To the Editor: Where are the millions of Palestinians in the Diaspora? What are they doing? Why can’t they counter one whacked guy like Mad Al D? He rants now like Prof. Shockley once did. […]

By William James MartinSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com In a December Op Ed appearing in the Washington Post, the Secretary of State, Ms Condoleezza Rice draws a parallel between the configuration and dynamics of today’s world and […]

By Alberto Stabile He’s always liked playing the role of the killjoy; to shock the majority’s sleepy conformism through his ideas that go against the mainstream. Avraham Burg, one of the greatest promises of the […]

To the Editor: I think I have read almost every book Professor Norman Finkelstein has written. He is on my "automatic buy" list along with Noam Chomsky and a handful of others. Professor Finkelstein is […]

By Robert Fisk "When I was a schoolboy, I loved a column which regularly appeared in British papers called "Ripley’s Believe It or Not!". In a single rectangular box filled with naively drawn illustrations, Ripley […]

By Matthew Taylor, Suzanne Goldenberg and Rory McCarthy As the pop group Girls Aloud ran through a sound check on the other side of the curtain, lecturers in the main hall at the Bournemouth International […]

What Did We Do to Deserve This? Palestinian Life Under Occupation in the West B ank. Mark Howell.  Garnett Publishing Limited, Reading, UK. 2007. By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com A different and realistic view of […]

On Jamil Hilal’s ‘What Now for Palestine, the Demise of the Two State Solution’ By Miko PeledSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com As I write these words, I realize it is June 5, 2007.  I remember that day […]

By Remi KanaziSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Time and again one is told of the Israeli “left,” the many number of Israelis, ranging from members of the Knesset to shop owners, dedicated to peace. The 40 year […]

By Ariadna TheokopoulosSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com AlJazeera marked the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli (which should properly be called the Israeli-Arab war in view of the recently declassified Johnson administration documents and diplomatic cables*) by […]

Dear Oprah, An enthusiastic "Thank You" seems an ineffective expression for all the positive effect your life and work has generated within the culture, especially on social justice issues of illiteracy, universal health care and resistance […]

By Jeffrey St. Clair In early June of 1967, at the onset of the Six Day War, the Pentagon sent the USS Liberty from Spain into international waters off the coast of Gaza to monitor […]

By Uri AvneryPalestineChronicle.com "Rest has come to the tired / Repose to the toiler / A pale night covers / The fields of the Jezreel valley / Dew below and moon above / From Kibbutz […]

By Joharah Baker This year marks the 40th anniversary of the June, 1967 War, which began the illegal Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan Heights. As the […]

By Ward Boston, Jr.PalestineChronicle.com Forty years ago this week, I was asked to investigate the heaviest attack on an American ship since World War II. As senior legal counsel to the Navy Court of Inquiry […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com She’s at it again on the Journal’s editorial page in her June 4 article called "The Young and the Restless," subtitled "Is this the beginning of the end for Hugo […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com In a statement made available through the country’s Foreign Office, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khursheed Mahmood Kasuri chastised the “international community” for the “abandonment” of Afghanistan following the withdrawal of Soviet […]

By Joshua FrankSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com “I voted Nader in Ohio and you’ll never catch me!” — Graffiti on a bathroom wall, Belgium Beer Bar, New York City A friend of mine, who happens to be […]

By Ismail Haniyeh When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences. At the time, they were driven […]

By Silvia Cattori Greta Berlin, 66 years old, is a businesswoman from Los Angeles, CA. She is the mother of two Palestinian-American children and has been to the occupied territories twice in the past four […]

By Sandy TolanPalestineChronicle.com Who could have known that a six-day war would last 40 years? Israel’s lightning victory in June 1967 — preordained by overwhelming air power in the first six hours of fighting — […]

By Gabriel Kolko One of the many quirks of the nineteenth century’s intellectual heritage was the great intensification of nationalism and-to quote one expert-the creation of "nation-ness," the consequences of which have varied dramatically all […]

By Hussein Al-alak, The Iraq Solidarity CampaignSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Whilst Christians, Sunni and Shi’ite in Iraq face the persecution of British foreign policy and Palestinians look back over the past forty years as refugees, the UK […]

By Prof. Francis A. BoyleSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com On the 40th Anniversary of the so-called Six Day War, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stated that the Palestinians were on the verge of a civil war–as if he […]

By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth The second Palestinian intifada has been crushed. The 700km wall is sealing the occupied population of the West Bank into a series of prisons. The "demographic timebomb" — the fear […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestinChronicle.com Near the end of WW II, Franklin Roosevelt met with Saudi King ibn Saud on the USS Quincy.  It began a six decade relationship guaranteeing US access to what his […]

Re: Liberal Democracy To the Editor: Hasan Afif El-Hasan’s article on Israel’s "liberal democracy" is an excellent dismantling of the widely and persistently propagated Zionist myth that Israel is a "liberal democracy," given all the […]

By George BisharatPalestineChronicle.com Forty years ago this week, Israel conquered the West Bank and Gaza Strip, re-establishing a political system in which one sovereign ruled over all of former Palestine. Unnoticed by the world, this […]

By William James MartinPalestineChronicle.com Former President Carter’s recent two-pronged attack on Bush and Tony Blair was not a trivial event. Not merely a former president, but one who has over a quarter of a century […]

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan, Ph.DSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The colonial Western powers launched Israel as their anchor in the Middle East to defend their interests in the region under the pretext of creating a homeland for […]