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Iran
It was Israel, not Iran, that Derailed the 2015 Nuclear Agreement, and Bennett is still working against it

It was Israel, not Iran, that Derailed the 2015 Nuclear Agreement, and Bennett is still working against it

Middle East Monitor

By Nasim Ahmed | – World leaders have been trying desperately to salvage the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+ countries: the US, Britain, China, Russia, France and Germany. The seventh round of talks in Vienna ended on Friday with very little to suggest that the main […]

Arab World
The End of Democracy’s Fourth Wave?  The New Authoritarians in the Mideast and Eastern Europe

The End of Democracy’s Fourth Wave? The New Authoritarians in the Mideast and Eastern Europe

Middle East Monitor

By Amr Hamzawy | – (Middle East Monitor ) – Governments are described as authoritarian when they do not grant people the right to choose them freely and change them freely through periodic and fair elections when they prevent the free circulation of information and refrain from being transparent in their management of public affairs, […]

Israel/ Palestine
Even Israel's Labor Party President signals that the Occupation of Palestinians in Permanent

Even Israel’s Labor Party President signals that the Occupation of Palestinians in Permanent

Middle East Monitor

By Ashraf Al-Ajrami | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Israeli President Isaac Herzog chose to celebrate the Jewish Hanukkah holiday — the “Festival of Lights” — at the Ibrahimi Mosque in occupied Hebron, accompanied by a group of settler leaders. “The historical affinity of the Jewish people to Hebron, to the Cave of the […]

Israel/ Palestine
No, Opposing Israeli Apartheid Policies is not anti-Semitism, and Most Universities are rejecting IHRA Propaganda Ploy

No, Opposing Israeli Apartheid Policies is not anti-Semitism, and Most Universities are rejecting IHRA Propaganda Ploy

Middle East Monitor

On the first of October, the University of Bristol fired Professor David Miller, a world renowned expert on the Israel lobby, the Zionist movement and Islamophobia. They did not give an explicit reason for the sacking, claiming only that Miller “did not meet the standards of behaviour we expect from our staff.” But it is […]

Israel/ Palestine
How Israel is Isolating East Jerusalem from the West Bank to Block a Viable Palestinian State

How Israel is Isolating East Jerusalem from the West Bank to Block a Viable Palestinian State

Middle East Monitor

By Ali Abu Hableh | – ( Middle East Monitor) – The Israeli coalition government headed by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid has set its sights on accelerating the implementation of the “Greater Jerusalem” project, which covers ten per cent of the area of the occupied West Bank and cuts it in two. The intention […]

Israel/ Palestine
74 Years ago, the UN General Assembly overstepped and stole the Palestinians' Country from Them

74 Years ago, the UN General Assembly overstepped and stole the Palestinians’ Country from Them

Middle East Monitor

By Sayid Marcos Tenório | – On 29 November, 1947, the newly-created United Nations (UN) approved the Palestine Partition Plan and started the Nakba process. Nakba, meaning “catastrophe”, is an Arabic word used to describe the tragedy that followed, and is still ongoing. The infamous partition made Palestine the only state destroyed with the support […]

Banking
The Collapse of Turkey's Currency fuels Power Struggle

The Collapse of Turkey’s Currency fuels Power Struggle

Middle East Monitor

By Bakr Sidqi | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – On what was called “Black Tuesday” in the media this week, the value of the Turkish lira against foreign currencies declined sharply, bringing the exchange rate to 13.5 Turkish liras to the US dollar. While experts on the matter in Turkey and elsewhere are […]

Iran
Having Left the Iran Nuclear Deal, can the US revive it with the seventh round in Vienna?

Having Left the Iran Nuclear Deal, can the US revive it with the seventh round in Vienna?

Middle East Monitor

By Hani Habeeb | – ( Middle East Monitor) – While the American Special Representative to Iran, Robert Malley, surprised observers of the nuclear file by saying that the point of no return for this file is approaching, Israel is escalating its tone, especially in the context of its dispute with the US over this […]

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians have no Freedom or Independence under Israeli Occupation

Palestinians have no Freedom or Independence under Israeli Occupation

Middle East Monitor

By Adnan Hmidan | – On 15 November, the Palestinian Authority (PA) closed its official departments, closed schools and universities as is usual every year, to celebrate the Independence of the State of Palestine, which sparked criticism. This miserable independence, in which the Head of State—and I mean Mahmoud Abbas, in particular—does not move one […]

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