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Israel/ Palestine
Failure to Launch: Trump's Palestine 'Deal' Stillborn

Failure to Launch: Trump’s Palestine ‘Deal’ Stillborn

Middle East Monitor

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – There is seemingly no stopping deluded prospectors digging for nuggets of gold in the empty mine of Palestinian leaders’ capitulation. True, that mine once contained rich seams. Small, but rich enough. In 1993 Yasser Arafat terminated the First Intifada, the popular Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation. In exchange, […]

Israel/ Palestine
Kushner is Making the Palestinians an Offer they Can't Refuse

Kushner is Making the Palestinians an Offer they Can’t Refuse

Middle East Monitor

By Bill Law | – On 2 May Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, was playing his cards very close to the chest at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), a pro-Israeli think tank. Kushner is the man charged with delivering the “deal of the century” that will supposedly secure peace between […]

Yemen
The Yemen War is one of the Most Destructive since the Cold War:  UN

The Yemen War is one of the Most Destructive since the Cold War: UN

Middle East Monitor

If the war were to end in 2019, the UNDP projects it would account for 140,000 deaths of children under the age of 5

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians are Suing the Illegal Israeli Squatters who List Stolen Property on AirBnB

Palestinians are Suing the Illegal Israeli Squatters who List Stolen Property on AirBnB

Middle East Monitor

This is the first time that Palestinians are challenging the settlers living on their land in US courts

Yemen
The Ugly American:  Trump Vetoes Congressional Resolution to get out of Yemen

The Ugly American: Trump Vetoes Congressional Resolution to get out of Yemen

Middle East Monitor

American and British bombs may have killed or injured 1,000 civilians, including women and children, in Yemen

Israel/ Palestine
How Israel's anti-BDS Tactics Mirror White South Africa's Defense of Apartheid

How Israel’s anti-BDS Tactics Mirror White South Africa’s Defense of Apartheid

Middle East Monitor

South Africa’s supporters felt that many in the West had an “obsession” with the country, and questioned the disproportionate attention it received from governments

Saudi Arabia
Comedian Hasan Minhaj Calls out Jared Kushner at Gala,  Demands Release of Saudi Woman Dissident

Comedian Hasan Minhaj Calls out Jared Kushner at Gala, Demands Release of Saudi Woman Dissident

Middle East Monitor

It would be crazy if there was a high ranking official in the White House here that could WhatsApp MBS

Israel/ Palestine
With 130 Gaza Palestinians having lost limbs to Israeli Snipers in past Year, Qatar opens Amputee Rehab Center

With 130 Gaza Palestinians having lost limbs to Israeli Snipers in past Year, Qatar opens Amputee Rehab Center

Middle East Monitor

Health officials say the 100-bed hospital is vital for Gaza

Saudi Arabia
Revolutionary Sudan granted $3 bn. by Saudis & Emirates, Hostile to Democracy

Revolutionary Sudan granted $3 bn. by Saudis & Emirates, Hostile to Democracy

Middle East Monitor

The two Gulf states have ties with the head of Sudan’s Transitional Military Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan

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