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A Poet and an Ayatollah have Passed, but Iran, the land of Rumi and Hafez, must Endure
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A Poet and an Ayatollah have Passed, but Iran, the land of Rumi and Hafez, must Endure

Fariba Amini

When they called your name at midnight, In your thoughts, morning blossomed from a blood-stained horizon.

Juan Cole on Iran War:  “Shock and Awe didn’t Work in Iraq, either” (TRT, Bradblog)

Juan Cole on Iran War: “Shock and Awe didn’t Work in Iraq, either” (TRT, Bradblog)

03/05/2026 By Juan Cole

Trump’s Other Endless War: How a Strike on Iran betrays his central Promise

Trump’s Other Endless War: How a Strike on Iran betrays his central Promise

03/05/2026 By Middle East Monitor

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More Genocide:  Israel Bans UNRWA, Guaranteeing Further Spike in Maternal and Infant Deaths in Gaza

More Genocide: Israel Bans UNRWA, Guaranteeing Further Spike in Maternal and Infant Deaths in Gaza

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli parliament on Monday passed legislation declaring the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, authorized by the UN General […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Could Israel’s “General’s Plan” to Drive Palestinians from North Gaza bring back the Settlers?

Could Israel’s “General’s Plan” to Drive Palestinians from North Gaza bring back the Settlers?

By Leonie Fleischmann, City St George’s, University of London | – (The Conversation) – Western political leaders were quick to argue that the killing of […]

The Conversation

Democracy
What’s at Stake in our Political Storm?

What’s at Stake in our Political Storm?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Images of homes that collapsed under mudslides or falling trees, waterlogged farms, and debris-filled roads drove home (yes, home!) to me […]

Andrea Mazzarino

Arab Americans
Palestinian-Americans Help Make the US Great: A Reply to Giuliani at the Trumpie Madison Square Garden Hatefest

Palestinian-Americans Help Make the US Great: A Reply to Giuliani at the Trumpie Madison Square Garden Hatefest

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Great Trump Three Hours of Hate at Madison Square Garden on Sunday included a fatally unfunny comedian calling Puerto […]

Juan Cole

France
The Rift over Gaza between Israel and Western Allies Deepens: Macron v. Netanyahu

The Rift over Gaza between Israel and Western Allies Deepens: Macron v. Netanyahu

By Imran Khalid | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – It took nearly a year for French President Emmanuel Macron to confront the […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Israel/ Palestine
The Long History of Palestine: Why Palestinians are Winning the Legitimacy War

The Long History of Palestine: Why Palestinians are Winning the Legitimacy War

( Middle East Monitor ) – Oddly, it was Israeli historian Benny Morris who got it right, when he offered a candid prediction of the […]

Ramzy Baroud

Colonialism
Does Britain owe Reparations to the Palestinians for Engineering their loss of their Country?

Does Britain owe Reparations to the Palestinians for Engineering their loss of their Country?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ta-Nehisi Coates made the argument for US reparations for slavery in 2014 in The Atlantic. In that essay, he made […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: Israel’s Northern Offensive Endangering Hundreds of Thousands of Civilians

Gaza: Israel’s Northern Offensive Endangering Hundreds of Thousands of Civilians

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut, October 26, 2024) – Israel’s renewed northern Gaza offensive is displacing and endangering hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, Human Rights Watch […]

Human Rights Watch

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BDS and its Allies are Exposing the Companies Fueling the Genocide in Gaza

BDS and its Allies are Exposing the Companies Fueling the Genocide in Gaza

Arvind Dilawar

Waging Nonviolence

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