By Anne-Beatrice Clasmann in Rafah Heat, hopelessness and the feeling of having been abandoned are what Mohammed Sukkar, 32, must continue to endure for the foreseeable future. Yet 12 days ago when his father died […]

By Uri Avnery PalestineChronicle.com Last week, James Wolfensohn gave a long interview to Haaretz. He poured out his heart and summed up, with amazing openness, his months as special envoy of the US, Russia, the […]

By Arthur Nelson It’s always nice to start a new job with a trick up your sleeve, and the Middle East’s new envoy Tony Blair could be forgiven for thinking he has just that. In […]

By Kathy Kelly in Amman, JordanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Last weekend was an important one, regarding education, here in Jordan. Jordanian high school students learned the results of exams qualifying them (or not) for University studies. […]

By Nicola NasserSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Converging U.S. – Iran interests in Iraq are creating a common ground for an “Iranian option” for President George W. Bush that could be developed into an historical foreign policy […]

By Shafiq MortonSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com  It’s exactly a year since I landed in Beirut , our cargo plane – aptly named “Guts Airline” – staying on the ground just long enough to unload before taking […]

CAIRO – A group of evangelical leaders have signaled a rare support for the creation of a Palestinian state, drawing immediate reprimands from fellow evangelical figures, The New York Times reported on Sunday, July 29. […]

By William James Martin Special to PalestineChronicle.com In the 1976 presidential debates, candidate Jimmy Carter told President Ford that Ford’s only accomplishment in office had been avoiding another Watergate. Carter, who would become President Ford’s […]

By Hasan Afif El-HassanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Early Israelis killed messengers if they did not like the message. They don’t need to kill messengers today anymore. They limit the scope of their messages. Back in 1948, […]

Review by Ruth Tenne The First Six Days: Nandita Dowson and Abdul Wahab Sabbah  (Eds)  – Published by Camden-Abu-Dis Friendship Association, CADFA ,2007 (www.camdenabudis.org)  The First Six Days is a tale of the dispossessed, humiliated, […]

By Sonja Karkar Just about every report and article written in the Western media these past weeks have focused on the rift between Fatah and Hamas and US overtures to broker a peace deal that […]

By Kathleen Christison – Former CIA AnalystPalestineChronicle.com "Coup" is the word being widely used to describe what happened in Gaza in June when Hamas militias defeated the armed security forces of Fatah and chased them […]

By Marwan Arikat Special to PalestineChronicle.com On July 17th, 2007, The Palestinian National Liberation Movement , Fatah, has been declared dead by one of its leaders, Mahmoud Abbas. There will be no funerals, because it […]

By Norman Solomon Last week, a media advisory from "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" announced a new series of interviews on the PBS show that will address "what Iraq might look like when the U.S. […]

By Francis A. Boyle  PalestineChronicle.com Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s installation of George W. Bush as President in January of 2001, the peoples of the world have witnessed a government in the United States of […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The Hamas government crackdown on Mohamed Dahlan’s corrupt security forces and affiliated gangs in the Gaza Strip in June appears to mark a turning point in the Bush administration’s foreign […]

Israel has reportedly authorised 1,000 rifles to be shipped to security forces in the West Bank loyal to Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president. The weapons were transported from Jordan according to the report in the […]

By Joharah Baker No one should be surprised by the current deterioration in Palestinian internal affairs. Never has there been such a gash down the middle of our society, painfully dividing and alienating us from […]

By Serene Assir As the border crisis triggered by Israel’s closure of the Rafah terminal entered its fifth week, clashes broke out at Arish Airport in North Sinai, where 108 Palestinians are stranded. The incident, […]

By Joshua Frank Special to PalestineChronicle.com Richard Holbrooke likes Hillary Clinton. In fact he may well be asked to serve as Secretary of State if she is to win the presidential campaign next year. Holbrooke, […]

By Rannie AmiriSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com It is the one year anniversary of the “Second Lebanon War” as the Israelis now call it. It took them nearly as long to finally decide on a name for […]

Foreign ministers from Egypt and Jordan are due to hold talks with Israeli leaders in Jerusalem to promote a Middle East peace plan adopted by the Arab League. Ahmed Abul Gheit, Egypt’s foreign minister, and Abdel […]

Faulting the international community’s approach to the Hamas-led Palestinian government, the British House of Lords called on the European Union Tuesday, July 24, to engage Hamas as a key Palestinian player. "We believe that the […]

By Phyllis Bennis  Pretty much no one is taking it seriously.  Even mainstream analysts usually willing to take Bush administration Middle East initiatives at face value are rolling their collective eyes. The New York Times’ […]

By Kathy KellySpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Last week, Umm Daoud, (her name means "Mother of Daoud"), met me and three friends at a bridge that crosses into her neighborhood. It was just after sundown; the streets […]

By Akiva Eldar The realization slowly began to dawn on Dror Etkes when the Civil Administration notified him that its inspectors had issued demolition orders for the structures built by Amona settlers in 1997 next to […]

By M. Shahid AlamSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com  “History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn […]

The Israeli government has, for the first time, approved a school textbook for Arab pupils that includes the Palestinian view of the creation of Israel. The book, which will be used in the public school system […]

By Uri AvneryPalestineChronicle.com  In a classical American western, the difference is as glaring as the midday sun in Colorado: there are Good Guys and Bad Guys. The good ones are the settlers, who are making […]

By Timothy SeidelPalestineChronicle.com Exclusive I thought about the irony as I walked the grounds of the old Orthodox Church, surveying the church and the new wall being constructed around it.  We were visiting with members […]