The US intervention in the Palestinian affairs and categorization of Palestinian factions into moderates and extremists are partly to blame for the Gaza chaos, the intensifying power struggle between Fatah and Hamas and left plans […]

By Stephen Zunes Anti-occupation rally in Washington, D.C., June 10, 2007. Photo by Thomas J. Dooley. In my Inbox last Friday was an email from Peace Action, the country’s largest peace group, encouraging its members […]

By Agustin VellosoSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Faced with the fear that things may get even worse, one must not lose sight of the causes of the events in Gaza, their connection with the situation in Lebanon […]

By George Galloway Since its launch just over a decade ago, the al-Jazeera satellite TV station has transformed the politics of the Middle East. For the first time, people in the region had access to […]

By Jeff Blankfort Special to PalestineChronicle.com Re: Stephen Zunes: Peace Movement Addresses Israel-Palestine (Finally) "Because the mainstream peace movement has been so late in addressing Israel and Palestine as a peace issue, other groups that […]

By Nizar Sakhnini Special to PalestineChronicle.com Following WWII, the U.S. emerged as the most powerful imperialist power. During the so- called ‘Cold War’, fighting ‘Communism’ was used as a pretext to cover U.S. wars for […]

GAZA CITY – The Palestinian crisis deepened Friday, June 15, as Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader dismissed by President Mahmoud Abbas, vowed that his government would continue to function as the US and […]

By Ben White Special to PalestineChronicle.com The events in Gaza this week, which represented the dramatic climax of months of tense bouts of fighting between Hamas and Fatah, were painful to watch. Those who stand […]

By Bruce K. Gagnon I often hear from people asking me, "What should we do about all this? How can we stop Bush?" I would first say that we must move beyond blaming Bush. The […]

By James ZogbyPalestineChronicle.com We are 40 years into this occupation, and the systematic destruction of Palestine, its people and their culture, continues. I am not Palestinian, but throughout my adult life their story has been […]

By Alberto Cruz A time-worn adage in journalism says that redundancy enables a better understanding of language, so here we go again: the tree of Iraq stops us seeing the Middle East wood. Absorbed in […]

By Tariq ShadidSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Yahoo is one of the world’s largest internet corporations, and plays an important role in providing handy web portals that offer a variety of services. While informing the web user […]

By Silvia Cattori Special to PalestineChronicle.com Hedy Epstein, 82, was born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1924(1) and lived in Kippenheim, a village located approximately 30 km north of Freiburg. She was the only child of […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Noam Chomsky is MIT Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics and has been a leading political and social critic of US imperial policy for over 40 years.  He’s also one of […]

Re: Ramzy Baroud’s Mark Twain and the Sins of Empire Dear Mr. Baroud, back in 2003 when Bush’s ilk were making the final plans to illegally invade Iraq, I began thinking of Mark Twain and […]

By Abukar Arman Just like all other actions, speaking the truth has its reaction and indeed price. A few months ago, I was honored to join two Middle East experts– Professor John Mueller and Professor […]

By Joharah Baker One law of nature is that if organisms are crowded together in a confined area with limited freedom to move or expand, they will inevitably turn on each other. This is already […]

By Faisal KuttySpecial to PalestineChronicle.com "Nothing personal sir, but your packages are not allowed on passenger airlines," said a United Parcel Service customer service agent, sitting in an American call centre. She was explaining to […]

By Ramzy Baroud Special to PalestineChronicle.com When I resorted to Mark Twain’s writings I attempted to escape, at least temporarily from my often distressing readings on war, politics and terror. But his “The Mysterious Stranger”, […]

By Dr. Eyad El-SarrajSpecial to PalestineChronicle.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 […]

By Paul Findley In the greatest service of his long public life, former President Jimmy Carter warns of the grave consequences of America’s phenomenal subservience to Israel. In his latest book and recent lectures, he […]

By Nicola NasserSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com “Israel Slides towards the Disastrous One State Trap,” The Baltimore Sun’s editorial concluded on June 5. The conclusion is no more true than in Jerusalem, where systematically and persistently Israel is […]

By Mike Whitney To PalestineChronicle.com The transcript you weren’t supposed to see: On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an hour and a half-long press conference which was attended by many members of the world […]

The Abba musical Mamma Mia! could be the first casualty of a growing Israeli backlash against a proposed British academic boycott of Israeli universities. The British production, due to open in Tel Aviv in a […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com The Iraq War has made refugees of millions of Iraqis. They have been ethnically cleansed or displaced to other locations both inside the country, to neighboring countries, and overseas. Yet the Bush […]

By Nizar SakhniniPalestineChronicle.com 1866: Moses Hess argued that Anti-Semitism would prevent the Jews from assimilating in Christian society and, consequently, they needed to establish their own national state in Palestine.  He pointed out that, “The […]

To the Editor: I plan to demonstrate publicly but without violence this coming Sunday (June 17, 2007) against the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Rome for condoning the actions of one of its subordinate […]

By Donald Macintyre Immediately after the Six Day War, 40 years ago, Shlomo Gazit was put in charge of Gaza and the West Bank. Today, the retired general is in favour of talks with Hamas, […]

By Danny Schechter Sources inside Al Jazeera who are in a position to know what is going on now confirm to MediaChannel.org that there is an internal struggle underway that may dilute Al Jazeera’s independence […]

To the Editor: Where are the millions of Palestinians in the Diaspora? What are they doing? Why can’t they counter one whacked guy like Mad Al D? He rants now like Prof. Shockley once did. […]