By Mamoon AlabbasiPalestineChronicle.com The recent massacre that killed about eighteen people, mostly women and children, in Beit Hanoun as a result of a direct Israeli attack is nothing new, horrid as it is. Also expected […]

By Tariq ShadidPalestineChronicle.com Politicians in Europe, being better informed than the masses, are well aware that the results of the American mid-term elections are unlikely to cause a drastic change in American foreign policy. The […]

GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations top human rights body on Wednesday condemned "gross and systematic" human rights violations by Israel in Gaza and sent a mission to probe the killing of 19 Palestinian civilians […]

By Maria C. KhouryPalestineChronicle.com On my first day at work with the project to establish the new International Academy of Art in Palestine, I had no idea what Tayseer Barakat, the popular Palestinian artist meant […]

Saree MakdisiPalestineChronicle.com Former President Jimmy Carter’s new book, which slaps the “apartheid” label on Israel, comes out this week. Before the book hit the stands though, members of his own party rushed to distance themselves […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com Most of official Washington has long believed that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld needed to be sacked. Unfortunately it took a major Republican loss at the polls to finally prompt George W. […]

By Amira Hass The management of the Beit Hanun hospital decided to dig a well in the hospital’s yard. By Saturday, laborers and bulldozers were already on the job. That is how the hospital is […]

By Kathleen and Bill Christison At a panel on the defense and foreign policy impact of the midterm election, sponsored two days after the election by Congressional Quarterly, Steven Simon, late of the Clinton administration […]

GAZA CITY — Despite a court order, Israel is banning hundreds of Palestinians from studying in the occupied West Bank, which has better educational facilities than Gaza Strip, a poor, arid strip of land that […]

By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com Arabs, at least at the non-official level, were quick to hail President George W. Bush’s mid-term electoral defeat and the humiliating downfall of his war architect Donald Rumsfeld, but cheering the Democrats’ […]

By  Daniel Patrick Welch  PalestineChronicle.com Giddy as Mikado schoolgirls, Democrats and their allies on the left are positively gushing over their election gains of November 7. In the US’ two-party duopoly, voters are restricted to […]

By Sarah WhalenPalestineChronicle.com Last month, I selected a candidate for the U.S. Congress I liked and wanted to vote for.  And I wanted to tell everyone who passed by my house that this was the […]

CAIRO – Infuriated by the latest American veto that block a mere international condemnation of the Beit Hanun massacre, Arab foreign ministers decided Sunday, November 12, to break a US-led international aid freeze imposed on […]

By Jennifer Loewenstein  PalestineChronicle.com  An opened jaw with yellowed teeth gaped out of its bloodied shroud. The rest of the head parts were wrapped in a plastic bag placed atop the jaw and nostrils, as […]

By Donald Macintyre in Beit Hanoun Majdi Saad Athamneh couldn’t easily explain why he had come back after Friday prayers yesterday to the now empty, four-storey breeze-block building where it had all happened two days […]

By Felicity ArbuthnotPalestineChronicle.com Fate certainly deals a strange hand. President Bush Jr., commented on the conviction of President Saddam Hussein, for crimes against humanity, in Waco, Texas, site of the massacre of the Branch Davidian […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com Attempts to coerce Palestinians into submission have not always manifested themselves in the crude form of a tank, a bullet, the withholding of aid, or the denial of freedom of movement. These […]

By Antony Loewenstein October 30, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the Knesset’s Security and Foreign Affairs Committee that the Israeli military had killed 300 "terrorists" in the Gaza Strip in the past three months. […]

By Ariadna TheokopoulosPalestineChronicle.com I was puzzled and embarrassed to read Uri Avneri’s recent article about the “decline of Israeli democracy." It was puzzling to me that several respected Internet publications accepted it and then again […]

By John ChuckmanPalestineChronicle.com Sadly, little coming from America’s politics can fire my enthusiasm. During my lifetime, America has busied itself with the task of burying liberalism, reminding one of October’s frenetic squirrels hunting and burying […]

By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com American and European official and public opinion reactions to Saddam Hussein’s guilty verdict on Sunday artificially removed both the trial and the death sentence out of context and focused instead on "flaws" […]

WORLD CAPITALS — World countries, the US excluded, reacted with horrified shock on Wednesday, November 8, to the Israeli shelling of Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip that killed the lives of twenty civilians, including […]

By Ahmed AmrPalestineChronicle.com “I lost my sister, my brother-in-law and five of my nieces and nephews this morning. I feel nothing now; I can’t find the right words. All I know that the attack wasn’t […]

By Jamal Juma PalestineChronicle.com The Israeli regime unleashes racist brutality that by far outstands the crimes of the previous apartheid regime in South Africa. It imprisons an entire people behind ghetto walls, kills them and […]

By Jim MilesPalestineChronicle.com The Road Map to Nowhere –Israel/Palestine Since 2003.  Tanya Reinhart.  Verso, New York, 2006.  Tanya Reinhart’s “Road Map to Nowhere” is an important and thorough extension of her previous work “Israel/Palestine”, continuing […]

By Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair Wherever they were given the opportunity, voters across the country went strongly for antiwar candidates. True, the national Democrats, led by Rahm Emanuel of the Democratic Congressional Campaign, […]

By Haaretz Editorial Yesterday, we wrote here that "Israel should declare a complete cease-fire in the Gaza Strip for a predetermined period, during which it will not engage in any violent actions, neither assassinations nor […]

BEIT HANUN, Gaza – Israeli occupation forces bombarded Wednesday, November 8, houses in the battered northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanun, killing nineteen Palestinians, including seven children and four women, in their sleep. "Israeli […]

(Press release, 11/08/2006) – The killing this morning of 18 civilians in the Palestinian town of Beit Hanoun, victims of Israeli shelling, was an appalling act, Amnesty International said today. The organization called for an […]

By Sami Abdel-Shafi in Gaza City The initiation of Avigdor Lieberman – widely regarded as an outright racist – into Ehud Olmert’s Israeli government seems to have already brought a taste of things to come. […]