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Ramzy Baroud

Articles

A New Afghanistan Nightmare

  • February 20, 2009, 10:02 pm
  • http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=119368&d=19&m=2&y=2009

By RAMZY BAROUD When US envoy to Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke met with Afghanistan’s ‘democratically’ installed President Hamid Karzai in Kabul […]

PLO: Why an Alternative and Why the Panic?

  • February 12, 2009, 3:02 pm
  • http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=14823

By RAMZY BAROUD When Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal declared before a cheering crowd in Doha, Qatar, on January 28, the […]

Change the Lobby

  • February 5, 2009, 3:03 pm
  • http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=118860&d=4&m=2&y=2009

By RAMZY BAROUD One cannot emphasize enough the stranglehold Israel’s lobbying infrastructure has on US foreign policy. The events of […]

For Palestinians, Obama’s Message is Crystal Clear

  • January 29, 2009, 12:32 am
  • http://www.alarabiya.net/views/2009/01/28/65167.html

By RAMZY BAROUD When former President George W. Bush departed for his final trip home, that very moment represented an […]

Breaking Gaza’s Will: Israel’s Enduring Fantasy

  • January 22, 2009, 3:03 pm
  • http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/features/shattered_bones_homes_and_lives

By RAMZY BAROUD My three-year-old son Sammy walked into my room uninvited as I sorted through another batch of fresh […]

Gaza: A New Middle East Indeed

  • January 15, 2009, 5:41 pm
  • http://www.metimes.com/Opinion/2009/01/12/gaza_a_new_middle_east_indeed/2243/

By RAMZY BAROUD As Israel unleashed its military fury against Lebanon for several weeks in July-August 2006, it had one […]

Is Israel Winning the ‘Media War’ over Gaza?

  • January 9, 2009, 2:57 pm
  • http://www.metimes.com/Opinion/2009/01/05/is_israel_winning_the_media_war_over_gaza/8595/

By RAMZY BAROUD "We are all Hamas," screamed a scrawny Mauritanian, repeatedly, as he determinedly drew his face closer to […]

Gaza and the World: Will Things Ever Change?

  • December 29, 2008, 9:22 pm
  • http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=14555

By RAMZY BAROUD In times of crisis, most Arabs tune in to Aljazeera television. Sometimes it’s comforting for the truth […]

Unscripted: Green Zone Theater and the Shoe Drama

  • December 25, 2008, 10:40 pm
  • http://www.metimes.com/Opinion/2008/12/22/unscripted_green_zone_theater_and_the_shoe_drama/9016/

By RAMZY BAROUD The plot, so unexpectedly, thickened in Iraq on a Sunday like no other. The two main actors […]

Conquerors came and went, and Gaza stood where it still stands today. Articles

Gaza: The Untold Story

  • December 18, 2008, 8:30 pm
  • http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?col=§ion=opinion&xfile=data/opinion/2008/December/opinion_December71.xml

By RAMZY BAROUD It’s incomprehensible that a region such as the Gaza Strip, so rich with history, so saturated with […]

Cluster Bomb Treaty and the World’s Unfinished Business

  • December 12, 2008, 11:31 pm
  • http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=117101&d=10&m=12&y=2008

By RAMZY BAROUD The United States, Russia and China are sending a terrible message to the rest of the world […]

Iraq’s ‘Remarkable’ Security Charade

  • December 4, 2008, 4:36 pm
  • http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/opinion/2008/December/opinion_December12.xml§ion=opinion&col=

By RAMZY BAROUD World media rashly celebrated the ‘historic’ security pact that allows for US troops to stay in Iraq […]

Gazans are still flipping through the channels and cranking the radio dials, left and right, as these calls continue to fall on deaf ears. Articles

Gaza: Salvation in a News Broadcast

  • November 27, 2008, 3:46 pm
  • http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/924/op12.htm

By RAMZY BAROUD When Gaza’s electricity is in working order, most Palestinians in the impoverished and overcrowded Strip huddle around […]

The issue of women's rights is a pressing one, not just because of the horrifying statistics. (Zoriah- zoriah.net) Articles

The Rights of Women as Casualties of War

  • November 25, 2008, 2:54 pm
  • http://www.axcessnews.com/index.php/articles/show/id/17121

By RAMZY BAROUD Qurban-Bibi and Nahil Abu-Rada are two women, one Afghan and the other Palestinian, who made news with […]

Unsettling Signs: Buzzwords, Politics and US Elections

  • November 14, 2008, 12:41 pm
  • http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=14386

By RAMZY BAROUD There are a few buzzwords that every American politician, aiming for high office must utilize, even if […]

Bush’s Last Bullet: Why the US Attacked Syria

  • November 7, 2008, 5:00 pm
  • http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/opinion/2008/November/opinion_November20.xml§ion=opinion&col=

By RAMZY BAROUD The sovereignty of an independent, stable country that has carried out many constructive moves in recent months […]

Playgrounds for Palestine: One Marathon at a Time

  • November 5, 2008, 11:26 pm
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By RAMZY BAROUD My right knee is wrapped. My left ankle is iced. I lost the nail on my right […]

A Third Palestinian Intifada in the Making

  • October 31, 2008, 1:22 pm
  • http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JJ29Ak01.html

By RAMZY BAROUD At a recent conference I was repeatedly asked about the prospects for a third Palestinian uprising, or […]

World Food Day: Global Crises’ Double Standards

  • October 23, 2008, 9:30 pm
  • http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/919/op12.htm

By RAMZY BAROUD The 25th annual World Food Day, marked on 16 October, was an occasion whose arrival and passing […]

Palin and Biden: Yet more clichés and more mantras. Articles

The Palin- Biden Debate: High Time to Move Beyond Clichés

  • October 16, 2008, 10:18 pm
  • http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2008/3230

By RAMZY BAROUD One should rightly assume that the weight of the US financial crisis, the full impact of which […]