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...
September 19, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud There is a great irony in the fact that Israel is seeking a seat at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Since its establishment atop the ruins of Palestinian...
September 12, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud To a certain extent, Aung San Suu Kyi is a false prophet. Glorified by the west for many years, she was made a ‘democracy icon’ because she opposed the...
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UK,
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US September 4, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud “At bedtime, I am afraid to turn the lights off. I am not a coward, it is just that I worry that this bulb hanging from the ceiling is...
August 28, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, has been reduced to rubble. It has been finally conquered, snatched back from the notorious group, Daesh, after months of merciless bombardment by the...
August 21, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Not too far away from Seattle, Washington there are eight ballistic-missile submarines carrying the world’s large shipments of nuclear weapons. The 560-foot-long black submarines are docked at the Naval...
August 15, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud On August, the Palestinian Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb was destroyed for the 116th time. As soon as Israeli bulldozers finished their ugly deed and soldiers began evacuating the premises,...
August 7, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud There is something immoral in Washington D.C., and its consequences can be dire for many people, particularly for the health of US democracy. The US government is declaring war...
Published in:
Africa,
Article,
Asia & Americas,
Europe & Russia,
Israel,
Middle East,
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South Africa,
UK,
US July 31, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Neither Fatah nor Hamas have been of much relevance to the mass protests staged around Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. Neither have American pressure, half-hearted European ‘concern about the...
July 25, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Israel, which has played a precarious role in the Syrian war since 2011, is furious to learn that the future of the conflict is not to its liking. The...
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Article,
Asia & Americas,
Europe & Russia,
Iran,
Israel,
Jordan,
Lebanon,
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US July 17, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Early October 2016, Misbah Abu Sbeih left his wife and five children at home and then drove to an Israeli police station in Occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem. The 39-year-old...
July 11, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Two officers sought me from within a crowd at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. They seemed to know who I was. They asked me to follow them, and I obliged....
July 4, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud No matter how hard White House officials try, they cannot construct a coherent ‘Trump doctrine’ that would make sense amid the chaos that has afflicted US foreign policy in...
June 25, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Mohammed Abed is a 28-year-old taxi driver from the village of Qarara, near the town of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. He has no teeth. Lack of medical...
June 19, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, seems to be championing a single cause: Israel. When Haley speaks about Israel, her language is not merely emotive...
June 13, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud The typical newsroom set-up, where journalists chase headlines dictated by some centralized news gathering agency – often based in some western capital – does not suffice any more. In...
June 4, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud There is a saying that goes: “Be careful what you wish for, for you may get it.” This has been Israel’s dilemma from the very beginning. The Zionist movement,...
May 28, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud As if he has, overnight, been transformed into a master politician, Donald Trump’s 27-hour trip to Israel has left many analysts mystified. Quoting former Israeli political adviser, Mitchell Barack,...
May 22, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud Bat-Hen Epstein Elias’ long article on Iranian Jews is interesting. Parts of it, in fact, are heartwarming. Yet, despite the lack of any serious evidence, the story is entirely...
May 15, 2017
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Ramzy Baroud The Israeli Knesset (parliament) has hurriedly passed a new bill that defines Israel as the “national home of the Jewish people.” Although the association between Jewishness and Israel goes...
![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...![Members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council on April 12, 2017 [Volkan Furuncu/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20170412_2_23049620_20970571-e1513429767508.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
There is a great irony in the fact that Israel is seeking a seat at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Since its establishment atop the ruins of Palestinian...
To a certain extent, Aung San Suu Kyi is a false prophet. Glorified by the west for many years, she was made a ‘democracy icon’ because she opposed the...
