By Professor James PetrasFor PalestineChronicle.com Introduction: The imperial system is much more complex than what is commonly referred to as the “US Empire”. The US Empire, with its vast network of financial investments, military bases, […]

By Philip RizkPalestineChronicle.com I spent my 25th birthday in Jabalya, Gaza’s biggest refugee camp. I have known Jamal, a taxi driver in Gaza, for almost two years. I could only protest so many times at […]

By Avi Issacharoff Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni met Saturday evening with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Jerusalem ahead of a trilateral summit with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas scheduled for Monday. Rice […]

By Eugene BirdPalestineChronicle.com The unreal testimony given by three members of the Israel Lobby before the Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia the House Committee on Foreign Affairs indicates that we have a […]

By Azmi Bishara For a people either rootless or under occupation, the Palestinians have made more than their share of diplomatic initiatives. The norm, one would think, would be for an occupied people to fight […]

By James BrooksPalestineChronicle.com Who is not happy to see movement in the old dead limbs of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process? The Bush administration wants to give the Palestinians a "diplomatic horizon", and that must be […]

By Uri AvneryPalestineChronicle.com Must a Native-American recognize the right of the United States of America to exist? Interesting question. The USA was established by Europeans who invaded a continent that did not belong to them, […]

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey will send an inspection team to Al-Aqsa Mosque to survey Israeli excavations near Islam’s third holiest shrine, said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday, February 15. "I proposed to […]

By Dr. Eyad El-SarrajPalestinChronicle.com Many questions even after Mecca meeting remain … what has become of us? Our people have suffered for 59 years from displacement, homelessness, discrimination, impoverishment and expatriation, but they withstood that […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com The Makkah agreement, signed between rival Palestinian groups, Hamas and Fatah on February 8, under the auspices of the Saudi leadership, was welcomed by thousands of cheering Palestinians throughout the occupied territories, […]

By Joharah Baker In tandem with the hopes for a successful formation of a Palestinian national unity government, following the Fateh-Hamas signing of the Mecca Agreement last week, cautiously optimistic voices calling for the rebuilding […]

By Anthony DiMaggio  While Vladimir Lenin may have originally popularized the label "useful idiots" in reference to Western sympathizers with the Soviet Union, the term may be more relevant today when applied to those within […]

By Stephen LendmanPalestineChronicle.com The world community calls them "Blue Helmets" or "peacekeepers," and the UN defines their mission as "a way to help countries torn by conflict create conditions for sustainable peace" by implementing and […]

By Miko PeledPalestineChronicle.com The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one area where liberals and neo-conservatives in America find common ground.  From Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton all the way to George Bush and Condoleezza Rice one and […]

By Nir Hasson  "The Palestinians\’ lives under the occupation are reminiscent of the lives of Chile\’s citizens under the dictatorship," says Chilean Judge Juan Guzman, who is visiting Israel, last week. "There, too, people who […]

By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com The Israeli arrogance of being the regional military super power, unequivocally backed by the U.S. world super power, is dictating a kind of politics that deals trivially with the national and religious grievances […]

By Mike WhitneyPalestineChronicle.com According to the Muslim calendar, yesterday –February 12–is the one year anniversary of the bombing of Samarra’s Golden Dome Mosque. The blast is frequently pointed to as the event which transformed the […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com President Vladimir Putin of Russia recently bluntly lashed out at U.S. foreign policy. At an international security conference with U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in attendance, referring to U.S. actions in […]

By Karin Laub RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) – Palestinian officials said Monday they will start forming a national unity government in coming days, but acknowledged that previous dealbreakers, such as control over the security forces […]

By Sami Abdel-Shafi It was a surreal but telling reflection of how lonely Palestinians have become as their leadership has seemingly been pushed into breakdown and failure, while Israel watched from the sidelines. Late one […]

By Daoud Kuttab  If resumption of political violence and property destruction is to be avoided, a new internal security policy will be needed. The numerous militias, groups, gangs, and individuals who own and use weapons […]

By Gabriel Kolko There has been a qualitative leap in military technology that makes all inherited conventional wisdom, and war as an instrument of political policy, utterly irrelevant, not just to the United States but […]

By Amira Hass  The wave of killings in Gaza on Thursday of last week was sparked by a suspicion: Hamas members feared that containers Israel allowed to enter Gaza held weapons for the Presidential Guard. […]

By John Welch The roster of speakers for the UFPJ demonstration in Washington D.C. on January 27 speaks volumes. The key was not so much who was included but who was not. The list of […]

By Uri AvneryPalestineChronicle.com When a Prime Minister has just lost a war, is dogged by corruption allegations and sees his popularity ratings in free fall – what can he do? Why, he can initiate provocations. […]

By Abid MustafaPalestineChronicle.com Over the past few months, the Bush administration in the backdrop of the Iraq Study Group’s (ISG) report has announced its plan for Iraq—apart from the Presidents refusal to formally engage Iran […]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — As Israel resumed its excavations near Al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday, February 11, Palestinian leaders vowed to pursue massive protests to halt the Israeli diggings at Islam’s third holiest shrine. "We have a […]

By Munish Nagar Q. What is the importance of Hezbollah’s last year victory and how will it influence future events in the region? Hezbollah’s victory is important for more than one reason; one aspect is […]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM  – Israeli forces stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Friday, February 9, firing stun grenades and rubber bullets at stone-throwing Palestinian worshippers at Islam’s third holiest place. Explosions from stun grenades, bursts of smoke […]

GAZA CITY – Fireworks lit the night sky over Gaza on Thursday, February 8, in celebration of a Palestinian unity deal sealed in Saudi Arabia between the ruling Hamas movement and Fatah of President Mahmoud […]