Middle East Monitor
clear
Free Subscription
Middle East Monitor

Creating new perspectives since 2009

Middle East Monitor

All Stories Archive

  • January 23, 2014

    Reverse Psychology: Mordechai Kedar on Jerusalem

    Mordechai Kedar wants to abolish Al-Jazeera; his motive? That the Emir of Qatar, who is the most influential person in Arabia, uses the channel as a medium to broadcast...

    Blog

  • January 23, 2014

    EU's support for Israel's arms industry bolsters occupation

    In 2012 the EU joined the ranks of Barack Obama and Henry Kissinger in being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for allegedly contributing to ‘peace’. Apart from Obama’s track...

    Blog

  • January 23, 2014

    The treacherous path to Syria's 2014 elections

    Imagine if Assad got voted out in the 2014 elections; and then he left, admitting that the elections were free and fair, that he had out stayed his welcome...

    Blog

  • January 23, 2014

    The battle for Jerusalem

    Jerusalem is one of the oldest cities in the world, and one of the holiest, containing sites sacred to Christians, Jews, and Muslims. This historic and religious significance to...

    Blog

  • January 23, 2014

    Discrediting Falk to bolster a dependent impunity

    Richard Falk has long been deemed controversial in circles conforming to imperialist policies. Vilified for contradicting mainstream propaganda emanating from organisations allegedly concerned with human rights, Falk’s latest report...

    Blog

  • January 23, 2014

    Qatar brings the Taliban in from the cold. What next?

    In 2014, American troops will pull out of Afghanistan after 12 years. Ahead of this deadline, the US plans to sit at a negotiating table with the Islamic insurgents...

    Blog

  • January 23, 2014

    More questions about whether a two-state solution is still possible, or even desirable

    Naftali Bennett was, in many ways, the star of Israel’s last election campaign. The politician, who heads up the Jewish Home party, was the embodiment of the new breed...

    Blog

  • January 23, 2014

    Time to ditch Israel's hegemonic rhetoric

    After a volley of rockets were fired from Gaza into Southern Israel, former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman advocated a re-occupation of the enclave, declaring that in two years’ time...

    Blog

  • January 23, 2014

    Sectarianism in the battle of Sidon

    The escalation of fighting in Lebanon this weekend has for many entrenched their worst fears; that the conflict in Syria will spread across the border and engulf their neighbour....

    Blog

  • January 23, 2014

    US congressman seeks to justify Israel's claim to the land

    War is incited by hatred. Unfortunately this reasoning has been applied erroneously to absolve Israel of any blame in its prolonged occupation of Palestine and ongoing human rights violations....

    Blog