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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza
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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza

Dan Steinbock

Bezazel Smotrich is one of political leaders of Israel’s Messianic far-right. But he is also a shrewd administrator executing a biblical “decisive plan” of ethnic […]

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

09/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

09/18/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Dear Elizabeth Warren: Run for President, Challenge the Blob and End the Wars

Dear Elizabeth Warren: Run for President, Challenge the Blob and End the Wars

Boston (Tomdispatch.com) | – Senator Elizabeth Warren 317 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. Dear Senator Warren: As a constituent, I have noted with interest […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

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Why a US Divorce from Saudi Arabia would be Good for Us and Them

Why a US Divorce from Saudi Arabia would be Good for Us and Them

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Voices from the Right wing, prominently featured in Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, are warning that the grisly murder of […]

Juan Cole

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University of Michigan Professor Disciplined for Refusing to Write Student Recommendation Letter

University of Michigan Professor Disciplined for Refusing to Write Student Recommendation Letter

October 16, 2018 Committee on Academic Freedom Middle East Studies Association of North America ­­Elizabeth R. Cole Interim Dean College of Literature, Science and the […]

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Top US Senators  Call for Ouster of Saudi’s Bin Salman over Murder

Top US Senators Call for Ouster of Saudi’s Bin Salman over Murder

Washington (AFP) – An influential US Senate ally of President Donald Trump pledged Tuesday that Congress would take decisive action against Saudi Arabia over a […]

AFP

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How Guantanamo Set the Stage for the Kavanaugh Hearings

How Guantanamo Set the Stage for the Kavanaugh Hearings

(Tomdispatch.com) – Amid the emotional hubbub over the predictable confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, there has been a largely overlooked casualty: the American judiciary. It’s not […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Saudi Arabia
Suspects in Saudi Journalist Murder directly tied to Crown Prince

Suspects in Saudi Journalist Murder directly tied to Crown Prince

by Ian Geoffrey TIMBERLAKE | – – Washington (AFP) – A suspect identified by Turkey in the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a […]

AFP

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Saudi war on Yemen: World’s Worst Famine in a Century could Claim 13 Million

Saudi war on Yemen: World’s Worst Famine in a Century could Claim 13 Million

Yemen is a country of some 29 million persons, but over a third of them are at risk of starvation if Saudi and UAE bombing […]

Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's Brutal Game of Thrones signals its Lack of Democracy

Saudi Arabia’s Brutal Game of Thrones signals its Lack of Democracy

(Informed Comment) – The disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi and his possible death at the hands of the Saudi state operatives in its consulate in Istanbul […]

Ali Abootalebi

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Dozens injured as Palestinians Protest Israeli Closure of Nablus School in Palestine

Dozens injured as Palestinians Protest Israeli Closure of Nablus School in Palestine

NABLUS (Ma’an) — Dozens of Palestinians participated in a protest against an Israeli army order to close a Palestinian high school in the al-Lubban village […]

Maan News Agency

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