By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com Fulfilling a 60-year old Israeli dream and an American unwavering strategy, the 22-member League of Arab states are now in consensus on a potentially groundbreaking Arab Peace Initiative (API), which pledges their collective […]

By Stephen LendmanPalestineChronicle.com The US electorate sent a clear, unequivocal message in the November mid-term elections. End the Iraq war and bring home the troops.  Many supporting war in the 109th Congress lost out to […]

By Edward EpsteinSan Francisco Chronicle WASHINGTON (SFC) – Speaker Nancy Pelosi is widely recognized as a strong, second-generation supporter of Israel, but the scattered boos she heard during an appearance before the Israel lobby’s most […]

By Akiva Eldar  On January 14, 2002, when the top government and military echelon sent the Israel Defense Forces in the midst of a truce to assassinate Raed Karmi, the head of Fatah’s military arm […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com It’s never easy to admit that the Palestinian front, both at home and abroad, remains as fragmented and self-consumed, thus ineffective, as ever before, and got worse during the disastrous post-Oslo period. […]

By Jonathan Cook Israel’s supposedly “defensive” assault on Hizbullah last summer, in which more than 1,000 Lebanese civilians were killed in a massive aerial bombardment that ended with Israel littering the country’s south with cluster […]

By Felicity Arbuthnot PalestineChronicle.com Can the United States and British governments really be at it again? Can they really expect the public to believe a mirror image of their barrage of lies on Iraq, now […]

GAZA, March 13 (Reuters) – The Hamas-led Palestinian government said on Tuesday it has information about who abducted a BBC correspondent in the Gaza Strip and expected him to be released soon. "This issue is […]

By Aluf Benn The U.S. administration is holding separate talks with Israel and Saudi Arabia before the Arab League summit in Riyadh late this month that will deliberate renewed approval of the overall Arab peace […]

By Saree Makdisi "As soon as certain topics are raised," George Orwell once wrote, "the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed: […]

By James PetrasPalestineChronicle.com I am told by the Manchester Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post that you have impeccable academic and battlefield credentials.  Bush has appointed you “Commander […]

By Ben WhitePalestineChronicle.com This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, an act of expansion that signalled the completion of the Zionist conquest […]

By Justin RaimondoAntiWar.com It had to happen sooner or later, and Barack Obama’s startling rise to near the top of the Democratic presidential pack made it sooner – I’m talking about his speech to the American-Israel […]

By Jim MilesPalestineChronicle.com Web of Deceit – The History of Western Complicity in Iraq From Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush.  Barry M. Lando. Doubleday Canada (Random House). 2007. By now, most literate thinking […]

By Uri Avnery PalestineChronicle.com IF GOD wills, even a broomstick will shoot. That is an old Yiddish adage. One could add now: If God wills, even Olmert can sometimes tell the truth. The truth, according […]

By James ZogbyPalestineChronicle.com  By any reasonable measure, King Abdullah II of Jordan’s speech before a joint session of Congress was both smart and courageous. He took advantage of being only the fourth Arab leader given […]

By Mohammed Mar’i  RAMALLAH, West Bank – Israel had decided to go to war with Lebanon months before the capture of two Israeli soldiers in July last year by Hezbollah fighters, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert […]

By Ramzy Baroud Growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, it was a very familiar encounter: Israeli soldiers storming our house accompanied by shouts of terror and a barrage of insults. […]

By Saifedean Ammous  It was a cold Sunday morning in Teaneck, N.J. Some two-hundred-odd Jewish-Americans were entering the Orthodox synagogue Congregation B’nai Yeshurun where they were to hear a sales pitch by the Amana Settlement […]

By Gilad AtzmonPalestineChrnicle.com The short piece that follows has very little to do with Palestine, it is not about the starvation in Gaza, it tells nothing about Israeli road blocks, it is not about the […]

By Ali Abunimah  I first met Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama almost ten years ago when, as my representative in the Illinois state senate, he came to speak at the University of Chicago. He […]

By Jim Lobe A majority of people from around the world hold predominantly negative views of Israel, Iran, and the United States, according to a survey [.pdf] of more than 28,000 respondents in 27 countries. […]

Dear Editor,  After visiting the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem recently, a group of German bishops crossed over into Occupied Palestine and compared Israeli treatment of Palestinians to Nazis treatment of the Jews […]

By Joharah Baker Over the past few days, Palestinian intellectuals have been up in arms over a recent Ministry of Education decree to remove the book “Qul ya Tayr” (Speak Bird, Speak Again) from all […]

By Stephen Lendman  PalestineChronicle.com The Samson Option is terminology used to explain Israel’s intention to use its nuclear arsenal as an ultimate defense strategy if its leaders feel threatened enough to think they have no […]

LONDON — Israel has topped the list of the countries that have the most negative influence in the world, according to a BBC World Service poll of 28,000 people across 27 countries. "It appears that […]

By Sen. Barack Obama Remarks of Senator Barack ObamaAs Prepared for DeliveryAIPAC Policy ForumMarch 2, 2007Chicago, Illinois [NOTE: Obama’s speech was largely written by Mark Lippert, Obama’s Senate foreign policy adviser, and Dan Shapiro, a […]

By James PetrasPalestineChronicle.com President Bush’s visit to Uruguay, Brazil ,Colombia, Peru and Mexico reflects the ‘two tracks’ of US empire-building – military intervention and political-diplomatic instruments.   Bush’s visit to Latin America at this time is […]

By Steve CaseyPalestineChronicle.com While Americans were fighting the Civil War, a new breed of racism was being born in Europe. Those were the beginning years of ‘biological racism,’ which took Europe and America by storm […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com The bulk of expert opinion predicts that the Bush administration’s escalation strategy in Iraq will fail. The void created by the administration’s lack of a back–up plan for that outcome has been […]