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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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Middle East Peace Process: Stagnation By Design
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 6:11 pm | Ramzy Baroud
I began the preface of my latest book, “The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle,” by making the following claim: “The second Palestinian uprising will be etched in history as an era where a major shift in the rules of ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Aljazeera - The Plot thickens
Monday, 18 December 2006, 9:17 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The launch of Aljazeera International on November 15, the English arm of Aljazeera Satellite Television was hardly an ordinary event. More >>
Hudna Or Not: Palestinian Rights Must Be Preserved
Monday, 11 December 2006, 5:15 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Palestinian groups have recently suggested a ceasefire, in exchange for a cessation of Israeli violence. Ehud Olmert responded with a conciliatory speech, cleverly timed with President Bush’s arrival to Jordan on November 29 for a two-day conference ... More >>
Ethnic Cleansing And Israel’s Racist Discourse
Saturday, 2 December 2006, 8:58 pm | Ramzy Baroud
“The term ethnic cleansing refers to various policies of forcibly removing people of another ethnic group. At one end of the spectrum, it is virtually indistinguishable from forced emigration and population transfer, while at the other it merges with ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Democrats Must Truly Change Course
Monday, 27 November 2006, 5:24 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The astounding results of the US Congressional elections of 7 November were undoubtedly a welcome sign of change, not in the American political apparatus, inasmuch as it is in the unmistakable reclamation by the public of its role as the driving force ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Killing Hope in Beit Hanoun
Monday, 20 November 2006, 3:32 pm | Ramzy Baroud
“God is greater than Israel and America,” was the echoing cry of tens of thousands of Palestinians, who descended into the graveyard in grief stricken Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip. They congregated in yet another familiar scene to bury ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Treacherous Road to Oslo Begins Here
Monday, 13 November 2006, 11:33 am | Ramzy Baroud
Attempts to coerce Palestinians into submission have not always manifested themselves in the crude form of a tank, a bullet, the withholding of aid or the denial of freedom of movement. These efforts were at times more imaginative and shrewd, through the ... More >>
Palestine As A Foil For Unconnected Dreams
Monday, 6 November 2006, 1:44 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Thousands of people recently marched in London to commemorate Quds Day, an annual day of solidarity with the Palestinian people that emanated from Tehran some 26 years ago. More >>
Baroud: American Voters Must Not Reward Failure
Monday, 30 October 2006, 12:08 am | Ramzy Baroud
How critical is the situation in Iraq? It depends on who you ask and when. Common sense tells us that the situation there has always been critical. In fact, one could dare claim that the country has been stricken with political and social upheaval ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Nuclear Dual Standards
Tuesday, 24 October 2006, 3:07 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The US administration’s double standards in dealing with the intensifying nuclear crisis in North Korea further strengthens the argument that President George W Bush’s colonial designs are either exasperated by the vulnerability of his foes or deterred ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: The Logic Behind Rice's Grin
Monday, 16 October 2006, 10:05 am | Ramzy Baroud
In its struggle for the regional order it wants, the US is reaching new lows in its deceitful and disingenuous stance towards the Palestinians. More >>
Baroud: Palestinian Power-Struggle - Siege Within
Monday, 9 October 2006, 1:12 pm | Ramzy Baroud
It is no secret that the Palestinian people have always struggled with the problem of impotent, self-seeking leaderships, who have historically invested far greater time fending for their own status and position at the helm — however worthless ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Risk of Misreading US-Iran Dispute
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 7:38 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The ongoing war of words between US President George W. Bush and Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, coupled with deluded western media misconceptions or intentional misrepresentations of the true nature of the escalating conflict, can be utterly misleading, and must ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Risk of Misreading US-Iran Dispute
Friday, 29 September 2006, 9:38 am | Ramzy Baroud
The ongoing war of words between US President George W. Bush and Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, coupled with deluded western media misconceptions or intentional misrepresentations of the true nature of the escalating conflict, can be utterly misleading, and must ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: The Next Palestinian Struggle
Monday, 25 September 2006, 1:49 pm | Ramzy Baroud
LONDON - An expert in international law and an old friend of the Palestinian people wrote me with utter distress a few days after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh were reported to have reached an agreement Sept. ... More >>
Murdoch Almighty: When Public Loses Opinion
Tuesday, 19 September 2006, 2:26 pm | Ramzy Baroud
People imagine that their opinions are their own, not those of corporate moguls who compete to colonise the public sphere. We are not as free in thought as we think. More >>
Bush PR Campaign: Back to the Basics
Monday, 18 September 2006, 12:14 am | Ramzy Baroud
Removed from reality, self-consumed and desperate, the Bush administration went on another PR offensive, in what is considered the “third most major public relations effort” in the last year. More >>
Kidnapped In Gaza: Chaos As A Strategy
Friday, 8 September 2006, 12:01 am | Ramzy Baroud
Two Fox News journalists, Steve Cantani and Olas Wing were released by their Palestinian kidnappers in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, August 27. Just one day earlier, two Reuters’ cameramen were seriously wounded in an apparently deliberate Israeli strike on their ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: The Day After
Thursday, 31 August 2006, 11:16 am | Ramzy Baroud
If it is true that the 33-day war on Lebanon was the culmination of regional developments and that it can hardly be fathomed separate from the brutal Israeli war on Gaza or the faltering American imperial project in Iraq, then it is hardly inconsistent to ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: The Real Terrorism Plot
Thursday, 24 August 2006, 11:08 am | Ramzy Baroud
And yet another menacing terror plot was thwarted 10 August, with the arrest of 24 suspects, all British Muslims. It was an ominous conspiracy aimed at committing "mass murder" on an "unimaginable" scale, British authorities quickly concluded. More >>
