October 23, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud The outdated notion that China ‘just wants to do business’ should be completely erased from our understanding of the rising global power’s political outlook. Simply put, Beijing has long...
October 20, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud In theory, Europe and the United States stand on completely opposite sides when it comes to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. While the US government has fully embraced the...
October 13, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud “No one cares about the prisoners.” Over the past few years, I have heard this phrase – or some variation of it – uttered many times by freed Palestinian...
A Zionist-led war on a Palestinian cultural festival in Rome has exposed the fragility of the Italian political system when it comes to the conversation on Palestine and Israel....
October 8, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud ‘International law’ remains one of the most discussed terms in the context of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. It is almost always present, whether the discussion pertains to the...
October 5, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud After viewing the first US Presidential debate on September 29, one is left with no doubt about the degenerating political discourse among America’s ruling elites. Following the debate between...
September 29, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud It is abundantly clear that Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, has underestimated the seriousness of the challenges facing Palestine and the Palestinians. The rushed agreement between his party, Fatah...
September 27, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud Overwhelmed by uncontrollable circumstances, the Greek government is bracing for another financial crisis that promises to be as terrible as the last one in 2015. Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis,...
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Syria,
Turkey September 21, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud Palestine can never be truly understood through numbers, because numbers are dehumanising, impersonal, and, when necessary, can also be contrived to mean something else entirely. Numbers are not meant...
The inevitable has finally happened, and the coronavirus pandemic is now ravaging the besieged Gaza Strip. On August 24, a total lockdown was imposed by the Gaza authorities following...
September 16, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud The polarized nature of American politics often makes it difficult to address fundamental differences between the country’s two main political rivals, Republicans and Democrats. As each side is intent...
September 15, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud On September 2, the Israeli government approved a proposal that allows the military to indefinitely withhold the bodies of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli army. The...
September 7, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an alliance in name alone. Recent events notwithstanding, the brewing conflict over territorial waters in the Eastern Mediterranean indicates that the military...
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US September 1, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud It is difficult – and futile – to argue which American president has historically been more pro-Israel. While former President Barack Obama, for example, has pledged more money to...
August 28, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud On August 16, the Israeli navy declared the Gaza sea a closed military zone. A few days later, a group of Gaza fishermen decided to take their chances by...
August 25, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud Only recently, the Palestinian group, Hamas, and Israel seemed close to reaching a prisoner exchange agreement, where Hamas would release several Israeli soldiers held in Gaza while Israel would...
August 18, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud Palestinians are not going anywhere. This is the gist of seven decades of Palestinian struggle against Zionist colonialism. The proof? The story of Ahmed Amarneh. Amarneh, a 30-year-old civil...
August 16, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud French President, Emmanuel Macron, is in no position to pontificate to Lebanon about the need for political and economic reforms. Just as thousands of Lebanese took to the streets...
The notion that ‘Canada is better’, especially when compared with US foreign policy, has persisted for many years. Recent events at the United Nations have, however, exposed the true...
August 10, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud On August 4, hours before a massive explosion rocked the Lebanese capital, Beirut, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, issued an ominous warning to Lebanon. “We hit a cell and...
August 4, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud What will it take for the idea of a two-state solution, which was hardly practical to begin with, to be completely abandoned? Every realistic assessment of the situation on...
August 1, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud Protests against Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have raged on for weeks, turning violent sometimes. Israelis are furious at their government’s mediocre response to the coronavirus pandemic, especially as...
July 29, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud When International Court of Justice (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, confirmed last December that the Court has ample evidence to pursue a war crimes investigation in occupied Palestine, the Israeli...
July 27, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud As illegal settlers increase their attacks on Palestinian civilians in the occupied city of Al-Khalil (Hebron), the people of the Palestinian city continue to mount a campaign of popular...
July 21, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud For the first time since the Israeli war on Gaza in 2014, the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is signaling its willingness to engage in negotiations regarding...
July 18, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud On July 11, a video footage which showed a popular Israeli TV celebrity demeaning Palestinian children from the Bedouin community in the Naqab area went viral on social media....
July 14, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud While the US administration of President Donald Trump remains adamant in its support for Israel, the traditional democratic leadership continues to employ underhanded language, the kind of ‘strategic ambiguity’...
July 12, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud In a recent TV discussion, a respected pro-Palestine journalist declared that if any positive change or transformation ever occurs in the tragic Palestinian saga, it would not happen now,...
July 7, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud Wednesday, July 1, was meant to be the day on which the Israeli government officially annexed 30% of the occupied Palestinian West Bank and the Jordan Valley. This date,...
June 30, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud The visit by newly-elected Tunisian President Kais Saied to France on June 22 was intended to discuss bilateral relations, trade, etc. But it was also a missed opportunity, where...
In the past, there have been many attempts at holding accused Israeli war criminals accountable. Particularly memorable is the case of the late Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, (known,...
June 23, 2020
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Ramzy Baroud The painful truth is that the Palestinian Authority of President Mahmoud Abbas has already ceased to exist as a political body that holds much sway or relevance, either to...
