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Middle East Monitor
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In espionage, truth arrives escorted by doubt. Nothing is announced cleanly; nothing ends conclusively. Stories surface halfway formed, decorated...


The sight of the Palestinian flag sweeping through London’s streets is no longer a sporadic gesture enabled merely by freedom of expression. It has...


Asking Israel to investigate its torture practices, while knowing that torture is an integral part of Israel’s political violence, is one of the...


Washington’s diplomatic theatre has always relied less on persuasion than performance: coaxing allies into submission behind closed doors, then...


A ceasefire can be a strange thing. The assumption, generally speaking, is that the parties to it restrain themselves for a period of time,...


Amnesty International warned on 27 November, that “The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal…. the...


In her article in Financial Times , Rana Foroohar—author of Don’t Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles—and All of Us—leads a...


In the complex calculus of American foreign policy, few relationships are as contentious as that between the United States and Israel. Two...


What does it mean when the truth itself becomes unbearable? Not a distorted truth, not a manipulated image, but the unfiltered reality of what is...


Human Rights Day, commemorated annually on 10 December, is intended to reaffirm the principles of dignity, equality, and universal protection...


Empires rarely recognize the moment their power begins to slip. The Romans didn’t. The Ottomans didn’t. The British certainly didn’t. The causes...


On 20 June, members of Palestine Action broke into a Royal Airforce base at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, going on to spray paint two military...


On 27 November, just blocks from the White House, an Afghan evacuee named Rahmanullah Lakanwal allegedly opened fire on two U.S. National Guard...
