M. Shahid Alam Special to PalestineChronicle.com On December 27, a little more than two months after her return to Pakistan from years of exile, Benazir Bhutto was killed while leaving the grounds of Liaquat Bagh […]

By Elias AklehSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com While driving around the suburbs of Los Angeles enjoying the bright lights decorating the houses and the trees in celebration for Christmas, I could not help thinking about what kind of […]

By Janine RobertsSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com No matter what was promised in Annapolis, a Two State Solution for Israel and Palestine now seems utterly impossible, judging from what I have just seen during a 3-week visit […]

CAIRO – A US court has overturned a ruling ordering Muslim charities to compensate the family of a US teenager killed in an attack in the West Bank on alleged charges of funding terrorism, reported […]

By Uri AvneryPalestineChronicle.com   Mephisto, the demon who bought the soul of Faust in Goethe’s monumental drama, describes himself as "a part of that force which always wants the bad and always creates the good." […]

By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Surrender is Not an Option – Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad. John Bolton. Simon & Schuster, Threshold Editions, New York. 2007. It is an interesting perspective, that […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The 42-day drama in Pakistan is far from over; the declaration of emergency and the lifting of emergency are part of a charade, behind which exists a complex power play […]

By Vijay RajivaSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Since the emergence of a genuine Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the ignominious prevarications of the Abbas faction the onus is on the international community, Palestinians and their supporters to fast […]

By Nicola NasserSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Linking the “aliyah” to what the Jewish literature has been describing as Eretz Israel or Yisrael HaShleima (Greater Israel) to the Israeli colonial settlement of the Palestinian land, which the […]

By Agustin Velloso in MadridSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com  Last week end (14-16 December), the Forum for a Just Peace in the Middle East, one of the longest running plays in the world, was once again performed, […]

By Kim BullimoreSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Four weeks ago, Y, the brother of one of my Israeli friends was shot in the head with a rubber coated steel bullet by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). He […]

(BBC) – An Israeli human rights group says the overwhelming majority of Israeli troops suspected of criminal offences against Palestinians are never indicted. The small number of investigations and even fewer indictments showed Israel’s army […]

By John V. WhitbeckSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com   Almost two years after the most democratic elections ever held in the Arab world, as Palestinians struggle to survive in two disconnected and hostile fragments of historical Palestine, a […]

By Neve Gordon and Erez TzfadiaPalestineChronicle.com For less than four dollars an hour, the Jewish teenagers removed furniture, clothes, kitchenware and toys from the homes and loaded them on to trucks. As they worked diligently […]

To the Editor: The world has experienced yet another in the sorry sequences of a proposed peace process aimed at resolving the Palestine-Israel conflict. Many high-ranking government officials from Palestine, Israel, the United States, and […]

By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Day of Empire – How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance – and Why They Fall. Amy Chua. Doubleday, New York, 2007. This work had so much anticipatory potential as Amy […]

By Mustafa Barghouthi PalestineChronicle.com As one who for decades has supported a two-state solution and the nonviolent struggle for Palestinian rights, I view the recent conference in Annapolis with a great deal of skepticism – […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s speech on December 6th – in which he tried to ‘explain’ his Mormon faith – was met with a mostly sympathetic reception at George Bush […]

By Ben White PalestineChronicle.com In the UK, the Boycott campaign was launched by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) six years ago. However, it has been attempts at a boycott of Israeli academic institutions that has […]

By John V. WhitbeckSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com  In the wake of the breathtakingly brief and content-free meeting in Annapolis, there is at least the appearance of an understanding in Washington of the importance for the region […]

North American-Israeli Devorah Brous has been a social activist in Israel for fourteen years. After nine years running Bustan, a social justice and sustainability organization which works with the Bedouin community in the Negev, Brous […]

By Sherri MuzherSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com   I knew that the letters I received were typed by someone else, but the signature was his – a purple fingerprint made by placing one of his fingers on an […]

By J. A. Miller Special to PalestineChronicle.com Desiring Westerners This past fall I traveled to Boston to attend the Sabeel Conference on the “Apartheid Paradigm in Palestine-Israel” held in the Old South Church.  Global warming […]

By Hasan Afif El-HasanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com As much as the Palestinian people wished the Annapolis conference to succeed in ending the nightmare of the Israeli occupation, it was a big disappointment for them and embarrassment […]

By Gilad Atzmon Special to PalestineChronicle.com  Once again the London Jewish Chronicle happened to be well ahead of any other British media outlets. In the main article of its Friday edition, David Abrahams, the leading […]

By Chris Gelken Special to PalestineChronicle.com Twenty years ago this month a popular uprising began in the occupied Palestinian territories. Images of stone-throwing Palestinian youths confronting heavily armed Israeli soldiers are burned into the collective […]

By William A. CookSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The Annapolis Conference spawned a series of responses on both the Israeli and Palestinian sides, almost all negative about any resolution to the conflict. Perhaps one of the most […]

By Jim Miles Special to PalestineChronicle.com Ramzy Baroud’s current article [1] on the despair of writers and the role of the intellectual in presenting information has proven to be very thought provoking personally. I would […]

By Ron TaylorSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com One sure-fire way of scuttling Israeli-Palestinian peace talks is for Israel to carry on with settlement construction in the Occupied Territories. In every attempt at a solution to the conflict, […]

By James Petras Special to PalestineChronicle.com “The most important thing (sic) that should be said about Bush is that had I told him that I was opposed to this move (Annapolis meeting), he wouldn’t have […]