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April 17, 2018
Ramzy Baroud
The term ‘media bias’ does not do justice to the western corporate media’s relationship with Israel and Palestine. The relationship is, indeed, far more profound than mere partiality. It...
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April 9, 2018
Ramzy Baroud
Why did Israel kill many unarmed Gaza protesters and wound over 2,000 on Friday, March 30 and on the following days, when they clearly posed no threat to Israeli...
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April 2, 2018
Ramzy Baroud
Rim Banna passed away at the age of 51. Her death on 24 March, after a decade-long battle with cancer, brought grief to Palestinians everywhere. Rim, a Palestinian Christian...
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March 26, 2018
Ramzy Baroud
The “deal of the century” is a farce. We suspected that, of course, but, upon his return from Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed in more detail why...
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March 19, 2018
Ramzy Baroud
On March 13, while on his way to the besieged Gaza Strip, two 33-pounds bombs targeted the convoy of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah. Hamdallah was visiting Gaza,...
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March 13, 2018
Ramzy Baroud
If scandal-plagued Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, exits his country’s political scene today, who is likely to replace him? And what does this mean as far as Israel’s Occupation...
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March 6, 2018
Ramzy Baroud
As global voices continue to demand the freedom of 17-year-old teenage Palestinian girl, Ahed Tamimi, Israeli authorities have arrested nine additional members of her family. Those who were detained...
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February 27, 2018
Ramzy Baroud
In an article published in Al-Monitor without a single verifiable citation, Israeli journalist, Shlomi Eldar, went to unprecedented lengths to divert attention from the corruption in his country. He...
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February 20, 2018
Ramzy Baroud
As soon as Virgin Atlantic Airlines introduced a couscous-style salad “inspired by the flavours of Palestine”, a controversy ensued. Israel’s supporters ignited a social media storm and sent many complaints to...
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February 14, 2018
Ramzy Baroud
Following the signing of the Oslo agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1993, Palestinian refugees vanished off the radar. The most pressing of all issues...
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February 13, 2018
Ramzy Baroud
Despite massive sums of money spent to channel public opinion in the United States in favour of Israel, unmistakable trends in opinion polls are attesting to the changing dynamics...
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February 6, 2018
Ramzy Baroud
For a brief historical moment, Alexis Tsipras and his political party, Syriza, ignited hope that Greece could resurrect a long-dormant Leftist tide in Europe. A new Greece was being...
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January 30, 2018
Ramzy Baroud
Although the genocide of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar has gathered greater media attention in recent months, there is no indication that the international community is prepared to act...
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January 22, 2018
Ramzy Baroud
On 15 January, millions of Americans commemorated Martin Luther King’s Day. His famous speech, ‘I Have a Dream’ was repeated numerous times in media outlets as a reminder of...
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January 16, 2018
Ramzy Baroud
Not a day passes without a prominent Israeli politician or intellectual making an outrageous statement against Palestinians. Many of these statements tend to garner little attention or evoke rightly...
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January 4, 2018
Ramzy Baroud
The Israeli government is planning a series of measures aimed at fully denying Palestinians their legal rights in Jerusalem and precluding any future peace settlement based on sharing the...
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January 1, 2018
Ramzy Baroud
There is a real – but largely concealed – war which is taking place throughout the African continent. It involves the United States, an invigorated Russia and a rising...
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December 26, 2017
Ramzy Baroud
2017 will be remembered as the year that the so-called ‘peace process’, at least in its American formulation, has ended. And with its demise, a political framework that has...
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December 18, 2017
Ramzy Baroud
Within hours after Akayed Ullah, a Bangladeshi immigrant, allegedly detonated a pipe bomb in New York City on 11 December, severely injuring himself and wounding four others, a most...
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December 13, 2017
Ramzy Baroud
Now that the American mask has completely fallen, Palestinians require an urgent rethink in their own political priorities, alliances and national liberation strategy. Business should not go on as...
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December 9, 2017
Ramzy Baroud
When I learned of the death of Kamal Al-Assar a few years ago, I was baffled. He was only in his 40s. I remember him in his prime, a...
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December 7, 2017
Ramzy Baroud
Finally, US President Donald Trump pulled the plug. The so-called peace process, two-state solution, “land-for-peace formula” and all the other tired clichés have been long dead and decomposing. But...
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December 5, 2017
Ramzy Baroud
Pope Francis lost a historical opportunity to truly set his legacy apart from previous Popes. Alas, for him, too, political expediency trumped all else. In his visit to Burma...
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November 27, 2017
Ramzy Baroud
On 18 November, just days before the 50th anniversary of United Nations Resolution 242, the US State Department took its first step towards severing its ties with the Palestinian...
