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Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle.
He is the author of six books. His latest book, co-edited with Ilan Pappé, is ‘Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out'. His other books include ‘My Father was a Freedom Fighter' and ‘The Last Earth'. Baroud is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA).
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The End Of Laissez-Faire: Russia’s Attempt At Reshaping The World Economy
Sunday, 12 June 2022, 1:59 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Starting on May 31, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov embarked on a tour to Gulf Cooperation Council countries, where he visited Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, among others. Lavrov’s main objective of these visits is to strengthen ... More >>
Palestine’s New Resistance Model: How The Last Year Redefined The Struggle For Palestinian Freedom
Thursday, 9 June 2022, 5:35 am | Ramzy Baroud
What took place between May 2021 and May 2022 is nothing less than a paradigm shift in Palestinian resistance. Thanks to the popular and inclusive nature of Palestinian mobilization against the Israeli occupation, resistance in Palestine is no longer ... More >>
Russia Vs NATO: How Mali Became Another Front For The Ukraine War
Saturday, 4 June 2022, 6:18 am | Ramzy Baroud
The distance between Ukraine and Mali is measured in thousands of kilometers. But the geopolitical distance is much closer to the point that it appears as if the ongoing conflicts in both countries are the direct outcomes of the same geopolitical currents ... More >>
The Ethnic Cleansing Of Masafer Yatta: Israel’s New Annexation Strategy In Palestine
Thursday, 2 June 2022, 10:36 am | Ramzy Baroud
The Israeli Supreme Court has decided that the Palestinian region of Masafer Yatta, located in the southern hills of Hebron, is to be entirely appropriated by the Israeli military and that a population of over 1,000 Palestinians is to be expelled. The ... More >>
Long Marginalized, The ‘Right Of Return’ Is Once More A Palestinian Priority
Thursday, 26 May 2022, 11:05 am | Ramzy Baroud
The Nakba is back on the Palestinian agenda. For nearly three decades, Palestinians were told that the Nakba - or Catastrophe - is a thing of the past. That real peace requires compromises and sacrifices, therefore, the original sin that has led to ... More >>
Constantly On The Verge Of Collapse: How Palestinians Became A Factor In Israeli Politics
Monday, 23 May 2022, 6:50 am | Ramzy Baroud
Israel’s coalition government of right-wing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is on the verge of collapse, which is unsurprising. Israeli politics, after all, is among the most fractious in the world, and this particular coalition was born out ... More >>
Ending ‘West’s Neocolonial Oppression’: On The New Language And Superstructures
Saturday, 14 May 2022, 6:02 am | Ramzy Baroud
The Russia-Ukraine war has quickly turned into a global conflict. One of the likely outcomes of this war is the very redefinition of the current world order, which has been in effect, at least since the collapse of the Soviet Union over three decades ... More >>
The Limits Of Israeli Intelligence: Does Israel Have A Yahya Sinwar Problem?
Wednesday, 11 May 2022, 9:40 am | Ramzy Baroud
Like typical analyses offered by western intelligences when trying to assess risks or understand major political phenomena in the Middle East, Israeli intelligence is equally short-sighted. It insists on analyzing the attitudes and body language ... More >>
By Redefining UNRWA, Washington Destroys The Foundation For A Just Peace In Palestine
Thursday, 5 May 2022, 11:25 am | Ramzy Baroud
Palestinians are justifiably worried that the mandate granted to the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, might be coming to an end. UNRWA’s mission, which has been in effect since 1949, has done more than provide urgent aid and support ... More >>
Cost Of The Ukraine War Felt In Africa, Global South
Monday, 2 May 2022, 6:29 am | Ramzy Baroud
While international news headlines remain largely focused on the war in Ukraine, little attention is given to the horrific consequences of the war which are felt in many regions around the world. Even when these repercussions are discussed, disproportionate ... More >>
Bennett Must Tread Carefully: The ‘Sword Of Jerusalem’ Could Be Unleashed Again
Thursday, 28 April 2022, 10:22 am | Ramzy Baroud
Starting on April 15, the Israeli occupation army and police raided Al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied East Jerusalem on a daily basis. Under the pretence of providing protection to provocative ‘ visits ’ by thousands of illegal Israeli Jewish settlers and ... More >>
Palestine Needs Immediate Attention To Stave Off Major Food Crisis
Thursday, 21 April 2022, 11:12 am | Ramzy Baroud
A friend, a young journalist in Gaza, Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh, told me that food prices in the besieged Strip have skyrocketed in recent weeks and that many already impoverished families are struggling to put food on the table. “Food prices are ... More >>
‘Towards A Multipolar World Order’: Is This The End Of US Hegemony?
Saturday, 16 April 2022, 1:12 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in the Chinese eastern city of Huangshan on March 30, is likely to go down in history as a decisive meeting in the relations between the two Asian giants. The ... More >>
Palestine’s Widening Geography Of Resistance: Why Israel Cannot Defeat The Palestinians
Thursday, 14 April 2022, 11:21 am | Ramzy Baroud
There is a reason why Israel is insistent on linking the series of attacks carried out by Palestinians recently to a specific location, namely the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. By doing so, the embattled Naftali Bennett’s government ... More >>
Can Israel Exist Without America: Numbers Speak Of A Changing Reality
Saturday, 9 April 2022, 5:45 am | Ramzy Baroud
When Russian and Ukrainian delegations meeting in Turkey on March 29 reached an initial understanding regarding a list of countries that could serve as security guarantors for Kyiv should an agreement be struck, Israel appeared on the list. The ... More >>
Is Europe Really More Civilized? Ukraine Conflict A Platform For Racism And Rewriting History
Wednesday, 6 April 2022, 6:18 am | Ramzy Baroud
When a gruesome six-minute video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting and torturing handcuffed and tied up Russian soldiers circulated online, outraged people on social media and elsewhere compared this barbaric behavior to that of Daesh. In a rare admission of ... More >>
From Korea To Libya: On The Future Of Ukraine And NATO’s Neverending Wars
Tuesday, 5 April 2022, 6:11 am | Ramzy Baroud
Much has been said and written about media bias and double standards in the West’s response to the Russia-Ukraine war, when compared with other wars and military conflicts across the world, especially in the Middle East and the Global South. Less obvious ... More >>
Gaza’s Forthcoming Crisis Might Be Worse Than Anything We Have Ever Seen
Thursday, 31 March 2022, 12:59 pm | Ramzy Baroud
“The water is back,” one family member would announce in a mix of excitement and panic, often very late at night. The moment such an announcement was made, my whole family would start running in all directions to fill every tank, container ... More >>
Time Is Ticking: Israel’s Balancing Act In Ukraine Is Likely To Backfire
Monday, 28 March 2022, 6:54 am | Ramzy Baroud
Israel’s balancing act in the Russia-Ukraine war is likely to falter soon, simply because the resulting NATO-Russia conflict is expected to last for years, not weeks or months. Eventually, Israel would have to make a choice. Alas, whatever that choice ... More >>
The Billion Dollar Deal That Made Google And Amazon Partners In The Israeli Occupation Of Palestine
Friday, 25 March 2022, 7:16 pm | Ramzy Baroud
“We are anonymous because we fear retaliation.” This sentence was part of a letter signed by 500 Google employees last October, in which they decried their company’s direct support for the Israeli government and military. In their letter, the signatories ... More >>
