By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Israelis and their supporters tend to depict Israel as a country of miracles. What else could explain the country’s astonishing "birth" and subsequent survival against all sorts of "existential threats"? […]

By Mohammad Abu Aita RAFAH — Egyptians opened their homes and shops to solace Palestinians who came in their thousands from the Gaza Strip seeking food supplies. "We have been packing up packages of foodstuffs […]

RAFAH — Tired of a months-long crippling Israeli blockade, thousands of Gazans poured into Egypt on Wednesday, January 23, after gunmen blasted several holes into the border wall overnight. "Thousands of Palestinians have crossed into […]

By Debbie Menon PalestineChronicle.com One of the basic principles of war is that one must have a plan. One of the even more basic principles is that in order to win the war, one must […]

By Soraya UlrichSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com What monsters could possibly be responsible for summary killings and deportations of peoples merely for their identity?  The horrendous memory of what man is capable of in his darkest hour […]

By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com America today is not the only empire, but it is one that has consistently formulated itself around the ideologies of corporate business, the military, big government, and religious self-righteousness, mass […]

To the Editor: Bravo Gaza! Yesterday the women and children of Gaza set out to protest the infamous Wall at the Rafah crossing and were beaten up by Egyptian police. The scene was a reminder […]

RAFAH, Gaza Strip — The otherwise calm situation at the officially-closed Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt turned chaotic on Tuesday, January 22, amid gunfire, anger and tears. "No one in the […]

By Omar BarghoutiSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The European Union, Israel’s largest trade partner in the world, is watching by as Israel tightens its barbaric siege around Gaza, collectively punishing 1.5 million Palestinian civilians, condemning them to […]

By Yossi Wolfson Israel is saying at last what, in the past, it always refused to acknowledge: its war is against the Palestinian population. Until now, in discussions about the separation wall, closures, blockades, house […]

Reviewed by William James Martin PalestineChronicle.com The Scar of David, by Susan Abulhawa, is about a scar and a man named David who bears the scar, and another scar — the scar worn by Amal, […]

By Franklin Lamb in Beirut and Ann El Khoury in SydneySpecial to PalestineChronicle.com  You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?  Have you left no sense of decency? — Joseph […]

Blind, Pro-Israel Policies To the Editor: A few days ago, my family and I, watched Occupation 101. I find it hard to believe that a nation such as Israel is still breaking every International law […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com 11 January marked the sixth year anniversary of the establishment of the Guantanamo detention camp. Mere months after the start of the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan, a large […]

GAZA CITY — The boy loved riding with his father and his father wanted to take him along. He works so much he never gets time to spend with him. Venturing outside together, they were […]

By Serge van ErkelensSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com No country should officially recognised Israel as a Jewish state, for the same obvious reason that no country has or should recognize France as a state with a particular […]

By Jamil I. Toubbeh, PhDSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Walls, Castles and Imperious-Embassies Walls, castles and embassies: none is home for one’s soul.Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it And […]

By Agustin VellosoSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com  In the early hours of Tuesday, January 15th 2008, the Israeli occupation army in Palestine killed 20 Palestinians and injured about fifty others, some critically. Once again, it was just […]

By Palestine Chronicle Staff SEATTLE/LONDON (January 17, 2008) – After years of hard work and an ever-growing readership, the Palestine Chronicle (www.PalestineChronicle.com) is pleased to announce a new collaborative effort soon to be underway with […]

By Franklin Lamb in Qarantina, LebanonSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com  That word again, Qarantina. Qarantina was the site of January 15th message to the Bush administration where a 33lb bomb killed three and wounded 21.  The explosion […]

By Professor William A. CookSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com “Iraq will be a central challenge – perhaps the central challenge – for whoever succeeds President Bush and has to repair the profound damage he has wrought with […]

By Garda GhistaSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Layla Anwar is the pseudonym for an Iraqi blogger, in her early to mid-forties, who appears to be writing directly from Baghdad, right in the line of fire, so to […]

By Dan LiebermanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com  They speak English, carry I-pods and listen to Santana and Guns and Roses. They don’t approach with anger and don’t behave overbearing. They seem well-educated, mostly from Beirut’s American University, […]

By Jim Miles Special to PalestineChronicle.com Previously I had looked at several factors that tend to indicate that Canada’s actions with foreign policy and with domestic policy are increasingly following American policies. One of the […]

By Silvia CattoriSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Hedy Epstein, is a German Jewish Holocaust survivor, born in 1924, whose parents were sent to Auschwitz in 1942, where they perished. In 1948, Hedy Epstein went to live in […]

By Gilad Atzmon Special to PalestineChronicle.com Rather often I face the same question when interviewed by Arab media outlets: “Gilad, how is it that you observe that which so many Israelis fail to see?” Indeed, […]

By Eileen FlemingSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com On July 2, 2007, the whistle blower of Israel’s WMD Program, Mordechai Vanunu was sentenced to six more months in jail for interviews he gave foreign media in 2004. As […]

GAZA CITY – As US President George W. Bush starts on Wednesday, January 9, a much-publicized visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank, besieged Gazans are watching from the sidelines, expecting nothing but another […]

By Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD Special to PalestineChronicle.com The President’s visit to the Middle East this week will show once and for all that status quo lives on under the attempt to validate the old saying […]