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

H. Scott Prosterman

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

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

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

09/23/2025 By International Middle East Media Center

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

09/23/2025 By The Conversation

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BDS and its Allies are Exposing the Companies Fueling the Genocide in Gaza

BDS and its Allies are Exposing the Companies Fueling the Genocide in Gaza

Arvind Dilawar

Waging Nonviolence

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Israel’s Limited Strikes on Iran show the Enormous Constraints faced by Netanyahu

Israel’s Limited Strikes on Iran show the Enormous Constraints faced by Netanyahu

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The limited strikes on Iran carried out by Israeli fighter-jets early on Saturday morning Tehran time above all demonstrated the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza Yet Stands:  Juan Cole’s New Book

Gaza Yet Stands: Juan Cole’s New Book

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Many observers have complained that our understanding of the current Mideast War too often begins with the horrendous Hamas attacks […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Hamas at a crossroads: Sinwar’s death leaves a Vacuum; Israeli actions make it harder to fill with a Moderate

Hamas at a crossroads: Sinwar’s death leaves a Vacuum; Israeli actions make it harder to fill with a Moderate

By Mkhaimar Abusada, Northwestern University | – (The Conversation) – Hamas will soon begin the process of deciding who will next head the militant Palestinian […]

The Conversation

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Medicide: Israel’s Attacks on Clinics and Hospitals in Gaza are War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: UN

Medicide: Israel’s Attacks on Clinics and Hospitals in Gaza are War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: UN

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Earlier this month the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory issued a report demanding that […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
As Middle East Crisis Escalates, Hopes For Diplomatic Solution Dim

As Middle East Crisis Escalates, Hopes For Diplomatic Solution Dim

By Michael Scollon ( RFE/RL RFE/RL ) – Israel’s two-front war in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, as well as the threat of escalation with […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Climate Crisis
How Dangerous anti-Protest Laws can Silence the Climate Movement

How Dangerous anti-Protest Laws can Silence the Climate Movement

( ) – In August, climate activist and cellist John Mark Rozendaal was arrested and charged with criminal contempt for playing a few minutes of […]

Stan Cox

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The Yemen Model and Failed US Middle East Policy

The Yemen Model and Failed US Middle East Policy

Review of Alexandra Stark, “The Yemen Model: Why U.S. Policy Has Failed in the Middle East” (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024). Munich, […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Israel/ Palestine
With northern Gaza Desperate and Hungry, Israel’s Actions are shaking the World Order to its Core

With northern Gaza Desperate and Hungry, Israel’s Actions are shaking the World Order to its Core

By Tristan Dunning, Macquarie University; Martin Kear, University of Sydney; and Shannon Brincat, University of the Sunshine Coast | – (The Conversation) – While the […]

The Conversation

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