By Dr. Saeb Shaath Gaza held to be of major strategic importance; the only overland route between Africa and Asia, which led predynastic Egypt to establish in 3500 B.C. the citadel of Tell Sakan on […]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – The armed wing of President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah and two other groups claimed responsibility for a bombing that rocked the southern town of Dimona on Monday, February 4, saying the attackers crossed […]

RAFAH – Egyptian and Hamas security forces started on Sunday, February 3, sealing off the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip amid a state of popular disappointment on both sides of the border. "Security […]

By Saree Makdisi PalestineChronicle.com The people of Gaza were able to enjoy a few days of freedom last week, after demolition charges brought down the iron wall separating the impoverished Palestinian territory from Egypt, allowing […]

By Joharah Baker When late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat passed away in November 2004, much was said about the charismatic but often controversial leader. Still, one thing every Palestinian was in unison over was the […]

By Jeremy ScahillPalestineChronicle.com Last week in Currituck County, N.C., Superior Court Judge Russell Duke presided over the final step in securing the first criminal conviction stemming from the deadly actions of Blackwater Worldwide, the Bush […]

By Eugene BirdPalestineChronicle.com In mid-May, President Bush will be making another tour of the battlefields of peace in the Arab-Israeli dispute and will join in the celebrations for Israel’s sixtieth year of independence. Meanwhile, in […]

By Hussein Al-AlakSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com   When considering either the Iraqi or Middle Eastern population within Britain, the first thought that comes to mind is a statement by Leon Trotsky, who once said, “to understand and […]

By Neve Gordon The experiment in famine began on January 18, 2008. Israel hermetically closed all of Gaza’s borders, preventing even food, medicine and fuel from entering the Strip. Power cuts, which had been frequent […]

By Aijaz Syed It’s hard not to admire Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi whose 60th death anniversary India commemorated last week. Without Gandhi, the history of India’s freedom struggle would be as incomplete as Shakespeare’s Hamlet without […]

By Ramzy Baroud In a radio interview prior to the US invasion of Iraq, David Barsamian asked Noam Chomsky what ordinary Americans could do to stop the war. Chomsky answered, “In some parts of the […]

NEW YORK — Israel’s crippling blockade of the Gaza Strip is a collective punishment of the 1.5 million population of the small, overcrowded territory, Human Rights Watch said in its annual report on Thursday, January […]