By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com  It’s all too convenient for the BBC website to describe the ongoing bloodshed between Hamas and Fatah supporters in the Gaza Strip as “inter-factional rivalry,” and it’s equally fitting for the Washington […]

By Dr. Daud Abdullah PalestineChronicle.com Two words explain the Palestinian democratic experience during the past year – disappointing and frustrating. Palestinians in the Occupied Territories [OT] feel this way not because their elections were flawed. […]

By Uri AvneryPalestineChronicle.com  A few weeks ago, the 15th Asian games, the "Asiad", was held in Qatar. The Israeli media treated the event with a mixture of derision and pity. Some kind of picturesque Asian […]

By Mark SchneiderPalestineChronicle.com Imagine if you and four activists boldly entered a military base, severely damaged a U.S. warplane on its way to kill and maim, were arrested and then three years later a jury […]

By Jim MilesPalestineChronicle.com Violence Over the Land – Indians and Empires in the Early American West.  Ned Blackhawk.  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.  2006 Much is made of the American West.   It is projected as […]

By Ran HaCohen (AntiWar.com) – A recent call for a cultural boycott against Israel by John Berger and others has elicited one of its more wretched responses in the Guardian (Dec. 22), signed by Anthony […]

By Naledi LesterPalestineChronicle.com This Christmas, Bethlehem’s celebration of its most famous son is giving way to veneration of a new local martyr. Away from the perfunctorily-decorated Manger Square, signs of Christmas are hard to come […]

By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com The U.S administration and Israel are accelerating their coordinated meddling in the internal Palestinian divide between the Fatah-led presidency and the Hamas-led government to pre-empt a series of Arab mediation efforts, the latest […]

By James PetrasPalestineChronicle.com “It’s no great secret why the Jewish agencies continue to trumpet support for the discredited policies of this failed administration.  They see defense of Israel as their number-one goal, trumping all other […]

By James MilesPalestineChronicle.com  How much ignorance can one man spread?  Harper, in recent interviews with local Canadian media to preach his gospel (yes, those words apply both figuratively and literally to Harper’s extreme right wing […]

By Abid Mustafa PalestineChronicle.com Lately, relations between Kabul and Islamabad have taken a dramatic turn for the worse. Hamid Karzai has accused Pakistan of spurring the Taliban to carry out attacks against his fledgling government […]

By Sherri MuzherPalestineChronicle.com O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.Yet in thy dark streets shineth the everlasting Light;The hopes and […]

By William A. CookPalestineChronicle.com It occurred to me in one of my less cynical moments, deluded no doubt by the merriment of the season, that all of those responsible for the havoc and chaos of […]

By Roger H. LiebermanPalestineChronicle.com It is very difficult to believe that the Bush Administration has the best interests of the Palestinian people at heart in its attempts to exacerbate the internecine divide between Fatah and […]

By M. Shahid Alam PalestineChronicle.com The war that Western powers – primarily US, Israel and Britain – began against the Islamic world after September 11, 2001, is about to enter a new more dangerous phase […]

By Martin Patience When Hatim Muhammad wants to escape from Gaza he listens to the birdsong of his 31 canaries. The 41-year-old, a former militant who is now unemployed, has turned one of the rooms […]

By Gideon Levy  Laila El-Haddad spent the last three weeks in a dismal apartment she was forced to rent in El Arish, Egypt, together with her son Yusuf, who is two years and nine months […]

By Philip RizkPalestineChronicle.com A few days ago a woman walked through the markets of Nuseirat, Gaza. Throwing her hands up in the air she yelled, “I don’t have even one shekel!” “I have no bread […]

By Mazin Qumsiyeh PalestineChronicle.com As a Palestinian-American, I am appalled that many people meeting in Teheran claim to support Palestine while denying or trying to minimize Jewish suffering.  Few at the conference articulated that the […]

By Scott Wilson JERUSALEM – Continued fighting between rival Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday killed at least six people and wounded about 20, several of them children. The violence, primarily scattered gunfights […]

By Steve RosenthalPalestineChronicle.com I write this letter as a non-Zionist Jew who has been an activist against war and racism for the past 40 years. "Israel’s Quest for Peace," the letter from the Community Relations […]

By Ola Attallah GAZA CITY – The Hamas-Fatah fighting and power struggle, which claimed more five lives on Tuesday, December 19, is splitting the Palestinian society down the middle and leaving otherwise united Palestinians divided. […]

By Jonathan Cook  The era of the Middle East strongman, propped up by and enforcing Western policy, appears well and truly over. His power is being replaced with rule by civil war, apparently now the […]

By Amira Hass International organizations in the territories are still reviewing the implications of a ban prohibiting Israelis to give rides to Palestinians within the West Bank. The order was issued by GOC Central Command […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com Ever since the Iraq Study Group (ISG) issued its recommendations, the debate in Washington has swirled around what to do about the mess in Iraq. Unfortunately, both the recommendations of the study […]

By Joharah Baker RAMALLAH (MIFTAH) – Nothing could be worse than the murder of a child, except perhaps the murder of three. As we, as a society, attempt to fathom the unthinkable act of violence […]

By Sherri MuzherPalestineChronicle.com He gently set down several bottles of olive oil from Palestine on the dining room table after having unloaded them from his vehicle.  The bottles, still cool from the November chill, were […]

By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com Regardless of good will or bad faith, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to go without national consensus to early presidential and parliamentary elections was divisive, counterproductive and conforms to U.S.-Israeli plans to remove […]

By James BrooksPalestineChronicle.com ‘Everyone in town is talking “surge” now’, a Pentagon adviser explained to NPR listeners the other day, and you could almost feel the country buckle up its mind for another bloody disaster […]

By Liam BaileyPalestineChronicle.com In the latest Gaza ceasefire the actions of leaders on both sides have proved that they are so hardened and corrupted by the years of conflict that they can’t fully commit to […]