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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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Israel/ Palestine
‘Son of a Whore’: Video Shows Israeli Troops Cheering After Shooting Unarmed Palestinian

‘Son of a Whore’: Video Shows Israeli Troops Cheering After Shooting Unarmed Palestinian

TeleSur | – – While the world condemns Israel’s use of lethal force, Israeli politicians and policy makers defend soldiers’ cheering of shooting unarmed Palestinians. […]

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Syria
Bombed and gassed into oblivion: The lost oasis of Damascus

Bombed and gassed into oblivion: The lost oasis of Damascus

By Karen Pinto | (The Conversation) | – – Dozens of people, including children, were killed this past weekend by an alleged chemical weapons attack […]

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Corruption
Will Trump divert attention from Cohen Raid by attacking Syria?

Will Trump divert attention from Cohen Raid by attacking Syria?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Matt Apuzzo of the New York Times reports that FBI agents produced a warrant at the […]

Juan Cole

Chemical Weapons
If the world doesn't stop Chemical Massacres at Syria, who is Next?

If the world doesn’t stop Chemical Massacres at Syria, who is Next?

By Michelle Bentley | (The Conversation) | – – Seven years into its catastrophic conflict, Syria has witnessed yet another major chemical strike. This time […]

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Iraq
Why are only tinpot War Criminals Punished?  What about the Architects of the Iraq War?

Why are only tinpot War Criminals Punished? What about the Architects of the Iraq War?

By Peter Singer | (Project Syndicate) | – – It is unlikely that former US President George W. Bush or any member of his administration […]

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Islam
Peace in Islam:  Qur’an 73:10 on Patience as Tolerance

Peace in Islam: Qur’an 73:10 on Patience as Tolerance

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Chapter 73 of the Qur’an, “The Robed” (Al-Muzammil), contains what is probably the earliest Islamic injunction to turn the other […]

Juan Cole

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Trump on Syria Chem Attack: Putin responsible for supporting "Animal Assad"

Trump on Syria Chem Attack: Putin responsible for supporting “Animal Assad”

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – On Sunday, Trump responded to the use by the Syrian regime of a chlorine-filled barrel bomb […]

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Yemen
Yemen War: Do We Americans bear a Responsibility to Halt it?

Yemen War: Do We Americans bear a Responsibility to Halt it?

By Olivia Alperstein | (Otherwords.org) | – – American taxpayers are helping to fight someone else’s war in Yemen, and the blood is on our […]

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Syria
Russia says Syrian rebels to be brought out of Douma

Russia says Syrian rebels to be brought out of Douma

Middle East Monitor | – – Russia’s military said an operation would begin on Sunday to bring fighters of the Jaish al-Islam rebel group out […]

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