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Ramona Wadi Middle East Monitor  /  November 28, 2019 When, in December 2017, US President Donald Trump unilaterally recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the protests in Palestine swiftly ignited a ripple of international solidarity. Activists in many countries protested against the decision, while world leaders repeated their carefully-crafted statements and considered...

Asa Winstanley Middle East Monitor  /  November 30, 2019 A lot has been written about the pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian lobby over the years. Many take the view that the US and Britain have their foreign policy dictated to them by Israel and its influential lobby groups in the West. I don’t intend to...

Middle East Monitor /  November 29, 2019 The National Authority of the Return Marches and Lifting the Siege in the occupied Gaza Strip on Wednesday said that the Palestinian protests along the occupied Strip’s fence were cancelled for what it described as “very dangerous security conditions”, The authority added that the...

Middle East Monitor  /  November 29, 2019 Heads of the parliamentary blocs of the Likud Party, Yisrael Beiteinu, the Shas party and the United Torah Judaism alliance, as well as the Jewish House and the New Right parties, have signed a bill aimed at banning the activities of the United...

Middle East Monitor  /  November 29, 2019 The Israeli military and its political officials are divided over the question of a long-term truce with Palestinian factions in the occupied Gaza Strip, Haaretz has reported. According to the paper’s defence correspondent Amos Harel, “the army’s view” is that Hamas “is concerned mainly about the...

Middle East Monitor  /  November 29, 2019 South African Minister of Public Enterprises Patricia De Lille yesterday said “there must be an urgent call for concrete action and legislation to comprehensively liberate Palestine”. Speaking at an event in Pretoria to mark the United Nations International Day of Solidarity With the Palestinian...

Washington and Brussels have increasingly divergent approaches in Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Ben White Al Jazeera  /  November 28, 2019 The recent United States announcement that it no longer believes the establishment of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is "inconsistent with international law" provoked an immediate response internationally, including in Brussels. Within hours of the US statement, European Union senior foreign...

The fight for climate justice for all is directly connected to the Palestinian struggle. Abeer Butmeh The Electronic Intifada /  November 29, 2019 This Friday, November 29, two major global events of great importance to me will coincide - the fourth Global Climate Strike, and the United Nations's annual International Day of Solidarity with the...

Middle East Monitor  /  November 27, 2019 Retired Brigadier General Efraim Sneh has said that Israel should develop a hypersonic missile defence system funded by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Arabi21.com reported on Tuesday. In an article published by Haaretz Hebrew edition, Sneh said that the threat of precision missiles and drones is discussed widely...

Tom Moerenhout The Electronic Intifada  /  November 28, 2019 I am part of a group of seven people who are suing the European Union’s executive over its trade with settlements in territories under military occupation. It may seem strange that we are taking this action around the same time that the EU’s top court ruled that all...