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September 29, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly was, in many ways, similar to the 76th session and many other previous sessions: at best, a stage for rosy...
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September 27, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The arrest of a couple of prominent Palestinian activists, one of whom was Musab Shtayyeh, by Palestinian Authority police on 20 September was not the first time that the...
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September 24, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The introduction of an Israeli Mossad agent as the latest Marvel movie character crosses the line, even by Hollywood's poor moral standards. However, the Israeli superhero, Sabra, must be...
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September 20, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
In his anticipated speech at the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is expected to, once more, make a passionate plea for the recognition...
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September 17, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Though Washington insists that it is not interested in a direct military conflict with Moscow, the latter claims that the US is, in fact, directly involved. But who is...
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September 12, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The 40th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre falls on 16 September. Around 3,000 Palestinian refugees were killed at the hands of Lebanon's Phalangist militias operating under the...
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September 6, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
"As soon as I left prison, I went to Nael's grave. It is adorned with the colours of the Palestinian flag and verses from the Holy Qur'an. I told...
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September 3, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
As soon as I landed in Rome, I discovered that I was no longer able to access any Russian media whatsoever. Unfortunately, threats by European Commission President Ursula von...
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August 30, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
"There was no Massacre in Jenin" was the headline of a Haaretz editorial on 19 April, 2002, one week after Israel ended its deadly onslaught on the besieged Palestinian...
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August 23, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
While US and western mainstream and corporate media remain biased in favour of Israel, they often behave as if they are a third, neutral party. This is simply not...
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August 18, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The "West" is not just a term, it is also a concept that acquires new meanings with time. To its advocates, it can be analogous to civilisation and benevolent...
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August 15, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
For years, Palestinians and Israelis have laboured to redraw the battle lines. The three-day Israeli war on Gaza, starting on 5 August, manifested this reality clearly. Throughout its military...
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August 9, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Today, Israel assassinated a top Palestinian commander, Ibrahim Nabulsi, in Nablus, along with two other fighters, Islam Sabbouh, and Hussein Taha. This bloody action is intrinsically linked to the bloody events in Gaza...
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August 8, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
It seemed that it was all but a done deal: Israel was finally managing to bend the Arabs to its will, and Palestine was becoming a marginal issue that...
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August 6, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's recent tour in Africa was meant to be a game changer, not only in terms of Russia's relations with the continent, but in the...
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August 1, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Until recently, Israeli politics did not matter to Palestinians. Though the Palestinian people maintained their political agency under the most demoralising conditions, their collective action rarely influenced outcomes in...
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July 25, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
To describe US President Joe Biden's recent visit to Israel and Palestine as a "failure" in terms of activating the dormant "peace process" is to use a misnomer. For...
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The new United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese, is faced with a colossal task. She is...
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July 20, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
In a blog entry, reflecting on the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting in Bali, Indonesia, on 7-8 July, the High Representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell, seems to have...
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July 18, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
"We regret we failed to protect you." This was part of a statement issued by United Nations human rights experts on 14 July, urging the Israeli government to release...
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July 13, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The collapse of the short-lived Israeli government of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid validates the argument that the political crisis in Israel was not entirely instigated and sustained by...
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July 12, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The G7 summit in Elmau, Germany, June 26-28, and the NATO summit in Madrid, Spain, two days later, were practically useless in terms of providing actual solutions to ongoing...
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July 5, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Fifteen years have passed since Israel imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip, subjecting nearly two million Palestinians to one of the longest and most cruel politically-motivated blockades...
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June 29, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Dedicated to the memory of Ghassan Kanafani, an iconic Palestinian leader and engaged intellectual who was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad on July 8, 1972
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This is, said Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci, the "interregnum"; the rare and seismic moment in history when great transitions occur, when empires collapse and others rise, and when new...
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June 20, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The Palestine National Football Team has, once more, done the seemingly impossible by qualifying for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup. By any standards, this is a great achievement, especially...
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June 13, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
While it is true that Zionism is a modern political ideology that has exploited religion to achieve specific colonial objectives in Palestine, prophecies continue to be a critical component...
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June 8, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Starting on 31 May, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov embarked on a tour of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, where he visited Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab...
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June 6, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
What took place between May 2021 and May 2022 is nothing less than a paradigm shift in Palestinian resistance. Thanks to the popular and inclusive nature of Palestinian mobilisation...
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May 31, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The distance between Ukraine and Mali is measured in thousands of kilometres, but the geopolitical distance is much closer. So close, in fact, that it appears as if the...
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May 30, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Israel's Supreme Court has decided that the Palestinian region of Masafer Yatta in the southern hills of Hebron is to be appropriated entirely by the Israeli military and that...
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May 23, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The Nakba is back on the Palestinian agenda. For nearly three decades, Palestinians were told that the Nakba – or Catastrophe – is a thing of the past. That...
