By Ali Jarbawi Not much substance is left in the term "Middle East peace process" even as the mantra of the urgent need to revive it is heard again and again. The mantra is futile; […]

By MIFTAH While many observers tend to agree that last January’s Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections have underlined the limitations of the Palestinian socio-political structure to a bipolar system, namely between Hamas and Fateh, there […]

By Felicity ArbuthnotPalestineChronicle.com In the U.S., the thought of another humiliation on the scale of Viet Nam sends shivers down spines in the corridors of power. In Britain it is the ‘S’ word: Suez, Prime […]

GAZA CITY – Doctors in Gaza have reported previously unseen injuries from Israeli weapons that cause severe burning and leave deep internal wounds, often resulting in amputations or death. The injuries were first seen in […]

WEST BANK – A long-running strike by unpaid Palestinian civil servants, including doctors and nurses, is taking its toll on sick Palestinians who are being sent homes from hospitals because their cases are not "emergencies". […]

By Shmuel Rosner Washington – This week, an Israeli well-versed in the intricate ways of American politics wanted to explain how difficult it is to set up an efficient Washington lobby, one that would exert […]

By Joshua Frank PalestineChronicle.com You can sure tell it’s an election year. Despite the fact that over 2770 US soldiers and 600,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq, the mainstream antiwar movement, or what’s […]

By Amira Hass Hamas has smuggled 20 tons of explosives into the Gaza Strip, and that is aside from the anti-aircraft and antitank missiles. That is what the Israel Defense Forces has calculated, and it […]

GAZA CITY – Doctors in Gaza have reported previously unseen injuries from Israeli weapons that cause severe burning and leave deep internal wounds, often resulting in amputations or death. The injuries were first seen in […]

By Akiva Eldar Last weekend another 20 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip, among them at least five civilians. Of the civilians, two were women, one was a little girl and one was an […]

By James J. ZogbyPalestineChronicle.com In not a single House or Senate race being contested this year will the candidates engage in a serious debate about the failed US policy in the Middle East. There is […]

By Linda Heard   Palestinian suffering rarely hits the headlines in a world preoccupied with North Korean nukes, British politicians pontificating about the rights or wrongs of veil wearing and Madonna’s new baby. It’s doubtful that […]

WEST BANK – Israeli soldiers have shot and killed at least two Palestinians in a gun battle in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian security source says. The source said an 18-year-old member of Islamic […]

By Joharah Baker What is so formidable about the conflict in the Gaza Strip is the sheer tenacity and sustainability of both the Israeli resolve to destroy and its Palestinian residents to endure. This is […]

By Eric Silver Israeli infantrymen, backed by tanks, were combing the northern Gaza Strip for Qassam rocket launchers and sabotage tunnels in a search-and-destroy operation that has killed at least 23 Palestinians in five days. […]

For Immediate Release For further information, contact Suzanne Russ at editor@palestinechronicle.com “The Second Palestinian Uprising: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle”, published by Pluto Press in London, is now available in most bookstores and online […]

By James BrooksPalestineChronicle.com On September 26, the UN announced that the number of unexploded cluster “bomblets” left in southern Lebanon by Israeli forces may be three times higher than previous estimates. A million or more […]

By Uri AvneryPalestineChronicle.com  Is it possible to force a whole people to submit to foreign occupation by starving it? That is, certainly, an interesting question. So interesting, indeed, that the governments of Israel and the […]

War Powers – How the Imperial Presidency Hijacked the Constitution. Peter Irons.  Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company.  N.Y. 2005. 303 p. One of the requisites of any good presentation or argument is that the […]

GAZA – Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian woman in a Gaza Strip village where soldiers and Palestinian fighters continue to clash. Palestinian doctors said the woman was killed by an Israeli sniper while […]

Dear Editor of The Palestine Chronicle: So Bush claims that Democrats are unfit to lead!  Well, according to the pollsters, Americans might be coming around to their own views as to who is fit to […]

By Carl Gelderloos One image that sticks is the one of a boy throwing a rock at a tank. The boy, a Palestinian, is poised on the edge of release, one foot raised, rock hand […]

By Norman SolomonPalestineChronicle.com No one knows exactly how many Iraqi civilians have died from the war’s violence since the invasion of their country. The new study from public health researchers at Johns Hopkins University estimates […]

JERUSALEM (IRIN) – The number of Palestinian children who have already been killed this year in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, almost double the number for the whole of 2005, according to the United […]

By Amira Hass The Israel Defense Forces and the Civil Administration did well to inform the Israeli public about the steps being taken to ensure that the olive harvest is conducted properly; the season began […]

RAMALLAH — Defying the Israeli closures and intimidation, Palestinian women filmmakers are struggling to promote cinema in the occupied lands and to have their voice heard. "It’s hard to work in films here," Alia Arasoughly, […]

By Jonathan Cook The Middle East, and possibly the world, stands on the brink of a terrible conflagration as Israel and the United States prepare to deal with Iran’s alleged ambition to acquire nuclear weapons. […]

By Margo Sabella We are either living in a reverie or in denial. When someone you know gets injured in this conflict, you expect to have feelings of outrage, deep sadness, or at least the […]

By Tom Segev He embroiled Israel in a superfluous and failed war, and this week threatened to join up with the most Kahanist politician active in Israel since the death of Rehavam Ze’evi. What is […]

By Hasan Abu Nimah and Ali Abunimah       There are ominous signs that the long-contemplated plan to overthrow the democratically elected Hamas-led Palestinian Authority Cabinet is about to enter its most dangerous phase: a political coup, […]