![China's President Xi Jinping (L) and US President Donald Trump.[IORI SAGISAWA,MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GettyImages-1212971313.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The outdated notion that China ‘just wants to do business’ should be completely erased from our understanding of the rising global power’s political outlook. Simply put, Beijing has long...![Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh makes a speech via video conference at the European Parliament Committee meeting on Foreign Affairs, on 12 October 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. [Dursun Aydemir - Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201012_2_44796079_58838945-e1603181656725.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In theory, Europe and the United States stand on completely opposite sides when it comes to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. While the US government has fully embraced the...![Israeli left-wing activists lift placards during a demonstration calling for the release of Palestinian administrative detainees, including Maher al-Akhras who's health has deteriorated while on hunger strike for 77 days, in front of Kaplan medical center where he is in Israeli custody in the central city of Rehovot, on 11 October 2020. [AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GettyImages-1229007224.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
“No one cares about the prisoners.” Over the past few years, I have heard this phrase – or some variation of it – uttered many times by freed Palestinian...![People hold a banner reading "Free Palestine" during a protest in support of the Palestinian cause on May 12, 2018 in Rome, Italy. [Antonio Masiello/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GettyImages-957727744.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
A Zionist-led war on a Palestinian cultural festival in Rome has exposed the fragility of the Italian political system when it comes to the conversation on Palestine and Israel....![A Palestinian protester yells at an Israeli soldier during a protest against Israeli forces conducting an exercise in a residential area near the Palestinian village of Naqura, northwest of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on September 4, 2019 [JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/GettyImages-1165951966.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
‘International law’ remains one of the most discussed terms in the context of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. It is almost always present, whether the discussion pertains to the...![Demonstrators march down Black Lives Matter Plaza during a protest against police brutality and racism on June 6, 2020 in Washington, DC [Yasin Öztürk/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200606_2_42836975_55707723-scaled-e1591621045685.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
After viewing the first US Presidential debate on September 29, one is left with no doubt about the degenerating political discourse among America’s ruling elites. Following the debate between...![Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, West Bank on 20 May 2020 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Palestinian-President-Mahmoud-Abbas.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
It is abundantly clear that Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, has underestimated the seriousness of the challenges facing Palestine and the Palestinians. The rushed agreement between his party, Fatah...![Turkey's Oruc Reis seismic vessel, escorted by Turkish navy, is seen offshores of Eastern Mediterranean on 20 August 2020. [Turkish National Defense Ministry - Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20200820_2_43977196_57548328.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Overwhelmed by uncontrollable circumstances, the Greek government is bracing for another financial crisis that promises to be as terrible as the last one in 2015. Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis,...![Palestinian youth posing in front of a graffiti "We Are Not Numbers" [Twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/11701100_1595925884001054_8173500664297662801_n.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Palestine can never be truly understood through numbers, because numbers are dehumanising, impersonal, and, when necessary, can also be contrived to mean something else entirely. Numbers are not meant...
The inevitable has finally happened, and the coronavirus pandemic is now ravaging the besieged Gaza Strip. On August 24, a total lockdown was imposed by the Gaza authorities following...![US President Donald Trump(L) in Washington, DC, on June 2, 2019, and former US vice president Joe Biden during the kick off his presidential election campaign in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 18, 2019. [JIM WATSON,DOMINICK REUTER/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/GettyImages-1149261012-e1600157845175.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The polarized nature of American politics often makes it difficult to address fundamental differences between the country’s two main political rivals, Republicans and Democrats. As each side is intent...![Palestinians hold placards during a demonstration to demand the return of the bodies of relatives who were allegedly involved in attacks and consequently killed by Israeli forces, in the West Bank town of Hebron, on 30 August 2020. [HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/GettyImages-1228266794.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
On September 2, the Israeli government approved a proposal that allows the military to indefinitely withhold the bodies of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli army. The...![Lieutenant General Roger L. Cloutier (R) at the NATO Allied Land Command Headquarters in Izmir, Turkey on August 04, 2020 [Mehmet Emin Mengüarslan/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200804_2_43745139_57210824-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an alliance in name alone. Recent events notwithstanding, the brewing conflict over territorial waters in the Eastern Mediterranean indicates that the military...
