By Dr. Daud AbdullahPalestineChronicle.com It was a calculated and willful attack on defenseless civilians while they slept. The systematic killing of Palestinian civilians has been central pillar of the Zionist project from its inception. Beit […]

By Greg Myre ROAD 60, West Bank (NYT) — For four years, the separation barrier Israel has been building just inside the West Bank boundary has drawn protests from Palestinians and international censure for the […]

By Nidal al-Mughrabi Beit Hanoiun, Gaza (Reuters) – A senior United Nations official described Gaza as suffering "massive" human rights violations during a visit to the territory on Monday and urged all sides to be […]

By Joharah Baker One of the most dangerous, and most insidious, powers of time is that it can slowly neutralize issues that once evoked strong sentiments. Of course, this has a positive side to it, […]

Target Iran – The Truth About the White House’s Plans for Regime Change.  Scott Ritter.  Nation Books, New York, 2006. Review by Jim MilesFor PalestineChronicle.com The mid-term elections have gone against the Republican desires and […]

By Jason Yossef Ben-MeirFor PalestineChronicle.com The United Nation’s High Level Group for the Alliance of Civilizations recently issued its final report, which included ambitious and important recommendations to bridge the divide between Western nations and […]

HERBON (ISM) – A 19-year old Swedish human rights worker had her cheekbone broken by a Jewish extremist in Hebron today. Earlier the same day at least five Palestinians, including a 3-year-old child, were injured […]

By Carlton Cobb To a full audience on Capitol Hill, Oxford scholar of religion Karen Armstrong argued last week that fundamentalist movements within each of the three faiths involved in the Arab-Israeli conflict, Christianity, Islam, […]

By Uri Avnery For PalestineChronicle.com Thank God for the American elections," our ministers and generals sighed with relief. They were not rejoicing at the kick that the American people delivered to George W. Bush’s ass […]

By Ralph Nader Bush’s Brain, Karl Rove, outsmarted himself and lost a chance to keep control of the Senate in Republican hands. It started and ended in the Connecticut Senate race with Democratic Senator Joseph […]

By Kathy Kelly  For PalestineChronicle.com Barely a day goes by when I don’t learn a new report about a beleaguered Iraqi refugee, or of an entire family, in desperate need of help. We think hard, […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com  “God is greater than Israel and America,” was the echoing cry of tens of thousands of Palestinians, who descended into the graveyard in grief stricken Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip. […]

By Jennifer LoewensteinFor PalestineChronicle.com A clear and warm November evening; sun sets in a violence of color to the west over the sea and a full luminescent moon on the rise over Beit Hanoun in […]

By Lena Khalaf TuffahaPalestineChronicle.com President Carter’s latest book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" (Simon and Schuster 2006), released this week, has been primed for controversy. Weeks before it hit the bookshelves, election-hungry Democrats were disavowing it […]

By Mamoon AlabbasiPalestineChronicle.com The recent massacre that killed about eighteen people, mostly women and children, in Beit Hanoun as a result of a direct Israeli attack is nothing new, horrid as it is. Also expected […]

By Tariq ShadidPalestineChronicle.com Politicians in Europe, being better informed than the masses, are well aware that the results of the American mid-term elections are unlikely to cause a drastic change in American foreign policy. The […]

GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations top human rights body on Wednesday condemned "gross and systematic" human rights violations by Israel in Gaza and sent a mission to probe the killing of 19 Palestinian civilians […]

By Maria C. KhouryPalestineChronicle.com On my first day at work with the project to establish the new International Academy of Art in Palestine, I had no idea what Tayseer Barakat, the popular Palestinian artist meant […]

Saree MakdisiPalestineChronicle.com Former President Jimmy Carter’s new book, which slaps the “apartheid” label on Israel, comes out this week. Before the book hit the stands though, members of his own party rushed to distance themselves […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com Most of official Washington has long believed that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld needed to be sacked. Unfortunately it took a major Republican loss at the polls to finally prompt George W. […]

By Amira Hass The management of the Beit Hanun hospital decided to dig a well in the hospital’s yard. By Saturday, laborers and bulldozers were already on the job. That is how the hospital is […]

By Kathleen and Bill Christison At a panel on the defense and foreign policy impact of the midterm election, sponsored two days after the election by Congressional Quarterly, Steven Simon, late of the Clinton administration […]

GAZA CITY — Despite a court order, Israel is banning hundreds of Palestinians from studying in the occupied West Bank, which has better educational facilities than Gaza Strip, a poor, arid strip of land that […]

By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com Arabs, at least at the non-official level, were quick to hail President George W. Bush’s mid-term electoral defeat and the humiliating downfall of his war architect Donald Rumsfeld, but cheering the Democrats’ […]

By  Daniel Patrick Welch  PalestineChronicle.com Giddy as Mikado schoolgirls, Democrats and their allies on the left are positively gushing over their election gains of November 7. In the US’ two-party duopoly, voters are restricted to […]

By Sarah WhalenPalestineChronicle.com Last month, I selected a candidate for the U.S. Congress I liked and wanted to vote for.  And I wanted to tell everyone who passed by my house that this was the […]

CAIRO – Infuriated by the latest American veto that block a mere international condemnation of the Beit Hanun massacre, Arab foreign ministers decided Sunday, November 12, to break a US-led international aid freeze imposed on […]

By Jennifer Loewenstein  PalestineChronicle.com  An opened jaw with yellowed teeth gaped out of its bloodied shroud. The rest of the head parts were wrapped in a plastic bag placed atop the jaw and nostrils, as […]

By Donald Macintyre in Beit Hanoun Majdi Saad Athamneh couldn’t easily explain why he had come back after Friday prayers yesterday to the now empty, four-storey breeze-block building where it had all happened two days […]

By Felicity ArbuthnotPalestineChronicle.com Fate certainly deals a strange hand. President Bush Jr., commented on the conviction of President Saddam Hussein, for crimes against humanity, in Waco, Texas, site of the massacre of the Branch Davidian […]