January 2, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud “A historic mistake” is how Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu responded to calls for early elections last November. A few weeks later, he spoke, in exaggerated confidence of the...
December 27, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud The border control industry is thriving, both in the United States and Europe. In both cases, Israel is serving the task of the successful role model and the technology...
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Palestine December 25, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud Bahia Amawai is a US citizen and Texas-based language specialist who helps autistic and speech-impaired children overcome their impairment. Despite the essential and noble nature of her work, she...
December 18, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud An eerie video of a photo of one “Hajj Jamal Ghalaini” with a prayer on a backing track pops up occasionally on Facebook. The voice is that of an...
December 11, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud How does one explain Canada’s contradictory foreign policy regarding Palestine and Israel? On December 4, Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Saeb Erekat, praised Canada’s commitment not...
December 3, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud Watching the ongoing debate between liberal and right-wing pundits on US mainstream media, one rarely gets the impression that Washington is responsible for the unfolding chaotic situation in Central...
November 29, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his army to carry out a limited operation in the besieged Gaza Strip on 12 November, he certainly did not anticipate that...
November 19, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud The botched Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip on 12 November is delineating Tel Aviv’s failure to utilise its army as a tool to achieve Palestinian political concessions....
November 13, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud Right-wing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is escalating his war on the Palestinian people, although for reasons almost entirely related to Israeli politics. He has just given the green...
November 6, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud When Israeli troops stormed the house of Palestinian parliamentarian and lawyer Khalida Jarrar on 2 April, 2015, she was engrossed in her research. For months, she had been leading...
October 29, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud Although ties between Washington and Tel Aviv are stronger than ever, Israeli leaders are aware of a vastly changing political landscape. The US’ political turmoil and the global power...
October 22, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud Several Palestinian students, along with teachers and officials, were wounded in the Israeli army attack on a school south of Nablus in the West Bank on 15 October. The...
October 16, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, has made her post a “more glamorous” position than her predecessors – as President Donald Trump described Haley’s 2-year term at the...
October 8, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud As the frail body of 12-year-old Nassir Al-Mosabeh fell to the ground on Friday, September 28, history was repeating itself most tragically. Little Nassir was not just another number,...
October 2, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud There is a rational explanation of why India and Brazil, two countries with vast populations and significant and growing economies, are not permanent members of the United Nations Security...
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US September 18, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud Like vultures, Israeli soldiers descended on Khan Al-Ahmar, on Sep. 14, recreating a menacing scene with which the residents of this small Palestinian village, located East of Jerusalem, are...
September 12, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud Yossi Beilin is back. This unrepentant Israeli ‘peacemaker’ is like the mythical phoenix, continually resurrecting from its ashes. In a recent article in Al-Monitor, Beilin wrote in support of the idea...
September 4, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud Israel wants to change the rules of the game entirely. With unconditional support from the Trump Administration, Tel Aviv sees a golden opportunity to redefine what has, for decades,...
August 28, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud Hanan al-Khoudari resorted to Facebook in a cry for help when Israeli authorities rejected her request to accompany her three-year-old son, Louay, to his chemotherapy treatment in East Jerusalem....
August 21, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud On Sunday, August 12, news from Gaza was distressing: The Ministry of Health announced that it would no longer be able to treat cancer patients in the Israel-besieged Strip....
August 13, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud When Mike Treen, the national director of the Unite Union in New Zealand, arrived at the airport in the capital, Auckland, on 1 August, a group of people were...
August 7, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud The father of 11-year-old, Abdul Rahman Nofal contacted me, asking for help. His son was shot in the leg during Gaza’s ‘Great March of Return’ protests. The Strip’s dilapidated health care...
July 30, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban visited Israel on 19 July where he met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials. Orban’s visit would have not required much pause except that...
July 22, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud The head of the Arab Joint List Alliance at the Israeli Knesset (Parliament), Aymen Odeh, described the passing of the racist Jewish Nation-state Law as “the death of our democracy.” Did...
July 17, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud “In my four years as High Commissioner, I have heard many preposterous claims. That claim is almost in its own category of absurdity. Have you no shame, sir, have...
July 10, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud A recent European Council summit in Brussels was meant to articulate a united policy on the burgeoning refugees and migrant crisis. Instead, it served to highlight the bitter divisions...
July 3, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ will fail. Palestinians will not exchange their 70-year long struggle for freedom for Jared Kushner’s cash; nor will Israel accept even if there...
June 26, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud This past May, the United States Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, announced the government’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy at US border crossings. It was a matter of weeks before the new policy began...
June 19, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud Europe is facing its most significant refugee crisis since World War Two. All attempts at resolving the issue have failed, mostly because those charged with doing so have ignored...
