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January 25, 2023
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The words uttered in Hebrew by a person believed to be Avera Mengistu, an Israeli soldier of Ethiopian origin who was captured and held in Gaza in 2014, are...
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January 24, 2023
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
"For how long will I be in captivity? After so many years, where are the state and the people of Israel?" These were the words, uttered in Hebrew, of...
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During one of its frequent raids in the occupied West Bank on 19 January, the Israeli military arrested Palestinian journalist Abdul Muhsen Shalaldeh near the town of Al-Khalil (Hebron)....
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January 21, 2023
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The Global Firepower (GFP) ranking was published on 6 January. The annual report classifies the world's strongest militaries based on over 60 factors, including size, spending and technological advancements....
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January 17, 2023
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
In a self-congratulatory article published in the Atlantic in 2017, Yossi Klein Halevi describes Israeli behaviour at the just-conquered holy Muslim shrines in Occupied East Jerusalem in 1967 as...
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January 10, 2023
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Once more, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is set to offer a legal opinion on the consequences of Israel's occupation of Palestine. A historic UN vote on 31...
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January 5, 2023
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
When the newsstand of Giuseppe Trani was swept away by disastrous flooding that devastated the southern Italian town of Casamicciola at the end of November, the 70-year-old man lost...
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January 3, 2023
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Even before the new Israeli coalition government was officially sworn in last week, angry reactions emerged, not only among Palestinians and other Middle Eastern governments, but also among Israel's...
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January 1, 2023
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Another critical year for Palestine has folded. While 2022 has wrought much of the same in terms of Israeli military occupation and increasing violence, it also introduced new variables...
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December 29, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Two years ago, Morocco and Israel signed the US-brokered "Joint Declaration", thus officially recognising Israel and instating diplomatic ties. Though other Arab countries had already done the same, the...
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My friend is not an elitist. To the contrary, he has spent decades of his life fighting social inequality, racism and championing the rights of disadvantaged groups. Therefore, I...
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December 20, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Just when Israel, and even some Palestinians, have started to talk about the Lions' Den phenomenon in the past tense, a large number of fighters belonging to the newly-formed...
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December 12, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The next Nakba Day will be officially commemorated by the United Nations General Assembly on 15 May, 2023. The decision by the world's largest democratic institution is significant, if...
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December 7, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The problem with most Western media's political analyses is that they generally tend to be short-sighted and focused mostly on variables that are of direct interest to Western governments....
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December 5, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
We were mistaken to think that Palestine represents the central issue for all Arabs. Such language suggests that Palestine is an external subject, to be compared to other collective...
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November 28, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
As western countries are floating the theory that Russia could escalate its conflict with Ukraine to a nuclear war, many western governments continue to turn a blind eye to...
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November 23, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Though brief, the exchange between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia on 16 November has become...
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November 22, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The recent decision by the US Department of Justice to open an investigation into the killing in May of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is not a game-changer,...
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November 18, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Soon after arriving in Oslo, my taxi zigzagged through the city's well-organised streets and state-of-the-art infrastructure. Large billboards advertised the world's leading brands in fashion, cars and perfumes. Amid...
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November 14, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
At a recent conference in Istanbul that brought many Palestinian scholars and activists together to discuss the search for a common narrative, a member of the audience declared at...
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November 7, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Palestinians and their supporters are justified in celebrating the victory of the leftist candidate Luis Inacio Lula da Silva in the runoff for Brazil's presidential election on 30 October....
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On Monday, 31 October, Palestinians in the town of Al-Eizariya, east of occupied East Jerusalem, observed a general strike. The strike was declared part of the community's mourning of...
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November 1, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Regardless of the outcome of the latest Israeli elections, Arab parties will not reap meaningful political benefits, even if they collectively achieve their highest representation ever. The reason is...
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October 31, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The European Union's Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell is not particularly perceived by the EU's political elite or mainstream media as a right-wing ideologue or warmonger. But seen through a different,...
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October 25, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Former US President Donald Trump's so-called "Deal of the Century" was meant to be a finality of sorts, an event reminiscent of Francis Fukuyama's premature declaration of the "End...
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October 18, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
This headline in the Israeli newspaper, the Jerusalem Post, only tells part of the story: "The Lions' Den, Other Palestinian Groups are Endless Headache for Israel, PA." It is...
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October 15, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The moment that Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was ousted by his former military colleague, Captain Ibrahim Traore, pro-coup crowds filled the streets. Some burned French flags; others carried Russian...
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October 11, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Children of my Gaza refugee camp were rarely afraid of monsters but of Israeli soldiers. This is all that we talked about before going to bed. Unlike imaginary monsters...
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October 4, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid threw a spanner into the works recently when he told the UN General Assembly that, "An agreement with the Palestinians, based on two states...
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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...