![Book Launch of Ramzy's Baroud latest book - The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story on 27 March, 2018 [Jehan Alfarra/Middle East Monitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/104A1259.jpg?resize=400%2C385&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
![77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 20, 202 [Tayfun Coşkun - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/AA-20220920-28949552-28949541-77TH_SESSION_OF_THE_UNITED_NATIONS_GENERAL_ASSEMBLY.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly was, in many ways, similar to the 76th session and many other previous sessions: at best, a stage for rosy...![Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas addresses during the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at UN Headquarters in New York, United States on September 23, 2022. [Palestinian Presidency - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/AA-20220923-28974763-28974757-77TH_UNITED_NATIONS_GENERAL_ASSEMBLY_IN_NEW_YORK.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The arrest of a couple of prominent Palestinian activists, one of whom was Musab Shtayyeh, by Palestinian Authority police on 20 September was not the first time that the...
The introduction of an Israeli Mossad agent as the latest Marvel movie character crosses the line, even by Hollywood's poor moral standards. However, the Israeli superhero, Sabra, must be...![Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority president, speaks in a prerecorded video during the United Nations General Assembly via live stream in New York, US., on Friday, Sept. 24, 2021 [Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/GettyImages-1235471010-scaled-e1633377286125.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In his anticipated speech at the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is expected to, once more, make a passionate plea for the recognition...![High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) [US Army]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/HIMARS_-_missile_launched-e1497461551197.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Though Washington insists that it is not interested in a direct military conflict with Moscow, the latter claims that the US is, in fact, directly involved. But who is...
The 40th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre falls on 16 September. Around 3,000 Palestinian refugees were killed at the hands of Lebanon's Phalangist militias operating under the...![Protesters take part in a demonstration in support of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, outside the International Committee of the Red Cross headquarters, in Gaza City, on August 29, 2022 [MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/GettyImages-1242797565.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
"As soon as I left prison, I went to Nael's grave. It is adorned with the colours of the Palestinian flag and verses from the Holy Qur'an. I told...![A general view of the European Commission weekly College Meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on March 02, 2022 [EU Comission / Pool - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220302_2_52411600_74207511.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
As soon as I landed in Rome, I discovered that I was no longer able to access any Russian media whatsoever. Unfortunately, threats by European Commission President Ursula von...
"There was no Massacre in Jenin" was the headline of a Haaretz editorial on 19 April, 2002, one week after Israel ended its deadly onslaught on the besieged Palestinian...![The Palestinian family of Najm, who lost their 4 children in the Israeli airstrike on August 7, and friends of the children killed in the attack stage a demonstration against Israeli attacks at the Al-Faluce cemetery in Gaza City, Gaza on August 16, 2022 [Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AA-20220817-28665068-28665067-PALESTINIAN_FAMILY_WHO_LOST_4_CHILDREN_IN_ISRAELS_ATTACK_ON_GAZA_PROTESTED.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
While US and western mainstream and corporate media remain biased in favour of Israel, they often behave as if they are a third, neutral party. This is simply not...![A view of a damaged residential building after Russian shelling in Oblast, Ukraine on 10 August 2022 [Metin Aktaş/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AA-20220810-28616947-28616942-RUSSIAUKRAINE_WAR.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The "West" is not just a term, it is also a concept that acquires new meanings with time. To its advocates, it can be analogous to civilisation and benevolent...![Smoke and flames rise around the area as a result of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, on 7 August 2022 [Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AA-20220807-28592731-28592724-ISRAELI_AIRSTRIKES_ON_GAZA.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
For years, Palestinians and Israelis have laboured to redraw the battle lines. The three-day Israeli war on Gaza, starting on 5 August, manifested this reality clearly. Throughout its military...![Firefighters and Palestinians inspect the scene after the raid by Israeli soldiers in Nablus, West Bank on August 09, 2022. [Issam Rimawi - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AA-20220809-28604635-28604627-ISRAELI_FORCES_KILL_TWO_PALESTINIANS_IN_WEST_BANK.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Today, Israel assassinated a top Palestinian commander, Ibrahim Nabulsi, in Nablus, along with two other fighters, Islam Sabbouh, and Hussein Taha. This bloody action is intrinsically linked to the bloody events in Gaza...![Smoke and flames rise as Israel carries out air strikes in Gaza on 5 August 2022 [Abed Zagout/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AA-20220805-28581831-28581828-ISRAELI_AIRSTRIKES_OVER_GAZA_STRIP.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
It seemed that it was all but a done deal: Israel was finally managing to bend the Arabs to its will, and Palestine was becoming a marginal issue that...![Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (R) meets Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia Demeke Mekonnen (L) at Russian Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on July 27, 2022. [Minasse Wondimu Hailu - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/AA-20220727-28513398-28513385-RUSSIAN_FOREIGN_MINISTER_SERGEY_LAVROV_IN_ETHIOPIA.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's recent tour in Africa was meant to be a game changer, not only in terms of Russia's relations with the continent, but in the...![Israeli Prime Minster Naftali Bennett (L) and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (R) attend a traditional group photo with minsters of the new Israeli government on June 14, 2021 in Jerusalem, Israel [Amir Levy/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/GettyImages-1233444138.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Until recently, Israeli politics did not matter to Palestinians. Though the Palestinian people maintained their political agency under the most demoralising conditions, their collective action rarely influenced outcomes in...![US President Joe Biden (L) and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem, West Bank on July 15, 2022 [Palestinian Presidency/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/AA-20220715-28423919-28423917-US_PRESIDENT_JOE_BIDEN_IN_WEST_BANK.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
