February 26, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud How is one to apply rational political analysis to what is inherently irrational? What kind of political theory must one consult to formulate and test hypotheses when the information...
February 24, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, must be channeling the spirit of Houdini as he continues to plot his escape from one of the most convoluted political dilemmas in Israel’s...
February 20, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud A precious moment has been squandered, as Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, had the chance to right a historical wrong, by reinstating Palestinian national priorities at the United Nations...
Khalida Jarrar is a Palestinian feminist, a lawyer, educator and an elected parliamentarian. Over the years, she came to symbolize Palestinian popular resistance in the occupied West Bank, enraging...
February 12, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud A negotiated solution to the ‘Palestinian-Israeli conflict’, at least the way envisaged by successive US administrations, has failed. Now, Palestinians and their allies would have to explore a whole...
February 10, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud Just because the Donald Trump administration has declared international law null and void regarding the Right of Return for Palestinian refugees, the status of occupied East Jerusalem or the...
February 3, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud After several postponements, US President, Donald Trump, has finally revealed the details of his Middle East plan, dubbed ‘Deal of the Century’, in a press conference in Washington on...
January 27, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud Massive natural gas discoveries off the eastern coast of Israel and Palestine is slated to make Tel Aviv a regional energy hub. Whether Israel will be able to translate...
It is hardly surprising that Italian opposition leader, Matteo Salvini, has vowed that if he becomes Italy’s next Prime Minister, he will recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel....
January 21, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud Billions of US taxpayers’ dollars will continue to be funnelled into Israel in the next fiscal year, and for many years in the foreseeable future. Republican and Democratic Senators...
January 13, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud A seemingly ordinary news story, published in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, on January 7, shed light on a long-forgotten, yet crucial, subject: Israel’s so-called “firing zones” in the West...
January 6, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud At long last, Fatou Bensouda, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has uttered the long-anticipated conclusion that “all the statutory criteria under the Rome statute for...
By killing top Iranian military commander, Qasem Soleimani, American and Israeli leaders demonstrated the idiom ‘out of the frying pan into the fire.’ US President Donald Trump and Israeli...
January 1, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud At a talk I delivered in Northern England in March 2018, I proposed that the best response to falsified accusations of anti-Semitism, which are often lobbed against pro-Palestinian communities...
December 31, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud “They will run and not grow weary,” is a quote from the Bible (Isaiah, 40:41) that adorns the homepage of Kairos Palestine. This important document, which parallels a similar...
December 27, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud This has been a defining year for Palestine and Israel. Despite the usual political stagnation of the Palestinian leadership, two factors contributed to making 2019 particularly eventful and, looking...
December 23, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud What is Gaza to us but an Israeli missile, a rudimentary rocket, a demolished home, an injured child being whisked away by his peers under a hail of bullets?...
December 20, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Extending UNRWA’s mission is a pyrrhic victory
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US December 17, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Three years ago, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 2334. With fourteen members voting in favour and one abstention, the Resolution was the equivalent of a political earthquake....
December 10, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud It was a scandal of the highest caliber. On 23 November, the senate of the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa was practically bullied into reversing an...
December 5, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud It is hardly surprising to see Middle Eastern countries at the bottom of the World Press Freedom Index, as the worst violators of freedom of the press. But equally...
December 2, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Nothing seems to be working for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has tried every trick in the book to save his political career and avoid a possible prison...
November 25, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud It is hardly a major surprise that the US government has finally decreed that illegal Jewish settlements built in defiance of international law are somehow “consistent” with the said...
In May 2017, local parish priest, Don Edoardo Scordio, was one of 68 people who were detained by Italy’s anti-mafia police in the region of Calabria. Scordio, who is...
November 16, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud An Israeli attack on Gaza was imminent, and not because of any provocations by Palestinian groups in the besieged, impoverished Gaza Strip. The Israeli military escalation was foreseeable because...
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US November 15, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud 15 years after the passing of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian people continue to reflect on his legacy. Thousands of images of “Abu Ammar” have been shared across...
November 13, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud On November 10 Bolivian President Evo Morales, announced his resignation from office following what was described by his deputy, Álvaro García Linera, as a military coup. Morales’ 14 years...
November 11, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud The release on November 6 of two Jordanian nationals, Heba al-Labadi and Abdul Rahman Mi’ri from Israeli prisons was a bittersweet moment. The pair were finally reunited with their...
November 7, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Benny Gantz, the leader of Israel’s newly-founded Kahol Lavan – the Blue and White Party – is the rising star of Israeli politics. The fact that he has the...
