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Ramzy Baroud

Children
Thousands of Palestinian Children in Gaza are the Principal Victims of Israel’s Genocide

Thousands of Palestinian Children in Gaza are the Principal Victims of Israel’s Genocide

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – The Israeli war on Gaza is a war on Palestinian children. This was as true on 7 October as it is today. On 17 August, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a seven-day ceasefire to allow children in Gaza to be vaccinated against polio. “I am appealing to all […]

Israel
“Wipe it off the Face of the Earth!”  Israel’s War on the United Nations and International Law

“Wipe it off the Face of the Earth!” Israel’s War on the United Nations and International Law

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – Departing Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, has clearly had an unpleasant experience at the world’s largest international institution. In an interview published in the Israeli newspaper Maariv on 20 August, the disgruntled envoy said that, “The UN building should be closed and wiped off from the […]

Israel/ Palestine
Is Israel’s Far Right Wing Government Prolonging the Gaza Genocide as a Smokescreen for annexing the West Bank?

Is Israel’s Far Right Wing Government Prolonging the Gaza Genocide as a Smokescreen for annexing the West Bank?

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – Promises of “absolute victory” in Gaza are nothing but “gibberish”, according to Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. Gallant’s comments were not meant to be public, but somehow were leaked and published by Israeli media on 12 August. The explanation of why Benjamin Netanyahu is pursuing a losing war in […]

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Partners in Genocide: Israel is slaughtering Palestinians with Western Arms

Partners in Genocide: Israel is slaughtering Palestinians with Western Arms

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – While many are earnestly pointing at the devastation of war, the rampant human rights violations and the deliberate relegation of international and humanitarian law, there are those who see war from an entirely different perspective: profits. For the merchants of war, the collective pain and misery of whole nations […]

Israel/ Palestine
Zionism on the brink: The Gaza war beyond Netanyahu

Zionism on the brink: The Gaza war beyond Netanyahu

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – The idea that Israel’s war on Gaza is essentially waged and sustained by and for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dominated political analyses on the subject for some time. The notion is often kept alive by public opinion inside Israel. Most polls produced since the start of the […]

Genocide
Watering Down Genocide: No More Moral Compromises on Palestine, Please

Watering Down Genocide: No More Moral Compromises on Palestine, Please

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – Why are many amongst us still tiptoeing around language when it comes to the horrific Israeli genocide in Gaza? Layers of censorship imposed on Palestinian and pro-Palestinian voices in corporate and social media seem to have blurred the judgment of some. They continue to speak of a “conflict”, calling […]

Israel/ Palestine
What is behind Israel's War against UNRWA?

What is behind Israel’s War against UNRWA?

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – Targeting a school during a war could be justified as, or at least argued, to have been a mistake. But striking over 120 schools, and killing and wounding thousands of civilians sheltering inside, can only be intentional, with each attack a horrific war crime in its own right. Between […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Never Learns from its Mistakes: Why Netanyahu will Fail in Gaza

Israel Never Learns from its Mistakes: Why Netanyahu will Fail in Gaza

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel never learns from its mistakes. What Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is trying to implement in Gaza is but a poor copy of previous strategies that were used in the past by other Israeli leaders. If these strategies had succeeded, Israel would not be in this position in […]

Israel/ Palestine
How Israel uses Starvation to Subdue the Palestinians

How Israel uses Starvation to Subdue the Palestinians

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – Humanitarian aid should never be politicised though, quite often, the very survival of nations is used as political bargaining chips. Sadly, Gaza remains a prime example. Even before the current war, the Gaza Strip suffered under a 17-year hermetic blockade, which has rendered the impoverished area virtually ‘unlivable’. That […]

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