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 […]

GAZA CITY – At least seven Palestinians have been killed by a series of attacks launched by Israeli aircraft in the Gaza Strip. Three of the dead on Saturday were members of the al-Quds Brigades, […]

By Saul Landau You can trace the current Middle East conflicts back to Moses, who was deaf. God said: "Moses, take your people to Canada." Moses heard Canaan. One group of religious Jews believes Israel […]

The Palestinian Hamas – Vision, Violence, and Coexistence.  Shaul Mishal and Avraham Sela. Columbia University Press, New York. 2006. Reviewed by Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com In consideration of current events with Hamas’ military takeover of […]

By Uri Avnery  PalestineChronicle.com Ehud Olmert is the opposite of Midas, King of Phrygia. Everything the king touched turned into gold, according to Greek legend. Everything Olmert touches turns into lead. And that is no […]

GAZA CITY — The Palestinian movement Hamas on Saturday, June 30, rejected President Mahmoud Abbas’s call for deploying international troops in the Gaza Strip to pave the way for holding early elections in the occupied […]

By Hammam FarahSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The Current Crisis Since Hamas’ brutal takeover of the Gaza Strip and the consequent formation of an emergency government in the West Bank, reports have claimed that the internal fighting […]

By Agustin Velloso in MadridSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com It would be an irony of the eager Spanish imperialism that launched  itself on Arab lands if it ousted the PSOE (Socialist Party) in 2007 just like what […]

By Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua FrankPalestiineChronicle.com The environmental movement is on life support. Some would say it is already dead. Even though climate change and Al Gore are fast becoming the conversation du jour […]

By Gilad Atzmon Special to PalestineChronicle.com What a great day for peace enthusiasts! A new envoy to the Middle East has been appointed for the Quartet, and it’s no other than the former British PM, […]

GAZA CITY — The appointment of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as a special envoy Mideast envoy for the Quartet is seen as a further dividing force between Palestinians in Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and […]

By Ramzy Baroud Special to PalestineChronicle.com The Hamas-Fatah clash that has culminated into a mini-civil war in recent weeks is both old and new, and while some of its elements are uniquely Palestinian, much of […]