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Palestine Chronicle Staff

March 31, 2024

Israeli forces carried out more massacres in the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding scores of Palestinian civilians. 

History Says the Palestinians Will Remain

VijayPrashad

March 30, 2024

Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former senior advisor during his presidency, sat down for a long conversation with Professor Tarek Masoud at Harvard University. During this discussion on Feb. 15, Kushner talked about “Gaza’s waterfront property,” which, he said, could be “very valuable.” 

اکثر آمریکایی ها معتقدند که ایالات متحده در دهه آینده وارد یک جنگ جهانی خواهد شد

این ترجمهٔ مقاله‌ای از نسخهٔ امروز روزنامهٔ اینترنتی مانتلی ریویو -بررسی ماهیانه- است.ا

 

Most Americans believe U.S. will be in world war within next decade

MonthlyReview

March 30, 2024

The majority of Americans believe it is likely that the U.S. will be involved in a world war during the coming decade. Under President Joe Biden, the U.S. is preparing for great power wars with Russia and China, engaged in multiple Middle East conflicts, and posturing for a confrontation with Iran and North Korea.

Targeting opposition to Gaza genocide, University of Michigan proposes policy to suppress protests

Tom Carter

March 29, 2024

On Wednesday, the University of Michigan unveiled a proposal for a new administration policy that could be used to effectively prohibit public protests on campus, as part of an escalating nationwide and global crackdown on opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

 Students demonstrate against the Gaza genocide on March 28, 2024 at the University of Michigan.

جهان‌ها

آیا تولد ما و قدم گذاشتن به این دنیا نخستین تجربهٔ ماست، و پیش از تولد جهان دیگری را -که هیچگاه به خاطر نمی‌آوریم- تجربه نکرده‌ایم؟ یا اینکه ما قبل از ورود به این دنیا چیزی را تجربه می کنیم که هستی نیست؟

Worlds

Do we begin our lives in this world without any prior experience in any form of life or existence and in a different fashion or manner? 

Complicit in Genocide: Where Israel Gets Its Weapons From

Ramzy Baroud

March 28, 2024

Over 9,000 Palestinian women have been killed since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. Mothers have been the largest share of Israeli killings, at an average of 37 mothers per day since October 7.

 

Is America a Rogue Superpower?

Ted Snider

March 28, 2024

“Unipolar” used to mean that the United States was, at least in theory, alone in leading the world. Now “unipolar” means that the United States is alone and isolated in opposition to the world.

At overburdened Gaza hospital, Palestinians try to instill Ramadan spirit

Ruwaida Kamal Amer

March 27, 2024

One big problem with how we rank countries by happiness

Sigal Samuel

March 27, 2024

   We know that America is really unhappy. And Finland is the happiest country. Right?

Another Israeli soldier admits to implementing the ‘Hannibal Directive’ on October 7

JonathanOfir

March 26, 2024

In Israeli military terminology, the so-called “Hannibal Directive” is the policy of firing upon one’s own soldiers to avert a prospective captive situation. 

 

The Music of the late Iranian Singer Faramarz Aslani, Forced into Exile by a Puritan Revolution

Fariba Amini

March 26, 2024

 

US insists UN resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire will have “no impact at all”

Andre Damon

March 26, 2024

On Monday, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution calling for a two-week ceasefire in Gaza, after the United States abstained from a vote on the resolution.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations, votes to abstain as the United Nations Security Council passed a cease-fire resolution in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, its first demand to halt fighting at U.N. headquarters, Monday, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Kremlin comments on calls for death penalty after terrorist attack

RT

March 25, 2024

The Kremlin is not involved in any talks on lifting Russia’s moratorium on the death penalty in the wake of last week’s terrorist attack, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.

 

The story of Yazan Kafarneh, the boy who starved to death in Gaza

TareqS. Hajjaj

March 25, 2024

 

Yazan Kafarneh after dying of starvation. (Photo: Rabee’ Abu Naqirah) 

Three Gaza hospitals under brutal Israeli siege

NewsDesk

March 24, 2024

Israeli troops advanced towards the Al-Nasser and Al-Amal hospitals in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Yunis on 24 March, laying siege to both facilities as warplanes continued to bombard the city. 

Why US ceasefire proposal failed at UNSC

Trita Parsi

March 23, 2024

Russia and China just vetoed Biden’s draft resolution on Gaza at the UN Security Council. Algeria also voted against it.