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November 21, 2017
Ramzy Baroud
In a recent talk before Chatham House think-tank in London, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, approached the issue of a Palestinian state from an intellectual perspective. Before we think...
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November 14, 2017
Ramzy Baroud
Whether the string of scandals, now hounding Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, lead to his sacking or not, it matters little. Though nearly half of Israelis polled last July – well before...
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November 6, 2017
Ramzy Baroud
The postponing of an Israeli Knesset bill that would have annexed major illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank to the Jerusalem municipality is the result of behind-the-scenes US...
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October 30, 2017
Ramzy Baroud
Israeli footprints are becoming more apparent in the US security apparatus. Such a fact does not bode well for ordinary Americans. US Senate Bill S.720 should have been a...
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October 23, 2017
Ramzy Baroud
The reconciliation agreement signed between rival Palestinian parties, Hamas and Fatah, in Cairo on October 12 was not a national unity accord – at least, not yet. For the...
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October 16, 2017
Ramzy Baroud
To understand the United States’ stratagem in the Pacific, and against North Korea in particular, one has to understand the fundamental changes that are underway in that region. China’s...
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October 11, 2017
Ramzy Baroud
Egypt’s enthusiasm to arbitrate between feuding Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, is not the outcome of a sudden awakening of conscience. Cairo has, in fact, played a destructive role...
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October 9, 2017
Ramzy Baroud
Some promises are made and kept; others disavowed. But the ‘promise’ made by Arthur James Balfour in what became known as the ‘Balfour Declaration’ to the leaders of the...
![Protestors at the Gaza-Israel border seen on the third consecutive Friday as part of the 'Great March of Return', on April 13, 2018 [Mohammad Asad / Middle East Monitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/b3.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The term ‘media bias’ does not do justice to the western corporate media’s relationship with Israel and Palestine. The relationship is, indeed, far more profound than mere partiality. It...
Why did Israel kill many unarmed Gaza protesters and wound over 2,000 on Friday, March 30 and on the following days, when they clearly posed no threat to Israeli...
Rim Banna passed away at the age of 51. Her death on 24 March, after a decade-long battle with cancer, brought grief to Palestinians everywhere. Rim, a Palestinian Christian...
The “deal of the century” is a farce. We suspected that, of course, but, upon his return from Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed in more detail why...
On March 13, while on his way to the besieged Gaza Strip, two 33-pounds bombs targeted the convoy of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah. Hamdallah was visiting Gaza,...
If scandal-plagued Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, exits his country’s political scene today, who is likely to replace him? And what does this mean as far as Israel’s Occupation...![17-year-old Palestinian Ahed Al-Tamimi, appears in court after she was taken into custody by Israeli soldiers, in Ramallah, West Bank on 28th December 2017 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency] appears in court after she was taken into custody by Israeli soldiers, in Ramallah, West Bank on 28th December 2017 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017_12-25-Israeli-court-refuses-bail-for-jailed-Palestinian-teen20171228_2_27806286_29314781.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
As global voices continue to demand the freedom of 17-year-old teenage Palestinian girl, Ahed Tamimi, Israeli authorities have arrested nine additional members of her family. Those who were detained...
In an article published in Al-Monitor without a single verifiable citation, Israeli journalist, Shlomi Eldar, went to unprecedented lengths to divert attention from the corruption in his country. He...
As soon as Virgin Atlantic Airlines introduced a couscous-style salad “inspired by the flavours of Palestine”, a controversy ensued. Israel’s supporters ignited a social media storm and sent many complaints to...
Following the signing of the Oslo agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1993, Palestinian refugees vanished off the radar. The most pressing of all issues...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Brussels, Belgium on 11 December 2017 [Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2017_12-11-Israeli-Prime-Minister-Benjamin-Netanyahu-20171211_Netanyahu-EU-meet-5.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Despite massive sums of money spent to channel public opinion in the United States in favour of Israel, unmistakable trends in opinion polls are attesting to the changing dynamics...
For a brief historical moment, Alexis Tsipras and his political party, Syriza, ignited hope that Greece could resurrect a long-dormant Leftist tide in Europe. A new Greece was being...![Rohingyas fleeing Myanmar, heading to Bangladesh on 10 October, 2017 [Stefanie Glinski/Thomson Reuters Foundation]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017_10_17-Rohingyas-fleeing-Myanmar-heading-to-Bangladesh2017-10-17T142117Z_1_MTZSPDEDAHZ17F7U_RTRFIPP_4_ROHINGYA-MYANMAR-BANGLADESH-JOURNEY-.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Although the genocide of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar has gathered greater media attention in recent months, there is no indication that the international community is prepared to act...
