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Netanyahu: I am the law, and Israel is Über alles. When leaders treat accountability as optional

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Middle East Monitor

Jasim Al-Azzawi

Bondi Beach attack: How the media smears pro-Palestine protests while erasing a Muslim hero

Bondi Beach attack: How the media smears pro-Palestine protests while erasing a Muslim hero

The media reaction to the attack on Jewish individuals at Bondi Beach has revealed far more about entrenched bias and selective outrage than about...

yesterday 30

Middle East Monitor

Adnan Hmidan

When ruins are inconsiderately marketed as futures

When ruins are inconsiderately marketed as futures

The idea of turning Gaza into a Riviera has few open buyers today. It is too obscene, too exposed, too closely shadowed by mass death to be sold in...

yesterday 30

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Ranjan Solomon

When silencing dissent backfires: How Western censorship fuels the very instability it claims to prevent

When silencing dissent backfires: How Western censorship fuels the very instability it claims to prevent

For decades the West has presented itself as the global guardian of free expression. Freedom of speech has not only been framed as a moral value...

yesterday 30

Middle East Monitor

Peiman Salehi

In Gaza’s ruins, winter storms become a fight for survival

In Gaza’s ruins, winter storms become a fight for survival

Winter has arrived in Gaza not as a change of season, but as a new and deadly phase of suffering. As heavy rains and freezing winds sweep across...

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Tasnim Nazeer

Big tech and the architecture of the Israeli genocide against Palestinians: From execution to media whitewashing

Big tech and the architecture of the Israeli genocide against Palestinians: From execution to media whitewashing

History is filled with examples of corporations fueling war machines and global colonisation. IBM supplied technology used in Nazi death camps;...

yesterday 30

Middle East Monitor

Jamal Kanj

Iran’s shadow diplomacy: The art of winning without showing

Iran’s shadow diplomacy: The art of winning without showing

As the conflict escalates between Israel and Iran to an unprecedented degree, with Iran and Israeli missiles clashing in June 2025, representing...

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Middle East Monitor

Jasim Al-Azzawi

Gaza’s winter as a weapon of war: Living in tents of cloth and cold

Gaza’s winter as a weapon of war: Living in tents of cloth and cold

By any measure of humanity, the sight is unbearable: tents stitched from old blankets, torn clothes, and scraps of plastic laid directly on the...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Oroub El-Abed

Why The Wall Street Journal amplifies collaborators instead of Palestinian voices

Why The Wall Street Journal amplifies collaborators instead of Palestinian voices

Once again, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has chosen to offer its pages not to genuine Palestinian voices, but to figures who align explicitly with...

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Middle East Monitor

Ahmed Asmar

The limits of Iran’s emerging “pragmatist prescription”

The limits of Iran’s emerging “pragmatist prescription”

A recent  Financial Times   article,  “Scions of Iran’s revolution call for reset with the world,”  highlights a growing current among a new...

saturday 10

Middle East Monitor

Reza Asadian

Why Indonesia’s two-state stance works in Israel’s favour

Why Indonesia’s two-state stance works in Israel’s favour

Prabowo Subianto’s appearance in Pakistan this week followed a script that has been performed too many times to count. Standing beside Prime...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

No room for toxic Blair on Gaza peace council

No room for toxic Blair on Gaza peace council

There are moments when history rises from its long slumber and delivers a verdict with the clarity of a hammer striking iron. Tony Blair’s...

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Why Barham Salih cannot be like Francesca Albanese

Why Barham Salih cannot be like Francesca Albanese

The appointment of Barham Salih as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is not just a technical decision. It is a political statement,...

12.12.2025 10

Middle East Monitor

Karam Nama

Trump’s agenda: Steering US foreign policy toward a dangerous downturn

Trump’s agenda: Steering US foreign policy toward a dangerous downturn

President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan appeared this year amid the ongoing war on the Strip, gaining additional momentum following the adoption of UNDC...

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Dr Sania Faisal El-Husseini

The moral and political crisis of Zionism

The moral and political crisis of Zionism

Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has reached a level of brutality that places Israel and Zionism before their own moral, political, and legal abyss....

12.12.2025 30

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Sayid Marcos Tenório

Kurdistan region 2035: Hybrid gas-solar power at Iraq’s geopolitical crossroads

Kurdistan region 2035: Hybrid gas-solar power at Iraq’s geopolitical crossroads

Introduction The Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) sits at a hard geopolitical junction. Baghdad seeks tighter federal control over energy, a trend...

12.12.2025 10

Middle East Monitor

Dr Kamran Yeganegi