(Reuters)- The Palestinian Authority has shut down all charities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and accused some of corruption. Minister of Religious Affairs Jamal Bawatneh said on Wednesday his ministry had appointed a […]

By Susan Abualhawa Special to PalestineChronicle.com Annapolis was hoopla, smoke and mirrors, much ado about nothing, a ho-down of politically bankrupt men trying to garner popularity among their respective constituencies.  It seems that George Bush […]

By Gilad Atzmon Special to PalestineChronicle.com On Thursday afternoon, Gordon Brown learned that he was to become only the second sitting British Prime Minister to be subject to a police investigation. This is happening less […]

By Neta Golan Referring to the Palestinians, the Israeli Prime Minister stated in his Annapolis speech: "your people, too, have suffered for many years; and there are some who still suffer. Many Palestinians have been […]

By Uri Avnery PalestineChronicle.com “The Tumult and the shouting dies, / The captains and the kings depart…” Rudyard Kipling wrote in his unforgettable poem “Lest We Forget” (”Recessional”) King George departed even before the tumult […]

By Abid Mustafa Special to PalestineChronicle.com On 2 December 2007 the Turkish military said Saturday’s operation was the first since it had been authorized by the government to launch a cross-border offensive, and that operations […]

By Agustin VellosoSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Ex-President Aznar made himself dismally famous four years ago when he chose to ally his fate with that of US President Bush in the war of aggression against Iraq. The […]

By James PetrasSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Venezuela’s constitutional reforms supporting President Chavez’s socialist project were defeated by the narrowest of margins: 1.4 pr cent of 9 million voters. The result however was severely compromised by the […]

Reviewed by Sam Bahour The hour-long abridged DVD version of Return to Palestine by Ed Hill is a sombre account of the slow and painful process of ethnic cleansing that Palestinians are dealing with, in […]

To the Editor: The underlying problem with James Petra’s article “US Military vs. Israel Firsters” (Dec. 1st), is that his world view is just not in tune with reality.  Instead of viewing Israel and their […]

By Dr. Ahmad Yousuf – Senior Political AdvisorMinistry of Foreign Affairs – Gaza The Honourable Secretary of StateMs. Condoleezza RiceU.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520  Dear Secretary Rice, I am writing […]

(UNHCR) – Two sick Palestinian refugee children waiting for resettlement from Iraq died in the last two weeks, one of them in Al Waleed refugee camp at the Iraq-Syria border and the other one in […]

By Sonja KarkarSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Although "never-never" has long been used to describe the remote outback of Australia, the term is also known as fantasyland, especially when someone dreams about a utopian future – an […]

By Dr. Vijaya RajivaSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The infamous Oslo Accord signed in 1993 by Yasser Arafat settled for 22% land and many commentators considered his actions at best as an admission of defeat and at […]

By Susan AbulhawaSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com In the 80s, we gave up 78% of our homeland to try to pick up the pieces of our lives on the remaining 22% of Palestine. This was, and remains, […]

By Jamal JumaSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Last Tuesday’s demonstrations, which brought thousands onto the streets of Ramallah, Hebron, Tulkarem, Nablus and Gaza in defiance of the Palestinian Authority’s attempt to silence the peoples’ voice, represented a […]

By Roger H. LiebermanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com All the news to come out of Annapolis suggests that the two constants that have doomed successive diplomatic efforts in the Holy Land remain unchanged: Israel’s quest to legitimize […]

By Joshua FrankSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com At a global warming forum held in Los Angeles on November 17, Hillary Clinton touted her green credentials to a packed auditorium of concerned voters. While the senator was careful […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com A once profound and widely read commentator recently claimed he no longer writes about the Palestine/Israel conflict because "Palestinians are killing each other". Feeling his words have ceased to carry […]

By Miko Peled Special to PalestineChronicle.com The recent so-called peace summit in Annapolis Maryland, reminds me of a time in early 1995. Then, as the cancer was taking over his otherwise perfectly healthy body, my […]

By Sonja KarkarSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com On 29 November 2007, it will be sixty years since the United Nations General Assembly voted for the partition of Palestine.  It was a treacherous decision forced through by the […]

By James PetrasSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com On November 26, 2007 the Venezuelan government broadcast and circulated a confidential memo from the US embassy to the CIA which is devastatingly revealing of US clandestine operations and which […]

For decades, efforts to bring about a two-state solution in historic Palestine have failed to provide justice and peace for the Palestinian and Israeli Jewish peoples, or to offer a genuine process leading towards them. […]

By Ali AlarabiSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Although the speakers meeting in Annapolis were optimistic and almost encouraging in their speeches regarding bringing lasting peace to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, peace, in the words […]

To the Editor:  The most outrageous double standard in American media today is the different ways by which Arab countries and Israel are judged in the court of "public opinion," which really means the court […]

By James PetrasSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Why must Jewish organizations be and be seen as the loudest drum-beaters of all? Why can we not bring ourselves to say that military intervention is not on the table […]

By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com As I sit and read the announcements from today’s first discussions from Annapolis, all I can see is another dismal failure for peace and another year long “negotiation” process that […]

By Uri AvneryPalestineChronicle.com I was awakened from deep sleep by the noise. There was a commotion outside, which was getting louder by the minute. The shout of excited people. An eruption of joy. I stuck […]

By Fareed Taamallah This week in Annapolis, Maryland the United States government will host a conference between Palestinian and Israeli leaders to launch peace talks on a permanent agreement. A vital component of the peace […]

By Mohammed Khatib On the eve of the meeting intended to restart negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians at Annapolis, Maryland, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced that Israel will build no new West Bank […]