April 15, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi Unsurprisingly, attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians have increased during the first three months of 2021. UN human rights experts and rapporteurs have documented more than 210 settler...
April 13, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi Israel has opted to reject, rather than defer, the International Criminal Court's investigation into war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories. The decision comes after months of the settler-colonial...
April 8, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has issued yet another warning about the perilous living conditions of Palestinians in Lebanon's refugee camps. Covid-19 is seen...
April 6, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi US President Joe Biden may be returning the country to the two-state paradigm, but the inequalities between Israelis and Palestinians are becoming more prominent with each statement uttered by...
April 1, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi In another move that shows US President Joe Biden is navigating between the Trump administration's era and the return to the two-state politics, the US State Department's 2020 Country Reports...
March 30, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi The US has reversed one aspect of the Trump administration's foreign policy in Palestine; humanitarian aid will be resumed with a $15 million grant for vulnerable Palestinian communities in...
March 25, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi The Trump era is over, or so the Middle East Quartet would have us believe. Now that the Zionist colonisation project is back to contending diplomatically with the two-state...
March 23, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi The impending war crimes investigation by the International Criminal Court has prompted Israel to act diplomatically and otherwise to try and stop it. The Israeli government has ramped up...
March 20, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi "The two-state solution has always been merely a cynical tool of conflict management never intended to actually resolve the conflict." Jeff Halper's succinct statement regarding international diplomacy over the...
March 18, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi Last year, the Palestinian Authority attempted, in the wrong way as usual, to get the international community to act upon Israel's colonial expansion by stating that Israeli Prime Minister...
March 16, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi Israel's successful vaccination campaign and its subsequent positive spell in the international spotlight is a result of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's politicisation of medical matters in the run-up to...
March 11, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi Israel is reportedly concerned that US President Joe Biden will prioritise human rights over traditional allegiances in the Middle East. With a policy shift that departs from the Trump...
March 9, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is counting upon the diplomatic route against the International Criminal Court's decision to investigate war crimes alleged to have been committed by his country....
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US March 4, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi Short-term funding initiatives for Palestinians provided without addressing Israel's colonialism and military occupation have been proven to be a recipe for long-term failure. They simply do not address the...
March 2, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi European politicians are finally waking up to the issue of Israeli annexation of Palestinian land, acknowledging that the suspension brought about by the US-brokered Abraham Accords are not an...
February 25, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi The US has asked to rejoin the UN Human Rights Council in another move that, superficially at least, spells a departure from the Trump administration's withdrawal from the institution....
February 23, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi The latest report by the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process painted a bleak picture for Palestine. Gone are the days when UN representatives attempted to...
February 20, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi A look at Israeli colonisation from the inside requires a thorough reckoning. In Hagar Kotef's recent study, The Colonising Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine, settlement narratives are...
February 18, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi With US President Joe Biden's first call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now out of the way, the first inklings of the new administration's diplomacy regarding Palestine and...
February 16, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi The Biden administration is adopting a confusing position regarding Jerusalem, signalling a possible effort to square the circle of taking the US back to the fold of international consensus...
February 11, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi The Palestinian Authority's recent, and unusual, response to the EU's statement condemning Israel's latest settlement expansion would have been welcomed if it came from a consistent political position. In...
February 9, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi At the rate that it is failing the people of Palestine, the Palestinian Authority will only stop jeopardising their cause when it is declared to be completely obsolete, more...
February 4, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi With each diplomatic attempt by the international community to save the two-state compromise, Palestinians are guaranteed further loss of territory with every compromise that they are forced to make....
February 2, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi When news of the "Abraham Accords" broke last year, Israel's impending annexation of the occupied West Bank was sidelined. The new diplomatic opportunities in line with what the international...
January 28, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi US President Joe Biden announced the restoring of diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority and the resumption of humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people, in a bid to bring the country...
January 26, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi "An unprecedented place," is how Israel Hayom described the Trump administration's scheming with Israel against the Palestinian people, during an interview with outgoing US Ambassador David Friedman. Unprecedented, that...
January 21, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi The Palestinian legislative and presidential elections are set to be held in May and July respectively, and the Palestinian Authority is following US President Joe Biden's diplomatic path meticulously....
January 19, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is "deeply concerned" about Israel's ongoing settlement expansion, the Palestinian Authority's official media, Wafa news agency, has reported. Another 800 settlement units will endanger...
January 14, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi The UN has mastered the art of dissociating itself from colonisation, especially that which it has supported through international consensus. Former UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace...
