Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has, once and for all, settled the doubts on the Court's jurisdiction to investigate war crimes committed in occupied...
Mats Svensson is a former Swedish diplomat, author, and photographer. His books include "Crimes, Victims, and Witnesses – Apartheid in Palestine." His latest volume, "Apartheid is a Crime –...
One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened at San Remo, a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera. Together, they sealed the fate of the massive...
Almost twenty years ago at a Muslim conference in Washington DC, I heard the distressing argument that Palestine should not be a central topic on the American Muslim political...
April 27, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Shortly after an agreement to form a "national emergency government" in Israel, leader of the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) party, Benny Gantz, tweeted triumphantly that 'democracy' in Israel...
As soon as the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading its tentacles throughout China and eventually to the rest of the world, the World Health Organization (WHO), along with other international...
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Dr Ramzy Baroud It was intended to be a Machiavellian move, but the decision by Benny Gantz, leader of Israel's Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) coalition, to join a Benjamin Netanyahu-led government...
April 14, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Spitting at someone is a universal insult. In Israel, however, spitting at Palestinians is an entirely different story. Now that we know that the deadly coronavirus can be transmitted...
April 7, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud While the Coronavirus continues to ravage almost every nation on earth, Arab countries remain unable, or unwilling, to formulate a collective strategy to help the poorest and most vulnerable...
April 5, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud 7 lessons from Palestine on surviving lockdown
March 30, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Tunisia is the Middle East's greatest success story, according to the findings of the V-Dem Annual Democracy Report 2019. One of the world's most regarded annual reports on democracy...
March 24, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud The Middle East region, battered by wars and adjoining humanitarian crises that have left millions of people stateless, hungry and diseased, is in urgent need for peace, security, and...
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Dr Ramzy Baroud It was only a matter of time before the anti-Muslim sentiment in India turned violent. A country that has historically prided itself on its diversity and tolerance, and for...
March 17, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud In a surprising move, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, announced on February 29 that he will be re-opening his country's border to Europe, thus allowing tens of thousands of...
March 14, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud "I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist," current Democratic Presidential candidate, Joe Biden, said in April 2007, soon before he was...
March 9, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud I was only introduced to the term 'Chilestinians' last February at a conference in Istanbul, during a presentation by the Director of the Palestinian Federation of Chile, Anuar Majluf....
March 5, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Merely two weeks after Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, declared that the PA will suspend all 'security coordination' with Israel, Palestinian security forces in the West Bank killed unarmed...
March 3, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud What if the Coronavirus reaches the besieged Gaza Strip? While the question carries great urgency for all Palestinians living under Israel's military occupation, the Gaza situation is particularly complex...
February 26, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud How is one to apply rational political analysis to what is inherently irrational? What kind of political theory must one consult to formulate and test hypotheses when the information...
February 24, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, must be channeling the spirit of Houdini as he continues to plot his escape from one of the most convoluted political dilemmas in Israel's...
February 20, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud A precious moment has been squandered, as Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, had the chance to right a historical wrong, by reinstating Palestinian national priorities at the United Nations...
Khalida Jarrar is a Palestinian feminist, a lawyer, educator and an elected parliamentarian. Over the years, she came to symbolize Palestinian popular resistance in the occupied West Bank, enraging...
February 12, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud A negotiated solution to the 'Palestinian-Israeli conflict', at least the way envisaged by successive US administrations, has failed. Now, Palestinians and their allies would have to explore a whole...
February 10, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Just because the Donald Trump administration has declared international law null and void regarding the Right of Return for Palestinian refugees, the status of occupied East Jerusalem or the...
February 3, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud After several postponements, US President, Donald Trump, has finally revealed the details of his Middle East plan, dubbed 'Deal of the Century', in a press conference in Washington on...
January 27, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Massive natural gas discoveries off the eastern coast of Israel and Palestine is slated to make Tel Aviv a regional energy hub. Whether Israel will be able to translate...
It is hardly surprising that Italian opposition leader, Matteo Salvini, has vowed that if he becomes Italy's next Prime Minister, he will recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel....
January 21, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Billions of US taxpayers' dollars will continue to be funnelled into Israel in the next fiscal year, and for many years in the foreseeable future. Republican and Democratic Senators...
January 13, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud A seemingly ordinary news story, published in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, on January 7, shed light on a long-forgotten, yet crucial, subject: Israel's so-called "firing zones" in the West...
January 6, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud At long last, Fatou Bensouda, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has uttered the long-anticipated conclusion that "all the statutory criteria under the Rome statute for...
By killing top Iranian military commander, Qasem Soleimani, American and Israeli leaders demonstrated the idiom 'out of the frying pan into the fire.' US President Donald Trump and Israeli...
