Cognitive dissonance: perplexed US foreign policy is prolonging Gaza genocide US officials admit over 25,000 Palestinian civilians killed, yet shipments of weapons to Israel continue. But now Biden’s private frustration with Netanyahu is starting to become impossible to hide from the public, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Thursday 04th Jan 2024 Global rage over Gaza: Washington will pay RAMZY BAROUD says it is as if the legacy of the US’s own ‘war on terror’ has been completely forgotten, or ignored — but the faltering superpower will not escape accountability for the billions and bombs it has given Israel to kill Palestinians
Tuesday 05th Dec 2023 Dying to be free: releasing Palestinian captives is not a numbers game Despite the enormous price paid in retaliation, the principle of freeing those held in Israeli prisons goes to the heart of reasons why Palestinians resist in the way they do, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Tuesday 14th Nov 2023 The strip is already occupied: the two Gazas that Israel cannot break The pro-war, pro-occupation sections of Israeli society should remember how the last attempts to hold Gaza went; the truth is there is no military solution for the IDF in Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Thursday 12th Oct 2023 Opinion How the ‘Al-Quds Flood’ operation altered the relationship between Palestine and Israel forever As Israel searches for answers as to how they were quickly overrun, it is no surprise that volunteers for such a massive operation were found among the millions trapped in Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Friday 08th Sep 2023 The war on Palestinian children is intentional, protracted and ongoing Not a single Israeli military or government official has been held accountable in an international court for the deliberate targeting of minors in an ever-increasing roll call of death, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Friday 18th Aug 2023 Palestinians welcome China’s new Middle East role, but it is not mediation they need The decline of the Western bloc led by the US and the rise of the global South give Palestinians fresh hope – especially the rapid rise of old ally China – but will their leadership act on it, asks RAMZY BAROUD
Tuesday 11th Jul 2023 Opinion Israel's attacks will backfire: Jenin is just the start A new generation has buried the ghosts of the past, its irrelevant, unenforced peace pacts and bitter, factional infighting, and embraced a new era of Palestinian resistance, argues RAMZY BAROUD
Tuesday 20th Jun 2023 The irony of World Refugee Day – ‘celebrating,’ then blaming the victims Too many lavish dinners will be catered in the name of the refugees in many Western capitals and embassies around the world – but little will change and the real culprits will avoid censure, says RAMZY BAROUD
Tuesday 30th May 2023 Netanyahu’s provocations are a desperate and doomed strategy By trying to appease his far-right coalition partners and their desire for all-out religious war on what is left of Palestine, Netanyahu is provoking an armed uprising in the West Bank, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Friday 28th Apr 2023 Erasure v sumud: how the Nakba came to define the collective Palestinian identity RAMZY BAROUD argues that the Nakba is not a single historical incident to be debated or bargained over — it is an injustice that continues to this day, and continues to unite all Palestinians