CAIRO – Senior Hamas members, excluding the movement’s exiled political leader Khalid Mishaal, will visit Cairo in the next few days to discuss a prisoner exchange deal with Israel brokered by Egypt. Izzat al-Rishq, a […]

By James PetrasPalestineChronicle.com The struggle within the US power structure between the economic empire builders (EEB) and the civilian militarists/Zioncons over US Middle East and global policy is now out in the open and intensifying.  […]

By Lasse Wilhelmson in Sweden PalestineChronicle.com Let me start by saying that I have no intention of belittling the admirable work done for many years by the movement for solidarity with the Palestinian people, particularly […]

By Miko PeledPalestineChronicle.com “On the stone that remainsCarved next to his nameHis epitaph plain:Only a pawn in their game.” -Bob Dylan. The lines of this great poem by Bob Dylan reverberate as Israel continues its […]

By Joshua Frank PalestineChronicle.com So we are in the trenches of another election season, and if you peer closely you can see the explosions on the horizon. I’m yet to be convinced the Democrats have […]

By Ramzy Baroud How critical is the situation in Iraq? It depends on who you ask and when. Common sense tells us that the situation there has always been critical. In fact, one could dare […]

CAIRO — Two weeks before the crucial mid-term congress elections, Arab and Muslim voters are increasingly tilting towards Democrats over dissatisfaction with the Bush administration’s foreign policy, especially in war-torn Iraq. "There’s clearly a trend […]

By Dana Shalash So today is the third day of Eid Al Fitr that all Muslims worldwide celebrate right after the culmination of the month of Ramadan. Not sure if it’s only me, but Ramadan […]

By Christoph Schult Mahmoud al-Zahar, foreign minister of the Palestinian Authority’s Hamas-led government, says a big majority of Hamas supports the struggle against Israel despite recent conciliatory comments from Hamas officials about a possible indirect […]

By Norman Solomon PalestineChronicle.com Get ready for a special tour of a renowned outlook, conjured from the writings of syndicated New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. As the leading media advocate of "free trade" and […]

By Mike Whitney PalestineChronicle.com There are three things wrong with the current policy in Iraq. Occupation, occupation and occupation. Foreign occupation is the reason why over 90% of Iraqis want the Americans to leave their […]

By The Council for the National Interest Christian Zionism, a belief that paradise for Christians can only be achieved once Jews are in control of the Holy Land, is gathering strength in the United States […]

JERUSALEM – An Israeli human rights group has accused the government of violating international law by moving Palestinian prisoners out of the occupied territories. B’Tselem, a body that monitors human rights in the West Bank […]

By Dr. Daud AbdullahPalestineChronicle.com All would be losers. That does not mean Palestinians only. It includes Israelis and Americans as well. For the Palestinians, it would be sheer folly to go down this route after […]

By Rami Bathish For the vast majority of Palestinians, accepting a two-state solution comes at a very dear price; essentially it underlines abandoning our legitimate claim to what is now “Israel Proper,” or historical Palestine. […]

By Amira Hass  On Fridays of the month of Ramadan, the Palestinians once again proved the extent to which they are prepared to endanger themselves, collectively, for the sake of a shared aim they consider […]

By Jonathan Cook The furore that briefly flared this week at the decision of Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, to invite Avigdor Lieberman and his Yisrael Beiteinu party into the government coalition is revealing, but […]

By Timothy SeidelPalestineChronicle.com September 21st marked the International Day of Prayer for Peace.  In 2001, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring September 21st of each year as the International Day of Peace.  […]

By William A. Cook PalestineChronicle.com “And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com The US administration’s double standards in dealing with the intensifying nuclear crisis in North Korea further strengthens the argument that President George W Bush’s colonial designs are either exasperated by the vulnerability […]

By Joshua FrankPalestineChronicle.com Joshua Frank: Cindy, we are in the armpit of another election season and it seems that the mainstream antiwar movement is rallying behind the Democrats once again, hoping if the Dems can […]

By John Chuckman PalestineChronicle.com  Canada’s Thirty-Percent Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, just made a speech at a B’nai Brith banquet. Normally, there would be nothing notable in this, but his words this time reinforced controversial statements […]

By Felicity ArbuthnotPalestineChronicle.com When the United States and Britain blitzed Baghdad for four days in time for Christmas (‘Eid al Issa’ – Celebration of Jesus) Eid and Yom Kippur in December 1998, announced in front […]

By Danny Rubinstein  The chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), has already made up his mind. The general direction of his decision is clear: to disperse – or, to state it more […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com In the run up to the November 7 elections, U.S. politicians from both parties are telling Iraqis that they are not doing enough to improve their own security. Democrats are disparaging Iraqi […]

By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem The convoy of Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian Prime Minister, came under fire yesterday as tensions burst into the open again on the streets of Gaza between Hamas and its Fatah […]

By the International Solidarity MovementPalestineChronicle.com NABLUS, West Bank – The Nablus region, with its three refugee camps, many villages, Old City and sprawling central city has been a scene of consistent Israeli violence.  Such violence […]

The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle. Ramzy Baroud. (London: Pluto Press). 2006. 216 p. Reviewed by Prof. Fred Wilcox* All too often, historians and scholars write about war from a comfortable […]

By Ben WhitePalestineChronicle.com  Amid the olive trees and rocks, in the stone amphitheaters and shaded groves, young residents of Bethlehem’s refugee camps working alongside European volunteers presented “Romeo and Juliet,” Shakespeare’s immortal drama of the […]

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) – Feuding Palestinian factions pledged on Friday to take steps to end internal violence that has deepened a political crisis and stirred fears of civil war. Fawzi Barhoum, a spokesman […]