Latest Mideast

• Menon: Yemen’s Descent into Hell

  A Saudi-American War of Terror
• AbuShanab: Demolition of Palestinian Community Imminent

  Israeli High Court Green Lights Razing of Khan al-Ahmar
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  Baroud: The Veiled Danger of the ‘Dead’ Oslo Accords

  Oslo will not go away. It remains a problem because the intellectual foundation that led to its conception is still firmly in place - where only Israel matters and the aspirations of the Palestinian people are still inconsequential
• Tolan: From Peace to Armageddon

  The Israel-Palestine Nightmare
• Lascaris: I Will Not Be Deterred From Defending Human Rights

  I Will Not Be Deterred From Defending Human Rights
• Vardi: Building a revolution in Jerusalem?

  Interview with Sahar Vardi from the Imbala collective, who have set up a grassroots organising space in the heart of West Jerusalem
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  Falk: Decoding the “Deal of the Century”

  To call this kind of coercive diplomacy on an already oppressed people ‘a deal’ is a linguistic travesty
• Alfarra: Why we continue to march in Gaza

  The Great March of Return has inspired thousands of Palestinians in Gaza to protest for our rights. But it has come at a great cost
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  Fisk: Prowling the front lines in Idlib

  The only massed forces I came across were vast herds of sheep and, close to Aleppo, a string of camels. Not a single soldier was carrying a gas mask. Which would surely be a sure sign of an imminent chemical attack anywhere on the front, whoever was dropping the stuff
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  Cook: The Israel lobby’s non-stop attacks on Corbyn will backfire

  Not only is the role of pro-Israel partisans in the UK now visible, but their ugly assumptions are under closer scrutiny than ever before
• Baskin: Encountering Peace: The removal of the table

  Trump and Netanyahu have not removed these core issues from the table of the negotiations. This they will never do. They have though completely removed the table and with it any chance of any deal of the century
• Nassar: Israeli judges give final approval for war crime in Khan al-Ahmar

  Israel’s high court gave the final approval for the forced...
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  Baroud: The Victimization of Gaza Women

  They endure and persist, despite the massive price they pay and continue the struggle of generations of courageous Palestinian women who came before them
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  Baroud: What Lies Beneath: The US-Israeli Plot to ‘Save’ Gaza

  With unconditional support from the Trump Administration, Tel Aviv sees a golden opportunity to redefine what has, for decades, constituted the legal and political foundation for the so-called ‘Palestinian-Israeli conflict’
• Mehrdad: Squeezing Iran: Part 1

  Trump’s project in the Middle East
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  Falk: On Qatar and Gulf Geopolitics

  Prefatory Note: The post below in the slightly modified text...
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  Cole: Bad Things about to happen in Syria?

  The looming Idlib campaign will likely replicate the vast destruction and loss of life of the Mosul campaign, where it was the US that gave air support to the Iraqi army.
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  Fisk: Lebanon is on a tightrope

  Balancing Saudi, Iranian and Western interests – its position is precarious
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  Cook: US cuts UNRWA funding

  Refugees are the final loose end in forcing Palestinians to accept Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ peace plan
• Baskin: Encountering peace: remaining constructive

  The most difficult part of the current situation that I meet almost every day in Israel and in Palestine, particularly among young people, is the sense of a loss of hope
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  Cook: Corbyn is being destroyed

  Like blowing up a bridge to stop an advancing army
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  Prashad: Israeli Cruelty and Palestine’s Predicament

  Standing on the campus of Birzeit University in Ramallah (Palestine)...
• Thrall: BDS: Transforming the Israeli-Palestinian debate

  Israel sees the international boycott campaign as an existential threat to the Jewish state. Palestinians regard it as their last resort.
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  Cohn: US Leaders Aid and Abet War Crimes in Yemen

  US leaders who provided military support to the Saudi-led coalition...
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  Cook: In Israel, some are far more equal than others

  The Israeli Jewish public's assumption that the Druze enjoy equal status in Israel was always fanciful illusion