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Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has, once and for all, settled the doubts on the Court's jurisdiction to investigate war crimes committed in occupied...![“Apartheid is a Crime – Portraits of Israeli Occupation,” by Mats Svensson [Twitter]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/apartheid.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened at San Remo, a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera. Together, they sealed the fate of the massive...![Pakistani demonstrators shout anti-US and Israel slogans in a rally in Lahore on December 14, 2017 [ARIF ALI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/GettyImages-892240534-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Almost twenty years ago at a Muslim conference in Washington DC, I heard the distressing argument that Palestine should not be a central topic on the American Muslim political...![Israeli Blue and White party chief Benny Gantz (R), shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) as they attend a state memorial ceremony for former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (backround) and his wife Leah, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on 10 November, 2019 [HEIDI LEVINE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/GettyImages-1181360681-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Shortly after an agreement to form a "national emergency government" in Israel, leader of the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) party, Benny Gantz, tweeted triumphantly that 'democracy' in Israel...![A view of makeshift tents of asylum seekers, hoping that Greece will open the border gate, on 19 March 2020 [Cihan Demirci/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/camps-near-Greece-border20200319_2_41441457_53216965.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
As soon as the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading its tentacles throughout China and eventually to the rest of the world, the World Health Organization (WHO), along with other international...![People wear masks to protect themselves from coronavirus (Covid-19) in East Jerusalem on 6 March 2020. [Mostafa Alkharouf - Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20200306_2_41221575_52828941.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The prophecies are here and it is a foregone conclusion: the post-coronavirus world will look fundamentally different from anything that we have seen or experienced, at least since the...![Workers hang a Blue and White Party billaboard showing its leader Benny Gantz and Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, as part of the party's campaign on 17 February, 2020 in Tel Aviv, Israel [Amir Levy/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/GettyImages-1201487184-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
It was intended to be a Machiavellian move, but the decision by Benny Gantz, leader of Israel's Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) coalition, to join a Benjamin Netanyahu-led government...![Israeli police check vehicles at a checkpoint in the ultra Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, on 3 April, 2020 during the novel coronavirus pandemic crisis [JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/GettyImages-1209027740-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Spitting at someone is a universal insult. In Israel, however, spitting at Palestinians is an entirely different story. Now that we know that the deadly coronavirus can be transmitted...
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Tunisia is the Middle East's greatest success story, according to the findings of the V-Dem Annual Democracy Report 2019. One of the world's most regarded annual reports on democracy...
The Middle East region, battered by wars and adjoining humanitarian crises that have left millions of people stateless, hungry and diseased, is in urgent need for peace, security, and...![Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) hold a joint press conference following their meeting in Jerusalem on 5 July 2017 [Haim Zach/GPO / Handout /Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/20170705_2_24573510_23772986.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
It was only a matter of time before the anti-Muslim sentiment in India turned violent. A country that has historically prided itself on its diversity and tolerance, and for...![A woman protects her child as Greek riot police attack migrants on 3 March 2020 [Ayhan Mehmet/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Greece-20200303_2_41166182_52739343.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In a surprising move, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, announced on February 29 that he will be re-opening his country's border to Europe, thus allowing tens of thousands of...![US Vice President Joe Biden gestures upon his arrival at Israel's Ben Gurion International airport on 8 March 2016. [JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/GettyImages-514303926.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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I was only introduced to the term 'Chilestinians' last February at a conference in Istanbul, during a presentation by the Director of the Palestinian Federation of Chile, Anuar Majluf....![Hamas supporters carry posters depicting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with a red cross during a protest in Gaza [Ashraf Amra/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2017_5-2-Palestinians-hold-a-poster-depicting-Palestinian-President-Mahmoud-Abbas020517_ASH_00-15.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Merely two weeks after Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, declared that the PA will suspend all 'security coordination' with Israel, Palestinian security forces in the West Bank killed unarmed...
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How is one to apply rational political analysis to what is inherently irrational? What kind of political theory must one consult to formulate and test hypotheses when the information...![Copies of ballots papers and campaign posters for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party lie on the ground in the aftermath of the country's parliamentary elections, early on 18 March, 2015 in Tel Aviv [AFP PHOTO/JACK GUEZ/Getty]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GettyImages-466670948-e1555153057840.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, must be channeling the spirit of Houdini as he continues to plot his escape from one of the most convoluted political dilemmas in Israel's...![Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) and US President Donald Trump shake hands before a meeting at the Palace Hotel during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly on 20 September, 2017, in New York [Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/GettyImages-850075044.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
A precious moment has been squandered, as Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, had the chance to right a historical wrong, by reinstating Palestinian national priorities at the United Nations...
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After several postponements, US President, Donald Trump, has finally revealed the details of his Middle East plan, dubbed 'Deal of the Century', in a press conference in Washington on...![Offshore drilling platform in Cyprus [File photo]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/news/europe/cyprus-natural-gas-rig.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Massive natural gas discoveries off the eastern coast of Israel and Palestine is slated to make Tel Aviv a regional energy hub. Whether Israel will be able to translate...![Ze'ev Jabotinsky [Wikipedia]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/PORTRAIT_OF_ZEEV_JABOTINSKY._פורטרט_זאב_זבוטינסקי.D850-058-scaled-e1580114900711.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
It is hardly surprising that Italian opposition leader, Matteo Salvini, has vowed that if he becomes Italy's next Prime Minister, he will recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel....![Israeli forces take security in Jerusalem on 24 December 2019 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/20191224_2_39996264_50629275.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Billions of US taxpayers' dollars will continue to be funnelled into Israel in the next fiscal year, and for many years in the foreseeable future. Republican and Democratic Senators...![A concrete marker placed by Israeli forces demarcating the beginning of the military zone near Tubas in the Jordan Valley, northern West Bank [DCIP/Cody O'Rourke]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/DBDJ.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
A seemingly ordinary news story, published in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, on January 7, shed light on a long-forgotten, yet crucial, subject: Israel's so-called "firing zones" in the West...![International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda [File photo]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/people/fatou-bensouda.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
At long last, Fatou Bensouda, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has uttered the long-anticipated conclusion that "all the statutory criteria under the Rome statute for...![Demonstrators carry an image of Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, who was killed by a US airstrike in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, during an anti-US rally to protest the killing at Palestine Square in the capital Tehran, Iran on January 4, 2020 [Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200104_2_40163753_50920471.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
By killing top Iranian military commander, Qasem Soleimani, American and Israeli leaders demonstrated the idiom 'out of the frying pan into the fire.' US President Donald Trump and Israeli...