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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...
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February 15, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The current split in the African Union (AU) over Israel's observer status within the organisation is emblematic of a larger conflict that has the potential to split the continent's...
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February 8, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
A succession of events in recent weeks all point to the inescapable fact that nearly 75 years of Israel's painstaking efforts to hide the truth about its origins and...
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February 6, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
As soon as Moscow received an American response to its security demands in Ukraine, it answered indirectly by announcing greater military integration between it and three South American countries,...
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February 2, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
A scheme is under way to withhold or to reduce payments made by the Palestinian Authority to the families of Palestinian prisoners. According to Israeli media, the Biden Administration...
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It should matter little to the Chinese that American diplomats and a handful of their western allies will not be attending the Beijing Winter Olympics in February. What truly...
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January 26, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his prosecutors are reportedly finalising the details of a plea deal that would practically water down, shelve, or drop altogether all three...
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January 24, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, is leading his country's anti-Palestinian propaganda, this time engaging in pre-emptive hasbara in anticipation of a Palestinian response to the ongoing...
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January 23, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games may go down in history as the official start of the cold war between the US, a handful...
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January 20, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
It is ironic that even former right-wing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had rejected a Knesset (Israeli Parliament) bill which proposed to give the government greater power to control...
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January 14, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Long before intersectionality became a prevailing concept which helped delineate the relationship between various marginalised and oppressed groups, late South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu said it all in a...
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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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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...
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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...
![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)
![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...![Members of General Industrial Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA), civil associations and political parties march in Sandton, Johannesburg as they hold anti-Israel banners during a pro-Palestine demonstration, on 27 January 2022. [LUCA SOLA/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/GettyImages-1238018468.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The current split in the African Union (AU) over Israel's observer status within the organisation is emblematic of a larger conflict that has the potential to split the continent's...![Palestinians gather during a protest against the Israel's implementations towards Arabs in the Negev Desert, in East Jerusalem on 30 January 2022. [Issam Rimawi - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/20220130_2_51964186_73164071.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
A succession of events in recent weeks all point to the inescapable fact that nearly 75 years of Israel's painstaking efforts to hide the truth about its origins and...
As soon as Moscow received an American response to its security demands in Ukraine, it answered indirectly by announcing greater military integration between it and three South American countries,...![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)
A scheme is under way to withhold or to reduce payments made by the Palestinian Authority to the families of Palestinian prisoners. According to Israeli media, the Biden Administration...![Models attend the presentation of the Russian Olympic Team uniform for the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games, on December 10, 2021 [DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GettyImages-1237147259-scaled-e1643662816240.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
It should matter little to the Chinese that American diplomats and a handful of their western allies will not be attending the Beijing Winter Olympics in February. What truly...
Former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his prosecutors are reportedly finalising the details of a plea deal that would practically water down, shelve, or drop altogether all three...![Ambassador of Israel to the US and UN Gilad Erdan attends The Algemeiner's 8th annual J100 Gala on October 12, 2021 in Rockleigh, New Jersey. [Roy Rochlin/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/GettyImages-1346297724.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, is leading his country's anti-Palestinian propaganda, this time engaging in pre-emptive hasbara in anticipation of a Palestinian response to the ongoing...
The diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games may go down in history as the official start of the cold war between the US, a handful...![In this photo illustration, the Meta logo is displayed on the screen of an iPhone in front of a Facebook logo on 29 October 2021 [Chesnot/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Meta.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
It is ironic that even former right-wing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had rejected a Knesset (Israeli Parliament) bill which proposed to give the government greater power to control...
Long before intersectionality became a prevailing concept which helped delineate the relationship between various marginalised and oppressed groups, late South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu said it all in a...![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 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...