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March 31, 2018
Asa Winstanley
As I write this, Palestinians in Gaza have begun what one of their leaders has called a major new phase towards the liberation of Palestine and the return of...
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March 17, 2018
Asa Winstanley
We do not know for sure who carried out the chemical weapon attack in the small English city of Salisbury last week. Although it is said that Russia was...
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March 16, 2018
Asa Winstanley
A major Israeli propaganda talking point is the concept of “Palestinian incitement”. The idea behind it is that Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation is so self-defeating, so irrational, that...
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March 13, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Crown prince and defence minister of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman was in the UK last week for meetings with Prime Minister Theresa May. The visit was intended to...
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March 1, 2018
Asa Winstanley
The Central Intelligence Agency portrays itself as a protector of Americans and their freedoms. It claims to act in the best interests of the people and their government. The...
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February 28, 2018
Asa Winstanley
The illegal Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights has now been in place for more than 50 years. This substantial territory, part of southern Syria, was conquered by...
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February 27, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Solicitors acting for former government minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi announced last week that she had won £20,000 in libel damages plus costs from the Jewish News, after it published...
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February 26, 2018
Asa Winstanley
The Egyptian regime has signed a long-gestating deal to begin importing natural gas from Israel. The Financial Times reported this week that Israeli company Delek has signed a deal...
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February 17, 2018
Asa Winstanley
As I’ve written in this column several times before, the “Palestinian Authority” is, at best, a misnomer. It is neither particularly Palestinian nor even remotely authoritative. Since its inception...
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February 10, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Reports in the Jordanian and Israeli media this week say that Israel will soon reopen its embassy in Amman, which was closed following a deadly incident last July. That’s...
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February 3, 2018
Asa Winstanley
Secret files released by MI5 in December give a fascinating new insight into a bombing campaign which terrorised London in the years following the Second World War. This was...
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February 1, 2018
Asa Winstanley
When former Labour Mayor of London Ken Livingstone was asked by a BBC interviewer if what Hitler did was legal, his response included the historical facts about a deal...
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January 31, 2018
Asa Winstanley
A strand of Israeli propaganda with a long history has been to misrepresent the Zionist movement as a “progressive” cause. For example, over the past few years we have...
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January 25, 2018
Asa Winstanley
At his ridiculous address to the UN General Assembly in 2014, Israel’s sadistic and deluded Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed that, “ISIS and Hamas are branches of the same...
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January 22, 2018
Asa Winstanley
One of the most under-reported aspects of security policy in the Middle East is Israel’s nuclear weapons programme. This apartheid state is estimated by the US government to have...
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December 26, 2017
Asa Winstanley
Israel claims to be a light unto the nations. But it casts a dark shadow over the region. Israel claims to be the only democracy in the middle east....
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December 24, 2017
Asa Winstanley
One of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s few allies in the Parliamentary Labour Party has been Emily Thornberry. It was all the more disappointing, then, when she gave a...
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December 24, 2017
Asa Winstanley
One of the most boring refrains of liberals on the rare occasions they talk about Palestine is, “Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?” This tedious argument is periodically dredged up...
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December 22, 2017
Asa Winstanley
When former US General Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, the media hype train about supposed Russian interference in last year’s US election went into overdrive...
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December 13, 2017
Asa Winstanley
Saudi Arabia and Israel represent a twin threat to the Arab world. Both states have long received the military and political backing of the world’s sole remaining superpower, the...
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December 11, 2017
Asa Winstanley
Viewers watching the televised emergency session of the United Nations Security Council on Friday may be forgiven for thinking the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) representative to the UN was trying...
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December 1, 2017
Asa Winstanley
Privately, it has been well understood by US officials since the 1960s that Israel has the capacity to build its own nuclear weapons. Publicly, Israel has a policy of...
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November 30, 2017
Asa Winstanley
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has been preparing a list of some 150 companies which operate in Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Zeid Ra’ad...
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November 26, 2017
Asa Winstanley
Campaigners on Friday unveiled a legal challenge to the British print media’s self-regulating body over inaccurate coverage of a Palestinian meeting in Parliament last year. Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine activist Jonathan...
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November 25, 2017
Asa Winstanley
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the story was the paranoid raving of the strangest of conspiracy theorists, but it’s true; alleged multiple-rapist and disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein...
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November 24, 2017
Asa Winstanley
For years now far right groups across Europe have sought increasing links with Israel despite the fact that 20-30 years ago these fascistic groups held Jews as their number...
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November 21, 2017
Asa Winstanley
The shock “resignation” of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri earlier this month was part of larger domestic political machinations within Saudi Arabia. With the Saudi-Israeli alliance now in overdrive,...
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November 10, 2017
Asa Winstanley
The Priti Patel affair is an insight into the power of the Israel lobby to influence the British political system. But it is only a symptom of the rot....
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November 1, 2017
Asa Winstanley
Palestinian political factions Hamas and Fatah have signed another unity deal. Hopes have, once again, been expressed that the deal brokered by Egypt could end the political impasse and...
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October 30, 2017
Asa Winstanley
The new leader of Israel’s Labour Party made it clear once again earlier this month that the supposedly progressive and left-wing of Zionism is as racist as its right-wing...
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October 29, 2017
Asa Winstanley
One of the most common recurring themes in modern Israeli propaganda, especially in the West, is the idea that the “conflict” is a “complicated” one. This idea is promoted...
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October 2, 2017
Asa Winstanley
When the Labour government in 2003 joined the disastrous US-led war against the people of Iraq, Tony Blair and other senior government ministers were much criticised on the left...
