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Israel/ Palestine
Pompeo's branding of Boycotters of Israel 'anti-Semitic' is intended to Justify Expropriation, Statelessness of Palestinians

Pompeo’s branding of Boycotters of Israel ‘anti-Semitic’ is intended to Justify Expropriation, Statelessness of Palestinians

Middle East Monitor

By Essam Yousef | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – As he counts down his final days in office, US President Donald Trump is continuing to reward human rights violations committed by Israel. Ignoring the apartheid state’s crimes against the people of occupied Palestine, he is instead criminalising those who try to stop such […]

Israel/ Palestine
How the Israeli Occupation has stolen Palestinians’ Childhood

How the Israeli Occupation has stolen Palestinians’ Childhood

Middle East Monitor

By Wafa Aludaini | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Decades of occupation, unrest and blockade have taken a heavy toll on the children of Palestine and in particular the children of the Gaza Strip, where regular outbreaks of aggression and the deteriorating living conditions have left a generation in desperate need of psychosocial […]

Antisemitism
Why is the Israeli Gov't Rooting for a 2nd Term for Trump and his White Nationalist, anti-Semitic Allies?

Why is the Israeli Gov’t Rooting for a 2nd Term for Trump and his White Nationalist, anti-Semitic Allies?

Middle East Monitor

By Bruno Beaklini | – ( Middle East Monitor) – As I write, the United States is going through two simultaneous processes: the formal victory of the Democratic Party oligarch, Joe Biden, the former Delaware state senator and the former vice president of Barack Obama (2008-2016); and legal appeals from incumbent President Donald Trump to […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel is racing to destroy Palestinian properties while Trump is in office

Israel is racing to destroy Palestinian properties while Trump is in office

Middle East Monitor

By Yousef Alhelou | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Last week, Israeli occupation forces carried out the largest demolition in years in the occupied West Bank. Some 76 Palestinian-owned properties, tents, sheds, structures and animal fodder were destroyed in the occupied Jordan Valley village of Khirbet Humsa. Almost 80 people, including 41 children, […]

Israel/ Palestine
Can Palestinians win over Israelis disillusioned with Right Wing Zionism?

Can Palestinians win over Israelis disillusioned with Right Wing Zionism?

Middle East Monitor

By Hamada Fara’na ( Middle East Monitor) – Amira Hass is a courageous Israeli journalist who defends the Palestinian people relentlessly and without hesitation. She writes about the rights of Palestinians and exposes the actions and racism of Israel’s occupation. In Haaretz recently, she wrote about a 19-year-old Israeli woman, Hallel Rabin, who refused to […]

Bahrain
Are Trump's Arab-Israeli "Peace Deals" fuelling a New Mideast Arms Race?

Are Trump’s Arab-Israeli “Peace Deals” fuelling a New Mideast Arms Race?

Middle East Monitor

By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Giving up its decades-old position against Israel’s occupation of Palestine, Sudan has agreed to normalise relations with the Zionist state. Tellingly, this was announced by US President Donald Trump on Friday at the White House. He is, of course, seeking a second term […]

Saudi Arabia
Saudis now Boycott, Oppose Turkey, but once Sought its Security Umbrella: Clinton Files

Saudis now Boycott, Oppose Turkey, but once Sought its Security Umbrella: Clinton Files

Middle East Monitor

By Daud Abdullah | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – This is one of the uncomfortable questions raised by the newly declassified Clinton files. A diplomatic dispatch to the former Secretary of State dated 12 October 2011 revealed that the Saudis actually considered Turkey to be a possible security guarantor after the discovery of […]

Armenia
Where does Iran stand on Armenia's conflict with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh?

Where does Iran stand on Armenia’s conflict with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh?

Middle East Monitor

By Marwan Kabalan | – ( Middle East Monitor) – While most attention is focused on the positions of Russia and Turkey in the ongoing conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Iran receives less attention. The former are the direct regional sponsors of the Armenian and Azeri parties to the crisis, but Iran is likely to […]

China
Is US Ally Pakistan tempted instead by  China-Iran Deal?

Is US Ally Pakistan tempted instead by China-Iran Deal?

Middle East Monitor

Arhama Siddiqa | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – It is no secret that despite international sanctions, Iran is known for leaving Western powers at a loss, sometimes by making what are considered to be outrageous statements, on other occasions with similarly outrageous actions. In July, the New York Times ran a story on […]

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