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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
Baroud: EU States Also Need To Deal with Israel
Znet Article, June, 27 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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Hamas' electoral success since the first round of local elections in Gaza in December has signaled a dramatic shift in the way the movement is perceived both nationally and internationally. The defining moment was not Hamas' direct participation ...
Baroud: A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Iraq Edition
Znet Article, March, 19 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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I visited Baghdad as a reporter a few years before the US invasion. There were posters and statues of the ousted President Saddam Hussein everywhere. But not one checkpoint. Those lucky enough, or maybe unfortunate enough to report from the occup...
