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James North Mondoweiss  /  August 3, 2023 The New York Times is uncritically promoting the Biden administration's ill-fated efforts to promote Saudi-Israeli normalization while the rest of the U.S. media rightly ignore it. President Biden continues to run away from his one-time conviction that there was “very little social redeeming value in...

MEE Staff Middle East Monitor  /  August 3, 2023 Palestinian Authority wants to consult with Saudi Arabia to ensure the ‘materialization' of an independent Palestinian state. The Palestinian Authority wants to coordinate with Saudi Arabia to ensure it does not abandon its stated principles on Palestinian statehood, as the US lobbies Riyadh...

Reuters  /  August 3, 2023 BEIRUT – Clashes between rival factions in the Palestinian camp of Ain al-Hilweh in southern Lebanon have displaced 20,000 residents, including about 12,000 children, Save the Children said on Thursday. At least 13 people - most of them militants - have been killed in...

Middle East Monitor  /  August 3, 2023 The appeal against the illegal West Bank Jewish outpost of Homesh, urging its evacuation to allow Palestinian landowners access to their land, was dismissed by Israel's High Court of Justice. According to Haaretz, in her verdict High Court Justice Yael Wilner claimed...

Abby Sewell & Fadi Tawil AP  /  August 3, 2023 SIDON, Lebanon – The caretaker Lebanese prime minister called the Palestinian president on Thursday to demand an end to the volatile situation in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, warning that the army may have to intervene to stop the...

Tia Goldeneberg AP  /  August 3, 2023 JERUSALEM – Israel is being rocked by a wave of mass protests calling for the country’s democracy to be upheld. But the pro-democracy movement lacks any clear message of opposition to Israel’s open-ended military rule over millions of Palestinians. This contradiction reflects a...

Middle East Monitor  /  August 3, 2023 The Ministry of Health in Israel has expressed concern that more doctors appear to be planning to emigrate and work abroad, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. In an emergency meeting with doctors last week, the ministry's Director-General, Moshe Bar Siman-Tov, urged...

Middle East Monitor  /  August 3, 2023 Far-right Israeli Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Minister, Amichai Eliyahu, yesterday urged Tel Aviv to annex the occupied West Bank, local media reported. The extremist minister called the Green Line, which separates the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948  – now Israel -from those occupied in 1967, "fictitious." "I do not really think there is a Green Line. It is a fictitious line....

Jonathan Kuttab Mondoweiss  /  August 3, 2023 The time has come for Israeli Jews and their supporters to answer whether they believe in human equality or will continue to insist on Jewish supremacy. On July 24, the Netanyahu government succeeded in passing the first piece of legislation in its so-called...

AP  /  August 3, 2023 JERUSALEM – Israel’s Supreme Court heard a petition on Thursday against a law that protects Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from being removed from office over claims of a conflict of interest due to his ongoing corruption trial. Netanyahu’s governing coalition passed a law in March that limits removing...