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January 25, 2023
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Muhammad Hussein
It is the unfortunate – or fortunate, depending on one's propensity to autocracy – nature of every decentralised system in this modern age to become centralised under the scope...
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Asia & Americas,
EU,
Europe & Russia,
IMF,
International Organisations,
Lebanon,
Middle East,
Opinion,
Turkey,
UK,
US,
World Bank,
World Economic Forum
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January 18, 2023
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Muhammad Hussein
Turkiye has surprised many policymakers and analysts over the past decade with its diplomatic prominence, soft power projection and hard power in the form of drones and other advances...
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Article,
EU,
Europe & Russia,
Finland,
International Organisations,
Kurdistan,
Middle East,
NATO,
Opinion,
Russia,
Sweden,
Syria,
Turkey,
Ukraine
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Davis highlights how the JNF has used setting up parks and planting trees to erase Palestinian villages and forms part of Israel's apartheid regime
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December 30, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
As the year of 2022 comes to an end, the usual spate of predictions for the incoming year are espoused by many. That includes, it seems, Russia's Security Council...
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Africa,
Armenia,
Article,
Asia & Americas,
Azerbaijan,
Azerbaijan,
EU,
Europe & Russia,
Iran,
Libya,
Middle East,
Opinion,
Russia,
Saudi Arabia,
Syria,
Turkey,
Ukraine,
US
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December 15, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
When social media solidified itself into the collective consciousness of technology users in the first decade of this century, it was increasingly looking like a revolutionary tool and saviour...
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Afghanistan,
Article,
Asia & Americas,
China,
Europe & Russia,
Middle East,
Opinion,
Russia,
Saudi Arabia,
Syria,
Ukraine,
US
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December 1, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
Jordan Peterson has long been a controversial figure, subject to attempts to suppress him from various sides. Much of that controversy is not wholly negative: his stand against Canada's...
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November 25, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
There are countless stereotypes and tropes found throughout popular culture, movie productions and social media. One of those is that of undercover police or intelligence agents who famously tend...
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November 9, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
In many ways, the COP27 climate conference being held in Egypt is a cruel but necessary irony. The tyranny of the host government — the sweeping arrests, arbitrary checking...
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November 4, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
Middle East Monitor’s flagship annual literary awards ceremony – the Palestine Book Awards (PBA) – has entered its 11th year today, as awards were handed out to the winning authors and books in the much-awaited event
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MEMO hosted an informal event at London's P21 Gallery last night ahead of this year's Palestine Book Awards (PBA) in recognition of authors and their contribution to literature on...
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October 29, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
What: The invasion of Egypt and the occupation of the area around the Suez Canal by a tripartite alliance of British, French and Israeli forces. Where: Suez Canal, Egypt...
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October 26, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
Anyone determined or patriotic enough to make a list of groundbreaking episodes in Britain's long history is likely to add Rishi Sunak's appointment as prime minister to it. Seeing...
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Opinion
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October 15, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
Since the ascension of America and its aggressive foreign policies throughout the world, both laymen and analysts have mocked Britain for being a shadow of its former self. Its...
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October 9, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
Human rights, in itself, have long been a contentious industry, developing over the decades and adapting to particular regions and surroundings. It is no different in Palestine, and perhaps...
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October 8, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
If any month in 2022 succeeded in further uniting far-right extremists in Europe, Israel and India in a herd mentality, it would be September, when the English city of...
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September 21, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
This month has likely been the most crushing for Russia since it launched its invasion of Ukraine almost seven months ago. In an aggressive counter-offensive operation, Ukrainian forces recaptured...
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September 2, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
It has forever been the dream of almost every state, intelligence agency, empire and totalitarian regime to oversee the doings of all of their subjects, to detect any hint...
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Article,
Asia & Americas,
Australia,
Canada,
EU,
India,
International Organisations,
Israel,
Middle East,
North Korea,
Oceania,
Opinion,
Pakistan,
Saudi Arabia,
UAE,
US
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August 22, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
After a decade of support for the Syrian revolution and opposition, Turkiye seems to be having a change of heart. Over the course of 2022, there mysteriously emerged reports...
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August 11, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
When it was revealed last month that Israel had requested the United States to prevent a new Turkish military operation in northern Syria, it served as a necessary reminder...
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July 29, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
As Arab states the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco began establishing ties with Israel over the past few years and warmed towards their old adversary, many...
Published in:
Africa,
Article,
Asia & Americas,
International Organisations,
Iran,
Israel,
Middle East,
NATO,
Oman,
Opinion,
Sudan,
UAE,
US
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July 20, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
US President Joe Biden's Middle East tour was muddled from the start, and his administration's regional policy was criticised by analysts for lacking clarity and direction. The results of...
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Article,
Asia & Americas,
Europe & Russia,
International Organisations,
Middle East,
OPEC,
Opinion,
Russia,
Saudi Arabia,
Ukraine,
US
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July 12, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
It is difficult to recall a time in the lives of current and surviving generations where the Hajj pilgrimage was made so chaotic and unstable as it was this...
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June 29, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
Fifty-five years ago this month, Israel declared war on the United States of America. Unofficially and not in so many words, of course, but what else can it be...
