Following the Israeli victory in the 1967 war, it became impossible for Zionist ideologues to mask the true nature of their state – an unwavering colonial regime with an...
August 19, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Jewish Israeli settlers are on a roll as they rampage across the occupied Palestinian West Bank. While settler violence is part of the daily routine in Palestine, the violence...
August 14, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud The Palestinian Football Association is struggling to survive. Combined US-Israeli pressure on Palestinian organisations that provide aid and support to the Palestinian people is now felt in the field...
August 12, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Writing under the title of “If the El Paso shooter had been Muslim”, Moustafa Bayoumi stated the obvious. “If the El Paso shooter had been a Muslim,” Bayoumi wrote...
August 7, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud On 29 July, 4-year-old Muhammad Rabi’ Elayyan was reportedly summoned for interrogation by the Israeli police in occupied Jerusalem. The news, originally reported by the official Palestinian news agency,...
August 5, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is ready to “go to the White House and continue what started with Donald Trump.” With this and other confusing statements,...
July 29, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud It would be unfair to claim that Palestine has not produced great leaders. It has, and Bassam Shakaa, the former Mayor of Nablus, who passed away on 22 July...
July 24, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Seven-year-old Tariq Zabania from Al-Khalil (Hebron) was killed on the spot when an Israeli Jewish settler ran his car over him on July 15. Little Tariq’s photograph, lying face...
July 21, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Media reports of an impending Israeli war on the besieged Gaza Strip are now a regular occurrence. The frequency of these reports fluctuates based on Israel’s own political landscape....
July 17, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud History never truly retires. Every event of the past, however inconsequential, reverberates throughout and, to an extent, shapes our present, and our future as well The haunting image of...
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Ramzy Baroud Writing in The Jewish Journal under the title, “A Spillover Crisis: How Gaza’s Water Shortage Affects Israel”, Dominik Doehler explains the direct link between Gaza’s water problems and Israel....
July 8, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Those who are still hoping that the new American agenda on Palestine and Israel is temporary, or reversible, should abandon this false hope. Washington’s complete adoption of Israel’s messianic,...
July 2, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Europe’s “Scramble for Africa” began in earnest in 1881, but never ended. The attempt at dominating the continent using old and new strategies continues to define the western relationship...
July 1, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Along with American and British journalists and doctors, I visited Iraq a few years before its invasion and occupation by the United States and its ‘coalition of the willing.’...
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Yemen June 26, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud In 1948 my grandfather, along with thousands of Badrasawis, was expelled by Israeli military forces from our ancestral village of Beit Daras in Palestine. Like hundreds of thousands of...
June 24, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Calls for the annexation of the Occupied West Bank are gaining momentum in both Tel Aviv and Washington. But Israel and its American allies should be careful what they...
June 19, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud The United Nations’ World Refugee Day, observed annually on June 20, should not merely represent a reminder of “the courage, strength and determination of women, men and children who...
Mohammed Khalil El Halabi was born on April 2, 1978. He is the second of seven brothers. The El Halabi family was ethnically cleansed from the town of Al-Majdal...
June 11, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud In a TV interview on June 2, on the news docuseries “Axios” on the HBO channel, Jared Kushner opened up regarding many issues, in which his ‘Deal of the...
June 4, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud The Chief Military Advocate General of the Israeli army, Sharon Afek, and the US Department of Defense General Counsel, Paul Ney, shared a platform at the ‘International Conference on...
June 3, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Bahrain is gearing up to host the economic version of the so-called Deal of the Century. A two-day conference, co-hosted by the United States, is scheduled to be held...
May 30, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud The Deal of the Century has inspired much discussion about Washington’s latest political gambit in the Middle East. Largely excluded from the debate, however, is the emotional toll involving...
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US May 28, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Palestinian groups, Fatah, Hamas and others should not confine themselves to merely rejecting the Trump Administration’s so-called ‘Deal of the Century’. Instead, they should use their resistance to the...
May 20, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Rim Banna, a famous Palestinian singer who translated Palestine’s most moving poetry to song, passed away on March 24, 2018, at the age of 51. Rim captured the struggle...
May 14, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Some are being misled to believe that the soon-to-be-announced deal of the century is a US-sponsored peace initiative aimed at resolving the so-called Palestinian-Israeli conflict. However, such a perception...
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Ramzy Baroud On May 4, Israel launched a series of deadly airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, prompting a response from various resistance groups. At least 25 Palestinians were killed and...
May 7, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud The International Conference on Palestine held in Istanbul between April 27-29 brought together many speakers and hundreds of academics, journalists, activists and students from Turkey and all over the...
One of the many ways in which Israel seeks to oppress and control the Palestinian population is by imprisoning those who lead the resistance to its occupation and settler colonialist project....
April 29, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud A recent statement made by the outgoing French Ambassador to the US regarding the nature of Israeli apartheid accentuates a larger ailment that has afflicted the European Union foreign...
April 23, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud As the 300-foot spire of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris tragically came tumbling down on live television, my thoughts ventured to Nuseirat Refugee Camp, my childhood home in...