June 12, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud What is taking place in Palestine is not a ‘conflict’. We readily utilise the term but, in fact, the word ‘conflict’ is misleading. It equates oppressed Palestinians with Israel,...
June 5, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud June 5 2018 marks the 51st anniversary of the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza. But, unlike the massive popular mobilisation that preceded the anniversary of the Nakba –...
May 29, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud On 20 February, I embarked on a global book tour that has, thus far, taken me to eight nations. The main theme of all my talks in various cultural,...
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“A historic mistake” is how Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu responded to calls for early elections last November. A few weeks later, he spoke, in exaggerated confidence of the...![A Hellenic coast guard rescues refugees and migrants on a dinghy as they try to reach the Greek island of Lesbos while crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey on September 29, 2015 [ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GettyImages-490493156-e1544951812504.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The border control industry is thriving, both in the United States and Europe. In both cases, Israel is serving the task of the successful role model and the technology...![Bahia Amawi, a primary school teacher in Texas who was fired for refusing to sign an anti-BDS oath in her contract [Screenshot from The Intercept]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Bahia-Amawi-DupBWBZV4AAhvFU.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Bahia Amawai is a US citizen and Texas-based language specialist who helps autistic and speech-impaired children overcome their impairment. Despite the essential and noble nature of her work, she...![Children play at a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon on 1 September 2018 [Anwar Amro/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018_12-14-Palestinian-camp-lebanonGettyImages-1025807670.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
An eerie video of a photo of one “Hajj Jamal Ghalaini” with a prayer on a backing track pops up occasionally on Facebook. The voice is that of an...![Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 30 November 2018 [Murat Kaynak/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181130_2_33697707_39487153.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
How does one explain Canada’s contradictory foreign policy regarding Palestine and Israel? On December 4, Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Saeb Erekat, praised Canada’s commitment not...![Honduran migrants heading in a caravan to the US, holding up a crying baby while they struggle to cross one of the gates of the Guatemala-Mexico international border bridge in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas state, Mexico, on 19 October, 2018 [PEDRO PARDO/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-12-3_central-america-caravanGettyImages-1052544920.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Watching the ongoing debate between liberal and right-wing pundits on US mainstream media, one rarely gets the impression that Washington is responsible for the unfolding chaotic situation in Central...![Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu [Yoav Lemmer/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/GettyImages-55768087-e1551017981723.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his army to carry out a limited operation in the besieged Gaza Strip on 12 November, he certainly did not anticipate that...![An elderly Palestinian man leans on a tree destroyed and tangled with debris outside a building. 13 November 2018 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-10-13_GAZA-STRIKE4O6A2628.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The botched Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip on 12 November is delineating Tel Aviv’s failure to utilise its army as a tool to achieve Palestinian political concessions....![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on 28 October 2018 [ODED BALILTY/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/GettyImages-1054578122-e1542456742228.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Right-wing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is escalating his war on the Palestinian people, although for reasons almost entirely related to Israeli politics. He has just given the green...
When Israeli troops stormed the house of Palestinian parliamentarian and lawyer Khalida Jarrar on 2 April, 2015, she was engrossed in her research. For months, she had been leading...
Although ties between Washington and Tel Aviv are stronger than ever, Israeli leaders are aware of a vastly changing political landscape. The US’ political turmoil and the global power...
Several Palestinian students, along with teachers and officials, were wounded in the Israeli army attack on a school south of Nablus in the West Bank on 15 October. The...![US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, attends Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East including the Question of Palestine at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, United States on 24 July, 2018 [Atılgan Özdil/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180724_2_31608407_35900617.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, has made her post a “more glamorous” position than her predecessors – as President Donald Trump described Haley’s 2-year term at the...
