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Israel/ Palestine
Forgotten Palestinian Women of Jerusalem Struggling for their Rights as World Commemorated Women

Forgotten Palestinian Women of Jerusalem Struggling for their Rights as World Commemorated Women

Middle East Monitor

On International Women’s Rights Day, which falls on 8 March every year, we need to take a moment to look at whether all women are able to exercise all of their rights around the world. Are women’s rights limited to specific countries, while those elsewhere continue to suffer from oppression and discrimination? Are there women […]

Israel/ Palestine
Trump Humiliates Palestinians by Closing Consulate, Dealing with them Via US Embassy to Israel

Trump Humiliates Palestinians by Closing Consulate, Dealing with them Via US Embassy to Israel

Middle East Monitor

The US State Department announced on Tuesday that it is going to merge the American consulate general in East Jerusalem with the American embassy in West Jerusalem. A statement published on the embassy website in Israel said that, “We will continue to conduct all of the diplomatic and consular functions previously performed by the US […]

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian-Israelis Slam Racist Likud Party Slogan, Netanyahu Terrorist Ties

Palestinian-Israelis Slam Racist Likud Party Slogan, Netanyahu Terrorist Ties

Middle East Monitor

Israeli-Arab MK Ahmad Tibi has slammed the Likud party’s use of his name in its new slogan, accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of incitement against the country’s Palestinian citizens. The new Likud slogan states that “It’s Either Bibi – or Tibi,” juxtaposing Netanyahu’s nickname with that of Tibi in a bid to garner support […]

Israel/ Palestine
Kushner's New Ideas for Palestine are Israeli PM Netanyahu's Old Ones

Kushner’s New Ideas for Palestine are Israeli PM Netanyahu’s Old Ones

Middle East Monitor

By Oraib Al-Rantawi @OraibAlRantawi | – Kushner’s new ideas are not different from Netanyahu’s old ones. The inexperienced US president’s son-in-law, with poor charisma, who, as a result of family connections, jumped to the top of the American leadership hierarchy and took over a handful of the most complex foreign policy files (the Palestinian issue […]

Israel/ Palestine
Do Israel Pharmaceutical Firms Test Medicines on Palestinian Prisoners?

Do Israel Pharmaceutical Firms Test Medicines on Palestinian Prisoners?

Middle East Monitor

Israeli Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian has charged that the Israeli occupation authorities issues permits to large pharmaceutical firms to carry out tests on Palestinian and Arab prisoners, Felesteen.ps reported. The Times of Israel also reported that in a recording from the event the Hebrew University lecturer also revealed that the Israeli military firms are testing weapons […]

Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders returns Palestine to the Center of Political Debate in the US

Bernie Sanders returns Palestine to the Center of Political Debate in the US

Middle East Monitor

By Ray Hanania | – Last month, leading Israeli journalist Tal Schneider told a teleconference hosted by Americans for Peace Now that the issue of the occupation and Palestinian rights has almost vanished from the Israeli political conversation. In previous years, it loomed heavy over nearly every election campaign. The shift in Israeli politics has […]

Israel/ Palestine
European Union has Documented Israeli War Crimes, but When Will it Punish Them?

European Union has Documented Israeli War Crimes, but When Will it Punish Them?

Middle East Monitor

By Kamel Hawwash | – The lack of action to bring Israel to account for more than seven decades’ worth of crimes against the Palestinian people is obvious. “Enough is enough” is an overused phrase, but in the case of the people of occupied Palestine, it does not even scratch the surface in terms of […]

Donald Trump
Netanyahu’s Likud Party uses Trump Photo in Israeli Election Billboard

Netanyahu’s Likud Party uses Trump Photo in Israeli Election Billboard

Middle East Monitor

A giant billboard of a smiling Donald Trump shaking hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu loomed over parts of Tel Aviv on Sunday, part of the Israeli leader’s re-election campaign. Trump is popular in Israel because of his tough policies towards the Palestinians and Iran and his transfer last May of the American Embassy from […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Siege of Gaza producing "Grotesque" Medical Crisis: European Doctors

Israeli Siege of Gaza producing “Grotesque” Medical Crisis: European Doctors

Middle East Monitor

A group of eminent medical and health professionals has drawn attention to the devastating situation in the hospitals across the Gaza Strip. In a letter to the British Medical Journal, Derek A Summerfield et al referred to the fact that last August they published a rapid response at bmj.com to publicise “the cumulatively devastating effects […]

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