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Znet Article Baroud: An Odyssey for Justice

Znet Article, January, 14 2010 Ramzy Baroud
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The recent actions of people from around the world in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza have arguably represented the closest manifestation of international solidarity since the International Brigades against fascism during the Spanish Civ...

Znet Article Baroud: Media Vultures Are Coming: Freedom of Expression at Risk

Znet Article, January, 07 2010 Ramzy Baroud
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As you flip through a range of channels on your TV or browse through a stack of newspapers and magazines at a newsstand, you may feel lucky about living in a world where such a plethora of viewpoints is available. It might also seem that the appar...

Znet Article Baroud: On Gaza Drivers, Rumours and Egypts Steel Wall

Znet Article, December, 31 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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Those pesky taxi drivers of Gaza are always circulating rumors. One story that made the rounds during the first Palestinian uprising in 1987 claimed that an Arab army crossed the Sinai desert to save Palestinians from the daily killings and protra...

Znet Article Abulhawa: Palestine/Israel: A Single State, with Liberty and Justice for All

Znet Article, December, 29 2009 Susan Abulhawa
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Prior to the establishment of Israel, Palestine had been multi-religious and multi-cultural. Christians, Muslims and Jews, Armenians, Greek Orthodox, to name a few, all had a place there; and all lived in relative harmony. Other nations fought war...

Znet Article Baroud: Muslims Must Not Pay Price for Europe’s Identity Crisis

Znet Article, December, 24 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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It seems that the targeting of Muslims and Islam has become a kind of national theater in France. Unlike theater, however, the disturbing trend can, and will turn ugly – in fact to a degree it already has – if the French government doesn’t g...

Znet Article Baroud: The Lobby Within

Znet Article, December, 17 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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A just and peaceful solution to the protracted Palestinian-Israeli conflict is only possible when the US ceases to block every attempt made towards it.

Znet Article Baroud: The Hypocrisy of Al-Demoqratia

Znet Article, December, 11 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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In 2004, France banned headscarves and school principals chased after young "defiant" Muslim girls who continued to cover their heads in school. Now, following a national referendum, Switzerland has banned the construction of minarets, because min...

Znet Article Baroud: A Paradigm Shift in Singapore: Yet Apec Offers No Clear Answers

Znet Article, November, 24 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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Like scores of journalists, I attentively listened as Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong delivering his closing remarks, and for the last time answering journalists’ questions. It was the conclusion of 17th Apec Economies Leaders’ Meetin...

Znet Article Baroud: Globalization Unchecked: How Alien Media is Suffocating Real Culture

Znet Article, November, 18 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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A Muslim family sits across of me in café, in a largely Muslim Asia country. An older woman shyly hunches over and desperately trying to avoid eye contact with the giant plasma screen TV, blazing loud music on the popular music video channel, MTV...

Znet Article Baroud: How Israel Won the Settlement Battle Again

Znet Article, November, 10 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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When British Foreign Secretary David Miliband uttered a few words regarding the illegality of the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, many wanted to believe that London was taking a sharp stance against Israel's continued violations of ...

Znet Article Baroud: No Emergency Summits for Arab Human Development Crisis

Znet Article, November, 04 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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When the first Arab Human Development Report (AHDR) was published in 2002, a star glistened in a vast, gloomy sky. The fact that a UN-sponsored report, authored by independent Arab scholars would receive so much attention in Arab media, was in its...

Znet Article Baroud: War, Negation and Muslim Identity Revisited

Znet Article, October, 22 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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A Muslim writer begins an article with, 'who says the campaign for animal rights was started in the West ..' She goes on to argue that Islam provided the original treatise on the humane treatment of animals. Her case was poorly constructed, inadeq...

Znet Article Baroud: Abbas and the Goldstone Report: Our Shame is Complete

Znet Article, October, 15 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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As Israeli bombs fell on the Gaza Strip during its one-sided war between December 27, 2008 and January 18, 2009, millions around the world took to the streets in complete and uncompromising outrage. The level of barbarity in that war, especially a...

Znet Article Baroud: Obama’s Test: Democracy or Chaos in Latin America

Znet Article, October, 08 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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Latin America stands at the threshold of a new era: one that promises a return to political uncertainty, violence and chaos or one of political stability and economic prosperity. Honduras is a crucial indicator.

