By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Oil Crusades – America Through Arab Eyes. Abdulhay Yahya Zalloum. Pluto Press, London, 2007. In this informative work, Zalloum presents three main themes. Starting with a quote from an earlier […]

By Hussein Al-alakSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Just how far is the occupation willing to turn the clocks back, on the rights and civil liberties of women in Iraq, with the forced separation of families and the […]

By Amy Goodman  U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Jeffrey Lucey is not counted among the Iraq war dead. But he did die, when he came home. He committed suicide. His parents are suing the Department of […]

By Daniel Ben Simon During the 17 years Hassan served in the police force, including in the Border Police, he encountered many bad sights. But the death of Maisun threatened to break the man who had […]

By Noam Chomsky  The death of a nation is a rare and somber event. But the vision of a unified, independent Palestine threatens to be another casualty of a Hamas-Fatah civil war, stoked by Israel […]

By Ayman El-Amir Arab foreign ministers met in Cairo recently to reconfirm the Riyadh land-for-peace initiative which their colleagues from Egypt and Jordan, the two Arab states that signed formal peace treaties with Israel, had […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The name of Alberto Gonzales is rapidly becoming synonymous with all that has gone wrong under the Bush administration. Repeated media discussions of the US Secretary of State in the […]

By Jonathan Cook Iran is the new Nazi Germany and its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the new Hitler. Or so Israeli officials have been declaring for months as they and their American allies try to persuade […]

By Ben WhitePalestineChronicle.com The contents of school textbooks in Palestine/Israel have often been the cause of controversy, normally when a report is published purporting to reveal "shocking revelations" about the alleged indoctrination of Palestinian schoolchildren. […]

By Amira Hass  In one of the alarming news items of the past week, it was reported that Israel has green-lighted the transfer of 1,000 rifles from Jordan to the security forces loyal to Palestinian […]

Linda Ford and Ira GluntsSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Imagine my surprise as I leafed through what is usually a fairly bland magazine that, as an alumna (PhD. History ’84) , I periodically receive from the Syracuse […]

RAMALLAH – The US Secretary of State has met with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, in Ramallah and signed an agreement granting the Palestinians $80 million for reform of their security services.  The move follows […]

By Akiva Eldar The Palestinian partner was born in Oslo in the summer of 1993, and died seven years later at Camp David. Following seven more years of violence, diplomatic stalemate and renewed settlement – and […]

By Joharah Baker My older brother recently informed me that his three children were eligible for US passports, given that he, like myself and my other siblings, were all born in the United States. But […]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – Waking up to bulldozers pulverizing her home into rubble, British mother Jessica Barhum got a glimpse of what Israel has been doing with Palestinians for decades. "You can’t believe a country like […]

By Pablo OuzielSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com In the 1994 drama film based on a novel by Winston Groom, the world was captivated by a simple man called Forrest Gump and his journey through life. In a […]

By Saleh Al-Naami The four men in traditional Arab garb didn’t attract the attention of Ahmed Khalil, 27, when he drew near his farm not far from the town of Beit Hanun in northern Gaza. […]

Saudi Arabia has said it could attend a Middle East peace conference proposed by the US president which would bring it to the same table as Israel. But Prince Saud al-Faisal, Saudi’s foreign minister, said […]

By John Whitbeck In an eloquent speech before the US Congress in early March, Jordan’s King Abdallah emphasized the urgent necessity of achieving an Arab-Israeli peace this year. Sadly, there was little sense of urgency […]

By Anne-Beatrice Clasmann in Rafah Heat, hopelessness and the feeling of having been abandoned are what Mohammed Sukkar, 32, must continue to endure for the foreseeable future. Yet 12 days ago when his father died […]

By Uri Avnery PalestineChronicle.com Last week, James Wolfensohn gave a long interview to Haaretz. He poured out his heart and summed up, with amazing openness, his months as special envoy of the US, Russia, the […]

By Arthur Nelson It’s always nice to start a new job with a trick up your sleeve, and the Middle East’s new envoy Tony Blair could be forgiven for thinking he has just that. In […]

By Kathy Kelly in Amman, JordanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Last weekend was an important one, regarding education, here in Jordan. Jordanian high school students learned the results of exams qualifying them (or not) for University studies. […]

By Nicola NasserSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Converging U.S. – Iran interests in Iraq are creating a common ground for an “Iranian option” for President George W. Bush that could be developed into an historical foreign policy […]

By Shafiq MortonSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com  It’s exactly a year since I landed in Beirut , our cargo plane – aptly named “Guts Airline” – staying on the ground just long enough to unload before taking […]

CAIRO – A group of evangelical leaders have signaled a rare support for the creation of a Palestinian state, drawing immediate reprimands from fellow evangelical figures, The New York Times reported on Sunday, July 29. […]

By William James Martin Special to PalestineChronicle.com In the 1976 presidential debates, candidate Jimmy Carter told President Ford that Ford’s only accomplishment in office had been avoiding another Watergate. Carter, who would become President Ford’s […]

By Hasan Afif El-HassanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Early Israelis killed messengers if they did not like the message. They don’t need to kill messengers today anymore. They limit the scope of their messages. Back in 1948, […]

Review by Ruth Tenne The First Six Days: Nandita Dowson and Abdul Wahab Sabbah  (Eds)  – Published by Camden-Abu-Dis Friendship Association, CADFA ,2007 (www.camdenabudis.org)  The First Six Days is a tale of the dispossessed, humiliated, […]

By Sonja Karkar Just about every report and article written in the Western media these past weeks have focused on the rift between Fatah and Hamas and US overtures to broker a peace deal that […]