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 […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com 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 […]

Israel’s war in Lebanon in 2006 was a "large and serious" failure for the country’s armed forces, according to a final report on the conflict. The investigation headed by Eliahu Winograd "found grave failings in the […]

By Anisa Abd el FattahSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The opening of the Rafah crossing at the border of Egypt and Palestine creates some unique opportunities for both the Palestinians in Gaza, and the Egyptians living near the […]

By Neve Gordon Special to PalestineChronicle.com 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 […]

CAIRO — White House Democratic front-runner Senator Barak Obama believes Israel must remain a Jewish state and Palestinian refugees must forget about every returning to their homes. "The right of return is something that is […]

By Mohammed Mar’i The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) yesterday released a pessimistic report summarizing the living conditions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 2007. The report […]

By Gordon ClubbSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com It’s easy to portray Hamas as the sole obstacle to progression in Israel-Palestine peace talks. However, the policy of boycotting the elected government has inevitably led to the movements’ hardliners […]

By Sonja KarkarSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com  Looking at the photos of the Gush Shalom convoy on Saturday to bring relief and protest the siege of Gaza (apparently some 2,000 Israelis braved the storms and bitter cold), […]

CAIRO — The Israeli policy of bringing the besieged population in the fenced-off Gaza Strip to their knees or turn them against Hamas collapsed with the falling of the border between the sealed off territory […]

AMMAN, Jordan – George Habash, a prominent Palestinian leader has died in Jordan, aged 80. Habash, who passed away on Saturday, founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). "He had a severe […]

By Kathleen ChristisonPalestineChronicle.com Among the panoply of reasons put forth against advocates of a one-state solution for Palestine-Israel, perhaps the most disingenuous is the injunction, repeated by well meaning commentators who believe they speak in […]

By Aijaz Zaka SyedPalestineChronicle.com MR Gorbachev, tear this wall down.” Visiting West Berlin and the Wall that separated the West and East Germany, and the West from the Eastern bloc, US president Ronald Reagan looked […]

By Stuart LittlewoodSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com A few evenings ago the BBC World Service broadcast a discussion featuring three people from Gaza and three from the town of Sderot on the Israeli side of the border. […]

Editor’s Note: This statement is written by Steve Baggarly, one of the Blackwater Seven recently sentenced in North Carolina for staging a die-in on the property of Blackwater Security. The protesters were re-enacting the Nisoor […]

By Emily Spence and Robert Braunstein Special to PalestineChronicle.com Some people, automatically, assume that, if people were jailed or mowed down, they must have done something wrong. What about the US civil rights movement? For […]

By Yousef AbudayyehSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com With the passing of Dr. George Habash, the Arab people as a whole along with peoples of the world struggling for liberation have painfully lost one of the towering legends of […]

By Kim BullimoreSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Even the dead cannot rest in peace in Gaza.  As the world sits by and does nothing, Gaza enters its 85th day under complete siege since Israel began "phase I" […]

By Uri AvneryPalestineChronicle.com It looked like the fall of the Berlin wall. And not only did it look like it. For a moment, the Rafah crossing was the Brandenburg Gate. It is impossible not to […]

By Jeff Halper The people of Palestine have done it again, taking their own fate in their hands after being let down by their own "moderate" political leadership and, indeed, the entire international community in […]

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan, PhDSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com US news media including its major newspapers have for a long time misrepresented the nature of the state of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in their news coverage […]

To the Editor: For a couple of days the people of Gaza got to taste the sort of freedom people everywhere else in the world take for granted. Now they are being herded back into […]

By Marwa El-Naggar RAFAH — Egypt tried Friday, January 25, to seal its porous borders with the Gaza Strip to stem a three-day uncontrolled flood of Palestinians from the fenced-off territory, but Palestinians defied the […]