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,...
May 21, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud Two important truths have to be restated in order to understand the context of the US government’s decision to relocate its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which officially...
May 21, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud 60 Palestinians were killed in Gaza on May 15, simply for protesting and demanding their Right of Return as guaranteed by international law. 50 more were killed since March...
May 15, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud When Google Earth was launched in 2001, I rushed immediately to locate a village that no longer exists on a map, which now delineates a whole different reality. Although...
May 14, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud For the first time since its inception in 1909, the legendary Italian cycling race, Giro d’Italia kicked off outside Europe and, strangely enough, from the city of Jerusalem on...
May 8, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud The Gaza border protests must be understood in the context of the Israeli Occupation, the siege and the long-delayed ‘Right of Return’ for Palestinian refugees. However, they should also be...
May 1, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud Three more Palestinians were killed and 611 wounded last Friday, when tens of thousands of Gazans continued their largely non-violent protests at the Gaza-Israel border. Yet as the casualty...
April 24, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud Albert Einstein, along with other Jewish luminaries, including Hannah Arendt, published a letter in the New York Times on December 4, 1948. That was only a few months after...
April 17, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud The term ‘media bias’ does not do justice to the western corporate media’s relationship with Israel and Palestine. The relationship is, indeed, far more profound than mere partiality. It...
April 9, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud Why did Israel kill many unarmed Gaza protesters and wound over 2,000 on Friday, March 30 and on the following days, when they clearly posed no threat to Israeli...
April 2, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud Rim Banna passed away at the age of 51. Her death on 24 March, after a decade-long battle with cancer, brought grief to Palestinians everywhere. Rim, a Palestinian Christian...
March 26, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud The “deal of the century” is a farce. We suspected that, of course, but, upon his return from Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed in more detail why...
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...
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...![Migrants being rescued in the Mediterranean sea [file photo]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2015_06_15-Irish-Naval-personnel-rescuing-migrants-in-the-Mediterranean.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
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,...![Trump's son-in-law and Senior Advisor Jared Kushner (R) and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shake hands at the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem on 14 May 2018 [Israel Press Office /Handout/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2018_5-16-Jared-Kushner.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Two important truths have to be restated in order to understand the context of the US government’s decision to relocate its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which officially...![Palestinians carry a wounded man to ambulance after Israeli occupation forces' intervention during a protest, organized to mark 70th anniversary of Nakba, also known as Day of the Catastrophe in 1948, and against United States' plans to relocate the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, near Israel border in Khan Yunis, Gaza on 16 May, 2018 [Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180516_2_30415782_33814055.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
60 Palestinians were killed in Gaza on May 15, simply for protesting and demanding their Right of Return as guaranteed by international law. 50 more were killed since March...
When Google Earth was launched in 2001, I rushed immediately to locate a village that no longer exists on a map, which now delineates a whole different reality. Although...![View of the Palestinian Shuafat refugee camp behind Israel's apartheid wall in east Jerusalem on 3 December 2014 [Muammar Awad/Apaimages]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2013_12_3-Palestinian-Shuafat-refugee-camp281114_MUA_00-2.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
For the first time since its inception in 1909, the legendary Italian cycling race, Giro d’Italia kicked off outside Europe and, strangely enough, from the city of Jerusalem on...![Palestinian protesters dressed as a character from the movie "Avatar" take part in a protest demanding the right to return to their homeland, at the Israel-Gaza border in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, 3 May, 2018 [Ashraf Amra/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/030518_ASH_00-60.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The Gaza border protests must be understood in the context of the Israeli Occupation, the siege and the long-delayed ‘Right of Return’ for Palestinian refugees. However, they should also be...![Palestinians seen protesting at the Gaza-Israel border as part of the fifth week of the Great March of Return on April 27, 2018 [Mohammad Asad / Middle East Monitor]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_4604.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Three more Palestinians were killed and 611 wounded last Friday, when tens of thousands of Gazans continued their largely non-violent protests at the Gaza-Israel border. Yet as the casualty...![Albert Einstein, a German-born theoretical physicist [Wikipedia]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sfsfs.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Albert Einstein, along with other Jewish luminaries, including Hannah Arendt, published a letter in the New York Times on December 4, 1948. That was only a few months after...![Protestors at the Gaza-Israel border seen on the third consecutive Friday as part of the 'Great March of Return', on April 13, 2018 [Mohammad Asad / Middle East Monitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/b3.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The term ‘media bias’ does not do justice to the western corporate media’s relationship with Israel and Palestine. The relationship is, indeed, far more profound than mere partiality. It...
Why did Israel kill many unarmed Gaza protesters and wound over 2,000 on Friday, March 30 and on the following days, when they clearly posed no threat to Israeli...
Rim Banna passed away at the age of 51. Her death on 24 March, after a decade-long battle with cancer, brought grief to Palestinians everywhere. Rim, a Palestinian Christian...![A Palestinian holds an effigy depicting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a protest against his statement in which he accuses Hamas of carrying out a bomb attack against prime minister Rami Hamdallah in Gaza on 21 March 2018 [Ashraf Amra/Apaimages]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2018_3-21-A-Palestinian-holds-an-effigy-depicting-Palestinian-President-Mahmoud-Abbas210318_ASH_00-39.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The “deal of the century” is a farce. We suspected that, of course, but, upon his return from Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed in more detail why...