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Iran
The Biggest Losers in Trump-Iran Crisis?  Gulf States.  Biggest Winner? Vladimir Putin

The Biggest Losers in Trump-Iran Crisis? Gulf States. Biggest Winner? Vladimir Putin

Middle East Monitor

By Marwan Kabalan | – It is in the nature of crises, both long term and temporary, for losers and winners to emerge. It is also natural for the human actors therein to be rational and base their calculations and considerations on reducing losses and maximising gains. However, these calculations are not always accurate or […]

Israel/ Palestine
From Boris Johnson to Trump, will Western Conservatives go on Supporting Israeli Colonialism in Palestine to the Hilt?

From Boris Johnson to Trump, will Western Conservatives go on Supporting Israeli Colonialism in Palestine to the Hilt?

Middle East Monitor

By Muhammad Hussein | – When Boris Johnson was voted in as leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by default last month, there was a lot of speculation about his premiership: Brexit, policing and youth services, global trade deals, and even the question of what do about Iran. There […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Summons 5-year-old for Police Interrogation

Israel Summons 5-year-old for Police Interrogation

Middle East Monitor

Muhammad Rabi’ Elayyan was summoned by the Israeli police to be interrogated; the summons was handed to his family in occupied Jerusalem, who had to take him to the police station. The boy is just five years old, but he is not the first child to be taken for interrogation. We know of this particular […]

Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders would 'Absolutely' cut Military Aid to Israel to get Two-State Solution

Bernie Sanders would ‘Absolutely’ cut Military Aid to Israel to get Two-State Solution

Middle East Monitor

In an interview Sanders was asked whether he would consider using the billions of dollars in military aid from the US to change Israel’s behaviour, to which he replied “absolutely”. Our policy cannot just be pro-Israel pro-Israel pro-Israel. It has got to be pro-region working with all of the people, all of the countries in […]

Israel/ Palestine
Creeping Ethnic Cleansing as Israel Demolishes 18 more Palestinian-owned Buildings

Creeping Ethnic Cleansing as Israel Demolishes 18 more Palestinian-owned Buildings

Middle East Monitor

By Rasheed Hassan | – The Israeli occupation authorities demolished 18 Palestinian-owned residential buildings this week in Sur Bahir, just 2 or 3 km from Al-Aqsa, rendering the inhabitants homeless. It was yet another crime intended to boost Israel’s ethnic cleansing of historic Palestine and it coincided with the visit of a delegation of Arab […]

Israel/ Palestine
How Israeli Schools Erase or Demonize Palestinians for the Next Generation

How Israeli Schools Erase or Demonize Palestinians for the Next Generation

Middle East Monitor

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – Dissident Israeli scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan’s important academic study, “Palestine in Israeli School Books” is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand some important realities about the Israeli state and Israeli society. As a settler-colonial entity, real change can never come from within Israeli society. It must be […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Snipers and other Forces have killed 16 Palestinian children since start of 2019

Israeli Snipers and other Forces have killed 16 Palestinian children since start of 2019

Middle East Monitor

Israeli occupation forces have killed 16 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank and besieged Gaza Strip since the start of 2019, Defence for Children International-Palestine (DCIP) said yesterday. In a report, the rights group said 12 children were killed in Gaza and four in the occupied West Bank. It accused the Israeli occupation forces […]

Libya
The United Arab Emirates is getting out of Yemen:  Will it Target Libya Next?

The United Arab Emirates is getting out of Yemen: Will it Target Libya Next?

Middle East Monitor

By Abdulaziz Kilani | @AZ_Kilani | – Last week, the United Arab Emirates confirmed its troop drawdown from Yemen, which has raised questions about what Abu Dhabi’s next target will be. “Many people asked if this is also linked to the current rise of tensions with Iran,” said a senior UAE official who declined to […]

Israel/ Palestine
Can Israel conceal War Crimes by Emptying its Archives?

Can Israel conceal War Crimes by Emptying its Archives?

Middle East Monitor

By Motasem A Dalloul | Twitter: @abujomaaGaza | – In January 2018, +972 Magazine published an article outlining the reasons why Israel’s Chief Archivist Dr Yaakov Lozowick had declared he was going into early retirement. Lozowick was protesting against Israel’s policy of maintaining documents classified. A report by the senior archivist said: “Israel is not […]

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