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Middle East Monitor

Middle East Monitor is a not-for-profit press monitoring organization, founded on 1 July 2009, and based in London. Journalists who have written for it include Amelia Smith, Diana Alghoul, Ben White, Jehan Alfarra and Jessica Purkiss. The editorial line straddles the British left and the British Muslim religious Right.

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza and Sudan: The Rubble and even Blood can be seen by Satellite

Gaza and Sudan: The Rubble and even Blood can be seen by Satellite

Middle East Monitor

The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) has released repeated satellite imagery showing flattened neighbourhoods and rubble

Israel/ Palestine
Israel didn’t silence Palestinian Journalists Alone; We Helped

Israel didn’t silence Palestinian Journalists Alone; We Helped

Middle East Monitor

  by Tony Rigopoulos A few days ago, in a full room at the opulent gardens of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna — once home to the Habsburgs — during the 75th World Congress of the International Press Institute, Palestinian journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh addressed nearly a hundred journalists from around the world about the reality of […]

Israel/ Palestine
Palestine: The Poem that cannot be Killed

Palestine: The Poem that cannot be Killed

Middle East Monitor

  by Karam Nama< ( Middle East Monitor ) – When Yitzhak Shamir stood in the Israeli Knesset, reciting with bitterness and historical humiliation the searing lines of “Those Who Pass Between Fleeting Words” in Hebrew, he wasn’t merely quoting a poem—he was confronting a linguistic bombshell that shattered the illusion of Israeli permanence. He […]

Ireland
New Irish President Catherine Connolly’s Victory and Europe’s Moral Rebellion against the Israeli Occupation of Palestine

New Irish President Catherine Connolly’s Victory and Europe’s Moral Rebellion against the Israeli Occupation of Palestine

Middle East Monitor

Catherine Connolly’s victory: Europe’s moral rebellion against the Israeli occupation By Adnan Hmidan ( Middle East Monitor ) – When Catherine Connolly was elected President of Ireland, the shockwaves were felt far beyond Dublin. Her victory was not a symbolic gesture, nor a routine political milestone. It was a direct moral rebuke to the Israeli […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Latest Strikes on Gaza expose the fragile illusion of Peace

Israel’s Latest Strikes on Gaza expose the fragile illusion of Peace

Middle East Monitor

  by Ronny P Sasmita ( Middle East Monitor ) – The latest Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have once again exposed the frailty of what the world had hoped would be a lasting truce. Barely days after the so-called Gaza Plan was endorsed in Cairo as a new framework for postwar reconstruction and governance, the […]

Israel/ Palestine
Trump’s Gaza Initiative: Chance for Peace or Empty Words?

Trump’s Gaza Initiative: Chance for Peace or Empty Words?

Middle East Monitor

  by Azmat Ali ( Middle East Monitor ) – After nearly two years of war in Gaza, a sudden and surprising development has emerged. Hamas has issued a statement agreeing in principle to release all Israeli captives it holds — both the living and the remains of the dead — and to hand over […]

Donald Trump
The Fragile Peace of Trump’s Gaza Plan

The Fragile Peace of Trump’s Gaza Plan

Middle East Monitor

  by Ronny P Sasmita ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Gaza plan unveiled by Donald Trump and reluctantly accepted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been described as bold, controversial, and even theatrical. And indeed, it is all of these things. But it is also something else, perhaps the only available mechanism, […]

Israel/ Palestine
As Gaza bleeds, Israel plans its next move: Annexing the Palestinian West Bank

As Gaza bleeds, Israel plans its next move: Annexing the Palestinian West Bank

Middle East Monitor

  by Alaa Said ( Middle East Monitor ) – While the genocide and destruction in Gaza have reached unprecedented levels, Israel now appears to be moving towards its next bold step — a West Bank version of the Gaza endgame scenario. Tension is mounting regionally and globally over a possible imminent Israeli declaration to […]

Israel/ Palestine
Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

Middle East Monitor

by Ismail Salahuddin ( Middle East Monitor ) – In an age where our phones glow with the endless stream of breaking news, short videos, and curated feeds, genocide itself has been transformed into consumable content. We live not simply in an era of wars but in what might be called the Netflix era of […]

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