November 4, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud The act of Palestinian activists covering their faces during anti-Israeli occupation rallies is an old practice that spans decades. The masking of the face, often by Kufyias – traditional...
October 29, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Palestine’s Christian population is dwindling at an alarming rate. The world’s most ancient Christian community is moving elsewhere. And the reason for this is Israel. Christian leaders from Palestine...
October 22, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud In December 2018, 17-year-old Palestinian teen, Ayham Sabah, was sentenced by an Israeli military court to 35 years in prison for his alleged role in a stabbing attack targeting an Israeli...
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How is one to apply rational political analysis to what is inherently irrational? What kind of political theory must one consult to formulate and test hypotheses when the information...![Copies of ballots papers and campaign posters for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party lie on the ground in the aftermath of the country's parliamentary elections, early on 18 March, 2015 in Tel Aviv [AFP PHOTO/JACK GUEZ/Getty]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GettyImages-466670948-e1555153057840.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, must be channeling the spirit of Houdini as he continues to plot his escape from one of the most convoluted political dilemmas in Israel’s...![Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) and US President Donald Trump shake hands before a meeting at the Palace Hotel during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly on 20 September, 2017, in New York [Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/GettyImages-850075044.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
A precious moment has been squandered, as Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, had the chance to right a historical wrong, by reinstating Palestinian national priorities at the United Nations...
Khalida Jarrar is a Palestinian feminist, a lawyer, educator and an elected parliamentarian. Over the years, she came to symbolize Palestinian popular resistance in the occupied West Bank, enraging...
A negotiated solution to the ‘Palestinian-Israeli conflict’, at least the way envisaged by successive US administrations, has failed. Now, Palestinians and their allies would have to explore a whole...![Palestinians stage a protest against so-called "Deal of the Century" announced by US President Donald Trump, in Haifa, Israel on 28 January 2020. [Mostafa Alkharouf - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200128_2_40557651_51614678.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Just because the Donald Trump administration has declared international law null and void regarding the Right of Return for Palestinian refugees, the status of occupied East Jerusalem or the...![US President Donald Trump in IA, US on 30 January 2020 [Kyle Mazza/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Trump20200131_2_40597934_51682542.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
After several postponements, US President, Donald Trump, has finally revealed the details of his Middle East plan, dubbed ‘Deal of the Century’, in a press conference in Washington on...![Offshore drilling platform in Cyprus [File photo]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/news/europe/cyprus-natural-gas-rig.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Massive natural gas discoveries off the eastern coast of Israel and Palestine is slated to make Tel Aviv a regional energy hub. Whether Israel will be able to translate...![Ze'ev Jabotinsky [Wikipedia]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/PORTRAIT_OF_ZEEV_JABOTINSKY._פורטרט_זאב_זבוטינסקי.D850-058-scaled-e1580114900711.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
It is hardly surprising that Italian opposition leader, Matteo Salvini, has vowed that if he becomes Italy’s next Prime Minister, he will recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel....![Israeli forces take security in Jerusalem on 24 December 2019 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/20191224_2_39996264_50629275.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Billions of US taxpayers’ dollars will continue to be funnelled into Israel in the next fiscal year, and for many years in the foreseeable future. Republican and Democratic Senators...![A concrete marker placed by Israeli forces demarcating the beginning of the military zone near Tubas in the Jordan Valley, northern West Bank [DCIP/Cody O'Rourke]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/DBDJ.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
A seemingly ordinary news story, published in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, on January 7, shed light on a long-forgotten, yet crucial, subject: Israel’s so-called “firing zones” in the West...![International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda [File photo]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/people/fatou-bensouda.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
At long last, Fatou Bensouda, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has uttered the long-anticipated conclusion that “all the statutory criteria under the Rome statute for...![Demonstrators carry an image of Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, who was killed by a US airstrike in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, during an anti-US rally to protest the killing at Palestine Square in the capital Tehran, Iran on January 4, 2020 [Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200104_2_40163753_50920471.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
By killing top Iranian military commander, Qasem Soleimani, American and Israeli leaders demonstrated the idiom ‘out of the frying pan into the fire.’ US President Donald Trump and Israeli...
