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By Ramzy Baroud - Jan 13,2016
Ali Abumghasib knows little about the current intrigues of the Fateh movement or, perhaps, he is just not interested.Although he has dedicated most of his life fighting within its ranks, he never saw his membership in Fateh as his defining identity.
By Ramzy Baroud - Jan 06,2016
Although intended to inspire his Fateh Party followers, Mahmoud Abbas’ televised speech on the 51st anniversary of the group’s launch highlighted, instead, the unprecedented crisis that continues to wreak havoc on the Palestinian people.Not only did Abbas sound defensive and lack
By Ramzy Baroud - Dec 29,2015
When I was a little boy, I used to dream of being reborn outside the hardship of the refugee camp in Gaza, in some other time and place where there were no soldiers, no military occupation, no concentration camps and no daily grind, where my father did not have to fight for our s
By Ramzy Baroud - Dec 23,2015
John Bolton is a tarnished character.
By Ramzy Baroud - Dec 15,2015
Throughout her hunger strike of exactly 47 days, Hana Shalabi never slept consistently for a number of hours.In the first few days of her strike, she would doze off only to wake up with the sudden fear that someone was trying to hurt her.But after the first week of hunger strike,
By Ramzy Baroud - Dec 08,2015
When Egypt decided to open the Rafah border crossing that separates it from Gaza for two days, December 3 and 4, a sense of guarded relief was felt in the impoverished strip.True, 48 hours were hardly enough for the tens of thousands of patients, students and other trav
By Ramzy Baroud - Dec 01,2015
Israeli commentators Yaron Friedman, of Ynet News, and Haviv Rettig Gur, of The Times of Israel, are clueless about the driving force behind the Palestinian mobilisation and collective struggle.In two recent articles, and with unmistakable conceit, they attempted to highlight wha
By Ramzy Baroud - Nov 24,2015
I still remember that smug look on his face, followed by the matter-of-fact remarks that had Western journalists laugh out loud.“I’m now going to show you a picture of the luckiest man in Iraq,” General Norman Schwarzkopf, known as “Stormin” Norman, said at a press conferenc
By Ramzy Baroud - Nov 17,2015
Writing in the New York Times in the article titled “Myanmar generals set the state for their own exit”, Thomas Fuller expressed his and the media’s failure to recognise the total fraud that is Burmese democracy.“The official results are still being tabulated,” he wrote, “but all
By Ramzy Baroud - Nov 11,2015
US Secretary of State John Kerry is often perceived as one of the “good ones” — a less hawkish top American official who does not simply promote and defend his country’s military adventurism, but reaches out to others, beyond polarising rhetoric.His unremitting efforts culminated

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