The situation in Palestine: Where has the ICC erred ?
Mohammad Jamel
Middle East Monitor / June 20, 2020
At the General Assembly’s 67th session held on 29 November 2012, and with the vote of 138 countries, a resolution accepting Palestine as a non-member observer state of the United Nations (UN) was adopted. It enabled Palestine to participate in the work...
UAE sabotages relations with Palestinians to normalise with Israel
Adnan Abu Amer
Middle East Monitor / June 19, 2020
A crisis erupted between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the UAE, in light of the PA’s rejection of a medical aid shipment offered by Emirati authorities to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, which travelled through Israel’s Ben Gurion airport.
The PA stated...
Israel Intelligence Ministry: ‘Annexation will not lead to violence in West Bank’
Middle East Monitor / June 20, 2020
According to the Israeli Ministry of Intelligence Services now is the best time to implement the annexation plan, as the Palestinians will not turn violent and Arab countries will not continue protesting, while international criticism will shortly diminish.
Israel Hayom announced on Friday that it...
Trump’s chilling blow to the ICC
Akila Radhakrishnan & Elena Sarver
Foreign Policy / June 17, 2020
With International Criminal Court sanctions, the U.S. president’s hypocrisy hits a new low.
Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing sanctions on several individuals associated with the International Criminal Court (ICC). The order is the latest salvo in an...
Legal blow for pro-Israel lobby as BDS continues its long advance
Asa Winstanley
Middle East Monitor / June 19, 2020
The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS) had a landmark legal victory against Israel last week. The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously against the convictions of Palestinian-rights campaigners by French courts for BDS protests they staged more than a decade ago.
In September...
Report: US administration suspends talks with Israel on annexation plan
Bilal Daher
Middle East Monitor / June 19, 2020
The US administration has suspended talks with the Israeli government on the plans to annex large parts of the West Bank, due to the dispute over the plan and its implementation between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and leaders of the Blue and White...
Russia denies claim it saved Israel from UN resolution to create Palestine state
Middle East Monitor / June 19, 2020
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Wednesday refuted an Israeli media report claiming that in 2016 Russian President Vladimir Putin saved Israel from a potential UN Security Council resolution spearheaded by the administration of former US President Barack Obama that would have...
