By Ramzy BaroudFor PalestineChronicle.com “The term ethnic cleansing refers to various policies of forcibly removing people of another ethnic group. At one end of the spectrum, it is virtually indistinguishable from forced emigration and population […]

By Norman G. Finkelstein Even by the grim standards of Gaza, the past five months have been cruel ones. Some four hundred Palestinians, mostly unarmed civilians, have been killed during Israeli attacks. (Four Israeli soldiers […]

By John Dugard Former President Jimmy Carter’s new book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," is igniting controversy for its allegation that Israel practices a form of apartheid.  As a South African and former anti-apartheid advocate who […]

By Claude Salhani WASHINGTON (UPI) – U.S. dominance in the Middle East has ended, giving way to a new era in the modern history of the region amid growing anti-American sentiment. This is the conclusion […]

By Felicity ArbuthnotFor PalestineChronicle.com Dear Mr President, It occurred that at this time when Americans have celebrated with family and friends, said individual prayers of thanks for the bounties granted during the year, you might […]

By Tariq ShadidFor PalestineChronicle.com No one today can deny that the Palestinian cause for liberation, independence and sovereignty is in dire straits. Having survived and stood through many of the most extreme challenges, like expulsion, […]

By Mamoon Alabbasi LONDON – Britain’s Respect party organized Monday a ‘night of live music and spoken words’ in London, where giant Israeli-born jazz artist Gilad Atzmon and jazz author Martin Smith coordinated to perform […]

By Alan Johnston GAZA (BBC0 – After five months of sustained assaults on Gaza by the Israeli army, nowhere is the sudden ceasefire more welcome than in the town of Beit Hanoun. At one point […]

By MIFTAH Wednesday, 29 November, 2006, marks the United Nations “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People,” which was initiated in 1977 by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in observance of the Palestinian […]

By Mike WhitneyFor PalestineChronicle.com  “People do not forget. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do not forget oppression, they […]

By Jim MilesFor PalestineChronicle.com In The Name of Democracy – American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond.  Ed. Jeremy Brecher, Jill Cutler, Brendan Smith.  Metropolitan Books Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2005. Directly addressing […]

By Robert HiggsFor PalestineChronicle.com War weariness is the prevailing public sentiment in the third stage of a major U.S. neo-imperialist war. In this prolonged stage, most people have grown tired of the war. They have […]

By Ivan ElandFor PalestineChronicle.com Many foreign policy experts advocate using economic sanctions to motivate foreign governments to change policy. And, while it may be true that many of these governments could improve their countries with […]

By Liam Bailey The biggest shock in operation "Autumn Rains" is the strength of the Gaza Palestinians resolve. Operation Autumn Clouds (1) has, so far been very similar to all Israeli operations against its Palestinian […]

By Tariq A. Al-MaeenaFor PalestineChronicle.com   If the Israeli government is suffering from any delusions that the Saudis are warming up to Israeli policies and designs on the region, they better dispel them fast. For […]

By Azmi Bishara David Brooks, one of the most ardent advocates of the war against Iraq, has turned into a history buff. In a recent column in The New York Times (2 November 2006) he […]

By M. Shahid AlamFor PalestineChronicle.com It is tempting to celebrate the creation of Israel as a great triumph, perhaps the greatest in Jewish history. Indeed, the history of Israel has often been read as the […]

By Uri Avnery For PalestineChronicle.com  During the first Lebanon war, I visited Jounieh, a town some 20 km north of Beirut. At the time, it served as a port for the Christian forces. It was […]

By Abid MustafaFor PalestineChronicle.com The recent American overtures to induct Iran in any political settlement over Iraq have immensely troubled the Israel. So perturbed has been the government in Tel Aviv that she has mounted […]

Dear Editor, In reply to Israel’s rationale for going to war with Hezbollah, I would like to argue that while Israel claimed that the abducted Israelis soldiers provoked its disproportionate response to Lebanon, it was […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com  The astounding results of the US Congressional elections of Nov. 7 were undoubtedly a welcome sign of change, not in the American political apparatus per se, but in the unmistakable public reclamation […]

Palestine Chronicle Staff LONDON – In a notable event that brought together a number of well known Palestinian scholars, the Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) launched its latest publication, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by British author […]

By Rami Bathish In the mid 1990s, an evident sense of optimism had prevailed among Palestinians; the signing of the Oslo Accords between the PLO and Israel was seen by both Palestinians inside the occupied […]

By Dror Etkes The figures published yesterday by Peace Now’s Settlement Watch team on the ownership of land on which the settlements sit presents a scary picture of the State of Israel’s behavior in the […]

By Walid Salem The Palestinian Arena: The National unity Government might not come! Opposite to the optimism that was till the last week, the Palestinian Unity Government might not come to existence, five points about […]

By Palestine Chronicle Staff Palestinian youth finally have a spot on the world stage.   At least that’s true for 10th graders at the Ramallah Friends School, an American Quaker-owned institution with a 100 year history in […]

By Ben WhiteFor PalestineChronicle.com Before leaving for Palestine earlier in the summer, a friend of mine gave me a postcard by a Palestinian artist that expressed, he said, the fact that “the situation in the […]

By Kathleen ChristisonPalestineChronicle.om Ha’aretz correspondent Gideon Levy described the situation in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun in a searing article on Sunday. He proposed, half seriously, that the Israeli colonies removed last year […]

By Gilad Atzmon Every PSC campaigner I have ever spoken to admits to me that only very few Palestinians find interest in the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign. In fact, the statement by Machover provides the reason. […]

By Amira Hass  The OC Central Command, Yair Naveh, dropped a cluster bomb early this week. He signed an order barring Israeli citizens from taking Palestinian passengers in their Israeli vehicles within the West Bank. […]