January 12, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi "Shocking scenes of violence" was how the Jewish Insider described last week's storming of the Capitol Building in Washington DC by supporters of outgoing US President Donald Trump. It...
January 7, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi In what reads like a tentative attempt to bring the US back on track when it comes to international diplomacy, the US Foreign Affairs Committee representative, Gregory Meeks, has...
January 5, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi After returning to security coordination with Israel just days after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the US presidential election, the Palestinian Authority wasted no time in reassuring...
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Unsurprisingly, attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians have increased during the first three months of 2021. UN human rights experts and rapporteurs have documented more than 210 settler...![Building of the International Criminal Court [Wikipedia]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/International_Criminal_Court_building_2016_in_The_Hague-e1581770209326.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel has opted to reject, rather than defer, the International Criminal Court's investigation into war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories. The decision comes after months of the settler-colonial...![Palestinians gather in front of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building to stage a protest against food aid reduction by the UNRWA in Khan Yunis, Gaza on 23 February 2021. [Mustafa Hassona - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/20210223_2_47016057_62802415.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has issued yet another warning about the perilous living conditions of Palestinians in Lebanon's refugee camps. Covid-19 is seen...![US President Joe Biden on the Ellipse near the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, April 5, 2021 [Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-1232128689-scaled-e1617719504960.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
US President Joe Biden may be returning the country to the two-state paradigm, but the inequalities between Israelis and Palestinians are becoming more prominent with each statement uttered by...![US President Joe Biden in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 1, 2021 in Washington, DC [Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-1231463534-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In another move that shows US President Joe Biden is navigating between the Trump administration's era and the return to the two-state politics, the US State Department's 2020 Country Reports...![US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on March 24, 2021 [VIRGINIA MAYO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-1231903146-scaled-e1617110967534.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The US has reversed one aspect of the Trump administration's foreign policy in Palestine; humanitarian aid will be resumed with a $15 million grant for vulnerable Palestinian communities in...![Following a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres (L) and President of Palestine and Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas arrive for a photo opportunity prior to a meeting at UN headquarters, on 20 February 2018 in New York City. [Drew Angerer/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-921545090.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The Trump era is over, or so the Middle East Quartet would have us believe. Now that the Zionist colonisation project is back to contending diplomatically with the two-state...![Israel's president Reuven Rivlin in Berlin on March 16, 2021 [JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-1231749933-scaled-e1616513626834.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The impending war crimes investigation by the International Criminal Court has prompted Israel to act diplomatically and otherwise to try and stop it. The Israeli government has ramped up...
"The two-state solution has always been merely a cynical tool of conflict management never intended to actually resolve the conflict." Jeff Halper's succinct statement regarding international diplomacy over the...![Israeli forces demolish a house belonging to Palestinian family in Hebron, West Bank on 3 February 2021 [Mamoun Wazwaz/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/20210203_2_46699939_62203245.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Last year, the Palestinian Authority attempted, in the wrong way as usual, to get the international community to act upon Israel's colonial expansion by stating that Israeli Prime Minister...![Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine logo is displayed on a screen with a syringe in the front [Ali Balıkçı/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/20201228_2_46084620_61057175.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel's successful vaccination campaign and its subsequent positive spell in the international spotlight is a result of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's politicisation of medical matters in the run-up to...![US President Joe Biden on January 27, 2021 in Washington, DC [Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/biden.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel is reportedly concerned that US President Joe Biden will prioritise human rights over traditional allegiances in the Middle East. With a policy shift that departs from the Trump...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a hearing in his corruption trial at the Jerusalem district court, on 8 February 2021. [REUVEN CASTRO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-1231042354.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is counting upon the diplomatic route against the International Criminal Court's decision to investigate war crimes alleged to have been committed by his country....![Palestinians wearing protective masks maintain social distancing while waiting in ATM line during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Gaza City, Gaza on 1 September 2020. [Ali Jadallah - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Bank-of-Palestine.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Short-term funding initiatives for Palestinians provided without addressing Israel's colonialism and military occupation have been proven to be a recipe for long-term failure. They simply do not address the...![A protester, wearing a protective mask due to the COVID-19 pandemic, holds placards during a demonstration in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square to denounce Israel's plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, on 23 June 2020. [JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/GettyImages-1222154613-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
European politicians are finally waking up to the issue of Israeli annexation of Palestinian land, acknowledging that the suspension brought about by the US-brokered Abraham Accords are not an...
