The Republican presidential candidates are falling all over themselves competing for who can be the most “pro-Israel”, with Newt Gingrich taking the game to a whole new level last week when he said in an interview with The Jewish Channel that Palestinians were an “invented” people. When asked whether he…
Special to the Palestine Chronicle. The U.S. has long opposed any “unilateral” action on the part of the Palestinians to seek fulfillment of their right to self-determination, and there is a very real threat that if the Palestinian Authority goes to the United Nations in September seeking international recognition of…
The reason Iran's nuclear program has become so controversial has nothing to do with nuclear nonproliferation.…
Foreign Policy Journal — The U.S. Senate on April 14 passed a resolution “calling on the United Nations to rescind the Goldstone report”, the popular name for the report of a U.N. fact-finding mission chaired by Richard Goldstone that was charged with investigating Israel’s full-scale military assault on the…
In the Foreign Policy special report “Unconventional Wisdom”, a series of essays purporting to challenge conventional beliefs on a broad range of topics, Leslie H. Gelb asserts that with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, “America Pressures Israel Plenty“. Gelb describes as “myths” the notion that Israelis “have been the main…
In sum, neither INN nor Dr. Nisan have managed to point to even a single error in either fact or logic on my part in my essay. The facts are as I have stated them, and the logical conclusions drawn inescapable.…
There is a widely accepted belief that United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 "created" Israel, based upon an understanding that this resolution partitioned Palestine or otherwise conferred legal authority or legitimacy to the declaration of the existence of the state of Israel. However, despite its popularity, this belief has no…
Any attack on Iran would have dire consequences and enormously destabilize the Middle East.…
According to Bronner's formula, it is not a fact that Israel is prohibited under international law from engaging in attacks on and collective punishment of civilians, but merely an argument – as though this were somehow debatable.…
Erasing Iraq: The Human Costs of Carnage, a new book by Mike Otterman, Richard Hil, and Paul Wilson (available from the AET Book Club), sets out to deconstruct the narrative of the United States as the benign guardian of Iraqi interests by presenting an account of the tragedy of…
Japan on Friday marked the 65th anniversary of the nuclear bomb attack on Hiroshima. U.S. Ambassador John V. Roos attended the annual ceremony that marks the event. It was the first time a U.S. official had done so. The New York Times explains the reason: Until Friday, American officials had…
Tirades against Noam Chomsky never cease to amaze me. And I’m not talking about the kind of criticisms of the man that come from Alan Dershowitz and other apologists for Israeli crimes; I mean from critics of Israel who support Palestinian rights. There are a number of common gripes about…
The two-state solution is dead. There is no longer any hope for peace or justice in this solution, if there ever was to begin with.…
In “The Legal Basis of Israel’s Naval Blockade of Gaza” at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA), Professor Emeritus of International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ruth Lapidoth argues that Israel’s attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, in which nine Turkish peace activists were killed by Israeli…
It is a simple and uncontroversial point of fact under international law that Israel has no legal claim to Jerusalem, that Jerusalem is rather undisputed Palestinian territory, and that Israel's occupation of the city is illegal.…
I love it when Christian Zionists invoke God’s Holy Word to justify the Israeli theft of Palestinian land, such as this from Reverend John Hagee: “Israel exists because of a covenant God made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob 3,500 years ago — and that covenant still stands,” Mr. Hagee thundered.…
Writing in Foreign Policy, Marc Lynch opines that it's a "good deal" to accept an Israeli "easing of the blockade of Gaza" in exchange for "American support for a whitewash of the investigation" of the Israeli attack on the humanitarian aid flotilla, in which 9 Turkish peace activists were murdered.…
Who is really anti-Semitic? Helen Thomas, for expressing her view that Jews should return the land to the Arabs that they ethnically cleansed and stole? Or James Taranto, for expressing his view to the contrary?
Myth #1 – Jews and Arabs have always been in conflict in the region. Myth #2 – The United Nations created Israel. Myth #3 – The Arabs missed an opportunity to have their own state in 1947.…
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ban Ki-moonThe United Nations Security Council yesterday passed a fourth sanctions resolution against Iran for its insistence on enriching its own uranium...…
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