By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The ongoing socio-economic and political ills that mar potential progress in Middle Eastern countries can largely be attributed to the ill-defined foreign policy of the United States. Utterly desperate situations […]

By Terry Walz The phantasma of peace scheduled to appear in Annapolis, where an international conference is to take place some time in "November or December" – the latest Haaretz guesstimate – has been the […]

By Sam Bahour PalestineChronicle.com Was it sheer coincidence, sad irony, or just another day in Palestinian life under Israeli military occupation? It was hard to tell. My father and I drove through the last Israeli […]

By Iqbal JassatSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com In the midst of tension between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran, the big question is not whether Iran will be bombed or not. Rather, as many […]

By Caelum Moffatt Last Sunday, Hamas government spokesperson, Ghazi Hamad, was alleged to have issued a five page letter in which he criticized and questioned Hamas’ takeover of the Gaza Strip in June. The former […]

By Kris PetersenSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Khalil laughs and shakes head as we dine along the seaside terrace of Gaza’s luxurious al-Deira Hotel. “This is not Gaza,” he says, dismissively gesturing towards the hotel’s maroon exterior […]

By Lisa Hajjar Last week’s issue of Atlanta Journal-Constitution published an essay by two Atlanta attorneys who represent detainees at Guantanamo. The two harshly criticized U.S. policies toward the detainees and said the U.S. should […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com In July, 2004, the IMF and World Bank commemorated the 60th anniversary of their founding at Bretton Woods, NH to provide a financial framework of assistance for the postwar world […]

By Catherine Manfre corporate news programs give the wrong impression of the Palestinian people by referring to them as "terrorists," former Al-Jazeera producer and professor Ramzy Baroud said at a panel discussion at Kimmel last […]

By Sana Abdallah and Agency Dispatches CAIRO –  Lebanese lawmaker Saad Hariri claimed Tuesday that he had evidence of a Syrian plot to assassinate Prime Minister Fuad Siniora and himself, reviving Lebanon’s anti-Syrian camp’s accusations […]

By Iqbal JassatSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The following few weeks leading up to year-end is the subject of intense debate and being closely monitored by South Africans and Palestinians. In the case of the former, the […]

(Approved by 18 Palestinian Canadian community Associations – Toronto, Mississauga, Ottawa, Halifax, Vancouver, London Ontario, Hamilton, Branford, Montreal, A-lawda, Resistance Art) We the Palestinian Canadian community assembly at the Palestinian National Voice Preparatory Conference in […]

By Felicity ArbuthnotSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Reminder to the crusading Armageddonists …..  “Thou shalt not kill.” Exodus 20: 13.They are at it again. Remember when Milosovic was labelled “the butcher of Belgrade”, the new Hitler? Then […]

By Desmond Tutu Whenever I am asked if I am optimistic about an end to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, I say that I am not. Optimism requires clear signs that things are changing – meaningful words […]

By Dr. Hasan Afif El-HasanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Israeli Prime minister Ehud Olmert described Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently with affection and admiration as one of the Palestinian leaders who “recognize Israel as a Jewish state”. […]

By J.A. MillerSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com It becomes, therefore, specially important to foster and develop any strongly-marked Jewish movement which leads directly away from these fatal [socialist] associations. And it is here that Zionism has such […]

By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com After 9/11, 2001, when I first started examining the various landscapes – physical, political, cultural, military – of events relating to that day, I had no real idea that it […]

By Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua FrankPalestineChronicle.com The ecological effects of war, like its horrific toll on human life, are exponential. When the Bush Administration and their Congressional allies sent our troops in to Iraq […]

By Mike Whitney Special to PalestineChronicle.com “Everyday, under the pretext of either Al Qaeda, insurgents, militants, or whatever imaginary name you coined, you have not ceased, not even for one day, slaughtering our innocents. For […]

By M. Shahid Alam Special to PalestineChronicle.com In January 2002, when President Bush named Iraq, Iran and North Korea as the first targets in his ‘global war against terror’ – the putative ‘axis of evil’—few […]

GAZA CITY — Israel approved on Thursday, October 25, electricity and fuel cuts against the besieged Gaza Strip, while its war machine killed more Palestinians. "Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved recommendations from defense officials for […]

By Michael Birmingham Special to PalestineChronicle.com Nahr Al Bared is a Palestinian refugee camp in the north of Lebanon which has been home to about 40,000 Palestinian people, most of whom are the children and […]

By Aref AssafPalestineChronicle.com First, Fatah vs. Hamas and the winner is Israel. Now it is the ATFP vs. Al-Awda et al., and the loser is the Palestinian cause. Much has been said about the seemingly […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com On October 5, George Bush confronted a public uproar and defended his administration claiming "This government does not torture people." That claim was hardly accurate. Once secret US Department of […]

To the editor of the Palestine Chronicle: Tony Blair’s psychologically challenged speech in New York (18th October) warning of a new era of Iranian led fascism similar to 1930’s Europe, a threat to the whole […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The Middle East peace conference proposed by the Bush administration is clearly a smokescreen, aimed at concealing the true intentions of US foreign policy in the region. In the predictable […]

By Hammam FarahSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com After passing a motion in May that called for the circulation and debate of the Palestinian call for the academic boycott of Israel, Britain’s University and College Union (UCU)’s strategy […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com The Bush administration is attempting to soothe the Turkish government’s apoplectic reaction to the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s label of “genocide” on Turkey’s slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians, which occurred almost a […]

By Roger H. LiebermanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Last night, I had a brief but vivid dream pertinent to the crisis in the Middle East. I saw myself watching a documentary on Public Television about Syrian villagers […]