![British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street in London, UK on 17 March 2021 [David Cliff/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210317_2_47377536_63452643.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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March 26, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Boris Johnson's 16 March speech before the British Parliament was reminiscent, at least in tone, of that of Chinese President Xi Jinping in October 2019, on the 70th anniversary...
![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)
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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...
![A file photo dated July 31, 2013 shows a female protester supporting Mohammed Morsi holds a banner reading 'Against Military Coup' in Rabia Adaweya Square in Cairo, Egypt [Mohammed Elshamy/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170812_2_25214294_24889206.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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March 25, 2021 |
Wael Qandil Throughout his estrangement with Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan had considered it a principled and moral position to take. This was not merely a radical political stand-off...
![Head of Israel's Jewish Power (Otzma Yehudit) party Itamar Ben Gvir (R) talks to supporters through Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, on 19 March 2021. [EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-1231805903.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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March 25, 2021 |
Nasim Ahmed An alliance of far-right groups including Jewish Power, a party so extreme that even unflinching supporters of the pro-Israel lobby in the US cannot stomach, are poised to enter...
![Police officers block the road as Algerian anti-government protesters take the streets of the capital Algiers within "Hirak" pro-democracy movement demonstrations in Algeria on 1 March 2021. [Mousaab Rouibi - Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210302_2_47129645_63000370.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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In a televised speech on 11 March, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune dissolved the lower house of parliament, the People's National Assembly, triggering new legislative elections. However, he did not...
![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Abu Ghosh near Jerusalem on March 9, 2021 [GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-1231613729-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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March 24, 2021 |
Motasem A Dalloul After Israel's fourth general election in under two years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he will not step down, despite another deadlock. None of the Israeli parties...
![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife Sara Netanyahu (L) are seen as they are casting their votes at a polling station during 2021 Israeli legislative election in West Jerusalem on March 23, 2021 [Kobi Gideon/GPO/Handout/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210323_2_47470397_63621842.jpeg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to secure a solid parliamentary majority in Israel's election, according to TV exit polls early today which predicted no clear winner. The right-wing bloc...
![Hamas leaders Essam Aldalis (L) Rawhi Mushtaha (C) Khalil Al-Hayya (R) walk outside the VIP hall at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on March 15, 2021 [SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-1231729799-scaled-e1616577280735.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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March 24, 2021 |
Dr Adnan Abu Amer Hamas has revealed that it has met with the ambassadors of Russia, Turkey, Iran, and South Africa in Qatar — Nur Muhammad Khulov, Mustafa Goksu, Hamid Reza Dehghani, and...
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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...
![Palestinian, Israeli, and foreign activists lift banners and placards during a demonstration against Israeli occupation and settlement activity in the Palestinian Territories and east Jerusalem, in Jerusalem's Palestinian Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, on March 19, 2021 [AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-1231808779-scaled-e1616494111817.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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March 23, 2021 |
Maher Abu Tair We are facing a dangerous time in which Israel is threatening Jerusalem by erasing its main landmarks and features. The situation in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood overlooking Al-Aqsa Mosque...
![Palestinian, Israeli, and foreign activists lift banners and placards during a demonstration against Israeli occupation and settlement activity in the Palestinian Territories and east Jerusalem, in Jerusalem's Palestinian Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, on March 19, 2021 [AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-1231808332-scaled-e1616491488754.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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March 23, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud A Palestinian man, Atef Yousef Hanaysha, was killed by Israeli occupation forces on 19 March during a weekly protest against illegal Israeli settlement expansion in Beit Dajan, near Nablus,...

