August 10, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud On August 4, hours before a massive explosion rocked the Lebanese capital, Beirut, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, issued an ominous warning to Lebanon. "We hit a cell and...
August 4, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud What will it take for the idea of a two-state solution, which was hardly practical to begin with, to be completely abandoned? Every realistic assessment of the situation on...
August 1, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Protests against Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have raged on for weeks, turning violent sometimes. Israelis are furious at their government's mediocre response to the coronavirus pandemic, especially as...
July 29, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud When International Court of Justice (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, confirmed last December that the Court has ample evidence to pursue a war crimes investigation in occupied Palestine, the Israeli...
July 27, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud As illegal settlers increase their attacks on Palestinian civilians in the occupied city of Al-Khalil (Hebron), the people of the Palestinian city continue to mount a campaign of popular...
July 21, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud For the first time since the Israeli war on Gaza in 2014, the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is signaling its willingness to engage in negotiations regarding...
July 18, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud On July 11, a video footage which showed a popular Israeli TV celebrity demeaning Palestinian children from the Bedouin community in the Naqab area went viral on social media....
July 14, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud While the US administration of President Donald Trump remains adamant in its support for Israel, the traditional democratic leadership continues to employ underhanded language, the kind of 'strategic ambiguity'...
July 12, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud In a recent TV discussion, a respected pro-Palestine journalist declared that if any positive change or transformation ever occurs in the tragic Palestinian saga, it would not happen now,...
July 7, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Wednesday, July 1, was meant to be the day on which the Israeli government officially annexed 30% of the occupied Palestinian West Bank and the Jordan Valley. This date,...
June 30, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud The visit by newly-elected Tunisian President Kais Saied to France on June 22 was intended to discuss bilateral relations, trade, etc. But it was also a missed opportunity, where...
In the past, there have been many attempts at holding accused Israeli war criminals accountable. Particularly memorable is the case of the late Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, (known,...
June 23, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud The painful truth is that the Palestinian Authority of President Mahmoud Abbas has already ceased to exist as a political body that holds much sway or relevance, either to...
June 15, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud The banning of deadly police practices by many American states and cities following the murder of an African American man, George Floyd, at the hands of Minneapolis police officers...
June 11, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is moving forward with his annexation plans, which would allow Israel to claim nearly a third of the overall size of the occupied Palestinian...
June 9, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud A 32-year-old man with the mental age of an 8-year-old child was executed by Israeli soldiers on May 30, while crouching behind his teacher near his special needs school...
June 3, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Israel's balancing act that allowed it to reap America's unconditional and, often, blind support, while slowly benefiting from China's growing economic influence and political prestige, is already floundering. Thanks...
Wafaa Aludaini is a witness to many of Gaza's recent tragedies and also never-ending resistance. She experienced the violent Israeli occupation, the subsequent blockade on the impoverished Strip, and...
May 26, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud This time, we are told, it is different and that President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, is absolutely serious about his decision to absolve his leadership from all...
May 22, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Israeli media and Zionist apologists everywhere are busy whitewashing Israel's globally-tattered image using the rare indictment of an Israeli terrorist, Amiram Ben Uliel, who was recently convicted for murdering...
May 19, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud On May 15, thousands of Palestinians in Occupied Palestine and throughout the 'shatat', or diaspora, participated in the commemoration of Nakba Day, the one event that unites all Palestinians,...
May 15, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Starting on March 27, 1948, a beautiful, small Palestinian village called Beit Daras, came under Zionist militias attacks. With little means – a few old rifles and kitchen knives...
May 12, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud 'Heinous racism,' is how the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor described a recent decision by Lebanese authorities to bar Palestinian refugee expats from returning to Lebanon. Lebanon's restrictions on...
Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has, once and for all, settled the doubts on the Court's jurisdiction to investigate war crimes committed in occupied...
Mats Svensson is a former Swedish diplomat, author, and photographer. His books include "Crimes, Victims, and Witnesses – Apartheid in Palestine." His latest volume, "Apartheid is a Crime –...
One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened at San Remo, a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera. Together, they sealed the fate of the massive...
Almost twenty years ago at a Muslim conference in Washington DC, I heard the distressing argument that Palestine should not be a central topic on the American Muslim political...
April 27, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Shortly after an agreement to form a "national emergency government" in Israel, leader of the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) party, Benny Gantz, tweeted triumphantly that 'democracy' in Israel...
As soon as the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading its tentacles throughout China and eventually to the rest of the world, the World Health Organization (WHO), along with other international...
