April 20, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Covid-19 cases in occupied Palestine, especially in the Gaza Strip, have reached record highs, largely due to the arrival of a greatly contagious coronavirus variant which was first identified...
April 14, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud The recognition of Palestine as a State by the Australian Labor Party on 30 March is a welcome move, although it comes with many caveats. Pro-Palestine activists are justified...
The Israeli government's position regarding an impending investigation by the International Criminal Court over alleged war crimes committed in occupied Palestine has finally been declared by Israeli Prime Minister...
April 8, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud In a recent report, the UN Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), concluded that French warplanes had struck a crowd attending a wedding on 3 January in the remote village of...
April 6, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud If imprisoned Palestinian leader, Marwan Barghouti, becomes the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), the status quo will change substantially. For Israel, as well as for the current PA...
March 30, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud A "major setback" was the recurring theme in many news headlines reporting on the outcome of Israel's General Election last week. While this referred specifically to Prime Minister Benjamin...
March 26, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Boris Johnson's 16 March speech before the British Parliament was reminiscent, at least in tone, of that of Chinese President Xi Jinping in October 2019, on the 70th anniversary...
March 23, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud A Palestinian man, Atef Yousef Hanaysha, was killed by Israeli occupation forces on 19 March during a weekly protest against illegal Israeli settlement expansion in Beit Dajan, near Nablus,...
March 17, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud A much anticipated US foreign policy move under the Biden administration on how to counter China's unhindered economic growth and political ambitions came in the form of a virtual...
March 15, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Recent statements by US officials suggest that Washington will continue to pursue a hard-line policy on Venezuela. The Biden administration, however, needs to rethink its approach urgently. US State...
March 9, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Many Palestinian intellectuals and political analysts find themselves in the unenviable position of having to declare whether they support or reject the upcoming Palestinian elections which are scheduled for...
March 5, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud On 12 February, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked by a reporter whether the new Joe Biden administration intends to shut down the notorious Guantanamo Bay Prison...
March 2, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud At a glance, it may appear that the split of Arab political parties in Israel is consistent with a typical pattern of political and ideological divisions which have afflicted...
A review of a ‘fascinating’ political evolution
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US February 26, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud What is taking place in Myanmar right now is a military coup. There can be no other description for such an unwarranted action as the dismissal of the government...
February 23, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud For Palestinians, exile is not simply the physical act of being removed from their homeland and their inability to return. It is not a casual topic pertaining to politics...
February 16, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Motivated by their justifiable aversion to former US President Donald Trump, many analysts have painted, rather rashly I believe, a rosy picture of how Democrats could quickly erase the...
February 12, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Despite the long-awaited political change in Washington, with Democratic President Joe Biden now safely in the White House, Europe is unlikely to resume its previously unhindered reliance on its...
February 9, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Israeli anxiety was palpable when it was reported that Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was not contacted by new US President Joe Biden for days after the latter's inauguration....
February 3, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud The Pakistani government should never, under any circumstances and no matter the pressure, normalize with Israel. Doing so is not only dangerous – as it will embolden an already...
February 2, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud The claims made by Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang in a recent op-ed in the Jewish weekly The Forward, point to the prevailing ignorance that continues...
January 26, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud "A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is Apartheid," was the title of a January 12 report by the Israeli rights group...
January 19, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud On 11 January, Israel's Lod District Court ruled against Palestinian film-maker Mahmoud Bakri, and ordered him to pay hefty compensation to an Israeli soldier who was accused, along with...
January 18, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud In an interview with British newspaper The Times in 2015, former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld vehemently denied that exporting democracy was the main motive for the 2003 invasion...
January 15, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Arab normalisation with Israel is expected to have serious consequences that go well beyond the limited and self-serving agendas of a few regional countries. Thanks to the Arab normalisers,...
January 12, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Israel's decision to exclude Palestinians from its COVID-19 vaccination campaign may have surprised many. Even by Israel's poor humanitarian standards, denying Palestinians access to life-saving medication seems extremely callous....
As the US ruling elites have fully succumbed to Israel's political discourse on Palestine, the Israeli government of right-wing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, may feel that it, alone, is...
January 5, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud The last twelve months will go down in history as the year that terminated the American-sponsored Palestine-Israel "peace process". While 2021 will not reverse the monumental change in the...
December 31, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in late 2019, interest in the plight of the world's most vulnerable populations, refugees, began to wane. A year later, and it...
December 29, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud On December 21, the United States Congress passed the COVID-19 Relief Package, as part of a larger $2.3 trillion bill meant to cover spending for the rest of the...
December 22, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud It is convenient to surmise that Israel's current political crisis is consistent with the country's unfailing trajectory of short-lived governments and fractious ruling coalitions. While this view is somewhat...
December 17, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud The notion that the Covid-19 pandemic is "the great equaliser" should be dead and buried by now. If anything, the lethal disease is another terrible reminder of the deep...