At a talk I delivered in Northern England in March 2018, I proposed that the best response to falsified accusations of anti-Semitism, which are often lobbed against pro-Palestinian communities...![Archbishop Attalla Hanna [File photo]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/people/Archbishop-Atallah-Hanna.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
“They will run and not grow weary,” is a quote from the Bible (Isaiah, 40:41) that adorns the homepage of Kairos Palestine. This important document, which parallels a similar...![Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump posters are seen ahead of the General elections in Jerusalem on 16 September 2019 [Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/General-Elections-in-Jerusalem20190916_2_38241876_47634573.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
This has been a defining year for Palestine and Israel. Despite the usual political stagnation of the Palestinian leadership, two factors contributed to making 2019 particularly eventful and, looking...![Activists on board the Juliano, part of the third Freedom Flotilla [File photo]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/middle-east/freedom-flotilla-III-Juliano-II-activists-on-board-hold-ship-to-gaza-banner.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
What is Gaza to us but an Israeli missile, a rudimentary rocket, a demolished home, an injured child being whisked away by his peers under a hail of bullets?...![UNRWA staff strike in Gaza [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2-1-e1538556485454.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Extending UNRWA’s mission is a pyrrhic victory![UN Security Council seen in session at United Nations headquarters in New York, USA, 28 February 2019 [Atılgan Özdil / Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/20190228_2_35190333_42136928.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Three years ago, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 2334. With fourteen members voting in favour and one abstention, the Resolution was the equivalent of a political earthquake....![A bloodied Israeli flag hangs on the main building at the University of Cape Town, South Africa [File photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/apartheid-israel-Google-Search.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
It was a scandal of the highest caliber. On 23 November, the senate of the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa was practically bullied into reversing an...
It is hardly surprising to see Middle Eastern countries at the bottom of the World Press Freedom Index, as the worst violators of freedom of the press. But equally...![Israeli people hold placards during a demonstration in support of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel on 26 November, 2019 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191126_2_39531539_49829270-scaled-e1577355788992.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Nothing seems to be working for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has tried every trick in the book to save his political career and avoid a possible prison...![Construction workers build illegal settlements in Jerusalem [Sliman Khader/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2011_1-8-Labourers-work-in-the-jewish-settlement-SL00-12.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
It is hardly a major surprise that the US government has finally decreed that illegal Jewish settlements built in defiance of international law are somehow “consistent” with the said...![Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte (R) and UN Special Envoy for Libya Ghassan Salame arrive on 13 November 2018 for a press conference following an international conference on Libya in Palermo. - [Filippo MONTEFORTE/ AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/GettyImages-1061120784.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
In May 2017, local parish priest, Don Edoardo Scordio, was one of 68 people who were detained by Italy’s anti-mafia police in the region of Calabria. Scordio, who is...![Relatives of Mohammad Sharab, a Palestinian man killed by Israeli airstrikes over Gaza, mourn during his funeral ceremony in Khan Yunis, Gaza on November 14, 2019 [Ashraf Amra / Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191114_2_39315555_49453604.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
An Israeli attack on Gaza was imminent, and not because of any provocations by Palestinian groups in the besieged, impoverished Gaza Strip. The Israeli military escalation was foreseeable because...![Palestinian children walk past a mural depicts former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat [file photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/middle-east/Mural-of-yasser-arafat-in-rafah-gaza.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
15 years after the passing of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian people continue to reflect on his legacy. Thousands of images of “Abu Ammar” have been shared across...![Image of the National Congress of Bolivia [Rodrigo Achá/Wikipedia]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2007_8_10-bolivian-parliament1280px-Palacio_del_Congreso_Nacional_La_Paz_Bolivia.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
On November 10 Bolivian President Evo Morales, announced his resignation from office following what was described by his deputy, Álvaro García Linera, as a military coup. Morales’ 14 years...
The release on November 6 of two Jordanian nationals, Heba al-Labadi and Abdul Rahman Mi’ri from Israeli prisons was a bittersweet moment. The pair were finally reunited with their...![Smoke rises from Er-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City after Israeli warplanes carry out a fresh wave of airstrikes across the blockaded Gaza Strip on 25 March, 2019, in Gaza City, Gaza [Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/20190325_2_35630506_42973844.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Benny Gantz, the leader of Israel’s newly-founded Kahol Lavan – the Blue and White Party – is the rising star of Israeli politics. The fact that he has the...![Glasses are seen in front of a computer screen showing a Microsoft logo in Ankara, Turkey on 19 July, 2018 [Aytaç Ünal/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180719_2_31526757_35768425.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
The act of Palestinian activists covering their faces during anti-Israeli occupation rallies is an old practice that spans decades. The masking of the face, often by Kufyias – traditional...
Palestine’s Christian population is dwindling at an alarming rate. The world’s most ancient Christian community is moving elsewhere. And the reason for this is Israel. Christian leaders from Palestine...![Ayham Sabah [Palestine Information Center]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ayhamsabah2-e1571764755538.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
In December 2018, 17-year-old Palestinian teen, Ayham Sabah, was sentenced by an Israeli military court to 35 years in prison for his alleged role in a stabbing attack targeting an Israeli...