By Saleh Al-Naami She looked right and then left before crossing the intersection leading to the university. The traffic was being directed by four members of the special forces affiliated with the Interior Ministry, all […]

By Mike WhitneySpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Presidents Bush and Putin concluded their brief summit in Kennebunkport, Maine without resolving any of the main issues. Bush seeks Putin’s help to pressure Iran into giving up its nuclear […]

Mapping The Dynmaics of Empire and Domestic Decay by James Petras Clarity Press, Inc. is pleased to announce Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire: Bankers, Zionists and Militants by James Petras­a brilliant and succinct […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com To speak of an alternative media is to acknowledge the deficiency of the prevailing media, the mainstream, in addressing the issues, catering to the concerns, and responding to the woes […]

By Nicola NasserSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com A seminar on “Palestine: 1967 and After” organized by the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) and the mission of the League of Arab States (LAS) in New Delhi on […]

By Mousa Abu Marzook Hamas’ rescue of a BBC journalist from his captors in Gaza last week was surely cause for rejoicing. But I want to be clear about one thing: We did not deliver […]

By John ChuckmanPalestineChronicle.com Why does terror dominate our headlines and the attention of our governments going on six years after 9/11?  The answer cannot be what George Bush says that it is: it is not […]

By Roni Ben Efrat June 5, 2007 marked forty years of Israeli Occupation. Five days later Hamas began its conquest of Gaza, and on June 14, PA President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah formally dissolved the […]

By Hussein Al-alak Special to PalestineChronicle.com The recent terror attacks on London and Glasgow, by an alleged Al-Qaeda linked group of medical workers, has led many to question the causes behind the attack but has […]

By Joharah Baker Hamas and Fateh can no longer be considered political opponents. Such labeling connotes a healthy rivalry, a relationship between two ideologically or politically dissimilar groups that agree to disagree on how to […]

By Philip RizkSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com There has been an array of commentary on Gaza over the past weeks. Hamas’ military takeover of the Gaza Strip brought the malaise of its people, the weakness of Fatah […]

By Ivan Eland PalestineChronicle.com As Congress begins to consider the Iraq War funding bill, defections by important Republican Senators have caused a White House debate on whether to try to get ahead of the onrushing […]

By Uri AvneryPalestineChronicle.com A week ago, Haaretz published an article by Shlomo Avineri, a respected professor and former Director General of the Israeli Foreign Office. I tried to refute his views in a letter to […]

By Tariq ShadidSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com While initially having been applauded by the American public for bringing down the dictatorship of Saddam Hussain, operation ‘Iraqi Freedom’ has proven to eventually have had such disastrous consequences for […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The term maestro means a "master" or "teacher" in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.  In English it refers to a distinguished musician or noted figure in any artistic field.  Most often, […]

By Mohamed el-Sawwaf GAZA CITY- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is planning to dissolve the Hamas-dominated parliament and call for early general elections that would only be confined to factions which are members at the Palestine […]

By Donald Macintyre Gaza’s industry is in a state of collapse because imports and exports to the Strip have been blocked by Israel since Hamas won internal control of the territory three weeks ago after […]

By Jerry Kroth In November, the American electorate repudiated Bush’s Iraq debacle and established Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate promising to bring this "flawed policy wrapped in illusion" to a decisive end. […]

By Norman Solomon  Many of America’s most prominent journalists want us to forget what they were saying and writing more than four years ago to boost the invasion of Iraq. Now, they tiptoe around their […]

By Marry RizzoPalestineChronicle.com Gilad Atzmon is a novelist, a philosopher and an internationally acclaimed jazz musician whose CD Exile was selected by the BBC in 2003 as Album of the Year. He was born in […]

LONDON — The British Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU), one of Britain’s largest trade associations, has decided to boycott all the products made in Israel in protest at the practices of the Israeli army […]

By Alastair Crooke  ‘The situation in Gaza is dangerous, and the danger is that Hamas will take over and turn Gaza into “Hamastan” – into a kingdom of thugs, murderers, terrorists, poverty and despair.’ This […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChrnicle.com Making Gaza "scream" is same kind of scheme the Nixon administration planned for Chile after social democrat Salvador Allende won a plurality of the votes in September, 1970.  Before the […]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – As part of an unrelenting efforts to back one Palestinian side against the other, the Israeli government approved on Sunday, July 8, the release of 250 prisoners of President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah. […]

By Rannie AmiriPalestineChronicle.com “I said to the Shabak, the Mossad, ‘you didn’t succeed to break me, you didn’t succeed to make me crazy.’” — –  Mordechai Vanunu, former Israeli nuclear technician, upon being released from […]

By Tariq ShadidSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com It is as old as we can remember: unity is a source of strength. Therefore, in battles, one of the main and first objectives is always to divide your enemy, […]

By William A. CookSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com As an American living under Bush’s Military Commission’s Act, I feel a bit unnerved when charged with “allegations” of hate crimes issued by Canada’s Council on Human Rights, “allegations” […]

By Pablo Ouziel  Special to PalestineChronicle.com On the 23 of June, I had the opportunity to attend the Friends of Trees Conference in Barcelona. It has taken me a few weeks to digest all the […]

EL-ARISH, Egypt — Protesting the closure of their only gateway to homeland, scores of stranded Palestinians staged Friday, July 6, an open-ended hunger strike to demand the reopening of the Rafah crossing as a new […]

By James PetrasSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com “You cannot win the peace unless you know the enemy at home and abroad,”  — US  Marine Colonel from Tennessee. Everywhere I visit from Copenhagen to Istanbul, Patagonia to Mexico […]