March 26, 2020
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Ramona Wadi The European Union is coming closer to admitting that there are political aims behind its funding of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). In announcing...
March 24, 2020
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Ramona Wadi Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, is not averse to seizing opportunities for outrageous rhetoric, even at a time when countries around the world are struggling to contain...
March 19, 2020
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Ramona Wadi The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has launched an appeal for funds in preparation for a possible outbreak of the coronavirus in Palestinian refugee camps....
March 18, 2020
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Ramona Wadi Democrats in the US House of Representatives have sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, asking the government to ensure that Israel is not using military equipment...
March 12, 2020
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Ramona Wadi The international community has stated repeatedly that it will not accept any changes to issues related to Palestine upon which global consensus has been reached. The unilateral decision taken...
March 10, 2020
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Ramona Wadi Aside from lobbying governments to oppose the International Criminal Court’s investigation and possible war crimes charges, Israel is planning a joint response with the US to counter the process....
March 5, 2020
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Ramona Wadi Brazilian federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of right-wing dictatorship fanatic President Jair Bolsonaro, announced recently that the country will be moving to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation....
March 3, 2020
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Ramona Wadi The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) remains in perpetual financial crisis. Spokesman Adnan Abu Hasna has warned that apart from a possible cessation of services...
February 28, 2020
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Ramona Wadi “It is particularly in Darwish’s poetical progression that Palestine endured and became metaphor.” This observation in the introduction to Palestine as Metaphor (Olive Branch Press, 2019) resonates throughout the...
February 27, 2020
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Ramona Wadi Ever since Israel’s Operation Protective Edge military offensive in 2014, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strategy has been to seek the normalisation of bombing the Gaza Strip. This has involved...
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US February 25, 2020
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Ramona Wadi The European Union’s fluctuations on Israel’s colonial settlement expansion are more prominent since the bloc’s refusal to issue a statement regarding US President Donald Trump’s so-called deal of the...
February 20, 2020
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Ramona Wadi Israel and the Palestinian Authority have been trading the same rhetoric about not having a suitable partner for diplomatic negotiations. The senior adviser and spokesman for Mahmoud Abbas, Nabil...
February 18, 2020
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Ramona Wadi For all its purported peace-building efforts and support for Palestinian rights, the EU is committed to supporting Israel’s colonial-settler expansionism. Its feeble response to US President Donald Trump’s so-called...
February 13, 2020
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Ramona Wadi We should forget all about Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’s hyperbole regarding a full boycott of Israel and the US, including security coordination. During his address to the UN...
February 11, 2020
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Ramona Wadi Further proof of the Palestinian Authority’s rejection of Palestinian land, history and memory was articulated recently by Mahmoud Abbas’s spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, who basically discounted Zionist colonisation and...
February 6, 2020
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Ramona Wadi The Palestinian Authority has learned nothing from decades of futile UN Security Council Resolutions. Do the people of Palestine really need international consensus regarding the already very clear illegality...
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US February 6, 2020
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Ramona Wadi What the news reports eliminate, Ramzy Baroud’s new book, These Chains Will be Broken: Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons (Clarity Press, 2019), pushes to the fore....
February 4, 2020
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Ramona Wadi Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas continues to provide proof of his worthlessness when it comes to political decision-making. If the US “continues” with the so-called deal of the century,...
January 30, 2020
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Ramona Wadi Palestinian prisoners – the bulwark of Palestinian resistance – have faced several levels of exclusion and exploitation throughout the decades. Building upon this trajectory, US President Donald Trump’s so-called...
January 29, 2020
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Ramona Wadi Just a day before US President Donald Trump revealed the details of the purported “deal of the century”, the Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh made a last-ditch attempt...
January 26, 2020
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Ramona Wadi Prince Charles’ visit to the occupied Palestinian territories has garnered media attention. Words of sympathy, far from a political message, were the subject of his speech in Bethlehem after...
January 23, 2020
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Ramona Wadi As expected, the International Criminal Court has cranked its bureaucratic delays into motion over the proposed investigation into Israeli war crimes. The ICC’s Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s statement was...
January 21, 2020
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Ramona Wadi The EU is predicting an increase in Israeli demolitions of Palestinian dwellings and structures in the occupied West Bank, thus perpetuating the problem of displacement. Israeli Defence Minister Naftali...
January 16, 2020
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Ramona Wadi Israeli media has reported that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could issue secret arrest warrants for Israeli officials involved in war crimes against the Palestinian people. According to a...
January 14, 2020
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Ramona Wadi In a recent meeting with representatives from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Secretary-General Saeb Erekat once again wasted an...
