Regardless of the November results, much of the outcome is already predetermined: a wider social conflict in the US is inevitable. The breaking point is fast approaching.
Palestinian author and Palestine Chronicle editor Ramzy Baroud launched his new book Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir Across Three Generations of Colonial Invasion, Occupation, and War in Palestine on Wednesday evening at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, Washington.
Israel has already created that void. In the hands of a genocidal settler-colonial society, the state of exception is a relentless nightmare that will not stop at the borders of Palestine.
February review in Publishers Weekly has spotlighted Before the Flood by Palestinian journalist and historian Ramzy Baroud, describing the book as an “indelible depiction of the generational trauma that defines the Palestinian struggle.”
Before mistaking Carney for a Thomas Sankara or a Patrice Lumumba, one must recall his administration’s record on the slaughter in Gaza. The irony is inescapable: Carney rails against a world where “might makes right” when it involves American tariffs or threats to Greenland, yet he presides over a policy that facilitates exactly that in the Middle East.
Dr. Ramzy Baroud, a Palestinian journalist, internationally syndicated columnist, and editor of The Palestine Chronicle, has officially launched a new digital platform bringing together decades of his work on Palestine, popular struggle, and people-centered history.
The website serves as a centralized, searchable archive of Baroud’s writings, media appearances, and public scholarship, rooted in the concept of ‘history from below’, or people’s history, and focused on narratives systematically excluded from mainstream geopolitical discourse.
Designed for students, researchers, journalists, and activists, the platform bridges academic history with lived experience and collective memory.
Visitors can access an extensive collection of Baroud’s articles published in leading international outlets, alongside detailed information on his published books, including The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story and My Father Was a Freedom Fighter. The site also highlights his upcoming books, Before the Flood and Gaza Rising, co-written with Israeli historian Ilan Pappé.
In addition, the platform features a curated selection of video interviews, podcasts, lectures, and a dedicated portal for speaking engagements and media inquiries, facilitating direct engagement with Baroud’s ongoing work.
To learn more, please visit the new platform and make sure that you follow Baroud on his social media channels.
The Board of Peace is not about reconstruction or justice, but about exploiting Gaza’s suffering to impose a new US-led world order, first in the Middle East and eventually beyond.
Palestinian author, journalist, and historian Ramzy Baroud will embark on a worldwide tour, starting on February 11, presenting his latest book—a deeply personal and historically grounded account of Palestine told through the story of his family in Gaza and a village in historic Palestine.
Third Place Books in Seattle, WA, will host the official book launch of Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir Across Three Generations of Colonial Invasion, Occupation, and War in Palestine on Tuesday, February 11, at 7:00 PM, featuring Palestinian American author, journalist, and historian Dr. Ramzy Baroud.
Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir is a profound exploration of Palestinian history and resilience through the personal stories of the author’s family—the al-Badrasawis. Beginning with intimate details of village life in Beit Daras prior to the Nakba, Ramzy Baroud vividly portrays the rich cultural heritage, deeply rooted traditions, and daily struggles faced by ordinary people whose lives were radically disrupted by the violent upheavals and ongoing conflicts driven by British colonialism and Zionist aggression.
Baroud weaves together past and present, illuminating how historical forces shaped the collective consciousness and steadfast resilience of the Palestinian people. His storytelling reveals not only the harsh realities of occupation, displacement, and loss but also the extraordinary courage, faith, and solidarity that underpin a powerful and enduring spirit of resistance, encapsulated in what the author refers to as the Palestinian “longue durée.” Ultimately, Baroud aims to humanize and reclaim Palestinian narratives from distorted portrayals, highlighting their perseverance and the universal quest for justice and liberation.
Drawing on the voices of Gaza’s own intellectuals, journalists, doctors, teachers, artists, and community leaders, Gaza Rising: Voices from the Rubble highlights the resilience of a people determined to endure despite overwhelming devastation.
Since October 7, 2023, Gaza has faced its most catastrophic assault yet, with the destruction extending far beyond homes to hospitals, schools, civil institutions, and cultural life itself. By late 2024, most of the Strip had been rendered uninhabitable, leaving nearly the entire population displaced. Yet even amid the systematic targeting of every sector of society, Gaza’s people continue to assert their existence, raising a profound question: can a people so deeply rooted ever truly be erased?
Palestinians are killed twice: first through genocide, and then through erasure — through silence, distraction, and the gradual withdrawal of attention from their ongoing collective suffering.
A shock and awe. The phrase is apt in describing what Israel has done in the occupied West Bank almost immediately following the events of October 7, 2023, and the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
The war on Gaza is not merely a military campaign. It is the linchpin holding together Netanyahu’s political survival, ideological project, and regional ambitions—one he appears determined to keep firmly in place.
Tragically, the conditions that fueTragically, the conditions that fueled the first wave of genocide in Gaza are being meticulously reconstructed.led the first wave of genocide in Gaza are being meticulously reconstructed.
Only real accountability — through political, legal, and economic pressure — can halt Israel’s advance toward continuing its genocidal campaign.
If Israel’s genocide in Gaza is entirely motivated by the desire to crush the armed groups, then why the continued crushing of the West Bank?
Only by rigorously exposing and forcefully rejecting this hypocrisy can we finally liberate ourselves from the historic delusion that the solution to our problem is a Western one.
The failure of UNSC Resolution 2803 confirms one enduring truth: the Israeli war on Gaza has not stopped. It has simply changed form.
Even those not fully familiar with the deep, painful history of Gaza must realize that sustaining the Yellow Line of Gaza is nothing more than a dangerous, bloody illusion.