Ramzy Baroud Image by Levi Meir Clancy. Israeli officials keep repeating that Israel is fighting on multiple fronts. The truth is that Israel chooses to fight on multiple fronts. The two claims are fundamentally different. Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went...
Former US national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski warned in 2002 that Israel was losing its global standing as Israeli-Palestinian violence escalated during the second Intifada or uprising against Israeli occupation. At the time, Brzezinski, the former advisor to US Presidents...
BY Ramzy Baroud Image by Mohammed al Bardawil. The official Israeli army version of why it has targeted civilian areas during the intense and deadly bombardment of September 20 in south Lebanon is that the Lebanese are hiding long-range missile launchers...
by Joshua Frank Image by Nat and Upslpash+. As Amal Nassar lay in pain on a bed at the Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in northern Gaza, the echoes of explosions and artillery fire could be heard all around...
by Ramzy Baroud Image by Tristan Sosteric. Inadvertently, Israel has pressed the reset button on its war with the Palestinian people, taking back the so-called conflict to square one. Save for a few self-serving Palestinian officials affiliated with the Palestinian Authority (PA),...
Israel has outlined plans for the post-Hamas Gaza Strip Administration. It wants total security to be ensured. Israel in this plan has proposed the Palestinian Authority to take charge of the territory with a multinational force to rebuild the...
Words matter. No more so than in legal settings. Genocide is the word most associated with Israel's more than one-month-long assault on Gaza. In response to the October 7 Hamas attack against Israel, in which at least 1,200, mostly civilian, Israelis...
Hamas, the Islamist militia that controls Gaza, will likely emerge a victor regardless of how the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian fighting ends.Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel, described by some analysts as the Jewish state’s 9/11, changes the dynamics of...
A recent dinner in Washington suggests that a seemingly forthcoming visit to Turkey by Israeli President Isaac Herzog could be about more than putting an end to strained relations between the two erstwhile allies. Engineered by an influential American Jewish leader, Malcolm Hoenlein,...