By Mamoun Fandy | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – In what looks to be a brave new world, even as its features are taking shape, a group of people has been able to change Palestinian and Israeli communities, as well as the regional environment and global awareness. They are the social media activists […]
A Ceasefire is not Enough: The Struggle for our Rights in Palestine must Continue until the Occupation Ends
By Eman Abusidu | – ( Middle East Monitor) – I am a Palestinian. I know about pain. I have felt it, seen it and lived through it many times. Ever since I was born, the Gaza Strip has faced brutal Israeli military offensives and incursions. Scenes of death and destruction are the backdrop to […]
Gaza: The Trauma of the Present and reliving the Trauma of the Past: Life Lacking a sense of Safety
By Yasser Abu Jamei MD | – ( Middle East Monitor) – After [the weekend’s] … bombing raids in the heart of Gaza City, Gazans are once again struggling with traumatic memories. The atrocities that are happening now bring memories. Israeli planes have shattered our families so many terrifying and memorable times for decades. For […]
Letter from a Father in Gaza: Our Six-Year-Old can’t block out the Sounds of Israel’s Bombardment
By Yasser Abu Jamei, MD | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – I am writing this letter looking at my terrified 6-year-old son, who keeps putting his hands over his ears trying block the sounds of Israel’s bombardment, my two daughters, aged 13 and 10 and my wife. These faces show the anxiety of […]
Did Israel Exacerbate the situation in Gaza to shift attention from its Sheikh Jarrah evictions?
By Yousef A-Helou | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – It seems it is the fate of Palestinians to face the worst of apartheid policies under Israel’s military occupation. Denial of rights, dispossessions, expulsions, evictions, ID confiscations, house demolitions, land grabs, airstrikes, tank shelling, targeted assassinations, warships, refugees, military occupation. These are terms among […]
Why Palestinians Protest their Eviction by Israel: The untold story of Sheikh Jarrah
There are two separate Sheikh Jarrah stories. One is read about and watched on the news, the other receives little media coverage or due analysis. The obvious story is that of the nightly raids and violence meted out by Israeli police and Jewish extremists against Palestinians in the devastated East Jerusalem neighbourhood. For weeks, thousands […]
Israeli Repression and Land Grabs, and the Palestinian Protests in Jerusalem
By Anjuman Rahman | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Violence has become a permanent feature of Ramadan for the people of occupied Palestine. The first day of the fasting month this year began with the Israeli army breaking locks and cutting the wires to the loudspeakers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem to silence […]
A Thaw in Coldest of Mideast Cold Wars? Saudi Arabia is suddenly talking to Iran
By Omid Shokri | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia have been strained in recent years. Both countries pursue conflicting interests in particular issues in the region with a specific ideology in foreign policy. The two countries are rivals not only in the Islamic world and the region, but […]
Israeli Intelligence Chiefs Assess that Biden, Iran will Rejoin Nuclear Deal; Netanyahu wants to Stop it
By Motasem A Dalloul | – After two weeks of deliberations in Vienna about reactivating the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal with Iran, EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell told reporters on Monday that, “There is a real goodwill on both parts to reach an agreement.” He pointed out that the […]