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Rami G Khouri

Rami G Khouri

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What Sinwar’s death reveals about war and peacemaking in Palestine

The death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on Wednesday sparked wildly different reactions across the world. While Israel and its allies celebrated the...

23.10.2024 100

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US military action in the Middle East is not making Israel safer

On October 1, Iran launched a massive aerial attack on Israel in retaliation for the assassinations of senior Hezbollah and Hamas leaders and some...

03.10.2024 100

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Rami G Khouri

AIPAC is growing desperate

As we approach the November elections in the United States, political dynamics related to Israel-Palestine continue to influence key developments in...

11.08.2024 60

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Could Palestine decide the US presidential election?

It has been a dramatic half a month for US politics with a dizzying string of rapid-fire events. Republican candidate and former president, Donald...

30.07.2024 70

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Trump, elections and the politics of spectacle

The iconic photograph of a bleeding and defiant Donald Trump surrounded by security agents in the aftermath of an assassination attempt will likely go...

17.07.2024 60

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Rami G Khouri

Watching the watchdogs: Palestinians resist unprecedented silencing

In the past nine months, national and local authorities in the United States have tried to suppress and criminalise Palestinian activism and...

01.07.2024 90

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There is a measure of desperation in Biden’s ceasefire plan

On Friday, US President Joe Biden outlined a ceasefire proposal for the war in Gaza. The plan is comprised of three stages in which Israel and Hamas...

04.06.2024 60

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Rami G Khouri

Watching the watchdogs: The US media and intergenerational fault lines

As Israel continues to wage its genocidal war on Gaza, a fault line in American society is becoming increasingly more pronounced. University students...

25.05.2024 70

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Watch­ing the watch­dogs: How US me­dia messed up cam­pus protests cov­er­age

A great, novel experiment in political physics is under way in the United States, as the unstoppable moral force of youth-led protests against...

06.05.2024 100

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Rami G Khouri

Watch­ing the watch­dogs: The me­dia down­plays a big le­gal sto­ry at its per­il

In a fast-expanding global battleground, enablers and opponents of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza are facing off in an unusual landscape:...

23.04.2024 100

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Rami G Khouri

Watch­ing the watch­dogs: Is­rael’s at­tacks on jour­nal­ists are back­fir­ing

For the past six months, Israel has put a lot of effort into covering up its genocidal crimes in Gaza. One of the most brutal ways it does this is...

02.04.2024 60

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Watch­ing the watch­dogs: Piers, air­drops, and me­di­a­genic spec­ta­cles in Gaza

For two weeks now, American media has given plenty of airtime and front-page space to US humanitarian aid initiatives in Gaza. The United States Air...

18.03.2024 70

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Rami G Khouri

Watch­ing the watch­dogs: Biden, US me­dia and Arab-Amer­i­can po­lit­i­cal pow­er

Arab- and Muslim-Americans and some 60 percent of all Americans have wanted for months for US President Joe Biden to pressure Israel into accepting an...

25.02.2024 60

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Rami G Khouri

Watch­ing the Watch­dogs: Is­rael’s lega­cy of me­dia de­cep­tion stum­bles

In the last two weeks, the Israeli government put on a masterclass on how to use the Western media to spread fake news and propaganda and to justify...

09.02.2024 100

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Rami G Khouri

Watch­ing the watch­dogs: Law, Pro­pa­gan­da, and the Me­dia walk into a bar

This month, the world watched South Africa initiate International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearings on the genocidal acts Israel committed in Gaza. In a...

25.01.2024 60

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Rami G Khouri

Watch­ing the watch­dogs: The 5 Ds of US Mid­dle East pol­i­cy

For 100 days now, Israel’s sustained genocidal war on Gaza has propelled the Middle East into new orbits of death, destruction, and ever-rising...

14.01.2024 40

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Rami G Khouri

Watch­ing the watch­dogs: US me­dia re­port­ing from Gaza

On December 14, I came across a report on the CNN website titled “Watch Clarissa Ward report from inside Gaza for the first time since war began”,...

31.12.2023 60

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Rami G Khouri

Watch­ing the watch­dogs: Why the West mis­in­ter­prets Mid­dle East pow­er shifts

“In Yemen, there is wisdom,” goes the medieval Arab saying. Remember that, if you’re trying to sort out how the Israel-Palestine confrontation...

22.12.2023 70

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Rami G Khouri

Watch­ing the watch­dogs: Me­dia, law and Gaza geno­cide

What is be­hind the Amer­i­can me­dia’s avoid­ance of the grow­ing al­le­ga­tions of geno­cide di­rect­ed at Is­rael?

15.12.2023 60

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Rami G Khouri

Is­rael de­serves every bit of the glob­al pub­lic crit­i­cism it is re­ceiv­ing

The ongoing explosion in public activism in the United States and the world for a ceasefire in Gaza and equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians...

03.12.2023 100

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Rami G Khouri

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