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Houses part of an Israeli settlement are seen in front of an Arab town on January 16, 2017 in Amona, West Bank [Chris McGrath/Getty Images] It was understandable why, on 29 November, 1947, the United Nations (UN) passed Resolution 181, partitioning Palestine and creating a Jewish state. In the wake of the Holocaust, there was a widespread sentiment that there …

A Palestinian woman lays a wreath during a memorial ceremony in Kafr Qasim on 29 October 2006, for 50 Palestinian citizens of Israel massacred in 1956 (Reuters)   The recent mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza comes two weeks after new revelations emerged on the 1956 Kafr Qasim massacre, a 70-year tradition that is enabled and supported by the West …

A man stands amid the rubble of his house in Gaza. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle) By Ramzy Baroud For years, Palestinians, as well as Israelis, have labored to redraw the battle lines. The three-day Israeli war on Gaza, starting on August 5, clearly manifested this reality. Throughout its military operation, Israel has repeatedly underscored the point that the war was targeting the Islamic Jihad …

Israel’s hatred of the Palestinians is shaped and driven by three basic sentiments. The Palestinians have every reason to hate Israel; it is a settler-colonial apartheid state erected on the ruins of their homeland. But why does Israel hate the Palestinians so much? It has sadistically and systematically terrorised, blockaded and imprisoned them after taking control of their lives and …

Between August 5 to 7, Israel attacked residential areas in Palestine’s Gaza Strip. According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, a wave of Israeli air raids on the coastal enclave, left civillians including children and a 23-year-old woman dead. A commander of a Palestinian armed group was also killed during the raids.  The ‘Guardian’ reported that Palestinian retaliatory rocket …

Wounded Palestinian Rayed Qadoom lies near a poster depicting his five-year-old sister Alaa, who was killed during Israel’s attack on Gaza on August 9, 2022.  Alaa was the first of 16 children killed in three days of Israeli attacks. Pic by Mahmud Hams / AFP   Once again the West has failed to stand by what is right and protect the …