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Elections
Israel enters a New Election between the Right and the Far Right

Israel enters a New Election between the Right and the Far Right

Middle East Monitor

By Antoine Shalhat | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel is heading towards a fourth general election in less than two years, coinciding with another confirmed fact that the competition in this election will be between the components of the Israeli right-wing. The elections will be held against a single backdrop: the opposition […]

Democratic Party
2020 Began and Ended with Trump baiting Iran into War: Can we get through another Month without One?

2020 Began and Ended with Trump baiting Iran into War: Can we get through another Month without One?

Middle East Monitor

By Ahmed Omar | – The single main story of the year has without a doubt been the coronavirus pandemic which has thus far claimed over 1.5 million lives around the world amid encouraging news about vaccine development. However it is now easy to forget that before this story became a near permanent fixture of […]

Israel/ Palestine
Is Israel obliged to investigate its Shootings of Palestinian Children?

Is Israel obliged to investigate its Shootings of Palestinian Children?

Middle East Monitor

By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Last Friday, Israeli occupation forces shot dead 13-year-old Palestinian boy Ali Abu Alia during a protest against the construction of an Israeli settlement in the village of Al-Mughayyir, north of the West Bank city of Ramallah. The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that Ali […]

Israel/ Palestine
"I have a Dream":  The Palestinian Version

“I have a Dream”: The Palestinian Version

Middle East Monitor

By Adnan Hmidan | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Every time I read how Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream that came true, to a certain extent, I feel hopeful again that my dream of the return of the desperate Palestinian refugees, scattered in all corners of the world, will eventually come true, […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel legitimises squatter outposts stolen from Palestinians and thus proceeds with silent annexation

Israel legitimises squatter outposts stolen from Palestinians and thus proceeds with silent annexation

Middle East Monitor

By Abdel Nasser Al-Najjar | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Weeks before the March 2020 General Election in Israel, the main pillar of the right-wing campaign headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was propaganda based around “annexation” of more occupied Palestinian land. The annexation process would have started from the Jordan Valley to […]

Democracy
Biden vows Turkey's Autocrat Erdogan must "Pay a Price" for attacks on Critics, Syrian Kurds

Biden vows Turkey’s Autocrat Erdogan must “Pay a Price” for attacks on Critics, Syrian Kurds

Middle East Monitor

By Ahmet Alioglu | – ( Middle East Monitor) – One of the leading assistants of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, and a founder of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), resigned last week from the government’s high advisory council citing disagreements and discontent over judicial practices. Bulent Arinc called for a comprehensive reassessment […]

Israel/ Palestine
Pompeo's branding of Boycotters of Israel 'anti-Semitic' is intended to Justify Expropriation, Statelessness of Palestinians

Pompeo’s branding of Boycotters of Israel ‘anti-Semitic’ is intended to Justify Expropriation, Statelessness of Palestinians

Middle East Monitor

By Essam Yousef | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – As he counts down his final days in office, US President Donald Trump is continuing to reward human rights violations committed by Israel. Ignoring the apartheid state’s crimes against the people of occupied Palestine, he is instead criminalising those who try to stop such […]

Israel/ Palestine
How the Israeli Occupation has stolen Palestinians’ Childhood

How the Israeli Occupation has stolen Palestinians’ Childhood

Middle East Monitor

By Wafa Aludaini | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Decades of occupation, unrest and blockade have taken a heavy toll on the children of Palestine and in particular the children of the Gaza Strip, where regular outbreaks of aggression and the deteriorating living conditions have left a generation in desperate need of psychosocial […]

Antisemitism
Why is the Israeli Gov't Rooting for a 2nd Term for Trump and his White Nationalist, anti-Semitic Allies?

Why is the Israeli Gov’t Rooting for a 2nd Term for Trump and his White Nationalist, anti-Semitic Allies?

Middle East Monitor

By Bruno Beaklini | – ( Middle East Monitor) – As I write, the United States is going through two simultaneous processes: the formal victory of the Democratic Party oligarch, Joe Biden, the former Delaware state senator and the former vice president of Barack Obama (2008-2016); and legal appeals from incumbent President Donald Trump to […]

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