It is difficult – and futile – to argue which American president has historically been more pro-Israel. While former President Barack Obama, for example, has pledged more money to...![The Israeli occupation forces completely closed the Gaza Strip’s fishing zone due to the alleged breach of the security truce on 16 August 2020 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/651A9442.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
On August 16, the Israeli navy declared the Gaza sea a closed military zone. A few days later, a group of Gaza fishermen decided to take their chances by...![Protesters, wearing masks of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition partner Defence Minister Benny Gantz, take part in a demonstration in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square to denounce Israel's plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, on 23 June 2020. [JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-1222154690.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Only recently, the Palestinian group, Hamas, and Israel seemed close to reaching a prisoner exchange agreement, where Hamas would release several Israeli soldiers held in Gaza while Israel would...![Palestinian Ahmed Amarneh at his home built in cave, in the village of Farasin, in the West Bank on 11 August 2020 [Shadi Jarar'ah/ApaImages]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/home-built-in-cave.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Palestinians are not going anywhere. This is the gist of seven decades of Palestinian struggle against Zionist colonialism. The proof? The story of Ahmed Amarneh. Amarneh, a 30-year-old civil...![French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a news conference at the Official residence of the French Embassy building in Beirut, Lebanon on August 06, 2020 [Lebanese Presidency / Handout - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200806_2_43782740_57263108.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
French President, Emmanuel Macron, is in no position to pontificate to Lebanon about the need for political and economic reforms. Just as thousands of Lebanese took to the streets...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (R) attend a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on 11 November 2018 as part of commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of the 11 November 1918 armistice, ending World War I. [FRANCOIS MORI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-1060158424.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The notion that ‘Canada is better’, especially when compared with US foreign policy, has persisted for many years. Recent events at the United Nations have, however, exposed the true...![Palestinians carry Lebanese and Palestinian flags during a demonstration in support of Lebanese people following the explosion in the port of Beirut, in Gaza City, Gaza on 6 August, 2020 [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200806_2_43783039_57263659.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
On August 4, hours before a massive explosion rocked the Lebanese capital, Beirut, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, issued an ominous warning to Lebanon. “We hit a cell and...![Jordan's Prime Minister Omar al-Razzaz gives a press conference in the southern port city of Aqaba on 23 July 2019, discussing projects in the area including an underwater military museum. [KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-1157415849.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
What will it take for the idea of a two-state solution, which was hardly practical to begin with, to be completely abandoned? Every realistic assessment of the situation on...![Israeli Likud Party campaign material and posters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strown on the floor following election night on April 10, 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel [Jack GUEZ/AFP/Getty]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GettyImages-1136007662-e1555063098898.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Protests against Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have raged on for weeks, turning violent sometimes. Israelis are furious at their government’s mediocre response to the coronavirus pandemic, especially as...![International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda speaking at the Oslo Forum 17 June 2015 [Stine Merethe Eid/Wikipedia]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ICC-Prosecutor-Fatou-BensoudaOslo_Forum_2014_-_ICC_Prosecutor-Fatou-Bensouda.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When International Court of Justice (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, confirmed last December that the Court has ample evidence to pursue a war crimes investigation in occupied Palestine, the Israeli...![Settlers look on as Israeli forces evacuate the body of Abdel Fattah Al-Sharif, killed by Israeli army medic Elor Azaria in Hebron , Israel on March 24 2016 [file photo]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/settlers-look-on-in-aftermath-of-Abdel-Fattah-Al-Sharif-killed-hebron-March-24-2016.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
As illegal settlers increase their attacks on Palestinian civilians in the occupied city of Al-Khalil (Hebron), the people of the Palestinian city continue to mount a campaign of popular...![Israeli security forces take positions outside the Israeli-run Ofer prison, in the West Bank city [Shadi Hatem/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2016_8-3-dention-centre030816_SHH_00-7.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
For the first time since the Israeli war on Gaza in 2014, the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is signaling its willingness to engage in negotiations regarding...
On July 11, a video footage which showed a popular Israeli TV celebrity demeaning Palestinian children from the Bedouin community in the Naqab area went viral on social media....![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an AIPAC conference in Washington, US on 6 March 2018 [Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Israeli-Prime-Minister-Benjamin-Netanyahu-GettyImages-928042942.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
While the US administration of President Donald Trump remains adamant in its support for Israel, the traditional democratic leadership continues to employ underhanded language, the kind of ‘strategic ambiguity’...![Israelis gather to stage a demonstration to protest against Israel's annexation plan for the illegal settlements in West Bank and Jordan Valley, in Tel Aviv, Israel on June 6, 2020 [Nir Keidar / Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200607_2_42837367_55708344.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In a recent TV discussion, a respected pro-Palestine journalist declared that if any positive change or transformation ever occurs in the tragic Palestinian saga, it would not happen now,...![People gather in Tel Aviv to protest against Jewish settlements and Israel's annexation plan of the West Bank on 23 June 2020 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2020_6-23-Protest-Israels-annexation-plan-in-Tel-Aviv_4.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Wednesday, July 1, was meant to be the day on which the Israeli government officially annexed 30% of the occupied Palestinian West Bank and the Jordan Valley. This date,...![French President Emmanuel Macron (R) and Tunisian President Kais Saied arrive for a joint press conference after their meeting at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, on June 22, 2020. [CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/GettyImages-1221951048-scaled-e1593512275872.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The visit by newly-elected Tunisian President Kais Saied to France on June 22 was intended to discuss bilateral relations, trade, etc. But it was also a missed opportunity, where...![The Foreign Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Riyad al-Maliki, leaves the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, on 25 June, 2015 [ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GettyImages-478456574.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In the past, there have been many attempts at holding accused Israeli war criminals accountable. Particularly memorable is the case of the late Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, (known,...![Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (L), Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh (2nd R) inspect the measures taking against the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in Ramallah, West Bank on 15 June 2020. [Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200615_2_42975071_55946868.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The painful truth is that the Palestinian Authority of President Mahmoud Abbas has already ceased to exist as a political body that holds much sway or relevance, either to...