‘War against Children’ – UNICEF Spokesman Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza

Blog, News

March 23, 2024

“A war against children” is unfolding in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities have already claimed the lives of more than 10,000 minors, UNICEF spokesman James Elder said in an interview with the Anadolu news agency on Saturday.

 

The fraud of Biden’s call for a “ceasefire” in Gaza

Andre Damon

March 22, 2024

The Biden administration, the leading imperialist sponsor of Israel’s Gaza genocide that has killed 32,000 Palestinians, displaced nearly 2 million, and imposed starvation on the entire population, is introducing a UN resolution supporting an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza.

 

  IDF troops detain and torture people at Shifa hospital in Gaza.

Israel’s Trojan Horse

ChrisHedges

March 21, 2024

Piers allow things to come in. They allow things to go out. And Israel, which has no intention of halting its murderous siege of Gaza, including its policy of enforced starvation, appears to have found a solution to its problem of where to expel the 2.3 million Palestinians. 

Capitalism’s permanent horror

Ben Hillier

March 21, 2024

The military ordered hundreds of thousands of people into a designated “safe” zone. On reaching it, they were shelled by the army and the air force. The generals said there was another safe zone; if the people kept moving, respite would be found. It wasn’t. Again they were attacked. The scene repeated, but now, corralled onto a tiny stretch of beach and trapped against the ocean, there was no way out.

United Nations says Israel using “starvation as a method of war”

AndreDamon

March 20, 2024

Israel’s withholding of food from the population of Gaza may be a deliberate effort to starve the population, the United Nations’ highest human rights official said Tuesday.

 

Israeli settlers exploit war to build illegal West Bank outposts

The Cradle

March 18, 2024

Between October and January, Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank have built at least 15 illegal outposts and 18 illegal roads, as well as hundreds of meters of fences and multiple roadblocks, a new report from Al-Jazeera shows. 

 

What the US Might Owe the World for Covid-19

JeffreyD. Sachs

March 19, 2024

The U.S. government funded and supported a program of dangerous laboratory research that may have resulted in the creation and accidental laboratory release of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Gravediggers bury the body of a man suspected of having died of Covid-19 in the cemetery of Vila Alpina, east side of São Paulo, Brazil, on April 3, 2020. That morning alone, five similar burials were held while about 150 graves were open in expectation of more victims of the new coronavirus. (Gustavo Basso, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Israel's Right-Wing Wants All the Palestinian Land—and This Explains Its State Terrorism

Ralph Nader

March 18, 2024

 

An Israeli man walks past an electoral billboard bearing portraits of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flanked by extreme right politicians Itamar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich and Michael Ben Ari, with a caption in Hebrew reading "Kahana Lives" in a reference to a banned ultranationalist party in the 1994, in Jerusalem, on March 29, 2019. - Israeli general elections will be held on April 9, 2019. (Photo by Thomas Coex/AFP via Getty Images)

Joe Biden’s Parting Gift to America

ChrisHedges

March 18, 2024

Joe Biden and the Democratic Party made a Trump presidency possible once and look set to make it possible again.

آیا کشتن یک انسان کار درستی‌ است؟!ا

در نگاه نخست این پرسش نابخردانه است. ولی‌ چنین نیست، و بسیاری از کسانی‌‌ که بدین پرسش پاسخ منفی‌‌ میدهند آگاه نیستند که گرفتن جان یک انسان، با هر انگیزه‌ای و با هر گرایشی، هرچند اگر برای انجام دادن دستوری از بالا دست باشد، چیزی جز آدمکشی نیست. پیچیدگی در اینجاست که بخش نخست واژهٔ آدمکشی، یعنی‌ آدم، همواره به همچون یک انسان شناخته نمی‌شود. بدین سان که سخن ما در مورد کسی‌ است که یک فرد زنده است و خواه ناخواه برای زندگی‌ خود خواستار برتری است، ولی‌ این انسان با نام‌های دیگری شناسانده‌ میشود. این نام‌ها او را از جایگاه یک پدیده ارزشمند پایین‌تر می‌آورد و گرفتن جان او را آسان‌تر می‌سازد. برای نمونه این انسان را دشمن، قاتل، دزد، خیانت‌کار، بزه‌کار، آدم کش، جان ستان، کشنده، و با نمونه‌هائی بدین سان می‌شناسانند، و همبودهای گوناگون کشتن انسان‌های زنده با این فرنام‌ها را می‌پذیرند.ا

‘We scream, starve, and die alone’: Life in the ruins of Shuja’iya

MahmoudMushtaha

March 16, 2024

More than five months after Israel ordered all Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip to evacuate southward, around 300,000 remain. The majority are living in one neighborhood: Shuja’iya.

