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January 10, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
As soon as media reports emerged regarding a deal between Palestinian prisoner, Hisham Abu Hawash and the Israeli prison authorities, Israeli extremists, led by Knesset member Itamar Ben-Gvir, angrily...
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January 9, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Although 2021 is now behind us, there are many issues that will linger for a while, or much longer, and will certainly dominate much of the news in 2022,...
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Afghanistan,
Article,
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China,
Europe & Russia,
International Organisations,
Middle East,
NATO,
Opinion,
Russia,
UK,
Ukraine,
US
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January 4, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
With Syria still embroiled in its own war, Israel has been actively rewriting the rule book regarding its conduct in the neighbouring Arab country. Gone are the days of...
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January 1, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
At the onset, 2021 appeared to be another ordinary year, one of unrelenting Israeli occupation and continued Palestinian misery. While much of that remained true, the dynamics of the...
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An article by Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times last July is a prime example of western intelligentsia's limited understanding of China's unhindered rise as a superpower. "Becoming a superpower...
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December 28, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
At the outset, the Israeli military decision to revise its open-fire policies in the occupied West Bank seems puzzling. What would be the logic of giving Israeli soldiers the...
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December 23, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The result of a vote in the US House of Representatives on 14 December may signal a change in Washington's approach to the social-political evil that is Islamophobia. However,...
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December 21, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
An investigative report in Haaretz — "Classified Docs Reveal Massacres of Palestinians in '48 – and What Israeli Leaders Knew" — is a must-read. It should be read in...
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December 9, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The decision by several governments across the globe to institute travel bans on seven African countries, starting on 27 November, due to the discovery of a new Covid-19 variant,...
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December 6, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
For whatever reason, some mistakenly perceive the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, as liberal, progressive, and even 'pro-Palestinian'. Of course, none of this is true. This misconstrued depiction of an essentially...
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November 30, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The Belgian government's decision on 25 November to label products made in illegal Israeli Jewish settlements is welcome, although it will ultimately prove ineffectual. Belgium has historically shown solidarity...
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November 25, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
While "anti-vaxxers" continue to clash with police in various European cities, a whole media discourse has been formulated around the political leanings of these angry crowds, describing them in...
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November 23, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
At a recent New York event, the President of the Foreign Press Association Ian Williams declared, before an approving audience, that it is time "to reclaim the narrative on...
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On 21 October, Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz announced the issuance of a military order designating six prominent Palestinian human rights groups as 'terrorist organizations'. Gantz claimed that they...
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November 16, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The revelation a few years ago that the US National Security Agency (NSA) had been conducting mass surveillance on millions of Americans reignited the conversation on governments' misconduct and...
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November 11, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Of all the speeches and political grandstanding at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26), the words of Mexican President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, were the...
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November 9, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Those who are not familiar with how Israel, particularly with its military occupation of Palestine, is actively and irreversibly damaging the environment might conclude erroneously that Tel Aviv is...
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November 2, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The international uproar in response to Israel's approval of a massive expansion of its illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian West Bank may give the impression that such...
Published in:
Article,
Opinion
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October 29, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
"Could China's economy collapse?" was the title of a 15 October article published by QUARTZ magazine. The article makes an ominous case of a Chinese economic crash and its...
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October 26, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
When Joe Biden was declared the winner in the US presidential election last November, expectations in Ramallah were high. A Biden administration, compared with the brazenly pro-Israel Donald Trump...
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October 21, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
When the news circulated that Morocco's leading political group, the Development and Justice Party (PJD), had been trounced in the latest elections held in September, official media mouthpieces in...
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October 19, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The pro-Israel crowd on social media was quick to pounce on award-winning Irish novelist, Sally Rooney, as soon as she declared that she had "chosen not to sell …...
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October 15, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The fact that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature is welcome news, especially as the Swedish Academy is historically known for lacking in diversity, as if...
