By Robert Fisk So America’s one-time ally has been sentenced to death for war crimes he committed when he was Washington’s best friend in the Arab world. America knew all about his atrocities and even […]

By Danny Rubinstein  All the Palestinian spokespersons were unanimous this weekend in severely condemning the Israel Defense Forces’ operation in the town of Beit Hanun. Newspapers came out in special editions bearing big black headlines […]

By Rami AlmeghariPalestineChronicle.com    "The Israeli army soldiers are now blockading the mosque; while a number of resistance fighters are inside, where they have taken sanctuary for fear of being attacked.  Dozens of women made their […]

By Ivan Eland PalestineChronicle.com In the run-up to the mid-term elections, Vice-President Dick Cheney’s recent remarks about U.S. national security policy once again point out the Bush administration’s haughtiness and disdain for checks on executive […]

By Silvia Cattori "Bein Hanoon, with 30,000 inhabitants, has been the target of daily aggressions and air strikes since June 25. It is now besieged by Israeli troops. We have seen the tanks advance and […]

MIFTAH Calls for International Solidarity with the Palestinian People RAMALLAH, West Bank – The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH) urges the international community to take immediate action to end […]

GAZA CITY – Israeli snipers killed two Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, one of them a 12-year-old girl, Palestinian sources said. Six others, including at least four fighters, were killed in air strikes and clashes. […]

By Dr. William A. CookPalestineChronicle.com Now that the President and the Congress have corrected our Bill of Rights to remove the articles that prevented securing the nation against “terrorists,” articles V, VI, and VII, rights […]

By Joshua FrankPalestineChronicle.com Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has promised there will not be a change of course in Iraq if the Democrats take back Congress. Potential House leader Nancy Pelosi has assured voters […]

By Dr. Mustafa Barghouti Being a Palestinian is to know prison first hand. As anyone who went through prison knows, prisoners are often allowed to share the space within the wards and even fight for […]

By Ralph Nader The baying pack of belligerent draft dodgers–Messrs. Bush, Cheney and Limbaugh–were out in verbal force this week against John Kerry. The Senator miscued a joke about Bush by reading without the "us" […]

GAZA CITY – Israeli troops are reported to have killed five Palestinians in northern Gaza, three of them civilians including a 75-year-old, in one of its biggest operations in the coastal strip in months. Witnesses […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com Thousands of people recently marched in London to commemorate Quds Day, an annual day of solidarity with the Palestinian people that emanated from Tehran some 26 years ago. I neither wish to […]

By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com Avigdor Lieberman’s ascent to a strategic executive role in Israel has unmasked the artificial divide between left and right and revealed the mainstream ruling elite as still in consensus on the Zionist goals, […]

By Uri Avnery PalestineChronicle.com In its original German form – Liebermann – the name means "lovable man". It is hard to imagine a name less appropriate for the new Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. He […]

By Remi KanaziPalestineChronicle.com Over the last five years, the Palestinian people have faced a host of obstacles in their fight for sovereignty, preventing them the opportunity to create a life those in the Western world […]

GAZA CITY – Six Palestinians and one Israeli soldier have been killed and 35 others wounded after the Israeli army carried out a massive operation in the northern Gaza Strip. Infantry units backed by tanks […]

By Joharah Baker As the Palestinians continue to grapple with one another and have failed to reach a unifying position that would end the internal strife, which has plagued our society for months, Israeli politics […]

By Uri Avnery PalestineChronicle.com At the height of the epic Battle of Britain in 1940, when British airmen were killed at an appalling rate ("never was so much owed by so many to so few"), […]

By George Giacaman It has been oft repeated that had Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and US President Bill Clinton stayed in power, the 2001 Taba talks would probably have led to a peace agreement […]

By Ivan Eland President Bush and Karl Rove realize they are losing the pre-election public relations battle with the Democrats over the war in Iraq. Rove, the president’s political ace, didn’t think the American people […]

CAIRO – Senior Hamas members, excluding the movement’s exiled political leader Khalid Mishaal, will visit Cairo in the next few days to discuss a prisoner exchange deal with Israel brokered by Egypt. Izzat al-Rishq, a […]

By James PetrasPalestineChronicle.com The struggle within the US power structure between the economic empire builders (EEB) and the civilian militarists/Zioncons over US Middle East and global policy is now out in the open and intensifying.  […]

By Lasse Wilhelmson in Sweden PalestineChronicle.com Let me start by saying that I have no intention of belittling the admirable work done for many years by the movement for solidarity with the Palestinian people, particularly […]

By Miko PeledPalestineChronicle.com “On the stone that remainsCarved next to his nameHis epitaph plain:Only a pawn in their game.” -Bob Dylan. The lines of this great poem by Bob Dylan reverberate as Israel continues its […]

By Joshua Frank PalestineChronicle.com So we are in the trenches of another election season, and if you peer closely you can see the explosions on the horizon. I’m yet to be convinced the Democrats have […]

By Ramzy Baroud How critical is the situation in Iraq? It depends on who you ask and when. Common sense tells us that the situation there has always been critical. In fact, one could dare […]

CAIRO — Two weeks before the crucial mid-term congress elections, Arab and Muslim voters are increasingly tilting towards Democrats over dissatisfaction with the Bush administration’s foreign policy, especially in war-torn Iraq. "There’s clearly a trend […]

By Dana Shalash So today is the third day of Eid Al Fitr that all Muslims worldwide celebrate right after the culmination of the month of Ramadan. Not sure if it’s only me, but Ramadan […]

By Christoph Schult Mahmoud al-Zahar, foreign minister of the Palestinian Authority’s Hamas-led government, says a big majority of Hamas supports the struggle against Israel despite recent conciliatory comments from Hamas officials about a possible indirect […]