December 15, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud For most people 8 December came and went like any other ordinary day. For Palestinian political groups, though, it was another anniversary to be commemorated, for it was on...
December 7, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud No one seemed as excited about the election of Joe Biden being the next President of the United States as Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas. When all hope seemed...
December 4, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Noam Chomsky is right when he says that, in the US, sports creates the necessary "fantasy world" required to shield people from understanding, organizing, and attempting to "influence the...
December 1, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Right-wing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has nothing to worry about as the man who will directly handle America's foreign policy in the Middle East is a loyal friend...
November 26, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Once again, Europe's top diplomats expressed their 'deep concern' regarding Israel's ongoing illegal settlement expansion, again evoking the maxim that Israeli actions "threaten the viability of the two-state solution"....
November 23, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud In a few words, a close associate of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, summed up the logic behind the ongoing frenzy to expand illegal Jewish settlements in Israel. "These...
November 19, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud A new term has imposed itself on the conversation regarding the impending presidency of US President-elect, Joe Biden: "The Total Reset". Many headlines have already promised that the Biden...
November 17, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Belgium is furious. On November 6, the Belgian government condemned Israel's destruction of Belgian-funded homes in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank. Understandably, Brussels wants the Israeli government to pay...
November 13, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud In January 2017, the Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index downgraded the state of democracy in the United States from "full" to "flawed". The demotion of a country that has...
November 10, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud "If we are going to live another four years with President Trump, God help us, God help you and God help the whole world." These were the words of...
November 4, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud The discussion on institutional Israeli racism against its own Palestinian Arab population has all but ceased following the final approval of the discriminatory Nation-State Law in July 2018. Indeed,...
November 2, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud There is no moral or ethical justification for the killing of innocent people, anywhere. Therefore, the murder of three people in the French city of Nice on October 29...
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Syria Mohammad Ibrahim Ali al-Deirawi was born on January 30, 1978 in Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. His family is originally from Bir Al-Saba', an ethnically cleansed Palestinian...
October 27, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Why does Israel hate Palestinian singer, Mohammed Assaf? On October 16, Avi Dichter, Israeli Member of Parliament from the right-wing Likud Party, announced that Assaf's special permit to enter...
October 23, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud The outdated notion that China 'just wants to do business' should be completely erased from our understanding of the rising global power's political outlook. Simply put, Beijing has long...
October 20, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud In theory, Europe and the United States stand on completely opposite sides when it comes to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. While the US government has fully embraced the...
October 13, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud "No one cares about the prisoners." Over the past few years, I have heard this phrase – or some variation of it – uttered many times by freed Palestinian...
A Zionist-led war on a Palestinian cultural festival in Rome has exposed the fragility of the Italian political system when it comes to the conversation on Palestine and Israel....
October 8, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud 'International law' remains one of the most discussed terms in the context of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. It is almost always present, whether the discussion pertains to the...
October 5, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud After viewing the first US Presidential debate on September 29, one is left with no doubt about the degenerating political discourse among America's ruling elites. Following the debate between...
September 29, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud It is abundantly clear that Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, has underestimated the seriousness of the challenges facing Palestine and the Palestinians. The rushed agreement between his party, Fatah...
September 27, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Overwhelmed by uncontrollable circumstances, the Greek government is bracing for another financial crisis that promises to be as terrible as the last one in 2015. Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis,...
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Turkey September 21, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Palestine can never be truly understood through numbers, because numbers are dehumanising, impersonal, and, when necessary, can also be contrived to mean something else entirely. Numbers are not meant...
The inevitable has finally happened, and the coronavirus pandemic is now ravaging the besieged Gaza Strip. On August 24, a total lockdown was imposed by the Gaza authorities following...
September 16, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud The polarized nature of American politics often makes it difficult to address fundamental differences between the country's two main political rivals, Republicans and Democrats. As each side is intent...
September 15, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud On September 2, the Israeli government approved a proposal that allows the military to indefinitely withhold the bodies of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli army. The...
September 7, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an alliance in name alone. Recent events notwithstanding, the brewing conflict over territorial waters in the Eastern Mediterranean indicates that the military...
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US September 1, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud It is difficult – and futile – to argue which American president has historically been more pro-Israel. While former President Barack Obama, for example, has pledged more money to...
August 28, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud On August 16, the Israeli navy declared the Gaza sea a closed military zone. A few days later, a group of Gaza fishermen decided to take their chances by...
August 25, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Only recently, the Palestinian group, Hamas, and Israel seemed close to reaching a prisoner exchange agreement, where Hamas would release several Israeli soldiers held in Gaza while Israel would...
August 18, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Palestinians are not going anywhere. This is the gist of seven decades of Palestinian struggle against Zionist colonialism. The proof? The story of Ahmed Amarneh. Amarneh, a 30-year-old civil...
August 16, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud French President, Emmanuel Macron, is in no position to pontificate to Lebanon about the need for political and economic reforms. Just as thousands of Lebanese took to the streets...
