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Palestine/Israel: A Single State of Liberty
Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 9:30 am | Ramzy Baroud
Prior to the establishment of Israel, Palestine had been multi-religious and multi-cultural. Christians, Muslims and Jews, Armenians, Greek Orthodox, to name a few, all had a place there; and all lived in relative harmony. More >>
Book Release Commemorating the Gaza Massacre
Monday, 28 December 2009, 12:20 pm | Ramzy Baroud
LONDON - “And so I begin. His name was Mohammed Baroud, and he was a good man,” is how Ramzy Baroud concludes the Foreword to his new book, and embarks on a chronicle so rare and so powerful that the book promises to redefine the way the Gaza story ... More >>
Muslims Must Not Pay for Europe’s Identity Crisis
Sunday, 27 December 2009, 11:51 am | Ramzy Baroud
It seems that the targeting of Muslims and Islam has become a kind of national theater in France. Unlike theater, however, the disturbing trend can, and will turn ugly – in fact to a degree it already has – if the French government doesn’t get ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: The Lobby Within
Friday, 18 December 2009, 1:11 pm | Ramzy Baroud
A just and peaceful solution to the protracted Palestinian-Israeli conflict is only possible when the US ceases to block every attempt made towards it. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: The Hypocrisy of Al-Demoqratia
Friday, 11 December 2009, 12:30 pm | Ramzy Baroud
In 2004, France banned headscarves and school principals chased after young "defiant" Muslim girls who continued to cover their heads in school. Now, following a national referendum, Switzerland has banned the construction of minarets, because minarets ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: A Paradigm Shift in Singapore
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 3:23 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Like scores of journalists, I attentively listened as Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong delivering his closing remarks, and for the last time answering journalists’ questions. It was the conclusion of 17th Apec Economies Leaders’ Meeting in Singapore, ... More >>
How Alien Media is Suffocating Real Culture
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 11:56 am | Ramzy Baroud
A Muslim family sits across of me in café, in a largely Muslim Asia country. An older woman shyly hunches over and desperately trying to avoid eye contact with the giant plasma screen TV, blazing loud music on the popular music video channel, MTV. ... More >>
How Israel Won the Settlement Battle Again
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 9:10 am | Ramzy Baroud
When British Foreign Secretary David Miliband uttered a few words regarding the illegality of the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, many wanted to believe that London was taking a sharp stance against Israel’s continued violations of international ... More >>
No Emergency Summits for Arab Dev. Crisis
Saturday, 7 November 2009, 4:49 pm | Ramzy Baroud
When the first Arab Human Development Report (AHDR) was published in 2002, a star glistened in a vast, gloomy sky. The fact that a UN-sponsored report, authored by independent Arab scholars would receive so much attention in Arab media, was in itself ... More >>
War, Negation and Muslim Identity Revisited
Friday, 23 October 2009, 1:47 pm | Ramzy Baroud
A Muslim writer begins an article with, “who says the campaign for animal rights was started in the West ..” She goes on to argue that Islam provided the original treatise on the humane treatment of animals. Her case was poorly constructed, inadequately ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Abbas and the Goldstone Report
Friday, 16 October 2009, 11:49 am | Ramzy Baroud
As Israeli bombs fell on the Gaza Strip during its one-sided war between December 27, 2008 and January 18, 2009, millions around the world took to the streets in complete and uncompromising outrage. The level of barbarity in that war, especially as it ... More >>
Obama’s Test: Democracy or Chaos in Latin America
Friday, 9 October 2009, 12:56 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Latin America stands at the threshold of a new era: one that promises a return to political uncertainty, violence and chaos or one of political stability and economic prosperity. Honduras is a crucial indicator. More >>
Iran’s Nuclear Theater Meant to Divert Attention
Friday, 2 October 2009, 2:02 pm | Ramzy Baroud
World events have taken an interesting turn recently, with the Goldstone report, which wreaked havoc in the beginning of the week being nearly completely overshadowed by Iran’s revelation of another nuclear facility, according to diplomats in Vienna ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Will Goldstone's Report Deliver?
Friday, 25 September 2009, 2:58 pm | Ramzy Baroud
'We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the era of impunity,' Nadia Hijab, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Institute for Palestine Studies, was quoted by IPS in response to the findings of a 574-page report by a four-member United Nations ... More >>
Perpetual Grief over September 11th
Thursday, 17 September 2009, 11:49 am | Ramzy Baroud
The anniversary of the infamous tragedy of 9/11, 2001, and the subsequent ramifications indeed induce, throughout the world, a plethora of feelings of sorrow. The 9/11 event should have never taken place. Regardless of the situation, targeting civilians is ... More >>
A Fresh Approach in Afghanistan: An End to War?
Friday, 11 September 2009, 3:40 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Left out of the options under consideration in "Obama's war" is the only one with any chance of success. Despite assurances to the contrary in Washington and a major policy speech in London, one need not quibble with the obvious fact that the situation ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: US Audacity of Hope Falters
Friday, 4 September 2009, 1:05 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The US has decided to be ‘flexible’ regarding its once touted call for a total Israeli freeze on the expansion of its occupied territories’ settlements, all illegal under international law. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Fighting for the Right to Walk
Friday, 28 August 2009, 11:29 am | Ramzy Baroud
Gaza’s troubles have somehow been relegated, if not completely dropped from the mainstream media’s radar, and subsequently the world’s conscience and consciousness. Weaning the public from the sadness there conveys the false impression that things ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Drones and Democracy in Afghanistan
Monday, 24 August 2009, 9:04 am | Ramzy Baroud
With elections just around the corner in Afghanistan, it might be timely to reflect on the US engagement with that stricken nation and consider just how much foreign intervention has contributed to the prospect and possibility of free and democratic ... More >>
Fatah: A New Beginning or an Imminent End?
Friday, 14 August 2009, 4:14 pm | Ramzy Baroud
This is hardly the rational order of things. An overpowering military occupation was meant to be resisted by an equally determined, focused and unyielding national movement, hell-bent on liberation at any cost and by any means. This is the unwritten ... More >>