April 17, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud So, what have we learned from the Israeli legislative elections on April 9? A whole lot. To start with, don’t let such references as the “tight race” between Israeli...
April 15, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Free access to clean water is a basic human right. This is not just a common-sense assertion, but also a binding legal commitment enshrined in international law. In November...
Following the Israeli victory in the 1967 war, it became impossible for Zionist ideologues to mask the true nature of their state – an unwavering colonial regime with an...![Israeli settlers can be sen after they stormed into Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem on 22 July 2018 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018_7-22Over-1000-Jewish-settlers-converge-on-Al-Aqsa-complex20180722_2_31571988_35847983.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Jewish Israeli settlers are on a roll as they rampage across the occupied Palestinian West Bank. While settler violence is part of the daily routine in Palestine, the violence...![Players from the Khadamat Rafah, the Gaza football team [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Israel-bans-Gaza-football-team-from-playing-Palestine-Cup-final8.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The Palestinian Football Association is struggling to survive. Combined US-Israeli pressure on Palestinian organisations that provide aid and support to the Palestinian people is now felt in the field...
Writing under the title of “If the El Paso shooter had been Muslim”, Moustafa Bayoumi stated the obvious. “If the El Paso shooter had been a Muslim,” Bayoumi wrote...
On 29 July, 4-year-old Muhammad Rabi’ Elayyan was reportedly summoned for interrogation by the Israeli police in occupied Jerusalem. The news, originally reported by the official Palestinian news agency,...![Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas (R) and US President Donald Trump (L) hold a joint press conference following their meeting on 23 May, 2017 in Bethlehem, West Bank [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017_05_23-Palestinian-president-Mahmoud-Abbas-and-US-President-Donald-Trump-hold-a-joint-press-conference-following-their-meeting-in-Bethlehem-West-Bank20170523_2_23831991_22417608-.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is ready to “go to the White House and continue what started with Donald Trump.” With this and other confusing statements,...![Former Palestinian mayor of Nablus Bassam Shakaa, who died on 22nd July 2019 [YouTube screenshot]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/29-07-2019-bassam-shakaaBassam-Shakaa-e1563877032736.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
It would be unfair to claim that Palestine has not produced great leaders. It has, and Bassam Shakaa, the former Mayor of Nablus, who passed away on 22 July...![Israeli settlers spray racist slogans in East Jerusalem on 1 April 2019 [Safa Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Racist-slogans-e1554114557291.jpeg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Seven-year-old Tariq Zabania from Al-Khalil (Hebron) was killed on the spot when an Israeli Jewish settler ran his car over him on July 15. Little Tariq’s photograph, lying face...![Prime Minster of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu greets supporters on 10 April, 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel [Amir Levy/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GettyImages-1136025054-e1555065897715.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Media reports of an impending Israeli war on the besieged Gaza Strip are now a regular occurrence. The frequency of these reports fluctuates based on Israel’s own political landscape....
History never truly retires. Every event of the past, however inconsequential, reverberates throughout and, to an extent, shapes our present, and our future as well The haunting image of...![Palestinians fill their bottles at a water purification station due to the lack of clean water in Gaza on 5 November 2013 [Ashraf Amra/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2013_11-5-Palestinian-children-fill-their-bottles-a-potable-waterASH_00-2.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Writing in The Jewish Journal under the title, “A Spillover Crisis: How Gaza’s Water Shortage Affects Israel”, Dominik Doehler explains the direct link between Gaza’s water problems and Israel....
Those who are still hoping that the new American agenda on Palestine and Israel is temporary, or reversible, should abandon this false hope. Washington’s complete adoption of Israel’s messianic,...![Former South African President Nelson Mandela's grandson, Chief Mandla Mandela joins hundreds of demonstrators at an inter-denominational march of members of pro-Palestinian groups and other civil society organisations during the holy month of Ramadan in Durban on June 2, 2018, to protest against Israel's handling of protests and violence in the Palestinian territories. [RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GettyImages-966064972.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Europe’s “Scramble for Africa” began in earnest in 1881, but never ended. The attempt at dominating the continent using old and new strategies continues to define the western relationship...![US President Donald Trump attends the family photo session on the first day of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan on June 28, 2019. [Metin Aktas - Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/20190628_2_37113226_45665194-e1561965324355.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Along with American and British journalists and doctors, I visited Iraq a few years before its invasion and occupation by the United States and its ‘coalition of the willing.’...![Great March of Return protest in Gaza on 19 April 2019 [Mohammed Asas/Middle East Monitor]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/1-3.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
