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Far Right Totalitarians in Israeli Cabinet threaten to Crash the Government if it Agrees to Biden's Gaza Plan

Far Right Totalitarians in Israeli Cabinet threaten to Crash the Government if it Agrees to Biden’s Gaza Plan

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that extremist government ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich continue to put pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and are threatening to bring down the government if he agrees to the suggestion for a truce put forward by US President Joe Biden on Friday […]

Courts
Biden on Trump: "No one is above the Law;" Except for Israel's Netanyahu

Biden on Trump: “No one is above the Law;” Except for Israel’s Netanyahu

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Donald J. Trump, found responsible for rape and found guilty of a whole raft of election fraud felonies, is a horrible person and bears no comparison to Joe Biden. But in one respect they have an unfortunate resemblance. Both have shown profound disrespect for the courts adjudicating their or their […]

Climate Crisis
Trump's attempt at Planeticide was Worse than Hush Money Sex Pay-Off

Trump’s attempt at Planeticide was Worse than Hush Money Sex Pay-Off

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It is great good news, of course, that Trump was finally held accountable for his hush money pay off to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about their hook-up so as to win the 2016 presidential election. Had she gone public in October, 2016 in the wake of […]

Cybercrime
Israel's Stalking Operation against the ICC is Mirrored in its Canary Mission attack on US Universities

Israel’s Stalking Operation against the ICC is Mirrored in its Canary Mission attack on US Universities

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration has signaled that it will not cooperate with a Republican-led effort to place legislative sanctions on the International Criminal Court for having requested warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The move reverses a pledge by Secretary of State Antony Blinken last […]

Apartheid
Ireland Recognizes Palestine, Broaches sanctions on Israel for "Barbaric" Airstrikes, Settler Violence

Ireland Recognizes Palestine, Broaches sanctions on Israel for “Barbaric” Airstrikes, Settler Violence

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ireland joined Spain and Norway on Tuesday in formally recognizing Palestine as a “sovereign and independent state” in Gaza and the West Bank, with East Jerusalem as its capital, inside 1967 borders. The prime minister or Taoiseach of Ireland, Simon Harris, proclaimed, “Ireland’s decision is about keeping hope alive. It […]

Colonialism
Burning the Indigenous Population up in their Tents is an old Colonial Technique of Genocide

Burning the Indigenous Population up in their Tents is an old Colonial Technique of Genocide

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli air force bombed a refugee tent camp west of Rafah City around 8:45 pm local time on Sunday. The time is important, since +972 Mag reported that the Israeli total war on Gaza is being conducted by AI programs. One of them is called, sadistically, “Daddy’s Home.” The […]

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Biden's Aid Pier SNAFU washes away in Indictment of US unwillingness to Pressure Israel to stop the Starvation

Biden’s Aid Pier SNAFU washes away in Indictment of US unwillingness to Pressure Israel to stop the Starvation

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US military has given us many acronyms. Most are forgettable alphabet salads only beloved by bureaucrats. But SNAFU is one of the greats, allegedly originating during WW II. The polite phrase is “situation normal, all fouled up.” But we know that the GIs actually used the F word. Quite […]

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Int'l Court of Justice Orders Israel to Halt Rafah invasion, as Palestinians face Large Scale Dehydration

Int’l Court of Justice Orders Israel to Halt Rafah invasion, as Palestinians face Large Scale Dehydration

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The International Court of Justice ruled Friday that Israel must immediately cease its ongoing invasion of Rafah governorate in southern Gaza on the grounds that it is having a genocidal impact. The court’s ruling went this way: The State of Israel shall, in conformity with its obligations under the Convention […]

Anti-Zionism
Most Bigoted, Genocidal Representative in Congress smears Juan Cole as a Racist

Most Bigoted, Genocidal Representative in Congress smears Juan Cole as a Racist

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The House Committee on Education and the Workplace, headed by the increasingly unhinged Rep. Virginia Palmieri Foxx (R-NC), held another Stalin-style show trial on Thursday, grilling the presidents of Northwestern University, Rutgers University, and the University of California Los Angeles about how they dealt with campus student protests against the […]

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