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Dear World: This is What Palestinian Unity Looks Like

Even those of us who have long emphasized the importance of the Palestinian people’s voice, experience, and collective action in Palestinian history...

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Ramzy Baroud

Gaza’s New Model For Palestinian Unity – OpEd

Gaza’s New Model For Palestinian Unity – OpEd

Even those of us who have long emphasized the importance of the Palestinian people’s voice, experience and collective action in

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Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

Gaza’s Unbreakable Resistance: A Historical Perspective on the War and Its Aftermath

Israel failed in Gaza because the population of Gaza proved unbreakable. Such notions are often neglected in mainstream political discussions, which...

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Ramzy Baroud

Gaza Ceasefire at Last: How Israel’s ‘First Defeat’ Will Shape the Country’s Future

The headline in the Times of Israel says it all: “For the First Time, Israel Just Lost a War.” Regardless of the reasoning behind this statement,...

23.01.2025 10

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Ramzy Baroud

As the World Helps Gaza Rebuild, It Must Respect the Dignity of Its People

As the World Helps Gaza Rebuild, It Must Respect the Dignity of Its People
22.01.2025 1

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

The Fight for Dignity: Reshaping Gaza’s Post-War Narrative

Following every Israeli war on Gaza, numerous narratives emerge. Some claim victory for one side and defeat for the other, while others—knowingly or...

21.01.2025 10

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Ramzy Baroud

How The Gaza War Will Shape Israel’s Future – OpEd

A headline on The Times of Israel’s blog section said it all: “For the first time, Israel just lost a

21.01.2025 5

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

The Gaza Genocide: The Fall of Israel’s Immunity

A dramatic escape was cited by Israeli media as the reason that Yuval Vagdani, a soldier in the Israeli army, managed to escape justice in Brazil....

16.01.2025 10

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Ramzy Baroud

The World Stayed Silent as Israel Destroyed Gaza 'for Generations to Come'

The World Stayed Silent as Israel Destroyed Gaza 'for Generations to Come'
15.01.2025 10

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

The Price Of Impunity In Gaza – OpEd

The Price Of Impunity In Gaza – OpEd

A dramatic escape was cited by Israeli media as the way that Yuval Vagdani, a soldier in the Israeli army, managed to

14.01.2025 4

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

The War Criminal ‘Victim’: Netanyahu’s Inevitable Fate

Suddenly, Yoav Gallant, Israel’s notorious Minister of Defense, disappeared into obscurity. The man who served in his country’s military for about...

10.01.2025 10

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Ramzy Baroud

'We Lost Everything, But We Are Still Standing': Letters from Gaza

None of those who communicated with me throughout the war have ever questioned their faith, and have often, if not always, begun their messages by...

07.01.2025 20

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

Letters from Gaza – ‘Alhamdulillah. We Are Not Okay’

Over the past 14 months, I have received hundreds of messages from family members throughout the Gaza Strip. The nature of the messages often...

06.01.2025 40

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Ramzy Baroud

Fighting Israel’s War in Jenin: Can the Palestinian Authority Be Saved?

The latest news from the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) so-called “Protecting the Homeland” operation in the Jenin refugee camp paints a grim...

03.01.2025 3

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Ramzy Baroud

A Palestinian's Year in Review: Genocide in Gaza

While Israel's desperate attempt to control the global narrative on the Gaza genocide largely failed, the ethnic cleansing continues.

30.12.2024 4

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

A Palestinian Year in Review: Genocide, Resistance and Unanswered Questions  

The story of the Israeli war on Gaza can be epitomized in the story of the Israeli war on Beit Lahia, a small Palestinian town in the northern part...

30.12.2024 10

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Ramzy Baroud

The West Bank’s Men of the CIA – Why is the PA Killing Palestinians in Jenin? 

Following a ten-day siege, the Palestinian Authority began, on December 14, a violent raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. The...

25.12.2024 4

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Ramzy Baroud

Gaza: A Story Of Genocide And Steadfastness – OpEd

The Israeli war on Gaza is epitomized by the story of Beit Lahia, a small Palestinian town in the northern part of the Strip. When Israel launched...

24.12.2024 3

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

Israel to Annex the West Bank – Why Now? And What are the Likely Scenarios?

Israel is getting ready to annex the occupied Palestinian West Bank. The annexation will be a major step backward on the road to Palestinian...

23.12.2024 4

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Ramzy Baroud

Israel Sees Trump's Victory as a 'Great Opportunity' to Annex the West Bank

While such annexation will not change the legal status of the West Bank, it will have dire consequences for the millions of Palestinians living...

20.12.2024 2

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

Israel’s ‘Great Opportunity’ To Annex The West Bank – OpEd

Israel is getting ready to annex the West Bank. The annexation will be a major step backward on the road to Palestinian freedom and will likely...

17.12.2024 4

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

Unity Above Else: The Only Road to the Liberation of Palestine

The world’s first live-streamed genocide in the Gaza Strip, and the growing spontaneous compassion, thus solidarity, with the Palestinian victims,...

16.12.2024 30

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Ramzy Baroud

The Tectonic Shift: The Gaza Genocide and the Limits of Israeli Hasbara

The ongoing war and genocide in Gaza is unprecedented. Nothing that Israel and its supporters can say or do will avoid the historical...

06.12.2024 4

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Ramzy Baroud

The World Knows Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza

And no amount of Israeli or U.S. government propaganda will change that.

05.12.2024 10

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

Israel and the West’s War on Itself

The arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav...

