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Editorials

Letters from Gaza – ‘Alhamdulillah. We Are Not Okay’
By Ramzy Baroud Over 14 months of relentless war in Gaza, the voices of survivors, filled with pain, resilience, and faith, paint a vivid picture of human endurance amidst unimaginable loss. Over the past […]

A Palestinian Year in Review: Genocide, Resistance and Unanswered Questions
By Ramzy Baroud As far as Palestinians are concerned, even with the failure of the international community to stop the genocide and reign in Israel, their steadfastness, sumoud, will remain strong until freedom is […]

The West Bank’s Men of the CIA – Why is the PA Killing Palestinians in Jenin?
By Ramzy Baroud How long will the PA be allowed to serve the role of the enforcers of the Israeli occupation and the protector of settlers, while still promoting itself as the guardian of […]

When Censorship Kills – Social Media and the War on the Palestinian Narrative
By Ramzy Baroud While the international community is yet to translate its verbal solidarity with Palestinians into any meaningful action, the least we could do is to give Palestinians their full rights to express […]

‘Great Opportunity’ for Permanent War: What if Israel Annexed the West Bank?
By Ramzy Baroud Palestinians will certainly resist, as they always do. The nature of the resistance will prove critical in the success or failure of the Israeli scheme. Israel is getting ready to annex […]

Genuine Solidarity Is Not Conditional: Gaza and Unity around Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud The road for Palestine liberation can only go through Palestine itself and, more specifically, the clarity of purpose of the Palestinian people. A new kind of unity around Palestine is finally […]

Price of Freedom: Why Israel Cannot Push the Reset Button on Its Genocide
By Ramzy Baroud The history of all national liberation struggles, Palestine included, demonstrates that the price for freedom is always high. The ongoing war and genocide in Gaza is unprecedented. Nothing that Israel and […]

‘Genocide’ vs ‘Bigger Genocide’ in Gaza: Time to Decolonize Our Minds
By Ramzy Baroud “Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well,” Frantz Fanon wrote in ‘The Wretched of the Earth’. […]

Beyond ‘Deals’ and Creative ‘Solutions’ – The Roadmap to a Justice Peace in Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud A major problem in American thinking in the Middle East is the utter rejection of the notion that Palestinian rights are fundamental, if at all relevant, to the coveted peace and […]

A Nation in Denial: Rebranding Old Fantasies Will Not Save Israel
By Ramzy Baroud Since this crowd is motivated by extremist religious ideologies, they are unable to abide by any form of rational thinking, even that emanating from well-regarded Zionist figures inside Israel itself. The […]

End of Empathy: Did the Gaza Genocide Render the UN Irrelevant?
By Ramzy Baroud The problem is multilayered, complicated by the fact that UN officials and employees do not have the power to alter the very skewed structure of the world’s largest political institution. Francesca […]

Voting against Genocide – How Palestine Has Become a Domestic US Political Issue
By Ramzy Baroud Millions of Americans took notice and acted upon their sense of collective rage to punish the Democrats for what they had done to the Palestinian people. Arab and Muslim American voters […]

The Story Began Years Ago: Why Israel Banned UNRWA
By Ramzy Baroud Israel’s banning of UNRWA should represent an opportunity for those concerned about the standing of the United Nations, to remind Israel that UN members who have no respect for international law […]

‘Gaza is Ours, Forever’ – Israel’s ‘Strategy’ of Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza
By Ramzy Baroud Israel’s success and failure will ultimately be determined by this maxim: as long as the Palestinian people are fighting back, Weiss and her fellow extremists will not find safety in Gaza. […]

The Long History of Palestine – How Palestinians See Their Future and Their Past
By Ramzy Baroud If the oppressed, the natives of the land, are not fully vanquished or decimated, they are likely to rise, fight and win back their freedom. Oddly, it was Israeli historian Benny […]

