By Roni Ben EfratPalestineChronicle.com After Hamas was elected, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) attempted to cooperate with it. This led Israel to claim there was no one to talk to. After Hamas took over […]

By Sherri MuzherSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Is this really happening?  I sat frozen as the Orthodox priest swung the censers during the Trisagion Service.  The smell of incense filled the air and I looked passed the […]

An Israeli soldier and a Palestinian fighter have been killed during an Israeli raid on a refugee camp in the West Bank town of Nablus.  The Israeli military said another of its soldiers was wounded […]

By George Bisharat Two hundred thousand Palestinian children began school in the Gaza Strip this month without a full complement of textbooks. Why? Because Israel, which maintains a stranglehold over this small strip of land […]

Reviewed by Ruth Tenne in London Special to PalestineChronicle.com One Complete Palestine – A Utopia, or a Feasible Solution? Ghada Karmi -Married to Another Man: Israel’s  Dilemma  in Palestine, Pluto 2007 From the outset of […]

By M. Shahid AlamSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com  In recent times, no nationalist project has been so completely mythologized by its partisans as Zionism. In the construction of nearly all aspects of its history, the official Zionist […]

By James PetrasSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Revolutions and the Cuban is no exception, advance in a contradictory process: in the course of solving basic immediate problems they confront new challenges. There are revolutionary writers who recognize […]

By Pablo Ouziel Special to PalestineChronicle.com Except for a select group of corrupt politicians, powerful businessmen, media barons and pundits of the law, the rest of the world was fooled into the Iraq war. Granted […]

By Dr. Hassan Afif El-Hasan Special to PalestineChronicle.com Conferences, meetings, summits, initiatives and envoys became the life support of the so called peace in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict since 1991. Peace is a big industry in […]

By Iman Azzi in Beirut, Lebanon Aljazeera Net English   Twenty-five years after surviving the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, Jamila Khalife still mourns family members who were killed at the […]

By Sonja KarkarSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The Massacre It happened twenty-five years ago – 16 September 1982. A massacre so awful that people who know about it cannot forget it. The photos are gruesome reminders – […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com No issue is more sensitive in the US than daring to criticize Israel. It’s the metaphorical "third rail" in American politics, academia and the major media. Anyone daring to touch […]

By Ramzy Baroud Special to PalestineChronicle.com Osama bin Laden has once again managed to occupy the stage and to insist on his relevance to the 9/11 story. In his most recent video message, released by […]

By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com NATO has recently had one of its regular meetings of the “Military Committee” in Victoria, B.C., Canada, with appropriate demonstrations against it for Canada’s role within NATO and Afghanistan. Phil […]

By Octavius Bin Sheik Special to PalestineChronicle.com To put an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict, all that must be done is for the name to be changed, to something like the Angolan-Mauritius conflict, for example. […]

By Timothy SeidelSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us.—Ephesians 2:14 “On […]

By Franklin Lamb Special to PalestineChronicle.com  Dearest Janet,  It\’s a very beautiful fall day here in Beirut today. wenty-five years ago this week since the Massacre at the Palestinian refugee camps at Sabra and Shatila. […]

By Nicola NasserSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Saving a Palestinian partner, whom they have rejected until Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in mid-June, has become the most important mission preoccupying the U.S. Administration and the […]

By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Iraq – The Logic of Withdrawal. Anthony Arnove. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2007. With George Bush having General Petraeus tell him that success is possible in […]

By Stan Goff In military drill there is something called the preparatory command and the command of execution. These were the two commands, followed in lockstep by the press yesterday: Prepare to kiss ass. Kiss […]

By Paul Craig Roberts On Sept. 7, National Public Radio reported that Muslims in the Middle East were beginning to believe that the 9-11 attacks on the WTC and Pentagon were false flag operations committed […]

By Fred Habachi Special to PalestineChronicle.com      I never knew John J. M. too well and I shall not be eager to know him better in the near future. This is because, writing about Professor Norman […]

 By Joharah Baker It is the Muslim month of fasting once again. Tomorrow, September 13 marks the first day of Ramadan, a month of fasting off food and drink from sunrise to sunset, worship, contemplation […]

GAZA CITY – Scores of Israeli soldiers have been wounded by two rockets fired into Israel by Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip. The rockets hit the Zikim base north of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday […]

By Uri Avnery PalestineChronicle.com When my friends fall prey to despair, I show them a piece of painted concrete, which I bought in Berlin. It is one of the remnants of the Berlin wall, which […]

By Joharah Baker Even as we continue to hope beyond hope that our leaders will come to their senses and see that internal disunity will only lead us down a path of destruction, more statements […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The decision made by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to halt his Mahdi Army’s attacks on occupation forces and Iraqi security is likely to be considered the single most promising breakthrough […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Israel’s population today is about 7,150,000. About 5.4 million are Jews (76%) plus another 400,000 Jewish settlers in over 200 expanding settlements on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank […]

By Hussein Al-alakSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com As a result of nationalised oil, during the 1980’s the Iraqi regime led by Saddam Hussain had run literacy campaigns, which saw the decline of illiteracy, an anti-social disease drop […]

Reviewed by Iqbal JassatSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The Road Map to Nowhere: Israel/Palestine Since 2003 by Tanya Reinhart In her book “The Road Map to Nowhere”, late Professor Tanya Reinhart recounts a poignant observation made by […]