By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com James Petras is Binghamton University, New York Professor Emeritus of Sociology whose credentials and achievements are long and impressive. He’s a noted academic figure on the left and a well-respected […]

Al-BIREH, Ramallah Summary Report “The Campaign for the Boycott of Israel will re-vitalize popular resistance and restore dignity to the Palestinian people” An important mile-stone in building the global BDS campaign was achieved in Ramallah […]

By Stephen Lendman  Special to PalestineChronicle.com November 27 at Annapolis kicks off the latest Israeli-Palestinian Middle East peace process round that may be an historic first. It’s the first time in memory the legitimate government […]

By David HardakerABC News, Australia Israeli authorities are under fire after the death of a 21-year-old Palestinian man who was barred from leaving the Gaza Strip for cancer treatment in Israel. Human rights workers say […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com What do an organic farmer from Spain, a union worker activist from Brazil and a human rights scholar living in London have in common? They are all individuals who affect […]

By William A. Cook Special to PalestineChronicle.com "A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel; for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the Lord […]

By Dr. Elias AklehPalestineChronicle.com Palestinians share one common experience with North and South American Native Indians, with Australian Aborigines, and with New Zealand Ma’oris. They all have been subjected to settler colonialism. Settler colonialism, usually […]

By Alberto CruzPalestineChronicle.com   The Venezuelan political process, that people there describe as Bolivarian, is systematically demonized not just by the bourgeois media but also by some supposed progressives. They tend to focus more on the […]

By Prof. Francis BoylePalestineChronicle.com [As you will see from the list below, it seems the US has invited practically everyone in the world to this fandango — from Poland to Sweden to Slovenia to Yemen […]

By William A. Cook     Special to PalestineChronicle.com I woke from a dream last night with a sudden start, the world had turned inside out … the sun did not shine, the moon did not come […]

By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies – Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation. Barbara Slavin. St. Martin’s Press, New York. 2007. If I had to provide an overall rating […]

By Kim BullimoreSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The situation in Palestine continues to deteriorate, both on a political scale and humanitarian scale. The international blockade of Gaza and the continued illegal collective punishment of its residents by […]

By Sam Husseini  PalestineChronicle.com Many from across the political spectrum seemed surprised when Pat Robertson recently endorsed Rudy Giuliani for president, but this was only the most recent manifestation one of the worst aspects of […]

By Terry WalzPalestineChronicle.com Invitations have gone out to some 50 countries and international agencies involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to attend an international meeting on Israel and Palestine organized by the United States and scheduled […]

By Dr. Hasan Afif El-HasanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com It is the election ritual season in the US. Presidential aspirants are campaigning, debating issues and attacking each other. Candidates from both major parties seem to have profound […]

By Robert HiggsPalestineChronicle.com In 1958, the New Left sociologist C. Wright Mills made a seminal contribution to political science in his book The Causes of World War Three, by introducing the concept of “crackpot realism.” […]

By Sherri MuzherSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Here we go again with another meaningless “couples’ therapy” session with no concrete goals or meaningful substance.  Palestine is the spouse that wants to discuss tangible issues.  Israel appears to […]

By Agustin VellosoSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com On Sunday, 11th November 2007, at about four o’clock in the morning, the pharmacist Salim Madani is in Sufa, the only border post to the Gaza Strip that the government […]

By Dan LiebermanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Discussing the proposed Annapolis Conference, in face-to-face talks with the prime ministers, foreign ministers and non-government officials (NGOs) of Israel, Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, revealed how far we […]

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 […]