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 Stuart Littlewood – London The BBC wouldn’t help the Gaza Appeal because doing so might jeopardise the public’s confidence in the BBC’s impartiality. That’s laughable. Everyone I know has written several times to the BBC […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]