Informed Comment - Part 1361

In defiance of UN, Israel reportedly set to approve thousands of settler units

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Days after the UN Security Council approved a resolution affirming the illegality of Israeli settlements in […]

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Assyrians

Wealthy Baghdad Muslim raised 85′ tall Christmas Tree in Solidarity

NewsBeat Social | (Video News report) | – – “A Muslim businessman in Iraq put up an 85-foot-tall Christmas tree in Baghdad to show solidarity […]

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Donald Trump

Remember when Dems were blasted for Class War? Meet Trump’s Cabinet

By Sam Pizzigati | ( Institute for Policy Studies) | – – Donald Trump and the business kingpins populating his inner circle want to slice […]

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Archaeology

Top Five ways Jesus was not White

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Given the alarming rise of white nationalism in the United States and the ways in which […]

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Israel/ Palestine

Palestinian Officials on UNSC Members’ Resolution: Now let them Implement it

Via IMEMC | (PNN) | – – (PNN) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has welcomed the adoption of a new United Nations Security Council resolution […]

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Why the UN Resolution on Israeli Squatting didn’t Go Far Enough

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The United Nations Security Council on Friday passed a resolution with 14 member states in favor […]

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Books

‘Post-Truth’ or ‘Xenophobia’ or . . . What word sums up Horrible 2016?

By Philip Seargeant | (The Conversation) | – – Every December, lexicographers around the world choose their “words of the year”, and this year, perhaps […]

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Israel/ Palestine

Israeli forces suppress Bethlehem’s ‘Santa Claus march’ with tear gas, rubber bullets

By Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces Friday suppressed Bethlehem’s “Santa Claus March,” shooting tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets […]

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Barack Obama