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Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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. ...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article Baroud: Rhetoric and Reality of War

Znet Article, September, 28 2005 Ramzy Baroud
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Rhetoric and Reality of War

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article Baroud: Shared History, Shared Defiance

Znet Article, June, 18 2005 Ramzy Baroud
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They say that if you don't learn from history, you will be condemned to repeat it. This could not be truer when one contrasts the destinies of the Native Americans and the Palestinian people. The determination and defiance of both groups, under di...

Znet Article Baroud: France: No to Neo Liberalism

Znet Article, June, 11 2005 Ramzy Baroud
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France's unyielding 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 being one of them. True, th...

Znet Article Baroud: Muslim Lives are desecrated, not just their book

Znet Article, May, 28 2005 Ramzy Baroud
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The reported desecration of the Quran by US guards at the infamous Guantanamo prison, as originally reported by Newsweek on May 9, 2005, was not - as it should’ve been - an opportunity for a thorough examination of US army practices, and t...

Znet Article Baroud: The Palestinian Uprising

Znet Article, May, 18 2005 Ramzy Baroud
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Nearly five years have passed since the Palestinian people transformed their hunger for long denied rights into a commanding display of will and valor: Al-Aqsa Intifada. I don’t claim nor will I attempt to offer a thorough examination of t...

Znet Article Baroud: US Middle East Policy: Heedless But Unequivocal

Znet Article, April, 24 2005 Ramzy Baroud
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There are no conspiracies to dissect, no hidden agendas to sort through and no oblique language to skillfully decode: the Bush administration's position on illegal Jewish colonies in the occupied Palestinian territories is crystal clear. Presiden...

Znet Article Baroud: Gaza: The Line of Memory and Despair

Znet Article, April, 17 2005 Ramzy Baroud
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I've known of Kassim Kafarneh for many years. His thick, wild beard is now neatly trimmed and his once unruly, black hair is combed in an orderly fashion. His spirit however is as free as the day I saw him filming in our refugee camp one Friday af...

Znet Article Baroud: Palestinian Struggle: Reality vs. Rhetoric

Znet Article, April, 11 2005 Ramzy Baroud
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No other national struggle in the world has assimilated itself, or has been inadvertently assimilated, to symbolize so many things to different people as has the Palestinian struggle. And yet, despite the intricate layers of sense and understandin...

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