![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)
For most people 8 December came and went like any other ordinary day. For Palestinian political groups, though, it was another anniversary to be commemorated, for it was on...![Then US Vice President Joe Biden (L) and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas shake hands during their meeting at the Presidential compound on March 10, 2010 in Ramallah, West Bank [Atef Safadi/Pool/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/GettyImages-97605752.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
No one seemed as excited about the election of Joe Biden being the next President of the United States as Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas. When all hope seemed...![Fans of Scotland's Glasgow Celtic FC display Palestinian flags while playing against Israel's Hapoel Beer Sheva FC [Image credit: Twitter / @ChrisGunness]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Scottish-fans-display-Palestinian-flag-during-football-match-with-Israeli-team-2016.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Noam Chomsky is right when he says that, in the US, sports creates the necessary "fantasy world" required to shield people from understanding, organizing, and attempting to "influence the...![Nominated Secretary of State Antony Blinken(R) participates as US President-elect Joe Biden speaks during a cabinet announcement event in Wilmington, Delaware, on 24 November 2020. [CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/GettyImages-1229767964.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Right-wing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has nothing to worry about as the man who will directly handle America's foreign policy in the Middle East is a loyal friend...![A Palestinian man looks towards the Israeli settlement of Shavei Shomron built next to the Palestinian village of Naqoura, west of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on 23 November 2020. [JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/GettyImages-1229749922-e1606379235479.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Once again, Europe's top diplomats expressed their 'deep concern' regarding Israel's ongoing illegal settlement expansion, again evoking the maxim that Israeli actions "threaten the viability of the two-state solution"....![Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump in the White House on September 15, 2020 in Washington, DC [Alex Wong/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/GettyImages-1272675738.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In a few words, a close associate of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, summed up the logic behind the ongoing frenzy to expand illegal Jewish settlements in Israel. "These...![US President-elect Joe Biden speaks with outside diplomatic, intelligence, and defense experts to discuss readiness at the relevant agencies during a video meeting in Wilmington, Delaware on 17 November 2020. [JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/GettyImages-1229656809-scaled-e1605777211987.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
A new term has imposed itself on the conversation regarding the impending presidency of US President-elect, Joe Biden: "The Total Reset". Many headlines have already promised that the Biden...![Palestinian children check the destruction in a children's playground, that was built with funding from Belgium, in the Zatarah village, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, after it was demolished on 12 April 2016 by Israeli authorities who said it was built in the so-called Area C, a closed military zone where Israel exercises full control. [JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/GettyImages-520604188-e1605604774582.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Belgium is furious. On November 6, the Belgian government condemned Israel's destruction of Belgian-funded homes in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank. Understandably, Brussels wants the Israeli government to pay...![Supporters of Joe Biden gather in Florida, US on 15 October 2020 [Eva Marie Uzcategui Trinkl/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_2_44856577_58929972.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In January 2017, the Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index downgraded the state of democracy in the United States from "full" to "flawed". The demotion of a country that has...![Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in the West Bank on 3 September 2020 [ALAA BADARNEH/POOL/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mahmoud-Abbas.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
"If we are going to live another four years with President Trump, God help us, God help you and God help the whole world." These were the words of...
The discussion on institutional Israeli racism against its own Palestinian Arab population has all but ceased following the final approval of the discriminatory Nation-State Law in July 2018. Indeed,...![Demonstrators gather in front of Embassy of France in Tehran during a protest against the publication of cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in France and against President of France Emmanuel Macron over his anti-Islam remarks, on October 28, 2020 in Tehran, Iran [Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201028_2_45071687_59271938.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
There is no moral or ethical justification for the killing of innocent people, anywhere. Therefore, the murder of three people in the French city of Nice on October 29...
