Killing humanitarian workers as a strategy: Israel's endgame in Gaza RAMZY BAROUD explains that Israel isn’t making mistakes, even due to callous carelessness — killing aid workers is part of a wider plan to make life in northern Gaza impossible, to facilitate ethnic cleansing
Features | Thursday 21st Mar 2024 Cognitive dissonance: perplexed US foreign policy is prolonging Gaza genocide
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
Thursday 23rd Mar 2023 Kicked out of the African Union: how Israel fluffed 20 years of diplomatic efforts Claiming it would revitalise local economies and fight desertification, Israel was looking to make money and political friends – in Addis Ababa, that dream just came crashing down in spectacular fashion, reports RAMZY BAROUD
Thursday 02nd Mar 2023 The truth behind the UN’s condemnation of Israel’s illegal settlements If the US joining criticism of Israel's expansion into the West Bank at the UN sounds too good to be true, that is because it is — and Palestinians will not be tricked into celebrating this empty gesture, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Monday 23rd Jan 2023 A state for some of its citizens: captured black soldier’s saga highlights racism in Israel By Ramzy Baroud
Thursday 12th Jan 2023 What will happen after the ICJ delegitimises Israel’s occupation of Palestine? The world court is likely to rule that every Israeli action in Palestine since 1967 has been illegal – the strongest UN indictment yet. But don’t expect change under Israel’s new extreme-right government, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Wednesday 04th Jan 2023 The international community laments the end of ‘liberal’ Israel — but it was never a democracy The howls of outrage over the new far-right ministers are a form of whitewashing of Tel Aviv’s long anti-democratic history, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Thursday 22nd Dec 2022 Opinion The Lions’ Den umbrella group is not a fleeting phenomenon: Palestine’s looming armed revolt New militants who originated in a single West Bank city are now spreading, defying not only Israel but the Palestinian Authority. The popularity of a fresh armed revolt against the occupation now is undeniable, reports RAMZY BAROUD
Sunday 11th Dec 2022 The Nakba Day triumph: How the UN is correcting a historical wrong The next Nakba Day will be officially commemorated by the United Nations General Assembly on May 15, 2023. The decision by the world’s largest democratic institution is significant, if not a game changer, writes RAMZY BAROUD