam Memory is long in the Middle East and the Gaza massacre will not be forgotten. Palestinians must determine their own future. Anything less will only prolong forever wars. The October […]
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam Hamas’ military campaign has laid bare the unbridled imperial and historical designs of Tel Aviv and Washington. In my public presentations on the subject of Palestine-Israel, I am frequently asked […]
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam The US-Israeli strategy of attempting to tie the destiny of the Arab world with Tel Aviv and to crush the idea of Palestinian resistance to occupation failed on October 7. […]
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam Palestinians are fighting for a future, to finally be rid of the stench of Israeli colonialism and military occupation. Language is a loaded weapon used by the powerful to incite […]
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam After 75 years of occupation, Palestinian frustration finally spilled over in the commando-style assault on Israel on October 7. The same frustration was put before the 78th session of the […]
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam America’s quest to maintain a stranglehold on Middle East oil and the global economy has been largely left out of the corporate media’s rendering of Washington’s seven decades-long interventionist history […]
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam “It is justice that the order of society is centered” (Aristotle) Iranians and Palestinians come from dissimilar cultural and historical landscapes. Yet, the Islamic Republic of Iran has embraced and […]
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam If you have ever wondered, as I have, just how many countries are currently sanctioned by the United States, a quick computer search yields a thought-provoking answer. Twenty-five countries are […]
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam Tel Aviv is, however, finding it increasingly difficult to whitewash its entrenched apartheid system and ongoing genocide, especially in light of the openly racist policies and practices of the current […]
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam How can the US government criticize the racist practices of Israel, when it has never really confronted its own history of genocide and wars of extermination against the Native tribes […]
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam No one should be shocked by the rightward drift of Israeli politics. The ultra-Orthodox extremist regime currently assembled in Tel Aviv is the end product of Israel’s systematic use of […]
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam On April 25th, President Joe Biden sent a congratulatory message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the anniversary of what Israel calls its “day of independence.” In it, Biden […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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