By Jeff Halper For all the attention and hysteria the latest events in Gaza have generated since the Hamas “takeover,” for Israel they represent nothing but a minor blip in its inexorable drive towards its […]

To the Editor: A major problem in the world today and the major obstacle to world  peace is the concept of exceptionalism. This concept is that because I am  so good a (insert from list below) […]

By Tariq ShadidSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com For many living in the West, music is not something that springs to mind immediately when they hear the word ‘Palestinian’. Nevertheless, this uprooted and occupied people is much more […]

By J.A. Miller O Ward!  O Norman ! From across five hundred years I heard of your woes It comes from having a patron you know I had a patron Powerful and rich, a big […]

By Philip RizkSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The democratically elected Hamas government was doomed to failure when the world refused to recognize the last election outcome. Furthermore, as the former government dominated by Fatah was not willing […]

By Mohammad Al-Sawwaf  GAZA CITY — Palestinian mediators are planning to propose to Hamas trading Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit with abducted BBC journalist Alan Johnston, IslamOnline.net has learnt. "They want Hamas to deliver Shalit to […]

"Due to the sensitive nature of this item, we will no longer offer it for sale. We apologize if we offended anyone, this was by no means our intention." – Urban Outfitters CEO Dick Hayne, […]

By Sonja KarkarSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Gaza’s humanitarian crisis began long before the world decided that the Palestinians had to be punished for voting in the Hamas government. Since Israel’s occupation in 1967 of the little […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com On June 27, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal vied for attention with feature stories on oil giants ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips "walking away from their multi-billion-dollar investments in […]

GAZA CITY — Israeli occupation forces killed at least ten Palestinians and pushed into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, June 27, while President Mahmoud Abbas banned the carrying of weapons in a public in a […]

By Ran HaCohen Five years after His Highness G.W. Bush – president of the United States of America, czar of Afghanistan, emperor of Iraq, democratizer of the Middle East, etc., etc. – launched his "Road […]

By Bill Fletcher As we witness Palestine further divide itself in the midst of a Hamas/Fatah factional split, I have felt both despair and anger. The reasons for the despair should be obvious. The Palestinian […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Linda McQuaig is a prominent, award-winning Canadian journalist, sadly less well known in the US because she writes about her own country.  She was a national reporter for the Toronto […]

By Ahmad Atta Egypt’s change of heart on the need for dialogue between rival Fatah and Hamas during a summit it originally hosted to boost President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah left observers scratching their heads. […]

By Jennifer Loewenstein PalestineChronicle.com Contrary to the many claims that the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip represents the failure of US and Israeli policies in Palestine, the violent civil infighting that has dominated the […]

By Robert Fisk I suppose that astonishment is not the word for it. Stupefaction comes to mind. I simply could not believe my ears in Beirut when a phone call told me that Lord Blair […]

By Jeff BlankfortSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com It is impossible for Stephen Zunes to have it both ways. Describing Israel’s establishment as "an example of global affirmative action" would generally be interpreted as being supportive of its […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com In 1984 (a year of Orwellian significance), activist and media and social critic Edward Herman wrote one of his many important books titled "Demonstration Elections."  In it, he analyzed the […]

This is an excerpt from What’s It All About? The Decline of the American Empire by John Chuckman published by Constable & Robinson Ltd, London . Available from Indigo Books, Canada. By John ChuckmanPalestineChronicle.com In […]

To the Editor: I was astonished by the paragraph you quoted from "The Mysterious Stranger." I think I read it four decades ago in Japanese translation. But all I can remember is a depressed feeling, […]

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt – Israeli and Arab leaders are set to meet in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to show support for Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, in his struggle with Hamas for political control of the […]

By Sonja KarkarSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com It seems few can speak the truth anymore and that does not augur well for Palestine or for the world generally. Time and again, law and principles have been compromised […]

By Jeffrey D. Sachs American foreign policy in the Middle East experienced yet another major setback this month, when Hamas, whose Palestinian government the United States had tried to isolate, routed the rival Fatah movement […]

It’s the Crude, Dude – War, Big Oil, and the Fight For the Planet.  Linda McQuaig. Anchor Canada (Random House).  2006. Reviewed by Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Originally published in 2004, this revised and updated […]

To the Editor: Just as a year ago, the "rulers" of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia were colluding with Israel to condemn Hezbollah for its resistance to Israeli aggression in Lebanon, now the "leaders" of […]

CAIRO — Now that they are the uncontested rulers of the lawless Gaza Strip, Hamas leaders have a clear set of priorities in sight. "We have a lot of clan violence in Gaza and we […]

By Joharah Baker In literary terms, the Palestinian situation could only be categorized under one genre: the theater of the absurd. The events of the past few weeks have reshuffled the cards, both locally and internationally […]

By Ariadna TheokopoulosSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com We had become used to muted differences and polite disagreements over one Israeli policy or another presented as proof of a vibrant debate in the Zionist discourse, pictured as a […]

By Oren Ben-Dor It is unethical to blame Israel’s 1967 occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem for events in Gaza. At the heart of the factional violence in Gaza and the political […]

CAIRO —  At face value, the summit gathering the leaders of Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday, June 25, looks like a routine […]