By Tasnim Nazeer | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Trump administration in Washington has attempted repeatedly to block investigations by the International Criminal Court of Justice (ICC) in Afghanistan and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. These investigations are significant for probing into the conduct of American and Israeli citizens but the US President […]
Will Trump’s Caesar sanctions force the Assad Regime to Negotiate, or Simply Increase Syrians’ Misery?
By Muhammad Hussein | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Seeing is believing, as the saying goes. And after seeing the 53,275 photographs proving the torture and arbitrary killings committed by the Syrian regime which were smuggled out by a former police photographer named “Caesar” in 2014, the US has finally decided to impose […]
Israel: Is Netanyahu Poised to Annex 1/3 of Palestinian W. Bank by Fiat, w/out Trump, Parliament?
By Bilal Daher | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The US administration has suspended talks with the Israeli government on the plans to annex large parts of the West Bank, due to the dispute over the plan and its implementation between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and leaders of the Blue and White […]
Israeli Press Carrying Fake News to Promote Netanyahu’s Annexation Plan for Palestine
By Motasem A Dalloul | @abujomaaGaza | – ( Middle East Monitor )- On Saturday, it was revealed that Israeli media are reporting fake news in order to market Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s annexation plan to the Palestinians. Such reports have been published by leading media outlets, including Yedioth Ahronoth, one of Israel’s bestselling newspapers. […]
Israelis made the “Peace Process” a long Funeral for Palestinian Rights; Are They Finally Burying the Body?
By Hossam Shaker | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – As the date for Israel’s planned annexation of Palestinian lands draws closer, Israeli circles have expressed growing concern about the consequences of the move. The concerns do not stem from the fact annexation violates international law or that it overturns the obligations of an […]
‘I am here with my Palestinian flag to show that Black Lives Matter’
By Lauren Lewis | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – “[Palestinians] go through the same struggle, so I understand the pain, and there’s nothing more painful than when it’s happening, and no-one is talking about it and no-one is doing anything about it,” she tells me. Indeed, Mira points out that there are striking […]
Black Americans and Palestinians ‘can’t breathe’ because of injustice
By Ahmed Al-Burai | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Over the past week, two brutal events added more sadness to the morbid climate of the coronavirus pandemic. In Minneapolis, a black American citizen was killed by a police officer, and then an unarmed 32-year-old Palestinian man with special needs was shot and killed […]
Even the Israeli Right is nervous about Netanyahu’s Plans to Annex 1/3 of Palestinian West Bank–but for all the Wrong Reasons
By Antoine Shalhat | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed during the Likud meeting in the Knesset on 25 May that he does not intend to change the date set for annexing the Jordan Valley and settlements in the occupied West Bank in Israel. The date was set […]
As Corrupt Netanyahu goes on Trial, former Israeli PM Olmert says he Runs Lawless “Mafia”
( Middle East Monitor) – After a long and complicated process that lasted 18 months, the largest Israeli political factions, the Likud and Blue and White have formed a government . . . Israeli journalist Oren Ziv told me that there is a crisis of confidence facing Netanyahu and stressed that the delay of the […]