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 […]

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 […]