Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between […]
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The Department of War is Back; But no Wars won in Decades
( Tomdispatch.com ) – My fellow Americans, my critical voice has finally been heard inside the Oval Office. No, not my voice against the $1.7 […]
France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza’s Mass Graves
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – French President Macron is taking the lead in a doomed bid to keep a two-state solution alive. […]
“Look to the Rose:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:13
Stanza no. 13 of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is about the free gifts we receive from […]
52 Ways to Combat Malignant Hatred of Muslims
By Mehmet Ozalp, Charles Sturt University (The Conversation) – Australian Muslim communities have been calling for official recognition of Islamophobia as a serious social problem […]
Protesting Claremont Colleges Library Censorship of “Policing Palestine”
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Letter to the Claremont Colleges library condemning the censorship of the […]
Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That is […]
Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance
By Yousef Ibrahim ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Israeli attempt to assassinate Hamas leaders in Doha was not simply an unsuccessful military operation—it […]
Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses
( Tomdispatch.com ) – That was President Trump’s blunt assessment of global power politics when it came to the United States and Russia following his […]
Scientists Prove Justinian’s Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring areas such […]