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November 14, 2017
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Dr 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
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Dr 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
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Dr 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
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Dr 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
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Dr 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
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Dr 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
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Dr 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...
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October 3, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
BDS stands for "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions". The BDS Movement was the outcome of several events that shaped the Palestinian national struggle and international solidarity with the Palestinian people...
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September 25, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The nature of the rhetoric in Donald Trump's first speech at the United Nations General Assembly was largely predictable. Even his bizarre threat to "totally destroy North Korea" was...
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September 19, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
There is a great irony in the fact that Israel is seeking a seat at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Since its establishment atop the ruins of Palestinian...
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September 12, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
To a certain extent, Aung San Suu Kyi is a false prophet. Glorified by the west for many years, she was made a 'democracy icon' because she opposed the...
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September 4, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
"At bedtime, I am afraid to turn the lights off. I am not a coward, it is just that I worry that this bulb hanging from the ceiling is...
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August 28, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, has been reduced to rubble. It has been finally conquered, snatched back from the notorious group, Daesh, after months of merciless bombardment by the...
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August 21, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Not too far away from Seattle, Washington there are eight ballistic-missile submarines carrying the world's large shipments of nuclear weapons. The 560-foot-long black submarines are docked at the Naval...
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August 15, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
On August, the Palestinian Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb was destroyed for the 116th time. As soon as Israeli bulldozers finished their ugly deed and soldiers began evacuating the premises,...
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August 7, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
There is something immoral in Washington D.C., and its consequences can be dire for many people, particularly for the health of US democracy. The US government is declaring war...
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July 31, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Neither Fatah nor Hamas have been of much relevance to the mass protests staged around Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. Neither have American pressure, half-hearted European 'concern about the...
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July 25, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Israel, which has played a precarious role in the Syrian war since 2011, is furious to learn that the future of the conflict is not to its liking. The...
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July 17, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Early October 2016, Misbah Abu Sbeih left his wife and five children at home and then drove to an Israeli police station in Occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem. The 39-year-old...
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July 11, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Two officers sought me from within a crowd at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. They seemed to know who I was. They asked me to follow them, and I obliged....
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July 4, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
No matter how hard White House officials try, they cannot construct a coherent 'Trump doctrine' that would make sense amid the chaos that has afflicted US foreign policy in...
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June 25, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Mohammed Abed is a 28-year-old taxi driver from the village of Qarara, near the town of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. He has no teeth. Lack of medical...
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June 19, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, seems to be championing a single cause: Israel. When Haley speaks about Israel, her language is not merely emotive...
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June 13, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The typical newsroom set-up, where journalists chase headlines dictated by some centralized news gathering agency – often based in some western capital – does not suffice any more. In...
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June 4, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
There is a saying that goes: "Be careful what you wish for, for you may get it." This has been Israel's dilemma from the very beginning. The Zionist movement,...
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May 28, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
As if he has, overnight, been transformed into a master politician, Donald Trump's 27-hour trip to Israel has left many analysts mystified. Quoting former Israeli political adviser, Mitchell Barack,...
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May 22, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Bat-Hen Epstein Elias' long article on Iranian Jews is interesting. Parts of it, in fact, are heartwarming. Yet, despite the lack of any serious evidence, the story is entirely...
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May 15, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The Israeli Knesset (parliament) has hurriedly passed a new bill that defines Israel as the "national home of the Jewish people." Although the association between Jewishness and Israel goes...
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May 15, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
In mainstream Israeli politics, history books, literature and collective imagination, the Palestinian Nakba never happened. If the pain and suffering of a nation is acknowledged, then the people themselves...
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Now that the Palestinian Islamic Movement, Hamas, has officially changed its Charter, one should not immediately assume that the decision is, in itself, an act of political maturity. Undoubtedly,...
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Gaza is the world's largest open air prison. The West Bank is a prison, too, segmented into various wards, known as areas A, B and C. In fact, all Palestinians are subjected...
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April 24, 2017
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Israel has resorted to three main strategies to suppress Palestinian calls for justice and human rights, including the Right of Return for refugees. One is dedicated to rewriting history;...
![Book Launch of Ramzy's Baroud latest book - The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story on 27 March, 2018 [Jehan Alfarra/Middle East Monitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/104A1259.jpg?resize=400%2C385&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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...![Construction workers build illegal settlements in West Bank [File photo, Wisam Hashlamoun/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017_8_25-Construction-workers-build-new-houses-in-an-Israeli-settlement250817_WIH_00-2.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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...![Human rights activists hold banners as they protest against Israel's occupation on Palestine in New York, US on 25 October 2017 [Volkan Furuncu/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017_10-26-pro-palestine-protest-in-US20171026_2_26493134_27171032.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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...![People gather to celebrate after Hamas and Fatah reached an agreement in Cairo, in Gaza City, Gaza on 12 October 2017 [Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017_10-12-Reconciliation-talks-between-Hamas-and-Fatah-organizationst20171012_2_26243967_26740610.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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=85&strip=all&zoom=1&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...![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=85&strip=all&zoom=1&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...![Image of a BDS rally [McGill Daily/Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2-16_4_1-BDS-rally24522049300_5d080fac2c_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
BDS stands for "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions". The BDS Movement was the outcome of several events that shaped the Palestinian national struggle and international solidarity with the Palestinian people...![US President Donald Trump L) with former US President Barack Obama R) [US Air Force/ Wikimedia]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Trump-and-Obama-e1496426743645.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The nature of the rhetoric in Donald Trump's first speech at the United Nations General Assembly was largely predictable. Even his bizarre threat to "totally destroy North Korea" was...![Members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council on April 12, 2017 [Volkan Furuncu/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20170412_2_23049620_20970571-e1513429767508.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
There is a great irony in the fact that Israel is seeking a seat at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Since its establishment atop the ruins of Palestinian...
