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Ramzy Baroud

Israel/ Palestine
Is Israel Sidelining Palestinians and Turkey to became Natural Gas Superpower in Mediterranean?

Is Israel Sidelining Palestinians and Turkey to became Natural Gas Superpower in Mediterranean?

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – Massive natural gas discoveries off the eastern coast of Israel and Palestine is slated to make Tel Aviv a regional energy hub. Whether Israel will be able to translate positive indicators of the largely untapped gas reserves into actual economic and strategic wealth is yet to be seen. What […]

Israel/ Palestine
Sealed Off and Forgotten: What You Should Know about Israel’s ‘Firing Zones’ in the West Bank

Sealed Off and Forgotten: What You Should Know about Israel’s ‘Firing Zones’ in the West Bank

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor) – A seemingly ordinary news story, published in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, on January 7, shed light on a long-forgotten, yet crucial, subject: Israel’s so-called “firing zones” in the West Bank. “Israel has impounded the only vehicle available to a medical team that provides assistance to 1,500 Palestinians living inside an […]

Israel/ Palestine
Trolling: Time to Realize what Smearing Palestinian Rights Activists as "anti-Semitic" Really is

Trolling: Time to Realize what Smearing Palestinian Rights Activists as “anti-Semitic” Really is

Ramzy Baroud

(Middle East Monitor ) – At a talk I delivered in Northern England in March 2018, I proposed that the best response to falsified accusations of antisemitism, which are often lobbed against pro-Palestinian communities and intellectuals everywhere, is to draw even closer to the Palestinian narrative. In fact, my proposal was not meant to be […]

Israel/ Palestine
The Other Face of Palestinian Resistance is a Gentle Christian Archbishop

The Other Face of Palestinian Resistance is a Gentle Christian Archbishop

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – “They will run and not grow weary,” is a quote from the Bible (Isaiah, 40:41) that adorns the homepage of Kairos Palestine. This important document, which parallels a similar initiative emanating from South Africa during the anti-apartheid struggle years, has come to represent the unified voice of the Palestinian […]

Israel/ Palestine
After the Horrible Past Year, will 2020 be a Game Changer in Palestine?

After the Horrible Past Year, will 2020 be a Game Changer in Palestine?

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor) – This has been a defining year for Palestine and Israel. Despite the usual political stagnation of the Palestinian leadership, two factors contributed to making 2019 particularly eventful and, looking ahead, consequential as well: The unprecedented political power struggle in Israel, and the total US retreat from its own self-proclaimed role […]

Israel/ Palestine
Outlaw State: Israel Accelerates Colonization of Palestinian West Bank 3 Years after UN Security Council Condemnation

Outlaw State: Israel Accelerates Colonization of Palestinian West Bank 3 Years after UN Security Council Condemnation

Ramzy Baroud

(Middle East Monitor ) – Three years ago, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 2334. With fourteen members voting in favour and one abstention, the Resolution was the equivalent of a political earthquake. Indeed, it was the first time in many years that the international body roundly condemned Israel for its illegal settlement policies […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli PM Netanyahu formally Indicted as Israel Faces Political Earthquake

Israeli PM Netanyahu formally Indicted as Israel Faces Political Earthquake

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor) – Nothing seems to be working for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has tried every trick in the book to save his political career and avoid a possible prison sentence. Nevertheless, for Israel’s longest-serving leader, the end is almost certainly nigh. Netanyahu described his indictment on charges of fraud, bribery […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel v. Palestine in Age of Trump:  Annexation is the Highest Stage of Settler Colonialism

Israel v. Palestine in Age of Trump: Annexation is the Highest Stage of Settler Colonialism

Ramzy Baroud

( The Middle East Monitor ) – It is hardly a major surprise that the US government has finally decreed that illegal Jewish settlements built in defiance of international law are somehow “consistent” with the said law. US foreign policy has been edging closer towards this conclusion for some time. Since moving into the White […]

Israel/ Palestine
How Western media dehumanization of Palestinians allows Israel to get away with murder in Gaza

How Western media dehumanization of Palestinians allows Israel to get away with murder in Gaza

Ramzy Baroud

(Middle East Monitor ) – An Israeli attack on Gaza was imminent, and not because of any provocations by Palestinian groups in the besieged, impoverished Gaza Strip. The Israeli military escalation was foreseeable because it factors neatly in Israel’s contentious political scene. The war was not a question of “if”, but “when”. The answer came […]

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