Middle East

(Middle East Monitor) – What is the ‘Great March of Return’ but a people attempting to reclaim their role, and be recognised and heard in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine? Much has been said about what the popular mobilisation in Gaza, which began on March 30, 2018, represents. Sympathetic views rightly understood the […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israeli Squatters Uproot Dozens of Olive Trees in Palestinian Nablus

Maan News Agency

NABLUS (Ma’an) — A group of Israeli settlers uprooted dozens of Palestinian-owned olive trees, on Tuesday, in an agricultural area near the Burin village, south of the northern occupied West Bank. Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an that Israeli settlers from the illegal Yitzhar settlement stormed […]

Yemen

Saudi-Led Bombardment of Yemen kills 22, including Children, wounds 30

AFP

Sanaa (AFP) – Twelve children and 10 women have been killed by strikes in Yemen’s northern province of Hajjah in the past 48 hours, the United Nations said on Monday. Up to 30 people were reported wounded, including 14 children, several of whom “require possible evacuation to survive,” the UN’s humanitarian coordination office OCHA said […]

Featured

Even Wonder Woman’s Gal Gadot Slams Netanyahu’s Racism: ‘It is not a matter of … Arabs or Jews”

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Can Wonder Woman take down Israel’s combative, far right wing prime minister over his disturbing racism? Actress Gal Gadot, who played the Amazonian superhero in the blockbuster DC Entertainment film, has weighed in. As her character, Diana, said in the film, “I am the man who can.” Embed from Getty […]

Algeria

Algeria: Street Crowds, Youth, Overthrow sixth Arab President in 8 Years

AFP

Algiers (AFP) – Algeria’s ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced Monday he is dropping his bid for a fifth term in office, scrapping the upcoming elections altogether after weeks of protests against his candidacy. “Peacefully, we have overthrown the puppet!” people sang in Algiers following the president’s decision. Celebratory honking of car horns rang out in […]

Iran

Iran’s Rouhani outflanks Trump in Baghdad, Slams US for “Bombs dropped on People”

Ali Choukeir

By Ali Choukeir | – Baghdad (AFP) – Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani hit back Monday against pressure from the “aggressor” United States on Iraq to limit ties with its neighbour, during his first official visit to Baghdad. Shiite-majority Iraq is walking a fine line to maintain good relations with its key partners Iran and the […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israel was already Throttling Palestinians’ Water; Now Global Heating is Piling On

Al-Shabaka

By Zena Agha | – (Al-Shabaka) – Climate change is among the greatest threats currently facing human life. Its effects are global, wide-ranging, and unequally distributed. Despite Palestinians and Israelis inhabiting the same physical terrain, Palestinians under occupation will suffer the effects of climate change more severely. The single greatest non-environmental risk facing Palestinians in […]

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

Even after Trump’s Announced Withdrawal, US & Kurdish Allies Still Assaulting last ISIL Redoubt in Syria

Rouba El Husseini

co-author: Tony Gamal-Gabriel Syria (AFP) – US-backed forces said Sunday time was up for Islamic State group jihadists hunkering down in their eastern Syrian holdout and resumed their assault on the pocket. The extremists once ruled over millions in a swathe of Syria and Iraq, but they have since lost all that land except for […]

Iran

Could Trump try to Save himself by Wagging the Dog with an Iran War?

Tomdispatch

By Bob Dreyfuss | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Here’s the foreign policy question of questions in 2019: Are President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, all severely weakened at home and with few allies abroad, reckless enough to set off a war with Iran? Could military actions designed […]