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On 5 February, Palestinians saw a long tunnel open and a light flicker in the distance for justice. The International Criminal Court (ICC) Pre-Trial Chamber I "decided, by majority,...
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There has been a lot of anxiety due to the closure of the Suez Canal caused by the giant container ship MV Ever Given running aground and blocking the...
![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)
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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...
![A General view of Suez Canal on 30 March 2021 in Ismailia, Egypt. [Mahmoud Khaled/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-1232019401.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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April 8, 2021 |
Emre Gürkan Abay The almost week-long blockage of the Suez Canal last month by a giant 250,000-ton container ship once again raised the issue of alternative routes for world shipping. The Netherlands-bound...
![The 2019 promotion of Air School officer cadets wearing protective masks walk past a French air force Dassault Mirage 2000C fighter jet during their baptism ceremony on the Salon-de-Provence air base yard on 24 July 2020. [CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-1227771622.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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April 8, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud In a recent report, the UN Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), concluded that French warplanes had struck a crowd attending a wedding on 3 January in the remote village of...
![Head of Libya’s Presidential Council Mohammad Menfi and Vice President of the Libyan Presidential Council Moussa Al-Koni speak to media as they leave after their meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, France on 23 March 2021. [Julien Mattia - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210323_2_47478051_63633948.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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On 29 March, the French Embassy in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, was reopened after seven years of closure. The new embassy relocated from the upscale Al-Andalus neighbourhood, west of...
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Audio chatroom app Clubhouse is on the rise in the Arab world, providing a rare platform for open debate on taboo subjects from so-called honour killings in Egypt to...
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April 7, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein Much has been speculated regarding Britain's Muslim community over the years, from the alleged rise of extremism to the overall state of the community within the wider British society....
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The Central Elections Commission has completed the first phase of preparations for holding the legislative elections, by formally registering the 36 competing electoral lists that will compete for the...
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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...
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In February, an Israeli District Court in Jerusalem rejected an appeal filed by the families of the Karm Al Ja'ouni area of Sheikh Jarrah in occupied Jerusalem against a...
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April 6, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud If imprisoned Palestinian leader, Marwan Barghouti, becomes the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), the status quo will change substantially. For Israel, as well as for the current PA...

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On 29 March, the Egyptian authorities officially announced that the colossal Ever Given cargo ship that ran aground in the Suez Canal six days earlier had been refloated. However,...
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April 3, 2021 |
sasapost.com Egypt's journey through Washington's lobbies during the decade of the Arab Spring
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April 3, 2021 |
Oraib Al-Rantawi As an event, Land Day has been and gone. However, as one of Palestine and its people, and as a symbol of existence loaded with significance and lessons to...
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On 10 March, Libya's new interim government, the Government of National Unity (GNU), won the parliamentary vote of confidence and was sworn in on 15 March. Its agenda is...
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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...
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April 1, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley One of the most common misunderstandings about the Israeli occupation of Palestine is that it is a "conflict" between two countries, "Israel" and "Palestine". Such language is highly misleading,...
![Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on 18 September 2019 [MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-1169219013.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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In their book Blood and Oil, Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck reveal a side to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman that loves all things American. From the popular...
![Egyptian women protesters against sexual harassment in Cairo, Egypt on 12 February 2013 [Ed Giles/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2013_2-10-Egyptians-March-Against-Sexual-HarassmentGettyImages-161595531.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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The law should respect the rhythm of society, giving everyone equal rights. It should hold the hands of the oppressed and take them to safety, while leading the oppressors...
![President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in Paris, France on December 07, 2020 [Julien Mattia/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/20201207_2_45730980_60401546.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
March 31, 2021 |
Osama Gaweesh Negligence, corruption, and failure are three words that sum up Egypt's condition under the regime of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi this week. It has been a week when Egypt experienced...
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Article
March 31, 2021 |
Haifa Zangana The gap between the Arab people and their governments has never been greater and deeper than what we are currently experiencing regarding Palestine. At a time when some governments...
![The container ship 'Ever Given' is refloated, unblocking the Suez Canal on March 29, 2021 in Suez, Egypt [Mahmoud Khaled/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-1232003138-scaled-e1617184760526.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
March 31, 2021 |
Thembisa Fakude Impunity rules the day when those assigned with responsibilities are allowed to abandon them without consequences. This happens frequently in dictatorships, where economic opportunities favour those within the inner...
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March 31, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley Sensationally, it has emerged that former British Prime Minister David Cameron went on a desert camping holiday with Mohammed Bin Salman despite Western intelligence agencies naming the Saudi Crown...
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March 30, 2021 |
Anadolu Agency The task to unify the Libyan army and integrate all the battalions under one command has become the most serious and controversial issue for discussion in light of ongoing...
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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...

Article
March 30, 2021 |
Nabil Al-Sahli Last week, just two days after the latest Israeli General Election, the occupation army demolished the village of Al-Araqeeb for the 185th time since 2000. The context is the...
![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party, addresses supporters at the party campaign headquarters in Jerusalem early on March 24, 2021 [EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-1231895416-scaled-e1617098929781.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
March 30, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud A "major setback" was the recurring theme in many news headlines reporting on the outcome of Israel's General Election last week. While this referred specifically to Prime Minister Benjamin...
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Article
March 30, 2021 |
Sameh Rashid The issue of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is at a very difficult stage with the approach of the second stage of filling its reservoir. The long-term negotiations between...
![Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a meeting during the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019 [BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-1152460332-scaled-e1617025029265.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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I cannot forget the sight of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman standing in the Ministry of Defence command room in Saudi Arabia on 25 March 2015 and, as...
![Jonathan Pollard, the American convicted of spying for Israel, leaves a New York court house following his release from prison early on Friday after 30 years on November 20, 2015 in New York, New York [Spencer Platt/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-498040224-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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March 29, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley Israel Hayom published an extremely long, fawning interview on Friday with convicted American traitor and Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. It made for startling reading. The newspaper is owned by...
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The new US escalation against Russia raises important questions that fall outside the theoretical scope of analysis. At that level, experts and specialists usually look at the positive and...