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October 12, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Language is politics and politics is power. This is why the misuse of language is particularly disturbing, especially when the innocent and vulnerable pay the price. The wars in...
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October 5, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
There is an unmistakable shift in American politics regarding Palestine and Israel, one that is inspired by the way in which many Americans, especially young people, view the Palestinian...
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October 2, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Canada's unpopular general election of 20 September is increasingly recognised as a mistake by the country's leading political analysts. However, this mistake could potentially prove to be the very...
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September 28, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The political division in Palestinian society is deep-rooted, and should not be reduced to convenient claims about the "Hamas-Fatah split", elections, the Oslo accords, and subsequent disagreements. The division...
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September 27, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
An urgent task is awaiting us: given the progression of events, we must liberate ourselves quickly from the limits and confines placed on the Afghanistan discourse, which have been...
Published in:
Afghanistan,
Article,
Asia & Americas,
International Organisations,
Iran,
Israel,
Lebanon,
Middle East,
Opinion,
Palestine,
UN,
US
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September 22, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Scenes of thousands of Afghans flooding the Kabul international airport to flee the country as Taliban fighters were quickly consolidating their control over the capital, raised many questions, leading...
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September 21, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Zakaria Zubeidi is one of the six Palestinian prisoners who, on 6 September, tunnelled their way out of Gilboa, a notorious, high-security Israeli prison. He was recaptured a few...
Published in:
Article,
Opinion
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September 14, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Twenty-five years before Israel was established on the ruins of historic Palestine, a Russian Jewish Zionist leader, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, argued that a Jewish state in Palestine could only survive...
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September 9, 2021
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Suddenly, the idea put forward by French President Emmanuel Macron late last year does not seem so far-fetched or untenable after all. Following the hurried US-NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan,...
![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)
![Palestinians lift placards as they rally in support of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash in the city of Nablus in the north of the occupied West Bank on January 4, 2022 [JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GettyImages-1237534176-scaled-e1641842595102.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
As soon as media reports emerged regarding a deal between Palestinian prisoner, Hisham Abu Hawash and the Israeli prison authorities, Israeli extremists, led by Knesset member Itamar Ben-Gvir, angrily...![People walk in between makeshift tents at a refugee camp during winter in Idlib, Syria on 18 December 2021. [Muhammed Said - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/20211220_2_51385384_71779618.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Although 2021 is now behind us, there are many issues that will linger for a while, or much longer, and will certainly dominate much of the news in 2022,...![Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a panel organised by Reichman University in Herzliya, Israel on 23 November 2021. [Israeli Government Press Office - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/20211123_2_51001275_70938854-e1638529469306.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
With Syria still embroiled in its own war, Israel has been actively rewriting the rule book regarding its conduct in the neighbouring Arab country. Gone are the days of...![Palestinians stage a protest against the Israel's blockade in Khan Yunis, Gaza on 25 August 2021 [Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/20210825-Protest-against-Israeli-blockade-in-Gaza-_21.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
At the onset, 2021 appeared to be another ordinary year, one of unrelenting Israeli occupation and continued Palestinian misery. While much of that remained true, the dynamics of the...
An article by Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times last July is a prime example of western intelligentsia's limited understanding of China's unhindered rise as a superpower. "Becoming a superpower...![Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian protester during a demonstration against the Israeli settlement expansion in the village of Jbara, south of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank, on 1 September 2020. [JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/GettyImages-1228295708-scaled-e1639655197142.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
At the outset, the Israeli military decision to revise its open-fire policies in the occupied West Bank seems puzzling. What would be the logic of giving Israeli soldiers the...![Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) attends a news conference about Islamophobia on Capitol Hill on November 30, 2021 in Washington, DC [Drew Angerer/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/GettyImages-1236921339-scaled-e1640263076101.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The result of a vote in the US House of Representatives on 14 December may signal a change in Washington's approach to the social-political evil that is Islamophobia. However,...![A Palestinian protester raises a national flag as he stands facing Israeli security forces, during a demonstration against the establishment of Israeli outposts on Palestinian lands, in Beit Dajan, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on 12 November 2021. [JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/GettyImages-1236516372.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
An investigative report in Haaretz — "Classified Docs Reveal Massacres of Palestinians in '48 – and What Israeli Leaders Knew" — is a must-read. It should be read in...
