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Israel/ Palestine
A man without a Strategy: How Netanyahu is provoking Armed Intifada in the West Bank

A man without a Strategy: How Netanyahu is provoking Armed Intifada in the West Bank

Middle East Monitor

Dr Ramzy Baroud RamzyBaroud   After signing a military decree on 18 May, allowing illegal Israeli Jewish settlers to reclaim the abandoned Homesh settlement located in the northern Occupied West Bank, the Israeli government has informed the US Biden Administration that it will not turn the area into a new settlement. The latter revelation was […]

Israel/ Palestine
Biden Administration to Combat Antisemitism, but won't Shield Israel from Criticism

Biden Administration to Combat Antisemitism, but won’t Shield Israel from Criticism

Middle East Monitor

Nasim Ahmed Nasimbythedocks   ( Middle East Monitor) – Supporters of Israel advocating for the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism have suffered a major blow in their ongoing effort to shield the apartheid state from criticism, following the release of a strategy document by the White House detailing its plan to […]

Israel/ Palestine
New Bill of Israel's Extremist Gov't Expels, bars from Universities Palestinian-Israeli Students who Raise Palestine Flag

New Bill of Israel’s Extremist Gov’t Expels, bars from Universities Palestinian-Israeli Students who Raise Palestine Flag

Middle East Monitor

( Middle East Monitor ) – The extremist Israeli government is preparing a law to dismiss Israeli Arab students who raise the Palestine flag or express their support for Palestinian resistance inside universities, Israel Hayom revealed on Thursday. An extremist Israeli Mk from the far-right Otzma Yehudit Party is preparing the law, the Israeli newspaper […]

Israel/ Palestine
Digital Data collected by Israel's Electronic Wolves helps to Terrorise the Palestinians

Digital Data collected by Israel’s Electronic Wolves helps to Terrorise the Palestinians

Middle East Monitor

By Basem Khandakji | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – An Amnesty International report published this month revealed details of the latest systems used by the Zionist state to enhance its comprehensive monitoring of occupied Palestine and its people, who are subject to the surveillance, control and punishment of this fascist security regime. The […]

Elections
The 3.6 mn. Syrian Refugees in Turkiye now a Political Football between the Two Leading Candidates

The 3.6 mn. Syrian Refugees in Turkiye now a Political Football between the Two Leading Candidates

Middle East Monitor

Gilbert Achkar ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Turkish election scene is truly disgusting, a scene in which the Syrian refugees have become a scapegoat and the subject of fierce bidding by various parties. Recent days have witnessed a peak in this regard, reflecting the outcome of the first round of the presidential elections […]

Israel/ Palestine
Nakba:  Remembering Israel's Massacre of Palestinians at Tantura

Nakba: Remembering Israel’s Massacre of Palestinians at Tantura

Middle East Monitor

Nasim Ahmed Nasimbythedocks     ( Middle East Monitor ) – On this day in May 1948, up to 200 Palestinians were massacred by Israeli troops in the coastal village of Tantura, located 35 kilometres south of Haifa. It was one of the 64 Palestinian coastal villages on the road between Tel Aviv and Haifa, […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Extremists' 'Flag March' Reveals the Occupation's Dilemma in Palestinian East Jerusalem

Israeli Extremists’ ‘Flag March’ Reveals the Occupation’s Dilemma in Palestinian East Jerusalem

Middle East Monitor

Hossam Shaker     ( Middle East Monitor ) – The fragility of a position is sometimes exposed when there is an exaggeration of self-confidence and an attempt to demonstrate control over the situation. This is the impression given by the march of Israeli settlers and extremists, who paraded through the Old City of Jerusalem […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Military Apologizes for Killing US Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, a Year after the Shooting

Israeli Military Apologizes for Killing US Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, a Year after the Shooting

Middle East Monitor

( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel’s military has apologised for its killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, after a year of denial of its responsibility for the shooting. Shireen Abu Akleh, the correspondent who covered the West Bank for Al Jazeera for two decades, was shot in the back of the head […]

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza and the Illegal Israeli use of Sanctions as a Tool for Collective Punishment

Gaza and the Illegal Israeli use of Sanctions as a Tool for Collective Punishment

Middle East Monitor

Dr Mustafa Fetouri MFetouri     International humanitarian law derived from the Geneva Convention of 1949 and the 1977 Protocols, states clearly that no person should be punished for any actions he did not commit. This principle applies to all individuals, including prisoners of war, ethnic groups and the wider civilian population. It is supposed […]

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