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Israel/ Palestine
Is More Conflict What the Mideast Needs?  Israel's Dangerous Plan to Annex 1/3 of Palestinian West Bank

Is More Conflict What the Mideast Needs? Israel’s Dangerous Plan to Annex 1/3 of Palestinian West Bank

Middle East Monitor

By Hazem Ayyad | – ( Middle East Monitor.) – As expected, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu postponed Israel’s annexation plan… on the pretext of finishing his consultations with an American delegation. His decision was not made known for certain to his Foreign Minister, retired General Gabi Ashkenazi, who told Israel’s Army Radio: “It seems unlikely […]

Israel/ Palestine
On this Day in 1920, Receipt was Given to Colonial Britain for 'One Palestine, Complete'; Jews were 11%

On this Day in 1920, Receipt was Given to Colonial Britain for ‘One Palestine, Complete’; Jews were 11%

Middle East Monitor

By Jehan Alfarra | – On this day in 1920, the first High Commissioner for Palestine Herbert Samuel, was handed the administration of the country by the British government and signed a receipt saying “one Palestine, complete” On this day in 1920, the first High Commissioner for Palestine, 1st Viscount Samuel, Herbert Samuel, was handed […]

Donald Trump
Only a Criminal Regime would Coerce Int'l Criminal Court as Trump is Doing -- Oh wait

Only a Criminal Regime would Coerce Int’l Criminal Court as Trump is Doing — Oh wait

Middle East Monitor

By Tasnim Nazeer | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Trump administration in Washington has attempted repeatedly to block investigations by the International Criminal Court of Justice (ICC) in Afghanistan and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. These investigations are significant for probing into the conduct of American and Israeli citizens but the US President […]

Syria
Will Trump's Caesar sanctions force the Assad Regime to Negotiate, or Simply Increase Syrians' Misery?

Will Trump’s Caesar sanctions force the Assad Regime to Negotiate, or Simply Increase Syrians’ Misery?

Middle East Monitor

By Muhammad Hussein | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Seeing is believing, as the saying goes. And after seeing the 53,275 photographs proving the torture and arbitrary killings committed by the Syrian regime which were smuggled out by a former police photographer named “Caesar” in 2014, the US has finally decided to impose […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel: Is Netanyahu Poised to Annex 1/3 of Palestinian W. Bank by Fiat,  w/out Trump, Parliament?

Israel: Is Netanyahu Poised to Annex 1/3 of Palestinian W. Bank by Fiat, w/out Trump, Parliament?

Middle East Monitor

By Bilal Daher | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The US administration has suspended talks with the Israeli government on the plans to annex large parts of the West Bank, due to the dispute over the plan and its implementation between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and leaders of the Blue and White […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Press Carrying Fake News to Promote Netanyahu's Annexation Plan for Palestine

Israeli Press Carrying Fake News to Promote Netanyahu’s Annexation Plan for Palestine

Middle East Monitor

By Motasem A Dalloul | @abujomaaGaza | – ( Middle East Monitor )- On Saturday, it was revealed that Israeli media are reporting fake news in order to market Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s annexation plan to the Palestinians. Such reports have been published by leading media outlets, including Yedioth Ahronoth, one of Israel’s bestselling newspapers. […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israelis made the "Peace Process" a long Funeral for Palestinian Rights; Are They Finally Burying the Body?

Israelis made the “Peace Process” a long Funeral for Palestinian Rights; Are They Finally Burying the Body?

Middle East Monitor

By Hossam Shaker | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – As the date for Israel’s planned annexation of Palestinian lands draws closer, Israeli circles have expressed growing concern about the consequences of the move. The concerns do not stem from the fact annexation violates international law or that it overturns the obligations of an […]

African-Americans
‘I am here with my Palestinian flag to show that Black Lives Matter’

‘I am here with my Palestinian flag to show that Black Lives Matter’

Middle East Monitor

By Lauren Lewis | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – “[Palestinians] go through the same struggle, so I understand the pain, and there’s nothing more painful than when it’s happening, and no-one is talking about it and no-one is doing anything about it,” she tells me. Indeed, Mira points out that there are striking […]

Israel/ Palestine
Black Americans and Palestinians ‘can’t breathe’ because of injustice

Black Americans and Palestinians ‘can’t breathe’ because of injustice

Middle East Monitor

By Ahmed Al-Burai | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Over the past week, two brutal events added more sadness to the morbid climate of the coronavirus pandemic. In Minneapolis, a black American citizen was killed by a police officer, and then an unarmed 32-year-old Palestinian man with special needs was shot and killed […]

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