To describe US President Joe Biden's recent visit to Israel and Palestine as a "failure" in terms of activating the dormant "peace process" is to use a misnomer. For...![UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese [HillelNeuer/twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Francesca-Albanese.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The new United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese, is faced with a colossal task. She is...![High Representative of the European Union Josep Borrell in Brussels, Belgium on March 21, 2022 [Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220321_2_52724372_74953489.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In a blog entry, reflecting on the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting in Bali, Indonesia, on 7-8 July, the High Representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell, seems to have...![Palestinian Ahmed Manasra is seen during his hearing in Be'er Sheva, Israel on April 13, 2022. [Mostafa Alkharouf - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/AA-20220413-27554636-27554617-PALESTINIAN_PRISONER_AHMED_MANASRAS_HEARING_IN_BEER_SHEVA.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
"We regret we failed to protect you." This was part of a statement issued by United Nations human rights experts on 14 July, urging the Israeli government to release...![Naftali Bennett, Israeli's new prime minister and leader of the Yamina party, right, speaks with Yair Lapid, Israeli's new foreign affair minister and leader of the Yesh Atid party, during a meeting of the new government at the Knesset in Jerusalem, Israel, on Sunday, June 13, 2021 [Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/GettyImages-1233437125.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The collapse of the short-lived Israeli government of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid validates the argument that the political crisis in Israel was not entirely instigated and sustained by...
The G7 summit in Elmau, Germany, June 26-28, and the NATO summit in Madrid, Spain, two days later, were practically useless in terms of providing actual solutions to ongoing...![Palestinians in Gaza protest against the closures imposed by Israeli occupation on 22 July 2019 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019_7-22-Gaza-takes-a-stand-against-the-siege651A8744.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Fifteen years have passed since Israel imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip, subjecting nearly two million Palestinians to one of the longest and most cruel politically-motivated blockades...![Late Palestinian novelist Ghassan Kanafani [Twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ghassan-Kanafani-DhmbMEZVMAAhZCm.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Dedicated to the memory of Ghassan Kanafani, an iconic Palestinian leader and engaged intellectual who was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad on July 8, 1972![US linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky in Curitiba, Brazil on 20 September 2018 [HEULER ANDREY/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Noam-Chomsky.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
This is, said Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci, the "interregnum"; the rare and seismic moment in history when great transitions occur, when empires collapse and others rise, and when new...![Palestine's players pose for a group picture during the FIFA Arab Cup 2021 group C football match between Morocco and Palestine at the Al-Janoub Stadium in the Qatari city of Al-Wakrah on December 1, 2021 [KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/GettyImages-1236933938-e1655754958589.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The Palestine National Football Team has, once more, done the seemingly impossible by qualifying for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup. By any standards, this is a great achievement, especially...
While it is true that Zionism is a modern political ideology that has exploited religion to achieve specific colonial objectives in Palestine, prophecies continue to be a critical component...
Starting on 31 May, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov embarked on a tour of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, where he visited Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab...![An Israeli soldier pepper sprays a Palestinian demonstration in the city of Tubas on June 6, 2022 [JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/GettyImages-1241139211-scaled-e1654545319371.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
What took place between May 2021 and May 2022 is nothing less than a paradigm shift in Palestinian resistance. Thanks to the popular and inclusive nature of Palestinian mobilisation...
The distance between Ukraine and Mali is measured in thousands of kilometres, but the geopolitical distance is much closer. So close, in fact, that it appears as if the...![Israeli, foreign and Palestinian activists clash with security forces during a demonstration against the eviction of Palestinian villages to make way for an Israeli military training zone, in the southern hills of Yatta, south of the West Bank town of Hebron, on 20 May 2022. [HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/GettyImages-1240785728.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel's Supreme Court has decided that the Palestinian region of Masafer Yatta in the southern hills of Hebron is to be appropriated entirely by the Israeli military and that...![People take part in a demonstration with Palestinian flags and banners on the 74th anniversary of the Nakba, in Ramallah, West Bank on May 15, 2022 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/AA-20220515-27868469-27868443-DEMONSTRATIONS_ON_THE_74TH_ANNIVERSARY_OF_THE_NAKBA_IN_THE_WEST_BANK.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The Nakba is back on the Palestinian agenda. For nearly three decades, Palestinians were told that the Nakba – or Catastrophe – is a thing of the past. That...