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US April 20, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud It was intended to be a Machiavellian move, but the decision by Benny Gantz, leader of Israel's Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) coalition, to join a Benjamin Netanyahu-led government...
April 14, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Spitting at someone is a universal insult. In Israel, however, spitting at Palestinians is an entirely different story. Now that we know that the deadly coronavirus can be transmitted...
![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)
![Palestinians carry Lebanese and Palestinian flags during a demonstration in support of Lebanese people following the explosion in the port of Beirut, in Gaza City, Gaza on 6 August, 2020 [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200806_2_43783039_57263659.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
On August 4, hours before a massive explosion rocked the Lebanese capital, Beirut, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, issued an ominous warning to Lebanon. "We hit a cell and...![Jordan's Prime Minister Omar al-Razzaz gives a press conference in the southern port city of Aqaba on 23 July 2019, discussing projects in the area including an underwater military museum. [KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-1157415849.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
What will it take for the idea of a two-state solution, which was hardly practical to begin with, to be completely abandoned? Every realistic assessment of the situation on...![Israeli Likud Party campaign material and posters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strown on the floor following election night on April 10, 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel [Jack GUEZ/AFP/Getty]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GettyImages-1136007662-e1555063098898.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Protests against Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have raged on for weeks, turning violent sometimes. Israelis are furious at their government's mediocre response to the coronavirus pandemic, especially as...![International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda speaking at the Oslo Forum 17 June 2015 [Stine Merethe Eid/Wikipedia]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ICC-Prosecutor-Fatou-BensoudaOslo_Forum_2014_-_ICC_Prosecutor-Fatou-Bensouda.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When International Court of Justice (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, confirmed last December that the Court has ample evidence to pursue a war crimes investigation in occupied Palestine, the Israeli...![Israeli security forces take positions outside the Israeli-run Ofer prison, in the West Bank city [Shadi Hatem/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2016_8-3-dention-centre030816_SHH_00-7.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
For the first time since the Israeli war on Gaza in 2014, the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is signaling its willingness to engage in negotiations regarding...
On July 11, a video footage which showed a popular Israeli TV celebrity demeaning Palestinian children from the Bedouin community in the Naqab area went viral on social media....![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an AIPAC conference in Washington, US on 6 March 2018 [Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Israeli-Prime-Minister-Benjamin-Netanyahu-GettyImages-928042942.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
While the US administration of President Donald Trump remains adamant in its support for Israel, the traditional democratic leadership continues to employ underhanded language, the kind of 'strategic ambiguity'...![Israelis gather to stage a demonstration to protest against Israel's annexation plan for the illegal settlements in West Bank and Jordan Valley, in Tel Aviv, Israel on June 6, 2020 [Nir Keidar / Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200607_2_42837367_55708344.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In a recent TV discussion, a respected pro-Palestine journalist declared that if any positive change or transformation ever occurs in the tragic Palestinian saga, it would not happen now,...![People gather in Tel Aviv to protest against Jewish settlements and Israel's annexation plan of the West Bank on 23 June 2020 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2020_6-23-Protest-Israels-annexation-plan-in-Tel-Aviv_4.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Wednesday, July 1, was meant to be the day on which the Israeli government officially annexed 30% of the occupied Palestinian West Bank and the Jordan Valley. This date,...![French President Emmanuel Macron (R) and Tunisian President Kais Saied arrive for a joint press conference after their meeting at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, on June 22, 2020. [CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/GettyImages-1221951048-scaled-e1593512275872.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The visit by newly-elected Tunisian President Kais Saied to France on June 22 was intended to discuss bilateral relations, trade, etc. But it was also a missed opportunity, where...![The Foreign Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Riyad al-Maliki, leaves the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, on 25 June, 2015 [ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GettyImages-478456574.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In the past, there have been many attempts at holding accused Israeli war criminals accountable. Particularly memorable is the case of the late Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, (known,...![Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (L), Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh (2nd R) inspect the measures taking against the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in Ramallah, West Bank on 15 June 2020. [Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200615_2_42975071_55946868.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The painful truth is that the Palestinian Authority of President Mahmoud Abbas has already ceased to exist as a political body that holds much sway or relevance, either to...![Activists come together to protest against violence committed by the police force in California, US [Thomas Hawk/Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2009_1-12-Police-Are-Not-Exempt-From-Murder3194300386_d8204a00a8_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The banning of deadly police practices by many American states and cities following the murder of an African American man, George Floyd, at the hands of Minneapolis police officers...![Israelis gather to stage a demonstration to protest against Israel's annexation plan for the illegal settlements in West Bank and Jordan Valley, in Tel Aviv, Israel on June 6, 2020 [Nir Keidar / Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200607_2_42837367_55708346.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is moving forward with his annexation plans, which would allow Israel to claim nearly a third of the overall size of the occupied Palestinian...![A photo of Autistic Palestinian man Eyad Hallaq (32) who was killed by Israeli police in East Jerusalem, at the Old City’s Lions’ Gate on May 30 2020 [Mostafa Alkharouf / Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200607_2_42841274_55716833.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
A 32-year-old man with the mental age of an 8-year-old child was executed by Israeli soldiers on May 30, while crouching behind his teacher near his special needs school...![China's President Xi Jinping (R) and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands in Beijing, China on 21 March 2017 [ETIENNE OLIVEAU/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2017_3-1-Chinas-President-Xi-Jinping-GettyImages-655959940.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel's balancing act that allowed it to reap America's unconditional and, often, blind support, while slowly benefiting from China's growing economic influence and political prestige, is already floundering. Thanks...