As the frail body of 12-year-old Nassir Al-Mosabeh fell to the ground on Friday, September 28, history was repeating itself most tragically. Little Nassir was not just another number,...![Participants are seen during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Myanmar's oppression on the Rohingya people' at the UN Headquarters in New York, US on 18 July 2017 [Volkan Furuncu/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017_9_28-UNSC-meeting-on-myanmar20170928_2_25998924_26313393.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
There is a rational explanation of why India and Brazil, two countries with vast populations and significant and growing economies, are not permanent members of the United Nations Security...![Israeli occupation forces demolish on 13 September 2018 the Wadi Al-Ahmar village setup in a symbolic gesture by Palestinians in support of their countrymen who face forcible transfer from the nearby Khan Al-Ahmar Bedouin village [Yassine Gaidi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Israeli-authorities-demolish-a-symbolic-village-of-Palestinians20180913_2_32337319_37151091.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Like vultures, Israeli soldiers descended on Khan Al-Ahmar, on Sep. 14, recreating a menacing scene with which the residents of this small Palestinian village, located East of Jerusalem, are...![Iconic handshake between PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli President Shimon Peres during the Oslo accords [Council on Foreign Relations/YouTube]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Oslo-Accordsmaxresdefault-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Yossi Beilin is back. This unrepentant Israeli ‘peacemaker’ is like the mythical phoenix, continually resurrecting from its ashes. In a recent article in Al-Monitor, Beilin wrote in support of the idea...![Protestors seen at the Gaza-Israel border, gathered as part of the continuing 'Great March of Return' on August 17, 2018 [Mohammad Asad / Middle East Monitor]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/8.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Israel wants to change the rules of the game entirely. With unconditional support from the Trump Administration, Tel Aviv sees a golden opportunity to redefine what has, for decades,...![Female cancer patients in the Gaza Strip go on hunger strike in protest of an Israeli decision not to allow them to travel through the Erez crossing to seek medical care in Israel [Mohammed Asad/Midle East Monitor]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/2016_12_21-Female-cancer-patients-in-the-Gaza-Strip-go-on-hunger-strike-8.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Hanan al-Khoudari resorted to Facebook in a cry for help when Israeli authorities rejected her request to accompany her three-year-old son, Louay, to his chemotherapy treatment in East Jerusalem....
On Sunday, August 12, news from Gaza was distressing: The Ministry of Health announced that it would no longer be able to treat cancer patients in the Israel-besieged Strip....
When Mike Treen, the national director of the Unite Union in New Zealand, arrived at the airport in the capital, Auckland, on 1 August, a group of people were...![Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (L) welcomes Palestinian teenager Ahed al-Tamimi (R), who was awarded the "Hanzala Award for Courage" in Turkey, after she was released from Israeli prison along with her mother at the Presidential Office in Ramallah, West Bank on 29 July, 2018 [Palestinian Presidency Handout/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180729_2_31680097_36019802.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The father of 11-year-old, Abdul Rahman Nofal contacted me, asking for help. His son was shot in the leg during Gaza’s ‘Great March of Return’ protests. The Strip’s dilapidated health care...![Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (R) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a news conference in Budapest, Hungary, 18 July, 2017 [Bernadett Szabo/Reuters]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017_07_18-Hungarian-Prime-Minister-Viktor-Orban-R-and-Israeli-Prime-Minister-Benjamin-Netanyahu-attend-a-news-conference-in-Budapest-Hungarydownload.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban visited Israel on 19 July where he met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials. Orban’s visit would have not required much pause except that...![Graffiti Wall [Life in General/Wikipedia]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2011_3-8-Israeli-Apartheid-WeekWits_Graffiti_Wall_Pro_Palestine_Message.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The head of the Arab Joint List Alliance at the Israeli Knesset (Parliament), Aymen Odeh, described the passing of the racist Jewish Nation-state Law as “the death of our democracy.” Did...
“In my four years as High Commissioner, I have heard many preposterous claims. That claim is almost in its own category of absurdity. Have you no shame, sir, have...![Image of migrants and refugees in Europe [File photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/news/europe/refugees-children-in-crowds-waiting-to-be-let-in-austria.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
A recent European Council summit in Brussels was meant to articulate a united policy on the burgeoning refugees and migrant crisis. Instead, it served to highlight the bitter divisions...![Jared Kushner (L), U.S President Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser shakes hand with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) prior to their meeting at the prime minister's office in occupied East Jerusalem, Israel on 24 August 2017. [Israeli Prime Ministry /Handout ]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170824_2_25411674_25223380-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ will fail. Palestinians will not exchange their 70-year long struggle for freedom for Jared Kushner’s cash; nor will Israel accept even if there...
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Europe is facing its most significant refugee crisis since World War Two. All attempts at resolving the issue have failed, mostly because those charged with doing so have ignored...![General view of the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East including the Question of Palestine at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, United States on June 01, 2018 [Atılgan Özdil / Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180602_2_30685624_34280013.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
What is taking place in Palestine is not a ‘conflict’. We readily utilise the term but, in fact, the word ‘conflict’ is misleading. It equates oppressed Palestinians with Israel,...![50 years since Naksa Day when 300,000 1Palestinians were forced off their land by Israeli forces in 1967 [Twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017_06_02-50-years-since-Naksa-Day-when-300000-1Palestinians-were-forced-off-their-land-by-Israeli-forces-in-1967CGw57WKWwAAi2ig-.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
June 5 2018 marks the 51st anniversary of the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza. But, unlike the massive popular mobilisation that preceded the anniversary of the Nakba –...
On 20 February, I embarked on a global book tour that has, thus far, taken me to eight nations. The main theme of all my talks in various cultural,...