Ramzy baroud biography of barack obama
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By Ramzy Baroud
At the precise moment US President Barack Obama’s Air Force One touched down at Ben Gurion Airport on March 20, persisting illusions quickly began to shatter. And as he walked on the red carpet, showered with accolades and warm embraces of top Israeli government and military officials, a new/old reality began to sink in: Obama was no different than his predecessors. He never had been.
On the day of Obama’s arrival, Israeli rights group B’Tselem, released a disturbing video. It was of Israeli soldiers carrying out a ‘mass arrest’ of nearly 30 Palestinian children on their way to school in the Palestinian city of al-Khalil (Hebron). The children plead and cried to no avail. Their terrified shrieks echoed throughout the Palestinian neighborhood as they tried to summon the help of passersby. “‘Amo’ – Uncle,” one begged, “for God sake don’t let them take me.” Nonetheless, several military vehicles were filled with crying children and their school bags. But what made the release of the video truly apt is the fact that it was released on the day president Obama was meeting Israeli children at a welcoming ceremony at the home of Israeli President Shimon Peres.
“Their dreams are much the same as children everywhere,” he said, referring to Israeli children, of cou
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On heroes and preachers: Gaza’s new resistance paradigm
“Where is the Palestinian Gandhi? In Israeli prison, of course!” was the title of an article by Jo Ehrlich published in Modoweiss.net on December 21, 2009. That was almost exactly one year after Israel concluded a major war against Gaza. The so-called Operation Cast Lead (December 27, 2008 – January 18, 2009) was, till then, the deadliest Israeli attack against the impoverished strip for many years.
Ehrlich was not in the least being belittling by raising the question about the “Palestinian Gandhi” but responding to the patronisation of others. Right from the onset, he remarked: “Not that I’m in any way playing into the Palestinian Gandhi dialogue, I think it’s actually pretty diversionary/racist. But sometimes you have to laugh in order not to cry.”
Indeed, the question was, and remains, condescending, ignorant, patronising and utterly racist. But the question was also pervasive, including among people who classify themselves as “pro-Palestinian activists”.
Now that Israel’s latest war — so-called Operation Protective Edge — has surpassed Cast Lead, in terms of duration, causalties and level of destruction, but also the sheer horrendousness of its targeting of civilians, as dozens of families were entirely wiped out
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Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy Baroud decline a newsman, author innermost the Redactor of Description Palestine Chronicle.
He is picture author look up to six books. His modish book, co-edited with Ilan Pappé, enquiry ‘Our Appearance for Liberation: Engaged Mandate Leaders shaft Intellectuals Discourse Out'. His other books include ‘My Father was a Announcement Fighter' contemporary ‘The Dense Earth'. Baroud is a Non-resident Common Research One at representation Center watch over Islam put up with Global Commission (CIGA).
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