By Mahmoud Abbas This month marks 15 painful years since the Arafat-Rabin handshake on the White House lawn. Palestinian children who started school when the Oslo Agreement was signed in 1993 are now young adults. […]

By Joshua Mitnick – Tel Aviv Over the past two decades of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, deadlines for peace agreements have come and gone with precious few treaties. Now, amid low expectations for an agreement before the […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai Back home in the sub-continent, they say you should always stay away from the cops; their friendship as well as adversity is bad for one’s health. I am reminded […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London Not a lot of people know this, but the success of the ‘Free Gaza’ boats in breaking the siege, and their safe arrival and departure, was due to the intervention and […]

By Vijaya Rajiva On August 23 2008, in the district of Kandamahal in Bihar province (India) an 81-year-old Hindu Swami (holy man) and his four assistants, one of whom was a Swamini (a Hindu nun) […]

By Palestine Chronicle Staff Over the past decade, hundreds of sick and injured Palestinian, Iraqi, Lebanese and Syrian children have been brought to North America for free medical care that is not available to them […]

By Mahmoud El-Yousseph Sabra and Shatila are two Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon where over two thousand Palestinians were massacred during three days in September 1982 by hundreds of Lebanese Phalange and Haddad militiamen […]

By Ramzy Baroud Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa used exceptionally tough language during a Cairo news conference 9 September, when he lashed out at Palestinian factionalism, saying that the League is going as far as […]

By Joharah Baker Today, September 17, the Kadima party will vote for a new leader, thus ousting the corruption-riddled Ehud Olmert from his seat of power as both Party leader and eventually, as Prime Minister […]

By Al-Arabiya.net and Agencies  As most of the rest of the Islamic world welcomed Ramadan with festive treats and family get-togethers, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank found Israel playing a significant role […]

By Sam Husseini The vast majority of Arabs and Muslims totally disagree with McCain/Palin and Obama/Biden on the issues many of them care most about. But they will likely on election day vote for one […]

By Abid Mustafa On 15 September 2008 the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that Iran had repeatedly blocked a UN investigation to probe allegations that it had tried to make nuclear weapons. The findings of […]

By James Petras Bolivian fascists have seized power in five of the richest states in Bolivia, forcefully ousting all national officials, murdering, injuring and assaulting leaders, activists and voters who have backed the national government […]

By Franklin Lamb – Shatila Refugee Camp, Beirut "Our Resistance continues, the Sacred Cause of all people of good will endures, and the Dream of our full Return shall never die!" – 14 year old […]

By Uri Avnery As an Israeli, I am ashamed. An incumbent Prime Minister has been compelled to resign because of personal corruption. How awful! As an Israeli, I am proud. An incumbent Prime Minister has […]

By Deepak Tripathi As George W. Bush limps towards the finish line of his turbulent presidency, two recent events on the other side of the globe, in the region that has been the main battleground […]

By John Chuckman Sarah Palin is not qualified for high office, and she has proved it in two interviews, if you were listening, but it was equally clear eight years ago that George Bush was […]

By Ivan Eland In the twilight of his eight-year term, George W. Bush is the loneliest guy in town these days. Remember him? With the economy in the tank, the Iraq War dragging on with […]

By Omar Barghouti – Jerusalem Israeli security officers at Tel-Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport Tuesday forced an African-American member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater — by far the best-known touring company in the United States […]

By Will Youmans – Washington An informal group of prominent Palestinian academics, politicians and activists published a stimulating document that raises questions and offers solutions about Palestinian national strategy. It follows a growing sense of […]

By Nicola Nasser – The West Bank For the first time, since the U.S.-hosted Annapolis conference on November 27 last year re-launched the Palestinian – Israeli negotiations, which were interrupted by the Al-Aqsa Intifada in […]

By Frank Barat Many Palestinians that I met during my travels in the West Bank told me that to know what Palestine really was about and meant, I had to go to Nablus. Most of […]

By Kevin B. Zeese The campaigns are in full gear, the candidates are picked, TV ads are running, and election corruption is taking hold.  Around the country, particularly in swing states, there are stories of […]