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Israel/ Palestine
How Israeli Schools Erase or Demonize Palestinians for the Next Generation

How Israeli Schools Erase or Demonize Palestinians for the Next Generation

Middle East Monitor

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – Dissident Israeli scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan’s important academic study, “Palestine in Israeli School Books” is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand some important realities about the Israeli state and Israeli society. As a settler-colonial entity, real change can never come from within Israeli society. It must be […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Snipers and other Forces have killed 16 Palestinian children since start of 2019

Israeli Snipers and other Forces have killed 16 Palestinian children since start of 2019

Middle East Monitor

Israeli occupation forces have killed 16 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank and besieged Gaza Strip since the start of 2019, Defence for Children International-Palestine (DCIP) said yesterday. In a report, the rights group said 12 children were killed in Gaza and four in the occupied West Bank. It accused the Israeli occupation forces […]

Libya
The United Arab Emirates is getting out of Yemen:  Will it Target Libya Next?

The United Arab Emirates is getting out of Yemen: Will it Target Libya Next?

Middle East Monitor

By Abdulaziz Kilani | @AZ_Kilani | – Last week, the United Arab Emirates confirmed its troop drawdown from Yemen, which has raised questions about what Abu Dhabi’s next target will be. “Many people asked if this is also linked to the current rise of tensions with Iran,” said a senior UAE official who declined to […]

Israel/ Palestine
Can Israel conceal War Crimes by Emptying its Archives?

Can Israel conceal War Crimes by Emptying its Archives?

Middle East Monitor

By Motasem A Dalloul | Twitter: @abujomaaGaza | – In January 2018, +972 Magazine published an article outlining the reasons why Israel’s Chief Archivist Dr Yaakov Lozowick had declared he was going into early retirement. Lozowick was protesting against Israel’s policy of maintaining documents classified. A report by the senior archivist said: “Israel is not […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel and the End of Palestinian Childhood

Israel and the End of Palestinian Childhood

Middle East Monitor

By Nabil Al-Sahli | – The Israeli occupation authorities have transformed the images of joy, play and education that should be the norm for Palestinian children into a shocking number of violations committed by the army against them in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Around 1.3 million Palestinian children in the West Bank are […]

Saudi Arabia
As United Arab Emirates pulls out of Brutal Yemen War, is it now Saudi Arabia 's?

As United Arab Emirates pulls out of Brutal Yemen War, is it now Saudi Arabia ‘s?

Middle East Monitor

By Thembisa Fakude | Twitter: @fakudet | – The war in Yemen is entering its fifth year with no solution in sight. Every day thousands of people, including women and children, are injured and maimed. According to Amnesty International, “there is extensive evidence that irresponsible arms flows to the Saudi Arabia-led coalition have resulted in […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Jim Crow: Court Halts Park Entry Ban Deemed Racist by Palestinian-Israelis

Israeli Jim Crow: Court Halts Park Entry Ban Deemed Racist by Palestinian-Israelis

Middle East Monitor

A court on Sunday ordered a predominantly Jewish town in northern Israel to lift a ban on non-resident visitors to its parks, a prohibition that a rights group said was aimed at keeping Arabs out. The town of Afula denied the edict was racially motivated. In instructing the town to lift the order, Judge Danny […]

Israel/ Palestine
Why his 'Deal of the Century' Failed: Kushner tried to Bribe the World to Liquidate the Palestinian Nation

Why his ‘Deal of the Century’ Failed: Kushner tried to Bribe the World to Liquidate the Palestinian Nation

Middle East Monitor

The Palestinian president brags that he thwarted the Bahrain workshop, and accordingly, or before the workshop, the deal of the century, while his supporters boast this claim day and night. While we have repeatedly said that the PA’s position of rejecting the deal of the century and the Bahrain workshop is a good position, the […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli PM Netanyahu vows Never to dismantle Illegal Squatter Settlements in Palestine

Israeli PM Netanyahu vows Never to dismantle Illegal Squatter Settlements in Palestine

Middle East Monitor

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed never to dismantle Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Speaking yesterday at an event in the settlement of Revava – which forms part of the Ariel settlement bloc located off Route 60, south of Nablus – Netanyahu vowed that there would be no uprooting of Israel’s […]

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