By Dr. Hasan Afif El-HasanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Is the architect of Oslo trying to get the Palestinians another deal? Abbas and his comrades sold Oslo to the Palestinians for slogans, and today they are selling […]

By Richard Falk  And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?      — William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming There is little doubt that the Nazi Holocaust was as […]

CAIRO — Under the watchful eye of the Israeli government, some 90 per cent of the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank have sprawled beyond the official boundaries set up by Tel Aviv, seizing […]

By MIFTAH On January 25, 2006, Hamas became the leading party in the Palestinian Authority, after a sweeping victory in the Palestinian Legislative Council elections. This marked the first time a party other than Fatah […]

GAZA CITY – Israeli occupation forces pushed into the Gaza strip on Thursday, July 5, killing at least eleven Palestinians, while thousands of Gazans took to the streets calling for national dialogue between the rival […]

By Ben White Special to PalestineChronicle.com The news that BBC journalist Alan Johnston had been freed from his kidnappers after 114 days in captivity was greeted with relief and celebration by all those concerned for […]

By Uri Avnery  PalestineChronicle.com There never was a darker Middle East summit meeting. The darkest there can be. The four leaders at Sharm al-Sheik did not sit together at an intimate round table. Each one […]

By Dr. Hani RuishiSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Recently, Hamas has been subjected to a relentless campaign and unjust attack from many governments, organizations and individuals, especially after its control over the Gaza Strip. The target of […]

LONDON — British and American dailies agreed on Thursday, July 5, that the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has scored some points by securing the release of abducted BBC reporter Alan Johnston. "That it actually obtained […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com When Hamas members were elected as the majority bloc of the Palestinian Legislative Council, and as it became apparent that a US-led international embargo would be an adjoining price to […]

By Jeffery St. Clair and Joshua FrankPalestineChronicle.com It is fast becoming one of the most important issues of the 2008 presidential campaign. Oil prices are expected to rise to even higher levels as the United […]

By Linda Heard   Most White House watchers are aware that former vice presidential aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby was no more than a fall guy in the outing of a CIA agent. There is little […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Britain’s most despised and discredited man ended his 10 year reign June 27 when he stepped down from office transferring his ruling Labor Party’s leadership to successor Gordon Brown.  He […]

By Gary Corseri Scratching their poems on styrofoam cups, The orange jumpsuits pass them along, Under the scorched-out Cuban sun, through bars, Telling themselves—and reminding the world— They are men, and this Inquisition Also must […]

GAZA CITY — British reporter Alan Johnston was released early on Wednesday, July 4, in Gaza City after nearly four months in captivity, thanking the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and its government in the Gaza […]

GAZA (Reuters) – Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in the Gaza Strip, was freed on Wednesday by a clan group that kidnapped him in March. Following are kidnappings of foreign journalists and journalists […]

By Joharah Baker In a surprise turn of events on the morning of July 4, Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent who has been in captivity in the Gaza Strip for nearly four months, was set […]

By Gilad AtzmonSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com When I came over to Britain some thirteen years ago, I found a very tolerant place. I was amazed to see so many people of so many colors, not just living […]

By Joseph Massad As the enemies of the Palestinian people have been attacking them on every front — Israel with its inquisition against Azmi Bishara and with him Palestinian resistance to the racist basis of […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com On July 2, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (Washington) ruled on US v. Libby (07-3068) saying I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby must be imprisoned while appealing […]

By Amr El-Kahky  SINAI – the Egyptian peninsula – is said to have been the passage of the prophets, a land bridge across the Red Sea. But for Palestinians it has proved a one-way street […]

By Andrew Phillips It may well be because Tony Blair has Palestine on his conscience that he took the thankless role of special envoy to that benighted land. When we invaded Iraq, Blair made clear […]

By Peter Hirschberg Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s announcement earlier this week at a summit in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh that he plans to release 250 Fatah prisoners in Israeli jails […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com When U.S. government officials and foreign policy pundits discuss terrorism, they usually focus on the characteristics, personnel, history, tactics, targets, objectives and effects of terrorist organizations. They rarely talk about motives. To […]

By Uzi Mahnaimi An Egyptian millionaire who mysteriously fell to his death from the balcony of his London flat after being named as a Mossad spy was writing a book that threatened to expose the […]

By James BrooksSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com In a June 23 article published by the venerable Dissident Voice website, Gabriel Ash offers a fresh and erudite meta-analysis of western support for Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian […]

By Sonja KarkarSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com These days the Hamas acting government and Fatah “emergency government” are sapping the interest from any news story that might report on Israel’s criminal deeds inside Gaza and the West Bank. […]

By Bernard Josephs In the face of student protests and strong criticism from world Jewry, former US president Jimmy Carter remained unrepentant about his book Peace Not Apartheid when he received an honorary fellowship at […]

By Abid MustafaSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Much has been said about Tony Blair stepping down as the Prime Minster of Britain. Most political commentators and media pundits have summed up Blair’s legacy in one word– Iraq. […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Along with Christmas, no federal holiday is more celebrated than the day a new nation declared its independence from the British Crown on July 4, 1776.  Coming in the summer […]