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In Its Response to ICC Request for Clarifications, Palestine Urges the Court to Expedite Investigation
Palestine responded to the latest request by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for clarification regarding the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)’s decision to be absolved of all agreements with Israel, following the latter’s decision to annex […]

Israel to Withhold Palestinian Tax Money until PA Reactivates ‘Security Coordination’
Israel is withholding tax revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority for the month of May until the PA reactivates the security coordination agreement with Tel Aviv, Palestinian officials said. Palestinian Premier Mohammad […]

Political Ambiguity or a Doomsday Weapon: Why Abbas Abandoned Oslo
By Ramzy Baroud This time, we are told, it is different and that President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, is absolutely serious about his decision to absolve his leadership from all previous agreements […]

The Palestine Chronicle Examines Israeli Media Response to Abbas’s Decision to Cancel All Agreements
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Israeli media responded to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s decision on May 19 to cancel all agreements with Israel, including the so-called security coordination with a ‘yawn’, in addition to […]

Null and Void: Mahmoud Abbas Withdraws from all Agreements with Israel, US
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced his leadership will be ceasing all arrangements with Israel and the US in light of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s annexation plans. “The Palestine Liberation Organization and the State of […]

Oslo Accords and Palestinian Sports: One Step Forward, Three Back
By Issam Khalidi Though Palestinian sports had made remarkable progress (especially internationally) since the Oslo Accords in 1993 until now, however, this progress was on the account of many national values accumulated throughout the period […]

Palestine No Longer Committed to Oslo Agreements with Israel
The Palestinian Authority’s Minister of Civil Affairs, Hussein al-Sheikh, said in a televised interview with Al-Jazeera that Palestine is no longer committed to signing agreements emanating from Oslo accords, Anadolu agency reports. “Israel has been informed […]

Sealed Off and Forgotten: What You Should Know about Israel’s ‘Firing Zones’ in the West Bank
By Ramzy Baroud A seemingly ordinary news story, published in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, on January 7, shed light on a long-forgotten, yet crucial, subject: Israel’s so-called “firing zones” in the West Bank. “Israel has impounded the […]

New Financial Crisis Looms as Israel Withholds Millions of Palestinian Tax Money
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Once more, the Israeli government has decided to withhold tens of millions of dollars in tax revenues, collected on behalf of the Palestinian Authority to prevent it from supporting families […]

Shtayyeh: We Will Prevent Israeli Army from Raiding ‘Area A’
Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh has claimed that Palestinian forces will prevent the Israeli army from raiding “Area A” of the occupied West Bank. In an interview with Al-Quds, excerpts of which were published […]

1967 Must Not Be the Only Reference Point for Israel’s Colonial Presence
By Ramona Wadi Various Israeli politicians over the years have justified settlement expansion as being necessary for peace. The Oslo Accords facilitated this propaganda with an interminable “interim” period during which settlement construction has continued […]

Shtayyeh: Israel Has Canceled Areas A and B in Palestinian Territories
The Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority said on Monday that the Israeli occupation authorities have basically canceled the division of the occupied Palestinian territories into so-called Areas A and B, Safa news agency has reported. Mohammad […]

The Book of Palestine: National Liberation Vs Endless Negotiations
By Ramzy Baroud Those who are still hoping that the new American agenda on Palestine and Israel is temporary, or reversible, should abandon this false hope. Washington’s complete adoption of Israel’s messianic, extremist policies […]

Africa and Palestine: A Noble Legacy that Must Never Be Betrayed
By Ramzy Baroud Europe’s “Scramble for Africa” began in earnest in 1881, but never ended. The attempt at dominating the continent using old and new strategies continues to define the western relationship with this rich continent. […]

Deal of the Century or Eon of Disasters?
By Jamal Kanj The Trumpian hyperbole marketing brand had generated unrealistic expectations for the “Deal of the Century.” For over a year and a half, Jared Kushner promised but missed at least three dates to […]

Former Mossad Chief: ‘Israel Does Not Want Peace’
The former chief of Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad, Shabtai Shavit, has said that Israel does not want peace and that, if it had, it would have made peace with the Palestinian Authority (PA) long ago. […]

The PA’s Appropriation of ‘National Rights’
By Ramona Wadi Ever since the US ostracised the Palestinian Authority, there has been a change in rhetoric that attempts to equate the struggles it is facing with those of the Palestinian people. Israel’s deduction […]

The PA Wants the EU to Help, Not the Resistance
By Ramona Wadi The EU must clearly and unequivocally state that it has abandoned the Palestinian people to complete political isolation. The recent Israeli air strikes on Gaza have not only revealed the UN’s scheming in terms […]

What Now for the Palestinian People?
By Rima Najjar The West Bank is under threat of annexation by Israel now; the caged Palestinians in Gaza are clamoring, at a grassroots level, for the right to return to their homes and property […]

Preventing Palestine: A Political History From Camp David to Oslo – Book Review
By Jim Miles (Preventing Palestine – A Political History From Camp David to Oslo. Seth Anziska. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2018.) In all my recent readings of history and current events, Preventing Palestine stands […]

Great March of Return is Palestinians’ Cry for Justice
By Ramzy Baroud The aims of the Great March of Return protests, which began in Gaza on March 30 last year, are to put an end to the suffocating Israeli siege and implement the […]

A Dictionary of Media Terms for the Palestine/Israel ‘Conflict’
By Roger Sheety What is the point of journalism if not to question, doubt, and challenge state or elite power? If a journalist merely reports the standard talking points of that power (as most corporate […]

After Escalation, Israel Agrees to Expand Gaza Fishing Zone (VIDEO)
Israel has expanded the permitted fishing zone in the besieged Gaza Strip as part of a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. The Egyptian-brokered deal includes expanding the fishing limit along the Mediterranean coast from approximately 11 […]

New Right: Annex ‘Area C’, Impose Full Israeli Sovereignty (VIDEO)
A right-wing Israeli political party, opposed to Palestinian self-determination, has proposed plans to annex most of the West Bank and impose full Israeli sovereignty over the occupied territory. With less than six weeks till the […]

Netherlands Recognizes Gaza, West Bank as Official Palestinian Birthplaces
Palestinians living in the Netherlands will be allowed to register the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as their official place of birth, Dutch State Secretary Raymond Knops told the House of Representatives in The […]

Israel to Deduct Stipends for Palestinian Prisoners from PA Tax Money
The Israeli Diplomatic-Security ‘Cabinet’ is expected to approve a major cut to the tax revenues Israel collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA). The amount the PA pays as stipends to the families of […]

Israel’s Defiance of History, Morality and Law
By Jeremy Salt No state established on land seized by force from the people living on that land can claim moral legitimacy and a ‘right’ to exist. A purported ‘right’ to exist is not central […]

Ramaphosa, Oslo and the Two-State Mirage
By Iqbal Jassat During his recent visit to a Johannesburg synagogue, South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa repeated an overused mantra to assuage his Jewish audience about the country’s evenhandedness. Overused and devoid of any substance, […]

The Veiled Danger of the ‘Dead’ Oslo Accords
By Ramzy Baroud Yossi Beilin is back. This unrepentant Israeli ‘peacemaker’ is like the mythical phoenix, continually resurrecting from its ashes. In a recent article in Al-Monitor, Beilin wrote in support of the idea of a […]

A ‘National Betrayal’ by Fatah … or Hamas?
By Ramona Wadi As the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, brokered by the UN and Egypt, went into effect yesterday, Ramallah erupted into a litany of abominable comments. Senior Fatah official Azzam Al-Ahmad was quoted […]