Israel/ Palestine

By Donald Wagner | – ( Electronic Intifada) – The US withdrawal from Afghanistan marks the end of the latest in a long list of disastrous American military interventions. A quick review of the past 50 years reveals a dismal pattern of American betrayal and lack of accountability leaving behind suffering and failed states. We […]

Featured

In Turning Point for US Media, Time Recognizes Palestinians Mohammed and Muna El-Kurd as among 100 “Most Influential”

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In what may be a turning point for American media, Time magazine has chosen twin Palestinian activists from the endangered East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, Mohammed and Muna el-Kurd, as among the 100 most influential people in 2021. "Through online posts and media appearances, sibling activists Mohammed (@m7mdkurd) and Muna […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israel’s future is apartheid in a ‘solution of the three classes’

Middle East Monitor

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Reading the reflections of one of Israel’s most celebrated contemporary public intellectuals on the apparently never-ending occupation of Palestine, I was reminded of an old saying about the nature of truth. “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is […]

Israel/ Palestine

Does Israel want to end its forever wars in Gaza?

Middle East Monitor

Daud Abdullah | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Israel is finally waking up to the stark reality that it can no longer continue with its forever wars in Gaza. This was the critical message from Foreign Minister Yair Lapid when he spoke at a conference at Reichman University in Herzliya last weekend: “The State […]

Afghanistan

What does the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan mean for Israel?

Middle East Monitor

By Adnan Abu Amer | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Israelis are concerned about the shameful American withdrawal from Afghanistan and think that their government now needs to reassert its ability to protect its own interests in the region and beyond. The general feeling is that the withdrawal will now give Israel’s enemies more […]

Children

The Palestinian scramble to earn a living in Israeli-Occupied Gaza starts at school age

Juan Cole

By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The start of the new school year in the besieged Gaza Strip saw just under 300,000 students aged between six and 17 turn up for classes; more than 20,000 are attending school for the first time, often in overcrowded classrooms. Despite the difficult […]

Israel/ Palestine

Palestinian Prisoners take hope from emptying of South African Apartheid Jails

Middle East Monitor

By Alie Komape | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – When you do an online search for South Africa’s Robben Island, one of the suggested words used is “escapes”. It is obviously a common research topic. Robben Island was the site of a prison for those who resisted colonial rule going back centuries. Early […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israeli Soldiers have Killed 73 Palestinian Children this Year: When will the Siege of Civilians in Gaza End?

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor) – So much for the Israeli army supposedly wanting to “reduce” the number of Palestinians it shoots. An Israeli soldier shot and killed another Palestinian child in the besieged Gaza Strip on 21 August. Omar Hasan Abu Al-Nil was just 13. The boy succumbed to his wounds last Saturday. According to […]

Israel/ Palestine

Palestinians are newly Unified, demonstrating against Israeli Colonial Violence and Expulsion from Jerusalem

Ramona Wadi

( Middle East Monitor) – In terms of state-building and diplomatic negotiations, the occupied West Bank has been perceived in starkly different terms from Gaza. With the international community funnelling financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority in the former, the concept of a fragmented Palestine has been duly enhanced. To the undiscerning, the PA represented […]