January 9, 2020
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Ramona Wadi Israel’s main bone of contention with the International Criminal Court’s possible investigation into war crimes in occupied Palestine is about settlement expansion. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s declaration...
January 7, 2020
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Ramona Wadi The international community has still not caught up with, or refuses to acknowledge, Israel’s commitment to countering each purported victory for the Palestinians with yet more violations. These countermeasures...
January 4, 2020
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Ramona Wadi European Union (EU) funding for Palestinian human rights organisations is not without its caveats. In line with its purported state-building initiatives, the EU has long imposed restrictions upon Palestinian...
December 31, 2019
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Ramona Wadi A mere two days before the International Criminal Court’s Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced an investigation into Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinian people (as well as those alleged...
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US December 28, 2019
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Ramona Wadi In comments to Al Jazeera regarding Israel’s use of torture against Palestinian detainees, Qadura Faris, head of the Palestinian Prisoner Society, declared: “The Israeli security wants to leave a...
December 27, 2019
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Ramona Wadi The ostracisation of Palestine by the international community to facilitate its exploitation by colonial Israel is portrayed excellently in Palestine Past and Present (Nova Publishers, 2019). This collection of...
December 24, 2019
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Ramona Wadi Israel has reacted in typical belligerence to the International Criminal Court’s Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s announcement that there are sufficient grounds to investigate war crimes committed against Palestinians in...
![Healthcare workers are seen at a UNRWA school which has been converted into a clinic for patients as a precaution against the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Gaza City, Gaza on 18 March 2020 [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20200318_2_41434330_53206161.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The European Union is coming closer to admitting that there are political aims behind its funding of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). In announcing...![Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon in New York, US on 24 July 2018 [EuropaNewswire/Gado/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2018_7-24-Danny-DanonGettyImages-1007360674.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, is not averse to seizing opportunities for outrageous rhetoric, even at a time when countries around the world are struggling to contain...![Palestinian students sit inside a classroom at their school belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on 29 August, 2018 [Ashraf Amra/Apaimages]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/290818_ASH_00-38.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has launched an appeal for funds in preparation for a possible outbreak of the coronavirus in Palestinian refugee camps....![US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Prime Ministry Office in Jerusalem on 20 March 2019 [Kobi Gideon/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019_3-123-US-Secretary-of-State-Mike-Pompeo-in-Jerusalem20190320_2_35548260_42805678.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Democrats in the US House of Representatives have sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, asking the government to ensure that Israel is not using military equipment...![Palestinians protest against US President Donald Trump’s so-called Middle East peace plan on 1 February 2020 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200201_2_40625948_51733474-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The international community has stated repeatedly that it will not accept any changes to issues related to Palestine upon which global consensus has been reached. The unilateral decision taken...![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)
Aside from lobbying governments to oppose the International Criminal Court’s investigation and possible war crimes charges, Israel is planning a joint response with the US to counter the process....
Brazilian federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of right-wing dictatorship fanatic President Jair Bolsonaro, announced recently that the country will be moving to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation....![Palestinians, whose houses were damaged due to Israeli attacks on 2014, stage a sit-in protest demanding indemnity payment at UNRWA's building in Gaza City, Gaza on 9 December, 2019 [Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/AA8_2-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) remains in perpetual financial crisis. Spokesman Adnan Abu Hasna has warned that apart from a possible cessation of services...
“It is particularly in Darwish’s poetical progression that Palestine endured and became metaphor.” This observation in the introduction to Palestine as Metaphor (Olive Branch Press, 2019) resonates throughout the...![Smoke rises and explosion illuminates the night sky after Israel launched airstrikes targeting positions of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing in Khan Yunis, Gaza on 5 February 2020. [Abed Rahim Khatib - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200205_2_40678626_51826106-scaled-e1582806985207.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Ever since Israel’s Operation Protective Edge military offensive in 2014, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strategy has been to seek the normalisation of bombing the Gaza Strip. This has involved...![Israeli settlement of Givat Zeev, near the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, on 19 November 2019 [AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/GettyImages-1183345812.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The European Union’s fluctuations on Israel’s colonial settlement expansion are more prominent since the bloc’s refusal to issue a statement regarding US President Donald Trump’s so-called deal of the...![PA spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeinah [Wikipedia]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Nabil-Abu-Rudeineh.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel and the Palestinian Authority have been trading the same rhetoric about not having a suitable partner for diplomatic negotiations. The senior adviser and spokesman for Mahmoud Abbas, Nabil...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) holds a joint press conference with High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Council Federica Mogherini (R) at the European Council headquarters within the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, Belgium on December 11, 2017. [Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171211_Netanyahu-EU-meet-15.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
For all its purported peace-building efforts and support for Palestinian rights, the EU is committed to supporting Israel’s colonial-settler expansionism. Its feeble response to US President Donald Trump’s so-called...![Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) receives an earphone during a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (not seen) before talks at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany on August 29, 2019 [Abdülhamid Hoşbaş / Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20190829_2_37955269_47129379.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
We should forget all about Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’s hyperbole regarding a full boycott of Israel and the US, including security coordination. During his address to the UN...![Palestinians stage a protest against so-called peace deal announced by US President Donald Trump, in Ramallah, West Bank on 28 January 2020 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Palestinians-stage-a-protest-against-so-called-Deal-of-the-Century-20200128_2_40559813_51617055.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The Palestinian Authority has learned nothing from decades of futile UN Security Council Resolutions. Do the people of Palestine really need international consensus regarding the already very clear illegality...