To a certain extent, Aung San Suu Kyi is a false prophet. Glorified by the west for many years, she was made a 'democracy icon' because she opposed the...
"At bedtime, I am afraid to turn the lights off. I am not a coward, it is just that I worry that this bulb hanging from the ceiling is...![Iraqi security forces carry armory belonging to Daesh after Mosul completely freed from Daesh in Mosul, Syria on 9 July, 2017 [Yunus Keleş/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/20170709_2_24637551_23895586-e1502629903933.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, has been reduced to rubble. It has been finally conquered, snatched back from the notorious group, Daesh, after months of merciless bombardment by the...![Image of US President Donald Trump om 29 October 2016 [Gage Skidmore/Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2016_10_29-trump30020836983_181ebce05e_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Not too far away from Seattle, Washington there are eight ballistic-missile submarines carrying the world's large shipments of nuclear weapons. The 560-foot-long black submarines are docked at the Naval...
Neither Fatah nor Hamas have been of much relevance to the mass protests staged around Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. Neither have American pressure, half-hearted European 'concern about the...
Israel, which has played a precarious role in the Syrian war since 2011, is furious to learn that the future of the conflict is not to its liking. The...![A wounded Palestinian is seen after Israeli forces intervened a protest in front Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem on 16 July 2017 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency ]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/20170716_2_24785804_24197073.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Early October 2016, Misbah Abu Sbeih left his wife and five children at home and then drove to an Israeli police station in Occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem. The 39-year-old...
Two officers sought me from within a crowd at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. They seemed to know who I was. They asked me to follow them, and I obliged....![General Herbert Raymond McMaster with US President Donald Trump at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, US on February 20, 2017 [Kevin Lamarque / Reuters]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Herbert-Raymond-McMaster-with-Donald-Trump.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
No matter how hard White House officials try, they cannot construct a coherent 'Trump doctrine' that would make sense amid the chaos that has afflicted US foreign policy in...![A Palestinian man watches the Gaza's power station in the central Gaza Strip, July 29, 2015 [Ashraf Amra / ApaImages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/290715_ASH_00-5.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Mohammed Abed is a 28-year-old taxi driver from the village of Qarara, near the town of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. He has no teeth. Lack of medical...![Image of US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley (C) in New York, US on May 16, 2017 [Mohammed Elshamy/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170516_2_23712269_22165241.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, seems to be championing a single cause: Israel. When Haley speaks about Israel, her language is not merely emotive...![Palestinians carry the body of 16 year old Fatima Hajiji, who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers, in Ramallah, West Bank on May 17, 2017 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170517_2_23728403_22192220.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The typical newsroom set-up, where journalists chase headlines dictated by some centralized news gathering agency – often based in some western capital – does not suffice any more. In...
There is a saying that goes: "Be careful what you wish for, for you may get it." This has been Israel's dilemma from the very beginning. The Zionist movement,...![US President Donald Trump speaks during an official welcoming ceremony on his arrival in Tel Aviv, Israel on 22 May 2017 [Daniel Bar On/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017_5_22-US-President-Donald-Trump-visits-Israel20170522_2_23814308_22385864.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
As if he has, overnight, been transformed into a master politician, Donald Trump's 27-hour trip to Israel has left many analysts mystified. Quoting former Israeli political adviser, Mitchell Barack,...![Iranian Jews attend a Shabbat service in Tehran, Iran on April 23rd 2013 [MIlad Alex/Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2013_7_4-iranian-jews9206714491_35e98c5c3a_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Bat-Hen Epstein Elias' long article on Iranian Jews is interesting. Parts of it, in fact, are heartwarming. Yet, despite the lack of any serious evidence, the story is entirely...
The Israeli Knesset (parliament) has hurriedly passed a new bill that defines Israel as the "national home of the Jewish people." Although the association between Jewishness and Israel goes...![Leaders of Hamas in the Gaza Strip attend a meeting in which they express a new vision of Hamas in Doha, Qatar on March 1, 2017 [Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017_5_1-Officials-in-Gaza-watch-as-Hamas-unveils-its-new-Charter-4O6A8088.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Now that the Palestinian Islamic Movement, Hamas, has officially changed its Charter, one should not immediately assume that the decision is, in itself, an act of political maturity. Undoubtedly,...![Palestinian protesters wave flags bearing the portrait of prominent prisoner and popular leader Marwan Barghouti during a demonstration in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, in West Bank on 23 April, 2017 [Ayman Ameen / ApaImages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/230417_AA_00-7.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Gaza is the world's largest open air prison. The West Bank is a prison, too, segmented into various wards, known as areas A, B and C. In fact, all Palestinians are subjected...