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Ramzy Baroud is the Managing Editor of Middle East Eye. He is an internationally-syndicated columnist, a media consultant, an author and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story (Pluto Press, London). He is a Ph.D. scholar at the University of Exeter's European Centre for Palestine Studies (ECPS).
SHARE Thursday, June 2, 2022 The Ethnic Cleansing of Masafer Yatta - Israel's New Annexation Strategy in Palestine
What is happening in Masafer Yatta is not only the largest ethnic cleansing scheme to be carried out by Israel since 1967, but the move should be considered a first step in a much larger scheme of illegal land appropriation, ethnic cleansing, and official mass annexation.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 5, 2022 NATO's Neverending Wars
If more lethal weapons were the answer, the conflict in Ukraine would have been resolved years ago. The country needs help finding non-violent solutions.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 10, 2021 The People vs. Mahmoud Abbas: Are the Palestinian Authority's Days Numbered?
"The Palestinian Authority's days are numbered." This assertion has been oft repeated recently, especially after the torture to death on June 24 of a popular Palestinian activist, Nizar Banat, 42, at the hands of PA security goons in Hebron (Al-Khalil).
SHARE Thursday, June 17, 2021 On Trumpism and Netanyahuism: How Benjamin Netanyahu Won America and Lost Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu is as much American as he is Israeli. While other Israeli leaders have made their strong relationship with Washington a cornerstone of their politics, Netanyahu's political style was essentially American from the start.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 5, 2021 "Mowing the Grass" No More: How Palestinian Resistance Altered the Equation
The ceasefire on May 21 has, for now, brought the Israeli war on Gaza to an end. However, it is not permanent and constant Israeli provocations anywhere in Palestine could reignite the bloody cycle all over again. Moreover, the Israeli siege on Gaza remains in place, as well as the Israeli military occupation and the rooted system of apartheid that exists all over Palestine.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 12, 2020 A Palestinian Guide to Surviving a Quarantine
Call it a "quarantine," a "shelter-in-place," a "lockdown" or a "curfew," we Palestinians have experienced them all, though not at all voluntarily.
SHARE Thursday, April 2, 2020 Tunisia Leads the Way: New Report Exposes Israel's False Democracy
In Netanyahu's mind, by the calculation of mainstream Israeli politicians, the participation of Arabs in the democratic process is a threat that must be eliminated, exactly as their increasing numbers are also a demographic threat that has to be thwarted at any cost.
SHARE Saturday, March 28, 2020 Technology of Death: The Not-so-Shocking Report on Israeli Weapons Exports
The Middle East region, battered by wars and adjoining humanitarian crises that have left millions of people stateless, hungry and diseased, is in urgent need for peace, security, and reconstruction. Thanks to the US, Russian, French, Israeli and other weapons manufacturers, however, it is now the dumping ground for military hardware, an ominous sign for the years ahead.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 22, 2020 "The Donald Trump I know": Abbas' UN Speech and the Breakdown of Palestinian Politics
The real danger in the "Deal of the Century" is not the actual stipulations of that sinister plan, but the fact that the Palestinian leadership is likely to find a way to co-exist with it, at the expense of the oppressed Palestinian people, as long as donors' money continues to flow and as long as Abbas continues to call himself a president.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 13, 2020 Breaking with Washington: Arabs and Muslims Must Take a Stance for Palestine
If Arabs and Muslims fail Palestine again, then, once more, the Palestinian people will find themselves alone in this desperate fight. And when Palestinians rise, as they surely will, their uprising will challenge not just Israel but the entire regional and international apparatus that allowed the Israeli occupation to go unchallenged for so many years.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 29, 2020 In The Name Of "Israel's Security": Retreating US Gives Israel Billions More In Military Aid
Republican and Democratic Senators have recently ensured just that, passing a bill aimed at providing Israel with $3.3 billion in aid every year. Enthusiasm to push the Bill forward was meant to be an assurance to Tel Aviv from Washington that the US is committed to Israel's security and military superiority in the Middle East.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, January 13, 2020 Embracing Palestine: How to Combat Israel's Misuse of "Antisemitism"
Zionist manipulation and misuse of antisemitism is a phenomenon that will always be there as long as the Israeli government finds the need to distract from its war crimes against Palestinians and to crush pro-Palestinian solidarity worldwide.