A coincidence? UNRWA downsizes as deal of the century revealed
Adnan Abu Amer
Middle East Monitor / March 3, 2020
There is a rising tension between the UNRWA Staff Union and the administration, as the last two weeks have witnessed, with waves of strikes and protests being held following the UN agency’s decision to downsize and reduce its services. This includes...
There will be no sustainability for the Palestinians without their legitimate right of return
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / March 3, 2020
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) remains in perpetual financial crisis. Spokesman Adnan Abu Hasna has warned that apart from a possible cessation of services by May, there are no funds for emergency programmes in the occupied West Bank and...
Israel: Arab [Palestinian] voter turnout high despite Facebook harassment against Joint List head
Middle East Monitor / March 3, 2020
Voter turnout from the Arab citizens of Israel was at its highest since the 1999 election, standing at 67 per cent, according to official results
Voter turnout from the Arab citizens of Israel was at its highest since the 1999 election, standing at 67...
Even Netanyahu’s dirty tricks couldn’t quite win him a majority
Noga Tarnopolsky
The Daily Beast / March 3, 2020
From a rabbi’s secret recording to a supposed sex tape, there was nothing the indicted Netanyahu wouldn’t try. And the election outcome? Still two seats short in the Knesset.
JERUSALEM—Benjamin Netanyahu hasn’t held anything back.
Over the last year he’s flashed Israelis with racist taunts and...
Belgium abets Israel’s crimes by silencing its critics
Maureen Clare Murphy
The Electronic Intifada / February 29, 2020
Things are very wrong at the United Nations if serial violators of international law can bully member states into disinviting human rights defenders from addressing the Security Council.
That is what happened when Belgium caved in to Israeli pressure and effectively barred Brad Parker from describing...
A terrifying scenario: Coronavirus in ‘quarantined’ Gaza
Ramzy Baroud
Middle East Monitor / March 3, 2020
What if the Coronavirus reaches the besieged Gaza Strip?
While the question carries great urgency for all Palestinians living under Israel’s military occupation, the Gaza situation is particularly complex and extremely worrying.
Nearly 50 countries have already reported cases of COVID-19 disease, one of several epidemics...
Israel-Jordan treaty ‘definitely at risk’, says PM of the Hashemite Kingdom
Middle East Monitor / March 2, 2020
The peace treaty between Jordan and Israel is “definitely at risk” according to Omar Al-Razzaz. The Jordanian prime minister made this bleak assessment during an interview with CNN during which he warned that the treaty, signed in 1994, was at peril because of Israel’s “unilateral...
US: Pro-BDS store wins major legal victory against Israel advocates
Middle East Monitor / March 2, 2020
Advocates for the state of Israel have suffered an embarrassing defeat in a decade-long legal battle to sue Olympia Food Co-op over its decision to boycott Israeli goods. The US grocery store, which campaigns for ethical food consumption, was fully vindicated by a...
Israel faces escalating international legal battle, says Attorney General
Middle East Monitor / March 2, 2020
Israel’s Attorney General expects Israel to face an escalating international legal battle in the near future, Safa news agency reported on Sunday.
Avichai Mandelblit and his aide Gil Limon said in a joint article in Yedioth Ahronoth on Sunday that the core of the battle will be...
Israel says US will ‘punish’ those who boycott UN blacklist companies
Middle East Monitor / March 2, 2020
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN said on Sunday that the US will punish those who boycott companies and individuals on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) blacklist of those which profit from the occupation of the West Bank.
“This further attests to the strength...
