In May 2017, local parish priest, Don Edoardo Scordio, was one of 68 people who were detained by Italy’s anti-mafia police in the region of Calabria. Scordio, who is...
November 16, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud An Israeli attack on Gaza was imminent, and not because of any provocations by Palestinian groups in the besieged, impoverished Gaza Strip. The Israeli military escalation was foreseeable because...
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US November 15, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud 15 years after the passing of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian people continue to reflect on his legacy. Thousands of images of “Abu Ammar” have been shared across...
November 13, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud On November 10 Bolivian President Evo Morales, announced his resignation from office following what was described by his deputy, Álvaro García Linera, as a military coup. Morales’ 14 years...
November 11, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud The release on November 6 of two Jordanian nationals, Heba al-Labadi and Abdul Rahman Mi’ri from Israeli prisons was a bittersweet moment. The pair were finally reunited with their...
November 7, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Benny Gantz, the leader of Israel’s newly-founded Kahol Lavan – the Blue and White Party – is the rising star of Israeli politics. The fact that he has the...
November 4, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud The act of Palestinian activists covering their faces during anti-Israeli occupation rallies is an old practice that spans decades. The masking of the face, often by Kufyias – traditional...
October 29, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Palestine’s Christian population is dwindling at an alarming rate. The world’s most ancient Christian community is moving elsewhere. And the reason for this is Israel. Christian leaders from Palestine...
October 22, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud In December 2018, 17-year-old Palestinian teen, Ayham Sabah, was sentenced by an Israeli military court to 35 years in prison for his alleged role in a stabbing attack targeting an Israeli...
October 20, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud On October 9, the social media platform, Facebook, deleted the page of the popular Palestinian news website, the Palestinian Information Center (PIC). This act, which was carried out without...
October 14, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud The call by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for elections in the Occupied Territories is a political ploy. There will be no true, democratic elections under Abbas’ leadership. The...
October 11, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud “Perhaps the time has come for Palestinians and justice-loving Israelis to imagine a new future,” wrote South African intellectuals and academics, Na’eem Jeenah and Salim Vally, in their essay,...
October 9, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud On August 20, Heba Ahmed al-Labadi fell into the dark hole of the Israeli legal system, joining 413 Palestinian prisoners who are currently held in so-called administrative detention. On...
October 7, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud The Israeli Apartheid Wall, which is being built largely on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, once more underscores the ugliness of military occupation. As...
September 30, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud On September 16, I visited South Africa, a country where many Palestinians have always felt welcomed, if not overwhelmed by the degree of genuine and meaningful solidarity. While having...
September 22, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Experience has taught Palestinians not to pay heed to Israeli elections. But to every rule there is an exception. Although it is still true that no Israeli Zionist leader...
September 19, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Bassam al-Sayeh was the latest victim of medical negligence in Israeli prisons. The 47-year-old Palestinian from Nablus died on September 8. The last of such tragic cases is that...
September 16, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is moving quickly to alter the political reality in Palestine, and facing little or no resistance. On September 10, Netanyahu declared his intentions to...
September 11, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud The death of Israa Ghrayeb has ignited furious reactions regarding the so-called ‘honor-killings’ in Palestine and throughout the Arab world. It also wrought confusion with respect to the jurisprudential...
September 9, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud To serve his limited political agenda, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, may have unwittingly unified various resistance groups in the Middle East after years of separation and discord. On...
September 3, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud On September 1, the Lebanese group Hezbollah struck an Israeli military base near the border town of Avivim. The Lebanese attack came as an inevitable response to a series...
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US August 29, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud At the heart of the Palestinian struggle for basic human rights is the enduring fight of Palestinian workers. While they currently find themselves at the forefront of several battles,...
August 27, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Israel’s decision to bar two United States Democratic Representatives, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, from entering Israel and visiting Palestine has further exposed the belligerent, racist nature of the...
August 22, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Following the Israeli victory in the 1967 war, it became impossible for Zionist ideologues to mask the true nature of their state – an unwavering colonial regime with an...
August 19, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Jewish Israeli settlers are on a roll as they rampage across the occupied Palestinian West Bank. While settler violence is part of the daily routine in Palestine, the violence...
August 14, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud The Palestinian Football Association is struggling to survive. Combined US-Israeli pressure on Palestinian organisations that provide aid and support to the Palestinian people is now felt in the field...