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March 22, 2021 |
Hazem Ayyad US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan have met with Yang Jiechi, the most senior ranking official in the Chinese diplomatic corps, as well...
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Saudi Arabia and Egypt have begun tackling thorny issues with Qatar to rebuild ties, easing an inter-Arab feud seen by the United States as benefiting only mutual enemy Iran,...
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The number of attacks on Turkey and President Erdogan in the Egyptian media have declined since indications of reconciliation between Ankara and Cairo have started to emerge. This is...
![Former US President Trump's senior adviser Jared Kushner attends the 41st Summit of Gulf Cooperation Council in AlUla, Saudi Arabia on January 05, 2021 [Royal Council of Saudi Arabia/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/20210105_2_46200235_61276816.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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March 22, 2021 |
Motasem A Dalloul In an article in the Wall Street Journal last Sunday, Donald Trump's son-in-law and former senior adviser Jared Kushner described how his diplomatic achievements caused a "geopolitical earthquake" in...
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March 22, 2021 |
Eman Abusidu Brazil is facing the collapse of its health service under the second-highest number of coronavirus infections in the world and the government is in the midst of a domestic...
![People protest against measures imposed by authorities to curb the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, in Jordan's capital Amman on March 15, 2021 [KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GettyImages-1231744764-1-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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Jordan suffers from an economic crisis in a neighbourhood afflicted by a decline of Arab and international aid. All of this could have been overcome with fewer losses by...
![Almond flowers are seen bloom at a field in Gaza on 13 February 2021 [Ashraf Amra/ApaImages]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Almond-flowers.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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March 19, 2021 |
Wafa Aludaini As we headed to the east of Deir AlBalah, a town in the middle of the Gaza Strip, I was shocked to see barren land. The area was once...
![A view of the entrance of Rafah in Gaza on 9 February 2021 [Ali jadallah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/20210209_2_46779812_62343752-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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March 19, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley There is a major mental health crisis brewing in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. A study published in a medical journal in 2014 gives the grim and...
![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)
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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...
![Security forces are wearing masks during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in Amman, Jordan on 10 November 2020 [Laith Al-jnaidi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201110_2_45291873_59648779.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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March 18, 2021 |
Adnan Hmidan Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Jordan has taken a number of security and military steps to manage the situation in the country, most notably the National Defence...
![The organisers of TEDxRemal in Gaza on 13 March 2021 [TEDxRemal]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/TEDxRema_10.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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March 18, 2021 |
Eman Abusidu TEDx events provide a unique platform to unleash new ideas, to inspire and to inform. I have always wondered whether the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip could ever organise...
![William Shawcross in London, UK on 10 March 2011 [Dominic Lipinski - WPA Pool/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/William-Shawcross.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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March 18, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley An unprecedented coalition across the British Muslim community is opposing the British government's decision to appoint one of the founding members of the Friends of Israel Initiative to lead...
![Marines observe an MV-22B Osprey aircraft en route to the USS Bataan deployed in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn in March 2011 [Gisele Tellier/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Operation-Odyssey-Dawn.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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Operation Odyssey Dawn, launched on 19 March, 2011, was the code name for the US military intervention in Libya vaguely authorised by United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1973....
![Hamas sets up elections committee in Gaza, 16 December 2019 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Hamas-sets-up-elections-committee-in-Gaza5.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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March 17, 2021 |
Dr Adnan Abu Amer The results of the recent elections within Hamas in the Gaza Strip are significant because, for the first time since it was founded in 1987, two women have joined...
![Palestinians wave the national flag during a demonstration to support the reconciliation in Gaza City on 3 December 2017 [Ashraf Amra/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017_12-3-Gaza-rallies-in-support-of-reconciliation031217_ASH_00-10.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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March 17, 2021 |
Mohammad Ayesh The sudden return to the Gaza Strip of a large number of defectors from the Fatah movement cannot be a coincidence in these circumstances and at this time. It...

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March 17, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud A much anticipated US foreign policy move under the Biden administration on how to counter China's unhindered economic growth and political ambitions came in the form of a virtual...

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A UN statement has been signed by 31 countries against Egypt's human rights violations, and the reaction was to be expected. Egyptian state institutions and affiliated unions rejected the...
![Palestinians in Gaza protest against the closures imposed by Israeli occupation on 22 July 2019 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019_7-22-Gaza-takes-a-stand-against-the-siege651A8744.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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March 16, 2021 |
Maher Al-Tabba The Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to suffer from the Israeli-led blockade imposed since 2007. Add to this Israel's military offensives and frequent incursions and it is easy...
![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)
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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...
![Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) and Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Yury Borisov (3rd L) meet with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad (Rear R) in Damascus, Syria on 7 September 2020. [Russian Foreign Ministry / Handout - Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20200907_2_44240096_57966792.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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It may seem natural for Russian diplomats to try to promote a new platform for Syria alongside Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has, after all,...
![Al Adl Wal Ihssane (Justice and Charity party) spokesman Fathallah Arsalane (R) and Secretary General of the Islamic, Justice and Development Party (PJD), Saadeddine El Othmani (L) attend a march on 15 May 2008 in Rabat marking the 60 year anniversary of Naqba or "catastrophe" that lead to the expulsion or flight of some 760,000 people from what was once Palestine and consequently the birth of the Jewish state of Israel. [ABDELHAK SENNA/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GettyImages-1178650604.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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March 16, 2021 |
Motasem A Dalloul Morocco's Abdelilah Benkirane has recently announced that he is freezing his membership of the Justice and Development Party in protest against the government's adoption of a bill to legalise...