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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 ‘Desaparecidos’ Of Palestine: Gantz Escalates Israel’s War On The Dead
Thursday, 17 September 2020, 9:09 am | Ramzy Baroud
On September 2, the Israeli government approved a proposal that allows the military to indefinitely withhold the bodies of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli army. The proposal was made by the country’s Defense Minister, Benny Gantz. Gantz ... More >>
As Washington Retreats, Eastern Mediterranean Conflict Further Marginalizes NATO
Thursday, 10 September 2020, 8:14 am | Ramzy Baroud
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an alliance in name alone. Recent events notwithstanding, the brewing conflict over territorial waters in the Eastern Mediterranean indicates that the military union between mostly Western countries ... More >>
Netanyahu Vs Gantz: Gaza Escalation As Reflection Of Israel’s Political Rivalry
Thursday, 27 August 2020, 5:25 am | Ramzy Baroud
Only recently, the Palestinian group, Hamas, and Israel seemed close to reaching a prisoner exchange agreement, where Hamas would release several Israeli soldiers held in Gaza while Israel would set free an unspecified number of Palestinian detainees ... More >>
‘People Of The Cave’: Palestinians Take Their Fight For Justice To The Mountains
Monday, 24 August 2020, 3:57 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Palestinians are not going anywhere. This is the gist of seven decades of Palestinian struggle against Zionist colonialism. The proof? The story of Ahmed Amarneh. Amarneh, a 30-year-old civil engineer from the northern West Bank village of Farasin, lives ... More >>
‘Palestine Is Still The Issue’: UN Vote Exposes, Isolates Canada
Saturday, 22 August 2020, 7:52 am | Romana Rubeo and Ramzy Baroud
The notion that ‘Canada is better’, especially when compared with US foreign policy, has persisted for many years. Recent events at the United Nations have, however, exposed the true nature of Canada’s global position, particularly in the matter ... More >>
Hands Off Lebanon: Macron’s Self-Serving ‘New Pact’ Must Be Shunned
Wednesday, 19 August 2020, 5:04 am | Ramzy Baroud
French President, Emmanuel Macron, is in no position to pontificate to Lebanon about the need for political and economic reforms. Just as thousands of Lebanese took to the streets of Beirut demanding “revenge” against the ruling classes, the French ... More >>
Apartheid Or One State: Has Jordan Broken A Political Taboo?
Wednesday, 5 August 2020, 1:45 pm | Ramzy Baroud
What will it take for the idea of a two-state solution, which was hardly practical to begin with, to be completely abandoned? Every realistic assessment of the situation on the ground indicates, with palpable clarity, that there can never be a viable ... More >>
Palestinian Eyewitness Testimony Of The Execution Of Abdul F Al-Sharif By Israeli Soldier, E Azaria
Saturday, 1 August 2020, 3:21 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Human Rights Defenders: Palestinian Eyewitness Testimony of the Execution of Abdul Fattah al-Sharif by Israeli Soldier, Elor Azaria As illegal Jewish settlers increase their attacks on Palestinian civilians in the occupied city of Al Khalil (Hebron), ... More >>
List Of Israeli Targets Leaked: Tel Aviv Fears The Worst In ICC Investigation Of War Crimes
Thursday, 30 July 2020, 7:32 am | Ramzy Baroud
When International Court of Justice (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, confirmed last December that the Court has ample evidence to pursue a war crimes investigation in occupied Palestine, the Israeli government responded with the usual rhetoric, ... More >>
Why Palestinian-Israeli Prisoners Exchange Deal Could Happen Soon?
Thursday, 23 July 2020, 8:17 am | Ramzy Baroud
For the first time since the Israeli war on Gaza in 2014, the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is signaling its willingness to engage in negotiations regarding the release of the bodies of two Israeli soldiers believed to be held by ... More >>
‘Optimism Of The Will’: Palestinian Freedom Is Possible Now
Sunday, 19 July 2020, 5:37 pm | Ramzy Baroud
In a recent TV discussion, a respected pro-Palestine journalist declared that if any positive change or transformation ever occurs in the tragic Palestinian saga, it would not happen now, but that it would take a whole new generation to bring about ... More >>
Will The ICC Investigation Bring Justice For Palestine?
Saturday, 4 July 2020, 5:01 pm | Romana Rubeo and Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo In the past, there have been many attempts at holding accused Israeli war criminals accountable. Particularly memorable is the case of the late Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, (known, among other nicknames, as ... More >>
Tearing Down The Idols Of Colonialism: Why Tunisia, Africa Must Demand French Apology
Thursday, 2 July 2020, 8:06 am | Ramzy Baroud
The visit by newly-elected Tunisian President Kais Saied to France on June 22 was intended to discuss bilateral relations, trade, etc. But it was also a missed opportunity, where Tunisia could have formally demanded an apology from France for the decades ... More >>
The ‘Palestinian Chair’: Exposing Israel’s Direct Role In US Violence
Thursday, 18 June 2020, 9:04 am | Ramzy Baroud
The banning of deadly police practices by many American states and cities following the murder of an African American man, George Floyd, at the hands of Minneapolis police officers is, once more, shedding light on US-Israeli collaboration in the ... More >>
‘Wolf Warrior Diplomacy’: Israel’s China Strategy In Peril
Thursday, 4 June 2020, 4:10 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Israel’s balancing act that allowed it to reap America’s unconditional and, often, blind support, while slowly benefiting from China’s growing economic influence and political prestige, is already floundering. Thanks to the heated cold war between ... More >>
Political Ambiguity Or A Doomsday Weapon: Why Abbas Abandoned Oslo
Thursday, 28 May 2020, 9:41 am | Ramzy Baroud
This time, we are told, it is different and that President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, is absolutely serious about his decision to absolve his leadership from all previous agreements signed with Israel and the United States. But this time ... More >>
Annexation of Palestine Began in San Remo
Thursday, 7 May 2020, 9:09 am | Ramzy Baroud
One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened at San Remo, a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera. Together, they sealed the fate of the massive territories confiscated from the Ottoman Empire following its defeat ... More >>
Portugal Leads The Way: How European Countries Fared In Their Treatment Of Refugees
Saturday, 2 May 2020, 7:30 am | Romana Rubeo and Ramzy Baroud
As soon as the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading its tentacles throughout China and eventually to the rest of the world, the World Health Organization (WHO), along with other international groups, sounded the alarm that refugees and migrants are ... More >>
Hating Arabs As A Common Ground: Why Israel's Coalition Government Is Likely To Survive
Thursday, 30 April 2020, 8:52 am | Ramzy Baroud
Shortly after an agreement to form a “national emergency government” in Israel, leader of the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) party, Benny Gantz, tweeted triumphantly that ‘democracy’ in Israel has been ‘safeguarded’. But how is a deal that ... More >>
Will The Coronavirus Change The World? On Gramsci’s ‘Interregnum’ & Zizek’s Ethnocentric Philosophy
Monday, 27 April 2020, 7:31 am | Romana Rubeo and Ramzy Baroud
The prophecies are here and it is a foregone conclusion: the post-coronavirus world will look fundamentally different from anything that we have seen or experienced, at least since the end of World War II. Even before the ‘curve flattened’ in ... More >>
