By Paul de RooijSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Most inhabitants of Western countries are afflicted by nefarious delusions about the nature of their societies and government policy; the public at large is led to believe that their […]

By Ramzy Baroud Special to PalestineChronicle.com It is Edward Bernays who fine-tuned the art of public relations in the 20th century. Using many of the psychoanalytic theories put forward by his uncle Sigmund Freud, he developed […]

CAIRO — British foreign policy had damaged the country’s reputation in the Arab and Muslim world and weakened its ability to influence the political situation in the Middle East, a report by an influential parliamentary […]

By Nicola NasserSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com  The major political players who are involved in sealing off 1.5 million Palestinians into an open air prison in the world’s most densely populated 360-square-kilometre area of the Gaza Strip […]

By Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, Ph.D.Special to PalestineChronicle.com I just returned from my latest trip to Palestine, or at least to the part of Palestine I still have access to as a Palestinian Christian. You see, […]

By Agustin VellosoSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com 1. Supporting Palestinian resistance: today as in 1947 After receiving from Chilean e-journal www.hojaderuta.org ("hoja de ruta" means "roadmap") the question “What does it mean today to engage in political […]

By Kathy Kelly in Amman, JordanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com “GET A JOB!” These three words are very familiar to activists bearing signs calling for an end to war, whether standing on street corners, walking along highways, […]

By Gilad Atzmon Special to PalestineChronicle.com “A few reasons help to create the Nasrallah obsession (‘dibuk’), that influenced decision makers along the (Second Lebanon) war. Primarily, Israel always perceived the Arab (leaders) as (private) people […]

The White Man’s Burden – Why The West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. William Easterly. Penguin Books, New York, 2006. By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com This […]

By Emma Clancy  The campaign to isolate Israel through boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) has taken meaningful steps forward in the past few months, with major trade unions in Britain, Ireland, South Africa and Canada […]

By Ramzy Baroud For 62 years since the foundation of the United Nations’ Security Council, the Palestinians did not manage to have any kind of sway that would allow them to block or amend a […]

By Régis Debray  Le Monde diplomatique Dennis Ross, formerly the United States envoy to the Middle East, admitted back in 2000 that mistakes had been made in the 1978 Camp David accords: the diplomatic process […]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – A Palestinian man has been killed and at least 10 people injured near Al-Khalil gate in the Old City of occupied east Jerusalem, Israeli police and medics said. They said the man seized […]

By Azmi Bishara Modern Turkey has never experienced as extended a period of stability and economic growth as it has under the last government. This government was led by the Justice and Development Party, which […]

By Jeff Halper On paper, the headlines sound promising, even stirring. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas at their meeting in Jericho that he would push for the establishment of a […]

By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Between the Lines – Readings on Israel, The Palestinians, and the U.S. “War on Terror”. Edited by Tikva Honig-Parnass and Toufi Haddad.  Haymarket Books, Chicago, Ill., 2007. This work is […]

By Roger H. LiebermanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Sixty-two years ago this week, the most destructive terrorist bombings in world history took place. On August 6, 1945, the United States Air Force dropped a 15-kiloton atom bomb […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Ferdinand Lundberg (1905 – 1995) was a 20th century economist, journalist, historian and author of such books as The Rich and the Super-Rich: A Study in the Power of Money […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Government Free Style Lundberg destroyed the popular myth of a government constrained by constitutional checks and balances.  In fact, it can and repeatedly has done anything judged expedient, with or […]

By Amira Hass For about 25 minutes, they behaved liked lords of the land: One man, followed later by a young guy, descended from Mitzpeh Yair, one of the unauthorized outposts in the southern Mt. […]

Israel has virtually denied Palestinians in the occupied West Bank the right to movement through a labyrinth of checkpoints and barriers set up to protect illegal Jewish settlements, an Israeli human rights group said in […]

By Andrew Lee Butters  GAZA CITY – On Patrol in Shijaiyah, the toughest neighborhood in Gaza City, Lieut. Naim Ashraf Mushtaha, 31, an officer of the Hamas Executive Force, spots a man in civilian clothes […]

By Francis BoyleSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The belligerent Bush Jr. administration’s policies against the state of Palestine in order to depose its democratically- elected government by organizing an internal coup d’état in Gaza by means of […]

Special to PalestineChronicle.com Israel’s illegal settlement project and security policies are being pursued relentlessly and without interruption in the West Bank, despite the latest attempts to allow the Palestinian Authority (PA) to administer its own […]

By Danny Rubinstein The Olmert government in Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, headed by Mahmoud Abbas, are in the midst of renewed political activity, encouraged by intensive American efforts. There have been […]

By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com War Law – Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict.  Michael Byers.  Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, Canada. 2005. Written as the crisis in Iraq was worsening with each news report, this […]

By Kathy KellySpecial to PalestineChronicle.com At a small, informal school in the basement of a church in Amman, many strings of colorful paper cranes bedeck walls and windows. The school serves children whose families have fled […]

A growing number of Israeli celebrities are dodging compulsory military service, prompting increasing calls for strict draft rules putting all Israelis on equal terms. "It does bother me that so many celebrities did not serve […]

By Dr. Hasan El-HasanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Golda Meir said in 1969 “there is no such thing as Palestinian people ..It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They […]

By Rannie AmiriSpecial to Palestinechronicle.com Sometimes a foreign policy gambit is anticipated to be so successful there is no need to keep it secret. In fact, it can be made public. Such was the case […]