By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com The most recent fighting in the Gaza Strip, which has left many people dead, confirms that the internal strife plaguing the Occupied Territories since the advent of Hamas to power in January […]

By Kathy Kelly PalestineChronicle.com Earlier this week, I received a joyful phone call from Baghdad. Members of a family I’ve known since 1996 announced that one of their younger daughters was engaged. Broken Arabic and […]

By Ewen MacAskill Washington – The US government delivered a mild but rare rebuke to Israel yesterday when the state department said ith might have misused American-made cluster bombs in its offensive against Lebanon last […]

By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com The crisis in Lebanon is rapidly accumulating the potential to plunge the country in a second civil war, while Israel is closely watching on the sidelines for the right moment to exploit the […]

By Ruth Tenne   PalestineChronicle.com           Western governments have so far refused to recognize the Palestinian Hamas government democratically elected in January 2006. Economic aid to the Palestinian government was curtailed and Israel is unlawfully withholding tax […]

By Jim MilesPalestineChronicle.com Much has been made of the Iraqi situation and the similarities with the Vietnam War.  As most American wars have been essentially wars of an imperialist nature (World War I was mostly […]

By Joharah Baker When people say the world is a different place after September 11, 2001, they are absolutely right. Of course, there have been changes at several levels, which have run deep beneath the […]

By Joshua FrankPalestineChronicle.com Shortly after President Bush’s State of the Union address last week Jim Webb, the freshman Senator from Virginia, delivered the Democrats’ televised response to Bush’s annual speech. Many antiwar progressives were pleased […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com Dinesh D’Souza, a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford University, has raised a ruckus in his new book The Enemy at Home. In the book, he contends that the 9/11 […]

By Khader Saba Abu Abbara The break out of violence and the disastrous situation currently prevailed in West Bank and Gaza became a grieving and intimidating issue for most of the Palestinians who rejected and […]

By Daniel Patrick WelchPalestineChronicle.com I’m putting my mother into bed and the high-pitched urgency of MSNBC’s ‘this just in’ crisis reporting cuts through evening calm. Same on CNN, and I don’t even bother to check […]

Dear Editor: "There is a 50/50 chance the United States will attack Iran, and any such strike would risk spreading sectarian violence throughout the Middle East," Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa has said. Having […]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Three Israelis were killed on Monday, January 29, when a Palestinian blew himself up in a bakery in Israel\’s Red Sea resort of Eilat, the first such attack inside Israeli in nine […]

By Ben WhitePalestineChronicle.com There is no doubt that to witness the Hamas-Fatah confrontations is a discomforting experience for those working for justice for the Palestinians. On the most basic level, it is distressing to see […]

By Tariq ShadidPalestineChronicle.com  Auto-mutilation, in psychiatry, is always a shocking phenomenon to those who witness it the first time. To the spectator, it is incomprehensible why a person would inflict wounds upon himself. Wounds of […]

By George Bisharat One day in 1981, my late father, Maurice Hanna Bisharat, returned from a long day at his Sacramento, Calif., medical office with an extra bounce in his step, his eyes dancing with […]

GAZA – Fatah has postponed unity government talks with rival Hamas after at least nine people were killed and 24 others abducted in factional violence across the Palestinian Territories. The clashes on Friday marred celebrations […]

By Christopher Brauchli There’s one thing George Bush knows. You don’t get to be the biggest arms merchant in the world by only selling arms to friends. If that were the case the only countries […]

By Jim AbourezkPalestineChronicle.com Democrats in Congress have moved quickly – and commendably – to strengthen ethics rules. But truly groundbreaking reform was prevented, in part, because of the efforts of the pro-Israel lobby to preserve […]

By Ruth TennePalestineChronicle.com In the wake of Israel’s threat of  striking   Iran’s  nuclear facilities and the  recent  earth-scorching  bombardment of Lebanon  (summer 2006 ), the escalating  arming of  Israel   has become a  burning issue .  […]

By Ahmed AmrPalestineChronicle.com As cheerleaders for Israel go, it is hard to beat Alan Dershowitz. If ever there was a coward and a hypocrite – it has to be this Likudnik operator who postures as […]

President George W. BushThe White House1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NWWashington, DC 20500 Dear President Bush, As a person of faith, I can no longer stand by and let you continue the evil path you have chosen.  […]

By Sami Abdel-Shafi Palestinians, who have had to endure Israel’s siege on their freedom of movement and economic activity, have also been faced with sharp disagreements between Hamas and Fatah. Silence about the detailed status […]

By Jim MilesPalestineChronicle.com Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Mackay completed a visit to Israel recently, reinforcing Canada’s growing militant support of a government that continues to deny the basic essentials of human democracy to its […]

By Roger H. LiebermanPalestineChronicle.com There is something disturbingly clinical about the way America’s establishment politicians and pundits will fret profusely over something as minor as a book title, while refusing to do anything to amend […]

By James BrooksPalestineChronicle.com Prior to the onset of European colonization a century ago, generations of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Palestinians cohabited in the Holy Land with little or no conflict. Zionism’s arrival opened a vein […]

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By Azmi Bishara Will the deception of historical progression — or the irony of fate — manifest itself in this region with the collapse of Arab nationalism, not at the hands of pan-Arab or pan-Islamic […]

By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com While the Iraqis were busy counting their death toll of more than 650,000 since March 2003, the United Nations busy counting their dead of more than 34,000 in 2006 only, the Pentagon counting […]

By Gordon ClubbPalestineChronicle.com It is quite clear that ‘peace’ is back on the agenda for Israel after its ‘convergence plan’ fell to pieces ultimately in light of Qassams and Katyusha’s. What happens from now on […]