At least one Palestinian has been killed and another five injured by an Israeli air strike east of Gaza City, Palestinian medical officials have said. Hamas officials confirmed that Moamen Abu Daff was killed on Friday […]
Britain’s Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Alistair Burt on Friday condemned Israel’s plans to expand an illegal settlement and build a tourism center in occupied East Jerusalem. Jerusalem municipality on Wednesday approved […]
The US congress has released $40 million in aid for the Palestinian Authority (PA), previously suspended over the Palestinians’ UN membership bid, a State Department official said. "We have been working with Congress for some […]
Reviewed by Jim Miles (The Anatomy of Israel’s Survival. Hirsh Goodman. Signal/McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2011.) The “Anatomy of Israel’s Survival” rests on a single backbone: military strength. I have always said that Israel will survive […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel If Islamist movements come to power all over the region, they should express their debt of gratitude to their bete noire, Israel. Without the active or passive help of successive […]
By Ramesh Jaura – Berlin If the year 2011 appeared to be a beacon of hope for freedom and democracy in the Middle East and North Africa, indications are that 2012 will be marked by […]
European Union (EU) envoys in Israel have criticized Tel Aviv’s maltreatment of Arabs living in Israel, a report on the human rights violations says. "While the international community is focused predominantly on restarting the Israeli-Palestinian […]
By Mohammed AlNadi – Gaza In Israel, nothing is more rewarding than committing systematic mass killings and war crimes against Palestinians. It seems, according to Israel’s moral system and code of conduct, nothing is more […]
‘A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes’ — attributed to Mark Twain By Stuart Littlewood Meet another of Israel’s undesirables, Yuli Edelstein. He is the regime’s […]
By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. In accordance with the demands of America’s presidential office, Barack Obama has been flooded with a river of updates throughout his Hawaiian vacation. From economic hardball with the GOP […]
By Amjad Yamein – Amman Last night, Israel conducted two air strikes within hours and opened fire at Palestinians, killing three and injuring ten, in the second aerial attack against Gaza in the last Month. […]
Israel has threatened to launch another all-out war on the Gaza Strip, saying attacking the Palestinian territory is not a matter of choice, but a war of necessity for Tel Aviv. Marking the third anniversary […]
The Jerusalem municipality has approved the construction of 130 new homes in the east of the city. The homes are to be built in Gilo neighbourhood on land captured from Jordan in the 1967 war. Municipal spokesman […]
Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh arrived in the Sudanese capital on Tuesday night as part of his first international tour since the siege on the coastal strip. Haniyeh told reporters in Khartoum that his visit […]
By Ramzy Baroud Mustafa Tamimi was a 28-year-old resident of the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. His meticulously trimmed beard served as the centerpiece of his handsome face. In December 2011, when an Israeli […]
By Eric Walberg – Cairo A Tunisian fruit vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire in a public square in a small town in December 2010, sparking protests that brought down dictators in Tunisia and […]
Two separate Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip have claimed the life of one Palestinian and left 10 others wounded, Palestinian medics say. In one of the strikes, which took place on Tuesday evening, a […]
Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas in Gaza, has visited headquarters of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt on his first trip outside the blockaded territory since 2007, when it came to power. "The Brotherhood centre has always embraced […]
Hamas chief in exile Khalid Mashaal said Monday that a unity government must be formed to end the division between the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Speaking to Palestine TV, Mashaal said that Palestinian factions […]
A shy eight-year-old schoolgirl has unwittingly found herself on the front line of Israel’s latest religious war. Naama Margolese is a ponytailed, bespectacled second-grader afraid of walking to her religious Jewish girls’ school for fear of […]
By Ira Glunts On a dreary, rainy evening in late November my friend Pat Carmeli and I were driving to Syracuse to hear Jeremy Ben-Ami speak. I smiled when Pat turned to me and said, […]
Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine We, Palestinians of Gaza, 3 years on from the 22-day long massacre in Israel’s operation ‘Cast Lead’, are calling on international civil society to make 2012 the year when solidarity with […]
By Kathy Kelly – Kabul Arab Spring, European Summer, American Autumn, and now the challenge of winter. Here in Kabul, Afghanistan, the travelers of our small Voices for Creative Nonviolence delegation share an apartment with […]
By Vacy Vlazna For Christians, Christmas and New Year revivify reflection on core values – good will to all and peace for humankind. Between these two dates, on the 27th December, falls the third anniversary […]
By Clive Hambidge Happy Christmas Mr President or may I call you Barack this Yule Tide? As you know ‘Christmas is the day that holds all time together’ (Alexander Smith) certainly as you rustle through […]
(In commemoration of the third anniversary of the Israeli war on Gaza, the Palestine Chronicle publishes excerpts from Ramzy Baroud’s book, My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story. The book, published soon after […]
A report published on Monday has found that over 3,000 Palestinians were arrested by Israel’s military in 2011. Researcher on prisoner affairs Abdul Nasser Ferwaneh said that the average number of arrests in 2011 numbered […]
Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli’s foreign minister, has accused the Palestinians of attempting to avoid negotiations, saying that Israeli-Palestinian peace is currently unachievable. Addressing a meeting of Israeli diplomats in occupied Jerusalem on Sunday, Lieberman said that […]
By Mohamed El Mokhtar One of the most significant consequences of the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ is the forceful emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood as an influential political force and social movement in the Middle East. […]
By James Petras The economic, political and social outlook for 2012 is profoundly negative. The almost universal consensus, even among mainstream orthodox economists is pessimistic regarding the world economy. Though even here their predictions understate […]
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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