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

A Ceasefire in Name Only: Gaza’s Prolonged Purgatory

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What is becoming apparent is that the ceasefire has led to a state of affairs where Israeli forces have been permitted enormous latitude

Israel/ Palestine

The ruptured Mirror: How 7 October broke the Israeli Narrative

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The Israeli narrative traditionally pivoted on moral high ground and strategic restraint. That image is now broken

Arab World

Vanishing Future? The Arab World Faces 2x Global Heating, Corruption and High Tech Divide

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Water scarcity threatens to erase 14 per cent of GDP by 2050. Illiteracy and failing education leave millions unprepared for AI revolution

Donald Trump

The UN’s Acquiescence in Trump’s Colonial Plan for Gaza Betrays the Palestinians yet Again

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Gaza remains in ruins, Palestinians remain under the boot of an unrestrained occupying power, and Washington still acts as the global custodian

Iran

The Dawn that Never Broke: The Unresolved Israel-Iran War

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The twelve-day war between Iran and Israel did not culminate in an Israeli triumph or an Iranian eclipse.

Israel/ Palestine

Are Secretive Israeli Front Organizations Trying to Empty out Gaza? Palestinians sent to South Africa

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When a chartered flight carrying more than 150 Palestinians from Gaza landed in Johannesburg last week, confusion filled South African airwaves

Israel/ Palestine

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

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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

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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

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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 […]