Wafaa Aludaini is a witness to many of Gaza's recent tragedies and also never-ending resistance. She experienced the violent Israeli occupation, the subsequent blockade on the impoverished Strip, and...![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)
This time, we are told, it is different and that President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, is absolutely serious about his decision to absolve his leadership from all...
Starting on March 27, 1948, a beautiful, small Palestinian village called Beit Daras, came under Zionist militias attacks. With little means – a few old rifles and kitchen knives...![Palestinian refugees hold banners during a protest against the UNWRA's decision on aid cuts and downsizing plans in Bethlehem, West Bank om 26 September 2018 [Wisam Hashlamoun/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Protest-against-UNRWA-aid-cuts-downsizing-plans20180926_2_32562902_37565085.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
'Heinous racism,' is how the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor described a recent decision by Lebanese authorities to bar Palestinian refugee expats from returning to Lebanon. Lebanon's restrictions on...![“Apartheid is a Crime – Portraits of Israeli Occupation,” by Mats Svensson [Twitter]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/apartheid.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Mats Svensson is a former Swedish diplomat, author, and photographer. His books include "Crimes, Victims, and Witnesses – Apartheid in Palestine." His latest volume, "Apartheid is a Crime –...![Palestinians gather to protest 100 years since Balfour Declaration on 2 November 2017 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2017_11-2-Gazans-mark-100-years-since-Balfour-Declaration2.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened at San Remo, a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera. Together, they sealed the fate of the massive...![Pakistani demonstrators shout anti-US and Israel slogans in a rally in Lahore on December 14, 2017 [ARIF ALI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/GettyImages-892240534-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Almost twenty years ago at a Muslim conference in Washington DC, I heard the distressing argument that Palestine should not be a central topic on the American Muslim political...![Israeli Blue and White party chief Benny Gantz (R), shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) as they attend a state memorial ceremony for former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (backround) and his wife Leah, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on 10 November, 2019 [HEIDI LEVINE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/GettyImages-1181360681-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Shortly after an agreement to form a "national emergency government" in Israel, leader of the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) party, Benny Gantz, tweeted triumphantly that 'democracy' in Israel...![A view of makeshift tents of asylum seekers, hoping that Greece will open the border gate, on 19 March 2020 [Cihan Demirci/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/camps-near-Greece-border20200319_2_41441457_53216965.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
As soon as the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading its tentacles throughout China and eventually to the rest of the world, the World Health Organization (WHO), along with other international...![People wear masks to protect themselves from coronavirus (Covid-19) in East Jerusalem on 6 March 2020. [Mostafa Alkharouf - Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20200306_2_41221575_52828941.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The prophecies are here and it is a foregone conclusion: the post-coronavirus world will look fundamentally different from anything that we have seen or experienced, at least since the...![Workers hang a Blue and White Party billaboard showing its leader Benny Gantz and Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, as part of the party's campaign on 17 February, 2020 in Tel Aviv, Israel [Amir Levy/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/GettyImages-1201487184-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
It was intended to be a Machiavellian move, but the decision by Benny Gantz, leader of Israel's Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) coalition, to join a Benjamin Netanyahu-led government...![Israeli police check vehicles at a checkpoint in the ultra Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, on 3 April, 2020 during the novel coronavirus pandemic crisis [JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/GettyImages-1209027740-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Spitting at someone is a universal insult. In Israel, however, spitting at Palestinians is an entirely different story. Now that we know that the deadly coronavirus can be transmitted...