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Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Will Netanyahu’s new Religious Right Gov’t Turn Israel into an Iran, with Gender Segregation and Pampered Seminarians?

Will Netanyahu’s new Religious Right Gov’t Turn Israel into an Iran, with Gender Segregation and Pampered Seminarians?

Middle East Monitor

( Middle East Monitor ) – Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has asked Likud voters a series of questions related to the current impasse into which Benjamin Netanyahu, who is tasked with forming a new government, has fallen in the company of extreme neo-fascists and racist nationalist parties. “Is this what you wanted? That’s […]

Arms Sales
Ukraine war ignites the Arms Race in the Middle East

Ukraine war ignites the Arms Race in the Middle East

Middle East Monitor

By Ibrahim Nawar | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Ukraine war has cast a shadow over the arms race in the Middle East and ignited it. The Iranian weapons supplies to Russia, the Turkish and Israeli weapons to Ukraine, and Germany’s request from Israel to provide it with a system of Arrow-3 […]

Uncategorized
Israel’s Far Right in New Government Eyes Security Ministries; Who will Stop them from Just Shooting Down Palestinians?

Israel’s Far Right in New Government Eyes Security Ministries; Who will Stop them from Just Shooting Down Palestinians?

Middle East Monitor

By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – As Benjamin Netanyahu, the head of the largest right-wing Israeli party Likud, is going to form the most right-wing government the country has ever had, expectations are rising that he will give influential ministerial portfolios to far right Ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel […]

Arab Spring
Egypt has 60,000 prisoners like jailed dying Arab Spring Dissident Alaa Abdelfattah

Egypt has 60,000 prisoners like jailed dying Arab Spring Dissident Alaa Abdelfattah

Middle East Monitor

By Osama Gaweesh | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdelfattah wrote a book with the title You have not been defeated yet. He is being held in prison by the Egyptian regime for sharing a post on Facebook documenting the death of another political detainee in Egypt. As […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel: On the Road to International Isolation with the Rise of domestic Fascist Parties

Israel: On the Road to International Isolation with the Rise of domestic Fascist Parties

Middle East Monitor

Adnan Abu Amer | – As Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud party that won the Israeli elections, rushes to form his new government, unprecedented international and US warnings have been made calling for right-wing Knesset members not to participate. These include Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich of the Religious Zionist party, as their participation […]

Israel/ Palestine
After another Israeli Election, must the Palestinians Prepare for a new Mass Expulsion?

After another Israeli Election, must the Palestinians Prepare for a new Mass Expulsion?

Middle East Monitor

By Motasem A Dalloul | – With what looks like a resounding election victory, Benjamin Netanyahu seems certain to return as prime minister of Israel, a post he has already held for twelve years. This time, though, his cabinet will not include left or centrist parties; it will be filled with far right religious fanatics. […]

Authoritarianism
‘Bloody Friday’ highlights the Plight of the Baloch in Iran

‘Bloody Friday’ highlights the Plight of the Baloch in Iran

Middle East Monitor

By Samand Muhammad-Shahi | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – A month after a brutal massacre, protests continue in Iran’s restive region of Balochistan, home to the Baloch-Sunni ethno-religious minority. Six more people, including three children, were reported to have been killed on Friday as Iranian security forces opened fire on the demonstrators in […]

Israel
Why Israel Defies the United States, Stays on the Good Side of Russia’s Putin in Refusing Aid to Ukraine

Why Israel Defies the United States, Stays on the Good Side of Russia’s Putin in Refusing Aid to Ukraine

Middle East Monitor

By Adnan Abu Amer | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Ukrainian war continues to have negative effects on Russian-Israeli relations where, recently, there was a warning by former Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, to Israel that if it offered military assistance to Ukraine, it would seriously harm relations with Moscow. This warning came […]

Israel/ Palestine
The World’s Last Colony, Palestinian Gaza, has no Say as Israel May Usurp Natural Gas Resources off its Coast

The World’s Last Colony, Palestinian Gaza, has no Say as Israel May Usurp Natural Gas Resources off its Coast

Middle East Monitor

By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Since the beginning of October, news reports have mentioned a tripartite agreement between Egypt, the Palestinian Authority and Israel to develop a natural gas field off the shores of the besieged Gaza Strip. As recently as Monday, Wafa news agency reported Palestine Authority Prime […]

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