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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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Winners and Losers in Gaza: On Victory and False Victory
Thursday, 4 September 2014, 1:39 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Winners and Losers in Gaza: On Victory and False Victory By Ramzy Baroud 4 September, 2014 More >>
Fearing Political Islam: Why Was Gaza Betrayed
Thursday, 28 August 2014, 9:39 am | Ramzy Baroud
Ask any Arab ruler, and they will tell you of the great sacrifices their countries have made for Palestine and the Palestinians. However, both history and present reality are testaments, not only to Arab failure to live up to the role expected of them ... More >>
Fearing Political Islam: Why Was Gaza Betrayed
Thursday, 28 August 2014, 9:39 am | Ramzy Baroud
Ask any Arab ruler, and they will tell you of the great sacrifices their countries have made for Palestine and the Palestinians. However, both history and present reality are testaments, not only to Arab failure to live up to the role expected of them ... More >>
Gaza Changed Everything, Things Cannot Stay the Same
Friday, 22 August 2014, 2:53 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Gaza Changed Everything Things Cannot Stay the Same after Israeli Genocide in Gaza By Ramzy Baroud 22 August, 2014 More >>
Hashtag Genocide: Why Gaza Fought Back
Wednesday, 13 August 2014, 4:17 pm | Ramzy Baroud
My old family house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza was recently rebuilt by its new owner, into a beautiful three-story building with large windows adorned by red frames. In Israel’s most recent and deadliest war on Gaza, the house sustained ... More >>
On Heroes and Preachers: Gaza’s New Resistance Paradigm
Thursday, 7 August 2014, 3:59 pm | Ramzy Baroud
“Where is the Palestinian Gandhi? In Israeli prison, of course!,” was the title of an article by Jo Ehrlich published in Modoweiss.net on Dec 21, 2009. That was almost exactly one year after Israel’s concluded a major war against Gaza. More >>
Recruiting to kill - it is not just an Israeli war on Gaza
Thursday, 31 July 2014, 3:20 pm | Ramzy Baroud
To some, US secretary of state John Kerry may have appeared to be a genuine peacemaker as he floated around ideas during a Cairo visit on 25 July about a ceasefire between Israel and resisting Palestinian fighters in Gaza. More >>
Gaza’s Resistance Will Not be Crushed
Thursday, 24 July 2014, 4:21 pm | Ramzy Baroud
On the 13th day of Israel’s so-called Operation Protective Edge, stories of entire families collectively pulverized, women and children keenly targeted by Israeli soldiers saturate the media. Until now, 430 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and ... More >>
Ravaging Gaza: The War Netanyahu Cannot Possibly Win
Thursday, 17 July 2014, 5:39 pm | Ramzy Baroud
When the bodies of three Israeli settlers - Aftali Frenkel and Gilad Shaar, both 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19 - were found on June 30 near Hebron in the southern West Bank, Israel went into a state of mourning and a wave of sympathy flowed in from ... More >>
Obama’s Failure and Richard Perle’s Whitewashing of Iraq War
Thursday, 10 July 2014, 3:35 pm | Ramzy Baroud
As Iraq stands on the verge of a complete breakdown into mini sectarian states, former leading neoconservative and Iraq war advocate Richard Perle made a sudden appearance on Newsmax TV. His statements in the interview were yet another testament to the ... More >>
On Ramadan, Socialism and the Neighbor’s Beat up Car
Friday, 4 July 2014, 2:28 pm | Ramzy Baroud
When I was a child, I obsessed with socialism. It was not only because my father was a self-proclaimed socialist who read every book that a good socialist should read, but also because we lived in a refugee camp in Gaza under the harshest of conditions. More >>
Sectarian Monster Reawakened: Redrawing Map of Iraq, Again
Wednesday, 18 June 2014, 5:16 pm | Ramzy Baroud
“Labeiki ya Zaynab,” chanted Iraqi Shia fighters as they swayed, dancing with their rifles before TV news cameras in Baghdad on June 13. They were apparently getting ready for a difficult fight ahead. More >>
What Palestinian Unity Is All About - The Real Task Ahead
Wednesday, 11 June 2014, 2:33 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Palestinians are yet to achieve national unity despite the elation over the ‘national unity government’ now in operation in Ramallah. One has to be clear in the distinction between a Hamas-Fatah political arrangement necessitated by regional and international ... More >>
Reporting the Middle East: Please Go Back to the Streets
Thursday, 5 June 2014, 4:44 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Irrespective of how one feels about the direction taken by various Arab revolutions in the last three years, a few facts remain incontestable. Arab revolts began in the streets of poor, despairing Arab cities, and Arabs had every right to rebel considering ... More >>
Haftar Leads Coup: A General’s Odd War on Muslim Brotherhood
Friday, 30 May 2014, 3:41 pm | Ramzy Baroud
On 16 May, Libya’s rogue general Khalifa Haftar staged several bloody attacks against other Libyan militias in the name of eradicating terrorism by leading a paramilitary force evasively named the Libyan National Army. His well-equipped brigades were rapidly ... More >>
66 Year Nakba: I Saw Yafa, Land of Oranges
Wednesday, 28 May 2014, 1:36 pm | Ramzy Baroud
In ‘Jaffa: Land of Oranges’, Ghassan Kanafani described his exile from the Palestinian coastal city of Yafa. As a 12-year-old boy, he struggled to understand, but “on that night, though, certain threads of that story became clearer ... a big truck ... More >>
What the Media Is Not Telling Us about Yemen
Friday, 16 May 2014, 5:41 pm | Ramzy Baroud
“In Yemen today, the US embassy is closed to the public. Officials telling CNN there is credible information of a threat against Western interests there,” a CNN news anchor read the news bulletin on May 08. More >>
Navigating Syria: The Impossible, Indispensable Mission
Thursday, 8 May 2014, 2:29 pm | Ramzy Baroud
I unfriended another Facebook friend this week. It may seem to be a trivial matter, but for me, it is not. The reason behind my action was Syria. As in Egypt, Syria has instigated many social media breakups with people whom, until then, were regarded ... More >>
Palestinian Unity: Hope and Gloom in the Beach Refugee Camp
Thursday, 1 May 2014, 1:36 pm | Ramzy Baroud
For years, Palestinian factions have strived for unity, and for years unity has evaded them. But is it possible that following several failed attempts, Fatah and Hamas have finally found that elusive middle ground? And if they have done so, why, to ... More >>
Martin Indyk’s Galloping Horse:Moral Crisis in Obama’s Peace
Thursday, 24 April 2014, 1:29 pm | Ramzy Baroud
To understand how thoughtless the US latest ‘peace process’ drive has been, one only needs to consider some of the characters involved in this political theater. One particular character who stands out as a testament to the inherently futile exercise ... More >>
