Category: Middle East Monitor
Introduction After centuries of persecution and the events of nationalism in Europe, Anti-Semitism, and Zionism movement in the early 90s ignited an idea among the Jews for a distinct national identity and a state...
Overview The Palestinian political scene is dominated by the two major actors, Fatah and Hamas. For the past few decades, the Palestinian movement has splintered into these two competing ideological factions with separate geographical...
The Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 has been touted as the foundation of the concept of the state as we know it today on the basis of autonomy, sovereignty and territoriality. But the fact...
Background- careening towards the precipice One of the poorest countries in the Middle East has become a theatre of the cold war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Yemen has been in a state of...
On Sunday, an airstrike was launched on Syria’s eastern city, Al Bukamal. Although the Syrian Human Rights Observatory has speculated that Israel may have carried out the strike, the state has not confirmed it....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been intent on moving forward with the proposal of annexing one-third of the already illegally occupied West Bank, including parts of the strategic Jordan Valley. The proposed program...
The six economies of the Gulf Cooperation Council are marked by an inordinate dependence on oil revenues with the boom and bust cycles of oil matching their vicissitudes. Often they are described as “rentier...
On Tuesday, the Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Vellamvelly Muraleedharan participated in an extra-ordinary global meeting on United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). This...
The relationship between the United States and Iran has been rife with tensions for the past few decades since the Islamic Revolution and when the American embassy was taken over forcibly in Tehran in...
Today, we live in a world which is more globalized than ever before. Globalization has brought about changes in the world, which had never been thought before. It has turned the world into a...