![Book Launch of Ramzy's Baroud latest book - The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story on 27 March, 2018 [Jehan Alfarra/Middle East Monitor]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/104A1259.jpg?resize=400%2C385&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
![Muslims perform first Friday prayer of holy fasting month of Ramadan at Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem on 16 April 2021 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/First-Friday-prayer-of-Ramadan-at-Al-Aqsa.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Covid-19 cases in occupied Palestine, especially in the Gaza Strip, have reached record highs, largely due to the arrival of a greatly contagious coronavirus variant which was first identified...![Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on December 15, 2018 in Sydney, Australia [Mick Tsikas-Pool/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-1073349698-scaled-e1618389255414.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The recognition of Palestine as a State by the Australian Labor Party on 30 March is a welcome move, although it comes with many caveats. Pro-Palestine activists are justified...![International Criminal Court's prosecutor Fatou Bensouda (L) shakes hands in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, The Netherlands, on July 8, 2019 [EVA PLEVIER/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-1154574180.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The Israeli government's position regarding an impending investigation by the International Criminal Court over alleged war crimes committed in occupied Palestine has finally been declared by Israeli Prime Minister...![The 2019 promotion of Air School officer cadets wearing protective masks walk past a French air force Dassault Mirage 2000C fighter jet during their baptism ceremony on the Salon-de-Provence air base yard on 24 July 2020. [CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-1227771622.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In a recent report, the UN Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), concluded that French warplanes had struck a crowd attending a wedding on 3 January in the remote village of...![Image of a poster depicting the portrait of jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti during a protest on 14 April 2015 [Shadi Hatem/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2015_4_15-A-Palestinian-woman-holds-portrait-of-jailed-Fatah-leader-Marwan-Barghouti-during-a-protest-demanding-for-his-release-form-Israeli-prison.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
If imprisoned Palestinian leader, Marwan Barghouti, becomes the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), the status quo will change substantially. For Israel, as well as for the current PA...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party, addresses supporters at the party campaign headquarters in Jerusalem early on March 24, 2021 [EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-1231895416-scaled-e1617098929781.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
A "major setback" was the recurring theme in many news headlines reporting on the outcome of Israel's General Election last week. While this referred specifically to Prime Minister Benjamin...![British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street in London, UK on 17 March 2021 [David Cliff/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210317_2_47377536_63452643.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Boris Johnson's 16 March speech before the British Parliament was reminiscent, at least in tone, of that of Chinese President Xi Jinping in October 2019, on the 70th anniversary...![Palestinian, Israeli, and foreign activists lift banners and placards during a demonstration against Israeli occupation and settlement activity in the Palestinian Territories and east Jerusalem, in Jerusalem's Palestinian Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, on March 19, 2021 [AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-1231808332-scaled-e1616491488754.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
A Palestinian man, Atef Yousef Hanaysha, was killed by Israeli occupation forces on 19 March during a weekly protest against illegal Israeli settlement expansion in Beit Dajan, near Nablus,...
A much anticipated US foreign policy move under the Biden administration on how to counter China's unhindered economic growth and political ambitions came in the form of a virtual...![A supporter of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro holds a sign with Maduro's image during a march against the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) in Caracas, on 3 December 2019. [YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-1186295784.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Recent statements by US officials suggest that Washington will continue to pursue a hard-line policy on Venezuela. The Biden administration, however, needs to rethink its approach urgently. US State...![A Palestinian man looks for his name on the electoral roll at a school in Gaza City on March 3, 2021, ahead of the first Palestinian elections in 15 years [MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-1231488012-scaled-e1615284360412.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Many Palestinian intellectuals and political analysts find themselves in the unenviable position of having to declare whether they support or reject the upcoming Palestinian elections which are scheduled for...![Demonstrators dressed in Guantanamo Bay prisoner uniforms march past Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on 9 January 2020, during a rally on "No War with Iran." [JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-1192763815.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
On 12 February, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked by a reporter whether the new Joe Biden administration intends to shut down the notorious Guantanamo Bay Prison...![Mansour Abbas, Israeli Arab member of the United Arab List party, speaks during a campaign rally for the Joint List political alliance ahead of upcoming September parliamentary elections, in the Arab town of Kafr Yasif in northern Israel on 23 August2019. [AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-1163385119.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
At a glance, it may appear that the split of Arab political parties in Israel is consistent with a typical pattern of political and ideological divisions which have afflicted...
