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In a U-turn on the isolation of the Palestinian group Hamas, Quartet Middle East envoy Tony Blair criticized the West’s isolation of the Palestinian group, calling for including Hamas into the Middle East peace process. […]
Egypt has begun installing cameras and motion sensors along its border with the Gaza Strip to try to combat smuggling into the Palestinian territory, security sources said on Saturday. "Alarms and surveillance cameras were installed […]
The Israeli emergency clinic at the Erez crossing, which opened on the day Israel declared a ceasefire in Gaza (18 January), has closed after treating only five wounded Palestinians. The original purpose of the clinic, […]
By Frank Barat – London In a few weeks, on February the 10th, Israel will elect its new leaders during legislative elections. The three main contenders are Tzipi Livni from the Kadima party (Ariel Sharon’s […]
By Janine Roberts Many have been appalled by the seemingly mindless orgy of destruction of families, children, homes, streets, shops and orchards in Gaza carried out by the Israeli armed forces. It left me wanting […]
By Nicola Nasser – Bir Zeit, The West Bank Stubbornly insisting on getting the carriage before the horse as the approach to a ‘durable and sustainable’ ceasefire in Gaza Strip, U.S. and European diplomacy in […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel A Spanish judge has instituted a judicial inquiry against seven Israeli political and military personalities on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The case: the 2002 dropping of […]
By William A. Cook C-Span provided Americans a chance to view a World Economic Forum debate on Peace in the Mid-East on the 29th from Davos, Switzerland. Americans rarely have an opportunity to view a […]
By Ralph Nader Soon after the passage in 1999 of the Clinton-Rubin-Summers-P. Graham deregulation of the financial industry, I boarded a US Air flight to Boston and discovered none other than then-Secretary of the Treasury […]
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai I don’t know about others but I am really beginning to miss George W Bush. Seriously! The more you see of President Barack Obama, the more you miss […]
By Andrea Lamb To the Pearls of Gaza – the Palestinians Imprisoned, trapped as Gazan sandIn clammed tight shells —oppression and death — life seeks life, and struggles for breath.These Sands resist apartheid hells. Hideous […]
A National Court of Spain judge on Thursday, January 29, named an Israeli minister and six high-ranking army commanders as suspects of committing crimes against humanity in the Gaza Stripe in 2002. "As a consequence […]
By Ashraf Helmi and Megan Hirons The Gaza Zoo reeks of death. But zookeeper Emad Jameel Qasim doesn’t appear to react to the stench as he walks around the animals’ enclosures. A month ago, it […]
With Gaza’s sewerage system on the verge of collapse, a top water engineer has warned of the risk of groundwater contamination in the enclave, making clean water scarcer than it already is. Gaza is particularly […]
By Ramzy Baroud When former President George W. Bush departed for his final trip home, that very moment represented an end of a long and unbearable nightmare, one that Bush epitomized until his last day […]
By Terry Lacey The decision of the BBC to refuse to broadcast a humanitarian appeal for the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) made of up British NGOs working in the Gaza Strip to help the wounded […]
By Tom Compton Looking at the photo of an innocent, dead, Palestinian child, I want to weep. It appears that the child is a girl of around 3 years old. Her parents are probably Muslims […]
The Palestine Chronicle is pleased to feature a new poem by distinguished South African poet Rassool Snyman. Jesus in Gaza By Rassool Jibraeel Snyman I met Jesus in Gaza last night Nailed to a concrete […]
Israel has given Venezuela’s mission to the country until Friday to leave following Caracas’ decision to cut off diplomatic ties. Venezuela’s ambassador in Tel Aviv and two of his staff had been ordered to leave […]
The head of the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog agency Mohamed ElBaradei spurred an interview request by the BBC in protest over the networks refusal to air an appeal for emergency aid to Gaza, the IAEA […]
France has summoned Israel’s ambassador to protest as French and other European diplomats were blocked for hours on the Jewish state’s border with the Gaza Strip and Israeli soldiers fired warning shots at their convoy. […]
Britain’s top security and counter-terrorism minister believes that the deadly Israeli war on Gaza Strip was a setback to his government’s efforts to address radicalism, The Guardian reported on Wednesday, January 28. "The business in […]
Sitting in the cab of his truck under the hot sun, Sayed Sorour has come to the conclusion he and his truck load of aid to the besieged people in Gaza Strip are going no […]
By Ewa Jasiewicz – Jabaliya, Gaza Yesterday saw the first canvas tents go up in the Gaza strip to house internally displaced people. The UN estimates 50,000 people have been made homeless due to the […]
By Sarah Gillepsie – London ‘What impartiality requires is not that everyone receive equal treatment, but rather that everyone be treated as an equal.’ Ronald Dworkin Taking Rights Seriously. Harvard University Press. 1977, p. 227). […]
By Khalid Amayreh – The West Bank When the Beirut-based Al-Quds satellite television interviewed me last week on the recent genocidal Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip, it never occurred to me that the few […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago In November/December 2006, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting’s (FAIR) Steve Rendall explained that "Hugo Chavez never had a chance with the US press." It’s been a constant since his December […]
By Terry Lacey – Jakarta The Indonesian Government, and its special Middle East Envoy Alwi Shihab were focusing on economic co-operation with the Arab world, to help combat the global economic crisis. Now Indonesia wants […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London A pre-meditated and carefully planned slaughter binge resulting in 1330 dead, 5450 wounded and the whole place reduced to rubble; and what did the European Union’s 27 foreign ministers just […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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