By Adnan Abu Amer | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Israelis are concerned about the shameful American withdrawal from Afghanistan and think that their government now needs to reassert its ability to protect its own interests in the region and beyond. The general feeling is that the withdrawal will now give Israel’s enemies more […]
Palestinian Prisoners take hope from emptying of South African Apartheid Jails
By Alie Komape | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – When you do an online search for South Africa’s Robben Island, one of the suggested words used is “escapes”. It is obviously a common research topic. Robben Island was the site of a prison for those who resisted colonial rule going back centuries. Early […]
Taliban seek China as Silk Road reconstruction Partner
Ali Hussein Bakir | – ( Middle East Monitor) – In an interview conducted recently with an Italian newspaper, the Taliban movement spokesperson, Zabiullah Mujahid, pointed out that the movement was ready to rely on China economically in its bid to manage the country following their swift takeover after the US troops withdrawal from the […]
Did President Biden privately demand far Right Israeli PM Bennett stop expulsion of E Jerusalem Palestinians?
By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor) – According to Israel’s Channel 12 TV channel, in the middle of last month Prime Minister Naftali Bennett turned down a request by Defence Minister Benny Gantz to meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Gantz was disappointed with Bennett’s decision, and insisted that it was […]
The Neocons Strike Back: Blair’s Carping at Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal is Spite that He Couldn’t Recolonize the Muslim World
By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The architects of the “war on terror” have hit back following the humiliating US withdrawal from Afghanistan. From the political leaders who sanctioned never-ending wars to the intellectual high priests in journalism, academia and think tanks who cooked it up, exponents of Western imperialism […]
Even love is forbidden under Israeli apartheid
By Muhammad Hussein | – Israel’s apartheid system directed at the Palestinians is well documented. Within Israel’s officially-recognised borders — which the state has never actually declared — as well as across the occupied Palestinian territories, the people of occupied Palestine have long faced systematic discrimination which denies them the same rights afforded to Jewish […]
Why Palestinian children under Israeli occupation do not Enjoy a Safe and Secure Life
By Motasem A Dalloul | – More than 1.2 million Palestinian children in the occupied territories returned to their schools for the new academic year on 15 August. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), most of them have been counting down the days and looking forward to schools […]
Israel’s siege of Occupied Palestinian civilians is halving Gaza patients’ survival rates
By Maya Abuali | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Lacking in 60 per cent of appropriate medicine and treatment protocols as a result of the siege, Gaza’s already deficient cancer care is slipping further into chaos as restrictions grow harsher. Beyond dealing with the Gaza Strip’s already uninhabitable living conditions, Palestinian cancer patients in […]
77% of the residents of the Israeli-Occupied Old City in Jerusalem are Muslims, But for How Long as Israelis demolish Silwan Homes?
( Middle East Monitor) – An Israeli writer has said that “the statistical reality in the city of Jerusalem shows that 77% of the Old City’s residents are Muslim while only 10% are Jewish.” The writer observed that 24 per cent of the Old City’s territories in Jerusalem are owned by the Islamic Waqf (Endowment), […]
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