The decision by several governments across the globe to institute travel bans on seven African countries, starting on 27 November, due to the discovery of a new Covid-19 variant,...![Israeli President Isaac Herzog (C) after storming the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on 28 november 2021 to mark the start of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah [Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/GettyImages-1236865382-scaled-e1638822751359.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
For whatever reason, some mistakenly perceive the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, as liberal, progressive, and even 'pro-Palestinian'. Of course, none of this is true. This misconstrued depiction of an essentially...![People gather for a demonstration in solidarity with the Palestinians in Brussels [HATIM KAGHAT/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/GettyImages-1232906070-scaled-e1638305362834.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The Belgian government's decision on 25 November to label products made in illegal Israeli Jewish settlements is welcome, although it will ultimately prove ineffectual. Belgium has historically shown solidarity...![A health worker draws a dose of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine into a syringe at a vaccination centre n Ankara, Turkey on 28 June 2021 [Erçin Ertürk/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/20210628_2_48955894_66495289.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
While "anti-vaxxers" continue to clash with police in various European cities, a whole media discourse has been formulated around the political leanings of these angry crowds, describing them in...![Palestinians stage a demonstration in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners facing repression at Israeli jails, at the Masjid Al Aqsa, Jerusalem on September 10, 2021. [Mostafa Alkharouf - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20210910-Demonstration-at-the-Masjid-Al-Aqsa-in-support-of-Palestinian-prisoners_3.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
At a recent New York event, the President of the Foreign Press Association Ian Williams declared, before an approving audience, that it is time "to reclaim the narrative on...![Benny Gantz, Israel's defense minister in Jerusalem, Israel, on Tuesday, October 12, 2021 [Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/GettyImages-1235841307-scaled-e1637160418666.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
On 21 October, Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz announced the issuance of a military order designating six prominent Palestinian human rights groups as 'terrorist organizations'. Gantz claimed that they...![A view of the entrance of the Israeli cyber company NSO Group branch in the Arava Desert on November 11, 2021 in Sapir, Israel. [Amir Levy/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/GettyImages-1236496546.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The revelation a few years ago that the US National Security Agency (NSA) had been conducting mass surveillance on millions of Americans reignited the conversation on governments' misconduct and...
Of all the speeches and political grandstanding at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26), the words of Mexican President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, were the...![Bill Gates attends the World Leaders' Summit "Accelerating Clean Technology Innovation and Deployment" session on day three of COP26 on 2 November 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. [Jeff J Mitchell - Pool/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/GettyImages-1236298089.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Those who are not familiar with how Israel, particularly with its military occupation of Palestine, is actively and irreversibly damaging the environment might conclude erroneously that Tel Aviv is...![Elderly Palestinian demonstrators chants slogans in front of Israeli soldiers during a demonstration against Israeli land confiscation in Hebron, on October 2, 2021 [HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/GettyImages-1235643122-scaled-e1635878955250.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The international uproar in response to Israel's approval of a massive expansion of its illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian West Bank may give the impression that such...![US and Chinese national flags fly outside a company building in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone's Waigaoqiao free trade zone and logistics park in Shanghai, China, on Tuesday, 22 Oct. 2013. [Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/GettyImages-185616617.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
"Could China's economy collapse?" was the title of a 15 October article published by QUARTZ magazine. The article makes an ominous case of a Chinese economic crash and its...
