By Pablo OuzielSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com On August the 1st 1969, Time magazine quoted Generalissimo Francisco Franco saying; "Conscious of my responsibility before God and history and taking into account the qualities to be found in […]

SEATTLE/LONDON – Media specialists are invited to participate in a groundbreaking new media project: ‘The People Media Project’, which according to its founder, aims at promoting a broader and more balanced understanding of global issues, […]

By George McLeod ‘I have no regrets," says Norman Finkelstein, after losing one of the most divisive and publicised campus battles in US history.  Despite student demonstrations and sit-ins, protests from some of the world’s […]

By Stephen Lendman Special to PalestineChronicle.com B’Tselem is the conservative Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories with a well-deserved reputation for accuracy. A group of prominent academics, attorneys, journalists and Knesset […]

By Terry Walz Gaza is reverting to its status as the largest of the Palestinian refugee camps. It is a bleak and hopeless territory twice the size of Washington, DC where 1.5 million inhabitants eke […]

By James PetrasSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Introduction Venezuela’s democratically elected Present Chavez faces the most serious threat since the April 11, 2002 military coup. Violent street demonstrations by privileged middle and upper middle class university students […]

By June Rugh Ramzy Baroud, veteran Palestinian-American journalist and Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Chronicle, recently completed a speaking tour of the United States’ East Coast to promote his second book, The Second Palestinian Intifada: A […]

By Sonja KarkarSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com With the beating of war drums sounding louder by the day, the US is nevertheless engaging its Middle East protagonists in an elaborate dance for peace that it hopes will […]

By Uri Avnery PalestineChronicle.com Israel is an island in the global sea. We live in a bubble. This week I was sharply reminded of this. I was returning home from Germany. On the eve of […]

By Nicola NasserSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Discreetly but progressively and confidently the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is expanding south and southeast almost uncontested — after the collapse of the former USSR-led Warsaw Pact — outside […]

By Felicity Arbuthnot Special to PalestineChronicle.com Iraq is now threatened with a flood of biblical proportions. The Mosul dam, thirty miles north of Iraq’s ancient third city is likely to burst, due to the mismanagement […]

By Philip RizkSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The blame game surrounding Gaza’s current political and social crisis is too unilateral and simplistic. In the public sphere responsibility for the instability of Gaza and the general Palestinian political […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com After years of marked absence, the Bush administration has finally decided to upgrade its involvement in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The announcement of a Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland […]

By Kathleen and Bill Christison – Former CIA AnalystsPalestineChronicle.com One hesitates to criticize these enterprises. They’re so well meaning, and it seems so curmudgeonly. But the myriad efforts around the world to bring the children […]

By William CookSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Shakespeare’s Caesar caustically commented, "Cowards die many times before their deaths; /The valiant never taste of death but once." Curious how our lawmakers huddle behind their sophistries, their voice votes, […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The Islamic Republic of Pakistan was established in August 1947 when its majority Muslim population separated from British-controlled India and became a sovereign state. Since then, the country has been […]

By Hussein Al-alak, The Iraq Solidarity CampaignSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Once more the destructive nature of Iraq’s democracy, has exposed the damaged minds of those, whose hatred of the Iraqi people has allowed their own ambitions […]

CAIRO – While Palestinians were holding their breath in anticipation of the upcoming US-sponsored peace process, Israel was busy accelerating settlement building in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli peace group said on Wednesday, November […]

Special ReportPalestineChronicle.com “IDF soldiers on Tuesday morning killed the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades commander in the old city of Nablus, Bassam Abu-Seria, also known as Gaddafi, Palestinian sources reported.” 1 “Three Fatah members were injured in […]

By Adam Keller PalestineChronicle.com “I am not going to that rally, not at any price. To be among Barak’s audience? Barak? Just this week, Shulamit Aloni said he should be tried for war crimes. And […]

By Stephen Lendman Special to PalestineChronicle.com On September 20, Haaretz reported: "The security cabinet voted unanimously yesterday to increase sanctions against the Hamas-run Gaza Strip (and declare) the region a ‘hostile entity.’ "A further statement […]

By James PetrasSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Explanations for the US attack on Iraq range from military-political pretexts to accounts focusing on geopolitical and economic interests. The original official explanation was the now discredited claim that Saddam […]

By James PetrasSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com War For Oil or War For Israel: The Public Record     Zionist Power Configuration support for the Iraq War was an open, relentless, propaganda campaign by well-known writers, publicists, and community […]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israeli rabbis are threatening US President George W. Bush of divine punishment if he did not scrap an upcoming US-sponsored Mideast peace conference, saying Hurricane Katrina and California fires were God’s punishment […]

By Hasan Afif El-HasanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The Palestinians today are dispossessed and oppressed. The vast majority is either living under occupation or in refugee camps across the Middle East or living as second class citizens […]

By Physicians for Human Rights-Israel Appeal Barely two weeks since extensive media attention successfully compelled Israel to allow access to lifesaving care for patients through Erez Crossing, Israeli policies at the Crossing lead to a […]

By Jim Miles Special to PalestineChronicle.com Lords of the Land – The War Over Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007. Akiva Eldar and Idith Zertal. Nation Books, New York, 2007. In my previous article […]

By Caelum Moffatt Whether a Palestinian, an Israeli settler or a foreigner currently residing in the West Bank, engaging in whatever activity that makes the days pass, all are undeniably guilty of the same crime […]

By Ludwig Watzal Two rabbis, visiting Palestine in 1897, observed that the land was like a bride, "beautiful, but married to another man". By which they meant that, if a place was to be found […]

By The Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine CJPIP  When the Chicago Council on Global Affairs cancelled a scheduled talk by Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt on the topic of their […]