By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – Last week Israel … raided the offices of Addameer, a prisoners rights association, stealing some of its computers and hard drives.* This is all part of Israel’s long-running war against the Palestinian civilian population. It is a war to remove Palestinians from Palestine; to liquidate their existence as […]
In Israel’s Aggressive Colonization of Palestinians, Turkey has a Say
By Dr Adnan Abu Amer | @adnanabuamer1 | – Recent weeks have witnessed a series of developments in Palestine that have produced mixed reactions in Turkey and Israel. Their relationship is back to the level of tension prevalent in the wake of the Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara flotilla in 2010. The most recent […]
The Saudi-United Arab Emirates Game of Thrones in Yemen
By Mareb Al-Ward | – Riyadh and Abu Dhabi are exchanging roles in Yemen. While the former pretends to be completely biased in favour of the legitimacy, which requested its interference, the latter has adopted a clear position in favour of its military militias in the south. It is true that there is a difference […]
Iraq: The Middle East’s new battle front between Israel and Iran
By Stasa Salacanin | – In the last two months, several unexplained explosions occurred in Iraq, significantly damaging ammunition warehouses and weapons storage sites. All targets have been associated with Iranian-backed Population Mobilisation Forces (PMF), suggesting that explosions could not be a mere coincidence as they were probably caused by precision air strikes. Though no […]
Why ‘moderates’ don’t have a clue what to do about Israel’s settlements
By Ahmed El Kady | – Earlier this month, the High Planning Committee (HPC) of the Israeli Civil Administration authorised the construction of 2,304 new settlement units, just days after the approval of another 6,000 units in the occupied West Bank. These alarming developments are nothing if not predictable to those following recent events in […]
Netanyahu is risking war to boost his electoral prospects
By Abdulaziz Kilani | @AZ_Kilani | – In an effort to boost his electoral prospects, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is risking the outbreak of a war no one wants. Over the course of a few days, Israel launched attacks in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Commenting on the attack in Syria, the Israeli military said […]
Palestinian Harvard Admittee Refused Entry by Trump Admin. for Friends’ Facebook Comments
By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – Seventeen-year-old Ismail Ajjawi must have been giddy with excitement when he, a Palestinian refugee living in southern Lebanon, won a major scholarship to Harvard University. The prospect of a new life studying medicine in the United States, in one of the world’s most prestigious universities, must have been […]
Israel’s Harsh Collective Punishment of Gaza Palestinians aims at Ethnic Cleansing
By Motasem A Dalloul | @abujomaaGaza | – A Palestinian pharmacist from the Gaza Strip, Tamer Al-Sultan, 38, passed away last week in a hospital in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he was admitted after catching a disease believed to be caused by a sting or insect bite. He was a husband and father of three […]
Displacement in Gaza and Israel’s demographic obsession
By Nasser Nasser | – The statements made by a senior Israeli political source, which is likely to be Prime Minister Netanyahu himself, published in Israeli media, including Haaretz on 20 August regarding Israel taking practical steps to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, reminds us of what Israel calls the demographic threat. This involves […]
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