https://www.middleeastmonitor.com Latest news from the Middle East and North Africa Tue, 08 Aug 2023 13:42:37 +0000 en-GB Middle East Monitor 30 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1 https://www.middleeastmonitor.com 32 32 116394717 https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230516-waves-of-solidarity-sweep-across-latin-america-on-75th-nakba-anniversary/ Tue, 16 May 2023 15:15:40 +0000 , Middle East Monitor https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/?p=637354 Solidarity activists across Latin America have marked the 75th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba with talks, meetings, cultural activities, media interviews and social media campaigns. The Palestinian flag has been raised and people have chanted their support on the streets. Support for Palestine has been particularly strong in Brazil, Peru, Venezuela and Chile. Palestinians and their supporters around the world mark Nakba Day every year. The day has come to symbolise the struggle of the Palestinian people for their legitimate rights to their own land, homes and property; indeed, their legitimate right to their homeland. The Palestinian "Key of Return" was never an ordinary key. It speaks of the years of refugee status and suffering that Palestinians have endured. It […]]]> 637354 https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230503-the-palestinian-cause-and-argentinas-equidistant-policy/ Wed, 03 May 2023 14:07:00 +0000 , Middle East Monitor https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/?p=632759 Although geographically distant, Argentina has a history of solidarity with Palestine. Before the approval of the UN Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947, the South American country was a contender as a possible location for a "national home for the Jews". This idea appeared in Theodor Herzl's The Jewish State published in 1896. Argentina was identified as one of the options for the Zionist project, along with Palestine, due to the fertility of its lands and its small population at that time. According to the Zionist ideologue, Argentina was "one of the most fertile countries in the world, [that] extends over a vast area, has a sparse population, and a mild climate." Herzl believed that, "The Argentine Republic would derive […]]]> 632759 https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220923-latin-americas-presidents-speak-loudly-for-palestinian-rights-at-the-united-nations/ Fri, 23 Sep 2022 08:05:22 +0000 , Middle East Monitor https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/?p=582101 From 20 – 26 September, the United Nations General Assembly holds the 77th Session, where heads of State and Government come together at the UN Headquarters and discuss world issues. The majority of countries´ presidents talked about their country's political, social and economic affairs. On the other hand, some Latin American heads of State came out and spoke loudly, such as Chile's and Peru's Presidents, proclaiming the rights of the Palestinians and denouncing the persecution against them. The world's youngest leader, Chile's President Gabriel Boric, sounded the alarm on the violations of the Israeli occupations against Palestinian people. In his first speech at the UN, Chile's President urged the world "not to normalise the permanent violations of human rights against […]]]> 582101 https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220517-palestinians-and-their-supporters-across-latin-america-have-commemorated-the-nakba-anniversary/ Tue, 17 May 2022 12:28:26 +0000 , Middle East Monitor https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/?p=555914 Many events have been held across Latin America on the 74th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, both official and popular. The Nakba — Catastrophe — was the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the creation of the Zionist state of Israel by terror gangs helped by the British Mandate authorities. More than 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and villages at gunpoint. At least 500 Palestinian towns and villages have since been razed to the ground by Israel in the effort to Judaise historic Palestine. With more than 15,000 Palestinians killed during the Nakba, the refugees fled to the West Bank, Gaza Strip and neighbouring Arab countries. They and their descendants have never been allowed to fulfil their legitimate right […]]]> 555914 https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210512-latin-america-calls-for-sanctions-to-end-israels-apartheid/ Wed, 12 May 2021 09:30:10 +0000 Middle East Monitor https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/?p=470469 Organisations from across Latin America have come together to "strongly condemn brutal Zionist terrorism and the ongoing Israeli atrocities against believers and protesters in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound", they said in a statement. The statement said the groups also denounced "attempts to evict the residents of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and the current military attacks by the Israeli occupying forces against civilians, which are not an exception to the systematic historical oppression that the Palestinian people have endured for more than 70 years." "These is part of the Zionist plan of ethnic cleansing and Apartheid against the Palestinians, in their attempt to Judaize the Palestinian lands and the Holy City of Jerusalem," they added. READ: Resistance in Jerusalem established a […]]]> 470469 https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190821-peru-festival-of-palestinian-traditions/ Wed, 21 Aug 2019 14:34:50 +0000 Middle East Monitor https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/?p=358899 READ: 'Gazans' access to medical care is a basic human right']]> 358899