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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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Russia,
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Ukraine,
US
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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...
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The position of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, has never been occupied by a woman. Until 1...
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May 16, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Israel's coalition government of right-wing Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, is on the verge of collapse, which is unsurprising. Israeli politics, after all, is among the most fractious in the...
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May 11, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The Russia-Ukraine war has turned quickly into a global conflict. One of the likely outcomes of this is the redefinition of the current world order, which has been in...
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Like typical analyses offered by western intelligence when trying to assess risks or understand major political phenomena in the Middle East, Israeli intelligence is equally short-sighted. It insists on...
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Palestinians are justifiably worried that the mandate granted to the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, might be coming to an end. UNRWA's mission, which has been in...
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April 29, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
While international news headlines remain largely focused on the war in Ukraine, little attention is given to the horrific consequences of the war which are felt in many regions...
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Africa,
Article,
Asia & Americas,
Austria,
China,
Europe & Russia,
Germany,
Ghana,
Indonesia,
International Organisations,
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Russia,
South Africa,
Tunisia,
Turkey,
Ukraine,
US,
World Bank
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April 26, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Ever since 15 April, the Israeli occupation army and police have raided Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem on a daily basis. Under the pretence of providing protection for provocative...
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April 19, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
A young journalist friend of mine in Gaza, Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh, told me that food prices in the besieged territory have rocketed in recent weeks. Already impoverished families are...
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April 14, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The meeting between Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi in the eastern Chinese city of Huangshan on 30 March is likely to go down...
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Opinion
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April 12, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
There is a reason why Israel is insistent on linking the series of attacks carried out by Palestinians recently to a specific location, namely the Jenin refugee camp in...
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April 5, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
When Russian and Ukrainian delegations meeting in Turkey on 29 March reached an initial understanding regarding a list of countries that could serve as security guarantors for Kyiv should...
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Asia & Americas,
Europe & Russia,
Israel,
Middle East,
Opinion,
Palestine,
Russia,
Turkey,
Ukraine,
US
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April 2, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
When a gruesome six-minute video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting and torturing handcuffed and tied-up Russian soldiers circulated online, outraged people on social media and elsewhere compared this barbaric behaviour...
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April 1, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Much has been said and written about media bias and double standards in the West's response to the Russia-Ukraine war, when compared with other wars and military conflicts across...
Published in:
Africa,
Article,
Asia & Americas,
Europe & Russia,
International Organisations,
Libya,
NATO,
North Korea,
Opinion,
Russia,
South Korea,
Ukraine
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March 29, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
"The water is back," one family member would announce in a mix of excitement and panic, often very late at night. The moment such an announcement was made, my...
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March 24, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Israel's balancing act in the Russia-Ukraine war is likely to falter soon, simply because the resulting NATO-Russia conflict is expected to last for years, not weeks or months. Eventually,...
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March 22, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
"We are anonymous because we fear retaliation." This text was part of a letter signed by 500 Google employees last October, in which they decried their company's direct support...
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March 21, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The tables have turned. A high-level US delegation visited Venezuela on 5 March, hoping to repair economic ties with Caracas. One of the world's poorest countries, in part due...
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March 14, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
A new global geopolitical game is in formation, and the Middle East, as is often the case, will be directly impacted by it in terms of possible new alliances...
Published in:
Article,
Asia & Americas,
China,
EU,
Europe & Russia,
International Organisations,
Israel,
Middle East,
Opinion,
Palestine,
Russia,
Ukraine,
UN,
US
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March 8, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Israel's war on Palestinian sport is as old as the settler-colonial state itself. Sport is a critical aspect of popular Palestinian culture, and since culture itself is a target...
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Africa,
Article,
Europe & Russia,
FIFA,
International Organisations,
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Middle East,
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March 4, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Finally, France will be leaving Mali, nearly a decade after the original military intervention in 2013. The repercussions of this decision will hardly be confined to this West African...
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March 1, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Can Israel be pressured? Or is it the only exception to international norms and the global political order in which every country, big or small, is subjected to pressures...
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February 21, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
When Nelson Mandela was freed from his Robben Island prison on February 11, 1991, my family, friends and neighbours followed the event with keen interest as they gathered in...
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February 18, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Mainstream US media continues to celebrate the supposed strength of the US economy. Almost daily, headlines speak of hopeful numbers, sustainable growth, positive trends and constant gains. The reality...
![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)
![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...![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 position of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, has never been occupied by a woman. Until 1...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and alternate Prime Minister and Defence Minister Benny Gantz (L) issue a statement at the Israeli Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv on July 27, 2020 [TAL SHAHAR/POOL/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-1227805213-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel's coalition government of right-wing Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, is on the verge of collapse, which is unsurprising. Israeli politics, after all, is among the most fractious in the...
