By Gilad AtzmonPalestineChrnicle.com The short piece that follows has very little to do with Palestine, it is not about the starvation in Gaza, it tells nothing about Israeli road blocks, it is not about the […]

By Ali Abunimah  I first met Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama almost ten years ago when, as my representative in the Illinois state senate, he came to speak at the University of Chicago. He […]

By Jim Lobe A majority of people from around the world hold predominantly negative views of Israel, Iran, and the United States, according to a survey [.pdf] of more than 28,000 respondents in 27 countries. […]

Dear Editor,  After visiting the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem recently, a group of German bishops crossed over into Occupied Palestine and compared Israeli treatment of Palestinians to Nazis treatment of the Jews […]

By Joharah Baker Over the past few days, Palestinian intellectuals have been up in arms over a recent Ministry of Education decree to remove the book “Qul ya Tayr” (Speak Bird, Speak Again) from all […]

By Stephen Lendman  PalestineChronicle.com The Samson Option is terminology used to explain Israel’s intention to use its nuclear arsenal as an ultimate defense strategy if its leaders feel threatened enough to think they have no […]

LONDON — Israel has topped the list of the countries that have the most negative influence in the world, according to a BBC World Service poll of 28,000 people across 27 countries. "It appears that […]

By Sen. Barack Obama Remarks of Senator Barack ObamaAs Prepared for DeliveryAIPAC Policy ForumMarch 2, 2007Chicago, Illinois [NOTE: Obama’s speech was largely written by Mark Lippert, Obama’s Senate foreign policy adviser, and Dan Shapiro, a […]

By James PetrasPalestineChronicle.com President Bush’s visit to Uruguay, Brazil ,Colombia, Peru and Mexico reflects the ‘two tracks’ of US empire-building – military intervention and political-diplomatic instruments.   Bush’s visit to Latin America at this time is […]

By Steve CaseyPalestineChronicle.com While Americans were fighting the Civil War, a new breed of racism was being born in Europe. Those were the beginning years of ‘biological racism,’ which took Europe and America by storm […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com The bulk of expert opinion predicts that the Bush administration’s escalation strategy in Iraq will fail. The void created by the administration’s lack of a back–up plan for that outcome has been […]

By Sonja Karkar Every overture of peace made by the Palestinians in recent times, has been met with Israeli silence or violence. Last week, Israel said it would not negotiate with the Palestinian unity government […]

By Joshua FrankPalestineChronicle.com We should have known it was coming. Even though the Democratic Party rode the antiwar wave in to Congress last November they’ve done little since to end the bloody war in Iraq.  […]

By Rami AlmeghariPalestineChronicle.com Since the abduction by Palestinian resistance groups of an Israeli soldier Gila’d Shalit in June25, 2006, the Israeli gun ships have prevented Palestinians from fishing off the coast. This has severely affected […]

By Prof. William A. CookPalestineChronicle.com  “The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be  indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity.” — (George Bernard Shaw, The Devil’s Disciple, […]

By Akiva EldarPalestineChronicle.com  When Attorney General Menachem Mazuz’s drawers are bursting with files investigating the prime minister, and a state comptroller report follows a committee of inquiry report, Ehud Olmert’s pledge to "continue Sharon’s path" […]

By Uri AvneryPalestineChronicle.com  "PATRIOTISM," SAID Dr. Samuel Johnson over 200 years ago, "is the last refuge of a scoundrel." If we substitute racism for patriotism, then we have a perfect match with the Esterina Tartman […]

Empire’s Law – The American Imperial Project and the ‘War to Remake the World’.  Amy Bartholomew, Ed.  Pluto Press, London; Between the Lines, Toronto.  The foremost phrase concerning law in modern news stories is that […]

By Prof. M. Shahid AlamPalestineChronicle.com It is a fact little known in the West, outside the circle of historians of Islamicate societies, that Islamicate states often employed soldiers and bureaucrats who were ‘slaves’ of the […]

By Jamal JumaPalestineChronicle.com On the anniversary of the Six Nations Land Reclamation we express our solidarity to you and to all those that are defending today their land and livelihoods against theft and colonization. On […]

By John Pilger John Howard’s servility to the US is even greater than Tony Blair’s and has earned him the nickname Bush’s deputy sheriff. The conspiracy between Washington, the media and politicians is eroding the […]

By Michael Jansen  The latest report published by the UN rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories compares Israel’s policies there to those of South Africa during the apartheid era. John Dugard, a South African […]

CAIRO — The Eurovision, the world’s most-watched song contest, is threatening to ban the entry of a controversial Israeli song over its improper political message, the Independent reported on Friday, March 2. "It’s absolutely clear […]

By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com Two-pronged U.S. tactics of confrontation and engagement unfolded last week and described by some media as “turnabouts” in the strategy of containment of what Washington perceives as adverse regional roles in the Middle […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Chalmers Johnson is professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego where he taught for 30 years as well as at UC, Berkeley (where he was educated).  At Berkeley, […]

By Kathleen and Bill Christison A quarter century ago, the executive director of AIPAC —the American Israel Public Affairs Committee—established an analytical unit inside the organization to write in-depth advocacy papers for policymakers.  The year […]

By Dr. Daud AbdullahSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The Makka Agreement had the basic elements of success. The protagonists, the setting and commitment were all in place. Even the time was spot on. It came at a […]

By Ramzy Baroud PalestineChronicle.om Years back, an old and astute professor at the University of Washington ended a fascinating lecture to a small group of freshmen with the following contention: "Our country might find itself […]

By Joharah Baker Unfortunately, Israel never fails to bring us back to the dismal reality in which we live just in the nick of time. For months now, Palestinians across the board have been watching […]

By Felicity ArbuthnotPalestineChronicle.com "From our thousand year old sleep, From our crippled history, Comes a sun without ritual, To the country that’s dug in to our lives like the grave, To the drugged and murdered […]