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...
March 19, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud On March 13, while on his way to the besieged Gaza Strip, two 33-pounds bombs targeted the convoy of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah. Hamdallah was visiting Gaza,...
March 13, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud If scandal-plagued Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, exits his country’s political scene today, who is likely to replace him? And what does this mean as far as Israel’s Occupation...
March 6, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud As global voices continue to demand the freedom of 17-year-old teenage Palestinian girl, Ahed Tamimi, Israeli authorities have arrested nine additional members of her family. Those who were detained...
February 27, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud In an article published in Al-Monitor without a single verifiable citation, Israeli journalist, Shlomi Eldar, went to unprecedented lengths to divert attention from the corruption in his country. He...
February 20, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud As soon as Virgin Atlantic Airlines introduced a couscous-style salad “inspired by the flavours of Palestine”, a controversy ensued. Israel’s supporters ignited a social media storm and sent many complaints to...
February 14, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud Following the signing of the Oslo agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1993, Palestinian refugees vanished off the radar. The most pressing of all issues...
February 13, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud Despite massive sums of money spent to channel public opinion in the United States in favour of Israel, unmistakable trends in opinion polls are attesting to the changing dynamics...
February 6, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud For a brief historical moment, Alexis Tsipras and his political party, Syriza, ignited hope that Greece could resurrect a long-dormant Leftist tide in Europe. A new Greece was being...
January 30, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud Although the genocide of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar has gathered greater media attention in recent months, there is no indication that the international community is prepared to act...
January 22, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud On 15 January, millions of Americans commemorated Martin Luther King’s Day. His famous speech, ‘I Have a Dream’ was repeated numerous times in media outlets as a reminder of...
January 16, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud Not a day passes without a prominent Israeli politician or intellectual making an outrageous statement against Palestinians. Many of these statements tend to garner little attention or evoke rightly...
January 4, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud The Israeli government is planning a series of measures aimed at fully denying Palestinians their legal rights in Jerusalem and precluding any future peace settlement based on sharing the...
January 1, 2018
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Ramzy Baroud There is a real – but largely concealed – war which is taking place throughout the African continent. It involves the United States, an invigorated Russia and a rising...
December 26, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud 2017 will be remembered as the year that the so-called ‘peace process’, at least in its American formulation, has ended. And with its demise, a political framework that has...
December 18, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Within hours after Akayed Ullah, a Bangladeshi immigrant, allegedly detonated a pipe bomb in New York City on 11 December, severely injuring himself and wounding four others, a most...
December 13, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Now that the American mask has completely fallen, Palestinians require an urgent rethink in their own political priorities, alliances and national liberation strategy. Business should not go on as...
December 9, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud When I learned of the death of Kamal Al-Assar a few years ago, I was baffled. He was only in his 40s. I remember him in his prime, a...
December 7, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Finally, US President Donald Trump pulled the plug. The so-called peace process, two-state solution, “land-for-peace formula” and all the other tired clichés have been long dead and decomposing. But...
December 5, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Pope Francis lost a historical opportunity to truly set his legacy apart from previous Popes. Alas, for him, too, political expediency trumped all else. In his visit to Burma...
November 27, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud On 18 November, just days before the 50th anniversary of United Nations Resolution 242, the US State Department took its first step towards severing its ties with the Palestinian...
November 21, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud In a recent talk before Chatham House think-tank in London, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, approached the issue of a Palestinian state from an intellectual perspective. Before we think...
November 14, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Whether the string of scandals, now hounding Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, lead to his sacking or not, it matters little. Though nearly half of Israelis polled last July – well before...
November 6, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud The postponing of an Israeli Knesset bill that would have annexed major illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank to the Jerusalem municipality is the result of behind-the-scenes US...
October 30, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Israeli footprints are becoming more apparent in the US security apparatus. Such a fact does not bode well for ordinary Americans. US Senate Bill S.720 should have been a...
October 23, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud The reconciliation agreement signed between rival Palestinian parties, Hamas and Fatah, in Cairo on October 12 was not a national unity accord – at least, not yet. For the...
October 16, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud To understand the United States’ stratagem in the Pacific, and against North Korea in particular, one has to understand the fundamental changes that are underway in that region. China’s...
