• March 29, 2024
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The Billion Dollar Deal that Made Google and Amazon Partners in the Israeli Occupation of Palestine

While profit generation is understandably the main goal of companies like Google and Amazon, this goal can be achieved without necessarily requiring the subjugation of a whole people, who are currently the victims of the world’s last remaining apartheid regime.

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New Great Game: Can Venezuela Negotiate an End to US Deadly Sanctions?

Though some in Washington are willing to reconsider their long-standing policy against the socialist bloc of South America, the US mission is rife with obstacles.

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Weathering the Global Storm: Why Neutrality is Not an Option for Palestinians

Common sense dictates that Palestinians must develop a unified front to cope with the massive changes underway in the world, changes that will eventually yield a whole new geopolitical reality.

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Politics and Sports Do Mix: On FIFA’s Hypocrisy in Palestine and the Need to Isolate Apartheid Israel

It will not take days, as is the case with Russia and Ukraine, but they will eventually succeed in isolating Israel, for, as it turned out, politics and sports do mix after all.

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French Withdrawal from Mali Will Redraw the Political Map of West Africa

The truth is that an earth-shattering development is underway in Mali and the whole of West Africa, ushering in, as argued in the NY Times, the ‘closing chapters of ‘la Françafrique’,’ the centuries-long French dominance over its ‘sphere of influence’ in the resource-rich Africa.

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The Next Step in Palestine’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle is the Most Difficult

Most importantly, Palestinians must also reflect on the unavoidable truth – that those who have normalized and profited from the Israeli occupation and apartheid cannot possibly be the ones who will bring freedom and justice to Palestine.

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Biden’s Real Challenge is Not Russia or China, but Poverty in America

They continue to speak of a ‘China threat’ and an ‘imminent’ Russian invasion of Ukraine and such, while the real threat is that of detached politicians who are amassing wealth, fighting for power and prestige while their countrymen and women continue to go hungry.

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Doing Business with Apartheid: Why Africa Must Reject Israeli Colonialism

The solid support that Palestine enjoys among an influential block at the AU, in addition to the popular support the Palestinian cause continues to receive throughout Africa, indicates that, despite the mistakes of the past, Palestine remains a central issue on the continent.

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Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua: The US-Russia Conflict Enters a New Phase

As the plot thickens in Eastern Europe, Russia’s move in South America promises to add a new component that would make a win-lose scenario in favor of the US and NATO nearly impossible.

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Israel’s Hasbara in Sheikh Jarrah: On Gilad Erdan’s ‘Terrorist’ Rock and Faulty Logic

Neither Erdan nor his bosses in Tel Aviv can reverse this Palestinian-led momentum. His UN display merely reflects the degree of desperation and intellectual bankruptcy of Israel and its representatives.

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How Israel’s ‘Facebook Law’ Plans to Control All Palestinian Content Online

While Israel is permitted, thanks to the deafening silence of the international community, to maintain its military occupation of Palestine, to cement its apartheid and to deepen its control of Palestinian life everywhere, it should not be permitted to expand this matrix of control to the digital realm as well.

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In South Africa as in Palestine: Why We Must Protect the Legacy of Desmond Tutu

Late South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu will never die, because his words continue to lead the way, in Palestine as in South Africa.

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The Myth of Apolitical China: Why the West Refuses to Accept China’s Superpower Status

Not only is China very much a political actor but one would contend that presently, it is the most important political actor in the world.

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The World ‘Hanging by a Thread’: Stories to Follow in 2022

2022 can be a year of hope and promise. But that is only possible if we play our role as active citizens to bring about the coveted change that we would like to see in the world.

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The Combating Islamophobia Act: On Hate Crimes and ‘Irrational Fears’

It is time that we stop perceiving ‘Islamophobes’ as people with irrational or, in the mind of some, rational, fear of Muslims – similar to ‘claustrophobia’, ‘arachnophobia’, or ‘agoraphobia’.

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The Omicron Shame: Why is the World Punishing instead of Helping Africa?

The fact that we continue to struggle against the virus and its variants indicates that the traditional thinking has completely failed. For the pandemic to be finally defeated, we need to abandon the mindset of rich vs. poor and north vs. south. For the world to be saved, all of us have to be saved collectively.

