By Suzanne Baroud It was a typical blustery, cold evening in Seattle, Washington, the US. The mixture of snow and rain pounded down on our heads and faces as my family and I ran for […]

By Mark Turner  Israel has dramatically intensified its military campaign in the Gaza Strip, stepping up air strikes and shelling of the beleaguered coastal strip. UN officials and human rights advocates warn that Gazans now […]

By Jim Miles Mission Al-Jazeera. Josh Rushing. Palgrave MacMillan (St. Martin’s Press). New York, 2007. Just about every day I scan various internet websites to see what is happening in world events. At the bottom […]

By Ahmed YousefExclusive The bombing in Dimona on February 5, was the first ‘martyrdom’ operation  committed by Hamas for over five years. For some time we have been warning the world that the relentless pressure […]

By Michael Nolan HBO’s Bill Maher is a real bad boy, a thorn in the side of traditional America, and if you don’t believe it, just ask him. “I’m out of the mainstream,” he congratulated […]

By Ron Forthofer The U.S. corporate mainstream media have done a terrible job covering the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, a catastrophe created by Israeli assassinations, raids and blockade. Here are a few statements that […]

By Uri Avnery A wise person once said: "A fool learns from his experience. An intelligent person learns from the experience of others." To which one could add: "And an idiot does not even learn […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed Looks like the debate on growing India-Israel ties is far from over. I’ve been overwhelmed by the response to the questions I raised in my emotional piece last week (How can […]

By Stu Littlewood Last week there was a debate on Gaza in the UK Parliament. Very few people turned up. MP Jeremy Corbyn reminded everyone that 36 of the 39 Hamas Palestinian Legislative Council members […]

By Stephen Lendman For Big Media, truth is a scare commodity and in times of war it’s the first casualty, or as esteemed journalist John Pilger noted: "Journalism (not truth) is the first casualty (of […]

By Hussein Al-Alak In January 2007, the Iraq Solidarity Campaign informed the international community about the damage which the growth of poverty has caused to the children of Iraq, through the much- publicised paper "Western […]

By Uri Avnery For some days, the country looked like the Place de la Concorde in 1793. The entire public sat expectantly facing the guillotine, waiting for the tumbril to bring the marquis, for the […]

By William A. Cook, PhD There are those who condemn Israel’s siege of Gaza, penning plaintive polemics against the inhumane behavior exhibited by the IDF forces as they seal the inhabitants behind cement walls that […]

By Ramzy Baroud In the competitive world of media today, swift and conveniently selective reporting is of prime importance. Google News, for example, claim to scan 4,500 news sources, of which only a few are […]

By Christopher Kuhl   Cultural Shock and Awe: The first art exhibition by visual artists from Palestine, in the USA.  Previously,  one never read of Palestinian cultural figures—writers, poets, visual artists or their productions in the […]

By Sherri Muzher For years now, I have heard demands that those of us Americans and of Palestinian descent condemn various military actions.  And we do because innocents should never pay for the sins of […]

By Roger H. Lieberman Toward the end of the sixteenth century, the young German astronomer Johannes Kepler was teaching mathematics in the Austrian town of Graz. One afternoon, as the story was recounted by Carl […]

By Tariq A. Al-Maeena  Two news items, not necessarily unrelated to each other, passed by me this week giving me some cause to pause and ponder. In the first instance, a letter from a professor […]

By Edward Said Nine years ago I wrote an afterword for Orientalism which, in trying to clarify what I believed I had and had not said, stressed not only the many discussions that had opened […]

By Louis Frankenthaler Israeli Ambassador, Alan Baker recently expressed his indignation over Canada’s listing of Israel as a state that engages in torture in a training manual for diplomats. The ambassador asserts that torture is […]

By Jim Miles The Seventh Decade – The New Shape of Nuclear Danger. Jonathan Schell. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company. New York, 2007. Humanity is now living through it seventh decade with the threat […]

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 […]