UK city Oxford twinned with Palestine’s Ramallah, official unveiling
Middle East Monitor / November 4, 2019
Officially unveiled: Ramallah was officially named Oxford’s seventh twin earlier this year after 16 years of campaigning on The Mayor of Oxford Councillor Colin Cook on Friday attended the unveiling of a new road sign which lists Ramallah as the city’s seventh twinned...
Israel and the Gulf: From secret relations to public normalisation
Adnan Abu Amer
Middle East Monitor / November 4, 2019
Israel recently participated in the Bahrain conference for maritime security after Gulf countries invited it to take part in protecting the maritime facilities for fear of Iranian and Houthi attacks. There are also Saudi fears that Washington would let it down after the recent...
Israeli mercenaries are a threat to democracy and human rights around the world
Asa Winstanley
Middle East Monitor / October 31, 2019
Recent reports have revealed that a cyber-spying company in the United Arab Emirates has been hiring former Israeli intelligence officers. DarkMatter, which has intimate links with the UAE government, has been paying exorbitant sums in an effort to lure these spooks away from...
P is for Palestine: Fear and loathing at the children’s library
Nada Elia
Middle East Eye / November 4, 2019
Author Golbarg Bashi says she has faced harassment and intimidation by Zionist groups - all over a children's book that teaches the alphabet.
As security surrounded the building in New Jersey's Highland Park, the author - who needed an armed police escort -...
Israel worried European court ruling will force labelling of illegal settlement produce
Middle East Monitor / October 31, 2019
The Israeli government is “worried” that a court decision in November will compel European countries to label produce made in illegal West Bank settlements, reported the Times of Israel.
On 12 November, the Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) will issue a...
WhatsApp sues Israel’s NSO for allegedly helping spies hack phones around the world
Middle East Monitor / October 30, 2019
WhatsApp said in a statement that 100 civil society members had been targeted, and called it "an unmistakable pattern of abuse".
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WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group on Tuesday, accusing it of helping government spies break into the phones of roughly 1,400 users across...
Palestinians are exploited to preserve the two-state compromise
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / October 31, 2019
It would be good if the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, defined his statement to the UN Security Council regarding Gaza, and which can be applied to all Palestinians. The top priority is the humanitarian crisis, he...
US’ Greenblatt: Not the right time to unveil deal of the century
Middle East Monitor / November 1, 2019
The United States administration’s Middle East peace envoy, Jason Greenblatt said that this is not the right time to reveal details of America’s plan to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict known as the “deal of the century”.
Speaking to Al Arabiya news channel, Greenblatt explained that due...
Questions about mysterious flight between Tel Aviv and Riyadh
Middle East Monitor / October 24, 2019
A Challenger 604 private jet left Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening for an airport in the Jordanian capital of Amman, where it stopped for two minutes before taking off to an airport in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
After a...
Israel still preventing exit of processed foods for sale from Gaza
Middle East Monitor / October 31, 2019
Israeli authorities are still preventing the exit of processed foods for sale outside of the occupied Gaza Strip, reported freedom of movement NGO Gisha yesterday.
In a press release, Gisha announced that it had written a letter this week demanding that Israel’s Health Ministry...
