By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com Attempts to coerce Palestinians into submission have not always manifested themselves in the crude form of a tank, a bullet, the withholding of aid, or the denial of freedom of movement. These […]

By Antony Loewenstein October 30, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the Knesset’s Security and Foreign Affairs Committee that the Israeli military had killed 300 "terrorists" in the Gaza Strip in the past three months. […]

By Ariadna TheokopoulosPalestineChronicle.com I was puzzled and embarrassed to read Uri Avneri’s recent article about the “decline of Israeli democracy." It was puzzling to me that several respected Internet publications accepted it and then again […]

By John ChuckmanPalestineChronicle.com Sadly, little coming from America’s politics can fire my enthusiasm. During my lifetime, America has busied itself with the task of burying liberalism, reminding one of October’s frenetic squirrels hunting and burying […]

By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com American and European official and public opinion reactions to Saddam Hussein’s guilty verdict on Sunday artificially removed both the trial and the death sentence out of context and focused instead on "flaws" […]

WORLD CAPITALS — World countries, the US excluded, reacted with horrified shock on Wednesday, November 8, to the Israeli shelling of Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip that killed the lives of twenty civilians, including […]

By Ahmed AmrPalestineChronicle.com “I lost my sister, my brother-in-law and five of my nieces and nephews this morning. I feel nothing now; I can’t find the right words. All I know that the attack wasn’t […]

By Jamal Juma PalestineChronicle.com The Israeli regime unleashes racist brutality that by far outstands the crimes of the previous apartheid regime in South Africa. It imprisons an entire people behind ghetto walls, kills them and […]

By Jim MilesPalestineChronicle.com The Road Map to Nowhere –Israel/Palestine Since 2003.  Tanya Reinhart.  Verso, New York, 2006.  Tanya Reinhart’s “Road Map to Nowhere” is an important and thorough extension of her previous work “Israel/Palestine”, continuing […]

By Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair Wherever they were given the opportunity, voters across the country went strongly for antiwar candidates. True, the national Democrats, led by Rahm Emanuel of the Democratic Congressional Campaign, […]

By Haaretz Editorial Yesterday, we wrote here that "Israel should declare a complete cease-fire in the Gaza Strip for a predetermined period, during which it will not engage in any violent actions, neither assassinations nor […]

BEIT HANUN, Gaza – Israeli occupation forces bombarded Wednesday, November 8, houses in the battered northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanun, killing nineteen Palestinians, including seven children and four women, in their sleep. "Israeli […]

(Press release, 11/08/2006) – The killing this morning of 18 civilians in the Palestinian town of Beit Hanoun, victims of Israeli shelling, was an appalling act, Amnesty International said today. The organization called for an […]

By Sami Abdel-Shafi in Gaza City The initiation of Avigdor Lieberman – widely regarded as an outright racist – into Ehud Olmert’s Israeli government seems to have already brought a taste of things to come. […]

By Robert Fisk So America’s one-time ally has been sentenced to death for war crimes he committed when he was Washington’s best friend in the Arab world. America knew all about his atrocities and even […]

By Danny Rubinstein  All the Palestinian spokespersons were unanimous this weekend in severely condemning the Israel Defense Forces’ operation in the town of Beit Hanun. Newspapers came out in special editions bearing big black headlines […]

By Rami AlmeghariPalestineChronicle.com    "The Israeli army soldiers are now blockading the mosque; while a number of resistance fighters are inside, where they have taken sanctuary for fear of being attacked.  Dozens of women made their […]

By Ivan Eland PalestineChronicle.com In the run-up to the mid-term elections, Vice-President Dick Cheney’s recent remarks about U.S. national security policy once again point out the Bush administration’s haughtiness and disdain for checks on executive […]

By Silvia Cattori "Bein Hanoon, with 30,000 inhabitants, has been the target of daily aggressions and air strikes since June 25. It is now besieged by Israeli troops. We have seen the tanks advance and […]

MIFTAH Calls for International Solidarity with the Palestinian People RAMALLAH, West Bank – The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH) urges the international community to take immediate action to end […]

GAZA CITY – Israeli snipers killed two Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, one of them a 12-year-old girl, Palestinian sources said. Six others, including at least four fighters, were killed in air strikes and clashes. […]

By Dr. William A. CookPalestineChronicle.com Now that the President and the Congress have corrected our Bill of Rights to remove the articles that prevented securing the nation against “terrorists,” articles V, VI, and VII, rights […]

By Joshua FrankPalestineChronicle.com Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has promised there will not be a change of course in Iraq if the Democrats take back Congress. Potential House leader Nancy Pelosi has assured voters […]

By Dr. Mustafa Barghouti Being a Palestinian is to know prison first hand. As anyone who went through prison knows, prisoners are often allowed to share the space within the wards and even fight for […]

By Ralph Nader The baying pack of belligerent draft dodgers–Messrs. Bush, Cheney and Limbaugh–were out in verbal force this week against John Kerry. The Senator miscued a joke about Bush by reading without the "us" […]

GAZA CITY – Israeli troops are reported to have killed five Palestinians in northern Gaza, three of them civilians including a 75-year-old, in one of its biggest operations in the coastal strip in months. Witnesses […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com Thousands of people recently marched in London to commemorate Quds Day, an annual day of solidarity with the Palestinian people that emanated from Tehran some 26 years ago. I neither wish to […]

By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com Avigdor Lieberman’s ascent to a strategic executive role in Israel has unmasked the artificial divide between left and right and revealed the mainstream ruling elite as still in consensus on the Zionist goals, […]

By Ahmed Yousef Here in Gaza, few dream of peace. For now, most dare only to dream of a lack of war. It is for this reason that Hamas proposes a long-term truce during which […]

By Uri Avnery PalestineChronicle.com In its original German form – Liebermann – the name means "lovable man". It is hard to imagine a name less appropriate for the new Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. He […]