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Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Is 2020 the Year Gaza under Israeli Occupation Becomes Unlivable?

Is 2020 the Year Gaza under Israeli Occupation Becomes Unlivable?

Middle East Monitor

By Motasem A Dalloul | @abujomaaGaza | – Middle East Monitor | – It was a very happy moment when the Palestinians knew that they would cast their votes in order to choose their representatives, after waiting a long time. They voted and unexpectedly, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, won the overwhelming majority of […]

Hindu Nationalism
Are the Hindu Supremacists trying to Israelify India?

Are the Hindu Supremacists trying to Israelify India?

Middle East Monitor

Reducing Muslims to Statelessness or 2nd Class Citizenship

Hamas
Israel: Turkey Coddles Hamas! Turkey: Israelis are Nazis! Bilateral Relations are Cratering

Israel: Turkey Coddles Hamas! Turkey: Israelis are Nazis! Bilateral Relations are Cratering

Middle East Monitor

By Dr Adnan Abu Amer | @adnanabuamer1 | – Turkish-Israeli relations are witnessing increasing tension in recent days, culminating in Tel Aviv accusing Ankara of giving way to Hamas to conduct its activities on its soil. Although the Turkish Foreign Ministry rejected the Israeli accusations, Israeli newspapers published articles and reports that criticised Turkish-Hamas relations. […]

Houthi
World's Worst War: Can South Yemen's Warring Factions Make Peace amid Saudi-Emirates Rivalry?

World’s Worst War: Can South Yemen’s Warring Factions Make Peace amid Saudi-Emirates Rivalry?

Middle East Monitor

By Stasa Salacanin | – At the beginning of November, warring parties from Yemen’s south reached a power-sharing deal which aimed not only to defuse tensions among Arab alliances in South Yemen but was also seen to as a step closer towards ending the war in the country. The tensions between the Saudi-backed Hadi government […]

Government surveillance
How the Emirates Weaponized ex-NSA Spying Expertise against Democracy Activists

How the Emirates Weaponized ex-NSA Spying Expertise against Democracy Activists

Middle East Monitor

US officials and former NSA employees build UAE secret surveillance unit

Israel/ Palestine
War Crime: Israel's Forceful Removal of Thousands of Negev Bedouin

War Crime: Israel’s Forceful Removal of Thousands of Negev Bedouin

Middle East Monitor

By Megan Giovannetti | – Israeli rights group Adalah, which seeks legal justice for Palestinian citizens of Israel, issued an in-depth report on 10 December breaking down the illegality of Israel’s recent advancement in the forceful removal of thousands of Bedouin in the Negev (referred to as ‘Naqab’ by Bedouin) desert. The report, issued on […]

Islamophobia
Muslims aren't the Only Ones Endangered by Israeli Groups Churning Far-Right Hatred

Muslims aren’t the Only Ones Endangered by Israeli Groups Churning Far-Right Hatred

Middle East Monitor

By Nasim Ahmed | @Nasimbythedocks | – Last week, a Guardian investigation traced a network of Facebook accounts fuelling far-right Islamophobic pages around the world to Israel. Journalists at the UK daily uncovered a plot to take over some of Facebook’s largest far-right pages in an attempt to foment hatred towards Islam and Muslims while […]

Israel/ Palestine
In Search of Mideast Empire?   Why is Russia Cozying up to Hamas?

In Search of Mideast Empire? Why is Russia Cozying up to Hamas?

Middle East Monitor

By Adnan Abu Amer | @adnanabuamer1 | – Hamas and Russia have in recent months have shared a remarkable series of official visits and telephone calls, which led observers to conclude that the two sides are strengthening their relations. Russia’s rapprochement with Hamas shows the latter’s need for Moscow, being a major capital in the […]

Israel/ Palestine
Could Trump’s Coddling of Israeli far Right Hasten Collapse of Apartheid Regime?

Could Trump’s Coddling of Israeli far Right Hasten Collapse of Apartheid Regime?

Middle East Monitor

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – (Middle East Monitor) – Last week US President Donald Trump’s administration made a notable move. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the US is reversing previous policy which basically accepted that Israel’s colonial settlements in the occupied West Bank are a violation of international law. This is […]

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