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Ramzy Baroud__CounterPunch |
Throughout Israel’s history, fringe religious Zionist parties have had limited success in achieving the kind of electoral victories that would allow...
The Israeli brutality in Gaza, but also the Palestinian sumud, resilience and resistance, are inspiring the Global South to reclaim its centrality in...
The distance between Gaza and Namibia is measured in the thousands of kilometers. But their historical experiences mean they feel much closer. This is...
The latest killing of the international World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza was done to serve the same goal: ensuring that no aid distribution...
Israel has described its clearly deliberate killing of seven humanitarian aid workers in Gaza on April 1 as a “grave mistake” and a “tragic...
Historically, wars unite Israelis. Not anymore. Not that Israelis disagree with Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest war; they simply do not believe that the...
Though many of Israel's traditional allies in the West are openly disowning its behavior, weapons from various Western and non-Western countries...
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...
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...
The coming years shall prove that the crisis in international legitimacy, resulting from the abuse of power, will hardly be rectified with superficial...
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...
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...
Left to its own devices, Israel would never grant Palestinians their freedom. In the past, some, whether ignorantly or otherwise, claimed that peace...
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...
As a matter of international law, Israel does not have "the right to defend itself" like this.
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
It would have been outlandish to suggest that a small region like Gaza, seemingly bereft of significant natural resources, political will of its own,...
It is as if the world is suffering along with the Gaza children, but without being able to stop or slow down the genocide.
Throughout its history Israel has purposely humiliated Palestinians as an expression of its disproportionately greater military power over a hapless,...
The dramatic, earth-shattering events in Palestine starting on Oct. 7 have taken many people by surprise. But not attentive observers. Few expected...
When Zionist militias, using advanced Western arms, conquered historic Palestine in 1947-48, they expressed their victory through the deliberate...
The state of Israel has killed our storytellers in Gaza with the hope that the stories will die with them. But they will not.
What is taking place in Gaza is meant for the history books: an epic tale of a small nation under
The common element of “decolonization”—in all its manifestations—has created intersectional links among various struggles around the world.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last month stood on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing between Egypt and besieged Gaza. Guterres was not...
This bizarre U.S.-western understanding of the so-called conflict, that an oppressor has ‘rights’ over the oppressed, has enabled Israel to...
Gaza has changed the political equation in Palestine. Moreover, the repercussions of this devastating war are likely to alter the political equation...
The post-October 7 vocabulary used by Israelis, but also many Americans, created the atmosphere necessary for the savage Israeli response which...
Tutsis “are cockroaches. We will kill you.” Arabs are like “drugged cockroaches in a bottle.” The first quote was a line repeated frequently...
There can be no peace in Palestine without justice, which means Israel's 20-year policy of disengagement, brutal apartheid, and occupation must...
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....
The isolation of Palestine from its regional context has proven disastrous.
What the Palestinian Resistance wants from Netanyahu is too high a price for the embattled prime minister to pay.
Regardless of the precise strategy of Hamas, or any other Palestinian movement for that matter, the daring military campaign deep inside Israel that...
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...
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...
From its very onset, Israel constructed a brand for itself — a powerful gimmick that was predicated on two main pillars: democracy and stability....
What women recently experienced in Hebron is part of a wider pattern of violent behavior designed to dehumanize those living under occupation.
The problem for Palestinians is not just that of Israel’s violence, but also the lack of international will to hold Israel accountable.