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The divided Palestinian leadership would have to face up to the inescapable reality .. (Photo: WAFA) Articles

After Obama’s Israel Visit: What’s Left for Palestinians?

By Ramzy Baroud ‘Obama didn’t accomplish much of substance,’ is how Dana Milbank characterized US President Barack Obama’s 3-day visit […]

Obama’s Peace Antics in Israel – Four More Years of This?

By Ramzy Baroud At the precise moment US President Barack Obama’s Air Force One touched down at Ben Gurion Airport […]

Rachel Corrie, right, and other members of the International Solidarity Movement. Rafah. March 14, 2003. (Photo: Via MIFTAH) Articles

Of Hope and Pain: Rachel Corrie’s Rafah Legacy

By Ramzy Baroud ‘Hi Papa .. Don’t worry about me too much, right now I am most concerned that we […]

EU and other countries should not finance the occupation. (Photo: Tamar Fleishman) Articles

Funding and Denouncing Israeli Occupation: Hypocritical EU Must Make a Stand

By Ramzy Baroud More bad news emerged from Israel in recent weeks. Indeed, good news is seldom associated with Israel […]

They are weary of crossing unforgiving seas. (Photo: Via TheSateless.com) Articles

Ignoring Genocide: Rohingya People Deserve to Live

By Ramzy Baroud One fails to understand the unperturbed attitude with which regional and international leaders and organizations are treating […]

Emad Burnat, empowered by the story of his village managed to 'get the story out'. Articles

Changing Nature of Palestine’s Struggle Caught on Five Cameras

By Ramzy Baroud – The National Those who watched Emad Burnat’s 5 Broken Cameras were perhaps reminded of Palestinian cartoonist […]

Israeli forces killed nine Turkish activists, including a US citizen. Articles

Turkey Cornered into Israeli Embrace

By Ramzy Baroud An Israeli-Turkish rapprochement is unmistakably underway, but unlike the heyday of their political alignment in the 1990s, […]

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Photographing Tragedy: What the Victims Actually Want

By Ramzy Baroud When one looks at scenes of feeling refugees from Syria, browse through images of their squalid refugee […]

The proud nation of impressive human potential and remarkable economic prospects has been torn to shreds. (Photo: Zoriah - www.zoriah.net) Articles

Iraq at the Brink: A Decade after the Invasion

By Ramzy Baroud Soon after the joint US-British bombing campaign ‘Operation Desert Fox’ devastated parts of Iraq in Dec 1998, I […]

What Palestinians Can Expect from Obama

By Ramzy Baroud – Special to Gulf News Judging by the final statement of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) […]

John Kerry, new US secretary of state. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Articles

New Actors in Palestinian Peace Charade

By Ramzy Baroud Despite much saber-rattling by Israel and the US administration and hyped-up expectations by the Palestinian leadership, the […]

Diabaly residents return home. (Photo: IRIN) Articles

No Security Firms for African Refugees: Opportunities and War in Mali

By Ramzy Baroud The British security firm G4S is set to rake in massive profits thanks to crises in Mali, […]

Arab Springboard for Intervention? Two Years of Revolution and War

By Ramzy Baroud Reform movements in the Arab world are indicative of the rise of new players in a political […]

The 'Arab Spring' has become an Arab springboard for regional meddling and foreign intervention. Articles

Exploited and Misused: The Impossible Discourse of the ‘Arab Spring’

By Ramzy Baroud A reductionist discourse is one that selectively tailors its reading of subject matters in such a way […]

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Intifada

By Ramzy Baroud If Palestinian leaders only knew how extraneous their endless rounds of “unity” talks have become, they might […]

The Forgotten Palestinians: Factionalism and Its Discontents

By Ramzy Baroud In and around the southern mountains of Hebron (Al Khalil) there are thousands of people who dwell […]

History of the People: Articulating ‘Palestine’ Despite Israeli Hasbara

By Ramzy Baroud What does a Palestinian farmer who is living in a village tucked in between the secluded West […]

‘The Iranians Are Coming’: The Imagined, ‘Sinister’ Iranian Threat in Latin America

By Ramzy Baroud Reading the text of a bill that was recently signed into law by US President Barack Obama […]

The Right of Return is an extremely urgent political priority. (Photo: Phil Sands/IRIN/file) Articles

Nakba Revisited: Tragedy of Syria’s Palestinians and Centrality of Right of Return

By Ramzy Baroud It must have been 2007, although I cannot remember the exact date. I do recall getting lost in […]

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The War in Mali: Stability at Stake in West Africa

By Ramzy Baroud ‘Many of us may not be able to point to Mali on a map,’ began National Public […]