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More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis
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More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new opinion poll by the Sadat Center at the University of Maryland finds a sea change in the American […]

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

08/28/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

08/28/2025 By The Conversation

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Putin’s biggest Fanboy in Congress, Rohrabacher, Defeated in bright Red District

Putin’s biggest Fanboy in Congress, Rohrabacher, Defeated in bright Red District

Washington (AFP) – Representative Dana Rohrabacher, whose quixotic foreign policy campaigns made him persona non grata in Pakistan and Afghanistan and who became a rare […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Netanyahu Defends allowing Qatar to Send millions in Aid to Gaza

Netanyahu Defends allowing Qatar to Send millions in Aid to Gaza

Netanyahu said the Israeli security establishment supported the move

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Haunted by the Hole where our Memories of the Afghanistan War Should Be

Haunted by the Hole where our Memories of the Afghanistan War Should Be

There are moments when it feels like I never left

Rory Fanning

Qur'an
The Qur’an and the Modern Self: A Heterotopia

The Qur’an and the Modern Self: A Heterotopia

The Qur’an has subsisted in the literature of Christian and post-Christian Europe and the Americas in a shifting borderland between self and other.

Juan Cole

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The Lessons of World War I-- Don't Trust Hateful Politicians like Trump

The Lessons of World War I– Don’t Trust Hateful Politicians like Trump

Trump is in Paris to commemorate the end of World War I, about which he knows almost nothing. The outbreak of that war in 1914 […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Iraqi Parliamentarians Demand Timetable for US Troop Withdrawal

Iraqi Parliamentarians Demand Timetable for US Troop Withdrawal

Iraqi MP Ahmad Al-Assadi, senior leader of the Iraqi Construction Alliance, revealed on Friday parliamentarian moves to pressure the Iraqi government to evict US forces […]

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Veterans
Did Trump avoid Cemetery, dishonor Troops, b/c Rain would Muss his Hair (more)?

Did Trump avoid Cemetery, dishonor Troops, b/c Rain would Muss his Hair (more)?

by Francis CURTA and Clare BYRNE Paris (AFP) – US President Donald Trump came under fire on Saturday after cancelling a visit to an American […]

AFP

Saudi Arabia
Turkey’s Erdogan sends Audio of Khashoggi’s murder to Western Capitals

Turkey’s Erdogan sends Audio of Khashoggi’s murder to Western Capitals

by Luana Sarmini-Buonaccorsi Ankara (AFP) – Turkey has shared recordings linked to the murder last month of journalist Jamal Khashoggi with Riyadh, Washington and other […]

AFP

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Yemen: Trump admin Further distances Self from Saudi-Led bombers

Yemen: Trump admin Further distances Self from Saudi-Led bombers

After Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave Saudi Arabia and its allies a month to start negotiations with the […]

Juan Cole

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