October 14, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud The call by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for elections in the Occupied Territories is a political ploy. There will be no true, democratic elections under Abbas’ leadership. The...
October 11, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud “Perhaps the time has come for Palestinians and justice-loving Israelis to imagine a new future,” wrote South African intellectuals and academics, Na’eem Jeenah and Salim Vally, in their essay,...
October 9, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud On August 20, Heba Ahmed al-Labadi fell into the dark hole of the Israeli legal system, joining 413 Palestinian prisoners who are currently held in so-called administrative detention. On...
October 7, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud The Israeli Apartheid Wall, which is being built largely on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, once more underscores the ugliness of military occupation. As...
September 30, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud On September 16, I visited South Africa, a country where many Palestinians have always felt welcomed, if not overwhelmed by the degree of genuine and meaningful solidarity. While having...
September 22, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Experience has taught Palestinians not to pay heed to Israeli elections. But to every rule there is an exception. Although it is still true that no Israeli Zionist leader...
September 19, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Bassam al-Sayeh was the latest victim of medical negligence in Israeli prisons. The 47-year-old Palestinian from Nablus died on September 8. The last of such tragic cases is that...
September 16, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is moving quickly to alter the political reality in Palestine, and facing little or no resistance. On September 10, Netanyahu declared his intentions to...
September 11, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud The death of Israa Gharib has ignited furious reactions regarding the so-called ‘honor-killings’ in Palestine and throughout the Arab world. It also wrought confusion with respect to the jurisprudential...
September 9, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud To serve his limited political agenda, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, may have unwittingly unified various resistance groups in the Middle East after years of separation and discord. On...
September 3, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud On September 1, the Lebanese group Hezbollah struck an Israeli military base near the border town of Avivim. The Lebanese attack came as an inevitable response to a series...
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US August 29, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud At the heart of the Palestinian struggle for basic human rights is the enduring fight of Palestinian workers. While they currently find themselves at the forefront of several battles,...
August 27, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Israel’s decision to bar two United States Democratic Representatives, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, from entering Israel and visiting Palestine has further exposed the belligerent, racist nature of the...
August 22, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud 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...
![Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas leads Palestine Liberation Organisation board meeting in Ramallah, West Bank on October 03, 2019 [İssam Rimawi / Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/20191003_2_38539224_48139259-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The call by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for elections in the Occupied Territories is a political ploy. There will be no true, democratic elections under Abbas’ leadership. The...![Apartheid mural [Twitter]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Apartheid-mural-at-Wits-e1570819969995.jpg?resize=496%2C330&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
“Perhaps the time has come for Palestinians and justice-loving Israelis to imagine a new future,” wrote South African intellectuals and academics, Na’eem Jeenah and Salim Vally, in their essay,...
On August 20, Heba Ahmed al-Labadi fell into the dark hole of the Israeli legal system, joining 413 Palestinian prisoners who are currently held in so-called administrative detention. On...
The Israeli Apartheid Wall, which is being built largely on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, once more underscores the ugliness of military occupation. As...![Pro-Palestinian groups and other civil society organisations demonstrate, in Durban on 2 June, 2018 [Twitter]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/000_15K36F.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
On September 16, I visited South Africa, a country where many Palestinians have always felt welcomed, if not overwhelmed by the degree of genuine and meaningful solidarity. While having...![An election poster of Benny Gantz is seen ahead of the General elections in Jerusalem on 16 September 16, 2019. [Faiz Abu Rmeleh - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20190916_2_38241876_47634579.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Experience has taught Palestinians not to pay heed to Israeli elections. But to every rule there is an exception. Although it is still true that no Israeli Zionist leader...![Mother of 51-year-old Palestinian prisoner, Faris Baroud holds his photo - [Facebook]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190207-Palestinian-detainee-e1549533502683.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Bassam al-Sayeh was the latest victim of medical negligence in Israeli prisons. The 47-year-old Palestinian from Nablus died on September 8. The last of such tragic cases is that...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the West Bank town of Hebron, on 4 September 2019 [Kobi Gideon/GPO/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20190904_2_38047485_47292910-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is moving quickly to alter the political reality in Palestine, and facing little or no resistance. On September 10, Netanyahu declared his intentions to...
The death of Israa Gharib has ignited furious reactions regarding the so-called ‘honor-killings’ in Palestine and throughout the Arab world. It also wrought confusion with respect to the jurisprudential...![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)
To serve his limited political agenda, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, may have unwittingly unified various resistance groups in the Middle East after years of separation and discord. On...![Late Palestinian novelist Ghassan Kanafani [Twitter]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ghassan-Kanafani-DhmbMEZVMAAhZCm.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
At the heart of the Palestinian struggle for basic human rights is the enduring fight of Palestinian workers. While they currently find themselves at the forefront of several battles,...
Israel’s decision to bar two United States Democratic Representatives, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, from entering Israel and visiting Palestine has further exposed the belligerent, racist nature of the...![Former Israeli President Shimon Peres addresses the European Parliament in Strasbourg, on 12 March 2013. [REUTERS/Jean-Marc Loos/Files]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-09-28T020420Z_1_LYNXNPEC8R039_RTROPTP_4_ISRAEL-PERES-e1475146844286.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
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...