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Articles of the author Ramzy Baroud
Now Chad, then Mali
Forget the hype. Israel's ‘security technology' has nothing to do with why some African countries are eager to normalise relations with Israel. What is it that Israel is able to offer in the technology sector to Chad, Mali and others that the United (...)

31 - 01 - 2019
That single line of blood
As the frail body of 12-year-old Nassir Al-Mosabeh fell to the ground Friday, 28 September, history was repeating itself in a most tragic way. Little Nassir was not just another number, a “martyr” to be exalted by equally poor refugees in Gaza, or (...)

11 - 10 - 2018
Greece's dangerous alliance with Israel
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 born out of the pain of economic austerity, imposed by the European (...)

09 - 02 - 2018
Greece's dangerous alliance with Israel
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 born out of the pain of economic austerity, imposed by the (...)

08 - 02 - 2018
What the US has done
Now that US President Donald Trump has fully adopted the Israeli rightwing political discourse on Palestine, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is in a very tough spot. “I have determined that it is time to officially recognise Jerusalem as the capital (...)

14 - 12 - 2017
Trump's Pacific sabre rattling
To understand the United States' stratagem in the Pacific, and against North Korea in particular, one has to understand the fundamental changes that are under way in that region. China's clout as an Asian superpower and as a global economic (...)

19 - 10 - 2017
Trump and Obama sound the same
The nature of the rhetoric in Donald Trump's first speech at the UN General Assembly was largely predictable. Even his bizarre threat to “totally destroy” North Korea was consistent with his overall style and previous warnings. But how different was (...)

28 - 09 - 2017
Big Oil, failed democracy and the Rohingya
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 same forces in her country, Burma, at the time that the US-led Western coalition isolated Rangoon (...)

14 - 09 - 2017
Al-Araqeeb village is Palestine
On 1 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 area, village residents immediately began rebuilding their (...)

17 - 08 - 2017
Why Palestinian victory in Jerusalem is pivotal
Neither Fatah nor Hamas have been of much relevance to the mass protests staged around Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. Neither has American pressure, half-hearted European “concern about the situation”, or clichéd Arab declarations that made (...)

09 - 08 - 2017
Trumpism and US imperial arrogance
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 recent months. However, this chaos is not entirely the making of President (...)

06 - 07 - 2017
Israel versus the United Nations
The US 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 nor tailored to fit the need of a specific occasion. Rather, her words are (...)

22 - 06 - 2017
Journalism, history and war
The typical newsroom setup, where journalists chase after news headlines dictated by some centralised news gathering agency — often based in some western capital — does not suffice anymore. In the case of the Middle East, the news narrative has been (...)

15 - 06 - 2017
Be careful what you wish for
There is a saying that goes, “Be careful what you wish for; you may get it.” This has been Israel's dilemma from the very beginning. The Zionist movement, which held its first conference in Basel, Switzerland, 120 years ago, wanted Palestine but not (...)

08 - 06 - 2017
Trump's visit to Israel
As if he had overnight been transformed into a master politician, US President Donald Trump's 27-hour trip to Israel has left many analysts mystified. Quoting former Israeli political adviser Mitchell Barack, The New York Times referred to Trump as (...)

01 - 06 - 2017
Israel's precarious identity is Palestine's nightmare
The Israeli Knesset 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 back to the foundation of the state, the new law also carries clear (...)

18 - 05 - 2017
The real reasons behind the Palestinian hunger strike
Gaza is the world's largest open air prison. The West Bank is a prison, too, segmented into various wards, known as Areas A, B and C. In fact, all Palestinians are subjected to varied degrees of military restrictions. At some level, they are all (...)

04 - 05 - 2017
Palestine's tragic anniversaries
While historians mark 15 May as the anniversary of the date on which Palestinians were expelled from their historic homeland in 1948, the fact is the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians began in earnest in 1947. In strict historical terms 1947 and (...)

13 - 04 - 2017
How Israel understands the Arab Peace Initiative
Once more, the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002 is taking centre stage. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas insisted during his speech before the recently-concluded Arab League Summit in Jordan, that the initiative is the only solution (...)

06 - 04 - 2017
Only Israeli dead matter
At a glance, Israel appears a true democracy. Take a closer look, and that facade of democracy will soon dissipate, turning into something else entirely. Tuesday, 28 February, was one of those moments. The chain of events was as follows: An official (...)

09 - 03 - 2017
Trump's promises will haunt him
US President Donald Trump promises to be pro-Israel in every aspect. “I'm the best thing that could ever happen to Israel,” he boasted at the Republican Jewish Coalition's presidential forum in Washington DC, in December 2015. For a brief moment, (...)

02 - 02 - 2017
The balancing act is over
For some, the “manslaughter” conviction against Elor Azaria, the Israeli army medic who murdered an already incapacitated Palestinian man, Fattah Al-Sharif, is finally settling a protracted debate regarding where Israelis stand on Palestinian human (...)

17 - 01 - 2017
Enough fear-mongering
Long before 28 December, when US Secretary of State John Kerry took the podium at the Dean Acheson Auditorium in Washington DC to pontificate on the uncertain future of the two-state solution and the need to save Israel from itself, the subject of a (...)

10 - 01 - 2017
Palestine 2017: Bid farewell to Washington, embrace the world
There is no doubt that the UN Security Council condemnation of Israel on Friday, 23 December, was an important and noteworthy event. True, the United Nations' main chambers (the Security Council and the General Assembly) and its various (...)

03 - 01 - 2017
Less symbolism, more action
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) has designated the week 25 November to 3 December as the “Biggest-Ever Campaign” aimed at boycotting Israeli products and those of companies that contribute to the Israeli military occupation of (...)

29 - 11 - 2016
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