By Dr. Haidar Eid Special to PalestineChronicle.com Article I of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states clearly that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” It does not, however, […]

By Uri Avnery PalestineChronicle.com The Annapolis conference is a joke. Though not in the least funny. Like quite a lot of political initiatives, this one too, according to all the indications, started more or less […]

By Joharah Baker When late President Yasser Arafat declared an independent Palestinian state on November 15, 1988, it is fairly safe to say that the situation today is not what he envisioned. The bloodletting that […]

By Ben White A few weeks ago, the Oxford University Union held a debate on the "one-state solution" in Palestine/Israel. Before the speakers had even taken to the floor, however, the event was the focus […]

By Ben White Special to PalestineChronicle.com At the core of much of the discussions scheduled to take place in Annapolis later this month will be ‘rights’: human rights, refugee rights, the right to access holy sites, […]

By Haroon SiddiqueGuardian Unlimited Israeli companies are using UK property shows to sell housing in illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Guardian Unlimited can reveal. At the Israel Property Exhibition at Brent town […]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Wrestling with memories of their compulsory military service that they would rather erase, six former Israeli female conscripts have spoken out in a new documentary about the darker side of the Israeli […]

By Jime MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Treacherous Alliance – the secret dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States. Trita Parsi. Yale University Press, New Haven. 2007 As the prospects of a limited ‘strike’ or a […]

By Philip RizkSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com I spoke to Jamal and his family on Skype today. Abdallah is learning new songs in Kindergarten and was practicing them with me, Mohamed invited me for lunch and Maysa, […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The people of Somalia are enduring yet another round of suffering as Ethiopian forces wreck havoc in the capital, Mogadishu. Apparently in response to an attack on one of its […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com Pakistani president Gen. Pervez Musharraf is now teetering on the edge of the abyss, just as I predicted in the spring of 2007. He was pushed there by U.S. policy, and worse […]

By Pablo OuzielSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com On August the 1st 1969, Time magazine quoted Generalissimo Francisco Franco saying; "Conscious of my responsibility before God and history and taking into account the qualities to be found in […]

SEATTLE/LONDON – Media specialists are invited to participate in a groundbreaking new media project: ‘The People Media Project’, which according to its founder, aims at promoting a broader and more balanced understanding of global issues, […]

By George McLeod ‘I have no regrets," says Norman Finkelstein, after losing one of the most divisive and publicised campus battles in US history.  Despite student demonstrations and sit-ins, protests from some of the world’s […]

By Stephen Lendman Special to PalestineChronicle.com B’Tselem is the conservative Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories with a well-deserved reputation for accuracy. A group of prominent academics, attorneys, journalists and Knesset […]

By Terry Walz Gaza is reverting to its status as the largest of the Palestinian refugee camps. It is a bleak and hopeless territory twice the size of Washington, DC where 1.5 million inhabitants eke […]

By James PetrasSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Introduction Venezuela’s democratically elected Present Chavez faces the most serious threat since the April 11, 2002 military coup. Violent street demonstrations by privileged middle and upper middle class university students […]

By June Rugh Ramzy Baroud, veteran Palestinian-American journalist and Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Chronicle, recently completed a speaking tour of the United States’ East Coast to promote his second book, The Second Palestinian Intifada: A […]

By Sonja KarkarSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com With the beating of war drums sounding louder by the day, the US is nevertheless engaging its Middle East protagonists in an elaborate dance for peace that it hopes will […]

By Uri Avnery PalestineChronicle.com Israel is an island in the global sea. We live in a bubble. This week I was sharply reminded of this. I was returning home from Germany. On the eve of […]

By Nicola NasserSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Discreetly but progressively and confidently the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is expanding south and southeast almost uncontested — after the collapse of the former USSR-led Warsaw Pact — outside […]

By Felicity Arbuthnot Special to PalestineChronicle.com Iraq is now threatened with a flood of biblical proportions. The Mosul dam, thirty miles north of Iraq’s ancient third city is likely to burst, due to the mismanagement […]

By Philip RizkSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The blame game surrounding Gaza’s current political and social crisis is too unilateral and simplistic. In the public sphere responsibility for the instability of Gaza and the general Palestinian political […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com After years of marked absence, the Bush administration has finally decided to upgrade its involvement in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The announcement of a Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland […]

By Kathleen and Bill Christison – Former CIA AnalystsPalestineChronicle.com One hesitates to criticize these enterprises. They’re so well meaning, and it seems so curmudgeonly. But the myriad efforts around the world to bring the children […]

By William CookSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Shakespeare’s Caesar caustically commented, "Cowards die many times before their deaths; /The valiant never taste of death but once." Curious how our lawmakers huddle behind their sophistries, their voice votes, […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The Islamic Republic of Pakistan was established in August 1947 when its majority Muslim population separated from British-controlled India and became a sovereign state. Since then, the country has been […]

By Hussein Al-alak, The Iraq Solidarity CampaignSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Once more the destructive nature of Iraq’s democracy, has exposed the damaged minds of those, whose hatred of the Iraqi people has allowed their own ambitions […]

CAIRO – While Palestinians were holding their breath in anticipation of the upcoming US-sponsored peace process, Israel was busy accelerating settlement building in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli peace group said on Wednesday, November […]

Special ReportPalestineChronicle.com “IDF soldiers on Tuesday morning killed the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades commander in the old city of Nablus, Bassam Abu-Seria, also known as Gaddafi, Palestinian sources reported.” 1 “Three Fatah members were injured in […]