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Israel/ Palestine
Why 1.8 Billion Muslims are Furious: By Status Quo, Jordan is supposed oversee their 3rd Holiest Shrine, in Jerusalem, but Israel won't Let it

Why 1.8 Billion Muslims are Furious: By Status Quo, Jordan is supposed oversee their 3rd Holiest Shrine, in Jerusalem, but Israel won’t Let it

Middle East Monitor

By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli occupation forces detained the Director of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Omar Al-Kiswani, as he entered the Noble Sanctuary on Tuesday. He was humiliated and searched before being allowed to enter the Islamic holy site. Last week, the Israeli occupation forces delayed Britain’s Minister […]

Israel/ Palestine
Have Israeli Extremists Ben-Gvir and Smotrich set Sights on Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians?

Have Israeli Extremists Ben-Gvir and Smotrich set Sights on Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians?

Middle East Monitor

By Feras Abu-Helal | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – At the end of last month, Benjamin Netanyahu formed the most extreme Israeli government since the Occupation of Palestine in 1948. The government includes two of the most racist and extremist politicians, namely Itamar Ben-Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit  Party, and Bezael Smotrich, […]

Israel/ Palestine
Is Israel Being Turned into a Jewish Theocracy?

Is Israel Being Turned into a Jewish Theocracy?

Middle East Monitor

By Mohammad Makram Balawi | – ( Middle East Monitor ) = Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest serving prime minister of Israel, built his entire career on confronting Iran. His argument is, Iran is building a nuclear weapon and its intent on using it against Israel and wiping out the Jewish people and he is the […]

Iran
Why the Middle East is moving and must move away from Oil and Gas

Why the Middle East is moving and must move away from Oil and Gas

Middle East Monitor

By Elif Selin Calik | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – In 2022, the biggest energy issue in the Middle East was Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil cut as the world economy entered into a period of ‘heightened uncertainty and rising challenges’. In October, OPEC cut its 2022 forecast for growth […]

Israel/ Palestine
Jewish supremacy is state policy, says Netanyahu

Jewish supremacy is state policy, says Netanyahu

Middle East Monitor

( Middle East Monitor ) – American Jewish leaders are right to be worried. As Benjamin Netanyahu peels away at the façade that has maintained support for the occupation state within liberal Jewish constituencies in the US and elsewhere, they are discovering that their democratic image of Israel is but a figment of their imagination. […]

Israel/ Palestine
Will electing the most Far Right Extremist Government Ever cost Israel International Support?

Will electing the most Far Right Extremist Government Ever cost Israel International Support?

Middle East Monitor

By Mohammad Makram Balawi | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The results of the last round of Israeli elections must have represented a big blow to US hopes and efforts as they placed their bets on the former caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid. However, the results have shown that they bet on the […]

Climate Crisis
Is the New Energy Crisis a Boon for the Green Energy Transition?

Is the New Energy Crisis a Boon for the Green Energy Transition?

Middle East Monitor

By Elif Selin Calik | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The year 2022 saw the energy topic return intensely to the attention of media, political leaders and public opinion after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February. Russia’s war has had huge impacts on the global energy system, disrupting supply and demand patterns and […]

Israel/ Palestine
Netanyahu's Empty Offer of "Self-Rule" without Land for Palestinians is just another form of Apartheid

Netanyahu’s Empty Offer of “Self-Rule” without Land for Palestinians is just another form of Apartheid

Middle East Monitor

( Middle East Monitor ) – A few days before the formation of his sixth government, Benjamin Netanyahu has defined his ceilings for the solution to the Palestinian issue: self-rule for the Palestinians and security and sovereignty for the Israelis. He did not mention Jerusalem, which has already been declared to be Israel’s “united eternal […]

Joe Biden
Will Saudi's Bin Salman cancel his Grandfather's Agreement with Roosevelt on US Alliance?

Will Saudi’s Bin Salman cancel his Grandfather’s Agreement with Roosevelt on US Alliance?

Middle East Monitor

By Amira Abo el-Fetouh | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – On 14 February, 1945, while US President Franklin D Roosevelt was returning from the Yalta Conference where he met Britain’s Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin of the USSR, King Abdulaziz Al-Saud, the founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was summoned to meet […]

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