By Uri AvneryPalestineChronicle.com Not only the Palestinians must be breathing a deep sigh of relief after the swearing in of the Palestinian National Unity Government. We Israelis have good reason to do the same. This […]

By Democracy Now Sami Al-Arian has spent the past four years in jail despite a jury\’s failure over a year ago to return a single guilty verdict on any of the 17 charges brought against […]

By George Soros The Bush administration is once again in the process of committing a major policy blunder in the Middle East , one that is liable to have disastrous consequences and is not receiving […]

By Joshua FrankPalestineChronicle.com Sen. Barack Obama isn’t quite sure how he feels about the lopsided situation between Israel and Palestine. Less than two weeks after Obama gloated to AIPAC about his love for Israel, he […]

By Jim MilesPalestineChronicle.com Nemesis is the Greek goddess of retribution or righteous indignation, signifying that there will be retributive justice for previous actions.  The United States has been undergoing this for some time, although the […]

By Faisal KuttyPalestineChronicle.com As the Canadian government forges ahead with its cleverly named Passenger Protect Program, the timing could not be better to seriously reconsider what is for all intents and purposes a no-fly list. […]

By William A. CookPalestineChronicle.com Like all patriotic Americans, I spend a portion of each weekend browsing through the “official” web sites of the Presidential candidates preparing myself for the 2008 run off between Republicans and […]

JERUSALEM – Small Israeli pilotless planes are gathering intelligence for US-led forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, said the manufacturer in a statement on Monday. Elbit Systems, one of Israel’s leading defense electronics companies, said the […]

By CAPJPO-EuroPalestine We were staggered to learn of the sudden death of our friend Tanya Reinhart, yesterday in New York (she had a stroke). Words fail us because we are so stricken by the loss […]

By Ramzy Baroud [From a speech for Stockholm Conference 16-19 March 2007] In my speech today, I will refrain from stating the obvious: those who are yet to recognize the injustices committed daily against the Palestinian […]

By Alison Weir Israeli officials have been regularly strip-searching children for decades, some of them American citizens. While organizations that focus on Israel-Palestine have long been aware that Israeli border officials regularly strip search men […]

By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com Fulfilling a 60-year old Israeli dream and an American unwavering strategy, the 22-member League of Arab states are now in consensus on a potentially groundbreaking Arab Peace Initiative (API), which pledges their collective […]

By Stephen LendmanPalestineChronicle.com The US electorate sent a clear, unequivocal message in the November mid-term elections. End the Iraq war and bring home the troops.  Many supporting war in the 109th Congress lost out to […]

By Edward EpsteinSan Francisco Chronicle WASHINGTON (SFC) – Speaker Nancy Pelosi is widely recognized as a strong, second-generation supporter of Israel, but the scattered boos she heard during an appearance before the Israel lobby’s most […]

By Akiva Eldar  On January 14, 2002, when the top government and military echelon sent the Israel Defense Forces in the midst of a truce to assassinate Raed Karmi, the head of Fatah’s military arm […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com It’s never easy to admit that the Palestinian front, both at home and abroad, remains as fragmented and self-consumed, thus ineffective, as ever before, and got worse during the disastrous post-Oslo period. […]

By Jonathan Cook Israel’s supposedly “defensive” assault on Hizbullah last summer, in which more than 1,000 Lebanese civilians were killed in a massive aerial bombardment that ended with Israel littering the country’s south with cluster […]

By Felicity Arbuthnot PalestineChronicle.com Can the United States and British governments really be at it again? Can they really expect the public to believe a mirror image of their barrage of lies on Iraq, now […]

GAZA, March 13 (Reuters) – The Hamas-led Palestinian government said on Tuesday it has information about who abducted a BBC correspondent in the Gaza Strip and expected him to be released soon. "This issue is […]

By Aluf Benn The U.S. administration is holding separate talks with Israel and Saudi Arabia before the Arab League summit in Riyadh late this month that will deliberate renewed approval of the overall Arab peace […]

By Saree Makdisi "As soon as certain topics are raised," George Orwell once wrote, "the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed: […]

By James PetrasPalestineChronicle.com I am told by the Manchester Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post that you have impeccable academic and battlefield credentials.  Bush has appointed you “Commander […]

By Ben WhitePalestineChronicle.com This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, an act of expansion that signalled the completion of the Zionist conquest […]

By Justin RaimondoAntiWar.com It had to happen sooner or later, and Barack Obama’s startling rise to near the top of the Democratic presidential pack made it sooner – I’m talking about his speech to the American-Israel […]

By Jim MilesPalestineChronicle.com Web of Deceit – The History of Western Complicity in Iraq From Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush.  Barry M. Lando. Doubleday Canada (Random House). 2007. By now, most literate thinking […]

By Uri Avnery PalestineChronicle.com IF GOD wills, even a broomstick will shoot. That is an old Yiddish adage. One could add now: If God wills, even Olmert can sometimes tell the truth. The truth, according […]

By James ZogbyPalestineChronicle.com  By any reasonable measure, King Abdullah II of Jordan’s speech before a joint session of Congress was both smart and courageous. He took advantage of being only the fourth Arab leader given […]

By Mohammed Mar’i  RAMALLAH, West Bank – Israel had decided to go to war with Lebanon months before the capture of two Israeli soldiers in July last year by Hezbollah fighters, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert […]

By Ramzy Baroud Growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, it was a very familiar encounter: Israeli soldiers storming our house accompanied by shouts of terror and a barrage of insults. […]

By Saifedean Ammous  It was a cold Sunday morning in Teaneck, N.J. Some two-hundred-odd Jewish-Americans were entering the Orthodox synagogue Congregation B’nai Yeshurun where they were to hear a sales pitch by the Amana Settlement […]