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Saudi Arabia
As United Arab Emirates pulls out of Brutal Yemen War, is it now Saudi Arabia 's?

As United Arab Emirates pulls out of Brutal Yemen War, is it now Saudi Arabia ‘s?

Middle East Monitor

By Thembisa Fakude | Twitter: @fakudet | – The war in Yemen is entering its fifth year with no solution in sight. Every day thousands of people, including women and children, are injured and maimed. According to Amnesty International, “there is extensive evidence that irresponsible arms flows to the Saudi Arabia-led coalition have resulted in […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Jim Crow: Court Halts Park Entry Ban Deemed Racist by Palestinian-Israelis

Israeli Jim Crow: Court Halts Park Entry Ban Deemed Racist by Palestinian-Israelis

Middle East Monitor

A court on Sunday ordered a predominantly Jewish town in northern Israel to lift a ban on non-resident visitors to its parks, a prohibition that a rights group said was aimed at keeping Arabs out. The town of Afula denied the edict was racially motivated. In instructing the town to lift the order, Judge Danny […]

Israel/ Palestine
Why his 'Deal of the Century' Failed: Kushner tried to Bribe the World to Liquidate the Palestinian Nation

Why his ‘Deal of the Century’ Failed: Kushner tried to Bribe the World to Liquidate the Palestinian Nation

Middle East Monitor

The Palestinian president brags that he thwarted the Bahrain workshop, and accordingly, or before the workshop, the deal of the century, while his supporters boast this claim day and night. While we have repeatedly said that the PA’s position of rejecting the deal of the century and the Bahrain workshop is a good position, the […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli PM Netanyahu vows Never to dismantle Illegal Squatter Settlements in Palestine

Israeli PM Netanyahu vows Never to dismantle Illegal Squatter Settlements in Palestine

Middle East Monitor

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed never to dismantle Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Speaking yesterday at an event in the settlement of Revava – which forms part of the Ariel settlement bloc located off Route 60, south of Nablus – Netanyahu vowed that there would be no uprooting of Israel’s […]

Israel/ Palestine
Nelson Mandela’s Grandson:  We have a Moral Duty to Boycott Israel over its Apartheid against Palestinians

Nelson Mandela’s Grandson: We have a Moral Duty to Boycott Israel over its Apartheid against Palestinians

Middle East Monitor

South African MP and the grandson of Nelson Mandela, Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela, addressed a sold out crowd at the Palestine Expo in London yesterday, saying “We have a moral duty to support the BDS and to support the Palestinian struggle”. Organised by the British NGO Friends of Al-Aqsa (FOA), Palestine Expo has been dubbed the […]

Sudan
As Sudan Crowds Demand Civilian Rule, Was Al-Bashir's Overthrow just another Military Coup?

As Sudan Crowds Demand Civilian Rule, Was Al-Bashir’s Overthrow just another Military Coup?

Middle East Monitor

By Khalil Charles | @khalilcharles | – According to well-informed sources, on the night of 22 February this year, as the invited guests in Sudan’s presidential palace gardens and television crews waited for the President to arrive and address the nation, the country’s former head of intelligence was also waiting. Enraged by President Omar Al-Bashir’s […]

Israel/ Palestine
Lesson for Kushner in Manama: The Palestinian Resistance can Never be Bought

Lesson for Kushner in Manama: The Palestinian Resistance can Never be Bought

Middle East Monitor

By Abdulaziz Kilani | @AZ_Kilani | – The wheels of US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner’s, peace plan for the Middle East are now in motion. This week, the first step of the plan illustrated in the “Peace to Prosperity” economic workshop took place in Bahrain’s capital Manama. While the Palestinian leadership said that […]

Israel/ Palestine
Jared Kushner's Steal of the Century: Stolen Land, Stolen Water, Stolen Images

Jared Kushner’s Steal of the Century: Stolen Land, Stolen Water, Stolen Images

Middle East Monitor

By Bill Law | – Jared Kushner and Benjamin Netanyahu must have considered it the longest of long shots but what if the Palestinians by some wild stretch of the imagination had called their bluff on the “deal of the century”; what if they had suddenly decided to turn up in Bahrain for the “Peace […]

Israel/ Palestine
How Israeli "Rules of Engagement" Allow Soldiers to Shoot Children in the Back

How Israeli “Rules of Engagement” Allow Soldiers to Shoot Children in the Back

Middle East Monitor

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – The Haifa-based Palestinian human rights group Adalah has done a lot of important work over the years. Its name is Arabic for “justice”. Much of Adalah’s work focuses on the rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel, or the “Palestinians of the 1948 territories” as they often describe themselves. […]

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