The Russia-Ukraine war has turned quickly into a global conflict. One of the likely outcomes of this is the redefinition of the current world order, which has been in...![Yahya Sinwar, the elected leader of Hamas appears during a ceremony for fighters killed by Israeli air strikes at Yarmouk football Stadium on May 24,2021 in Gaza City, Gaza [Laurent Van der Stockt/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/GettyImages-1321139945-scaled-e1652122123624.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Like typical analyses offered by western intelligence when trying to assess risks or understand major political phenomena in the Middle East, Israeli intelligence is equally short-sighted. It insists on...![A Palestinian woman walks past the shuttered headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza City on November 29, 2021 [MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/GettyImages-1236882715-scaled-e1651565324440.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Palestinians are justifiably worried that the mandate granted to the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, might be coming to an end. UNRWA's mission, which has been in...![vEgyptian men work in a bakery at a market in Cairo, on March 17, 2022. [KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/GettyImages-1239260614-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
While international news headlines remain largely focused on the war in Ukraine, little attention is given to the horrific consequences of the war which are felt in many regions...![Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on April 10, 2022 [RONEN ZVULUN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/GettyImages-1239884651-scaled-e1650441909321.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Ever since 15 April, the Israeli occupation army and police have raided Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem on a daily basis. Under the pretence of providing protection for provocative...![A Palestinian man distributes free food for Poor families during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in al-Shijaiyah neighborhood in Gaza city, on 14 April 2021. [Ashraf Amra/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/140421_ASH_2_00-17.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
A young journalist friend of mine in Gaza, Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh, told me that food prices in the besieged territory have rocketed in recent weeks. Already impoverished families are...![This screengrab taken on March 30, 2022 from video by state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) via AFPTV shows Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) meeting his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi during his first visit to China since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine in February, at their meeting in Huangshan in China's Anhui province. [STR/CCTV/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/GettyImages-1239620057.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The meeting between Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi in the eastern Chinese city of Huangshan on 30 March is likely to go down...![Police officers take security measures at Dizengoff Street after a shooting in Tel Aviv, Israel on 7 April 2022. [Stringer - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/AA-20220407-27500812-27500799-ARMED_ATTACK_LEAVES_AT_LEAST_2_DEAD_4_WOUNDED_IN_ISRAEL.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
There is a reason why Israel is insistent on linking the series of attacks carried out by Palestinians recently to a specific location, namely the Jenin refugee camp in...![Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R) and US Secretary of state Antony Blinken in Jerusalem, on March 27, 2022 [JACQUELYN MARTIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/GettyImages-1239542992-scaled-e1649184550922.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When Russian and Ukrainian delegations meeting in Turkey on 29 March reached an initial understanding regarding a list of countries that could serve as security guarantors for Kyiv should...![A demonstration in solidarity with Ukraine due to ongoing Russian attacks on the country on 9 March 2022 [Hussam Shbaro/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220309_2_52530955_74481009.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When a gruesome six-minute video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting and torturing handcuffed and tied-up Russian soldiers circulated online, outraged people on social media and elsewhere compared this barbaric behaviour...
Much has been said and written about media bias and double standards in the West's response to the Russia-Ukraine war, when compared with other wars and military conflicts across...![Palestinian children fill jerrycans with drinking water from public taps at a refugee camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 30, 2019 [SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Gaza-water.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
"The water is back," one family member would announce in a mix of excitement and panic, often very late at night. The moment such an announcement was made, my...
Israel's balancing act in the Russia-Ukraine war is likely to falter soon, simply because the resulting NATO-Russia conflict is expected to last for years, not weeks or months. Eventually,...![Google headquarters is seen in Mountain View, California, United States on October 28, 2021. [Tayfun Coşkun - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/20211029_2_50661352_70159699.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
"We are anonymous because we fear retaliation." This text was part of a letter signed by 500 Google employees last October, in which they decried their company's direct support...![Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a rally to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the February 4, 1992 rebellion against the IMF and neoliberalism led by late President Hugo Chavez (1999-2013) in Caracas, Venezuela on 4 Februar 2022. [Pedro Rances Mattey - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/20220205_2_52039809_73344581.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The tables have turned. A high-level US delegation visited Venezuela on 5 March, hoping to repair economic ties with Caracas. One of the world's poorest countries, in part due...![A Palestinian woman holds up a national flag in front of burning tyres during a protest against settlements in occupied territories on March 7, 2022 [JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/GettyImages-1239003557-scaled-e1647289734751.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
A new global geopolitical game is in formation, and the Middle East, as is often the case, will be directly impacted by it in terms of possible new alliances...![Flags of FIFA (below C), UEFA (below L), Switzerland (upper C), Sweden (upper L) are pictured during the 69th FIFA Congress at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles in Paris, France on 5 June 2019. [Mustafa Yalçın - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20190605_2_36767827_45085254.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel's war on Palestinian sport is as old as the settler-colonial state itself. Sport is a critical aspect of popular Palestinian culture, and since culture itself is a target...![French President Emmanuel Macron (2-R), flanked by Ghana's President Nana Afuko Addo (R), Senegal's President Macky Sall (2-L), and European Council President Charles Michel (L), holds a joint press conference on France's engagement in the Sahel region, at the Elysee Palace in Paris on 17 February 2022. [IAN LANGSDON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/GettyImages-1238553119.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Finally, France will be leaving Mali, nearly a decade after the original military intervention in 2013. The repercussions of this decision will hardly be confined to this West African...![A view of Haram al-Sharif and Church of All Nations from At-Tur (Mount of Olives), during sunset in Jerusalem on 12 October 2021 [Mustafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/20211013_2_50415387_69597496.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Can Israel be pressured? Or is it the only exception to international norms and the global political order in which every country, big or small, is subjected to pressures...![Palestinian worshippers, move through the Qalandiya checkpoint from Ramallah into Jerusalem to attend the prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, on April 16, 2021, in Ramallah, West Bank [Issam Rimawi / Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Passing-through-Qalandiya-checkpoint-for-the-first-Friday-prayer-of-Ramadan_16.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When Nelson Mandela was freed from his Robben Island prison on February 11, 1991, my family, friends and neighbours followed the event with keen interest as they gathered in...![President of the United States Joe Biden in Washington, DC on February 15, 2022. [Kyle Mazza - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/20220215_2_52185064_73707208.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Mainstream US media continues to celebrate the supposed strength of the US economy. Almost daily, headlines speak of hopeful numbers, sustainable growth, positive trends and constant gains. The reality...