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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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Israel/ Palestine
Trump's deeming Jerusalem Israeli Capital Portends Fiercer Mideast, Iran Conflicts

Trump’s deeming Jerusalem Israeli Capital Portends Fiercer Mideast, Iran Conflicts

By Kenneth Brown | (Informed Comment) | – – As a visiting student in Jerusalem I witnessed the 1956 Suez war against Egypt, the attempt […]

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China
Is China coming into Syria for its "One Belt, One Road"?

Is China coming into Syria for its “One Belt, One Road”?

By Neil Thompson | (Informed Comment) | – – As the Syrian civil war begins to wind down after six and a half years of […]

Neil Thompson

Egypt
Pence starts Middle East tour in Egypt, pledges ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’ support

Pence starts Middle East tour in Egypt, pledges ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’ support

Middle East Monitor | – – US Vice President Mike Pence kicked off a trip to the Middle East on Saturday with a visit to […]

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Donald Trump
The worst thing about Year One of Trump: Fascistization of Cable News

The worst thing about Year One of Trump: Fascistization of Cable News

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – American mass media journalism is broken. There are some simple elements of US journalistic practice that […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Thousands protest for Women's Rights in Los Angeles, around Country (Video)

Thousands protest for Women’s Rights in Los Angeles, around Country (Video)

May Lee | (CGTN) | – – The rally in Los Angeles last year dwarfed those in most other cities. Did the City of the […]

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Climate Change
European Parliament backs Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050

European Parliament backs Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050

By Frédéric Simon | (EURACTIV.com) | – – Green lawmakers have hailed a “great victory for the climate” as a proposal to bring down to […]

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Arms Sales
10,000 Deaths Later Germany Bars Arms Sales to Yemen Attackers

10,000 Deaths Later Germany Bars Arms Sales to Yemen Attackers

TeleSur | – – Only in the third financial quarter of 2017 German arms sale to Saudi Arabia accounted for US$550 million. Spokesperson for German […]

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Donald Trump
Syria: Turkey Begins Military Operation against US-Allied Kurds in Afrin

Syria: Turkey Begins Military Operation against US-Allied Kurds in Afrin

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Reuters reports that on Friday, Turkey began cross-border shelling of the Kurdish-majority Afrin canton in northern […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
A Mountain Kingdom? Iraqi leaders unconcerned About New PKK ‘Region’

A Mountain Kingdom? Iraqi leaders unconcerned About New PKK ‘Region’

Special Correspondent | Erbil | (Niqash.org) | – – Late last month the Kurdistan Worker’s Party – an organization some describe as terrorist – declared […]

Juan Cole

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