By Aijaz Zaka SyedPalestineChronicle.com Lebanon is no stranger to conflicts. Especially those involving the Palestinians. But as my hero Robert Fisk, offering another ringside view of another war in the Middle East says, there is […]

By Matthew Wagner All civilians living in Gaza are collectively guilty for Kassam attacks on Sderot, former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu has written in a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Eliyahu ruled that […]

By Ali AbunimahElectronicIntifada.net  Yesterday I wrote a piece entitled "Israel’s House of Horrors" about the openly murderous statements of Israeli cabinet ministers. Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse, I read a news article […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com South Africa’s Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils whispered to me as I sat down following a most enthusiastic speech I gave at a recent conference in Cape Town: "if you want the world […]

By Kathy KellySpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Earlier this week, the American Friends Service Committee asked me to speak about finding hope in hard times as part of an interfaith service to conclude their "Eyes Wide Open" […]

By Assaf Uni, Haaretz Correspondent Britain’s University and College Union (UCU) voted Wednesday to promote a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, protesting Israel’s policy on the Palestinians. Jewish and Israeli officials in the United Kingdom […]

By Joshua Frank PalestineChronicle.com Alexander Cockburn has been making waves with his recent series on global warming, which has been published in The Nation and online at CounterPunch.org where he serves as co-editor (and I […]

By Saree Makdisi PalestineChronicle.com This month marks the fortieth anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem . Four decades of control established and maintained by force of arms–in […]

By James Petras PalestineChronicle.com China’s Billionaires China’s billionaires, twenty in number, unlike India’s, are on average younger, have less advanced educational degrees, were almost all educated in China and only 10% (2) inherited wealth.  Sixty-five […]

By Yousef AlhelouSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The aerial Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have continued for the 10th day. 59 Palestinians have been killed so far. 17 of the victims are civilians, including 7 children. […]

By Shafiq Morton Special to PalestineChronicle.com When I saw palls of black smoke rising from the over-crowded alleyways of the Nahr al-Barid Palestinian refugee camp outside Tripoli in northern Lebanon, I was not surprised. Nor […]

By Joharah Baker Israel is apparently taking its war on the Palestinians up a notch. As the Gaza Strip continues to burn in the flames of factional infighting and Israeli missile attacks, Israeli officials have […]

By Alexander JennichesPalestineChronicle.com Two conflicting theories are circulating these days about the renewed violence in Lebanon. One says, Syria is behind the group that clashes with the Lebanese Army, trying to stir again turmoil in […]

By Chris CookPalestineChronicle.com It is the best of times, and worst. Not since the banking crisis of the 1930’s, now known as ‘The Great Depression,’ has the global situation looked so grim, its challenges seeming […]

By Jim milesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com  There has been recent commentary in Canada about its role in the world as a neutral and independent arbiter in international affairs.  That role has been seriously compromised if not […]

By Nicola NasserSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The defensive and guarded Arab reaction to the self-pronounced and reported pro-Israel and pro-America statements of Nicolas Paul Stephane Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa, who was sworn in as the new President of […]

By Neve Gordon and Yigal BronnerSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Almost a year and a half has passed since our friend Samir Dari was gunned down by an Israeli policeman.  Samir, an Israeli resident and father of two, […]

By John PetrovatoSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com On May 6, 2007, the New York Post ran a column by Ralph Peters entitled: “What do give up…. and what land to hold: Israel’s toughest choice”.  Peters, author of […]

Death’s Face By Patricia WeissTo the Palestinian People I saw deaths face today, it shattered my heart.Young warrior, eyes locked shut. Do you still feel the pain and carnage,your blood shed into the reddened earth.All […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair are both veteran journalists and authors doing the kind of muckraking political and other investigative writing only found in the US online and in […]

By Duncan Campbell in Beirut and Clancy Chassay in Badawi refugee camp Lebanon’s worst internal violence for two decades is in danger of spreading throughout the country, politicians, diplomats and refugees warned yesterday, as anger […]

By Khaled Amayreh Careful to ensure that the "shortcomings" of last year’s war with Hizbullah were not repeated, the Israeli army continued to bomb Palestinian residential neighbourhoods in Gaza and surrounding areas, inflicting death and […]

By Roger H. LiebermanPalestineChronicle.com Perhaps the most telling indicator of how historically, geographically, and morally impoverished “mainstream” American discourse on the Middle East remains is the fact that the most crucial question for the future […]

By Joshua FrankPalestineChronicle.com Senator Clinton is sure trying hard to court the antiwar vote while still sustaining a muscular U.S. foreign policy agenda as she runs for the presidency. On May 16, Hillary Clinton sided […]

By Franklin Lamb in Tripoli, Lebanon Wearing a beat-up ratty UNCHR tee-shirt left over from Bint Jbeil and the Israeli-Hezbollah July probably helped. As did, I suspect, the Red Cross jersey, my black and white […]

By Hasan Efif El-Hasan, Ph.DPalestineChronicle.com Many Arab analysts have over-rated the March 2007 Arab summit decision to re-launch the land-for-recognition initiative that had been offered by Saudi Arabia in 2002 to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict. […]

Press release:  Enough! demonstration in central London on 9 June calling for an end to occupation and justice for the Palestinians Enough! is a coalition of charities, trade unions, faith and other campaign groups that […]

By Timothy SeidelPalestineChronicle.com The view from the Palestinian village of Nahhalin, in the west Bethlehem area, is sobering. This small village—along with the villages of Husan, Battir, Wadi Fuqin, and Al Walaja—are becoming more and […]

By Stephen LendmanPalestineChronicle.com This June will mark an anniversary that will live in infamy for the people affected by the event it commemorates following a far greater one 19 years earlier on May 14, 1948.  […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com I stand at the southernmost corner of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope. The grand mountains underneath and behind infuse a moment of spiritual reflection unmatched in its depth and meaning. Before […]