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June 13, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
On this day in 1978, Israeli military forces finally withdrew from Lebanon three months after their invasion of southern Lebanon in an effort to hunt down and eliminate the...
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June 12, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
Pivotal moments in history rarely present themselves, but when they do, that is exactly what they turn out to be. The power dynamics of an entire region can be...
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In Middle East Monitor’s first in-person event two years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a panel of speakers came together to discuss the future of Palestine from a grassroots perspective.
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It was only a matter of time before a right-wing figure in the West finally revealed the true depth of their agenda by deliberately drawing attention away from the...
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Over the past year, the European Union has delayed the transfer of hundreds of millions of Euros in its annual aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA), solely over the...
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There are many impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine that have been almost forensically analysed over the past month. From the laying bare of the European community's blatant...
Published in:
Afghanistan,
Africa,
Article,
Asia & Americas,
EU,
Europe & Russia,
International Organisations,
Libya,
Middle East,
Opinion,
Russia,
Syria,
UK,
Ukraine
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April 21, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
While the world endured global supply chain issues and delays for over two years throughout the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, markets suffered, economies buckled, and there were real...
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April 8, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
What: The Israeli military's siege and invasion of the Palestinian Jenin refugee camp during the Second Intifada, resulting in at least 52 Palestinians being indiscriminately massacred and over 13,000...
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March 25, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
When Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan, hit out at the European Union and Western envoys who urged him to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, asking if they thought...
![Exchange office is seen in Cairo, Egypt. [Stringer - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220321_2_52731120_74969519.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
It is the unfortunate – or fortunate, depending on one's propensity to autocracy – nature of every decentralised system in this modern age to become centralised under the scope...![Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (R) and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (L) in Ankara, Turkey on October 05, 2020 [Fatih Aktaş/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201005_2_44680701_58652589.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Turkiye has surprised many policymakers and analysts over the past decade with its diplomatic prominence, soft power projection and hard power in the form of drones and other advances...
Davis highlights how the JNF has used setting up parks and planting trees to erase Palestinian villages and forms part of Israel's apartheid regime![A general view of the 43rd Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit at King Abdul Aziz International Conference Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia [Royal Court of Saudi Arabia - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/AA-20221209-29689751-29689738-43RD_GCC_SUMMIT_IN_RIYADH.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
As the year of 2022 comes to an end, the usual spate of predictions for the incoming year are espoused by many. That includes, it seems, Russia's Security Council...![In this photo illustration, the image of Elon Musk is displayed on a computer screen and the logo of twitter on a mobile phone. [Muhammed Selim Korkutata - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/AA-20220426-27677626-27677623-ELON_MUSK_TWITTER.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When social media solidified itself into the collective consciousness of technology users in the first decade of this century, it was increasingly looking like a revolutionary tool and saviour...![Jordan Peterson speaks at ICC Sydney Theatre on February 26, 2019 in Sydney, Australia. [Don Arnold/WireImage]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GettyImages-1132234684.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Jordan Peterson has long been a controversial figure, subject to attempts to suppress him from various sides. Much of that controversy is not wholly negative: his stand against Canada's...![A woman pushes a child in a buggy past shadows cast by a tree onto a wall in Bethnal Green on February 22, 2019 in London, England. [Dan Kitwood/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/GettyImages-1126755487.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
There are countless stereotypes and tropes found throughout popular culture, movie productions and social media. One of those is that of undercover police or intelligence agents who famously tend...![Leaders and participants pose for a family photo during the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly known as COP27, at the Sharm El Sheikh International Convention Centre, in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt on November 07, 2022 [Royal Court of Saudi Arabia/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/sa.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In many ways, the COP27 climate conference being held in Egypt is a cruel but necessary irony. The tyranny of the host government — the sweeping arrests, arbitrary checking...
Middle East Monitor’s flagship annual literary awards ceremony – the Palestine Book Awards (PBA) – has entered its 11th year today, as awards were handed out to the winning authors and books in the much-awaited event![Mohammad Sabaaneh discusses his book at the Palestine Book Awards on 3 November 2022 [Middle East Monitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SRV_6230-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
MEMO hosted an informal event at London's P21 Gallery last night ahead of this year's Palestine Book Awards (PBA) in recognition of authors and their contribution to literature on...![Port Said seen from the air during the Suez Crisis [snl.no]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/standard_Port_Said_from_air.jpeg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
What: The invasion of Egypt and the occupation of the area around the Suez Canal by a tripartite alliance of British, French and Israeli forces. Where: Suez Canal, Egypt...![Rishi Sunak leaves the Conservative Party Campaign Headquarters after being announced the winner of Conservative Party leadership contest in London, United Kingdom on October 24, 2022 [Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AA-20221024-29239886-29239877-RISHI_SUNAK_TO_BECOME_BRITAINS_NEXT_PRIME_MINISTER_IN_LONDON.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Anyone determined or patriotic enough to make a list of groundbreaking episodes in Britain's long history is likely to add Rishi Sunak's appointment as prime minister to it. Seeing...![Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid (R) meets with British Prime Minister Liz Truss (L) within 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, United States on September 22, 2022. [Israeli Government Press Office - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/AA-20220922-28963961-28963960-LIZ_TRUSS_YAIR_LAPID_MEETING_IN_NEW_YORK-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Since the ascension of America and its aggressive foreign policies throughout the world, both laymen and analysts have mocked Britain for being a shadow of its former self. Its...
