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Why The Global South Is Rising For Gaza – OpEd

The distance between Gaza and Namibia is measured in the thousands of kilometers. But their historical experiences mean they feel much closer. This is...

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Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

Israel Kills Gaza Aid Workers for a Reason: Ethnic Cleansing

The latest killing of the international World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza was done to serve the same goal: ensuring that no aid distribution...

12.04.2024 8

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

Why Israel Killed The World Central Kitchen Workers In Gaza – OpEd

Israel has described its clearly deliberate killing of seven humanitarian aid workers in Gaza on April 1 as a “grave mistake” and a “tragic...

09.04.2024 40

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

Israel’s Lose-Lose Situation Shows Its Crisis Is Just Beginning – OpEd

Historically, wars unite Israelis. Not anymore. Not that Israelis disagree with Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest war; they simply do not believe that the...

03.04.2024 9

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

Who Is Arming Israel's Genocide in Gaza?

Though many of Israel's traditional allies in the West are openly disowning its behavior, weapons from various Western and non-Western countries...

29.03.2024 10

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

How the Cognitive Dissonance of US Foreign Policy Fuels Genocide in Gaza

Biden must not be allowed to play a deadly balancing act in which he privately demands for the war to stop while openly funding the Israeli war...

22.03.2024 3

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

If Gaza Has Not Given Up, Why Should We? – OpEd

Enraged Arabs and Muslims who feel helpless in the face of the Israeli genocide in Gaza often say that “all we can do for Gaza is offer our...

12.03.2024 5

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

To Save Israel, the US is Destroying the International System It Once Constructed

The coming years shall prove that the crisis in international legitimacy, resulting from the abuse of power, will hardly be rectified with superficial...

05.03.2024 4

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

How Gaza War Has Revitalized Global Solidarity With The Palestinians – OpEd

Jared Kushner, a former US official whose relationship to power is that he married the wealthy daughter of a man who was later to become the US...

05.03.2024 5

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

The World Must Act to Prevent the Invasion of Rafah

If the international community does not finally develop the will to stop Israel, this horrific crime will, by far, prove worse than all the crimes...

01.03.2024 20

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

Time To Translate Words Into Actions On Gaza – OpEd

Left to its own devices, Israel would never grant Palestinians their freedom. In the past, some, whether ignorantly or otherwise, claimed that peace...

27.02.2024 3

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

The Problem In Palestine Is Not Political, It Is Ideological – OpEd

The problem is not the absence of a Palestinian state, but Zionism itself. What is the use of a Palestinian state if Zionism, as a racist, exclusivist...

21.02.2024 5

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

The Unrepentant West Embraces Israeli Genocide in Gaza

As a matter of international law, Israel does not have "the right to defend itself" like this.

15.02.2024 7

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

The Psychology Of The Israeli Genocide In Gaza – OpEd

It seemed strange, if not out of context, when Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin said in a TV interview that “Muslims are not afraid of us...

07.02.2024 4

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

Time For EU To Show Some Backbone And Stand Up To Israel – OpEd

The EU largely stayed silent when Israel began pounding the besieged Gaza Strip with the kind of ferocity that could only lead to genocide. In fact,...

30.01.2024 3

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

With World's Eyes on Gaza Genocide, Ben Gvir Unleashes Sinister Plot in West Bank

The war in Gaza is a perfect opportunity for the far-right National Security Minster to achieve what he really wants: a religious war, one which will...

26.01.2024 10

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

Gaza Onslaught Gives Ben-Gvir Chance To Incite Religious War – OpEd

If what is currently happening in the West Bank had taken place before Oct. 7, our attention would have been completely fixated on it. The ongoing...

23.01.2024 4

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

Remembering John Pilger, a Friend to Palestinians and All Oppressed Nations

His death, especially during these difficult times, is a major loss for humanity, but I know that, deep down, John must have known that things would...

21.01.2024 4

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

Deluded Netanyahu’s 100 Days Of Digging – OpEd

Rule No. 1 in the “law of holes” is that, “if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” Law No. 2 is, “once you stop digging, you are...

16.01.2024 3

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

Gaza, Saudi, Iran, Venezuela And More – OpEd

It would have been outlandish to suggest that a small region like Gaza, seemingly bereft of significant natural resources, political will of its own,...

05.01.2024 7

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

Palestinians—and the World—Will Never Forget US Complicity With Israel's Genocide in Gaza

It is as if the world is suffering along with the Gaza children, but without being able to stop or slow down the genocide.

04.01.2024 2

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

Why Israel Systematically Humiliates Palestinians

Throughout its history Israel has purposely humiliated Palestinians as an expression of its disproportionately greater military power over a hapless,...

26.12.2023 4

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

Palestinian Resistance Remains Undefeated – OpEd

The dramatic, earth-shattering events in Palestine starting on Oct. 7 have taken many people by surprise. But not attentive observers. Few expected...

26.12.2023 20

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

How Palestinians Are Countering Israel’s Politics Of Humiliation – OpEd

When Zionist militias, using advanced Western arms, conquered historic Palestine in 1947-48, they expressed their victory through the deliberate...

