4 ChangeRequired Reading: Noura Erakat on Palestine and Law
Friday, July 19, 2019
Richard Falk. Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. By Noura Erakat. Stanford University Press, 2019. I make no claim to approach this book with an…
Persian Gulf: The War Of Oil Tankers
Sunday, June 23, 2019
Dr Alias Ankle. The economic war waged by Trump’s administration against Iran seems to have been escalated to involve false flag attacks against oil tankers in the Gulf…
Manifest Destinies: The tangled history of American and Israeli exceptionalism.
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Book Review: Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance. By Amy Kaplan Rashid Khalidi. The American publishing industry does not skimp when it comes to Israel….
Trump and the Middle East: a Long Record of Personal Failure
Saturday, May 18, 2019
Melvin Goodman. Many American presidents have blundered in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, but Donald Trump’s personal involvement in the region has been particularly disastrous. President…
Escalating Tensions in Gaza and Kushner’s Supposed “Deal of the Century”
Monday, May 13, 2019
Phyllis Bennis “We don’t want to go through the history on this.” Jared Kushner said in discussing his supposed peace plan for Israel-Palestine. But in fact, it is…
Threat of war in the Middle East is real
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Yassamine Mather. A common question journalists ask these days – if they are not asking about Brexit – is ‘Will there be a war against Iran?’ and, if…
Populism, annexationism, messianism: increasing influence of religious zealots
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Moshé Machover. Binyamin (‘Bibi’) Netanyahu’s motive for calling an early election to the Knesset (Israel’s parliament), one year before the end of its term, was purely personal: it…
A Palestinian View Of Recent Israeli Elections
Monday, April 22, 2019
Diana Buttu and Dennis J Bernstein Without question, the reporting on recent Israeli elections was devoid of a Palestinian perspective, despite the fact that Palestinians will be deeply…
Trump’s America, Netanyahu’s Israel
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Adam Shatz. Israel’s legislative elections on 9 April were a tribute to Binyamin Netanyahu’s transformation of the political landscape. At no point were they discussed in terms of…
Why the Zionist left died this week
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Edo Konrad. Tuesday’s election results were obvious to anyone paying attention. Although Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party and rival Benny Gantz’s Blue and White won the same…
Noam Chomsky: Confronting Ultranationalist, Reactionary Movements Across the Globe
Sunday, April 14, 2019
On Thursday night, hundreds of people packed into the Old South Church in Boston to hear the world-renowned dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky speak. He looked back at…
Elections in Israel: Ever further to the right
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Tony Greenstein. In most western countries, political parties compete in general elections over issues such as taxation, nationalisation/privatisation, poverty, etc. Those in most European countries, with the exception…
Gaza: Resistance Through Poetry
Saturday, March 30, 2019
Ramzy Baroud. “(At dawn) … I will resist … (Since) upon the wall there is still a white sheet … And my fingers are yet to (completely) dissolve.”…
Israel: Netenyahu in alliance with neo-Nazis
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Tony Greenstein. In 1984 rabbi Meir Kahane of the ultra-nationalist Kach party entered the Israeli parliament (knesset), having received over 25,000 votes. Kach stood on a programme which,…
Why Israel is quietly cosying up to Gulf monarchies
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Ian Black. The meeting publicly showcased the remarkable fact that Israel, as Netanyahu was so keen to advertise, is winning acceptance of a sort from the wealthiest countries…
Is a War With Iran on the Horizon?
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Bob Dreyfuss. Here’s the foreign policy question of questions in 2019: Are President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, all…
Can We Imagine a Just Peace for Palestine?
Saturday, March 2, 2019
Richard Falk. While waiting without even a glimmer of hope for the Trump ‘deal of the century’ the Palestinian ordeal unfolds day by day. Many Israelis would like…
Is Israel’s tax grab a prelude to further hollowing out the PA?
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Jonathan Cook. Israel’s decision to withhold part of the taxes it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority and plunge it deeper into crisis starkly illustrates the hypocrisies…
In Hebron, Israel Removes the Last Restraint on Its Settlers’ Reign of Terror
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Jonathan Cook. You might imagine that a report by a multinational observer force documenting a 20-year reign of terror by Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers against Palestinians, in…
Palestine on a Precipice
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Toufic Haddad The rise and expansion of right-wing populism and the dramatic unfolding of global politics in the Trump era have had significant and alarming implications for the…
Untangling The Web Of The Saudi-Israeli-US Propaganda War On Iran
Monday, February 11, 2019
Behnam Gharagozli. Shortly after the horrific attacks on 9/11, it was discovered that there was an American plan to dismantle the regimes of seven countries: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon,…
1,200 Palestinian prisoners start hunger strike in Israel prison
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Posted on Middle East Monitor. More than 1,200 Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s Ofer Prison yesterday launched an open-ended hunger strike, in protest against the occupation’s continuous violations against…
The Attack on Iran that Wasn’t
Sunday, January 20, 2019
Shemuel Meir The title of Ehud Barak’s recently published autobiography My Country, My Life declares that it is a book not just about Barak’s life, but also a…
The Moral Travesty of Israel Seeking Arab, Iranian Money for its Alleged Nakba
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Ramzy Baroud. The game is afoot. Israel, believe it or not, is demanding that seven Arab countries and Iran pay $250 billion as compensation for what it claims was the…
It Is a New Era, But China’s Balancing Act Will Fail in the Middle East
Sunday, December 2, 2018
Ramzy Baroud. Although ties between Washington and Tel Aviv are stronger than ever, Israeli leaders are aware of a vastly changing political landscape. The US’ own political turmoil…
Israel escalating the demolition of Palestine
Friday, November 30, 2018
Lisa Gleeson. When it comes to the infrastructure of genocide, you could illustrate it using almost any photo of a school, house, shop or village in the West…
Books on Middle East 2018 – tales of repression, ruse and resistance
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East. David Kirkpatrick, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. From 2011 to 2015, David Kirkpatrick was the…
Engaging Books Series: Pluto Press Selections on Radical Politics
Friday, November 23, 2018
ENGAGING BOOKS SERIES Pluto Press Selections On Radical Politics Engaging Books is a new series that features books by various publishers on a given theme, along with an…
In Breach of Human Rights, Netanyahu Supports the Death Penalty against Palestinians
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Ramzy Baroud. Right-wing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is escalating his war on the Palestinian people, although for reasons almost entirely related to Israeli politics. He has just…
Saudi plans for regional domination are not meeting with much success
Monday, November 19, 2018
Yassamine Mather. More than six weeks after the death of Jamal Khashoggi we know a lot more about his tragic plight after he entered the Saudi consulate in…