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Middle East Monitor

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. […]

Israel/ Palestine
Trump & Kushner aren't Offering Palestinians $50 bn.: They're Bribing the Neighbors to Bury Them

Trump & Kushner aren’t Offering Palestinians $50 bn.: They’re Bribing the Neighbors to Bury Them

Middle East Monitor

By Hossam Shaker | – Donald Trump’s administration has recently shown great interest in Palestinians and their welfare. Even Jared Kushner, the US President’s son-in-law, has tried to spread optimism at the Manama workshop, presenting many ‘opportunities’ for the Palestinian people. Kushner has spoken to the participants as Wall Street speculators, reducing the Palestinian cause […]

Israel/ Palestine
Dear Jared Kushner: The Real Deal of the Century would be Decolonizing Palestine at Last

Dear Jared Kushner: The Real Deal of the Century would be Decolonizing Palestine at Last

Middle East Monitor

By Ramona Wadi | @walzerscent | – Palestinians have rejected the Manama summit taking place today for several legitimate reasons – all pointing to how the US prelude to the so-called “deal of the century” normalises Israel at an unprecedented level. This normalisation will drastically reduce Palestinian prospects for liberation, which are already precariously low, […]

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Crown Prince Haunted by Ghost of Murdered dissident Journalist Khashoggi

Saudi Crown Prince Haunted by Ghost of Murdered dissident Journalist Khashoggi

Middle East Monitor

By Hazem Ayyad | – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman tried to pre-empt the release of the final report of the international inquiry into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by giving an interview to journalist Ghassan Charbel of the London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat on Sunday, 16 June. The Khashoggi crisis has […]

Saudi Arabia
Bipartisan Senate Vote Blocks Trump's $8 bn. Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia

Bipartisan Senate Vote Blocks Trump’s $8 bn. Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia

Middle East Monitor

By Abdulaziz Kilani | @AZ_Kilani | – The US Senate yesterday blocked arms sales to Saudi Arabia, ushering in a new episode in the House’s stance towards the Kingdom. This comes as a rebuke of US President Donald Trump, who has been trying to sell $8 billion worth of military weapons to Saudi Arabia, the […]

Iran
The Big Winner in Trump's anti-Iran Sanctions?  Russia

The Big Winner in Trump’s anti-Iran Sanctions? Russia

Middle East Monitor

By Stasa Salacanin | – Reinstated sanctions on Iran have brought a new complexity to Tehran’s relations with those countries which supported the deal, especially Russia. A new reality has forced both countries to face tough decisions, testing the strength of their bilateral partnership. Many assume that Tehran, facing maximum pressure and isolation, does not […]

Israel/ Palestine
Is Israel Deliberately wounding Palestinian Civilians in Gaza?

Is Israel Deliberately wounding Palestinian Civilians in Gaza?

Middle East Monitor

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – A new World Heath Organization report on Gaza this month made for shocking reading. But as usual when it comes to our hopelessly Israel-sympathetic media, there was barely a whisper about it in the “mainstream” papers. It states that in the course of the year following the start […]

Sudan
As Military Junta consolidates Rule in Sudan, Masses demand Civilian Government

As Military Junta consolidates Rule in Sudan, Masses demand Civilian Government

Middle East Monitor

By Khalil Charles | @khalilcharles | – Historians and political scientists who have followed recent events in Sudan closely will point to the irony of the current dispute between the military and protest groups over the definition of, and demand for, civilian rule. In 1999, a well-documented split between former President Omar Al-Bashir and National […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Snipers have Killed yet Another Palestinian medic in Gaza; But Where is Justice?

Israeli Snipers have Killed yet Another Palestinian medic in Gaza; But Where is Justice?

Middle East Monitor

By Motasem A Dalloul | @abujomaaGaza | – Al-Judaily was the fifth paramedic to be killed by Israeli forces during the Great March of Return protests; more than 500 others have been wounded It was a difficult moment for the wife of Mohammad Al-Judaily when she heard that he had succumbed to his wounds. The […]

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