When Joe Biden was declared the winner in the US presidential election last November, expectations in Ramallah were high. A Biden administration, compared with the brazenly pro-Israel Donald Trump...![People cast their votes in the parliamentary and municipal elections, at a polling station in Rabat, Morocco on 8 September 2021 [Jalal Morchidi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2021098-Moroccans-vote-in-parliamentary-municipal-elections_4.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When the news circulated that Morocco's leading political group, the Development and Justice Party (PJD), had been trounced in the latest elections held in September, official media mouthpieces in...![Sally Rooney attends a photocall during the Edinburgh International Book Festival on 22 August 2017 in Edinburgh, Scotland. [Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/GettyImages-837270534.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The pro-Israel crowd on social media was quick to pounce on award-winning Irish novelist, Sally Rooney, as soon as she declared that she had "chosen not to sell …...![A peace dove flies past a relief of Alfred Nobel after it was released in front of the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway, on 8 October 2021. [ALI ZARE/NTB/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/GettyImages-1235761857.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The fact that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature is welcome news, especially as the Swedish Academy is historically known for lacking in diversity, as if...![Members of the public gather as "Little Amal", a giant puppet depicting a Syrian refugee girl, arrives with a European Union flag at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, eastern France, on 30 September 2021, as part of the initiative "The Walk". [FREDERICK FLORIN/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/GettyImages-1235600947.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Language is politics and politics is power. This is why the misuse of language is particularly disturbing, especially when the innocent and vulnerable pay the price. The wars in...![US House of Representatives [Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-83951850.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
There is an unmistakable shift in American politics regarding Palestine and Israel, one that is inspired by the way in which many Americans, especially young people, view the Palestinian...![Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, speaks at a press conference at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Friday, Sept. 24, 2021 [David Kawai/Bloomberg via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/GettyImages-1235479806-scaled-e1633169054234.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Canada's unpopular general election of 20 September is increasingly recognised as a mistake by the country's leading political analysts. However, this mistake could potentially prove to be the very...![Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, attends by video conference a meeting with deputy Hamas chief Saleh Arouri (on screen from Beirut) discussing Israel's plan to annex parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on July 2, 2020 [ABBAS MOMANI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/GettyImages-1224196454-scaled-e1632819685608.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The political division in Palestinian society is deep-rooted, and should not be reduced to convenient claims about the "Hamas-Fatah split", elections, the Oslo accords, and subsequent disagreements. The division...![A boy walks along a street selling Taliban flags in Kabul on September 16, 2021 [BULENT KILIC/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/GettyImages-1235289147-scaled-e1632731265124.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
An urgent task is awaiting us: given the progression of events, we must liberate ourselves quickly from the limits and confines placed on the Afghanistan discourse, which have been...![Afghans, wanting to leave the country, wait around Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on 26 August 2021 [Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/20210826-People-wait-to-be-evacuated-at-Kabuls-Hamid-Karzai-Airport_2.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Scenes of thousands of Afghans flooding the Kabul international airport to flee the country as Taliban fighters were quickly consolidating their control over the capital, raised many questions, leading...![The picture of Palestinian prisoner Zakaria Zubeidi hangs of a flag in the occupied-West Bank town of Salfit on September 20, 201 [JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/GettyImages-1235380052-scaled-e1632211657691.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Zakaria Zubeidi is one of the six Palestinian prisoners who, on 6 September, tunnelled their way out of Gilboa, a notorious, high-security Israeli prison. He was recaptured a few...![Palestinians climb on top of Israel's controversial separation wall between the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah and the Israeli settlement of Modiin Ilit during a demonstration against settlements in the area, on February 17, 2017 [ABBAS MOMANI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/GettyImages-642319786-scaled-e1631607758412.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Twenty-five years before Israel was established on the ruins of historic Palestine, a Russian Jewish Zionist leader, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, argued that a Jewish state in Palestine could only survive...![The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. [Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/GettyImages-1234863361.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Suddenly, the idea put forward by French President Emmanuel Macron late last year does not seem so far-fetched or untenable after all. Following the hurried US-NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan,...