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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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Iran Reformers - Talks will Succeed:  Netanyahu 'not Influential,' like Iran Hardliners

Iran Reformers – Talks will Succeed: Netanyahu ‘not Influential,’ like Iran Hardliners

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – How did Iranian politicians react to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s anti-Iran speech to the US Congress? Iran’s […]

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
Snowden will return to US if fair trial guaranteed – NSA whistleblower’s lawyer

Snowden will return to US if fair trial guaranteed – NSA whistleblower’s lawyer

RT | – “Edward Snowden would go to the US if he was sure that he would face a fair trial there, the former NSA […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Climate Change helped Provoke Syrian Conflict & it won't be the Last

Climate Change helped Provoke Syrian Conflict & it won’t be the Last

By Thalif Deen | – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – Was the four-year-old military conflict in Syria, which has claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, […]

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Energy
Earth's Fate:  The Obama Administration, Shell, and Drilling the Arctic

Earth’s Fate: The Obama Administration, Shell, and Drilling the Arctic

By Subhankar Banerjee | (Tomdispatch.com) – Here’s a Jeopardy!-style question for you: “Eight different species of whales can be seen in these two American seas.” […]

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Israel's Squatter Settlements on Palestinian Land Undermine its Security

Israel’s Squatter Settlements on Palestinian Land Undermine its Security

Bill Van Esveld | (Human Rights Watch) – Israel’s prime minister has set the agenda for his visit to Washington, DC: the impact on Israel’s […]

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4 Things more Dangerous to Israel than Iran's civilian Nuclear Enrichment

4 Things more Dangerous to Israel than Iran’s civilian Nuclear Enrichment

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s strident and continual harping on the alleged dangers of Iran to Israel’s security […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Palestine to take Israel to Int'l Criminal Court for War Crimes

Palestine to take Israel to Int’l Criminal Court for War Crimes

RT | – A Palestinian man stands at his makeshift shelter near the ruins of his house that witnesses said was destroyed by Israeli shelling […]

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Apartheid
Gaza's sole power plant to close as funding runs out

Gaza’s sole power plant to close as funding runs out

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Gaza’s only power plant is due to shut down by the end of this week as donor funding for fuel in […]

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Iraq
The problem with Iraq's offensive against the Islamic State

The problem with Iraq’s offensive against the Islamic State

BAGHDAD (IRIN) – As the Iraqi army and affiliated militias sweep into northern Iraq to try to re-take the city of Tikrit from so-called Islamic […]

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