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Baroud: Racism Plagues Western Media Coverage
Znet Article, July, 13 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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Racism is "the belief that one 'racial group' is inferior to another and the practices of the dominant group to maintain the inferior position of the dominated group. Often defined as a combination of power, prejudice and discrimination." This is...
Baroud: And Israel Shall Be Safe Again
Znet Article, July, 05 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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The June 25 Palestinian fighters' raid on an Israeli military post near the Gaza-Egypt border has sent Israel "scrambling to defend itself," the voice of a BBC news reporter declared on the evening news. The report was followed by an unchallengin...
Baroud: Re-Interpreting Iraq
Znet Article, June, 28 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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To their credit, top US Pentagon officials cautioned journalists and the public, since the Iraq war’s early days, that the dissemination of misinformation would be a vital weapon in their war strategy. Needless to say, they have certainly ...
Baroud: Al-Zarqawi Death
Znet Article, June, 21 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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The convenient emergence and sudden disappearance of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi signals an end of an era. Though Washington and London insist on telling us that the ‘good news’ don’t necessary mean an end to Iraq’s bloods...
Baroud: Trying Times for Palestinians
Znet Article, June, 19 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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The political and ideological division separating Palestinian society in the Occupied Territories has metamorphosed into a formidable chasm, despite the urgent need to consolidate Palestinian national unity in this current crisis. And a time of c...
Baroud: Iran and US
Znet Article, May, 11 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice couldn't possibly have been more accurate when she accused Iran of "playing games" with the international community. Rice was specifically referring to an announcement made April 30, by the deputy head of ...
Baroud: National Sovereignty and Military Occupation Not Compatible
Znet Article, May, 06 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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In a seemingly poignant analysis of the situation in Iraq, BBC news online analyst, Jim Muir assessed Iraqi politics following the choice of Jawad Al Maliki as prime minister designate. Muir’s detailed analysis failed to even hint at the ...
Baroud: The Case for the Palestinian Government
Znet Article, April, 23 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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Responding to successive decisions made by the US, the European Union and various European and non-European countries to boycott the Palestinian Authority and deprive it of urgently needed funds, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh described...
Baroud: Imminent Decline of Empire?
Znet Article, April, 12 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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The miscalculated policies of the US administration in the Middle East are quickly depleting the country’s ability to sustain its once unchallenged global position. Winds of change are blowing everywhere, and there is little that Washingto...
Baroud: US Attitude to Hamas
Znet Article, April, 05 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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What is currently transpiring in the Occupied Territories is by far a worst-case scenario, ironically one made possible with the direct help of many Palestinians themselves. The democratically elected Palestinian government is now officially isola...
Baroud: The Jericho Prison Raid
Znet Article, March, 21 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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Could it be possible that the Israeli army raid on a Jericho prison on March 14 was done without careful coordination between Israel, the United States and Britain? Could it also be possible that the timing of the onslaught was equally innocent, o...
Baroud: Remembering Atwar Bahjat
Znet Article, March, 20 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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A few weeks ago I learned that a journalist who was one of my colleagues was kidnapped, then, five days later, released unharmed with his driver in Baghdad. I was shocked, then relieved. I somehow managed to find some humor in the not-so-humorous...
Baroud: Middle East Democracy and the Hamas Factor
Znet Article, March, 04 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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There is a degree of surrealism in all of this. Hamas has presented its choice of Prime Minister to President Mahmoud Abbas, as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine says it has agreed in principle to join a Hamas-led government. In t...
Baroud: Cartoon Awakening
Znet Article, February, 22 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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Much has been said and done in response to the deliberately offensive anti-Muslim cartoons published late last year by a conservative Danish newspaper, and profusely printed in many Europeans and non-European media, including South Africa, Jordan ...
Baroud: Punishing Denmark
Znet Article, February, 05 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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Only an irresponsible and intellectually inept individual would sketch such insulting images as those depicting Prophet Mohamed by a cartoonist in the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper. And no self-respecting newspaper would allow itself to run suc...
Baroud: Diplomacy as a Real Option
Znet Article, January, 25 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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Newly elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the new face of evil, US officials and media want us to believe. The dialectics that yielded such a conclusion have been offered in abundance within thousands of news broadcasts, commentaries...
Baroud: Gaza's Turmoil in Context
Znet Article, January, 11 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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The most recent kidnappings in the Gaza Strip are a disheartening testimony to how factionalism, corruption and lack of discipline can scar a national struggle that was meant to exemplify precisely the opposite. Although attempts to hijack and re...
Baroud: An Abundance of Hope for New Year
Znet Article, January, 04 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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Celebrating a new year is an entirely sentimental decision, relevant to some, extraneous to others, and can indeed serve a greater purpose than random festivity and excess. It could actually be, and it is for many, an occasion to reflect on the su...
Baroud: Palestinian Democracy at the Crossroads
Znet Article, December, 28 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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Palestinian political life seems to be unwittingly embracing a distinctive style, contradicting its own traditional political parameters. The last few weeks clearly attest to this political divergence. Predictably any serious transformation is no...
Baroud: The US 'Image Problem' is rooted in history, not media
Znet Article, December, 24 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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US President George W. Bush yet once again blamed Arab media for his country’s image problem. "I recognize we got an image issue, particularly when you have television stations, Arabic television stations that are constantly just pounding...
