Against all odds, The Palestine Chronicle amplifies Palestinian voices and reports the truth about Gaza. But we can't do it without you. Your support sustains our powerful, independent model of journalism.
Month: February 2013

Supporting Galloway with a Fraction of the Support He Has Shown Us!
By Susan Abulhawa George Galloway walked out of a debate at Christ Church in Oxford when he learned that his opponent was Israeli. He said, “I was misinformed. I don’t debate with Israelis. I don’t […]

Palestine Spring in the Making?
By Jamal Kanj A Third Palestinian uprising is simmering slowly, fuelled by the denigrating policies of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. With the chances for a political resolution steadily diminishing, and lacking other options, the conditions are […]

Hamas to Address Arafat Foundation
Hamas is attending the board meeting of the Yasser Arafat Foundation for the first time at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo on Thursday. Hamas deputy politburo chief Moussa Abu Marzouq will address the foundation’s […]

Samer Issawi Transferred to Hospital
Prison authorities transferred detainee Samer Issawi from Ramle prison to a hospital in Israel after 210 days on hunger strike, an Israeli official said late Wednesday. Sivan Weizman, a spokeswoman for the Israel Prison Service, […]

Egypt Court Orders Tunnels to Gaza Destroyed
A Cairo court has ruled the government must destroy all tunnels between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, removing a route for smuggled weapons but also a lifeline for Palestinians. Egypt’s ruling Muslim Brotherhood has close […]

Turkey’s Difficult Choice in Palestine, Israel
By Ramzy Baroud An Israeli-Turkish rapprochement is unmistakably underway, but unlike the heyday of their political alignment of the1990’s, the revamped relationship is likely to be more guarded and will pose a greater challenge to […]

Israel Says Rocket Fired from Gaza
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip has exploded in southern Israel, in the first such attack since a ceasefire last November, Israeli police say. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud […]

Boycotting Israel Galloway-style
By Stuart Littlewood A big fuss blew up last week when British MP George Galloway, invited to Oxford University to debate the motion “Israel should withdraw immediately from the West Bank”, walked out of the […]

PA, Hamas Not Interested in Escalation
A third intifada is not likely to erupt in the occupied West Bank, neither a military confrontation is expected between Israel and the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, say Palestinian analysts. Two local analysts […]

Dozens Injured in Second Day of West Bank Protests
Hundreds of people took to the streets in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Monday in the second day of protests following the death of a Palestinian prisoner who PA officials say died as […]

Obama’s Israel Trip: Four More Years of Settlement Growth
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Israeli and Palestinian officials have been in Washington laying the ground for President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel and the West Bank, scheduled for next month and the first since […]

Palestinian Inmate’s Funeral Held
Thousands of Palestinian mourners have gathered in the town on Sair in the occupied West Bank for the funeral of Arafat Jaradat, who died in an Israeli jail under disputed circumstances. Palestinian officials say preliminary […]

Democracy Canadian-style: Old Script Updated
By Eric Walberg Canada’s role in the postmodern imperial world is as a poster child for promoting formal electoral democracy — at home and abroad. Internationally, instead of offering peacekeeping troops to the UN, as […]

Palestine/Fukushima Japan – A Poem
By Jane Otaqui (This poem was inspired by a conversation we had after our Japanese Daughter-in-law Atsuko’s Dad had travelled to the Fukushima area for a family funeral. He expressed his profound sorrow at not […]

Dozens Injured in West Bank Clashes over Prisoner Death
Dozens of Palestinians were injured Sunday including two shot with live bullets at demonstrations across the West Bank to protest the death of a Palestinian in Israeli custody. At least 26 protesters sustained wounds from […]

Palestinians Say Israel Tortured Detainee to Death
The Palestinian government is alleging that a Palestinian man who died in Israeli custody was tortured to death, dismissing claims that his death was due to a heart attack. Arafat Jaradat’s autopsy showed torture resulting […]

For Samer Issawi: Tribute to a Jerusalem Son – A Poem
By Susan Abulhawa Apartheid’s outlaw Has crooked white teeth An Adam’s Apple and an angled jaw A beautiful face With a knowing smile, gentle eyes And masculine grace O’ Native son, my brother Your eyes […]

Hunger Strike – A Poem
By Zahra Zamorano If I could feed one ounce of Earth into empty stomachs of stubborn roots would this bide enough time to see wings of hope fly home again? If I could write one […]

Palestinians Clash with Israeli Troops across the West Bank
Clashes erupted across the West Bank after the Friday prayers between Israeli troops and Palestinian protesters who rallied to show solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners. Dozens were hurt as Israeli soldiers fired tear gas heavily […]

Palestinians Disqualify U.S. as Peace Broker
By Nicola Nasser The “unbreakable alliance,” which will be confirmed by the upcoming visit of President Barak Obama to Israel, will disqualify the United States as an honest broker of peace in the Arab – […]

Peace and Watermelons: US-Israeli Riddle
By Uri Avnery One of the most interesting and prolonged private debates I have had in my life was with the brilliant Dr. Nahum Goldmann. The subject: American peace initiatives. It was an unequal debate, […]


Israel Sentences Hunger-striking Palestinian
An Israeli court has handed a Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike since August last year an eight-month sentence, of which he has another month left to serve. Samer Issawi’s fate, however, remains […]

US Detains Palestinian Oscar Nominee
US immigration officials briefly detained the Palestinian director of the Oscar-nominated documentary 5 Broken Cameras on his way into Los Angeles for Sunday’s Academy Awards. Iyad Burnat said that when he arrived at Los Angeles […]

On ‘The invention of the Jewish People’
By Jamal Kanj The Invention of the Jewish People was a book written by Shlomo Sand, an Israeli professor of history at the University of Tel Aviv. The author wasn’t probing a belief system, but […]

DFLP Chief Hurt in Damascus Explosion
The head of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine was lightly injured on Thursday in a car bomb that shook central Damascus and killed several people, a DFLP official said. Nayef Hawatmeh, 74, […]

Gaza Minister: Egypt Tunnel Crackdown Will Fail
Egypt’s crackdown on smuggling tunnels to the Gaza Strip will not succeed unless alternatives to importing produce are provided, an official in Gaza’s Hamas-run government said Wednesday. Several days ago, Egyptian forces began flooding smuggling […]

Photographing Tragedy: What the Victims Actually Want
By Ramzy Baroud When one looks at scenes of feeling refugees from Syria, browse through images of their squalid refugee camps, hears their plea for solidarity, for mercy, for God’s help to end their suffering, […]

Video Game Review: Presidential Drone Hit List – Satire
By Barb Weir Presidential Drone Hit List makes you work to find the people you’re supposed to kill, but the job of doing so is relatively easy and without risk. The Good -Large variety of […]

Egypt Brokering Talks between Hamas and Israel on Humanitarian Issues
For the second time in a week, Israeli security officials visited Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials focusing on the ceasefire brokered by Egypt last year between Israel and the Palestinian factions operating in the […]