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As Ceasefire Looms, Gaza’s Children are Still Starving
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As Ceasefire Looms, Gaza’s Children are Still Starving

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump peace plan has resulted in an agreement between Hamas and Israel to pause fighting and exchange prisoners. Other […]

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Urgent Next Steps for Palestine at the UN, Regardless of the Trump Plan

Urgent Next Steps for Palestine at the UN, Regardless of the Trump Plan

10/09/2025 By Nicolas J. S. Davies

Forced to Work on an Overheating Planet

Forced to Work on an Overheating Planet

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Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank

Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; feature) – As a native Palestinian, visiting my homeland is not just about seeing family and friends. It’s also about […]

Mohammed Samaana

Climate Crisis
An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The truck wheel’s inner tube was right in front of me, no longer half-submerged in the pond’s late summer muck. After […]

Frida Berrigan

Israel/ Palestine
Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

Middle East Studies Association MESA Joint Statement of the Board, Task Force on Civil and Human Rights and Committee on Academic Freedom concerning 2025 Travel […]

Middle East Studies Association

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Netanyahu Says he’s making Israel a “Sparta:” He means a global Pariah State

Netanyahu Says he’s making Israel a “Sparta:” He means a global Pariah State

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to position Israel as the modern day Sparta, and to sell […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Gaza City Invasion: Forced Migration and Hospitals Besieged and Bombed

Israel’s Gaza City Invasion: Forced Migration and Hospitals Besieged and Bombed

( IMEMC ) – On Monday, September 22nd, the 717th day of Israel’s ongoing campaign of genocide in Gaza, the Israeli military escalated its bombardment […]

International Middle East Media Center

Israel/ Palestine
UK, France and other Western Nations recognize Palestinian State  – but symbolic Action won’t make Statehood happen

UK, France and other Western Nations recognize Palestinian State – but symbolic Action won’t make Statehood happen

By Maha Nassar, University of Arizona (The Conversation) — Recognition of a Palestinian state is likely to dominate proceedings at the U.N. beginning Sept 23, […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
“Real Estate Bonanza:” The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza

“Real Estate Bonanza:” The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza

When the bombing of Gaza will finally cease, the U.S. administration will push the post-genocide opportunity for property development. In this quest, Tony Blair is […]

Dan Steinbock

Omar Khayyam
“In this batter’d Caravanserai:” FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:16

“In this batter’d Caravanserai:” FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:16

Revised. Quatrain 16 in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám underlines that life is fleeting for everyone, even […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
As Gaza bleeds, Israel plans its next move: Annexing the Palestinian West Bank

As Gaza bleeds, Israel plans its next move: Annexing the Palestinian West Bank

  by Alaa Said ( Middle East Monitor ) – While the genocide and destruction in Gaza have reached unprecedented levels, Israel now appears to […]

Middle East Monitor

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