By Ramzy Baroud The launch of Aljazeera International on November 15, the English arm of Aljazeera Satellite Television was hardly an ordinary event. It was another notable addition to the growing global efforts aimed at […]

JERUSALEM – An Israeli television station has broadcast footage that appears to show Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, coaching Romano Prodi on what to say during a joint press conference. The footage, broadcast on Israel’s […]

By Timothy SeidelPalestineChronicle.com “How can the international community contribute?”  The question is an important one and as relevant as it ever has been.  Especially during this season of Advent, when the world once again looks […]

By Michael F. Brown  Israel’s most notorious anti-Arab politician and provocateur, Avigdor Lieberman, spoke at Brookings’ Saban Center Forum in Washington, DC this past weekend. It will probably come as a surprise to most Americans […]

By Amos Harel, Avi Issacharoff and Akiva Eldar A bodyguard of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh was shot dead Thursday night when Haniyeh\’s convoy came under fire as he returned to Gaza from Egypt, after […]

By Jonathan Cook The problem facing the Palestinian leadership, as they strive to bring the millions living in the occupied territories some small relief from their collective suffering, reduces to a matter of a few […]

GAZA CITY – The Palestinian prime minister is cutting short a foreign tour and returning to Gaza on Thursday. Ismail Haniya was due to be travelling for a month after he left Gaza on November […]

By Amira Hass The world is applauding Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus for applying the folk wisdom that a poor man should be given not a fish but rather a fishing pole. That is, […]

By Daniel Ben Simon One Friday afternoon 15 years ago, the U.S. secretary of state, James Baker, sat in prime minister Yitzhak Shamir’s bureau in Jerusalem and discussed with him the need to implement the […]

By William A. CookPalestineChronicle.com One might hope that the newly elected Democrats that constitute the majority in both houses would be able to think for themselves on the issue of Israeli apartheid and not be […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com  Palestinian groups have recently suggested a ceasefire, in exchange for a cessation of Israeli violence. Ehud Olmert responded with a conciliatory speech, cleverly timed with President Bush\’s arrival to Jordan on November […]

By Jim MilesPalestineChronicle.com The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.  Ilan Pappe. Oneworld Publications, Oxford, England, 2006. Ilan Pappe’s work The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine places him in the forefront of the recent burst of excellent information […]

By James Brooks PalestineChronicle.com “Horrific” wounds in Gaza may be warfare of the future In early July, shortly after the beginning of Israel’s bloody military siege of the Gaza Strip, reports began to appear that […]

By Jim MilesPalestineChronicle.com American democracy is truly a wonder, not because of its own self-inflated glory and rhetoric of its greatness, but because, contrary to that, of its shallowness and lack of democratic processes that […]

By Liam BailyPalestineChronicle.com The Gaza ceasefire was born in a hurry, Israel’s hard-line leaders want to kill it just as quickly. The ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian militant factions is still holding, but everyday […]

By Virginia TilleyJohannesburg, South Africa On November 27, Ehud Olmert responded to frantic international pressure and US hand signals by delivering what was billed as a "landmark" policy speech. The BBC has raised a faint […]