By Ramzy Baroud | Source: PalestineChronicle I still remember that smug look on his face, followed by the matter-of-fact remarks that had western journalists laugh out loud. “I’m now going to show you a picture of the luckiest man in Iraq,” General Norman Schwarzkopf, known as ‘Stormin’ Norman, said at …
Read More »From Pol Pot to ISIS: The Blood Never Dried
By John Pilger | Source: PalestineChronicle In transmitting President Richard Nixon’s orders for a “massive” bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, “Anything that flies on everything that moves”. As Barack Obama wages his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and …
Read More »Israel Lambasts John Kerry for ‘Amplifying’ Boycott
Poor US Secretary of State John Kerry. He tries to defend Israel, even to save Israel; he tries to legitimize its illegal occupation and have the Palestinians accept their dispossession, and in return he is lambasted by Israel’s politicians as “an amplifier” of “anti-Semitic boycotts.” John Kerry, who has been …
Read More »The Whitewashing of Ariel Sharon
Source : PalestineChronicle | By Ramzy Baroud The death of former Israeli leader Ariel Sharon enlivened US media’s interest in the legacy of a man considered by many a war criminal, and by some a hero. In fact, the supposed heroism of Sharon was at the heart of CNN coverage …
Read More »Why Israel Assassinated Yasser Arafat?
From the first moment, I did not have the slightest doubt that Yasser Arafat was assassinated. It seems there are still plenty of parties who would prefer that Arafat’s death continues to be treated as a mystery rather than as an assassination. It is hard, however, to avoid drawing the …
Read More »Not Rocket Science: Zionism and the United States Congress
By William James Martin | Source: PalestineChronicle The ideology, or political project, of Zionism which underlies the creation of the State of Israel had, in fact, a Christian origin rather than a Jewish one, as writings can be found dating from the 1500’s, written by Christian clergymen in England advocating …
Read More »The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited, This Time in Korea
Source : PalestineChronicle | By George Katsiaficas The current threat of a major war in Korea is akin to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, when the US and the USSR nearly waged nuclear war. Peaceful coexistence was assured only after an agreement was reached for Russia to withdraw its …
Read More »Cameron in Blunderland
Source : PalestineChronicle | Written By : Felicity Arbuthnot “The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war.”– (Martin H.Fischer, 1879-1962.) It has not been an auspicious couple of weeks for UK Prime Minister David Cameron. His Cabinet colleagues, largely a bunch of millionaires, have accused the …
Read More »Abbas: “It is time to move forward…”
Source : PalestineChronicle By Stuart Littlewood The day before the United Nations vote on Palestine, UK foreign secretary William Hague was explaining his devious policy to Parliament. “We support a negotiated settlement leading to a safe and secure Israel living alongside a viable and sovereign Palestinian state; based on 1967 …
Read More »Caught in a Storm – The Muslim Way
As Hurricane Sandy heads towards US and people all over the East Coast prepare to bunker down, this verse from the Quran comes to mind: “Certainly, We shall test you with something of fear and hunger, some loss of wealth, lives and fruits (of your toil), but give glad tidings to (As-Sabireen) …
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