In 1948 my grandfather, along with thousands of Badrasawis, was expelled by Israeli military forces from our ancestral village of Beit Daras in Palestine. Like hundreds of thousands of...![Palestinians hold a banner as they gather to protest against a conference, which is the workshop, scheduled for June 25 and 26, in Bahrain's capital Manama, related with a “Deal of the Century” plan in Ramallah, West Bank on June 15, 2019. [Issam Rimawi - Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20190615_2_36908631_45327511-e1561371635828.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Calls for the annexation of the Occupied West Bank are gaining momentum in both Tel Aviv and Washington. But Israel and its American allies should be careful what they...![Al-Shati refugee camp, the place where displaced Palestinians took shelter after their exile from Palestine during the Nakba in 1948, is seen in Gaza City, Gaza on 15 May, 2017 [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170517_2_23724244_22185747.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The United Nations’ World Refugee Day, observed annually on June 20, should not merely represent a reminder of “the courage, strength and determination of women, men and children who...![Gaza-based staff and beneficiaries of World Vision rally in support of the organisation's jailed Gaza director, Mohammad al-Halabi, on March 28, 2017 [Mohammed Asad / Middle East Monitor]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/4O6A6750.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Mohammed Khalil El Halabi was born on April 2, 1978. He is the second of seven brothers. The El Halabi family was ethnically cleansed from the town of Al-Majdal...![Jared Kushner (3rd L), US President Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser, along with his delegation, pose with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (4th R) prior to their meeting in occupied East Jerusalem, on 24 August 2017. [Israeli Prime Ministry /Handout]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170824_2_25411674_25223379-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
In a TV interview on June 2, on the news docuseries “Axios” on the HBO channel, Jared Kushner opened up regarding many issues, in which his ‘Deal of the...![The Foreign Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Riyad al-Maliki, leaves the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, on 25 June, 2015 [ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GettyImages-478456574.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The Chief Military Advocate General of the Israeli army, Sharon Afek, and the US Department of Defense General Counsel, Paul Ney, shared a platform at the ‘International Conference on...![Jordan's muslim brotherhood members pray in the street as they are banned from executing a protest at the American embassy ahead of the visit of US President's adviser Jared Kushner, for the century deal and Bahrain peace workshop, near the American embassy on 28 May 2019 in Amman, Jordan. [Jordan Pix/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/GettyImages-1152395632.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Bahrain is gearing up to host the economic version of the so-called Deal of the Century. A two-day conference, co-hosted by the United States, is scheduled to be held...
The Deal of the Century has inspired much discussion about Washington’s latest political gambit in the Middle East. Largely excluded from the debate, however, is the emotional toll involving...![Palestinian protestors burn a poster with a picture of US President Donald Trump during a demonstration against the deal of century, in the West Bank city of Hebron, 22 February 2019 [Wisam Hashlamoun/Apa Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019_2-22-demonstration-against-the-deal-of-century220219_WIH_00-4.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Palestinian groups, Fatah, Hamas and others should not confine themselves to merely rejecting the Trump Administration’s so-called ‘Deal of the Century’. Instead, they should use their resistance to the...
Rim Banna, a famous Palestinian singer who translated Palestine’s most moving poetry to song, passed away on March 24, 2018, at the age of 51. Rim captured the struggle...
Some are being misled to believe that the soon-to-be-announced deal of the century is a US-sponsored peace initiative aimed at resolving the so-called Palestinian-Israeli conflict. However, such a perception...![Centre staff and people with disabilities inspect the damaged building of Confederation of Disabled People, which was the only centre to serve people with disabilities in Rafah, after Israel's attacks on Gaza in Rafah, Gaza on 7 May, 2019 [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/201920190509_2_36372097_44314530.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
On May 4, Israel launched a series of deadly airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, prompting a response from various resistance groups. At least 25 Palestinians were killed and...
The International Conference on Palestine held in Istanbul between April 27-29 brought together many speakers and hundreds of academics, journalists, activists and students from Turkey and all over the...![Israeli forces make Palestinian prisoners line up in their cell [Palestine Info Center/Twitter]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017_12-21-Palestinian-prisonersDH2rzjyW0AALpxv-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
One of the many ways in which Israel seeks to oppress and control the Palestinian population is by imprisoning those who lead the resistance to its occupation and settler colonialist project....![U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu (R) show members of the media the proclamation Trump signed on recognising Israel’s sovereignty over Golan Heights after their meeting outside the West Wing of the White House 25 March 2019 in Washington, DC. [Alex Wong/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/GettyImages-1138217403-e1553952812209.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
A recent statement made by the outgoing French Ambassador to the US regarding the nature of Israeli apartheid accentuates a larger ailment that has afflicted the European Union foreign...![Palestinians from the village of Jabaa, east of Ramallah, look at damage at a mosque which settlers tried to burn overnight on June 19, 2012. [AFP PHOTO/ABBAS MOMANI / Getty]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GettyImages-146541459-e1556006079467.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
As the 300-foot spire of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris tragically came tumbling down on live television, my thoughts ventured to Nuseirat Refugee Camp, my childhood home in...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacts after addressing supporters at his Likud Party headquarters in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on election night early on 10 April 2019 [Thomas COEX/AFP/Getty]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GettyImages-1136007502-e1555053116441.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
So, what have we learned from the Israeli legislative elections on April 9? A whole lot. To start with, don’t let such references as the “tight race” between Israeli...![Palestinians children fill plastic bottles and water containers with drinking water from a public tap in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on July 27, 2014. [Ashraf Amra/ApaImages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/270714_ASH_00-23.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Free access to clean water is a basic human right. This is not just a common-sense assertion, but also a binding legal commitment enshrined in international law. In November...