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Middle East Monitor

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 […]

Israel/ Palestine
Even the Israeli Right is nervous about Netanyahu's Plans to Annex 1/3 of Palestinian West Bank--but for all the Wrong Reasons

Even the Israeli Right is nervous about Netanyahu’s Plans to Annex 1/3 of Palestinian West Bank–but for all the Wrong Reasons

Middle East Monitor

By Antoine Shalhat | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed during the Likud meeting in the Knesset on 25 May that he does not intend to change the date set for annexing the Jordan Valley and settlements in the occupied West Bank in Israel. The date was set […]

Israel/ Palestine
As Corrupt Netanyahu goes on Trial, former Israeli PM Olmert says he Runs Lawless "Mafia"

As Corrupt Netanyahu goes on Trial, former Israeli PM Olmert says he Runs Lawless “Mafia”

Middle East Monitor

( Middle East Monitor) – After a long and complicated process that lasted 18 months, the largest Israeli political factions, the Likud and Blue and White have formed a government . . . Israeli journalist Oren Ziv told me that there is a crisis of confidence facing Netanyahu and stressed that the delay of the […]

Israel/ Palestine
Mother's Day for Palestinian Women in Gaza Means Children Maimed, Jailed, Killed or Living under Israeli Blockade

Mother’s Day for Palestinian Women in Gaza Means Children Maimed, Jailed, Killed or Living under Israeli Blockade

Middle East Monitor

By Eman Abusidu | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – While families around the world have celebrated Mother’s Day, Palestinian mothers in the Gaza strip continue to remember their missing motherhood, which is all too often cut short by Israel’s military occupation. Mother’s Day itself is no different to any other under occupation and […]

Israel/ Palestine
Trump Lied about the Palestinians, Cut off their Refugee Aid, and now Plans to Give away their Land to Netanyahu

Trump Lied about the Palestinians, Cut off their Refugee Aid, and now Plans to Give away their Land to Netanyahu

Middle East Monitor

By Motasem A Dalloul | @abujomaaGaza | – ( Middle East Monitor) – As US President, Donald Trump has been doing his best to empower the Israeli occupation of Palestine. His recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s “united” and “eternal” capital fulfilled even the most ardent Zionists’ dreams. In doing so, he also fulfilled a 25-year-old […]

Epidemics
In Age of Pandemic, is Mismanagement driving Saudi Arabia toward Bankruptcy?

In Age of Pandemic, is Mismanagement driving Saudi Arabia toward Bankruptcy?

Middle East Monitor

By Motasem A Dalloul | @abujomaaGaza | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – On 6 March, the OPEC+ cartel failed to agree on a cut in oil production in the light of reduced demand due to the coronavirus pandemic affecting almost every country in the world. All of this came in the middle of […]

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