Media continues to frame mass starvation in Gaza as natural disaster rather than deliberate siege tactic

AdamJohnson

March 15, 2024

The evidence that Israel planned and carried out starvation as a deliberate policy choice and siege tactic is overwhelming. Rarely in the history of war crimes has a war crime been so telegraphed, openly discussed, and executed to the letter.

The Evil of a Permanent War Economy

Eve Ottenberg

March 15, 2024

The Gaza genocide and the death of Aaron Bushnell: What are the political lessons?

David North

March 14, 2024

The following lecture was given by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, March 12.

 

Thousands attend a protest organized by Jewish Voice for Peace in New York City

Cori Bush’s Gazan SOTU Guest: Congress Is “Complicit in the Murder of My Family”

FrancesMadeson

March 13, 2024

Intimaa Salama, a 27-year-old dentist from Gaza, attended last week’s State of the Union address at the invitation of U.S. Rep. Cori Bush. Though she said she felt honored to join Bush in demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire and full restoration of funding for humanitarian assistance through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), she said she’s now clear she’ll never go to another State of the Union.

Intimaa Salama, a 27-year-old dentist from Gaza, stands in the lobby of the Center for Global Citizenship at St. Louis University, where she is currently a master’s student, the day after returning from the State of the Union in Washington, D.C.

Biden’s Red Line: Why U.S. Could Be Days Away From Suspending Arms Sales to Israel

Ben Samuels

March 12, 2024

WASHINGTON – There is a very real chance that the United States will halt the sale of offensive weaponry to Israel by month’s end should it fail to dramatically improve the amount of aid entering Gaza, or if it launches a military operation in Rafah without a credible plan for the million-plus Palestinians sheltering there.

Israel’s war on Gaza live: Israel’s Al-Aqsa curbs risk ‘explosion’ – Jordan

Tamila Varshalomidze, Edna Mohamed

Maziar Motamedi and Usaid Siddiqui

March 11, 2024

 

Strangled by Israel for decades, Gaza’s future must begin with free movement

Noa Galili

March 10, 2024

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     In recent months, international media attention has rightfully been devoted to the unprecedented scope of death and destruction wrought by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip. Daily news bulletins have grown increasingly concerned with the deprivation of food, water, medicine, and other basic supplies resulting from the intensified siege that Israel imposed shortly after the Hamas-led attacks of October 7.

Israeli military vehicles seen near the Israeli-Gaza fence, February 28, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

UNRWA staffers tortured by Israeli troops to falsely admit 'Hamas links'

TheCradle

March 9, 2024

An unpublished report from UNRWA said some of its employees released from Israeli detention were tortured into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the 7 October attacks, Reuters reported on 9 March.

The Historical Origin of “The Singing Union”

JacksonAlbert Mann

March 8, 2024

A Very Musical Reputation

The early history of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) has become the stuff of legend for the U.S. socialist left. In its first decade, the IWW led massive strikes of industrial workers that cut across ethnic boundaries in the east and brutal free speech fights for the rights of its organizers to publicly promote industrial unionism in the west. Many of its organizers were assassinated by right-wing vigilantes or executed by the state, and some have become martyr figures for U.S. socialism and trade unionism. Key to the legendary status of the early IWW is the notion that the organization was a “singing union.”1

With Genocide in Gaza, the Word 'Never' Has Been Stripped From 'Never Again'

Arundhati Roy

March 8, 2024

The following is a statement written by Arundhati Roy and delivered on her behalf at the meeting of Working People Against Apartheid and Genocide in Gaza, at the Press Club, New Delhi, on Thursday March 7, 2024. The remarks were first published by Scroll, an independent media outlet in India.

 

Book Review: The New Tsar

By: Steven Lee Myers

This is a biography of Vladimir Putin, Russia’s most powerful government official. The title of the book is supposed to imply Putin as a dictator, as all the Tsars were. This trend continues throughout the book, although the character of this person, and his desire to promote Russia to its former status, Soviet Union, is clearly explained throughout the book.