Europe & Russia

The Director-General of the Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) has said that the role of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) remains vital for the protection of Palestinian refugees....

The Islamic Resistance Movement 'Hamas' considers the summoning of the Israeli ambassadors to both London and Dublin additional international proof that Israel's Mossad is behind the assassination of the...

FCO letter "upgraded" minister's status to avoid arrestA last minute letter by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) to a London court purportedly upgrading Ehud Barak's visit from private...

MEMO has contacted the office of William Hague who has reaffirmed his stance that Israel acted in a "disproportionate" manner in the 2006 attack on Lebanon. Mr Hague is...

The Rt. Hon. David Miliband MPSecretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth AffairsForeign and Commonwealth OfficeKing Charles StreetLondon SW1A 2AH 23rd December 2009 Dear Mr Miliband, I am writing...

The fallout from Mossad's use of British passports in a murder operation is spreading ever wider with new allegations emerging by the day. The Daily Mail today, for example,...

Erdogan: Turkey will work to accomplish debate of the Goldstone report in the Security Council Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced that his country would work within the...

Several civil society bodies have expressed interest in further probing the issues uncovered in the Dispatches programme aired last Monday 16th November on the Pro-Israel lobby in Britain. The...

Yesterday a delegation of senior British parliamentarians, Muslim figures and Palestinian solidarity leaders in the UK presented a letter to the Egyptian Ambassador Hatem Seif El Nasr to London...

Turkish demonstrators blockade Israeli Council in Istanbul in protest against actions in Al-Aqsa Mosque. Hundreds of Turkish youths blockaded the Israeli Consulate from midnight Sunday until the early hours...

Palestinian photojournalist Mahmud Ajrami has been awarded the second best photographer in the international Rory Peck competition just concluded in London. Ajrami won the award for filming the Israeli...

Five Turkish MPs will on Monday join an international aid convoy that has reached Egyptian port one-week later after the date that they initially hoped to reach Gaza Strip...

Jerusalem's troublesome sheikhRa'ed Salah is mobilising opposition to the undermining of the Islamic presence in the city. His actions play to a wider audience, A subtle shift in power...

The EU's foreign ministers will recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state next week, according to a Tuesday report in the Israeli daily Haaretz. The...

The Turkish Foreign Ministry yesterday said it was concerned about Israel's decision to build 700 new Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem, adding that such a move was a clear...

The Middle East Monitor (MEMO), has contacted MP's from the three main political parties, as well as the foreign office, to get their reaction to Israel's very provocative act yesterday...

Nedim Aslan of Vakit newspaper interviews the Director of Middle East Monitor, Dr Daud Abdullah, to talk about the establishment of the institution, its stated purpose and its role...

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have accused the Egyptian authorities of procrastination over their application for approval to visit Gaza via the Rafah border crossing. The visit is...

The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) has been in touch with the British Foreign Office in an attempt to illicit a reaction about Israel's ever increasing settlement expansion programs, including...

Israeli authorities deny Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Michael Martin permission to visit the impoverished coastal sliver of Gaza which has long been under an Israeli siege. Speaking at the...

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out at Israel on Monday for violating Lebanon's airspace and using disproportionate force against Palestinians in Gaza, the latest in a series of...

Israel lobby support for the leader of HM Opposition   By George Galloway MP This House notes with concern the increasingly close relationship between the Britain-Israel Communications and Research...

A group of Muslim dignitaries and heads of NGOs from Britain and France has just returned from a trip to Istanbul where they had gone to meet the Turkish...

By Mehmet Nedim Aslan A journalist covering the Gaza Freedom Flotilla was shot and killed by the Israeli commandos as he photographed their crime. Cevdet Kiliclar was one of...

At a big opening ceremony, the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, launched the inaugural broadcast of Turkey's first Arabic-language satellite TV channel. The ceremony was attended by Turkey's...

According to a leading Turkish newspaper, Turkey has set up anti-aircraft batteries against Hawk planes in a village near the Turkey-Syria border. The news item was reproduced by the...

After some confusion over its whereabouts, it has been confirmed that the Irish-flagged MV Rachel Corrie is heading for Gaza. Sailing in international waters the vessel is carrying humanitarian...

Yesterday, Spain's Supreme Court upheld the Spanish National Court's decision to close a judicial investigation into Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip in 2002. The incident in question resulted...

The European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza (ECESG) has welcomed the decision taken by Dublin City Council to boycott a French company which has a role in...

As the activists kidnapped by the Israeli navy in international waters begin to be repatriated, sources in Israel claim that the process was delayed because the passengers of the...

Israel's Foreign Ministry has criticized Turkey's Prime Minister for saying that his country won't be silent if the Zionist state launches another attack on the Gaza Strip. Speaking at...

On Thursday, the Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that international communication had been opened with the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas. The Ministry explained that Moscow recognises Hamas as a movement...