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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza
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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza

Dan Steinbock

Bezazel Smotrich is one of political leaders of Israel’s Messianic far-right. But he is also a shrewd administrator executing a biblical “decisive plan” of ethnic […]

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

09/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

09/18/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Some Good News from the Middle East: Obama could end 36-yr U.S.-Iran standoff

Some Good News from the Middle East: Obama could end 36-yr U.S.-Iran standoff

By Chris Toensing | (Foreign Policy in Focus) – There’s not much good news coming out of the Middle East these days. But one reason […]

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Israel
Palestinian from Occupied E. Jerusalem injures 5 Israeli Police in Car Attack

Palestinian from Occupied E. Jerusalem injures 5 Israeli Police in Car Attack

JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian ran his vehicle into a group of Israeli officers in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem on Friday, Israeli […]

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African-Americans
50 Yrs after Selma - Good News: Black President; Bad News:  Asks for Return of Voting Rights

50 Yrs after Selma – Good News: Black President; Bad News: Asks for Return of Voting Rights

Barack Obama | (Whitehouse.gov) – The White House: “President Obama Delivers Remarks on the 50th Anniversary of the Selma Marches” Full text of President Obama’s […]

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Climate Change
The “Hindenburg Trap”:  Dump Oil, Coal & Gas Stocks if you Want to Retire

The “Hindenburg Trap”: Dump Oil, Coal & Gas Stocks if you Want to Retire

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – What is the actual value of the oil, gas and coal fields owned by big energy corporations, which […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
ISIS Vs Climate Change - Which Kills More? Russell Brand The Trews

ISIS Vs Climate Change – Which Kills More? Russell Brand The Trews

Russell Brand | (The Trewes) – “Reaction to the news that President Obama has said the media “absolutely” overstates the threat of terrorism in comparison […]

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History
Iraq: What is the meaning of the Assyrian capital ISIL just demolished?

Iraq: What is the meaning of the Assyrian capital ISIL just demolished?

Channel 4 News | – “[So-called] Islamic State [group] militants looted and bulldozed the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq, government officials say.” […]

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History
ISIL vs the Graven Idols of History

ISIL vs the Graven Idols of History

By Elliott Colla | (Baghdad Central) – ISIS’s destruction of antiquities at the Mosul Museum and the ancient city of Nimrud has generated a lot […]

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Iran
Insulting Netanyahu:  How Bibi got Everything Wrong and called you Stupid

Insulting Netanyahu: How Bibi got Everything Wrong and called you Stupid

By Farhang Jahanpour | (TFF) After all the huffing and puffing and all the aroused expectations about the speech by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]

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Iraq:  30,000 Sunnis flee as Shiite Militias, Army, approach Tikrit

Iraq: 30,000 Sunnis flee as Shiite Militias, Army, approach Tikrit

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) The Iraqi military and allied Shiite militias are mounting a campaign to take the largely Sunni town of Tikrit […]

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