Mohammad Ibrahim Ali al-Deirawi was born on January 30, 1978 in Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. His family is originally from Bir Al-Saba', an ethnically cleansed Palestinian...![Palestinian Singer Mohammed Assaf n New York, US on 19 August 2016 [Michael Loccisano/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Mohammed-Assaf.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Why does Israel hate Palestinian singer, Mohammed Assaf? On October 16, Avi Dichter, Israeli Member of Parliament from the right-wing Likud Party, announced that Assaf's special permit to enter...![China's President Xi Jinping (L) and US President Donald Trump.[IORI SAGISAWA,MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GettyImages-1212971313.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The outdated notion that China 'just wants to do business' should be completely erased from our understanding of the rising global power's political outlook. Simply put, Beijing has long...![Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh makes a speech via video conference at the European Parliament Committee meeting on Foreign Affairs, on 12 October 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. [Dursun Aydemir - Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201012_2_44796079_58838945-e1603181656725.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In theory, Europe and the United States stand on completely opposite sides when it comes to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. While the US government has fully embraced the...![Israeli left-wing activists lift placards during a demonstration calling for the release of Palestinian administrative detainees, including Maher al-Akhras who's health has deteriorated while on hunger strike for 77 days, in front of Kaplan medical center where he is in Israeli custody in the central city of Rehovot, on 11 October 2020. [AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GettyImages-1229007224.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
"No one cares about the prisoners." Over the past few years, I have heard this phrase – or some variation of it – uttered many times by freed Palestinian...![People hold a banner reading "Free Palestine" during a protest in support of the Palestinian cause on May 12, 2018 in Rome, Italy. [Antonio Masiello/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GettyImages-957727744.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
A Zionist-led war on a Palestinian cultural festival in Rome has exposed the fragility of the Italian political system when it comes to the conversation on Palestine and Israel....![A Palestinian protester yells at an Israeli soldier during a protest against Israeli forces conducting an exercise in a residential area near the Palestinian village of Naqura, northwest of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on September 4, 2019 [JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/GettyImages-1165951966.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
'International law' remains one of the most discussed terms in the context of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. It is almost always present, whether the discussion pertains to the...![Demonstrators march down Black Lives Matter Plaza during a protest against police brutality and racism on June 6, 2020 in Washington, DC [Yasin Öztürk/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200606_2_42836975_55707723-scaled-e1591621045685.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
After viewing the first US Presidential debate on September 29, one is left with no doubt about the degenerating political discourse among America's ruling elites. Following the debate between...![Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, West Bank on 20 May 2020 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Palestinian-President-Mahmoud-Abbas.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
It is abundantly clear that Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, has underestimated the seriousness of the challenges facing Palestine and the Palestinians. The rushed agreement between his party, Fatah...![Escorted by Navy warships, Turkey's Oruc Reis seismic vessel is seen in the Eastern Mediterranean on 20 August 2020 [Turkish National Defense Ministry/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20200820_2_43977196_57548328.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Overwhelmed by uncontrollable circumstances, the Greek government is bracing for another financial crisis that promises to be as terrible as the last one in 2015. Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis,...![Palestinian youth posing in front of a graffiti "We Are Not Numbers" [Twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/11701100_1595925884001054_8173500664297662801_n.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Palestine can never be truly understood through numbers, because numbers are dehumanising, impersonal, and, when necessary, can also be contrived to mean something else entirely. Numbers are not meant...
The inevitable has finally happened, and the coronavirus pandemic is now ravaging the besieged Gaza Strip. On August 24, a total lockdown was imposed by the Gaza authorities following...![US President Donald Trump(L) in Washington, DC, on June 2, 2019, and former US vice president Joe Biden during the kick off his presidential election campaign in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 18, 2019. [JIM WATSON,DOMINICK REUTER/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/GettyImages-1149261012-e1600157845175.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The polarized nature of American politics often makes it difficult to address fundamental differences between the country's two main political rivals, Republicans and Democrats. As each side is intent...![Palestinians hold placards during a demonstration to demand the return of the bodies of relatives who were allegedly involved in attacks and consequently killed by Israeli forces, in the West Bank town of Hebron, on 30 August 2020. [HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/GettyImages-1228266794.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
On September 2, the Israeli government approved a proposal that allows the military to indefinitely withhold the bodies of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli army. The...![Lieutenant General Roger L. Cloutier (R) at the NATO Allied Land Command Headquarters in Izmir, Turkey on August 04, 2020 [Mehmet Emin Mengüarslan/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200804_2_43745139_57210824-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an alliance in name alone. Recent events notwithstanding, the brewing conflict over territorial waters in the Eastern Mediterranean indicates that the military...
It is difficult – and futile – to argue which American president has historically been more pro-Israel. While former President Barack Obama, for example, has pledged more money to...![The Israeli occupation forces completely closed the Gaza Strip’s fishing zone due to the alleged breach of the security truce on 16 August 2020 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/651A9442.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
On August 16, the Israeli navy declared the Gaza sea a closed military zone. A few days later, a group of Gaza fishermen decided to take their chances by...![Protesters, wearing masks of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition partner Defence Minister Benny Gantz, take part in a demonstration in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square to denounce Israel's plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, on 23 June 2020. [JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-1222154690.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Only recently, the Palestinian group, Hamas, and Israel seemed close to reaching a prisoner exchange agreement, where Hamas would release several Israeli soldiers held in Gaza while Israel would...![Palestinian Ahmed Amarneh at his home built in cave, in the village of Farasin, in the West Bank on 11 August 2020 [Shadi Jarar'ah/ApaImages]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/home-built-in-cave.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Palestinians are not going anywhere. This is the gist of seven decades of Palestinian struggle against Zionist colonialism. The proof? The story of Ahmed Amarneh. Amarneh, a 30-year-old civil...![French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a news conference at the Official residence of the French Embassy building in Beirut, Lebanon on August 06, 2020 [Lebanese Presidency / Handout - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200806_2_43782740_57263108.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
French President, Emmanuel Macron, is in no position to pontificate to Lebanon about the need for political and economic reforms. Just as thousands of Lebanese took to the streets...