Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, in her first policy address since being nominated to form Israel’s next government, underlined on Sunday her commitment to continue peace negotiations with the Palestinians. "Annapolis will continue," Livni said, referring […]
By James Petras The ongoing collapse of the stock market and the loss of hundreds of billions of dollars managed by Wall Street investment banks illustrate the pitfalls and danger of free market capitalism facing […]
Wall Street – America’s Dream Palace. Steve Fraser. Yale University Press, New Haven. 2008. By Jim Miles With the United States bailout package now through Congress, but still waiting for Monday morning’s financial signals from around […]
Choked off from the outside world under a tight Israeli blockade; Gaza smugglers boast about the hundreds of tunnels breaking the siege and connecting the impoverished strip to neighboring Egypt. Gazans in desperate need of […]
By Hiyam Noir The City of Hebron ( Khalil) in the Palestinian West Bank, is nominated to a place in the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites by a group of European organizations and institutions, […]
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Sunday urged Russia not to upset the strategic balance in the Middle East with its arms sales to Muslim countries. "The Russians must play a positive role in the […]
The Duel – Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power. Tariq Ali. Scribner (Simon & Schuster Inc.) New York, 2008. By Jim Miles Pakistan is becoming more and more important in the news media […]
Israel would use "disproportionate" force to destroy Lebanese villages from which Hezbollah’s group fired rockets at its cities in any future war, an Israeli general said in remarks published on Friday. "What happened in the […]
The Israeli military commander in the occupied West Bank said settler violence against Palestinians and Israeli soldiers was on the rise in what he called a "grave phenomenon." "There has been a rise in Jewish […]
By Ramzy Baroud President Bush sounded much less uncertain of his peace "vision" when he received Palestinian Authority’s Mahmoud Abbas in Washington on Sept. 25. Certainly much has changed since the Nov. 2007 conference in […]
By Savera Kalideen and Haidar Eid The strategic value of international solidarity with the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, refugees in the Diaspora and Palestinians in Israel raises some fundamental questions. […]
By Daniel Levy – Washington This month marked 15 years since the signing of the Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles on the South Lawn of the White House, launching the Oslo process and a new hope […]
Editor’s Note: For the benefit of its readers, The Palestine Chronicle presents two contributions by two of its respected writers, Vijay Rajiva and Aijaz Zaka Syed. The two writers differ on various issues concerning the violence […]
Lawmakers and opposition activists in Bahrain on Thursday slammed the foreign minister of the Gulf state, a staunch U.S. ally, after he called for a regional grouping of Arabs and historic foe Israel. "The minister […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan President Bush foreign policy legacy in the Middle East is not limited to the human tragedy that he inflicted on Iraq and the region or the destruction of Lebanon and the […]
By Nadia W. Awad After Hamas defeated Fatah in the ‘Battle for Gaza’ in June 2007, the Hamas-led government became solely responsible for the Gaza Strip. Israel, the US and the rest of the international […]
By Maria C. Khoury – Taybeh, West Bank The community of Taybeh, in the West Bank is going to keep its leading role this year by continuing to make history in Palestine. Along with introducing […]
By Deepak Tripathi In a period of unprecedented financial upheaval, the recent surge in violence in South Asia is perhaps receiving less notice in the west than it deserves. The audacity of attacks by the […]
By Kevin Zeese The Senate voted 75-25 in favor of the bailout, with support from both sides of the aisle, essentially an even vote between Republicans and Democrats in the Senate. The Senate included a […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago For 32 years, Sonoma State University’s (SSU) Project Censored has pioneered US media democracy, research, and First Amendment issues. Founded by Carl Jensen in 1976, it’s now headed by Professor […]
By Ralph Nader The current finger pointing by the deregulation crowd in Congress and their ideological soul mates in the media reminds me of the 1939 film classic The Wizard of Oz. It is as […]
"The Unexpected War – Canada in Kandahar" by Janice Gross Stein and Eugene Lang. Viking Canada (Penguin), Toronto, 2007. By Jim Miles Afghanistan may have been a war unexpected in Canada, but a familiarity with […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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