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![People gather to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bill that restricts the powers of the judiciary and his right-wing policies at in front of Israeli President Isaac Herzog's house in West Jerusalem on February 4, 2023 [Saeed Qaq - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/AA-20230204-30174713-30174711-PROTEST_IN_JERUSALEM_AGAINST_ISRAELI_PM_BENJAMIN_NETANYAHU.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Once again, the extreme religious right in Israel demonstrates its never-ending racism, violence and inhumanity towards the Palestinian people. Once again, the current Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu... -
![Chinese President, Xi Jinping (not seen) meets by Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (C) on December 8, 2022 [Royal Court of Saudi Arabia - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/AA-20221208-29680529-29680525-CHINESE_PRESIDENT_XI_JINPING_IN_SAUDI_ARABIA.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The global and regional echoes of Chinese mediation between Saudi Arabia and Iran will reverberate for quite some time. China announced its first diplomatic breakthrough in the Middle East... -
![Bahrain's Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani (L), Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (2nd L), Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (3rd L), US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (3rd R), Morocco's Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita (2nd R) and UAE's Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (R) hold a joint press conference during the Negev Summit in Kibbutz Sde Boker, Israel on March 28, 2022 [Israeli Foreign Ministry/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Foreign-Ministers-of-USA-Egypt-Morocco-UAE-and-Bahrain-meet-at-summit-in-Israel_3.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met the foreign ministers of Israel, Bahrain, the UAE, Morocco and Egypt last week in an unprecedented summit in the Negev. The declared... -
![Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in Buenos Aires, on 30 November 2018 [LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/GettyImages-1066780958.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Governments are described as authoritarian when they do not grant people the right to choose them freely and change them freely through periodic and fair elections when they prevent... -
![Image of the cramped and poor living conditions residents face in Luxor,, Egypt [Richard Messenger/Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2010_4_2-Egyptian-streets.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Arab governments, including Egypt's, generally believe that citizens' economic and social rights can be protected without a centralised commitment to safeguarding their civil and political rights. Government officials tend... -
![Tunisians gather in front of Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) building for the 9th Anniversary of ousting of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunis, Tunisia on January 14, 2020. [Yassine Gaidi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/07-01-2020-tunisia-revolution-anniversary20200114_2_40323004_51192909.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When Tunisia started what became a wave of Arab revolutions and uprisings in the winter of 2010, it confirmed the similarities between itself, Egypt and other countries in the...