[preparing aggression] Israel: ‘all possible means on the table’ to prevent Iran getting nuclear...

John Irish Reuters  /  February 17, 2023 MUNICH – Israel said on Friday that "all possible means" were on the table to prevent Iran from gaining...

The compromised nature of humanitarian aid for Palestinian refugees

Ramona Wadi Middle East Monitor  /  February 16, 2023 The Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has described succinctly...

Israel: intelligence agency monitors anti-judicial reform protests 

Middle East Monitor  /  February 16, 2023 Israel's domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet, is monitoring the protests against the government's reform of the judiciary, Haaretz reported several...

Israel siege doubles suffering of Gaza children with cancer, report says

Middle East Monitor  /  February 16, 2023 Israel's ongoing siege on the Gaza Strip is aggravating the suffering of the 350 children suffering from cancer in the...

UN likely to vote Monday on call for Israel to stop Jewish settlements –...

Middle East Monitor  /  February 16, 2023 The United Nations Security Council is considering a draft resolution, seen by Reuters on Wednesday, which would demand Israel ‘immediately...

Shin Bet warns Ben-Gvir behaviour could lead to ‘broad security confrontation’ with Palestinians

Middle East Monitor  /  February 16, 2023 Shin Bet Security Service chief, Ronen Bar, has recently spoken to National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and warned...

Mizrahi Jews in Israel faced decades of injustice, and still vote extreme right

Joseph Massad Middle East Eye  /  February 17, 2023 The current political melee of extreme right versus very extreme right has taken an ethnic turn. Amidst the...

Israel: It’s apartheid, not ‘democracy’, these protesters really want to save

Orly Noy Middle East Eye  /   February 16, 2023 As the fascist new government provokes international criticism, Israelis grow nostalgic for the days when the state...

[action speaks louder than words] US ‘deeply dismayed’ by Israeli settlement announcement

MEE Staff Middle East Eye  /  February 16, 2023 Comments are the latest from Washington hinting at concern about the direction of Netanyahu's new government. The United...

Empty gestures – even unprecedented criticism of Israel by American Jewish leaders rings hollow...

Joshua Leifer Jewish Currents  /  February 16, 2023 As Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government advances its plan to dismantle the country’s judiciary, the American Jewish establishment has begun to...