As I write this, Palestinians in Gaza have begun what one of their leaders has called a major new phase towards the liberation of Palestine and the return of...![The ambulance, which carried the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia to emergency after they found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury, is seen as it is dispatched to an unknown place with a military vehicle within the investigation in Salisbury, United Kingdom on March 10, 2018 [Tayfun Salcı / Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180310_2_29162460_31534014-e1521300045966.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
We do not know for sure who carried out the chemical weapon attack in the small English city of Salisbury last week. Although it is said that Russia was...
A major Israeli propaganda talking point is the concept of “Palestinian incitement”. The idea behind it is that Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation is so self-defeating, so irrational, that...
Crown prince and defence minister of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman was in the UK last week for meetings with Prime Minister Theresa May. The visit was intended to...
The Central Intelligence Agency portrays itself as a protector of Americans and their freedoms. It claims to act in the best interests of the people and their government. The...
The illegal Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights has now been in place for more than 50 years. This substantial territory, part of southern Syria, was conquered by...
Solicitors acting for former government minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi announced last week that she had won £20,000 in libel damages plus costs from the Jewish News, after it published...![Sisi and Netanyahu meet in New York 18 September 2017 [thenewkhalij]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/a1505803615-e1512147829775.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The Egyptian regime has signed a long-gestating deal to begin importing natural gas from Israel. The Financial Times reported this week that Israeli company Delek has signed a deal...![Jordanian security forces are seen as they sealed off the scene and blocked entries to the area after one Jordanian was killed and an Israeli was injured in a violent incident at the Israeli embassy in Jordan on July 23, 2017. Security forces opened fire when a Jordanian national reportedly stabbed an Israeli personnel at the embassy in Amman, said security sources. [Salah Malkawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/20170723_2_24903895_24390250.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Reports in the Jordanian and Israeli media this week say that Israel will soon reopen its embassy in Amman, which was closed following a deadly incident last July. That’s...
Secret files released by MI5 in December give a fascinating new insight into a bombing campaign which terrorised London in the years following the Second World War. This was...
When former Labour Mayor of London Ken Livingstone was asked by a BBC interviewer if what Hitler did was legal, his response included the historical facts about a deal...
A strand of Israeli propaganda with a long history has been to misrepresent the Zionist movement as a “progressive” cause. For example, over the past few years we have...
At his ridiculous address to the UN General Assembly in 2014, Israel’s sadistic and deluded Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed that, “ISIS and Hamas are branches of the same...![Israeli defence minister Shimon Peres, South African Prime Minister B.J. Vorster and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in Jerusalem, April 1976 [Rahamim Israeli]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/mtg.3.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
One of the most under-reported aspects of security policy in the Middle East is Israel’s nuclear weapons programme. This apartheid state is estimated by the US government to have...
Israel claims to be a light unto the nations. But it casts a dark shadow over the region. Israel claims to be the only democracy in the middle east....![UK's Shadow Foreign Secretary, Emily Thornberry, seen addressing the 2016 Labour Party conference on September 26, 2016 [Rwendland/Wikipedia]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2016_9-28-Emily-ThornberryEmily_Thornberry_2016_Labour_Party_Conference_1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
One of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s few allies in the Parliamentary Labour Party has been Emily Thornberry. It was all the more disappointing, then, when she gave a...
One of the most boring refrains of liberals on the rare occasions they talk about Palestine is, “Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?” This tedious argument is periodically dredged up...
When former US General Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, the media hype train about supposed Russian interference in last year’s US election went into overdrive...![Crown Prince and Defence Minister of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud attends a Shura Council meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 13 December 2017 [Bandar Algaloud/Saudi Kingdom Council/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017_12-12-Mohammed-bin-Salman-Al-Saud20171213_2_27492622_28814299.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Saudi Arabia and Israel represent a twin threat to the Arab world. Both states have long received the military and political backing of the world’s sole remaining superpower, the...![Protestors take part in a demonstration against US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a protest at the Place de la Republique in Paris, France on 9 December, 2017 [Nedim/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171210_2_27416907_28684873.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Viewers watching the televised emergency session of the United Nations Security Council on Friday may be forgiven for thinking the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) representative to the UN was trying...![Israeli war planes seen during a training excercise [U.S. Air Force photo/Wikipedia]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Israeli-Air-ForceIsraeli_F-16s_at_Red_Flag.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
Privately, it has been well understood by US officials since the 1960s that Israel has the capacity to build its own nuclear weapons. Publicly, Israel has a policy of...
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has been preparing a list of some 150 companies which operate in Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Zeid Ra’ad...
Campaigners on Friday unveiled a legal challenge to the British print media’s self-regulating body over inaccurate coverage of a Palestinian meeting in Parliament last year. Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine activist Jonathan...
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the story was the paranoid raving of the strangest of conspiracy theorists, but it’s true; alleged multiple-rapist and disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein...
For years now far right groups across Europe have sought increasing links with Israel despite the fact that 20-30 years ago these fascistic groups held Jews as their number...
The shock “resignation” of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri earlier this month was part of larger domestic political machinations within Saudi Arabia. With the Saudi-Israeli alliance now in overdrive,...
The Priti Patel affair is an insight into the power of the Israel lobby to influence the British political system. But it is only a symptom of the rot....
Palestinian political factions Hamas and Fatah have signed another unity deal. Hopes have, once again, been expressed that the deal brokered by Egypt could end the political impasse and...
The new leader of Israel’s Labour Party made it clear once again earlier this month that the supposedly progressive and left-wing of Zionism is as racist as its right-wing...
One of the most common recurring themes in modern Israeli propaganda, especially in the West, is the idea that the “conflict” is a “complicated” one. This idea is promoted...
When the Labour government in 2003 joined the disastrous US-led war against the people of Iraq, Tony Blair and other senior government ministers were much criticised on the left...