By James PetrasPalestineChronicle.com On Monday, March 26, 2007 in Northern Gaza a river of raw sewage and debris overflowed from a collapsed earth embankment into a refugee camp driving 3,000 Palestinians from their homes. Five […]

By Simon Tisdall Uzi Arad, former director of intelligence at Israel’s spy agency, Mossad, has made a lifetime’s study of revolutionary Iran. If international sanctions and diplomatic arm-twisting fail to halt its suspect nuclear activities, […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com President Bush has scolded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for visiting Syria. In the president’s opinion, shared by others, the U.S. government should speak with just one voice overseas. Yet that view flies […]

By Rami Almeghari in GazaPalestineChronicle.com The Um Al Nasser village, on the northern Gaza-Israel borders, woke up on Tuesday to tens of thousands of gallons of sewage water flooding it’s small cottages.  Many of the […]

‘A New Horizon of Peace’: (Condoleezza Rice during a recent visit to the Middle East)      Is there a genuine new peace initiative?Ramzy Baroud The Editor-in-chief of the US online paper The Palestine Chronicle and renowned […]

By Ruth Tenne PalestineChronicle.com The latest report of the International Development Select Committee regarding the Occupied Palestinian Territories (31 January 2007) makes for very distressing reading. In its section on trade, it refers to the […]

By Jamal JumaPalestineChronicle.com Palestinians in our homeland and the Diaspora remember the 30th of May as Land Day. On this day in 1976, six Palestinians were killed and a hundred injured by Israeli forces as […]

By Dina Ezzat This week in the Saudi capital for the annual Arab summit — and indeed in the lead-up to the Riyadh meetings — the Arab peace initiative was the uncontested focus of attention. […]

By Jim Miles PalestineChronicle.com  I initially came across Zbigniew (with the ‘w’ pronounced as an ‘f’) Brzezinski’s new title “Second Chance” while watching the Jon Stewart show on-line.[1]  During the interview, Brzezinski gave the impression […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com  The Stockholm air was too cold, even for the most animated speaker to excite a crowd. But I had little choice: thousands of anti-war protesters had descended on the capital’s main square […]

By Dr. Salman Abu-Sitta Why should I, a Jew from north London, be permitted to take up Israeli citizenship, when that right is denied to a Palestinian who languishes in a refugee camp in Lebanon? […]

By Charlotte KatesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Dr. Sami Al-Arian, Palestinian political prisoner, is held in a prison hospital, after a debilitating 60-day hunger strike seeking to draw the attention of the nation and the world to […]

By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com Flanked by international and regional non-Arab dignitaries representing the UN, EU, OIC, NAM and the leaders of Turkey, Malaysia and Pakistan as well as the foreign minister of Iran, the leaders of the […]

By Stephen LendmanPalestineChronicle.com Emma Lazarus’ memorable words on Lady Liberty’s pedestal once had meaning as a new nation grew.  No longer in a country hostile to the tired, the poor, the huddled masses, the wretched […]

By Jim MilesPalestineChronicle.com Blackwater – The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.  Jeremy Scahill.  Nation Books, Avalon Publishing Group,  New York. 2007.  From a small business training and advertising security services within the […]

By Gilad AtzmonSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced yesterday the decision of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman, Mahmoud Abbas to meet bi-weekly with the US mediating. Indeed ‘great […]

By Joharah Baker As if the residents of the Gaza Strip did not have enough on their plate. Estimated at one of the densest areas on earth, with 1.4 million people cramped in an area […]

By Uri AvneryPalestineChronicle.com Incredible! In Palestinian schoolbooks, there is no trace of the Green Line! They do not recognize the existence of Israel even in the 1967 borders! They say that the "Zionist gangs" stole […]

By Dr. Bernard Sabella  As a Palestinian parliamentarian I was in Gaza for the few days prior to the formation of the Palestinian National Unity Government and for the vote of confidence on Saturday March […]

By Nadia Hijab  The Significance of the Arabs’ 2002 Offer  The Arab peace initiative was proposed in March 2002 by then crown prince now King Abdullah Bin Abdel Aziz of Saudi Arabia. [1] It spelled […]

By Ira GluntsPalestineChronicle.com In an otherwise unremarkable recent speech to members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Senator and Presidential candidate Barack Obama concluded his talk by making a startling reference to his […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com The conventional wisdom for dealing with Iran is demanding repeatedly that the Iranians end their uranium enrichment program, and slapping on new sanctions. Although the December 2006 United Nations Security Council sanctions […]

By Joshua FrankPalestineChronicle.com We have observed the same song and dance so many times before it’s hard to believe more didn’t see it coming.  The Democrats once again let down their constituents and all the […]

By Jeffrey Blankfort On a Saturday in mid-February a little less than a year ago, I had two experiences, one very positive and encouraging –the other negative and disturbing. The first was at the Marin […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com The rapid, almost hasty, developments on the Arab Israeli front, almost immediately following the Saudi sponsored Makkah Agreement on February 2, should be examined in their proper context, as a part and […]

By Gideon Levy What won’t the Shin Bet security service do to break the spirit of a Palestinian detainee? Before, interrogators used threats and told detainees that their loved ones were being arrested because of […]

Democracy Now Broadcast and quotes of recent interviews  ..what I believe, like many Israelis, is that the way is to start a new page, to get out of the Occupied Territories and to live side […]

By James Petras and Robin Eastman-AbayaPalestineChronicle.com On March 16, 2007, Philippine police arrested veteran journalist, activist, former political prisoner and torture victim, Congressman Satur Ocampo, on the steps of the Philippine Supreme Court.  One day […]

By Stephen LendmanPalestineChronicle.com John Ross is a Latin American correspondent and activist who’s been living in and writing about Mexico for nearly four decades turning out some of the most important and incisive analysis of […]

By Joharah Baker Most people hope that after they are gone, there will be something, however miniscule, that others will remember them by. Linguist, researcher and Palestinian rights advocate Tanya Reinhart far surpassed this goal, […]