By Liam BaileyPalestineChronicle.com I read the other day about a terrible act. I didn’t read it in the Guardian, the Times, the NY Post or any of the other major newspapers or mainstream media websites. […]

By M. Shahid AlamPalestineChronicle.com One day Mulla Nasruddin went to his neighbor, known to be a mean fellow. “Sir,” he explained, “your ox has gored my cow and killed her after she refused his amorous […]

By Newton Garver "Now everyone is prouder–and poorer." –Orhan Pamuk Jimmy Carter\\\’s most recent book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, has raised a storm of criticism from the Derschowitz-AIPAC wing of American Judaism, stung by his […]

By Ramzy Baroud The relationship between Iran and the United States is one of peculiar temperament: intense but accommodating at times, barefaced and seemingly self-destructive at others. Currently, the latter estimation rings truer: the US […]

By Paul FindleyPalestineChronicle.com At the age of 82, Jimmy Carter entered the lion’s den. With the publication of his latest book, " Palestine : Peace not Apartheid," he did what a patriot would do: rally […]

Dangerous Nation – America’s Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century.  Robert Kagan.  Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2006. By Jim MilesPalestineChronicle.com In an earlier essay “Of […]

By Timothy SeidelPalestineChronicle.com In her recent travels through the Middle East, United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice brought with her, many have speculated, little more than another round of optimism. This familiar optimism was […]

By Joel BeininPalestineChronicle.com Last Sunday in San Francisco , the Anti-Defamation League sponsored "Finding Our Voice," a conference designed to help Jews recognize and confront the "new anti-Semitism." For me, it was ironic. Ten days […]

By Agustin Velloso in Madrid PalestineChronicle.com Is there a civil war going on in Palestine? No, but this question and an affirmative answer is what pro-Israeli media are disseminating all over the world. Hence, the […]

By Joshua FrankPalestineChronicle.com Over the past weekend Hillary Clinton pledged to end the war in Iraq if she is elected. “If we in Congress don’t end this war before January 2009, as president, I will,” […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com Each year, one of the most important events in the nation’s capital is the release of the federal budget. Yet the media provides insufficient coverage because the budget is technical, unglamorous, and […]

By Ron ForthoferPalestineChronicle.com In one of his most powerful speeches, that at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967, Dr. King spoke out strongly against the US aggression in Vietnam and about […]

By Ghassan Khatib Despite the surprise that greeted Hamas’ election victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections last year, the Islamic Resistance Movement did not come from nowhere. Hamas first emerged as a real player on the […]

By Rami Bathish Following some of the bloodiest clashes in a year between Hamas and Fateh loyalists in the Gaza Strip, in which at least 25 people were killed and 250 injured last week, the […]

By John Pilger The United States is planning what will be a catastrophic attack on Iran. For the Bush cabal, the attack will be a way of "buying time" for its disaster in Iraq. In […]

CAIRO – Sick and tired of blind support for Israel’s policy of aggressions by their representative body, more than 130 high-profile British Jews launched a new body on Monday, February 5, to make their voice […]

By John Hilary  You know that things are serious when a parliamentary select committee puts out a call for sanctions against another sovereign state. Doubly so when that state is supposed to be one of […]

By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com  In Washington on February 2, the Middle East Quartet of peace mediators promised the Palestinian people more of the same devastating status quo, perpetuating their 40-year old Israeli occupation, prolonging the international […]

By Mike WhitneyPalestineChronicle.com  “If the United States continues to be bogged down in a protracted, bloody involvement in Iraq , the final destination on this downhill track is likely to be a head-on conflict with […]

By Rami Almeghari in GazaPalestineChronicle.com As internal unrest in Gaza City, due to clashes between Fatah and Hamas supporters that has claimed lives of 25, wounded dozens others and caused destruction to many public utilities […]

By Joschka Fischer  Can politics learn from history? Or is it subject to a fatal compulsion to repeat the same mistakes, despite the disastrous lessons of the past? President Bush’s new strategy for Iraq has […]

By Hisham Abu Taha GAZA CITY – Six people were killed in a gunbattle in the Gaza Strip yesterday, bringing to an end a tentative cease-fire since Tuesday between the two main Palestinian factions. Earlier, […]

By Stephen Lendman  Finding an equitable solution to the intractable, festering decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the Gordian Knot that must be cut to achieve peace overall in the Middle East.  Today, no solution is in […]

By Mike Whitney   PalestineChronicle.com So far, there are 2 things that we can say with certainty about the massacre of 250 Iraqis outside Najaf on Monday. First, we know that there is no solid evidence […]

By Mitchel CohenPalestineChronicle.com Al Gore’s film, "An Inconvenient Truth," raises the issue of global warming in a way that scares the bejeezus out of viewers, as it should since the consequences of global climate change […]

By Faisal KuttyPalestineChronicle.com “My priority right now is to clear my name,” said Maher Arar during his first public appearance in 2003 upon his return after being tortured for over a year in Syria.  The […]

By Ronald Bruce St. John Former President Jimmy Carter’s latest book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, has generated considerable comment, most of it negative. Articles and reviews run a narrow gamut from circumspect criticism to personal […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com The most recent fighting in the Gaza Strip, which has left many people dead, confirms that the internal strife plaguing the Occupied Territories since the advent of Hamas to power in January […]

By Kathy Kelly PalestineChronicle.com Earlier this week, I received a joyful phone call from Baghdad. Members of a family I’ve known since 1996 announced that one of their younger daughters was engaged. Broken Arabic and […]

By Ewen MacAskill Washington – The US government delivered a mild but rare rebuke to Israel yesterday when the state department said ith might have misused American-made cluster bombs in its offensive against Lebanon last […]