By Jasim Al-Azzawi ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Arab world is standing at a precipice. Climate change is accelerating at twice the global average across the region. Water scarcity threatens to erase up to 14 per cent of GDP by 2050. Illiteracy and failing education systems leave millions unprepared for the AI revolution […]
The UN’s Acquiescence in Trump’s Colonial Plan for Gaza Betrays the Palestinians yet Again
by Ranjan Solomon ( Middle East Monitor ) – The recent vote in the UN Security Council on Gaza – with Russia and China pointedly abstaining and the West once again attempting to choreograph the outcome – marked a moment that history may one day identify as a subtle but decisive shift. Not because […]
The Dawn that Never Broke: The Unresolved Israel-Iran War
by Kiavash Kalhor and Mahdi Niksefat Motlagh ( Middle East Monitor ) – The dawn following 13 June brought no victory for Israel. The twelve-day war between Iran and Israel did not culminate in an Israeli triumph or an “Iranian eclipse.” Instead, evidence suggests both sides concluded the first round in a strategic, fifty-fifty […]
Are Secretive Israeli Front Organizations Trying to Empty out Gaza? Palestinians sent to South Africa
by Dr Oroub El-Abed ( Middle East Monitor ) – When a chartered flight carrying more than 150 Palestinians from Gaza landed in Johannesburg last week, confusion filled South African airwaves. As reported by The Guardian (15 Nov 2025), the passengers — weary, hungry, and bewildered — were held on board for hours, unable […]
Gaza and Sudan: The Rubble and even Blood can be seen by Satellite
by Azmat Ali ( Middle East Monitor ) – The mass killing in Gaza and the onslaught in Sudan are part of a broader global pattern in which civilians are deliberately targeted. Those affected in both places are equally human, yet the world has responded differently. Gaza has prompted widespread global mobilisation, protests, boycotts […]
Israel didn’t silence Palestinian Journalists Alone; We Helped
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 […]
Palestine: The Poem that cannot be Killed
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 […]
New Irish President Catherine Connolly’s Victory and Europe’s Moral Rebellion against the Israeli Occupation of Palestine
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’s Latest Strikes on Gaza expose the fragile illusion of Peace
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 […]








