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Whitewashing Gas Exploration in Post-Genocide Gaza
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Whitewashing Gas Exploration in Post-Genocide Gaza

Dan Steinbock

Amid its lethal bombarding campaign, Israel awarded licenses for gas exploration in offshore Gaza, which is not under its sovereignty. Hence, the ceasefire smokescreen to […]

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With 83% of its Buildings destroyed, Gaza needs more than Money to rebuild

With 83% of its Buildings destroyed, Gaza needs more than Money to rebuild

10/17/2025 By The Conversation

Stateless: Memory, Identity, and the Palestinian Experience

Stateless: Memory, Identity, and the Palestinian Experience

10/17/2025 By Global Voices

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France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza’s Mass Graves

France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza’s Mass Graves

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – French President Macron is taking the lead in a doomed bid to keep a two-state solution alive. […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Omar Khayyam
“Look to the Rose:”  Edward FitzGerald’s  Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:13

“Look to the Rose:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:13

Stanza no. 13 of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is about the free gifts we receive from […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
52 Ways to Combat Malignant Hatred of Muslims

52 Ways to Combat Malignant Hatred of Muslims

By Mehmet Ozalp, Charles Sturt University (The Conversation) – Australian Muslim communities have been calling for official recognition of Islamophobia as a serious social problem […]

The Conversation

censorship
Protesting Claremont Colleges Library Censorship of “Policing Palestine”

Protesting Claremont Colleges Library Censorship of “Policing Palestine”

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Letter to the Claremont Colleges library condemning the censorship of the […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children

Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That is […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

By Yousef Ibrahim ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Israeli attempt to assassinate Hamas leaders in Doha was not simply an unsuccessful military operation—it […]

Middle East Monitor

China
Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

( Tomdispatch.com ) – That was President Trump’s blunt assessment of global power politics when it came to the United States and Russia following his […]

Michael T. Klare

Archaeology
Scientists Prove Justinian’s Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis

Scientists Prove Justinian’s Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring areas such […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Yemen: Journalists under Assault

Yemen: Journalists under Assault

Warring Parties’ Systematic Violations Against Media Freedom Yemen’s warring parties – particularly the Houthis, the Southern Transitional Council, and the Yemeni government – have committed […]

Human Rights Watch

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