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Baroud: Netanyahu's New Quest: The Game is On
Znet Article, May, 30 2009
Ramzy Baroud
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"We've accomplished quite a few things, and I think the most important one is to cement the principle that the path to peace is through negotiations and not through violence."
Baroud: Gaza Disowned: The Pope, Israel and "Reconciliation'
Znet Article, May, 22 2009
Ramzy Baroud
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“Gaza is not on the Pope's itinerary, nor will it be. There will be no change in these plans. But I'll say it very clearly, the Pope is absolutely not going to Gaza.â€
Baroud: The Drones Are Coming: New War on Civilians
Znet Article, May, 14 2009
Ramzy Baroud
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US President Barack Obama took the podium in a White House press conference and stood with an all-embellished confidence that often accompanies new presidents. He was flanked by two leaders whose apparent grandeur barely reflected their embattled ...
Baroud: War without Context: Fatah, Hamas and Flawed Language
Znet Article, May, 08 2009
Ramzy Baroud
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From a distance, the struggle between Hamas and Fatah appears commonplace, a typical third world country’s political scuffle over interpretation of democracy that went out of control, or simply a ‘power struggle’ between two political rivals...
Baroud: Clinton’s Unpromising Start
Znet Article, May, 01 2009
Ramzy Baroud
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Clinton told US legislators 23 April that the key to peace between Israel and the Palestinians was Tehran; that without getting tough on Iran, Israel could not be expected to pursue peace with the Palestinians...
Baroud: Middle East 'Spies': A New Front for Gaza's Conflict
Znet Article, April, 24 2009
Ramzy Baroud
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The reverberations of the Israeli war on Gaza are still felt throughout the Middle East. One could in fact speak of a silent war being waged in the region.
Baroud: Israel Investigated, But Will It Repent?
Znet Article, April, 10 2009
Ramzy Baroud
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Any variation of the words "Palestine" and "massacre" are sure to yield millions of results on major search engines on the World Wide Web. These results are largely in reference to hundreds of different dates and events in which numerous Palestini...
Baroud: Netanyahu and the ‘Future of the Peace Process’
Znet Article, March, 28 2009
Ramzy Baroud
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It seems that the Palestinian-Israeli ‘peace process’ is in serious jeopardy. At least, this is the immediate impression one gleans from media reports from Israel. Unlike, Israel’s Kadima and Labor party ‘moderates’, Prime Minister-desig...
Baroud: Intifada: Third Chapter
Znet Article, March, 20 2009
Ramzy Baroud
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Though the dust has settled in Gaza, the rubble from the untold number of demolished buildings, homes and mosques is far from being cleared away. Graves continue to receive victims, young and old alike, from Israel's most recent offensive. And in ...
Baroud: Durban II: Politicizing Racism
Znet Article, March, 13 2009
Ramzy Baroud
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Many countries are set to participate in the Conference against Racism, scheduled to be held in Geneva, April 20-25. But the highly touted international meet is already marred with disagreement after Israel, the United States and other countries d...
Baroud: Was Hamas the Work of the Israeli Mossad?
Znet Article, March, 06 2009
Ramzy Baroud
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While various Western governments are struggling to define a possible relationship with the Palestinian movement Hamas, some progressive and leftist circles are also uneasy regarding their own perception of the Islamic movement.
Baroud: Engaging Hamas: Will History Repeat Itself?
Znet Article, February, 28 2009
Ramzy Baroud
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The political outcomes of the Gaza war are yet to be entirely decided with any degree of certainty. However, the obvious political repositioning which was reported as soon as Israel declared its unilateral ceasefire promised that Israel’s deadly...
Baroud: A New Afghanistan Nightmare
Znet Article, February, 21 2009
Ramzy Baroud
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When US envoy to Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke met with Afghanistan’s ‘democratically’ installed President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on February 14, he may have just learned of the historic significance of the following day. February 15 commemo...
Baroud: The PLO: Why an Alternative and Why the Panic?
Znet Article, February, 12 2009
Ramzy Baroud
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When Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal declared before a cheering crowd in Doha, Qatar, on January 28, the need for a new leadership, his words generated panic amongst leaders of the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority as well as traditional Palestini...
Baroud: Change the Lobby
Znet Article, February, 06 2009
Ramzy Baroud
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One cannot emphasize enough the stranglehold Israel’s lobbying infrastructure has on US foreign policy. The events of recent weeks undoubtedly attest to this. “The special relationship†that has been historically fostered between the US and ...