![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)
![Ilan Mengistu (L), brother of Avera Mengistu (C), one of two Israelis held by Hamas in Gaza since 2014 in Jerusalem on September 6, 2018 [THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/GettyImages-1027678916-scaled-e1623076037156.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The words uttered in Hebrew by a person believed to be Avera Mengistu, an Israeli soldier of Ethiopian origin who was captured and held in Gaza in 2014, are...![Israel called upon by family to seek release of captive, Avera Mengistu in Gaza [@MontaserSabbagh/Twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Avera-Mengistu.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
"For how long will I be in captivity? After so many years, where are the state and the people of Israel?" These were the words, uttered in Hebrew, of...![Palestinian journalists protest against attacks on their colleagues in the annexed east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, on May 28, 2021. [AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/GettyImages-1233155664-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
During one of its frequent raids in the occupied West Bank on 19 January, the Israeli military arrested Palestinian journalist Abdul Muhsen Shalaldeh near the town of Al-Khalil (Hebron)....![Soldiers take part in an annual military drill on December 30, 2022 [Iranian Army/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/AA-20221230-29870784-29870775-IRAN_HOLDS_ANNUAL_MILITARY_DRILL_NEAR_STRATEGIC_STRAIT_OF_HORMUZ.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The Global Firepower (GFP) ranking was published on 6 January. The annual report classifies the world's strongest militaries based on over 60 factors, including size, spending and technological advancements....![An Israeli man walks past an electoral billboard bearing portraits of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flanked by extreme right politicians Itamar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich and Michael Ben Ari, in Jerusalem, on March 29, 2019. [THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/GettyImages-1133463868.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In a self-congratulatory article published in the Atlantic in 2017, Yossi Klein Halevi describes Israeli behaviour at the just-conquered holy Muslim shrines in Occupied East Jerusalem in 1967 as...![An inside view of International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands on July 23, 2018 [Abdullah Asiran/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/GettyImages-1004290708-scaled-e1673379257257.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Once more, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is set to offer a legal opinion on the consequences of Israel's occupation of Palestine. A historic UN vote on 31...![Unisphere [Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/GettyImages-1449194793-scaled-e1672922395350.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When the newsstand of Giuseppe Trani was swept away by disastrous flooding that devastated the southern Italian town of Casamicciola at the end of November, the 70-year-old man lost...![Palestinians hold banners and Palestinian flags gather during a protest against US President Joe Biden's support for Israel at Unknown Soldier Memorial Park in Gaza City, Gaza on July 14, 2022 [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/AA-20220714-28419667-28419659-PROTEST_AGAINST_US_PRESIDENT_BIDENS_SUPPORT_FOR_ISRAEL_IN_GAZA.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Even before the new Israeli coalition government was officially sworn in last week, angry reactions emerged, not only among Palestinians and other Middle Eastern governments, but also among Israel's...![Palestinians attend a rally marking the 58th anniversary of the Fatah Movement Foundation at the al-Kitabeh Square in Gaza City, on December 31, 2022. [Mustafa Hassona - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/AA-20221231-29880191-29880175-CELEBRATIONS_HELD_FOR_58TH_ANNIVERSARY_OF_THE_FATAH_MOVEMENT_FOUNDATION_IN_GAZA.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Another critical year for Palestine has folded. While 2022 has wrought much of the same in terms of Israeli military occupation and increasing violence, it also introduced new variables...![People gather to stage a demonstration in support of Palestinians and to protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza Strip, on May 15, 2021 in Rabat, Morocco. [Jalal Morchidi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210515_2_48302440_65198823.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Two years ago, Morocco and Israel signed the US-brokered "Joint Declaration", thus officially recognising Israel and instating diplomatic ties. Though other Arab countries had already done the same, the...![A view as a child stands next to a World Cup replica football on November 19, 2022 [Muhammed Said/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/AA-20221120-29486320-29486308-SYRIAS_CHILDREN_HOLD_THEIR_OWN_WORLD_CUP_IN_IDLIB-scaled-e1671709603392.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
My friend is not an elitist. To the contrary, he has spent decades of his life fighting social inequality, racism and championing the rights of disadvantaged groups. Therefore, I...![The Lions' Den armed group in the old city of Nablus, photo published on 3 September 2022 [Lions' Den/Telegram]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/WhatsApp-Image-2022-10-10-at-3.23.43-PM-780x470-1-e1666019400357.jpeg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Just when Israel, and even some Palestinians, have started to talk about the Lions' Den phenomenon in the past tense, a large number of fighters belonging to the newly-formed...![People take part in a demonstration with Palestinian flags in Ramallah, West Bank on 15 May 2022 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/AA-20220515-27868469-27868449-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 next Nakba Day will be officially commemorated by the United Nations General Assembly on 15 May, 2023. The decision by the world's largest democratic institution is significant, if...![Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the 2019 Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum in Russia on 7 June 2019 [Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20190607_2_36790583_45129581.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The problem with most Western media's political analyses is that they generally tend to be short-sighted and focused mostly on variables that are of direct interest to Western governments....![Supporter of Uruguay with Tshirt 'Freedom for Palestine' during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 on November 28, 2022 in Lusail City, Qatar [Manuel Reino Berengui/DeFodi Images via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GettyImages-1245184244-scaled-e1670267716140.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