What the news reports eliminate, Ramzy Baroud’s new book, These Chains Will be Broken: Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons (Clarity Press, 2019), pushes to the fore....![Hamas supporters carry posters depicting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with a red cross during a protest in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip on 14 April 2017 [Ashraf Amra/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017_4_17-Hamas-supporters-hold-crossed-posters-depicting-Palestinian-President-Mahmoud-Abbas140417_ASH_00-12.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas continues to provide proof of his worthlessness when it comes to political decision-making. If the US “continues” with the so-called deal of the century,...![Israeli forces make Palestinian prisoners line up in their cell [Palestine Info Center/Twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017_12-21-Palestinian-prisonersDH2rzjyW0AALpxv-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Palestinian prisoners – the bulwark of Palestinian resistance – have faced several levels of exclusion and exploitation throughout the decades. Building upon this trajectory, US President Donald Trump’s so-called...![Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh leads the weekly cabinet meeting which is held in the West Bank on 16 September 2019 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Mohammad-Shtayyeh-20190916_2_38240536_47632311.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Just a day before US President Donald Trump revealed the details of the purported “deal of the century”, the Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh made a last-ditch attempt...![Prince of Wales Charles visits Bethlehem, West Bank on 24 January 2020 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200124_2_40483886_51477687.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Prince Charles’ visit to the occupied Palestinian territories has garnered media attention. Words of sympathy, far from a political message, were the subject of his speech in Bethlehem after...![ICC’s Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on 8 February 2016 [Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung/Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Fatou-Bensouda8465083372_7f24b559f8_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
As expected, the International Criminal Court has cranked its bureaucratic delays into motion over the proposed investigation into Israeli war crimes. The ICC’s Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s statement was...![Israel forces Jerusalemite to demolish his home [Maannews]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/523409C.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The EU is predicting an increase in Israeli demolitions of Palestinian dwellings and structures in the occupied West Bank, thus perpetuating the problem of displacement. Israeli Defence Minister Naftali...
Israeli media has reported that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could issue secret arrest warrants for Israeli officials involved in war crimes against the Palestinian people. According to a...
In a recent meeting with representatives from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Secretary-General Saeb Erekat once again wasted an...
The international community has still not caught up with, or refuses to acknowledge, Israel’s commitment to countering each purported victory for the Palestinians with yet more violations. These countermeasures...![EU flags on November 11, 2019 [Aysu Biçer/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191113_2_39288283_49411248-scaled-e1578134889840.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
European Union (EU) funding for Palestinian human rights organisations is not without its caveats. In line with its purported state-building initiatives, the EU has long imposed restrictions upon Palestinian...
A mere two days before the International Criminal Court’s Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced an investigation into Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinian people (as well as those alleged...![A group of people stage a demonstration in front of the Israel’s West Bank separation wall to show their support to the Palestinian prisoners in Bethlehem, West Bank on 22 March 2019 [Wisam Hashlamoun/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/20190322_2_35581801_42871594.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In comments to Al Jazeera regarding Israel’s use of torture against Palestinian detainees, Qadura Faris, head of the Palestinian Prisoner Society, declared: “The Israeli security wants to leave a...
The ostracisation of Palestine by the international community to facilitate its exploitation by colonial Israel is portrayed excellently in Palestine Past and Present (Nova Publishers, 2019). This collection of...![The Foreign Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Riyad al-Maliki, leaves the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, on 25 June, 2015 [ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GettyImages-478456574.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel has reacted in typical belligerence to the International Criminal Court’s Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s announcement that there are sufficient grounds to investigate war crimes committed against Palestinians in...