Baroud: For Palestinians, Obama’s Message is Crystal Clear
Znet Article, January, 29 2009
Ramzy Baroud
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When former President George W. Bush departed for his final trip home, that very moment represented an end of a long and unbearable nightmare, one that Bush epitomized until his last day in office.
Baroud: Breaking Gaza’s Will: Israel’s Enduring Fantasy
Znet Article, January, 23 2009
Ramzy Baroud
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All the photos I received spoke of the reality that is Gaza today - homes, schools and civilian infrastructure bombed beyond description. All the faces were either of dead or dying people.
Baroud: Gaza: A New Middle East Indeed
Znet Article, January, 16 2009
Ramzy Baroud
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As Israel unleashed its military fury against Lebanon for several weeks in July-August 2006, it had one major objective: to permanently ‘extract’ Hezbollah from the South as a fighting force, and to undermine it as a rising political movement,...
Baroud: Is Israel Winning the 'Media War' over Gaza?
Znet Article, January, 10 2009
Ramzy Baroud
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"We are all Hamas," screamed a scrawny Mauritanian, repeatedly, as he determinedly drew his face closer to a TV camera. Behind him, thousands more tunefully chanted similar words, chants that were heard in different Arabic dialects, in fact in man...
Baroud: Gaza and the World: Will Things Ever Change?
Znet Article, January, 02 2009
Ramzy Baroud
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In times of crisis, most Arabs tune in to Aljazeera television. Sometimes it’s comforting for the truth to be stated the way it is, with all of its gory and unsettling details, without blemishes and without censorship. When Israel carried out ma...
Baroud: Unscripted: Green Zone Theater and the Shoe Drama
Znet Article, December, 26 2008
Ramzy Baroud
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The plot, so unexpectedly, thickened in Iraq on a Sunday like no other. The two main actors - US President George W. Bush, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki - took to the stage to perform another well-rehearsed press conference. The scripts ...
Baroud: Gaza: The Untold Story
Znet Article, December, 19 2008
Ramzy Baroud
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It’s incomprehensible that a region such as the Gaza Strip, so rich with history, so saturated with defiance, can be reduced to a few blurbs, sound bites and reductionist assumptions, convenient but deceptive, vacant of any relevant meaning, or ...
Baroud: Cluster Bomb Treaty and the World’s Unfinished Business
Znet Article, December, 13 2008
Ramzy Baroud
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The United States, Russia and China are sending a terrible message to the rest of the world by refusing to take part in the historic signing of a treaty that bans the production and use of cluster bombs. In a world that is plagued by war, military...
Baroud: Iraq's US Security Charade
Znet Article, December, 05 2008
Ramzy Baroud
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World media rashly celebrated the "historic" security pact that allows for US troops to stay in Iraq for three more years after the Iraqi parliament ratified the agreement on Thursday, 27 November. The approval came one week after the Iraqi cabine...
Baroud: Gaza: Salvation in a News Broadcast
Znet Article, November, 28 2008
Ramzy Baroud
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When Gaza's electricity is in working order, most Palestinians in the impoverished and overcrowded Strip huddle around their television screens. It's neither "American Idol" nor "Dancing with the Stars" that brings them together. It's the news.
Baroud: The Rights of Women as Casualties of War
Znet Article, November, 21 2008
Ramzy Baroud
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Qurban-Bibi and Nahil Abu-Rada are two women, one Afghan and the other Palestinian, who made news with similar tragedies. But their losses also helped further delineate the plight of millions of women in war zones and poor countries.
Baroud: Bush’s Last Bullet: Why the US Attacked Syria
Znet Article, November, 08 2008
Ramzy Baroud
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The sovereignty of an independent, stable country that has carried out many constructive moves in recent months and weeks, which could have surely contributed to the stabilization of the Middle East, has been violated, its borders breached and its...
Baroud: Playgrounds for Palestine: One Marathon at a Time
Znet Article, November, 06 2008
Ramzy Baroud
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My right knee is wrapped. My left ankle is iced. I lost the nail on my right big toe, and have about 20 blisters and a similar number of bruises on both of my feet.
Baroud: A Third Palestinian Intifada in the Making
Znet Article, October, 31 2008
Ramzy Baroud
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At a recent conference I was repeatedly asked about the prospects for a third Palestinian uprising, or Intifada. The question, although seemingly uncomplicated, is both loaded and important, and cannot be answered in a mere two minutes or less.
Baroud: World Food Day: Global Crises' Double Standards
Znet Article, October, 24 2008
Ramzy Baroud
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The 25th annual World Food Day, marked on 16 October, was an occasion whose arrival and passing received little media attention or governmental fanfare. Evidently, much of the world media and governments are consumed with an economic crisis of epi...
