Informed Comment - Part 1389

Israeli squatter saboteurs cut down 18 Palestinian trees near Bethlehem

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers on Saturday morning cut down 18 olive trees belonging to a Palestinian family in […]

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Displaced and Refugees

Humanitarian Crisis In Mosul as Half of Displaced are Children

By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL ) | – – . . . “There’s no question that, in the worst case, Mosul will represent the […]

Juan Cole

Featured

10 Things Weiner did Worse than Storing H. Clinton Emails on his computer

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – WaPo is reporting that it was the FBI investigation of Anthony Weiner that caused new emails […]

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Colonialism

60 Years later, Suez Crisis looks a lot like Iraq War

By Nigel Ashton | (The Conversation) | – – Does history repeat itself? Never perfectly or precisely, but some of the parallels between Anthony Eden’s […]

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Israel/ Palestine

UNESCO dared say Jerusalem is Sacred to 3 Faiths & So Netanyahu Smeared It

By: Ramzy Baroud | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – Did Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi actually read the UNESCO Resolution full text of the […]

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Iraq: Barzani pledges Kurdish forces won’t Enter Mosul

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Masoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (a super-province of Iraq) said Thursday that […]

Juan Cole

Christians