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 […]

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 […]