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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 […]

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 […]

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