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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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"....
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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...
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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...
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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...
![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)
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...
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...