By Robert Fisk Laila al-Arian was wearing her headscarf at her desk at Nation Books, one of my New York publishers. No, she told me, it would be difficult to telephone her father. At the […]

By Ben WhiteSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Even as the British marines were released without charge from Iranian custody to return home to Britain, the media couldn’t help but enjoy one last spasm of outrage over the […]

By Sami Abdel-Shafi It is genuinely difficult, impossible in fact, to even imagine that one is free in Gaza, for Israel’s military policies continue to forbid Palestinian movement. It is truly strange, though, that we […]

By Aimee Rhodes Jerusalem Post NEW YORK – The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces raised a record $18 million at its annual gala dinner held last week in New York City. Transportation Minister Shaul […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Sami Al-Arian is one of many dozens, likely hundreds, of political prisoners in the US today but is noteworthy because of his high-profile status and as an especially egregious example […]

By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com Bracing for 2008 presidential election, US Democrats in opposition and the ruling Republicans have embroiled the American public in a political crisis between the executive and legislative powers over deadlines for combat operations […]

By Joshua FrankPalestineChronicle.com Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California silently resigned from her post on the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee (MILCON) late last week as her ethical limbo with war contracts began to surface in […]

By Miko Peled Special to PalestineChronicle.com Thanks to the Israeli press, people in Israel are informed regularly about their government’s mistreatment of the 4.5 million Palestinians under their rule.  Most of the information regarding the […]

By Patrick Cockburn in Arbil, Iraq A failed US attempt to abduct two senior Iranian security officers on an official visit to northern Iraq was the starting pistol for a crisis that ten weeks later […]

By Scott Jaschik Norman G. Finkelstein has been more controversial off his campus than on it. On his frequent speaking tours to colleges, where he typically discusses Israel in highly critical ways, Finkelstein draws protests […]

By James PetrasPalestineChronicle.com An understanding of US imperial policy in the Middle East requires an analysis, which centres on four points: 1)  The power and influence of Israel and the Zionist power configuration over US […]

By Elias Akleh Wednesday March 28th had witnessed the nineteenth Arab Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Such summits had been a source of anxiety for the Arab population, since they had been accustomed to see […]

By Norman SolomonPalestineChronicle.com The media spectacle that John McCain made of himself in Baghdad on Sunday was yet another reprise of a ghastly ritual. Senator McCain expressed "very cautious optimism" and told reporters that the […]

By Uri Avnery Can a pantheress turn into a pussycat? Impossible, a zoologist would say. But last week, we saw it happen with our own eyes. Condoleezza Rice came here to teach Ehud Olmert, once […]

By James PetrasPalestineChronicle.com On Monday, March 26, 2007 in Northern Gaza a river of raw sewage and debris overflowed from a collapsed earth embankment into a refugee camp driving 3,000 Palestinians from their homes. Five […]

By Simon Tisdall Uzi Arad, former director of intelligence at Israel’s spy agency, Mossad, has made a lifetime’s study of revolutionary Iran. If international sanctions and diplomatic arm-twisting fail to halt its suspect nuclear activities, […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com President Bush has scolded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for visiting Syria. In the president’s opinion, shared by others, the U.S. government should speak with just one voice overseas. Yet that view flies […]

By Rami Almeghari in GazaPalestineChronicle.com The Um Al Nasser village, on the northern Gaza-Israel borders, woke up on Tuesday to tens of thousands of gallons of sewage water flooding it’s small cottages.  Many of the […]

‘A New Horizon of Peace’: (Condoleezza Rice during a recent visit to the Middle East)      Is there a genuine new peace initiative?Ramzy Baroud The Editor-in-chief of the US online paper The Palestine Chronicle and renowned […]

By Ruth Tenne PalestineChronicle.com The latest report of the International Development Select Committee regarding the Occupied Palestinian Territories (31 January 2007) makes for very distressing reading. In its section on trade, it refers to the […]

By Jamal JumaPalestineChronicle.com Palestinians in our homeland and the Diaspora remember the 30th of May as Land Day. On this day in 1976, six Palestinians were killed and a hundred injured by Israeli forces as […]

By Dina Ezzat This week in the Saudi capital for the annual Arab summit — and indeed in the lead-up to the Riyadh meetings — the Arab peace initiative was the uncontested focus of attention. […]

By Jim Miles PalestineChronicle.com  I initially came across Zbigniew (with the ‘w’ pronounced as an ‘f’) Brzezinski’s new title “Second Chance” while watching the Jon Stewart show on-line.[1]  During the interview, Brzezinski gave the impression […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com  The Stockholm air was too cold, even for the most animated speaker to excite a crowd. But I had little choice: thousands of anti-war protesters had descended on the capital’s main square […]

By Dr. Salman Abu-Sitta Why should I, a Jew from north London, be permitted to take up Israeli citizenship, when that right is denied to a Palestinian who languishes in a refugee camp in Lebanon? […]