Znet Article Baroud: Iran’s Nuclear Theater Meant to Divert Attention

Znet Article, October, 01 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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World events have taken an interesting turn recently, with the Goldstone report, which wreaked havoc in the beginning of the week being nearly completely overshadowed by Iran’s revelation of another nuclear facility, according to diplomats in Vi...

Znet Article Baroud: Justice This Time Around: Will Goldstone's Report Deliver?

Znet Article, September, 24 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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'We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the era of impunity,' Nadia Hijab, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Institute for Palestine Studies, was quoted by IPS in response to the findings of a 574-page report by a four-member Unite...

Znet Article Baroud: Perpetual Grief over September 11th

Znet Article, September, 16 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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The anniversary of the infamous tragedy of 9/11, 2001, and the subsequent ramifications indeed induce, throughout the world, a plethora of feelings of sorrow.

Znet Article Baroud: A Fresh Approach in Afghanistan: An End to War?

Znet Article, September, 10 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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Left out of the options under consideration in "Obama's war" is the only one with any chance of success.

Znet Article Baroud: US Audacity of Hope Falters: Settlement Freeze No Longer Required

Znet Article, September, 02 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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The US has decided to be 'flexible' regarding its once touted call for a total Israeli freeze on the expansion of its occupied territories' settlements, all illegal under international law.

Znet Article Baroud: Fighting for the Right to Walk

Znet Article, August, 27 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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Gaza's troubles have somehow been relegated, if not completely dropped from the mainstream media's radar, and subsequently the world's conscience and consciousness. Weaning the public from the sadness there conveys the false impression that things...

Znet Article Baroud: Drones and Democracy in Afghanistan

Znet Article, August, 21 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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With elections just around the corner in Afghanistan, it might be timely to reflect on the US engagement with that stricken nation and consider just how much foreign intervention has contributed to the prospect and possibility of free and democrat...

Znet Article Baroud: Fatah: A New Beginning or an Imminent End?

Znet Article, August, 14 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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This is hardly the rational order of things. An overpowering military occupation was meant to be resisted by an equally determined, focused and unyielding national movement, hell-bent on liberation at any cost and by any means. This is the unwritt...

Znet Article Baroud: Gaza’s Kite Runners

Znet Article, August, 09 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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When seen from a distance, kites in Gaza may look quite ordinary. But while Gazan children, in many respects, are just children, their kites are hardly ordinary. Often adorned by the red, black, green and white of the Palestinian flag, Gazan child...

Znet Article Baroud: The Israeli Conundrum: How to Deal with Iran

Znet Article, August, 01 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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Israeli officials face a conundrum that may take more than military muscle-flexing to resolve: how to deal with Iran? The solution to this dilemma will require no less than sheer political genius.

Znet Article Baroud: Forget the Headlines: Iraqi Freedom Deferred

Znet Article, July, 08 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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As US combat troops redeployed to the outskirts of Iraqi cities on June 30, well-staged celebrations commenced. The pro-US Iraqi government declared "independence day" as police vehicles roamed the streets of war-weary Iraq in an unpersuasive show...

Znet Article Baroud: Hamas Political Impasse: Between Principal and Necessity

Znet Article, July, 02 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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Much can be said to explain, or even justify Hamas recent political concessions, where its top leaders in Gaza and Damascus agreed in principle with a political settlement on the basis of the two-state solution.

Znet Article Baroud: Beyond Politics: People for Sale in Hungry World

Znet Article, June, 26 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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One might be tempted to dismiss the recent findings of the US State Department on human trafficking as largely political. But do not be too hasty.

Znet Article Baroud: Ahmadinejad Re-elected: Israel and Obama’s Iran Puzzle

Znet Article, June, 19 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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The election victory of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is likely to complicate US President Barack Obama’s new approach to his country’s conflict with Iran. The reason behind the foreseen obstacle is neither the US nor Iran’s refusal ...

Znet Article Baroud: A Boy and an Artificial Leg: A Gaza Story

Znet Article, June, 12 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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Two weeks ago, my family, after months of anticipation, were scheduled to be the host family for a very special and unusual exchange program for kids from Gaza to visit the US. Our host child, Sobhi was schedule to arrive on May 30th.

Znet Article Baroud: Can Obama Work His Magic on Arabs?

Znet Article, June, 06 2009 Ramzy Baroud
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Among many major misconceptions pertaining to Arabs and Muslims is the common belief that they are a weak-willed, irrelevant collective, easily influenced and effortlessly manipulated. This mistaken assumption underscores the very ailment that has...

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