By Dr. Samah Jabr Finally, a Palestinian National Unity Government has been realized, but aid and international goodwill have not been showered over the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinians are still starved, haunted, isolated […]

By Tom Wallace  Normally CNN, FOX, MSNBC and the New York Times have little in common with each other, let alone blogs like little green footballs, Americablog or the Huffington Post. But when it comes […]

By George Bisharat Why do some people have the power to remember, while others are asked to forget? That question is especially poignant at this time of year, as we move from Holocaust Remembrance day […]

By Michael Neumann Those familiar with the Israel/Palestine conflict know that people propose one-state and two-state solutions. Two states means Israel plus a Palestinian state. One state means a single state covering all of Palestine. […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com The Darfur crisis in Sudan is perhaps the most politically convoluted conflict in the world today. Its underpinnings involve local, regional and international players, all selfishly vying for power and economic interests. […]

By Ruth Tenne RAMZY BAROUD- THE SECOND PALESTINIAN INTIFADA: A CHRONICLE OF A PEOPLE’S STRUGGLE – PLUTO PRESS 2006 (Buy Book) The unique strength of Ramzy Baroud’s book – The Second  Palestinian Intifada –  lies in […]

By Azmi Bishara AMMAN, Jordan – I am a Palestinian from Nazareth, a citizen of Israel and was, until last month, a member of the Israeli parliament. But now, in an ironic twist reminiscent of […]

By Yousef AlhelouPalestineChronicle.com GAZA CITY – The Palestinian Authority has been starved of funds since Hamas was elected in January 2006. Israel has also been withholding the millions of US dollars it owes the Palestinian […]

By Jeff Halper For years I have been one of the doomsayers, arguing that the two-state solution is dead and that apartheid has become the only realistic political outcome of the Israel-Palestine conflict– at least […]

By Ben WhitePalestineChronicle.com There’s nothing quite like a boycott to test the limits of the mainstream ‘liberal’ critique of Israel. This has been demonstrated once again by the reaction to a motion at the recent […]

By Hussein Al-alak – The Iraq Solidarity GroupPalestineChronicle.com McClatchy Newspapers reported on 26/4/2007 that the United States Government is discounting the use of car bombs as being one of “the main killers of Iraqi civilians”. […]

By Robert Kagan America must "lead the world in battling immediate evils and promoting the ultimate good." With those words, Barack Obama put an end to the idea that the alleged overexuberant idealism and America-centric […]

By Stephen LendmanPalestineChronicle.com Economist and media critic Edward S. Herman and social and political critic Noam Chomsky note two kinds of victims in their classic 1988 book "Manufacturing Consent."  So does journalist and documentary filmmaker […]

By Rami Almeghari in GazaPalestineChronicle.com Riyad Hammad gathers materials to burn in his family’s stove as he cannot afford gas or electricity. Forty-eight-year-old Riyad Hammad from the Maghazi Refugee Camp in central Gaza woke up […]

By Joshua FrankPalestineChronicle.com One cannot scale the ranks of the Democratic establishment without selling out to Washington insiders, and presidential aspirant Barack Obama is quite adept at playing the game. Since announcing his candidacy in […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com President Bush’s plan to deploy missile defenses in Central Europe will reduce U.S. security, not enhance it. Installing radar for tracking incoming missiles in the Czech Republic and anti-missile interceptors in Poland […]

By Hanan Ashrawi Everybody has been talking about crisis management and damage control and will the Palestinian realities hold up or not and who’s doing what and so on without really getting back into the […]

By Mahmoud Labadi In an effort to revive the Middle East peace process Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid several visits to the region to push Israeli and Palestinian leaders to move forward on a […]

By Uri Avnery PalestineChronicle.com ON THE MORROW of Independence Day, a newspaper reported that an Arab child had refused to stand up while the national anthem was sung. The paper was furious. I was not. In […]

By Robert Jensen PalestineChronicle.com We know that capitalism is not just the most sensible way to organize an economy but is now the only possible way to organize an economy. We know that dissenters to […]

By Issa KhalafPalestineChronicle.com At this juncture in history Israel has most probably managed to render irreversible its incorporation of most of the West Bank, precluding a viable Palestinian state, all the while insisting on its […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com Locating Dartmouth House, where Hans von Sponeck, former UN humanitarian coordinator for Iraq was scheduled to speak in London 18 April, was a challenge. Yet having been lost for an hour in […]

By Toni SoloPalestineChronicle.com Although few direct parallels exist between the Bush regime’s debacle in Iraq and events following the Spanish catastrophe at Anoual in their Moroccan colonial war in 1921, some clearly do. The cruelty […]

By Joharah Baker For Israeli Jews, this week was all about celebrations, barbecues and oversized blue and white flags fluttering in the spring breeze as their country celebrated the 59th anniversary of its independence. For […]

By Amira Hass Talking about making and breaking a cease-fire spares the Palestinians from having to admit the failure of their Qassam missile publicity stunts. Proposals to widen the cease-fire to the West Bank sidestep […]

By Hussein Al-alak, The Iraq Solidarity CampaignSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Has anybody fallen down with shock, with the revelation by the United Nations on Wednesday 25/4/2007 that the Iraqi Government has refused to co-operate with providing […]

Israel-Palestine On Record – How the New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East.  Richard Falk and Howard Friel.  Verso, New York, 2007. The American mainstream media ever since 9/11 has carried a peculiar […]

By Hussein Al-alak, The Iraq Solidarity CampaignFor PalestineChronicle.com The true intention of the US occupation of Iraq, has been exposed once more with the construction of a so-called security wall “around Sunni districts that are surrounded […]

By Afif Sarhan Nearly 700 Palestinian residents of Baghdad have fled to the western al-Anbar province and are awaiting international assistance in makeshift camps along the Iraq-Syria border. They are unable to leave Iraq since […]

By Gideon Levy There is a flagholder installed in my garden. The previous residents used it to fly the flag of their favorite soccer team. Since they left, the holder has remained orphaned. During my […]