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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...
Baroud: Staying the Course
Znet Article, December, 14 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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In a landmark speech before a most friendly audience at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis on November 30, President Bush repeated a familiar mantra. His pronouncements were crafty and political, yet were neither concerned with the plight of Iraqis...
Baroud: Gaza Border Deal
Znet Article, November, 24 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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Starting Nov. 25, Palestinians from the Gaza Strip may, in theory, be able to freely cross the Rafah border into Egypt, according to an agreement brokered by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Typically, Israel wished to have the final say o...
Baroud: Blame It On Arafat
Znet Article, November, 19 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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Despite initial claims that Yasser Arafat's absence - as an 'obstacle' to peace - would reinvigorate the Arab-Israel peace process, events on the ground fail to point toward such a reality, one year after the powerful Palestinian leader's death. ...
Baroud: Real Disengagement Plan Now at Work
Znet Article, October, 15 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his right wing government could not have possibly envisioned a more gratifying scenario to the post-disengagement period than the one effectively advancing in the Gaza Strip. Events on the ground point to ...
Baroud: Rhetoric and Reality of War
Znet Article, September, 28 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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Rhetoric and Reality of War
Baroud: Perils of Normalization With Israel
Znet Article, September, 16 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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There should be no doubt regarding the centrality and intensity of the relationship between the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the internal and external politics of Arab and Muslim nations, regardless of their geographic immediacy and level of i...
Baroud: Pat Robertson Doesn't Just Speak For Himself
Znet Article, August, 31 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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The comments made by Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson calling for the assassination of the popular and democratically elected Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez are repellent, nonetheless customary of a confused man who has purposely swapped the ...
Baroud: The Disengagement that isn't
Znet Article, August, 19 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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It is rather curious how the Palestinian Authority opted to get engaged in a process that was solely aimed at excluding it, and how the debate has completely shifted from Israel’s real motives to internal Palestinian quarrels over post-wit...
Baroud: Israel's Nuclear Puzzle Resolved
Znet Article, August, 13 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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The BBC's striking revelations regarding the secretive and disconcerting British role in making an Israeli nuclear bomb possible, deserves more than a quick pause and a few dozen news reports. It obliges a thorough investigation coupled with a com...
Baroud: Blaming the Mosques For the Sins of Governments
Znet Article, August, 06 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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The deadly terror attacks in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheik Red Sea resort in July and the earlier October 2004 bombings at two other Red Sea resorts seem to have disrupted the consistency of the rationale that links the current terrorism upsurge in the M...
Baroud: Just Who's Emboldening Terrorism?
Znet Article, August, 03 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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Since the onset of the Bush administration's ill-defined mission and subsequent "long, long war on terror", the American people, even the whole world, have fallen victim to an utterly flawed, yet barely contested voice of reason. Despite the Vietn...
Baroud: Gaza Disengagement
Znet Article, July, 11 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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There is little in argument that the second Palestinian Uprising is effectively terminated, despite the fact that the causes which led to it remain in place. This claim does not deny the looming prospects of a third revolt, nor does it undermine t...
Baroud: Arab Media Reinvented Yet Unchanged
Znet Article, July, 08 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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One cannot effectively address the intricate subject of political, social and economic reforms anywhere in the world, without unwittingly stumbling on issues of relevance to freedom of speech and the sovereignty of the media. A free media is both ...
Baroud: France: No To Neo-Liberalism
Zmag Article, July, 01 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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F rance’s recent repudiation of the proposed European Union constitution is a resounding reminder that the populace still possesses the power to defy political elitism with all of its economic dogmas; neo-liberalism ...
Baroud: Managed Democracy
Znet Article, June, 30 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s highly publicized tour in the Middle East, Asia and Europe carried with it little or no surprises. But even then, one must not altogether write off the possibility of some lessons to be learned, eve...