“At bedtime, I am afraid to turn the lights off. I am not a coward, it is just that I worry that this bulb hanging from the ceiling is...![Iraqi security forces carry armory belonging to Daesh after Mosul completely freed from Daesh in Mosul, Syria on 9 July, 2017 [Yunus Keleş/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/20170709_2_24637551_23895586-e1502629903933.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, has been reduced to rubble. It has been finally conquered, snatched back from the notorious group, Daesh, after months of merciless bombardment by the...![Image of US President Donald Trump om 29 October 2016 [Gage Skidmore/Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2016_10_29-trump30020836983_181ebce05e_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Not too far away from Seattle, Washington there are eight ballistic-missile submarines carrying the world’s large shipments of nuclear weapons. The 560-foot-long black submarines are docked at the Naval...![Image of Israeli forces demolishing the Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb for the 111th time [File photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017_4_5-The-Bedouin-village-of-Al-Araqeeb-has-been-demolished-by-Israeli-forces-for-the-111th-time.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
On August, the Palestinian Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb was destroyed for the 116th time. As soon as Israeli bulldozers finished their ugly deed and soldiers began evacuating the premises,...
There is something immoral in Washington D.C., and its consequences can be dire for many people, particularly for the health of US democracy. The US government is declaring war...
Neither Fatah nor Hamas have been of much relevance to the mass protests staged around Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. Neither have American pressure, half-hearted European ‘concern about the...
Israel, which has played a precarious role in the Syrian war since 2011, is furious to learn that the future of the conflict is not to its liking. The...![A wounded Palestinian is seen after Israeli forces intervened a protest in front Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem on 16 July 2017 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency ]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/20170716_2_24785804_24197073.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Early October 2016, Misbah Abu Sbeih left his wife and five children at home and then drove to an Israeli police station in Occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem. The 39-year-old...
Two officers sought me from within a crowd at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. They seemed to know who I was. They asked me to follow them, and I obliged....![General Herbert Raymond McMaster with US President Donald Trump at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, US on February 20, 2017 [Kevin Lamarque / Reuters]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Herbert-Raymond-McMaster-with-Donald-Trump.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
No matter how hard White House officials try, they cannot construct a coherent ‘Trump doctrine’ that would make sense amid the chaos that has afflicted US foreign policy in...![A Palestinian man watches the Gaza's power station in the central Gaza Strip, July 29, 2015 [Ashraf Amra / ApaImages]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/290715_ASH_00-5.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Mohammed Abed is a 28-year-old taxi driver from the village of Qarara, near the town of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. He has no teeth. Lack of medical...![Image of US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley (C) in New York, US on May 16, 2017 [Mohammed Elshamy/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170516_2_23712269_22165241.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, seems to be championing a single cause: Israel. When Haley speaks about Israel, her language is not merely emotive...![Palestinians carry the body of 16 year old Fatima Hajiji, who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers, in Ramallah, West Bank on May 17, 2017 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170517_2_23728403_22192220.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The typical newsroom set-up, where journalists chase headlines dictated by some centralized news gathering agency – often based in some western capital – does not suffice any more. In...
There is a saying that goes: “Be careful what you wish for, for you may get it.” This has been Israel’s dilemma from the very beginning. The Zionist movement,...![US President Donald Trump speaks during an official welcoming ceremony on his arrival in Tel Aviv, Israel on 22 May 2017 [Daniel Bar On/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017_5_22-US-President-Donald-Trump-visits-Israel20170522_2_23814308_22385864.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
As if he has, overnight, been transformed into a master politician, Donald Trump’s 27-hour trip to Israel has left many analysts mystified. Quoting former Israeli political adviser, Mitchell Barack,...![Iranian Jews attend a Shabbat service in Tehran, Iran on April 23rd 2013 [MIlad Alex/Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2013_7_4-iranian-jews9206714491_35e98c5c3a_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Bat-Hen Epstein Elias’ long article on Iranian Jews is interesting. Parts of it, in fact, are heartwarming. Yet, despite the lack of any serious evidence, the story is entirely...
The Israeli Knesset (parliament) has hurriedly passed a new bill that defines Israel as the “national home of the Jewish people.” Although the association between Jewishness and Israel goes...