Every time hostility against Israel’s 1.2 million Arab citizens escalates, Umm al-Fahm—which has the second largest Arab population after Nazareth—is at the epicenter. As Israelis headed to the polls Tuesday clashes between Arab residents and […]
Israelis voted on Tuesday, February 10, to elect a new parliament and government in a tight race between far-right parities led by hawkish former premier Benjamin Netanyahu and the ruling Kadima party of Foreign Minister […]
By Ron Jacobs I finally got around to reading Ramzy Baroud’s 2006 book The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle on the twentieth day of Tel Aviv’s most recent attack on Gaza. […]
By Kathy Kelly People have asked me, since I returned from Gaza, how people manage? How do they keep going after being traumatized by bombing and punished by a comprehensive state of siege? I wonder […]
By Rajeshree Sisodia – London Mohammed El Hour and US new President Barack Obamas’ lives are intertwined. 48-year-old Mohammed sits in his three-room home in Nuseirat camp, Gaza, explaining how his son Abdel Qader will […]
By M. Shahid Alam Critics of Zionism and Israel – including a few Israelis – have charted an inverse exceptionalism, which describes an Israel that is aberrant, violates international norms with near impunity, engages in […]
By Gilad Atzmon – London A few days ago, Noam Shalit’ slammed Hamas for holding his son for no real reason. Miraculously, he managed to forget the fact that his son Gilad was actually a combatant […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Its roots are from the late 19th century when Theodor Herzl founded modern Zionism at the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland in 1897. In his book "Overcoming Zionism," Joel […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London Martin van Creveld, a former professor of military history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a world-leading writer on military matters, has made many enemies with his seemingly outrageous […]
By Jason Hicks – Jerusalem Until 2006, the Israeli-Palestinian political landscape was dominated almost exclusively by three major players: the Labor and Likud parties in Israel, and the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s (PLO) largest faction, Fatah. […]
One day to the general elections, Israeli right-wing frontrunners continue to the fear card to woo voters, riding on a hardline shift in a society haunted by security concerns. "The election on Tuesday will be about […]
Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak said Monday that a longer-term ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas could come into effect as early as next week, as tens of thousands of Palestinians rallied in support […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The Israeli government has moved quickly to quash protests over the appointment of the army’s senior adviser on international law to a teaching post at Tel Aviv University. Col Pnina Sharvit-Baruch […]
Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are still seeking shelter after their homes were badly damaged or destroyed during the 22-day Israeli offensive which ended on 18 January. Some 4,000 homes were destroyed and about 17,000 […]
By Robin Yassin-Kassab When Western liberals call on the Palestinians to renounce violence and to adopt Gandhian passive resistance instead, I usually become enraged. My first response is, they’ve tried non-violence, and you failed to notice. […]
By Ola Attallah – Gaza City Nada, 8, looks around at thousands of white tents sprouting in neat rows amid a sea of gray rubble across the Gaza City. "Mom, would we be staying here […]
By Sam Bahour – The West Bank If Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today he may well have attended President Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony wearing a black-and-white checkered kaffiyeh and holding a sign saying, […]
By UNDP – Jerusalem Three weeks of fighting in Gaza has had a strong economic, social and psychological toll on the lives of Palestinians living there, according to the findings of a survey commissioned by […]
By Hatim Kanaaneh – Galilee Friends and close associates, whether relatives or DNA-aliens, are an extension of one’s own being. At least that is how I seem to relate to the segment of humanity that I […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel ‘I have some good news and some bad news,’ the sergeant in the joke tells his men. ‘The good news is that you are going to change your dirty socks. […]
The Palestine Chronicle is pleased to feature a new poem by distinguished South African poet Rassool Snyman. I Rage By Rassool Jibraeel Snyman I rage I rage I rage I rage against The gods who […]
The Palestine Chronicle is pleased to feature three new poems by distinguished US poet Sam Hamod. At Fakhani, The Shoe: Lebanon, After the Bombing It is a Shoe a Single baby’sShoeI pull it from the […]
The Palestinian resistance group Hamas expected Saturday, February 7, to reach a deal with Israel on a long-term truce and opening Gaza crossings in a ‘few days’. "If the Egyptian efforts are successful at this […]
By International Lawyers Sans Frontiers Part II: Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law: What Remedy? Interviewer’s Note: On December 27, 2008, Israel launched a devastating 22 day and night bombardment of the Gaza strip. The […]
By International Lawyers Sans Frontiers Part I: What Law Applies? Interviewer’s Note: On December 27, 2008, Israel launched a devastating 22 day and night bombardment of the Gaza strip. The assault left, amidst an estimated […]
By Dan Lieberman Propaganda is most effective when subtly planted and the reader remains unaware that a commentary is actually indoctrination. Sometimes the writer is not cognizant that what he has published has been moved […]
By Vi Ransel Two grim images from Gazaacid-etched themselvesinto my consciousness,a little girls’ headand a baby’s body. It was odd to seeher tousled hair, her smudged small cheekson a pile of rubble as if asleepat an […]
A Turkish state prosecutor has launched an investigation into claims of Israeli crimes against humanity and genocide during a recent deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip. "We submitted the complaint against those who we could […]
By Dina Jadallah-Taschler It is relatively easy for many casual observers of Middle East events to be deceived by balanced and ostensibly objective reporting. Simplistic divisions and false dichotomies are often presented. Moderates are juxtaposed […]
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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