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Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Naming companies profiting from Israel’s occupation boosts Palestinians in this asymmetric struggle

Naming companies profiting from Israel’s occupation boosts Palestinians in this asymmetric struggle

Middle East Monitor

By Yousef Alhelou | – (Middle East Monitor) – An overdue report has finally been published by the UN Human Rights office which lists 112 companies benefiting from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Almost 100 of the companies are based in Israel, while the rest are from 18 other […]

Democratic Party
Israel's Major US Lobby went after the Democratic Party and it didn't Go Well

Israel’s Major US Lobby went after the Democratic Party and it didn’t Go Well

Middle East Monitor

By Nasim Ahmed | @Nasimbythedocks | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The latest clash in the American civil war over Israel, which pits liberal progressives against right-wing reactionary nationalists, ended with an apology at the weekend by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Better known as AIPAC, the anti-Palestinian group issued a full […]

Bashar al-Assad
Humanitarian Catastrophe as Syrian Army Advances on Idlib, 750K Displaced since Fall

Humanitarian Catastrophe as Syrian Army Advances on Idlib, 750K Displaced since Fall

Middle East Monitor

By Elif Selin Calik | @CalikSelin | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Last December, Robert Malley, president and CEO of the International Crisis Group, penned an article for the Foreign Affairs magazine, addressing the topic: “The Unwanted Wars: Why the Middle East Is More Combustible Than Ever.” Today, at the peak of the […]

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian-Israelis, 20% of Israel, are next Victims of Kushner Apartheid

Palestinian-Israelis, 20% of Israel, are next Victims of Kushner Apartheid

Middle East Monitor

By Adnan Abu Amer | @adnanabuamer1 | – (Middle East Monitor)- Israelis of all political persuasions welcomed the Trump “peace plan”, but the Palestinian citizens of the self-styled Jewish state are angry because the deal refers to land and population swaps between Israel and Palestinian Authority territory. This confirms that Israel wants to displace them, […]

Israel/ Palestine
Trump didn't Consult Us Palestinians about his Plan, but here's What one Palestinian Thinks of it

Trump didn’t Consult Us Palestinians about his Plan, but here’s What one Palestinian Thinks of it

Middle East Monitor

By Motasem A Dalloul | @abujomaaGaza | – Israeli President Donald Trump has revealed his long-awaited peace plan aiming, as he claims, to bring a “precise technical solutions” for the Palestinians and the Israeli and make the region “safer” and “much more prosperous.” He described his deal as a “win-win opportunity” for Israel and the […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s fear of prosecution strengthens Palestine narratives

Israel’s fear of prosecution strengthens Palestine narratives

Middle East Monitor

By Ramona Wadi | – (Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli media has reported that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could issue secret arrest warrants for Israeli officials involved in war crimes against the Palestinian people. According to a senior Israeli official who spoke to Israel Hayom, “The very fact that an ICC investigation will […]

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Palestine isn't only Under Israeli Military Occupation-- Its History and Culture are Colonized, Too

Palestine isn’t only Under Israeli Military Occupation– Its History and Culture are Colonized, Too

Middle East Monitor

By Asaad Abdel Rahman | – (Middle East Monitor ) – Although the Palestinian-Israeli conflict takes place within a relatively small geographic region, it receives great political and media attention, due to the involvement of many international parties and even major countries in the conflict. This is a result of sensitivity in the Arab world […]

Israel/ Palestine
The Real Reasons for the Israeli Race to Annex the Palestinian West Bank and Jordan Valley

The Real Reasons for the Israeli Race to Annex the Palestinian West Bank and Jordan Valley

Middle East Monitor

By Nasser Nasser | – ( Middle Est Monitor) – We are witnessing the “annexation of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley” fever and the left in Israel is running to catch up to Israel. This is the meaning of what one of Israel’s senior investigative journalist, Raviv Drucker, revealed in Haaretz on January […]

Russia
Is Russian Imperialism in Syria, with its Vast Human Toll, a Vanity Project for Vladimir Putin?

Is Russian Imperialism in Syria, with its Vast Human Toll, a Vanity Project for Vladimir Putin?

Middle East Monitor

Radwan Zyada | – (Middle East Monitor) – Russian President Putin made a surprise visit to Damascus [on January 7], during which he met Bashar Al-Assad, not at the Rawda Palace or the People’s Palace, where the latter customarily receives his guests, but rather at the headquarters of the Russian forces in Damascus. This is […]

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