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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.

Donald Trump
Trump’s Other Endless War: How a Strike on Iran betrays his central Promise

Trump’s Other Endless War: How a Strike on Iran betrays his central Promise

Middle East Monitor

Military force can destroy facilities, eliminate commanders, and cripple infrastructure; it cannot, on its own, construct a new political order

Donald Trump
The Strait of Hormuz and Iran: Where Geography becomes a Weapon

The Strait of Hormuz and Iran: Where Geography becomes a Weapon

Middle East Monitor

What Iranian commanders have constructed in and around the Strait of Hormuz is not a conventional defense.

Israel
Is Turkey in Israel’s Crosshairs, after Iran?  A Strategic Rivalry Reconsidered

Is Turkey in Israel’s Crosshairs, after Iran? A Strategic Rivalry Reconsidered

Middle East Monitor

A new axis: Turkey, a member of NATO with a thriving economy and global ambitions, is building a Sunni axis that might be even more powerful

Israel/ Palestine
Ramadan under the Rubble: Gaza welcomes Holy Month amid Unhealed Wounds

Ramadan under the Rubble: Gaza welcomes Holy Month amid Unhealed Wounds

Middle East Monitor

Severe shortages of food, fuel, and basic services define daily existence among people in Gaza

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s not-so-subtle Push to Annex the Entire Palestinian West Bank

Israel’s not-so-subtle Push to Annex the Entire Palestinian West Bank

Middle East Monitor

The latest cabinet measures extend Israeli civilian administrative reach into areas previously reserved for Palestinian governance.

Israel/ Palestine
Algorithms and AI have turned Gaza into a Laboratory of Death

Algorithms and AI have turned Gaza into a Laboratory of Death

Middle East Monitor

Location, contact networks, patterns of communication, and group affiliations make it possible to map the social life of an entire people

Donald Trump
From Waltz to Hormuz: Why a Gulf Escalation would backfire Systemically

From Waltz to Hormuz: Why a Gulf Escalation would backfire Systemically

Middle East Monitor

The international system today is not only defined by polarity but by dense interdependence. Energy chokepoints generate global conflict

Israel/ Palestine
Who Fears the Truth?  The Deep Fake Campaign to Silence Francesca Albanese on the Gaza Genocide

Who Fears the Truth? The Deep Fake Campaign to Silence Francesca Albanese on the Gaza Genocide

Middle East Monitor

The edited clip of that speech ricocheted across social media, falsely suggesting

Israel/ Palestine
UK Supreme Court Strikes down Gov’t Ban on Palestine Action Group

UK Supreme Court Strikes down Gov’t Ban on Palestine Action Group

Middle East Monitor

Keir Starmer’s government suffered a resounding blow from the UK Supreme Court, which struck down the ban on the activist group Pal Action

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