The US has asked to rejoin the UN Human Rights Council in another move that, superficially at least, spells a departure from the Trump administration's withdrawal from the institution....![Palestinian and Jewish peace activists stage a protest against the court's ruling in favor of the Jewish settlers in front of the Israel Central Court in Jerusalem on 9 February 2021. [Mostafa Alkharouf - Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/20210209_2_46788043_62357763-scaled-e1614082407528.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The latest report by the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process painted a bleak picture for Palestine. Gone are the days when UN representatives attempted to...
A look at Israeli colonisation from the inside requires a thorough reckoning. In Hagar Kotef's recent study, The Colonising Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine, settlement narratives are...![Then US Vice President Joe Biden (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu give joint statements to press in Jerusalem on March 9, 2016 [DEBBIE HILL/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/GettyImages-514445400.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
With US President Joe Biden's first call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now out of the way, the first inklings of the new administration's diplomacy regarding Palestine and...![The Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, in the al-Aqsa mosque compound, in Jerusalem's Old City on February 13, 2021[EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-1231155550-e1613487639964.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The Biden administration is adopting a confusing position regarding Jerusalem, signalling a possible effort to square the circle of taking the US back to the fold of international consensus...![A general view shows an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank city Nablus, on 18 October 2020 [Shadi Jarar'ah/ApaImages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2020_10-18-settlement-unit.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The Palestinian Authority's recent, and unusual, response to the EU's statement condemning Israel's latest settlement expansion would have been welcomed if it came from a consistent political position. In...![Palestinian representative to the UN Riyad Mansour attends the United Nations Security Council meeting in New York, United States on December 23, 2016 [Volkan Furuncu / Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/20161223_2_20899692_17329702.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
At the rate that it is failing the people of Palestine, the Palestinian Authority will only stop jeopardising their cause when it is declared to be completely obsolete, more...![A Palestinian protester takes cover after Israeli forces attacked protesters during the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, at the Israel-Gaza border on 15 May, 2018 [Ashraf Amra/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/150518_ASH_00-19.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
With each diplomatic attempt by the international community to save the two-state compromise, Palestinians are guaranteed further loss of territory with every compromise that they are forced to make....![Palestinians protests outside the UNESCO office in Gaza against Bahrain's normalisation deal with Israel [Mohmmed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2-scaled-e1609368645897.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When news of the "Abraham Accords" broke last year, Israel's impending annexation of the occupied West Bank was sidelined. The new diplomatic opportunities in line with what the international...![A picture taken on February 23, 2017 shows a billboard, of unknown origin, on a main road leading to the West Bank city of Ramallah, reading in Arabic: "If the choice is between one state or two states, then I am choosing the one state." [ABBAS MOMANI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/two-state-solution.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
US President Joe Biden announced the restoring of diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority and the resumption of humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people, in a bid to bring the country...
"An unprecedented place," is how Israel Hayom described the Trump administration's scheming with Israel against the Palestinian people, during an interview with outgoing US Ambassador David Friedman. Unprecedented, that...![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)
The Palestinian legislative and presidential elections are set to be held in May and July respectively, and the Palestinian Authority is following US President Joe Biden's diplomatic path meticulously....![Israeli forces watch Palestinians during a protest against Israeli settlements in Deir Jarir, Ramallah, West Bank on January 08, 2021 [Issam Rimawi / Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/20210108_2_46255828_61365292.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is "deeply concerned" about Israel's ongoing settlement expansion, the Palestinian Authority's official media, Wafa news agency, has reported. Another 800 settlement units will endanger...![UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nikolai Mladenov attends a press conference in Gaza on 25 September 2017 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017_9_25-UN-envoy-in-gaza6.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The UN has mastered the art of dissociating itself from colonisation, especially that which it has supported through international consensus. Former UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace...![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/2020/10/GettyImages-1228295708.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
"Shocking scenes of violence" was how the Jewish Insider described last week's storming of the Capitol Building in Washington DC by supporters of outgoing US President Donald Trump. It...![A boy carries a sack as workers of United Nations Palestine Refugee Agency (UNRWA) package humanitarian aid in Jabalia, Gaza on December 17, 2020 [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/20201217_2_45909998_60723558.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In what reads like a tentative attempt to bring the US back on track when it comes to international diplomacy, the US Foreign Affairs Committee representative, Gregory Meeks, has...
After returning to security coordination with Israel just days after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the US presidential election, the Palestinian Authority wasted no time in reassuring...