By Jim Miles – Canada I write simply not to remain silent in the face of U.S. and Israeli aggression against the Palestinian population in general, and the Gaza population in particular. Where to start? […]

The Palestine Chronicle is pleased to feature these short poems contributed by Pina Piccolo, Frieda Groffy and Vi Ransel. Mahmoud By Pina Piccolo For Mahmoud Darwish, whispering his soul over Gaza You were taken by […]

By Kathy Kelly – Gaza Dr. Atallah, a physician in Gaza, invited us to meet him in his home in Gaza City, just a few blocks away from the Shifaa Hospital. Early this morning, he […]

In loving memory of the late Mayan priestess Jo’b No’j Chomiha (Rosa Maria Cabrera) By Juan Santos It can no longer be hidden. What is happening in Gaza is, transparently, ethnic cleansing – genocide. That […]

By Mats Svensson It is 48 years ago since I last felt the pain. Woke up then and woke up now in the middle of the night. Had just got my own room. When the […]

The Palestine Chronicle is pleased to feature these short poems contributed by Alex Cave, Rafiq Kathwari, Gilad Atzmon, and Ata Hindi. In Gaza, Mothers Cry By Alex Cave Bombs fall every dayTear apart the people’s […]

By Max Kantar From a historical perspective, it’s almost eerie to watch the events in Gaza unfold today as they closely mirror the patterns, motives, and propaganda that led to Israel’s 1982 "Operation Peace for […]

By Alex Whisson Through its criminal actions of the past three weeks, Israel must surely have succeeded only in digging its own grave. And no decent-minded person will shed a tear at its funeral. It’s […]

By Hammam Farah – Toronto The incessant sound of typing over the many laptops around me became the background theme sound of my life for the past two and a half weeks. Since Israel’s latest […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago World outrage continues over Israeli war crimes and Washington’s complicity. Gazans are now immortalized. Hamas is more popular than ever and remains resolute despite everything the IDF threw against it. […]

By Avraham (Miko) Peled The topic about which I wish to write is so disturbing that after scribbling a few facts and figures I found myself glaring at the screen unable to express my thoughts […]

By William James Martin War is politics by other means. – Carl von Clausewitz US President George Bush stated: “In response to these attacks on their people, the leaders of Israel have launched military operations […]

By Elna Sondergaard – Cairo The brutal and indiscriminate Israeli attacks on the Palestinian population in Gaza during the last weeks have entailed numerous violations of basic norms of international law, such as the principles […]

By Syed Akbar Kamal For generations the people of the world have endured the constant barrage of information flowing out of Palestine. The immense suffering and torture of Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli […]

By Mats Svensson The book with the title Khirbet Khizeh begins with the words, “True, it all happened a long time ago, but it has haunted me ever since.” Already in 1949 Yizhar Smilansky wrote […]

By Ralph Nader In the long sixty-year tortured history of the Palestinian expulsion from their lands, Congress has maintained that it is always the Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority, and now Hamas who are to blame […]

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Israel has justified its assault on Gaza as entirely defensive, intended only to stop Hamas firing rockets on Israel’s southern communities. Although that line has been repeated unwaveringly by officials since […]

By Rima Merhi – Boston I was standing outside the Israeli Consulate in New England with a group of demonstrators under the rain on the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights calling for an […]

By Neve Gordon – Israel One of my students was arrested yesterday and spent the night in a prison cell. R’s offence was protesting the Israeli assault on Gaza. He joins over 700 other Israelis […]

By Uri Avnery – Israel 169 years before the Gaza War, Heinrich Heine wrote a premonitory poem of 12 lines, under the title ‘To Edom’. The German-Jewish poet was talking about Germany, or perhaps all […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London A very moving message from the elderly priest who leads the Christian community in Gaza, Fr Manuel Mussallam, has just arrived in my computer inbox.  This remarkable and much-respected man […]