Ramzy Baroud is a widely respected journalist and Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Chronicle. His writing has been published in newspapers worldwide from the Washington Post to the Japan Times. http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/BlogId/12/language/en-US/Default.aspx en-GB moderator@openmindsblogspot.com admin@domain1227954.sites.fasthosts.com Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:18:18 GMT Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:18:18 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blog RSS Generator Version 3.2.0.29758 Don't ask for what you never had,' is the underlying message made by supporters of Israel when they claim Palestine was never a state to begin with. http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/106/language/en-US/Default.aspx moderator@openmindsblogspot.com http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/106/language/en-US/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=106 Tue, 20 May 2008 08:29:00 GMT 0 http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=106 We waited breathless. Breathing heavily was hazardous under these somewhat exceptional circumstances. The army, my father often advised, was sensitive to the slightest movements or sounds, including a whisper, a cough, or God forbid, a sneeze. Thus we sat completely still. Muneer, my younger brother was entrusted with the mission of peering through the rusty holes in the front door. http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/104/language/en-US/Default.aspx moderator@openmindsblogspot.com http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/104/language/en-US/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=104 Thu, 08 May 2008 09:17:00 GMT 0 http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=104 Just days after the Hamas-Fatah clash last June in Gaza, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas looked firm and composed as he shook hands with members of his new emergency government. He made sure his move appeared as legitimate as possible, issuing decrees that outlawed the armed militias of Hamas, and also suspended consequential clauses in the Palestinian Basic Law, which had thus far served as a constitution. http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/102/language/en-US/Default.aspx moderator@openmindsblogspot.com http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/102/language/en-US/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=102 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:24:00 GMT 0 http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=102 Why did Israel attack Gaza with such brutality? Did Israeli officials think, even for a fleeting moment, that their army's attacks could halt, as opposed to intensify, Palestinian rockets or retaliatory violence? Indeed, was Palestinian violence at all relevant to the Israeli action? Was the Israeli bloodletting in Gaza solely relevant to the Gaza/Hamas context, or is there a regional dimension that is largely being overlooked? http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/99/language/en-US/Default.aspx moderator@openmindsblogspot.com http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/99/language/en-US/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=99 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:26:00 GMT 0 http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=99 We know well who killed the top Hezbollah commander, Imad Mugniyah on Feb 12th in Damascus. While in the US media, only journalists like Seymour Hersh will have the nerve to point out the obvious http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/95/language/en-US/Default.aspx moderator@openmindsblogspot.com http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/95/language/en-US/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=95 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:18:00 GMT 0 http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=95 Israelis and their supporters tend to depict Israel as a country of miracles. What else could explain the country's astonishing "birth" and subsequent survival against all sorts of "existential threats"? How else would Israel develop at such a phenomenal pace, making the "desert bloom" and continually scoring a high ranking amongst developed nations in most noteworthy aspects? http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/92/language/en-US/Default.aspx moderator@openmindsblogspot.com http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/92/language/en-US/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=92 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:07:00 GMT 1 http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=92 11 January marked the sixth year anniversary of the establishment of the Guantanamo detention camp. Mere months after the start of the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan, a large cargo plane landed in a US military base in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay, bringing in a group of hunchbacked, orange-clad, blindfolded, "terrorist" suspects, apparently representing the worst of the worst. http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/91/language/en-US/Default.aspx moderator@openmindsblogspot.com http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/91/language/en-US/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=91 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:32:00 GMT 0 http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=91 In recent months, we have been inundated by media reports bringing good news from Iraq, with countless testimonials to the great improvement in security enjoyed by the country in general and the Baghdad area in particular. http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/88/language/en-US/Default.aspx moderator@openmindsblogspot.com http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/88/language/en-US/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=88 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:07:00 GMT 0 http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=88 The 42-day drama in Pakistan is far from over; the declaration of emergency and the lifting of emergency are part of a charade, behind which exists a complex power play between Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, various camps within the military elite, and the US government. http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/84/language/en-US/Default.aspx moderator@openmindsblogspot.com http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/84/language/en-US/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=84 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:30:00 GMT 0 http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=84 A once profound and widely read commentator recently claimed he no longer writes about the Palestine/Israel conflict because "Palestinians are killing each other". Feeling his words have ceased to carry weight he simply decided not "to take sides". http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/81/language/en-US/Default.aspx moderator@openmindsblogspot.com http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/HOME/tabid/36/EntryID/81/language/en-US/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=81 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:30:00 GMT 1 http://www.openmindsblogspot.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=81