Informed Comment - Part 1703

United Nations: 100,000 Gazans Still Homeless Since Summer Attack

By IMEMC News & Agencies | – The official UN death-toll for the 2014 war shows that 1,549 Palestinian civilians were killed in comparison to […]

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al-Qaeda

Syria: Signs of Popular Backlash Against al-Qaeda

By Robert S. Ford and Tony Ghazal Mouawad | (Informed Comment) As the Syrian civil war drags into its fifth year, the al-Qai’da linked Nusra […]

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Apartheid

Apartheid Forever: Israel’s Netanyahu rules out Palestinian Citizenship Rights

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, under extreme pressure over the real possibility that he will lose the March 17 […]

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Health

Worst than ISIL: Iraq’s US-caused Public Health Catastrophe

By Mozhgan Savabieasfahani | (Informed Comment) The Iraqi people, once the envy of the Arab world for their outstanding educational and health-care systems, have been […]

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Apartheid

Palestine: 2014 sees Record number of Journalists Targeted

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) said Sunday that 2014 saw 465 violations of media freedoms in the occupied […]

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Dissent

Palestinian-Israelis Aspire to National Role after Elections

France24 | – At 20% of the Israeli population, Israelis of Palestinian heritage have united to back a single party and for the first time […]

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Dissent

Dear MSM: The Israeli Elections are about Minority rights, not Iran

By Sammy Smooha | (The Conversation) There are 5.3 million eligible voters living in Israel today (votes may be not cast abroad). Among these voters […]

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Democracy

Top 5 ways Netanyahu sabotaged US and Israel Interests

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Binyamin Netanyahu is fighting the most difficult political battle of his life. His party seems likely to come […]

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Climate Change