03.12.2024 4

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Ramzy Baroud

The True Meaning of ICC Arrest Warrants for US-Backed Israeli Leaders

One remains hopeful that the shifts of global powers will eventually save international law from the hypocrisy and opportunism of the west. But...

02.12.2024 4

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

The Roadmap To A Just Peace In Palestine – OpEd

A major problem in American thinking relating to the Middle East is the utter rejection of the notion that Palestinian rights are fundamental, if...

26.11.2024 4

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

A Nation in Denial: Why Israel’s Defeat is Imminent 

The paradoxical phrase, ‘running away forward’ is one of the most apt descriptions that illustrates the state of Israeli affairs now. It seems that...

22.11.2024 6

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Ramzy Baroud

The Gaza Genocide Reveals That the UN Needs Serious Reform

Though the U.N. was formed following the atrocities of WWII, now it stands largely useless in its inability to stop similar atrocities in...

19.11.2024 1

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

Democrats Discover Backing Genocide Is Not a Winning Issue

However, because we know better than to expect anything better from Trump and the GOP, this is the perfect opportunity to translate votes into...

15.11.2024 10

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

Voting Against Genocide – How Gaza Defeated the Democratic Establishment  

Arab and Muslim American voters did not remove Democrats from office, nor did they cost Kamala Harris the Oval Office. They merely sent a strong...

15.11.2024 10

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Ramzy Baroud

By Criminalizing UNRWA, Israel Is Delegitimizing the United Nations

Israel's banning of UNRWA should represent an opportunity for those concerned about the standing of the U.N. to remind Israel that U.N. members who...

10.11.2024 2

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

The Long History of Palestine – Why Palestinians are Winning the Legitimacy War 

Oddly, it was Israeli historian Benny Morris who got it right, when he offered a candid prediction of the future of his country and its war with...

08.11.2024 2

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Ramzy Baroud

Criminalizing UNRWA: How Israel is Delegitimizing the United Nations 

On October 28, the Israeli Knesset passed a second reading of two bills that effectively ban the United Nations agency for Palestinian Refugees...

07.11.2024 3

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Ramzy Baroud

Israel’s Campaign Against UNRWA Precedes Oct. 7 – OpEd

The Israeli Knesset last week adopted two bills that will effectively ban the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, from carrying out any...

05.11.2024 1

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

Israel’s Extremists Have a Plan for the Day after the Genocide 

Under the slogan ‘Gaza is Ours, Forever’, a large number of Israeli extremists and right-wing politicians met in the settlement of Be’eri, near the...

01.11.2024 10

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Ramzy Baroud

Israel’s ‘Strategy’ Of Ethnic Cleansing In Gaza – OpEd

Under the slogan “Gaza is Ours, Forever,” a large number of Israeli extremists and right-wing politicians met in the settlement of Be’eri, near the...

29.10.2024 1

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

The Truth Behind Israel's War on 7 Fronts

There is a difference between a country fighting a defensive war on multiple fronts and another fighting for colonial expansion, for regional...

26.10.2024 4

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

Israel’s Biblical Wars of ‘Self Defense’: The Myth of the ‘Seven War Fronts’ 

Israeli officials keep repeating that Israel is fighting on multiple fronts. The truth is that Israel chooses to fight on multiple fronts. The two...

25.10.2024 2

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Ramzy Baroud

‘Text Me You Haven’t Died’ – My Sister was the 166th Doctor to Be Murdered in Gaza

"Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children, who will fill your homes with noise and laughter." ...

18.10.2024 10

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Ramzy Baroud

No More Texts From My Sister, A Doctor in Gaza Murdered by Israel

I kept calling her, over and over again, hoping that the line would crackle a bit, followed by a brief silence, and then her kind, motherly voice...

16.10.2024 10

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

On The Murder Of My Sister And Israel’s War On Hope – OpEd

“Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children who will fill your homes with noise and laughter.”...

15.10.2024 2

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

5 Things a Year of Israeli Genocide in Gaza Has Taught Us About Palestine and the World

Palestinians, despite the military occupation, the siege, and the numerous failures of their leadership, remain political actors, with powerful...

13.10.2024 4

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

A Year of Genocide

No one had expected that one year would be enough to recenter the Palestinian cause as the world’s most pressing issue, and that millions of people...

11.10.2024 20

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Ramzy Baroud

One Year of Genocide and the Strength of Palestinians

Despite the unbelievable pain and loss, there is now a powerful energy that is unifying Palestinians around their cause, and the Arabs and the...

10.10.2024 10

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

How Western Media Lets Israel Get Away With Murder in Lebanon and Gaza

We now know exactly what it looks like when dishonest reporting succeeds in justifying genocide.

03.10.2024 10

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

Words Kill – Why Israel Gets Away with Murder in Gaza and Lebanon

The official Israeli army version of why it has targeted civilian areas during the intense and deadly bombardment of September 20 in south Lebanon...

03.10.2024 2

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Ramzy Baroud

Israel Now Using The Gaza Genocide Playbook In Lebanon – OpEd

The official Israeli army version of why it has targeted civilian areas during its intense and deadly bombardments in southern Lebanon is that the...

02.10.2024 3

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

War of Legitimacy – How the ICJ, UNGA Challenged Decades of Israeli, US Arrogance 

Two historical events regarding the Israeli occupation of Palestine have taken place on July 19 and September 18. The first was a most comprehensive...

01.10.2024 4

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Ramzy Baroud

Israel's True Objectives in Gaza

These cruel objectives are delusional and will ultimately fail, but they are plain and clear for all the world to see.

20.09.2024 10

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud