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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...
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...
Baroud: Assassination of Hariri is Only the Prelude
Znet Article, February, 27 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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Indulging in speculation regarding the identity of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri's real assassins is of little value now. What demands urgent scrutiny is how his murder was intended to play a large part in the remolding of Lebanon's role...
Baroud: How Israel Is Once Again Redefining the Terms of Peace
Znet Article, February, 17 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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The recent and supposedly ‘successful’ Sharm el-Sheikh summit in Egypt on February 8 was anything but a triumph, as far as Palestinians, the occupied party, and genuine peace-seeking Israelis are concerned. Leave out the spectacu...
Baroud: Tsunami Aid and War Costs
Znet Article, January, 10 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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The swaths of South East Asia worst hit by the tsunami on December 26 and subsequent days have long been analogous with everything cheap: cheap laborers, cheap raw materials, cheap tourist destinations, and yes, much cheaper life. The whole epis...
Baroud: Life Without Arafat
Znet Article, November, 08 2004
Ramzy Baroud
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If Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's illness and unexpected departure to France represents the end of an era, as some rashly noted, it is because the absence of Arafat, even as a living symbol, is a matter of great consequence. But that said, we ...
Baroud: Palestinian Uprising Enduring Most Critical Phase
Znet Article, August, 01 2004
Ramzy Baroud
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In an oversimplified gesture of a defused crisis, Palestinian Authority President, Yasser Arafat and his Prime Minister, Ahmed Qurei kissed, hugged and raised victory signs. Not too far away, Israeli army Special Forces snooped using their US su...
Baroud: Celebrating Life in Rafah
Znet Article, June, 01 2004
Ramzy Baroud
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Rafah, Jenin, Khan Yunis, Zeitun: Foreign sounding names of so distanced and disturbing a reality. All that we know of them is what the media has selectively determined to impart, if we are even interested in hearing the story. The Rafah ...
Baroud: Reforms
Znet Article, May, 13 2004
Ramzy Baroud
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The Bush administration's resolve on "reforming" the Arab world poses an entangled dilemma, at least for the Arabs. For one, Arab countries are in urgent need of overreaching change, change that fundamentally refurbishes their political, economi...
Baroud: September 11
Znet Article, September, 11 2002
Ramzy Baroud
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A Palestinian friend of mine was severely wounded on September 11. He will too commemorate that dreadful day, along with his family and many families in Jenin and in New York. My friend is a Reuters cameraman. He was hit by the shrapnel of a tank ...
Baroud: Your Duplicity is Killing Us
Znet Article, September, 05 2002
Ramzy Baroud
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Few are those in the “international community†who fail to condemn Palestinian attacks against Israeli targets, whether civilians, soldiers or armed settlers. But many are those who find it less urgent and compelling to condemn the...