Israel’s Biblical Wars of ‘Self Defense’: The Myth of the ‘Seven War Fronts’
By Ramzy Baroud There is a difference between a country fighting a defensive war on multiple fronts and another fighting for colonial expansion, for regional hegemony and for military dominance driven by religious prophecies. […]

‘Text Me You Haven’t Died’ – My Sister was the 166th Doctor to Be Murdered in Gaza
By Ramzy Baroud For us, Soma was a larger-than-life figure. This is precisely why her sudden absence has shocked us to the point of disbelief. “Your lives will continue. With new events and new […]

One Year Since the Genocide – Palestinian Sumud vs the Israeli War Machine
By Ramzy Baroud The sumud of the Palestinians in Gaza, who have endured a year of mass killing, deliberate starvation and total destruction of all aspects of life, is helping reassert the political significance […]

One Year On – Five Things the War on Gaza Taught Us about the Palestinian Struggle
By Ramzy Baroud The last year of a relentless Israeli war on Gaza, and bloody raids and violence in the West Bank have been largely viewed in terms of their horrific humanitarian outcomes: the […]

Using the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon – How Words Can Justify a Genocide
By Ramzy Baroud Perpetuating Israeli lies is dangerous, not only because truth-telling is a virtue but also because words kill, and dishonest reporting can, in fact, succeed in justifying genocide. The official Israeli army […]

Israel’s True Objectives in Gaza, and Why It Will Fail
By Ramzy Baroud Israel’s new plans will not succeed simply because Israel continues to face the same obstacle: the steadfastness of the Palestinian people. Never in its history of war, and military occupation has […]

Cartography of Genocide: Why Netanyahu Erased Palestine from the Map
By Ramzy Baroud For him, Palestinians are nomadic beings who, by mere historical incident, ventured into his biblical land, in which they have no claim or right. When asked why his latest map has […]

Zionism Vs. Zionism – Are the Kahanists Accelerating the ‘Collapse of Israel’?
By Ramzy Baroud Ben-Gvir’s rush to achieve the religious Zionist agenda contradicts the traditional form of Israeli colonialism, predicated on the ‘incremental genocide’ of Palestinians. Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir vowed, on August […]

Israel vs. International Law – Why Erdan Wants to Destroy the UN
By Ramzy Baroud Though for Palestinians, such facts remain devoid of practical meaning, for Israel, the UN position is a major obstacle in the face of its blatant settler colonial project. Departing Israeli Ambassador […]

A Strategic Shift – Will Palestinian Groups Return to ‘Martyrdom Attacks’ inside Israel?
By Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo By denying Israelis any sense of security in major cities inside Israel, the Israeli public could, once more, turn against Netanyahu for failing to deliver on any of his […]

Restoring Psychological Deterrence – Torture of Palestinians as a ‘Systematic Strategy’
By Ramzy Baroud By trying to break the will of the Palestinians through torture, humiliation and rape, Israel wants to restore a different kind of deterrence, which it lost on October 7. On October […]

Zionism on the Brink: The Gaza War Beyond Netanyahu
By Ramzy Baroud Even if the Israeli right has lost all faith in Netanyahu, without him as a unifying figure, all is lost, not only the chances of the far-right camp to redeem itself, […]

The Failed Palestine Reset: How Netanyahu Engineered His Own Irrelevance
By Ramzy Baroud When Netanyahu mattered, his speeches often led to wars, or major regional instability. But Netanyahu no longer matters, except for a few US politicians vying for re-election. Great orators in history […]

‘Watering down’ Genocide: No More Moral Compromises on Palestine, Please
By Ramzy Baroud To further expose western duplicity in Gaza, we must learn to speak with no reservations, no matter the restrictions on the pro-Palestine voice or the censorship on social media. Why are […]

Dear West: Your ‘Age of Monsters’ Has Begun
By Ramzy Baroud I find it important to reflect on Gramsci’s understanding of the process of change in society due to the ongoing chaos underway in various western countries. Antonio Gramsci was not a […]