October 11, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Egypt’s enthusiasm to arbitrate between feuding Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, is not the outcome of a sudden awakening of conscience. Cairo has, in fact, played a destructive role...
October 9, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Some promises are made and kept; others disavowed. But the ‘promise’ made by Arthur James Balfour in what became known as the ‘Balfour Declaration’ to the leaders of the...
October 3, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud BDS stands for “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions”. The BDS Movement was the outcome of several events that shaped the Palestinian national struggle and international solidarity with the Palestinian people...
September 25, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud The nature of the rhetoric in Donald Trump’s first speech at the United Nations General Assembly was largely predictable. Even his bizarre threat to “totally destroy North Korea” was...
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...
On March 13, while on his way to the besieged Gaza Strip, two 33-pounds bombs targeted the convoy of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah. Hamdallah was visiting Gaza,...
If scandal-plagued Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, exits his country’s political scene today, who is likely to replace him? And what does this mean as far as Israel’s Occupation...![17-year-old Palestinian Ahed Al-Tamimi, appears in court after she was taken into custody by Israeli soldiers, in Ramallah, West Bank on 28th December 2017 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency] appears in court after she was taken into custody by Israeli soldiers, in Ramallah, West Bank on 28th December 2017 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017_12-25-Israeli-court-refuses-bail-for-jailed-Palestinian-teen20171228_2_27806286_29314781.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
As global voices continue to demand the freedom of 17-year-old teenage Palestinian girl, Ahed Tamimi, Israeli authorities have arrested nine additional members of her family. Those who were detained...
In an article published in Al-Monitor without a single verifiable citation, Israeli journalist, Shlomi Eldar, went to unprecedented lengths to divert attention from the corruption in his country. He...
As soon as Virgin Atlantic Airlines introduced a couscous-style salad “inspired by the flavours of Palestine”, a controversy ensued. Israel’s supporters ignited a social media storm and sent many complaints to...
Following the signing of the Oslo agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1993, Palestinian refugees vanished off the radar. The most pressing of all issues...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Brussels, Belgium on 11 December 2017 [Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2017_12-11-Israeli-Prime-Minister-Benjamin-Netanyahu-20171211_Netanyahu-EU-meet-5.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Despite massive sums of money spent to channel public opinion in the United States in favour of Israel, unmistakable trends in opinion polls are attesting to the changing dynamics...
For a brief historical moment, Alexis Tsipras and his political party, Syriza, ignited hope that Greece could resurrect a long-dormant Leftist tide in Europe. A new Greece was being...![Rohingyas fleeing Myanmar, heading to Bangladesh on 10 October, 2017 [Stefanie Glinski/Thomson Reuters Foundation]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017_10_17-Rohingyas-fleeing-Myanmar-heading-to-Bangladesh2017-10-17T142117Z_1_MTZSPDEDAHZ17F7U_RTRFIPP_4_ROHINGYA-MYANMAR-BANGLADESH-JOURNEY-.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Although the genocide of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar has gathered greater media attention in recent months, there is no indication that the international community is prepared to act...
On 15 January, millions of Americans commemorated Martin Luther King’s Day. His famous speech, ‘I Have a Dream’ was repeated numerous times in media outlets as a reminder of...![Israeli security forces take security measures as Palestinians stage a demonstration to protest metal detectors installed by Israeli authorities on Al-Aqsa Mosque in Bethlehem, West Bank on 21 July 2017 [Mamoun Wazwaz/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017_7_21-Protest-in-Bethlehem20170721_2_24874764_24338712.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Not a day passes without a prominent Israeli politician or intellectual making an outrageous statement against Palestinians. Many of these statements tend to garner little attention or evoke rightly...![Israeli forces use tear gas on Palestinians as they gather to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque following the removal of Israeli security measures in Jerusalem, on 27 July 2017 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/20170727_2_24975954_24503745-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The Israeli government is planning a series of measures aimed at fully denying Palestinians their legal rights in Jerusalem and precluding any future peace settlement based on sharing the...![A US Army Special Forces weapons sergeant observes as a Nigerien soldier bounds forward while practicing buddy team movement drills during Exercise Flintlock 2017 in Diffa, Niger, March 11, 2017 [US Army photo by Spc. Zayid Ballesteros]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/3226958-1-e1514801628262.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
There is a real – but largely concealed – war which is taking place throughout the African continent. It involves the United States, an invigorated Russia and a rising...![Palestinian children hold pictures of Jerusalem during a protest against Trump’s decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in Gaza city, on 6 December 2017 [Ashraf Amra/Apaimages]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017_12-6-protest061217_ASH_00-34.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
2017 will be remembered as the year that the so-called ‘peace process’, at least in its American formulation, has ended. And with its demise, a political framework that has...
