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Al-Araqeeb Village: Palestinian Bedouins Refuse to Surrender 116 Times
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
16 Aug 2017 – On August 1, the Palestinian Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb was destroyed for the 116th time. As soon as Israeli bulldozers finished their ugly deed and soldiers began evacuating the premises, the village resident immediately began rebuilding their homes. 22 families, or about 101 residents, are estimated to live here. By now, they are all familiar with the painful routine, considering the first round of destruction took place in July 2010.
→ read full articleIsrael vs. the United Nations: The Nikki Haley Doctrine
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
21 Jun 2017 – The US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, seems to be championing a single cause: Israel. Haley seems to truly think of herself as the new sheriff in town, who will “kick ’em every single time”, before riddling the bullies with bullets and riding into the sunset, along with Netanyahu. Since the Negroponte doctrine of 2002, thousands of Palestinians and hundreds of Israelis were killed in an occupation that seems to know no ends.
→ read full articleThe Unwanted ‘Bride’: Can the 1967 War Offer Opportunity for Peace?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
5 Jun 2017 – There is a saying that goes: “Be careful what you wish for, for you may get it.” This has been Israel’s dilemma from the very beginning. The Zionist movement, which held its first conference in Basel, Switzerland 120 years ago, wanted Palestine but not the Palestinians. They achieved this objective 50 years later, in what Israel termed as its ‘war of independence.’
→ read full articleFear as an Obstacle to Peace: Why Are Israelis Afraid?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
24 May 2017 – Bat-Hen Epstein Elias’s long article on Iranian Jews is interesting. Parts of it, in fact, are heartwarming. Yet, despite the lack of any serious evidence, the story is entirely framed in the language of fear.
→ read full articleNormalization under Occupation: How Israel Understands the Arab Peace Initiative
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Trump assigned his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, an Orthodox Jew and a strong supporter of Israel’s rightwing, to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Trump’s pick for US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, is controversial even in the eyes of some Israelis, due to his close association with extremist Jewish parties that labor to seize Palestinian Muslim and Christian properties in Occupied East Jerusalem.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Vision for the Future Is Terrifying – Doublespeak Abolished
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
15 Feb 2017 – Empirical historical evidence combined with little common-sense are enough to tell us the type of future options that Israel has in store for the Palestinian people: perpetual apartheid or ethnic cleansing, or a mix of both.
→ read full articleThe Uncomfortable Truth: Are We Hating Donald Trump for the Wrong Reasons?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Trump may be described with all the demeaning terminology that one’s livid imagination can muster: evil, wicked, tyrannical, misogynist, war-mongering, rich buffoon, ‘insulting our allies’, infatuating with ‘dictators’, etc. But do not miss the point. There is hardly a single bad deed that Trump has carried – or intends to carry out – that does not have roots in another policy championed by previous administrations.
→ read full articleIsrael Rejoices in Unbridled Colony Expansion amid Trump’s Havoc
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
7 Feb 2017 – Within days of Donald Trump being sworn in, the Israeli government announced the approval of around 2,500 new housing units. Within the first two weeks of Trump’s presidency, the number of new housing units, all to be built illegally on Palestinian land, was raised to 5,500, including the first brand-new government-sanctioned colony in years.
→ read full articleParis and the End to a Western-dominated Era in the Middle East
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2017
25 Jan 2017 – No, it was not just ‘another Middle East peace conference,’ as a columnist in Israeli ‘Jerusalem Post’ attempted to depict the Paris Peace Conference held on January 15, with top official representations from 70 countries attending. No, it was an end of an era. The American era in the Middle East.
→ read full articlePalestine 2017: Time to Bid Farewell to Washington and Embrace the Globe
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
There is no doubt that the UN Security Council condemnation of Israel on Friday [23 Dec] was an important and noteworthy event. True, the UN’s main chambers (the UNSC and the GA) and its various institutions, ranging from the International Court of Justice to UNESCO, have repeatedly condemned the Israeli occupation, illegal Jewish settlements and mistreatment of Palestinians.
→ read full articleJerusalem and Its Walls: UNESCO Refuses to Bow to Israeli Pressure
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
1 Nov 2016 – Despite all the threats and political grandstanding, UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has approved, on October 26, a new resolution that reaffirms the status of occupied Jerusalem’s Old City on the list of endangered world heritage sites.