Human rights, in itself, have long been a contentious industry, developing over the decades and adapting to particular regions and surroundings. It is no different in Palestine, and perhaps...![Members of Muslim Students Federation Delhi University stage a protest after two persons from the Muslim community were allegedly killed by police in Ranchi during protest over controversial remarks made by two now-suspended BJP leaders about Prophet Mohammad, outside at the Delhi University in New Delhi India on June 11,2022. [Stringer - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/AA-20220611-28137768-28137764-MUSLIM_STUDENTS_PROTEST_IN_NEW_DELHI.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
If any month in 2022 succeeded in further uniting far-right extremists in Europe, Israel and India in a herd mentality, it would be September, when the English city of...
This month has likely been the most crushing for Russia since it launched its invasion of Ukraine almost seven months ago. In an aggressive counter-offensive operation, Ukrainian forces recaptured...
It has forever been the dream of almost every state, intelligence agency, empire and totalitarian regime to oversee the doings of all of their subjects, to detect any hint...
After a decade of support for the Syrian revolution and opposition, Turkiye seems to be having a change of heart. Over the course of 2022, there mysteriously emerged reports...
When it was revealed last month that Israel had requested the United States to prevent a new Turkish military operation in northern Syria, it served as a necessary reminder...
As Arab states the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco began establishing ties with Israel over the past few years and warmed towards their old adversary, many...![US President Joe Biden (L) being welcomed by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R) at Alsalam Royal Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on July 15, 2022 [Royal Court of Saudi Arabia/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/AA-20220715-28427229-28427227-US_PRESIDENT_JOE_BIDEN_IN_SAUDI_ARABIA-e1658304350106.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
US President Joe Biden's Middle East tour was muddled from the start, and his administration's regional policy was criticised by analysts for lacking clarity and direction. The results of...![Hundreds of thousands of prospective Hajj pilgrims circumambulate the Kaaba with praying on June 29, 2022 in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. [Ashraf Amra - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/AA-20220629-28293128-28293115-PROSPECTIVE_HAJJ_PILGRIMS_IN_MECCA.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
It is difficult to recall a time in the lives of current and surviving generations where the Hajj pilgrimage was made so chaotic and unstable as it was this...![Damaged USS Liberty one day (9 June 1967) after attack [Wikipedia]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/USS-Liberty.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Fifty-five years ago this month, Israel declared war on the United States of America. Unofficially and not in so many words, of course, but what else can it be...![Israel withdrew from Lebanon on 13 June 1978 [Wikipedia]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/800px-PikiWiki_Israel_4220_Israel_Defense_Forces-e1560249158968.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
On this day in 1978, Israeli military forces finally withdrew from Lebanon three months after their invasion of southern Lebanon in an effort to hunt down and eliminate the...![Syrian civilians in Azaz, Syria on October 22, 2021. [Bekir Kasim - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/20211022_2_50559785_69920967.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Pivotal moments in history rarely present themselves, but when they do, that is exactly what they turn out to be. The power dynamics of an entire region can be...![Author Ramzy Baroud at MEMO's Launch of his latest book ‘Our Vision for Liberation’ in London, UK on 10 June 2022 [ Emre Atli/Middle East Monitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/SRV_5500000.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In Middle East Monitor’s first in-person event two years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a panel of speakers came together to discuss the future of Palestine from a grassroots perspective.![William Shawcross in London, UK on 10 March 2011 [Dominic Lipinski - WPA Pool/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/William-Shawcross.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
It was only a matter of time before a right-wing figure in the West finally revealed the true depth of their agenda by deliberately drawing attention away from the...![Palestinian students in Ramallah, West Bank on 23 January 2022 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/20220208_2_52081275_73450246-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Over the past year, the European Union has delayed the transfer of hundreds of millions of Euros in its annual aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA), solely over the...![Former Guantanamo Bay detainee British citizen Moazzam Begg arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London on September 25, 2017 [DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/GettyImages-853463594-scaled-e1651930567965.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
There are many impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine that have been almost forensically analysed over the past month. From the laying bare of the European community's blatant...![Farmers inspect the wheat plants during their production process in Nile Delta province of al-Minufiyah, Egypt on 25 March 2022. [Stringer - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Wheat-production-in-Egypt.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
While the world endured global supply chain issues and delays for over two years throughout the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, markets suffered, economies buckled, and there were real...![A Palestinian boy walks between the rubble from destroyed homes in the Jenin refugee camp on 13 May 2002 [David Silverman/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Jenin-refugee-boy.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
What: The Israeli military's siege and invasion of the Palestinian Jenin refugee camp during the Second Intifada, resulting in at least 52 Palestinians being indiscriminately massacred and over 13,000...
When Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan, hit out at the European Union and Western envoys who urged him to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, asking if they thought...