August 12, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Writing under the title of “If the El Paso shooter had been Muslim”, Moustafa Bayoumi stated the obvious. “If the El Paso shooter had been a Muslim,” Bayoumi wrote...
August 7, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud On 29 July, 4-year-old Muhammad Rabi’ Elayyan was reportedly summoned for interrogation by the Israeli police in occupied Jerusalem. The news, originally reported by the official Palestinian news agency,...
August 5, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is ready to “go to the White House and continue what started with Donald Trump.” With this and other confusing statements,...
July 29, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud It would be unfair to claim that Palestine has not produced great leaders. It has, and Bassam Shakaa, the former Mayor of Nablus, who passed away on 22 July...
July 24, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Seven-year-old Tariq Zabania from Al-Khalil (Hebron) was killed on the spot when an Israeli Jewish settler ran his car over him on July 15. Little Tariq’s photograph, lying face...
July 21, 2019
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Ramzy Baroud Media reports of an impending Israeli war on the besieged Gaza Strip are now a regular occurrence. The frequency of these reports fluctuates based on Israel’s own political landscape....
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In May 2017, local parish priest, Don Edoardo Scordio, was one of 68 people who were detained by Italy’s anti-mafia police in the region of Calabria. Scordio, who is...![Relatives of Mohammad Sharab, a Palestinian man killed by Israeli airstrikes over Gaza, mourn during his funeral ceremony in Khan Yunis, Gaza on November 14, 2019 [Ashraf Amra / Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191114_2_39315555_49453604.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
An Israeli attack on Gaza was imminent, and not because of any provocations by Palestinian groups in the besieged, impoverished Gaza Strip. The Israeli military escalation was foreseeable because...![Palestinian children walk past a mural depicts former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat [file photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/middle-east/Mural-of-yasser-arafat-in-rafah-gaza.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
15 years after the passing of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian people continue to reflect on his legacy. Thousands of images of “Abu Ammar” have been shared across...![Image of the National Congress of Bolivia [Rodrigo Achá/Wikipedia]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2007_8_10-bolivian-parliament1280px-Palacio_del_Congreso_Nacional_La_Paz_Bolivia.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
On November 10 Bolivian President Evo Morales, announced his resignation from office following what was described by his deputy, Álvaro García Linera, as a military coup. Morales’ 14 years...
The release on November 6 of two Jordanian nationals, Heba al-Labadi and Abdul Rahman Mi’ri from Israeli prisons was a bittersweet moment. The pair were finally reunited with their...![Smoke rises from Er-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City after Israeli warplanes carry out a fresh wave of airstrikes across the blockaded Gaza Strip on 25 March, 2019, in Gaza City, Gaza [Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/20190325_2_35630506_42973844.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Benny Gantz, the leader of Israel’s newly-founded Kahol Lavan – the Blue and White Party – is the rising star of Israeli politics. The fact that he has the...![Glasses are seen in front of a computer screen showing a Microsoft logo in Ankara, Turkey on 19 July, 2018 [Aytaç Ünal/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180719_2_31526757_35768425.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The act of Palestinian activists covering their faces during anti-Israeli occupation rallies is an old practice that spans decades. The masking of the face, often by Kufyias – traditional...
Palestine’s Christian population is dwindling at an alarming rate. The world’s most ancient Christian community is moving elsewhere. And the reason for this is Israel. Christian leaders from Palestine...![Ayham Sabah [Palestine Information Center]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ayhamsabah2-e1571764755538.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In December 2018, 17-year-old Palestinian teen, Ayham Sabah, was sentenced by an Israeli military court to 35 years in prison for his alleged role in a stabbing attack targeting an Israeli...
On October 9, the social media platform, Facebook, deleted the page of the popular Palestinian news website, the Palestinian Information Center (PIC). This act, which was carried out without...![Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas leads Palestine Liberation Organisation board meeting in Ramallah, West Bank on October 03, 2019 [İssam Rimawi / Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/20191003_2_38539224_48139259-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The call by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for elections in the Occupied Territories is a political ploy. There will be no true, democratic elections under Abbas’ leadership. The...![Apartheid mural [Twitter]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Apartheid-mural-at-Wits-e1570819969995.jpg?resize=496%2C330&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
“Perhaps the time has come for Palestinians and justice-loving Israelis to imagine a new future,” wrote South African intellectuals and academics, Na’eem Jeenah and Salim Vally, in their essay,...![Israeli prison [File photo]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Israeli-prison-e1575444695662.jpeg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
On August 20, Heba Ahmed al-Labadi fell into the dark hole of the Israeli legal system, joining 413 Palestinian prisoners who are currently held in so-called administrative detention. On...
