Biden’s increasing pressure for a Saudi-Israeli deal
Mitchell Plitnick
Mondoweiss / October 6, 2023
The Biden administration has shifted into high gear to promote a normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia. As with past Abraham Accord agreements, it is simply a way to sell a massive military upgrade as a “peace deal”.
The United...
Palestinians march at youth’s funeral procession after settler rampage in flashpoint West Bank town
Isabel DeBre
AP / October 6, 2023
RAMALLAH, West Bank – Palestinians on Friday marched in anger to bury a 19-year-old killed by Israeli fire after Jewish settlers rampaged through a flashpoint town in the occupied West Bank the night before.
The youth’s death, coming as tensions escalate...
30 years Oslo Accords: is the EU still concerned ?
Mouin Rabbani
Mondoweiss / October 5, 2023
The 30 years since the Oslo Accords has shown Palestinians that Europe will not serve as a counterweight to the U.S., but rather as a pillar in their dispossession.
Editor’s Note: The following remarks were drafted in Brussels last...
Anglican Church of Southern Africa declares Israel an apartheid state
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / October 5, 2023
Archbishop says failing to recognize ground reality as apartheid would render complicity in continuing crimes against Palestinians.
South Africans of faith must acknowledge that Israeli policies towards Palestinians are a carbon copy of the apartheid-era policies in...
Israel: Police to ‘legitimize’ killing of Palestinian citizens in new open-fire rules
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / October 5, 2023
New measure seeks to allow officers to use live fire against Palestinian protesters in events similar to 2021 riots.
Israeli authorities are seeking to allow the use of live fire by police to disperse mass protests held by Palestinian citizens,...
Ben Cardin: Where does new Senate Foreign Relations chair stand on MENA ?
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / October 5, 2023
Middle East Eye looks at senator's foreign policy positions after his predecessor Bob Menendez stepped down amid a corruption scandal.
After US Senator Bob Menendez stepped down from his post as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee amid...
‘Ready to attack’: what do we know about suspected Turkish Mossad agent Küçükkaya
The Palestine Chronicle / October 5, 2023
In exchange, he received payments in cash, and had to meet with members of the Mossad at least 11 times in ten different European cities.
We know this much and more about Küçükkaya because of revelations made by...
Israeli arms quietly helped Azerbaijan retake Nagorno-Karabakh, to the dismay of region’s Armenians (Haaretz:...
Isabel DeBre
AP / October 5, 2023
TEL AVIV, Israel – Israel has quietly helped fuel Azerbaijan’s campaign to recapture Nagorno-Karabakh, supplying powerful weapons to Azerbaijan ahead of its lightening offensive last month that brought the ethnic Armenian enclave back under its control, officials and...
What is ‘Firing Zone 918’ and how Israel uses it to grab more Palestinian...
Mustafa Fetouri
Middle East Monitor / October 5, 2023
Israeli firing zones are usually closed military areas exclusively reserved for military training purposes. They are scattered all over the Occupied West Bank, encompassing many small and equally scattered Palestinian villages of mostly Bedouin communities.
The idea...
Saudi Arabia: Biden aides visit to discuss normalization with Israel
Middle East Monitor / October 5, 2023
Senior aides of US President Joe Biden visited Riyadh secretly last week as part of Washington’s efforts to agree a deal that may include normalization of ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel, Walla has revealed. The Biden administration is...