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WATCH: ‘Unity and Resistance’: Ramzy Baroud Delivers Speech at Casa Arabe in Madrid

Palestine Chronicle editor, Dr. Ramzy Baroud, delivered a speech at Casa Arabe on Thursday, as part of the Palestine Week, which was organized to commemorate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

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‘There Must Be a Cost for the Occupation’: Palestine Chronicle Editor Delivers Lecture at Madrid University (PHOTOS & VIDEOS)

On the occasion of the Palestinian solidarity week in Madrid, Palestine Chronicle editor Ramzy Baroud delivered a lecture at the Universidad Complutense of the Spanish capital.

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From Pegasus to Blue Wolf: How Israel’s ‘Security’ Experiment in Palestine Became Global

The truth is, for as long as Israel maintains its military occupation of Palestine, and as long as the Israeli military continues to see Palestinians as subjects in a mass ‘security experiment’, the Middle East—in fact, the entire world—will continue to pay the price. 

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Bill Gates Should Know Better: How the Israeli Occupation Ravages the Environment in Palestine

From the destruction of Palestinian wells to the poisoning of trees, to the demolishing of entire ecosystems to make space for Israel’s apartheid wall, to the use of depleted uranium in its various wars against Gaza, Israel has been on an unrelenting mission to ruin Palestine’s environment in all of its manifestations.

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Words without Action: The West’s Role in Israel’s Illegal Settlement Expansion

The truth is that a thousand or a million more statements by western governments will not end the Israeli occupation, or even slow down the pace of Israeli military bulldozers as they uproot Palestinian trees, destroy homes and construct yet more illegal colonies.

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The West’s China Complex: Beijing as the Enemy and the Savior

Such fluctuations will unlikely change the narrative of the determined Chinese rise as a global power, or that of the unmistakable western decline. The sooner we acknowledge this reality, the better.  

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Jerusalem’s ‘Liveliest Parties’: Has Biden Proved Different from Trump on Palestine?

The Biden Administration is proving to be but a soft facade to the same policies enacted by the Trump Administration. Only, this time, the Palestinian Authority, for self-serving reasons, does not seem to mind.

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Political Islam and Democracy Crisis in North Africa

While the Justice and Development Party, Ennahda and other Islamic parties have much reflection to do, we ought to remember that the future is not shaped by deterministic notions, but by dynamic processes which constantly produce new variables, thus results. This is as true in North Africa as will always prove to be true in the rest of the world.

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The Cultural Genocide in Palestine: On Sally Rooney’s Decision to Boycott Israel

Israel continues to target Palestinians as a people, downgrades their language, dismantles their institutions and systematically destroys their culture. This is rightly referred to as cultural genocide, and it is our moral responsibility to stop it.

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Empty Gestures or Substantive Change? On the Nobel Prize in Literature and Its Discontents

It is not the awards that matter but what has been researched and written, and its impact on making the world a more equitable place.

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Heroes or Parasites: Europe’s Self-serving Politics on Refugees

While we are busy manipulating language, there are thousands who are stranded at sea and hundreds of thousands languishing in refugee camps worldwide. They are only welcomed if they serve as political capital. Otherwise, they remain a ‘problem’ to be dealt with – violently, if necessary.

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Racial Justice Vs. The Israel Lobby: When Being Pro-Palestine Becomes the New Normal

Speaking out for Palestine in America is no longer a charitable and rare occurrence. As the future will surely reveal, it is the “politically correct” thing to do.

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On Afghanistan and Legitimate Resistance: Should Hamas, Hezbollah Learn from the Taliban?

The victory of the Taliban will extend well beyond the borders of Afghanistan, breaking the limits imposed on the discussion by western-centric officials, media and academia, namely the urgently needed clear distinction between terrorism and national liberation.

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Who Represents Afghanistan: Genuine Activists vs ‘Native Informants’

In the Middle East, in particular, we have already witnessed this phenomenon of the west-based ‘legitimate’ democratic representations. Ultimately, these ‘governments-in-exile’ wrought nothing but further political deception, division, corruption, and continued war.