GAZA CITY — The Palestinian movement Hamas on Saturday, June 30, rejected President Mahmoud Abbas’s call for deploying international troops in the Gaza Strip to pave the way for holding early elections in the occupied […]

By Hammam FarahSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The Current Crisis Since Hamas’ brutal takeover of the Gaza Strip and the consequent formation of an emergency government in the West Bank, reports have claimed that the internal fighting […]

By Agustin Velloso in MadridSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com It would be an irony of the eager Spanish imperialism that launched  itself on Arab lands if it ousted the PSOE (Socialist Party) in 2007 just like what […]

By Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua FrankPalestiineChronicle.com The environmental movement is on life support. Some would say it is already dead. Even though climate change and Al Gore are fast becoming the conversation du jour […]

By Gilad Atzmon Special to PalestineChronicle.com What a great day for peace enthusiasts! A new envoy to the Middle East has been appointed for the Quartet, and it’s no other than the former British PM, […]

GAZA CITY — The appointment of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as a special envoy Mideast envoy for the Quartet is seen as a further dividing force between Palestinians in Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and […]

By Ramzy Baroud Special to PalestineChronicle.com The Hamas-Fatah clash that has culminated into a mini-civil war in recent weeks is both old and new, and while some of its elements are uniquely Palestinian, much of […]

By Jeff Halper For all the attention and hysteria the latest events in Gaza have generated since the Hamas “takeover,” for Israel they represent nothing but a minor blip in its inexorable drive towards its […]

To the Editor: A major problem in the world today and the major obstacle to world  peace is the concept of exceptionalism. This concept is that because I am  so good a (insert from list below) […]

By Tariq ShadidSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com For many living in the West, music is not something that springs to mind immediately when they hear the word ‘Palestinian’. Nevertheless, this uprooted and occupied people is much more […]

By J.A. Miller O Ward!  O Norman ! From across five hundred years I heard of your woes It comes from having a patron you know I had a patron Powerful and rich, a big […]

By Philip RizkSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The democratically elected Hamas government was doomed to failure when the world refused to recognize the last election outcome. Furthermore, as the former government dominated by Fatah was not willing […]

By Mohammad Al-Sawwaf  GAZA CITY — Palestinian mediators are planning to propose to Hamas trading Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit with abducted BBC journalist Alan Johnston, IslamOnline.net has learnt. "They want Hamas to deliver Shalit to […]

"Due to the sensitive nature of this item, we will no longer offer it for sale. We apologize if we offended anyone, this was by no means our intention." – Urban Outfitters CEO Dick Hayne, […]

By Sonja KarkarSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Gaza’s humanitarian crisis began long before the world decided that the Palestinians had to be punished for voting in the Hamas government. Since Israel’s occupation in 1967 of the little […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com On June 27, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal vied for attention with feature stories on oil giants ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips "walking away from their multi-billion-dollar investments in […]

GAZA CITY — Israeli occupation forces killed at least ten Palestinians and pushed into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, June 27, while President Mahmoud Abbas banned the carrying of weapons in a public in a […]

By Ran HaCohen Five years after His Highness G.W. Bush – president of the United States of America, czar of Afghanistan, emperor of Iraq, democratizer of the Middle East, etc., etc. – launched his "Road […]

By Bill Fletcher As we witness Palestine further divide itself in the midst of a Hamas/Fatah factional split, I have felt both despair and anger. The reasons for the despair should be obvious. The Palestinian […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Linda McQuaig is a prominent, award-winning Canadian journalist, sadly less well known in the US because she writes about her own country.  She was a national reporter for the Toronto […]

By Ahmad Atta Egypt’s change of heart on the need for dialogue between rival Fatah and Hamas during a summit it originally hosted to boost President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah left observers scratching their heads. […]

By Jennifer Loewenstein PalestineChronicle.com Contrary to the many claims that the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip represents the failure of US and Israeli policies in Palestine, the violent civil infighting that has dominated the […]

By Robert Fisk I suppose that astonishment is not the word for it. Stupefaction comes to mind. I simply could not believe my ears in Beirut when a phone call told me that Lord Blair […]

By Jeff BlankfortSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com It is impossible for Stephen Zunes to have it both ways. Describing Israel’s establishment as "an example of global affirmative action" would generally be interpreted as being supportive of its […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com In 1984 (a year of Orwellian significance), activist and media and social critic Edward Herman wrote one of his many important books titled "Demonstration Elections."  In it, he analyzed the […]

This is an excerpt from What’s It All About? The Decline of the American Empire by John Chuckman published by Constable & Robinson Ltd, London . Available from Indigo Books, Canada. By John ChuckmanPalestineChronicle.com In […]

To the Editor: I was astonished by the paragraph you quoted from "The Mysterious Stranger." I think I read it four decades ago in Japanese translation. But all I can remember is a depressed feeling, […]

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt – Israeli and Arab leaders are set to meet in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to show support for Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, in his struggle with Hamas for political control of the […]

By Sonja KarkarSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com It seems few can speak the truth anymore and that does not augur well for Palestine or for the world generally. Time and again, law and principles have been compromised […]

By Jeffrey D. Sachs American foreign policy in the Middle East experienced yet another major setback this month, when Hamas, whose Palestinian government the United States had tried to isolate, routed the rival Fatah movement […]