The Israeli Apartheid Wall, which is being built largely on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, once more underscores the ugliness of military occupation. As...![Pro-Palestinian groups and other civil society organisations demonstrate, in Durban on 2 June, 2018 [Twitter]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/000_15K36F.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
On September 16, I visited South Africa, a country where many Palestinians have always felt welcomed, if not overwhelmed by the degree of genuine and meaningful solidarity. While having...![An election poster of Benny Gantz is seen ahead of the General elections in Jerusalem on 16 September 16, 2019. [Faiz Abu Rmeleh - Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20190916_2_38241876_47634579.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Experience has taught Palestinians not to pay heed to Israeli elections. But to every rule there is an exception. Although it is still true that no Israeli Zionist leader...![Mother of 51-year-old Palestinian prisoner, Faris Baroud holds his photo - [Facebook]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190207-Palestinian-detainee-e1549533502683.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Bassam al-Sayeh was the latest victim of medical negligence in Israeli prisons. The 47-year-old Palestinian from Nablus died on September 8. The last of such tragic cases is that...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the West Bank town of Hebron, on 4 September 2019 [Kobi Gideon/GPO/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20190904_2_38047485_47292910-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is moving quickly to alter the political reality in Palestine, and facing little or no resistance. On September 10, Netanyahu declared his intentions to...
The death of Israa Ghrayeb has ignited furious reactions regarding the so-called ‘honor-killings’ in Palestine and throughout the Arab world. It also wrought confusion with respect to the jurisprudential...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacts after addressing supporters at his Likud Party headquarters in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on election night early on 10 April 2019 [Thomas COEX/AFP/Getty]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GettyImages-1136007502-e1555053116441.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
To serve his limited political agenda, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, may have unwittingly unified various resistance groups in the Middle East after years of separation and discord. On...![Late Palestinian novelist Ghassan Kanafani [Twitter]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ghassan-Kanafani-DhmbMEZVMAAhZCm.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
At the heart of the Palestinian struggle for basic human rights is the enduring fight of Palestinian workers. While they currently find themselves at the forefront of several battles,...
Israel’s decision to bar two United States Democratic Representatives, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, from entering Israel and visiting Palestine has further exposed the belligerent, racist nature of the...![Former Israeli President Shimon Peres addresses the European Parliament in Strasbourg, on 12 March 2013. [REUTERS/Jean-Marc Loos/Files]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-09-28T020420Z_1_LYNXNPEC8R039_RTROPTP_4_ISRAEL-PERES-e1475146844286.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Following the Israeli victory in the 1967 war, it became impossible for Zionist ideologues to mask the true nature of their state – an unwavering colonial regime with an...![Israeli settlers can be sen after they stormed into Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem on 22 July 2018 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018_7-22Over-1000-Jewish-settlers-converge-on-Al-Aqsa-complex20180722_2_31571988_35847983.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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The Palestinian Football Association is struggling to survive. Combined US-Israeli pressure on Palestinian organisations that provide aid and support to the Palestinian people is now felt in the field...
Writing under the title of “If the El Paso shooter had been Muslim”, Moustafa Bayoumi stated the obvious. “If the El Paso shooter had been a Muslim,” Bayoumi wrote...
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is ready to “go to the White House and continue what started with Donald Trump.” With this and other confusing statements,...![Former Palestinian mayor of Nablus Bassam Shakaa, who died on 22nd July 2019 [YouTube screenshot]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/29-07-2019-bassam-shakaaBassam-Shakaa-e1563877032736.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
It would be unfair to claim that Palestine has not produced great leaders. It has, and Bassam Shakaa, the former Mayor of Nablus, who passed away on 22 July...![Israeli settlers spray racist slogans in East Jerusalem on 1 April 2019 [Safa Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Racist-slogans-e1554114557291.jpeg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Seven-year-old Tariq Zabania from Al-Khalil (Hebron) was killed on the spot when an Israeli Jewish settler ran his car over him on July 15. Little Tariq’s photograph, lying face...![Prime Minster of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu greets supporters on 10 April, 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel [Amir Levy/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GettyImages-1136025054-e1555065897715.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Media reports of an impending Israeli war on the besieged Gaza Strip are now a regular occurrence. The frequency of these reports fluctuates based on Israel’s own political landscape....