César Chelala
Dr. César Chelala is an international public health consultant and a
winner of several journalism awards.
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Views Saturday, May 31, 2014 The Israeli Army's Policy of Intimidation During the Nabka Day protests last May 15, two Palestinian youths, Muhammad Abu Thahr, 15, and Nadim Nuwara, 17, were shot in the chest in the town of Beitunia near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. Both adolescents died as a result of the injuries they suffered. Although the Israel Defense... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 28, 2014 Force-Feeding Prisoners Is a Criminal Act The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler determining that the U.S. military can force-feed a Syrian detainee at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a well intentioned but wrong decision. It allows the U.S.government to continue a criminal practice that has been widely... Read more |
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Views Saturday, May 24, 2014 The CIA and the Wrong Uses of Public Health One of my most persistent memories of my friend Dr. Albert Sabin, who developed an oral vaccine against polio was how, when we met after one of my health-related missions overseas, he would question me about the polio situation in the country I visited. I am sure he would be dismayed at the return... Read more |
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Views Saturday, April 19, 2014 The Lost Legacy of Gabriel García Márquez I met Gabriel García Márquez and Fidel Castro at the Convention Palace in Havana during a medical meeting I attended in Cuba in the early eighties. I also had the honor of being extensively quoted in one of his articles, “Con las Malvinas o sin ellas,” (With or Without the Malvinas). My article (... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, April 15, 2014 Gaza Corrodes Israel's Soul As Israel continues its unlawful siege of the Gaza Strip, the health situation for the Palestinians continues to be critical. In a comprehensive report, B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, described the health situation in Gaza on January 1 st ,... Read more |
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Views Sunday, April 06, 2014 The Case for Donald Rumsfeld’s Prosecution I have just finished watching the film “The Unknown Known” by Errol Morris, which is a long interview with Donald Rumsfeld, the former Secretary of Defense during the Iraq war, and cannot stop thinking about Rumsfeld’s role in the use of torture, for which he was widely condemned. In 2009, Manfred... Read more |
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Views Sunday, March 23, 2014 UN Raporteur Accuses Israel of "Ethnic Cleansing" Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 04, 2014 Mr. Netanyahu's Wrong Mantra In his visit to the U.S., Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. President Barak Obama that he would never compromise on Israel’s security, as Obama pressured him to reach an agreement with the Palestinians. Read more |
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Views Friday, February 28, 2014 Israel's Army Accused of War Crimes In a new Amnesty International (AI) report titled “Trigger Happy: Israel’s Use of Excessive Force in the West Bank,” the human rights organization accuses Israel of using excessive, reckless violence against civilians in the occupied West Bank. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 18, 2014 Mistreatment of Palestinian Children Continues An Australian documentary just released titled “ Stone Cold Justice ” alleges that some Palestinian children were being physically abused and forced into false confessions by the Israeli military to gather intelligence on Palestinian activists. Read more |