By Stuart Littlewood – London These last two weeks have changed everything. Any remaining tolerance felt towards Israel and its friends has evaporated. The regime could never have maintained its illegal occupation of Palestine, or […]
By Mosheer Amer – Melbourne Since Israel began its recent attacks on Gaza, the world has been watching the unfolding events with increasing concern over the alarming rise in Palestinian civilian deaths and the repercussions […]
By Sayed Dhansay – South Africa "Please excuse my ignorance as I only really know what I’ve read in the papers. From what I can gather, Hamas broke the ceasefire by firing first, right? If […]
By Khaled Sabawi – Ramallah As bodies of dead children and uncensored images of war from Gaza pervade the news stations of the Middle East, outrage and fury ripples through the Arab and Muslim world. […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Strategic bombing involves destroying an adversary’s economic and military ability to wage war. It targets its war making capacity and related infrastructure. Terror bombing is another matter. It’s against civilians […]
Israel began pouring reservists into heavy clashes across the Gaza Strip on Sunday as the death toll from its war on Hamas approached 900 and officials indicated that the end may be in sight. Israeli […]
A galaxy of prominent British Jews who describe themselves as "supporters of Israel" is demanding an end of the Gaza "horrors," warning that Israel’s offensive will strengthen extremism and further tarnish Israel’s image worldwide. "We […]
By Sam Bahour – The West Bank I watch in shock, like the rest of the world, at the appalling death and destruction being wrought on Gaza by Israel; and still it does not stop. […]
By Pat Bernstein – France Apart from the humanitarian crises in Gaza, what has failed the entire Western world is the media. Most informed and concerned people have come to accept some of the inequities, […]
The Palestine Chronicle is pleased to feature two poems by distinguished South African poet Rassool Snyman. My Name is Palestine Rassool Snyman My name is Palestine My name is Palestine Heed it and be freed […]
The top UN human rights official has called for an independent investigation into possible war crimes committed by Israeli troops in the bombed-out Gaza Strip. "I am concerned with violations of international law," Navi Pillay, […]
Israel sent tanks deeper into Gaza on Saturday and threatened to intensify its air and ground assault, ignoring international calls to stop the conflict with Hamas militants who fired more rockets into the Jewish state. […]
By Dr. Ahmed Yousef – Gaza Perhaps it is indeed time to bomb religious groups given their belief that heaven is their destination. Regardless of whether their aim is peaceful coexistence or aggressive accession, spiritually-motivated […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel Nearly seventy years ago, in the course of World War II, a heinous crime was committed in the city of Leningrad. For more than a thousand days, a gang of […]
By Kathy Kelly – Arish, Egypt [Editor’s Note: Kathy Kelly, a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, is writing from Arish, a town near the Rafah border between Egypt and Gaza. Bill Quigley, a human […]
By Jenka Soderberg US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said, in introducing a bill supporting the Israeli attack on Gaza, which passed unanimously by voice vote in the US Senate Thursday, "I ask any of […]
By Kim Bullimore In the midst of Israel’s massacre of more than 800 people in Gaza, including more than 200 children and 100 women, as well as 3000 injured, apologists for Israel’s war crimes have […]
By Tariq A. Al-Maeena – Jeddah A reader last week objected to my references of a ‘holocaust’ in this latest atrocity being carried out by the Israelis against civilians in Gaza, and specifically targeting children. May […]
Thousands of people poured into the streets around the world on Friday, January 9, to protest unabated Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians in the bombed-out Gaza Strip. "Gaza excuse us: opening Rafah is not in […]
The incoming US administration of Barack Obama will be open to talk to the Hamas movement, in a break-up with the Bush administration’s policy of ostracizing the Palestinian resistance group. "This is going to be […]
The Palestine Chronicle is pleased to feature the work of two poets, Noora AL-Malki (KSA) and Stella Mortazavi (UK). Palestine: A Fragment By Noora Al-Malki Pity, love, hate and fearGet together on a flowery rear.The […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Criticism by international watchdog groups over the increasing death toll in Gaza mounted this week as the first legal actions inside Israel were launched accusing the army of intentionally harming the […]
By Jeremy R. Hammond The US Senate on Thursday passed a non-binding resolution promoted by the influential Israeli lobby AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee), effectively endorsing Israel’s war on Gaza. The resolution, entitled […]
By Lasse J. Schmidt It has been my personal experience that the Israeli military is willing to go far to maintain the illusion of its soldiers’ innocence – even when these have just killed and […]
By Francis A. Boyle As long ago as October 19, 2000, the then United Nations Human Rights Commission (now Council) condemned Israel for inflicting "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity" upon the Palestinian people, most […]
By Michel Chossudovsky The military invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli Forces bears a direct relation to the control and ownership of strategic offshore gas reserves. This is a war of conquest. Discovered in […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London Inappropriate use of the term "terrorism" by people with despicable motives is probably the most serious obstacle to peace. Can somebody please explain – Mr Brown? Mr Miliband? – why […]
By Jeremy Salt – Ankara The Nakba – the catastrophe – is the Arabic word used to describe the Zionist expulsion of the Palestinians from their homeland in 1948/49, the destruction of some 500 of […]
By Jeremy R. Hammond The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has suspended operations in Gaza since coming under attack by Israeli military forces on Friday. A statement from the UNRWA said its temporary […]
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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