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3 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Joe Gill
Israel's war on Gaza has been the "worst ever conflict" for journalists, with at least 208 Palestinian media workers killed since October 2023, according to a report by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
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3 weeks ago | 
asiapacificreport.nz | Joe Gill
SPECIAL REPORT: By Joe GillIt is difficult to be shocked after 18 months of Israel‘s genocidal onslaught on Gaza. Brazen crimes against humanity have become the norm. World powers do nothing in response. At best, they put out weak statements of concern. Now, the US does not even bother with that. It is fully on board with genocide.
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3 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Joe Gill
It is difficult to be shocked after 18 months of Israel's genocidal onslaught on Gaza. Brazen crimes against humanity have become the norm. World powers do nothing in response. At best, they put out weak statements of concern. Now, the US does not even bother with that. It is fully on board with genocide. Israel and the US are planning the violent ethnic cleansing of Gaza, knowing full well that no one will stop them.
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1 month ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Joe Gill
Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning. Here are the day's key developments:- The UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights has reported that since the first day of Eid al-Fitr, at least 100 Palestinians have been killed by Israel in Gaza, with 32 of them being children.
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2 months ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Joe Gill
In Beirut in early January, Syrian-German electro duo Shkoon performed in front of a mixed crowd of Lebanese and Syrians in a city and country just emerging from a brutal war waged by Israel. It was also only weeks since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, with Syrians in the audience travelling to the gig alongside those living in the country.
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2 months ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Joe Gill |Omar Suleiman |Ali Milani |Farid Hafez
It is a historical novelty. For the first time since the end of the Nazi regime, the leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) - a political party that was established by ex-Nazis for ex-Nazis, and that has grown to become a major force in Austrian politics since the early 1990s - has the chance to not only join a government as a partner but to actually lead the government, with its party leader becoming the future chancellor.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
middleeasteye.net | Joe Gill
A couple walk up to the display window of a glass shopfront sandwiched between two estate agents in central Hove on England’s south coast and look at window ads for properties for sale - and then, the penny drops. The posters show a villa under construction in what appears to be the devastated Gaza war zone. Something is not right.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
middleeasteye.net | Marco Carnelos |Joe Gill
On BBC Newsnight the panel of journalists and politicians were discussing Elon Musk’s emphatic salute at US President Donald Trump’s triumphal inauguration rally in Washington. Probably most people have seen Musk’s Dr Strangelove moment by now but none of the panel would say what it most clearly was: a Nazi salute. Musk did not just involuntarily raise his right arm and point his fingers to heaven.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
middleeasteye.net | Marco Carnelos |Joe Gill |Richard Falk
Newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump has suggested the ceasefire in Gaza is unlikely to hold, as he lifts a range of sanctions his predecessor imposed on Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. Asked by a journalist about the ceasefire deal that came into effect over the weekend, Trump said he was "not confident" about its long-term prospects. "That's not our war; it's their war. But I'm not confident," Trump said. "I looked at a picture of Gaza.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
middleeasteye.net | Joe Gill |Richard Falk |John Rees |Marco Carnelos
18 January 2025 11:31 GMT ago How the incoming US president handles the rise of Beijing will have massive political and economic consequences around the globe US President Donald Trump attends a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, in June 2019 (Brendan Smialowski/AFP) In three previous articles, I addressed the internal and foreign policy challenges that US President Donald Trump will soon face.
