By Alastair Crooke Hamas: Unwritten Chapters by Azzam Tamimi • Hurst, 344 pp, £14.95Where Now for Palestine: The Demise of the Two-State Solution ed. Jamil Hilal • Zed, 260 pp, £17.99Failing Peace: Gaza and the […]

By Ahmed Amr.Special to PalestineChronicle.com George Bush just gave another tasteless performance in the remodeled James S. Brady Press Room. As usual, he stayed on message, blaming General Tommy Franks for the disastrous post-invasion plan. […]

By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been making much of himself lately, promoting his version of how to achieve global peace and prosperity, with talks and presentations on Afghanistan and […]

By Dr. Hassan Afif El-HasanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com President Bush should be credit for perfecting the art of selling his vision on solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to his Arab allies. He learnt from his campaigning that […]

GAZA CITY – With nearly one million out of the Gaza Strip’s 1.5 million population living on handouts, the UN warned that the strip’s economy would collapse if its crossings continue to be closed by […]

By Susan Miller Width matters. Semantic disputes concerning the Israeli Palestinian conflict have existed for years. Arguments continue over Jimmy Carter’s use of the word "apartheid" to describe the system under which Palestinians live in […]

By Remi Kanazi PalestineChronicle.com  Anyone who has traveled through Ben Gurion airport in Israel knows that it is a unique experience. For most Israeli Jews, the experience is comforting, a quick and accommodating entry into […]

By Nicola NasserSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The accelerated pace of India’s liberal economics and pragmatic ties with the United States and Israel risks polarizing Indian domestic politics and invoking a deep-seated communist as well as Islamist anti […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com Those of us who opposed the expansion of NATO in 1999 (admitting Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic) and 2004 (Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, and the former Soviet republics of Latvia, Estonia, […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Besides the Bush administration’s imperial aims and permanent war on the world, add the one at home below the radar.  Its weapons include the WTO, NAFTA, Department of Homeland Security […]

DOHA, Qatar – The Hamas political chief has criticised the US president’s blanket support for rival Palestinian faction Fatah.  Khaled Meshaal told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that "the US is trying to impose its agenda on […]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – US President George W. Bush’s call for an international conference on stalled Middle East peace marks a new strategy giving priority to the borders of the future Palestinian state, while putting on […]

By Ben WhitePalestineChronicle.com Exclusive As soon as it was confirmed that Tony Blair would be taking up the role of special envoy to the Middle East on behalf of the Quartet (USA, EU, UN and […]

By Rannie AmiriSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com It is indeed a great irony that George Orwell wrote 1984 in 1948, the same year Israel was created. For this nation, above all others, has proven itself the most […]

By Joel Bainerman Special to PalestineChronicle.com While the One State Solution (OSS) to solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is typically rejected outright as being a demographic threat to Israel- this approach could very well be the […]

By Stephen Lendman Special to Palestinechronicle.com Congress is back from its July 4 break and with it more bluster and political posturing on changing course to keep things the same, including everything not working in […]

To all our readers, supporters, and friends, We have now reached the completion of our Palestine Chronicle Appeal, and want to extend our very warm and heartfelt thanks for your all responses and generous contributions […]

WEST BANK – Dozens of Palestinian fighters have made a rare pledge to halt attacks on Israel.  In return, they would be taken off that country’s wanted list. The pledge comes a day before Mahmoud Abbas, […]

By James BrooksSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com When the current Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) first “met” on March 6, 2006 (via videoconference, thanks to Israel’s travel restrictions), the Palestinian Authority embarked on the final phase of its […]

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 […]