A review of a ‘fascinating’ political evolution![Demonstrators hold portraits of Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest outside the Embassy of Myanmar in Bangkok, Thailand on 1 February 2021. [Guillaume Payen - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/20210201_2_46661657_62135854.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
What is taking place in Myanmar right now is a military coup. There can be no other description for such an unwarranted action as the dismissal of the government...![Mahmoud Darwish (L) [COHEN MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images] / Ghassan Kanafani graffiti (C) [Wikipedia] / Mourid Barghouti (R)[Wikipedia]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/poets.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
For Palestinians, exile is not simply the physical act of being removed from their homeland and their inability to return. It is not a casual topic pertaining to politics...![US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to staff at the US State Department during the first visit of US President Joe Biden(L) in Washington, DC, 4 February 2021. [SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-1230971377.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Motivated by their justifiable aversion to former US President Donald Trump, many analysts have painted, rather rashly I believe, a rosy picture of how Democrats could quickly erase the...![US President Joe Biden signs executive actions in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, 2 Feb. 2021. [Doug Mills/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-1230936700-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Despite the long-awaited political change in Washington, with Democratic President Joe Biden now safely in the White House, Europe is unlikely to resume its previously unhindered reliance on its...![Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) welcomes Fatah member Azzam al-Ahmed (2-L) Mussa Abu Marzuk of Hamas (3-L) , and Maher al-Taher (R) of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinetheir meeting in Moscow on 23 May 2011. [ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GettyImages-114514699-e1602148274944.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israeli anxiety was palpable when it was reported that Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was not contacted by new US President Joe Biden for days after the latter's inauguration....![Demonstrators carry a banner showing crossed-out portraits of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L on banner), Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (2L), Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa (2R) and US President Donald Trump (R) during a protest in the Pakistan's port city of Karachi on 25 September 2020, to denounce the Israeli normalisation deals with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. [ASIF HASSAN/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-1228702639.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The Pakistani government should never, under any circumstances and no matter the pressure, normalize with Israel. Doing so is not only dangerous – as it will embolden an already...![Protesters stage a demonstration outside Germany's Representative Office in Ramallah in the Palestinian West Bank on 22 May 2019, following the Bundestag's (German parliament) condemnation of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement as anti-Semitic. [AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-1145507279.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The claims made by Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang in a recent op-ed in the Jewish weekly The Forward, point to the prevailing ignorance that continues...![A picture taken from the West Bank town of Abu Dis, separated from Jerusalem by Israel's controversial barrier, shows the Dome of the Rock (top) in Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound and the Jewish cemetary of Mount of Olives (R), on 23 November 2020. [AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/GettyImages-1229750407.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
"A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is Apartheid," was the title of a January 12 report by the Israeli rights group...
On 11 January, Israel's Lod District Court ruled against Palestinian film-maker Mahmoud Bakri, and ordered him to pay hefty compensation to an Israeli soldier who was accused, along with...
In an interview with British newspaper The Times in 2015, former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld vehemently denied that exporting democracy was the main motive for the 2003 invasion...![Palestinians protest in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip against Israeli normalisation deals with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on 15 September 2020 [SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/GettyImages-1228528610.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Arab normalisation with Israel is expected to have serious consequences that go well beyond the limited and self-serving agendas of a few regional countries. Thanks to the Arab normalisers,...![Palestinian labourers queue to enter Israel through the Mitar checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, on 3 May 2020. [HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/GettyImages-1211648835.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel's decision to exclude Palestinians from its COVID-19 vaccination campaign may have surprised many. Even by Israel's poor humanitarian standards, denying Palestinians access to life-saving medication seems extremely callous....![Renowned historian, Professor Ilan Pappe (L) and respected political analyst and leader Awad Abdelfattah (R) [Palestine Chronicle]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Awad-Abdelfattah.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
As the US ruling elites have fully succumbed to Israel's political discourse on Palestine, the Israeli government of right-wing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, may feel that it, alone, is...![A Gazan woman writes 2021 on the sand in a Beach in Gaza on 31 December 2020 [Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/New-year-day-gaza.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The last twelve months will go down in history as the year that terminated the American-sponsored Palestine-Israel "peace process". While 2021 will not reverse the monumental change in the...![A view from Jabaliya refugee camp as Palestinians trying to live under hard conditions, on 17 December 2020 in Gaza City, Gaza. [Mustafa Hassona - Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/20201217_2_45904817_60713224.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in late 2019, interest in the plight of the world's most vulnerable populations, refugees, began to wane. A year later, and it...![Protester hold Israeli flags and signs during a "Celebrate Israel" parade in New York, US on June 4, 2017 [Mohammed Elshamy/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20170604_2_24056269_22859240.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
On December 21, the United States Congress passed the COVID-19 Relief Package, as part of a larger $2.3 trillion bill meant to cover spending for the rest of the...
It is convenient to surmise that Israel's current political crisis is consistent with the country's unfailing trajectory of short-lived governments and fractious ruling coalitions. While this view is somewhat...![A medical worker, wearing protective gear, checks on a coronavirus (COVID-19) patient in Tehran, Iran on 20 October 2020 [Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201021_2_44940593_59067960.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The notion that the Covid-19 pandemic is "the great equaliser" should be dead and buried by now. If anything, the lethal disease is another terrible reminder of the deep...