By Miko Peled Special to PalestineChronicle.com The recent so-called peace summit in Annapolis Maryland, reminds me of a time in early 1995. Then, as the cancer was taking over his otherwise perfectly healthy body, my […]

By Sonja KarkarSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com On 29 November 2007, it will be sixty years since the United Nations General Assembly voted for the partition of Palestine.  It was a treacherous decision forced through by the […]

By James PetrasSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com On November 26, 2007 the Venezuelan government broadcast and circulated a confidential memo from the US embassy to the CIA which is devastatingly revealing of US clandestine operations and which […]

For decades, efforts to bring about a two-state solution in historic Palestine have failed to provide justice and peace for the Palestinian and Israeli Jewish peoples, or to offer a genuine process leading towards them. […]

By Ali AlarabiSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Although the speakers meeting in Annapolis were optimistic and almost encouraging in their speeches regarding bringing lasting peace to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, peace, in the words […]

To the Editor:  The most outrageous double standard in American media today is the different ways by which Arab countries and Israel are judged in the court of "public opinion," which really means the court […]

By James PetrasSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Why must Jewish organizations be and be seen as the loudest drum-beaters of all? Why can we not bring ourselves to say that military intervention is not on the table […]

By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com As I sit and read the announcements from today’s first discussions from Annapolis, all I can see is another dismal failure for peace and another year long “negotiation” process that […]

By Uri AvneryPalestineChronicle.com I was awakened from deep sleep by the noise. There was a commotion outside, which was getting louder by the minute. The shout of excited people. An eruption of joy. I stuck […]

By Fareed Taamallah This week in Annapolis, Maryland the United States government will host a conference between Palestinian and Israeli leaders to launch peace talks on a permanent agreement. A vital component of the peace […]

By Mohammed Khatib On the eve of the meeting intended to restart negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians at Annapolis, Maryland, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced that Israel will build no new West Bank […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com James Petras is Binghamton University, New York Professor Emeritus of Sociology whose credentials and achievements are long and impressive. He’s a noted academic figure on the left and a well-respected […]

Al-BIREH, Ramallah Summary Report “The Campaign for the Boycott of Israel will re-vitalize popular resistance and restore dignity to the Palestinian people” An important mile-stone in building the global BDS campaign was achieved in Ramallah […]

By Stephen Lendman  Special to PalestineChronicle.com November 27 at Annapolis kicks off the latest Israeli-Palestinian Middle East peace process round that may be an historic first. It’s the first time in memory the legitimate government […]

By David HardakerABC News, Australia Israeli authorities are under fire after the death of a 21-year-old Palestinian man who was barred from leaving the Gaza Strip for cancer treatment in Israel. Human rights workers say […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com What do an organic farmer from Spain, a union worker activist from Brazil and a human rights scholar living in London have in common? They are all individuals who affect […]

By William A. Cook Special to PalestineChronicle.com "A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel; for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the Lord […]

By Dr. Elias AklehPalestineChronicle.com Palestinians share one common experience with North and South American Native Indians, with Australian Aborigines, and with New Zealand Ma’oris. They all have been subjected to settler colonialism. Settler colonialism, usually […]

By Alberto CruzPalestineChronicle.com   The Venezuelan political process, that people there describe as Bolivarian, is systematically demonized not just by the bourgeois media but also by some supposed progressives. They tend to focus more on the […]

By Prof. Francis BoylePalestineChronicle.com [As you will see from the list below, it seems the US has invited practically everyone in the world to this fandango — from Poland to Sweden to Slovenia to Yemen […]

By William A. Cook     Special to PalestineChronicle.com I woke from a dream last night with a sudden start, the world had turned inside out … the sun did not shine, the moon did not come […]

By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies – Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation. Barbara Slavin. St. Martin’s Press, New York. 2007. If I had to provide an overall rating […]

By Kim BullimoreSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The situation in Palestine continues to deteriorate, both on a political scale and humanitarian scale. The international blockade of Gaza and the continued illegal collective punishment of its residents by […]

By Sam Husseini  PalestineChronicle.com Many from across the political spectrum seemed surprised when Pat Robertson recently endorsed Rudy Giuliani for president, but this was only the most recent manifestation one of the worst aspects of […]

By Terry WalzPalestineChronicle.com Invitations have gone out to some 50 countries and international agencies involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to attend an international meeting on Israel and Palestine organized by the United States and scheduled […]

By Dr. Hasan Afif El-HasanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com It is the election ritual season in the US. Presidential aspirants are campaigning, debating issues and attacking each other. Candidates from both major parties seem to have profound […]

By Robert HiggsPalestineChronicle.com In 1958, the New Left sociologist C. Wright Mills made a seminal contribution to political science in his book The Causes of World War Three, by introducing the concept of “crackpot realism.” […]

By Sherri MuzherSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Here we go again with another meaningless “couples’ therapy” session with no concrete goals or meaningful substance.  Palestine is the spouse that wants to discuss tangible issues.  Israel appears to […]

By Agustin VellosoSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com On Sunday, 11th November 2007, at about four o’clock in the morning, the pharmacist Salim Madani is in Sufa, the only border post to the Gaza Strip that the government […]

By Dan LiebermanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Discussing the proposed Annapolis Conference, in face-to-face talks with the prime ministers, foreign ministers and non-government officials (NGOs) of Israel, Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, revealed how far we […]