We were mistaken to think that Palestine represents the central issue for all Arabs. Such language suggests that Palestine is an external subject, to be compared to other collective...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech on Iran's nuclear program at the defence ministry in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2018 [JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-953159268-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
As western countries are floating the theory that Russia could escalate its conflict with Ukraine to a nuclear war, many western governments continue to turn a blind eye to...![Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) shakes hands with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on September 4, 2016 in Hangzhou, China [Lintao Zhang/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/GettyImages-599079032-scaled-e1669220561946.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Though brief, the exchange between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia on 16 November has become...![Press members holding photos of female reporter of Al-Jazeera television channel Shireen Abu Akleh, in Nablus, West Bank on May 11, 2022 [Nedal Eshtayah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/AA-20220511-27827653-27827633-THE_DEAD_BODY_OF_SHIREEN_ABU_AKLEH_KILLED_BY_ISRAELI_SOLDIERS_BROUGHT_TO_NABLUS_FOR_AUTOPSY-scaled-e1669109763964.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The recent decision by the US Department of Justice to open an investigation into the killing in May of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is not a game-changer,...![A Sudanese woman walks carrying a bag of food aid on her head in Geneina, the capital of the state of Sudan's West Darfur, on February 8, 2017 [ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-634272202-scaled-e1619015293503.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Soon after arriving in Oslo, my taxi zigzagged through the city's well-organised streets and state-of-the-art infrastructure. Large billboards advertised the world's leading brands in fashion, cars and perfumes. Amid...![A child holds Palestinian flags during an event in Rafah, Gaza on August 09, 2022. [Abed Rahim Khatib - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AA-20220809-28610351-28610350-PALESTINIAN_CHILDREN_PLAY_ON_BUILDING_DEBRIS_DESTROYED_BY_ISRAELI_FORCES.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
At a recent conference in Istanbul that brought many Palestinian scholars and activists together to discuss the search for a common narrative, a member of the audience declared at...![Brazil’s President Lula Da Silva [LulaOficial /Twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/lula-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Palestinians and their supporters are justified in celebrating the victory of the leftist candidate Luis Inacio Lula da Silva in the runoff for Brazil's presidential election on 30 October....![A general view of the empty streets during the general strike due to the blockade of Israeli soldiers in Hebron, West Bank on October 30, 2022. [Mamoun Wazwaz - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/AA-20221030-29299898-29299870-GENERAL_STRIKE_IN_WEST_BANK_DUE_TO_THE_BLOCKADE_OF_ISRAELI_SOLDIERS-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
On Monday, 31 October, Palestinians in the town of Al-Eizariya, east of occupied East Jerusalem, observed a general strike. The strike was declared part of the community's mourning of...![Protesters stand are holding a banner that equates Israel with apartheid [Stephen Zenner/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/gettyimages-1233422908-612x612-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Regardless of the outcome of the latest Israeli elections, Arab parties will not reap meaningful political benefits, even if they collectively achieve their highest representation ever. The reason 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)
The European Union's Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell is not particularly perceived by the EU's political elite or mainstream media as a right-wing ideologue or warmonger. But seen through a different,...![People stage a protest against the Australian government to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on December 21, 2018 [Adli Ghazali/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181221_2_34055883_40089916.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Former US President Donald Trump's so-called "Deal of the Century" was meant to be a finality of sorts, an event reminiscent of Francis Fukuyama's premature declaration of the "End...![French President, Emmanuel Macron (R) welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) ahead of Normandy Four Summit at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France on December 9, 2019. [Julien Mattia - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/AA9_6.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The moment that Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was ousted by his former military colleague, Captain Ibrahim Traore, pro-coup crowds filled the streets. Some burned French flags; others carried Russian...![Rayyan Suleiman, from the town of Tuqu near Bethlehem city, had fallen from a height while running away from Israeli soldiers [@IntellecFront/Twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Fd0cCBZX0AEip2y-e1664465833458.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Children of my Gaza refugee camp were rarely afraid of monsters but of Israeli soldiers. This is all that we talked about before going to bed. Unlike imaginary monsters...![Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid delivers a speech during a graduation ceremony of Israel Navy officers, in the northern city of Haifa, on September 7, 2022 [Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/GettyImages-1243020882.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid threw a spanner into the works recently when he told the UN General Assembly that, "An agreement with the Palestinians, based on two states...![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...