→ read full articleThe Convoluted Discourse: Was the Women’s Boat to Gaza an Existential Threat?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
“We will not accept any (rocket) fire, any provocation, against the citizens of Israel by whoever it might be, or any attack on Israel’s sovereignty. Not rocket fire, and not a flotilla,” Lieberman said. The activists atop the boat included Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland. In Lieberman’s logic, Maguire’s act to end a decade-long blockade on a poor region is equivalent to the firing of a rocket.
→ read full articleBan Ki-moon’s Legacy in Palestine: Failure in Words and Deeds
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
When the UN chief is gone, he will be missed – but certainly not by Palestinians in Gaza or refugees in Syria, or war victims in Afghanistan. In his last visit to Palestine in June, Ban Ki-Moon told distraught Gazans that the “UN will always be with you.” As tens of thousands there still stand on the rubble of their own homes, denied freedom to move or rebuild, his statement is as forgettable as the man’s legacy at the UN.
→ read full articleThe Native American, the Palestinian: A Spirited Fight for Justice
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Palestinians are losing their lives, land and olive trees as they stand up to Israeli tanks and bulldozers. Their reality is a replay of similar experiences faced – and still being confronted – by Native Americans. Well into the 21st century, the Native American-Palestinian struggle remains one and the same.
→ read full articleLibya’s ‘Operation Odyssey Lightning’ – The Obama Doctrine is Ravaging the Middle East
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Now, wars are carried out as a matter of course. With multiple war fronts and conflicts fermenting all around, many are becoming desensitized. Americans particularly have, sadly, swallowed the serum of perpetual war, to the extent that they rarely mobilize in any serious way against it. In other words, a state of war has become the status quo.
→ read full articleDivide and Rule: How Factionalism in Palestine Is Killing Prospects for Freedom
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
In Palestine, factions perceive democracy to be a form of control, power and hegemony, not a social contract aimed at fostering dialogue and defusing conflict. Thus, it is no wonder that supporters of two Fatah factions, one loyal to PA President Mahmoud Abbas and another to Mohammed Dahlan, recently clashed in Gaza. Several were hospitalized after sustaining injuries.
→ read full articlePlease Sign The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World
The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World,
24 Jun 2013
As of 24 June 2013: 1,048 individuals from 52 countries have signed the Nonviolence Charter pledge, and 71 organisations from 23 countries have endorsed the Nonviolence Charter.
→ read full articleA Request to Dissolve the Indian Parliament
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
We, the following citizens of India, have just completed 500 days of our peaceful protest against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project. Although our people have been struggling peacefully and nonviolently and democratically for 500 days, the Central government and the State government have not given our struggle its due importance or serious consideration to our demands. Instead they persist with their plan of commissioning the project at any cost just to please their Russian, American and French masters.
→ read full articleAppeal to Our Leaders’ and Nation’s Collective Conscience!
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
As the very last and desperate attempt at securing our independence and freedom, thwarting another spell of colonialism and foreign domination, safeguarding India’s natural resources, changing our energy policy and ensuring the well-being of our fellow citizens, we would like to appeal to your and our nation’s collective conscience to listen to us, the ordinary people of India, and not to repress us.
→ read full articleComplaint to India’s Atomic Energy Regulatory Board
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
We, the members of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy and people of southern districts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, write to demand immediate halt of the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) at Koodankulam in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu, and a thorough scrutiny of the following issues before AERB (Atomic Energy Regulatory Board) gives a green signal to the commissioning of the Koodankulam project.
→ read full articleChina’s Peaceful Development (Full Text)
Information Office of the State Council, The People's Republic of China – TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
26 Sep 2011
At the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century and on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), China declared solemnly again to the world that peaceful development is a strategic choice made by China to realize modernization, make itself strong and prosperous, and make more contribution to the progress of human civilization. China will unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development.
→ read full articleALBA DECLARATION ON COPENHAGEN CLIMATE SUMMIT
Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – ALBA,
31 Dec 2009
The following is the statement issued by the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) on 18 December in response to the results of the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit. We, the countries that make up ALBA, denounce before the world the threat that the results of the United Nations Conference in Copenhagen pose for […]
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