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Israel/ Palestine
Israel is racing to destroy Palestinian properties while Trump is in office

Israel is racing to destroy Palestinian properties while Trump is in office

Middle East Monitor

By Yousef Alhelou | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Last week, Israeli occupation forces carried out the largest demolition in years in the occupied West Bank. Some 76 Palestinian-owned properties, tents, sheds, structures and animal fodder were destroyed in the occupied Jordan Valley village of Khirbet Humsa. Almost 80 people, including 41 children, […]

Israel/ Palestine
Can Palestinians win over Israelis disillusioned with Right Wing Zionism?

Can Palestinians win over Israelis disillusioned with Right Wing Zionism?

Middle East Monitor

By Hamada Fara’na ( Middle East Monitor) – Amira Hass is a courageous Israeli journalist who defends the Palestinian people relentlessly and without hesitation. She writes about the rights of Palestinians and exposes the actions and racism of Israel’s occupation. In Haaretz recently, she wrote about a 19-year-old Israeli woman, Hallel Rabin, who refused to […]

Bahrain
Are Trump's Arab-Israeli "Peace Deals" fuelling a New Mideast Arms Race?

Are Trump’s Arab-Israeli “Peace Deals” fuelling a New Mideast Arms Race?

Middle East Monitor

By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Giving up its decades-old position against Israel’s occupation of Palestine, Sudan has agreed to normalise relations with the Zionist state. Tellingly, this was announced by US President Donald Trump on Friday at the White House. He is, of course, seeking a second term […]

Saudi Arabia
Saudis now Boycott, Oppose Turkey, but once Sought its Security Umbrella: Clinton Files

Saudis now Boycott, Oppose Turkey, but once Sought its Security Umbrella: Clinton Files

Middle East Monitor

By Daud Abdullah | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – This is one of the uncomfortable questions raised by the newly declassified Clinton files. A diplomatic dispatch to the former Secretary of State dated 12 October 2011 revealed that the Saudis actually considered Turkey to be a possible security guarantor after the discovery of […]

Armenia
Where does Iran stand on Armenia's conflict with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh?

Where does Iran stand on Armenia’s conflict with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh?

Middle East Monitor

By Marwan Kabalan | – ( Middle East Monitor) – While most attention is focused on the positions of Russia and Turkey in the ongoing conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Iran receives less attention. The former are the direct regional sponsors of the Armenian and Azeri parties to the crisis, but Iran is likely to […]

China
Is US Ally Pakistan tempted instead by  China-Iran Deal?

Is US Ally Pakistan tempted instead by China-Iran Deal?

Middle East Monitor

Arhama Siddiqa | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – It is no secret that despite international sanctions, Iran is known for leaving Western powers at a loss, sometimes by making what are considered to be outrageous statements, on other occasions with similarly outrageous actions. In July, the New York Times ran a story on […]

Saudi Arabia
The Catastrophic Saudi War in Yemen heads for more Disasters, for Yemenis

The Catastrophic Saudi War in Yemen heads for more Disasters, for Yemenis

Middle East Monitor

By Yaseen Tamimi | – ( Middle East Monitor) – The commander of the Southern Transitional Council in Yemen, Aidarus Al-Zoubaidi, appeared last month in the guise of a full-fledged president, surrounded by Saudi Arabian guards, meeting figures who are said to be separatist southerners and raising the separatist flag alongside the Saudi flag. All […]

Human Rights
Saudi Arabia continues to conceal its human rights abuses

Saudi Arabia continues to conceal its human rights abuses

Middle East Monitor

By Tasnim Nazeer ( Middle East Monitor ) – Two years since the brutal death of respected journalist Jamal Khashoggi, why has Saudi Arabia still not been held to account? Khashoggi, a veteran journalist from Saudi Arabia, was last seen entering the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October 2018, where he was due to obtain […]

censorship
Rethinking Saudi Arabia: A Biden administration could ensure that Khashoggi’s death was not in vain

Rethinking Saudi Arabia: A Biden administration could ensure that Khashoggi’s death was not in vain

Middle East Monitor

By Abderrahmane Amor | – Breaking News The Biden-Harris campaign releases a statement on the two-year anniversary of Khashoggi's murder stating that his death "will not be in vain." https://t.co/ZYEmx5kMem pic.twitter.com/rsl7pOWZEP — Abderrahmane Amor/عمور (@TheAmorTimes) October 2, 2020 ( Middle East Monitor) – In an interview a few days after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi […]

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