By Jeffrey D. Sachs American foreign policy in the Middle East experienced yet another major setback this month, when Hamas, whose Palestinian government the United States had tried to isolate, routed the rival Fatah movement […]

It’s the Crude, Dude – War, Big Oil, and the Fight For the Planet.  Linda McQuaig. Anchor Canada (Random House).  2006. Reviewed by Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Originally published in 2004, this revised and updated […]

To the Editor: Just as a year ago, the "rulers" of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia were colluding with Israel to condemn Hezbollah for its resistance to Israeli aggression in Lebanon, now the "leaders" of […]

CAIRO — Now that they are the uncontested rulers of the lawless Gaza Strip, Hamas leaders have a clear set of priorities in sight. "We have a lot of clan violence in Gaza and we […]

By Joharah Baker In literary terms, the Palestinian situation could only be categorized under one genre: the theater of the absurd. The events of the past few weeks have reshuffled the cards, both locally and internationally […]

By Ariadna TheokopoulosSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com We had become used to muted differences and polite disagreements over one Israeli policy or another presented as proof of a vibrant debate in the Zionist discourse, pictured as a […]

By Oren Ben-Dor It is unethical to blame Israel’s 1967 occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem for events in Gaza. At the heart of the factional violence in Gaza and the political […]

CAIRO —  At face value, the summit gathering the leaders of Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday, June 25, looks like a routine […]

By Saree MakdisiPalestineChronicle.com In the West, there’s a huge sense of relief. The Hamas-led government that has been causing everyone so much trouble has been isolated in Gaza, and a new government has been appointed […]

By Mona El-FarraPalestineChronicle.com As a physician from Gaza, I have treated far too many Palestinians wounded by Israeli troops. Now a day has come that I thought I would never see. Throughout our 59-year struggle […]

By Katherine HughesPalestineChronicle.com At Precisely 7 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 11, 2006, 17 federal prisoners across the country were taken out of their cells, held in isolation for two days, then bused to the Federal […]

By Ulrike Putz in the Gaza Strip A building formerly occupied by Fatah’s intelligence service in Gaza was long notorious for torture and execution. Now Hamas is in control – and is letting former inmates […]

By Jonathan Steele Did they jump or were they pushed? Was Hamas’s seizure of Fatah security offices in Gaza unprovoked, or a pre-emptive strike to forestall a coup by Fatah? After last week’s turmoil, it […]

By Remi KanaziSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com A new craze is taking form in political circles throughout the international community. After the Gazan “civil war” which killed 90 people (only 617, 910 less than the American civil […]

By Philip Rizk in the Gaza StripSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com What does it take to get Israel to just begin recognizing some Palestinian human rights? 1. Carry out democratic elections2. Determine a government according to the […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com The Bush administration may live in a bubble of “unreality,” regarding its foreign policy in Iraq, but neo-conservatives inhabit a parallel universe on Iran. Unbelievably, despite the fact that the U.S. quagmire […]

By Ali Abunimah The US decision to back Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas in the recent turmoil virtually guarantees an escalation in violence. Abbas has installed an unelected "emergency" government to replace the democratically elected […]

By Sami Abdel Shafi Gaza is a place of captivity. Yet, when the violent clashes between Fatah and Hamas erupted on our streets this week, my wife and I wanted to defy them. We did […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Michel Chossudovsky is a noted academic, author, activist and relentless researcher concentrating on America’s imperial crusade to control planet earth for its markets, resources and cheap exploitable labor.  He’s a […]

By Felicity ArbuthnotSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com “First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out […]

GAZA CITY — Israeli occupation forces killed on Wednesday, June 20, at least six Palestinians in attacks inside the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank. Four Palestinian resistance activists were killed in skirmishes with […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com All my forewarnings have suddenly actualized, all at once: Gaza has descended into total and utter chaos; Abbas has capitulated to Israel and to the United States without a shred […]

By: Omar BarghoutiSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com When I saw some of the images coming out of the infighting in Gaza last week, I suppressed my anguish and steaming anger, recalling the wise, almost prophetic, words of […]

To the Editor: Re: Jeff Blankfort: Comments on Stephen Zunes’ Articlehttp://www.palestinechronicle.com/story-061607143438.htm Please let your readers know that Jeff Blankfort is yet again misrepresenting me and my views.  Contrary to a series of charges he has […]

By Ben WhiteThe PalestineChronicle.com Major news stories from Palestine/Israel are often accompanied by what becomes a self-reinforcing "vocabulary," typically generated by Israeli government ministries or other propaganda outlets, and then picked up by the Western […]

By Hasan Afif El-HasanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The Palestinians rightfully blame Britain for planting the seeds of the catastrophe that befell them in the Balfour Declaration. But the Palestinian leaders themselves are responsible in large part […]

By Eugene Bird and Carlton Cobb The Hamas takeover of Gaza is only the latest tragic result of a series of U.S.-Israeli missteps in the Middle East. America’s failed intervention in Palestinian politics, however, is […]

By Sam BahourSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Shock and Awe is a US invention in the same way that the US flavor of “shrink wrapped” democracy is a US creation.  As the Bush Administration failed to export […]

By Philip Rizk in GazaSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The conversation at the lunch table with Isa and May, Elias and Rana was just about two things, immigrating and what the most vital shopping items are for […]

By Peter Beaumont Here is how democracy works in the Alice in Wonderland world of Palestinian politics under the tutelage of the US and international community. After years of being hectored to hold elections and […]