Aaya Al-Shamahi

2 months ago | middleeasteye.net | Aaya Al-Shamahi

29 January 2025 12:25 GMT ago “There's no such thing as a Palestinian.”This is the man President Trump has nominated as the US ambassador to Israel. Former Baptist pastor Mike Huckabee is a pro-settlement Christian Zionist and has suggested Palestinians should move to neighbouring Arab countries. As a devout evangelical Christian, Huckabee’s nomination underscores the growing influence of Christian Zionism in the Republican Party’s ties to Israel. So who exactly is he?

Jan 13, 2025 | middleeasteye.net | Aaya Al-Shamahi

As Israel’s war in Gaza rages and its settlement expansion accelerates in the West Bank, one man’s critiques of Israel, the PLO, and Orientalism have proven to be precise even twenty years after his death. The world-renowned Palestinian-American academic Edward Said was born to Christian parents in Jerusalem in 1935 but fled his home along with his family in 1947 in the lead-up to the creation of Israel in 1948.

Oct 7, 2024 | middleeasteye.net | Aaya Al-Shamahi

It’s been one year since Israel began its war on Gaza after 1,139 people were killed in the Hamas-led 7 October attack. Since then, Israel’s aerial bombardment and ground invasion of the besieged enclave has wiped out entire families and killed more than 41,000 Palestinians, including more than 16,500 children. Throughout its invasion in Gaza, Israel has also committed many atrocities from the “Super Bowl” massacre to the Rafah tent massacre.

Sep 9, 2024 | middleeasteye.net | Aaya Al-Shamahi

Israel's longest-serving leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been in power for roughly 17 years. He began his career being a staunch critic of the Oslo peace process and attended far-right rallies where crowds chanted “death to Arabs”. Over the years of his premiership, Israeli government and society increasingly leaned towards the far-right and undermined Palestinian right to self determination.

Aug 15, 2024 | middleeasteye.net | Aaya Al-Shamahi

In 1977, 11,000 Israelis lived in settlements in occupied territories. Today more than 700,000 settlers – 10 percent of Israel’s 7 million Jewish population – now live in 150 illegal settlements and 128 outposts dotting the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Activists and legal specialists have argued that settlements are a major obstacle to the peace process, fragmenting the occupied West Bank and causing profound hardship in Palestinian life.