Within hours after Akayed Ullah, a Bangladeshi immigrant, allegedly detonated a pipe bomb in New York City on 11 December, severely injuring himself and wounding four others, a most...
Now that the American mask has completely fallen, Palestinians require an urgent rethink in their own political priorities, alliances and national liberation strategy. Business should not go on as...
When I learned of the death of Kamal Al-Assar a few years ago, I was baffled. He was only in his 40s. I remember him in his prime, a...![Palestinians in Gaza watch as US President Donald Trump recognises occupied Jerusalem as Israel's capital on 6 December 2017. [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171206_People-watch-Trumps-speech-2.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Finally, US President Donald Trump pulled the plug. The so-called peace process, two-state solution, “land-for-peace formula” and all the other tired clichés have been long dead and decomposing. But...
Pope Francis lost a historical opportunity to truly set his legacy apart from previous Popes. Alas, for him, too, political expediency trumped all else. In his visit to Burma...![PLO delegation - Cartoon [Sabaaneh/MiddleEastMonitor]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/22-11-2017.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
On 18 November, just days before the 50th anniversary of United Nations Resolution 242, the US State Department took its first step towards severing its ties with the Palestinian...![Graffiti art is seen on the illegal Israeli Separation Wall in the occupied West Bank town of Bethlehem on 1 November 2017 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2017_11-1-Graffiti-art-is-seen-on-Israeli-separation-wall-in-the-West-Bank-town-of-Bethlehem-20171101_2_26611066_27387212.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
In a recent talk before Chatham House think-tank in London, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, approached the issue of a Palestinian state from an intellectual perspective. Before we think...
Whether the string of scandals, now hounding Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, lead to his sacking or not, it matters little. Though nearly half of Israelis polled last July – well before...![Construction workers build illegal settlements in West Bank [File photo, Wisam Hashlamoun/Apaimages]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017_8_25-Construction-workers-build-new-houses-in-an-Israeli-settlement250817_WIH_00-2.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The postponing of an Israeli Knesset bill that would have annexed major illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank to the Jerusalem municipality is the result of behind-the-scenes US...
Israeli footprints are becoming more apparent in the US security apparatus. Such a fact does not bode well for ordinary Americans. US Senate Bill S.720 should have been a...
The reconciliation agreement signed between rival Palestinian parties, Hamas and Fatah, in Cairo on October 12 was not a national unity accord – at least, not yet. For the...![US President Donald Trump makes a speech as he attends the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly in New York, United States on 19 September, 2017 [Volkan Furuncu/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017_09_20-Trump-at-the-72-UN-General-Assembly20170919_2_25824441_26019533.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
To understand the United States’ stratagem in the Pacific, and against North Korea in particular, one has to understand the fundamental changes that are underway in that region. China’s...![Fatah and Hamas leaders at a recent meeting in Gaza [File photo]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/jdjd.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Egypt’s enthusiasm to arbitrate between feuding Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, is not the outcome of a sudden awakening of conscience. Cairo has, in fact, played a destructive role...![Palestinians protest to mark the 99th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration on November 01, 2016 [Mohammed Asad /Wikipedia]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016_11_02-Palestinians-protest-to-mark-the-99th-anniversary-of-the-Balfour-Declaration-7.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Some promises are made and kept; others disavowed. But the ‘promise’ made by Arthur James Balfour in what became known as the ‘Balfour Declaration’ to the leaders of the...![Image of a BDS rally [McGill Daily/Flickr]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2-16_4_1-BDS-rally24522049300_5d080fac2c_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
BDS stands for “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions”. The BDS Movement was the outcome of several events that shaped the Palestinian national struggle and international solidarity with the Palestinian people...![US President Donald Trump L) with former US President Barack Obama R) [US Air Force/ Wikimedia]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Trump-and-Obama-e1496426743645.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The nature of the rhetoric in Donald Trump’s first speech at the United Nations General Assembly was largely predictable. Even his bizarre threat to “totally destroy North Korea” was...