RAMALLAH – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told the BBC he has "credible evidence" a BBC journalist kidnapped a month ago in the Gaza Strip is "safe and well," the network’s top executive said yesterday. […]

By Tariq ShadidPalestineChronicle.com  In the West, when advocating the Palestinian cause, we are often told that public perception of the conflict has ‘come a long way’ in the direction of the Palestinians. This usually refers […]

By Felicity ArbuthnotPalestineChronicle.com On April Fool’s Day, 1st April, Senator John McCain went for a stroll in Baghdad’s central, sprawling Shorja Market. There were “encouraging signs”, he said “progress” was “evident”. The man whose 2004 […]

By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Perilous Power – The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy.  Gilbert Achcar and Noam Chomsky.  Paradigm Publishers, Boulder, CO. 2007 This is a readily accessible book, formulated through an intriguing […]

By Stephen LendmanPalestineChronicle.com This article addresses two of the writer’s favorite corporate media targets – the Wall Street Journal’s far-right editorial page and New York Times on every page.  Both broadsheets were recently in attack […]

By Omar AhmadPalestineChronicle.com Imagine if Iran decided to build a museum on the site of a 1,000-year-old Jewish cemetery, or if the Egyptian government threatened to destroy an ancient Jewish temple. Both scenarios would likely […]

By Maher OsseiranPalestineChronicle.com Surge as a word has become synonymous with Bush and Baghdad but that does not mean the democrats are against it. If we follow the logic of the Bush surge, the milestones, […]

By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com The Israeli 40-year old military occupation and the more than a year old economic siege are eroding the national existence of Palestinians and squeezing the Palestinian leadership into an almost impossible mission of […]

Clancy Chassay in Beirut Washington is waging a covert war against Hizbullah, according to the militant group, which accuses the US administration of arming anti-Hizbullah militias and seeking to undermine the Lebanese army in moves which […]

By Philip RizkSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The girl pointed to her throat and made a mark where the water had reached answering a question that was never posed. Two weeks after a flood of sewage wiped […]

By Joshua FrankPalestineChronicle.com The precipitous decline of antiwar sentiment within the Democratic Party has been on grand display over the past few months. The majority of leading Democrats say they oppose the war in Iraq, […]

By Sara RoyPalestineChronicle.com We have nothing to lose except everything. — Albert Camus During the summer my husband and I had a conversion ceremony for our adopted daughter, Jess. We took her to the mikvah, […]

By Gerry FoleyPalestineChronicle.com INTER-PALESTINIAN conflicts continue to increase despite the attempts of the leaderships of the various organizations to achieve a common front against Israel. The internecine warfare between Hamas and Fatah took a sharp […]

By Gilad AtzmonPalestineChronicle.com The main British editorials happen to agree that Ahmadinejad has won points in this latest naval round. I find it rather disappointing.  With over 650.000 innocents dead in Iraq and a war against […]

Dear Editor:  When it comes to violence between Israelis and Palestinians most Americans would agree that the Palestinians are the ones to be blamed when, in fact, the opposite is true. Hardly a day goes by […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com In a spacious yet fortified United Nations compound in Rome, members of a Palestine committee at the General Assembly repeated old mantras: vowed support for Palestinians, issued a Press release and went […]

By Robert Fisk Laila al-Arian was wearing her headscarf at her desk at Nation Books, one of my New York publishers. No, she told me, it would be difficult to telephone her father. At the […]

By Ben WhiteSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Even as the British marines were released without charge from Iranian custody to return home to Britain, the media couldn’t help but enjoy one last spasm of outrage over the […]

By Sami Abdel-Shafi It is genuinely difficult, impossible in fact, to even imagine that one is free in Gaza, for Israel’s military policies continue to forbid Palestinian movement. It is truly strange, though, that we […]

By Aimee Rhodes Jerusalem Post NEW YORK – The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces raised a record $18 million at its annual gala dinner held last week in New York City. Transportation Minister Shaul […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Sami Al-Arian is one of many dozens, likely hundreds, of political prisoners in the US today but is noteworthy because of his high-profile status and as an especially egregious example […]

By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com Bracing for 2008 presidential election, US Democrats in opposition and the ruling Republicans have embroiled the American public in a political crisis between the executive and legislative powers over deadlines for combat operations […]

By Joshua FrankPalestineChronicle.com Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California silently resigned from her post on the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee (MILCON) late last week as her ethical limbo with war contracts began to surface in […]

By Miko Peled Special to PalestineChronicle.com Thanks to the Israeli press, people in Israel are informed regularly about their government’s mistreatment of the 4.5 million Palestinians under their rule.  Most of the information regarding the […]

By Patrick Cockburn in Arbil, Iraq A failed US attempt to abduct two senior Iranian security officers on an official visit to northern Iraq was the starting pistol for a crisis that ten weeks later […]

By Scott Jaschik Norman G. Finkelstein has been more controversial off his campus than on it. On his frequent speaking tours to colleges, where he typically discusses Israel in highly critical ways, Finkelstein draws protests […]

By James PetrasPalestineChronicle.com An understanding of US imperial policy in the Middle East requires an analysis, which centres on four points: 1)  The power and influence of Israel and the Zionist power configuration over US […]

By Elias Akleh Wednesday March 28th had witnessed the nineteenth Arab Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Such summits had been a source of anxiety for the Arab population, since they had been accustomed to see […]

By Norman SolomonPalestineChronicle.com The media spectacle that John McCain made of himself in Baghdad on Sunday was yet another reprise of a ghastly ritual. Senator McCain expressed "very cautious optimism" and told reporters that the […]

By Uri Avnery Can a pantheress turn into a pussycat? Impossible, a zoologist would say. But last week, we saw it happen with our own eyes. Condoleezza Rice came here to teach Ehud Olmert, once […]