How Arab States Are Helping Israel Commit Genocide

Mnar Adley looks into the difference between the rhetoric and the actions of the Arab states towards Israel.

Mnar Adley
By Mnar Adley
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Palestine’s Arab neighbors seem to have taken a bold stance on Israel’s genocide of Gaza in a public show of solidarity with Palestinians. But behind those strong words, states like Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE are quietly assisting Israel. These four nations are working together to circumvent the actions of one of the few regional

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The Glaring Hypocrisy Surrounding Bezel Smotrich’s Genocidal Comments

Bezalel Smotrich has never hidden or disguised his opinions or violent tendencies, and neither his hate-filled opinions nor his violent past has stood in the way of his meteoric rise in Israeli politics.

Miko Peled
By Miko Peled
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A recent talk in Paris by Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich raised eyebrows when he claimed that there are no Palestinian people. In fact, he said that he himself was a real Palestinian, which is a funny thing to say given that his surname, Smotrich, is the name of a town in Ukraine. Golda Meir, prime minister of Israel in the early

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“New Sheriff in Town”: Israel’s Dangerous Challenge to Al-Aqsa Custodianship Threatens World Peace

Israel’s denial of entry into Al-Aqsa to the Jordanian Ambassador marks a dangerous development for the holy site and a potential catastrophe for Palestine and the world, warns Miko Peled.

Miko Peled
By Miko Peled
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The Jordanian Ambassador to the State of Israel was recently denied entry to Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem – the third-holiest site in Islam. This is an incident that is so severe and so dangerous that not only the Jordanian government but the entire Arab and Muslim world – as well as the West – should have reprimanded Israel severely. The

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Apartheid or One State: Has Jordan Broken a Political Taboo?

“You close the door to the two-state solution, I could very well look at this positively, if we’re clearly opening the door to a one-state democratic solution.” — PM of Jordan, Omar Razzaz

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud
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What will it take for the idea of a two-state solution, which was hardly practical to begin with, to be completely abandoned? Every realistic assessment of the situation on the ground indicates, with palpable clarity, that there can never be a viable Palestinian state in parts of the West Bank and Gaza. Politically, the idea is also

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Imagining Return: Palestinians in Jordan’s Sprawling Refugee Camps Still Yearn for Home

Miko Peled recounts his visits to Jerash’s Gaza Camp, a refugee camp housing tens of thousands of Palestinians just hours away from their ancestral homeland.

Miko Peled
By Miko Peled
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Amman, Jordan -- Abna’a Gaza (the Children of Gaza) is a status given to Palestinian refugees who fled from the Gaza Strip to Jordan in 1967. They fled during the 1967 war and consequent Israeli occupation of Gaza. Today, over five decades later, these Palestinians who originally fled to Gaza from their homes in greater Palestine in 1948 number

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The Real Reasons Behind Israel’s Arrest of Two Jordanian Nationals

Heba al-Labadi and Abdul Rahman Mi’ri were released because of their own resolve, coupled with strong solidarity exhibited by ordinary Jordanians, writes Ramzy Baroud.

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud
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The release on November 6 of two Jordanian nationals, Heba al-Labadi and Abdul Rahman Mi’ri from Israeli prisons was a bittersweet moment. The pair were finally reunited with their families after harrowing experiences in Israel. Sadly, thousands of Palestinian prisoners are still denied their freedom, still subjected to all sorts of hardships at

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