JERUSALEM (AP) — Large numbers of students in U.N.-run schools in Gaza have flunked achievement tests in math and Arabic, the agency said Thursday, attributing the poor showing to violence, overcrowding and poverty. More than […]

By William A. Cook PalestineChronicle.com VRay Suarez (PBS News Hour Reporter, October 2, 2007): "You’re saying that the national legislature of this country, rather than doing the will of the citizens of the United States, […]

By Cecilie Surasky Last year, I agreed to speak to a Jewish youth group about my organization, Jewish Voice for Peace, and our opposition to Israel’s occupation. My talk was to follow one from a […]

By Avi Issacharoff, Barak Ravid, Aluf Benn The joint statement to be formulated by Israel and the Palestinians ahead of the regional meeting in Annapolis next month may include references to the core issues of […]

By Hussein Al-alakSpecial to PalestineChrnicle.com The sorry state of affairs created under UK Labour, has demonstrated itself once more, in an attack on public sector workers in the Fire Brigade, where a group of four […]

By Ramzy Baroud The recent death of Haider Abdul-Shafi could not have come at a worse time. Bearing in mind the grim shortcomings of the Palestinian leadership and the lack of any serious attempt to […]

By Maria C. Khoury.Special to PalestineChronicle.com This September 2007, The International Academy of Art Palestine opened its doors to the first set of ten students to study for four years in the experimental program leading […]

By Sonja KarkarSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com It is a curious phrase this “right to exist”. Israel wants the world to accept its “right to exist” as a state, but it denies the indigenous Palestinians their right […]

By Uri AvneryPalestineChronicle.com There are books that change people’s consciousness and change history. Some tell a story, like Harriet Beech Stowe’s 1851 "Uncle Tom’s Cabin", which gave a huge impetus to the campaign for the […]

By Jeff LeysSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The Bonhoeffer Moment of nonviolent civil resistance and disobedience to the world war being waged by the United States is clearly at hand. As Congress considers an additional $190 billion […]

By Stephen GreenPalestineChronicle.com In the days after Israel’s September 6 air strike into northeast Syria at what may or may not have been a nuclear or strategic weapons facility, I read the major papers and […]

By Dan Lieberman PalestineChronicle.com Failure to understand the driving forces in the Middle East violence will lead to disaster.  Henry Siegman, in an article, titled: "The Great Middle East Peace Process Scam", London Review of […]

By John Zavesky Special to PalestineChronicle.com If the events of this week are any indication of “things to come” this country is racing headlong into a war larger than the U.S. has encountered in over […]

By Ira GluntsSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Review of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, 484 pgs. When the article entitled “The Israel […]

By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The American Empire and the Commonwealth of God – A Political, Economic, Religious Statement. John Cobb, Richard Falk, David Griffin and Catherine Keller. Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, Kentucky, 2006. […]

By Sukant ChandanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Secularism in the political leadership in the Arab world has had a very short life-span if put into historical context. It became a dominant political current for a few decades […]

DAMASCUS – Syria’s deputy president has accused Israel of making excuses to start a war by spreading false reports that an alleged Israeli air raid targeted a site linked to weapons of mass destruction.  Damascus […]

RAMALLAH (MIFTAH) –  September 29 marks seven years since the outbreak of the Aqsa Intifada. The second major Palestinian uprising erupted in the Palestinian territories following then Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon’s provocative visit to […]

By Kathleen and Bill ChristisonPalestineChronicle.com Two recent offhand comments, both widely publicized, have seriously undermined whatever progress might have been made in exposing the fact that the Iraq war was initiated at least in large […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The assassination of Lebanese politician Antoine Ghanem on Sept. 19 is likely to be used, predictably, to further U.S. and Israeli interests in the region. Most Western and some Arab […]

By Ben White Special to PalestineChronicle.com The clinking champagne glasses on Engage’s website said it all. The movement established to oppose the proposed boycott of Israeli academic institutions was celebrating a victory, as the British […]

By Uri Avnery PalestineChronicle.com A respected American paper posted a scoop this week: Vice-President Dick Cheney, the King of Hawks, has thought up a Machiavellian scheme for an attack on Iran. Its main point: Israel […]

By Gideon Levy It was a pretty quiet year, relatively speaking. Only 457 Palestinians and 10 Israelis were killed, according to the B’Tselem human rights organization, including the victims of Qassam rockets. Fewer casualties than […]

By Jonathan Cook  Israel’s air strike on northern Syria earlier this month should be understood in the context of events unfolding since its assault last summer on neighbouring Lebanon. Although little more than rumours have […]

By Pablo OuzielSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com October 2nd marks the birth anniversary of Human Rights Activist, Mahatma Gandhi and for the first time, the United Nations is officially proclaiming this day to be the International Day […]