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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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War Anniversary: Israel, Palestine Links Absent
Monday, 2 April 2007, 2:28 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The Stockholm air was too cold, even for the most animated speaker to excite a crowd. But I had little choice: thousands of anti-war protesters had descended on the capital’s main square to show their support of the Iraqi people on the four-year anniversary ... More >>
The Arab Peace Initiative & The Changing ME
Tuesday, 27 March 2007, 10:43 am | Ramzy Baroud
The rapid, almost hasty, developments on the Arab Israeli front, almost immediately following the Saudi sponsored Makkah Agreement on February 2, should be examined in their proper context, as a part and parcel of the regional shifts, exasperated ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Palestinians Must Redefine Struggle
Friday, 16 March 2007, 9:58 am | Ramzy Baroud
It’s never easy, although a sure assertion, to maintain that the Palestinian front, at home as well as abroad remains as fragmented and self-consumed, thus ineffective, as ever before, but most notably during the disastrous post-Oslo period. More >>
Peace and Justice Movement in Britain at Crossroad
Friday, 9 March 2007, 9:59 am | Ramzy Baroud
Growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, it was a very familiar encounter: Israeli soldiers storming our house accompanied by shouts of terror and a barrage of insults. Such recollections make me shudder to this day. More >>
A Democracy In Crisis: Who Is Really In Control?
Thursday, 1 March 2007, 1:39 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Years back, an old and astute professor at the University of Washington ended a fascinating lecture to a small group of freshmen with the following contention: "Our country might find itself in a position that could force it to deprive its citizens from ... More >>
Removing Iran From The New Middle East Equation
Friday, 23 February 2007, 9:23 am | Ramzy Baroud
The configuration of the New Middle East — as envisaged by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during the Israeli war against Lebanon in July-August 2006, most certainly has no place for more than one regional power broker, namely Israel. More >>
The Mecca Agreement: What Should We Expect?
Friday, 16 February 2007, 11:25 am | Ramzy Baroud
The Mecca agreement, signed between rival Palestinian groups, Hamas and Fatah on February 8, under the auspices of the Saudi leadership, was welcomed by thousands of cheering Palestinians throughout the Occupied Territories, and seen as the closing ... More >>
Countdown for Iran: When Commonsense is Nonsense
Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 9:43 am | Ramzy Baroud
The relationship between Iran and the United States is one of peculiar temperament: intense but accommodating at times, barefaced and seemingly self-destructive at others. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Shameless in Gaza
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 11:38 am | Ramzy Baroud
The most recent fighting in the Gaza Strip, which has left many people dead, confirms that the internal strife plaguing the Occupied Territories since the advent of Hamas to power in January 2006 was not entirely the outcome of outside meddling in Palestinian ... More >>
Arab Feelings Of Love And Hate For Saddam Hussein
Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 11:56 am | Ramzy Baroud
Amid the anticipation and strange secrecy regarding the day of Sadaam Hussein’s execution, images of his lifeless body after his hanging flooded internet, the world media seemingly and conveniently forgot the tenants of international law regarding ... More >>
One Last Chance for Sanity in Iraq
Friday, 12 January 2007, 9:32 am | Ramzy Baroud
US President George W Bush's new war strategy due to be officially announced on Wednesday, which will likely meet an uphill battle at the now Democrat-controlled Congress, is a slap in the face of the majority of American voters, and indeed the ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: New Year Reflections
Friday, 5 January 2007, 12:50 am | Ramzy Baroud
2006 was yet another year of tribulations in the ever tumultuous Middle East. It defied all early expectations that 2005 would be the worst for many years to follow. It ended on a sad note in Palestine, and left wide open the chance for many appalling ... More >>
In Gaza: Democracy and Its Discontents
Wednesday, 3 January 2007, 11:41 am | Ramzy Baroud
It’s all too convenient for the BBC website to describe the ongoing bloodshed between Hamas and Fatah supporters in the Gaza Strip as “inter-factional rivalry”, and it’s equally fitting for the Washington Post to narrate the same unfortunate events ... More >>
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 >>