On 15 January, millions of Americans commemorated Martin Luther King’s Day. His famous speech, ‘I Have a Dream’ was repeated numerous times in media outlets as a reminder of...![Israeli security forces take security measures as Palestinians stage a demonstration to protest metal detectors installed by Israeli authorities on Al-Aqsa Mosque in Bethlehem, West Bank on 21 July 2017 [Mamoun Wazwaz/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017_7_21-Protest-in-Bethlehem20170721_2_24874764_24338712.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Not a day passes without a prominent Israeli politician or intellectual making an outrageous statement against Palestinians. Many of these statements tend to garner little attention or evoke rightly...
The Israeli government is planning a series of measures aimed at fully denying Palestinians their legal rights in Jerusalem and precluding any future peace settlement based on sharing the...![A US Army Special Forces weapons sergeant observes as a Nigerien soldier bounds forward while practicing buddy team movement drills during Exercise Flintlock 2017 in Diffa, Niger, March 11, 2017 [US Army photo by Spc. Zayid Ballesteros]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/3226958-1-e1514801628262.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
There is a real – but largely concealed – war which is taking place throughout the African continent. It involves the United States, an invigorated Russia and a rising...![Palestinian children hold pictures of Jerusalem during a protest against Trump’s decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in Gaza city, on 6 December 2017 [Ashraf Amra/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017_12-6-protest061217_ASH_00-34.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
2017 will be remembered as the year that the so-called ‘peace process’, at least in its American formulation, has ended. And with its demise, a political framework that has...
Within hours after Akayed Ullah, a Bangladeshi immigrant, allegedly detonated a pipe bomb in New York City on 11 December, severely injuring himself and wounding four others, a most...
Now that the American mask has completely fallen, Palestinians require an urgent rethink in their own political priorities, alliances and national liberation strategy. Business should not go on as...
When I learned of the death of Kamal Al-Assar a few years ago, I was baffled. He was only in his 40s. I remember him in his prime, a...![Palestinians in Gaza watch as US President Donald Trump recognises occupied Jerusalem as Israel's capital on 6 December 2017. [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171206_People-watch-Trumps-speech-2.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Finally, US President Donald Trump pulled the plug. The so-called peace process, two-state solution, “land-for-peace formula” and all the other tired clichés have been long dead and decomposing. But...
Pope Francis lost a historical opportunity to truly set his legacy apart from previous Popes. Alas, for him, too, political expediency trumped all else. In his visit to Burma...![PLO delegation - Cartoon [Sabaaneh/MiddleEastMonitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/22-11-2017.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
On 18 November, just days before the 50th anniversary of United Nations Resolution 242, the US State Department took its first step towards severing its ties with the Palestinian...![Graffiti art is seen on the illegal Israeli Separation Wall in the occupied West Bank town of Bethlehem on 1 November 2017 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2017_11-1-Graffiti-art-is-seen-on-Israeli-separation-wall-in-the-West-Bank-town-of-Bethlehem-20171101_2_26611066_27387212.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
In a recent talk before Chatham House think-tank in London, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, approached the issue of a Palestinian state from an intellectual perspective. Before we think...
Whether the string of scandals, now hounding Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, lead to his sacking or not, it matters little. Though nearly half of Israelis polled last July – well before...
The postponing of an Israeli Knesset bill that would have annexed major illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank to the Jerusalem municipality is the result of behind-the-scenes US...
Israeli footprints are becoming more apparent in the US security apparatus. Such a fact does not bode well for ordinary Americans. US Senate Bill S.720 should have been a...
The reconciliation agreement signed between rival Palestinian parties, Hamas and Fatah, in Cairo on October 12 was not a national unity accord – at least, not yet. For the...![US President Donald Trump makes a speech as he attends the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly in New York, United States on 19 September, 2017 [Volkan Furuncu/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017_09_20-Trump-at-the-72-UN-General-Assembly20170919_2_25824441_26019533.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
To understand the United States’ stratagem in the Pacific, and against North Korea in particular, one has to understand the fundamental changes that are underway in that region. China’s...![Fatah and Hamas leaders at a recent meeting in Gaza [File photo]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/jdjd.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Egypt’s enthusiasm to arbitrate between feuding Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, is not the outcome of a sudden awakening of conscience. Cairo has, in fact, played a destructive role...![Palestinians protest to mark the 99th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration on November 01, 2016 [Mohammed Asad /Wikipedia]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016_11_02-Palestinians-protest-to-mark-the-99th-anniversary-of-the-Balfour-Declaration-7.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Some promises are made and kept; others disavowed. But the ‘promise’ made by Arthur James Balfour in what became known as the ‘Balfour Declaration’ to the leaders of the...