20.12.2023 3

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

'If I Must Die, Let It Be a Tale': On the Martyrdom of Palestinian Poet Refaat Alareer

The state of Israel has killed our storytellers in Gaza with the hope that the stories will die with them. But they will not.

15.12.2023 4

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

Israel Kills Gaza’s Storytellers But Cannot Kill The Story – OpEd

What is taking place in Gaza is meant for the history books: an epic tale of a small nation under

12.12.2023 3

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

The War in Gaza Has Galvanized the Global Indigenous Solidarity Movement

The common element of “decolonization”—in all its manifestations—has created intersectional links among various struggles around the world.

25.11.2023 5

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

The ‘Gaza Nakba’ Must Be Prevented – OpEd

It is inaccurate to claim that the ongoing Israeli attempt to displace many or even all of the Palestinian refugees in Gaza to Sinai is a new idea...

21.11.2023 4

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

Gaza Will Suffer, But the Palestinian People Will Not Break

The only solution to Gaza is the same solution to the rest of occupied Palestine—a clear understanding that the real problem is not ‘Palestinian...

18.11.2023 5

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

Gaza Assault Exposes True Face of Israel’s Ugly Apartheid Regime

A whole generation, if not more, has already built a perception of Israel as a genocidal regime and no number of future lies, Hollywood movies or...

16.11.2023 10

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

History Tells Us Why Israel Will Not Defeat Gaza – OpEd

The ongoing discussions on the Israeli military objectives in Gaza are largely focused on whether Israel is planning a long- or a short-term military...

15.11.2023 5

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

Genocide in Gaza Would Not Be Possible Without Western Complicity

The word ‘hypocrisy’ here does not even begin to describe what is taking place, and the repercussions of this moral failure will be felt around...

09.11.2023 2

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

The Moral Failure Of Western Institutions On Gaza Is Unparalleled – OpEd

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last month stood on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing between Egypt and besieged Gaza. Guterres was not...

07.11.2023 4

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

Now Is the Time to Listen to Palestinian Priorities

This bizarre U.S.-western understanding of the so-called conflict, that an oppressor has ‘rights’ over the oppressed, has enabled Israel to...

04.11.2023 20

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

Time To Focus On Rights Of Oppressed, Not Oppressor – OpEd

Gaza has changed the political equation in Palestine. Moreover, the repercussions of this devastating war are likely to alter the political equation...

31.10.2023 10

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

‘Human Animals’: The Sordid Language behind Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

The post-October 7 vocabulary used by Israelis, but also many Americans, created the atmosphere necessary for the savage Israeli response which...

26.10.2023 3

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

Israel’s Gaza War Rooted In Dehumanizing, Genocidal Language – OpEd

Tutsis “are cockroaches. We will kill you.” Arabs are like “drugged cockroaches in a bottle.” The first quote was a line repeated frequently...

24.10.2023 10

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

The Explosion of the Formaldehyde Strategy in Gaza

There can be no peace in Palestine without justice, which means Israel's 20-year policy of disengagement, brutal apartheid, and occupation must...

19.10.2023 3

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

Why Palestine Was Removed From The Agenda And Why It Is Back – OpEd

Israel had the perfect plan for Gaza — in fact, for all Palestinians — when it decided to redeploy its forces around the Gaza Strip in 2005....

17.10.2023 20

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

The Palestinian Cause Belongs to the World

The isolation of Palestine from its regional context has proven disastrous.

16.10.2023 2

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

Netanyahu Has Already Lost the Gaza War, But Will He Concede?

What the Palestinian Resistance wants from Netanyahu is too high a price for the embattled prime minister to pay.

10.10.2023 3

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

The Roots And Hidden Meanings Of ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’ – OpEd

Regardless of the precise strategy of Hamas, or any other Palestinian movement for that matter, the daring military campaign deep inside Israel that...

10.10.2023 4

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

New Golda Meir Movie Sells War Crimes As Empowerment – OpEd

A new movie glorifying the legacy of Zionist leader and fourth Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir was released in selected theaters in the US and...

03.10.2023 10

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

Israel Angered At UNESCO – OpEd

Jericho does not belong to the Palestinians alone. It belongs to the whole of humanity. For Israel, however, last week’s recognition by UNESCO of...

26.09.2023 8

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

Israel’s Unprecedented Collapse Creates An Opportunity For Palestinians – OpEd

From its very onset, Israel constructed a brand for itself — a powerful gimmick that was predicated on two main pillars: democracy and stability....

19.09.2023 2

Eurasia Review

Ramzy Baroud

Humiliating Palestinians is An Actual Israeli Policy

What women recently experienced in Hebron is part of a wider pattern of violent behavior designed to dehumanize those living under occupation.

15.09.2023 2

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

Israel’s War on Children

The problem for Palestinians is not just that of Israel’s violence, but also the lack of international will to hold Israel accountable.

09.09.2023 10

Common Dreams

Ramzy Baroud

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