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Syria’s Parliamentary Election Results look Alarmingly like Iraq 2005, which produced a Civil War
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Syria’s Parliamentary Election Results look Alarmingly like Iraq 2005, which produced a Civil War

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syria’s parliamentary elections on October 5 raised alarm flags for me on several grounds. First, they were not conducted on […]

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A Gaza Ceasefire Is Not Enough: We Must Choose Life and Freedom

A Gaza Ceasefire Is Not Enough: We Must Choose Life and Freedom

10/12/2025 By Shamai Leibowitz

We Must Not Look Away from Palestine: Resisting Oppression and Pursuing Justice

We Must Not Look Away from Palestine: Resisting Oppression and Pursuing Justice

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Mideast Reacts with Horror:  "Israel has elected Extremism and Racism"

Mideast Reacts with Horror: “Israel has elected Extremism and Racism”

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Observers in the Arab press who contemplated the victory of far right Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu in the […]

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Syria
Growing Up in Syria: Children Images and War

Growing Up in Syria: Children Images and War

Asaad Al-Saleh | (Informed Comment) When I wrote my book, “Voices of the Arab Spring” (Columbia UP, 2015), I did not feature testimonials by children. […]

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Arab Americans

Facing Down Anti-Muslim Bigotry Through Faith in America

David Schanzer | (ISLAMiCommentary) – Address to Islamic Association of Raleigh (NC) David Schanzer As-salamu alaykum. Thank you so much for the invitation to address […]

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Will Terrorist attack on Tunisia Museum-goers Test Gov't's Commitment to Rights?

Will Terrorist attack on Tunisia Museum-goers Test Gov’t’s Commitment to Rights?

Human Rights Watch | (Tunis) The despicable attack in the Bardo Museum in Tunis on March 18, 2015, killing at least 19 foreign tourists and Tunisians, […]

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The Palestinian-Israelis' Selma Moment?

The Palestinian-Israelis’ Selma Moment?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Ayman Odah, leader of the Joint Arab List, the party representing Palestinian-Israelis and elements of the Israeli left, responded […]

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Militarization
The Impotence of the Big Dick strain of American Nationalism

The Impotence of the Big Dick strain of American Nationalism

By Nan Levinson | (Tomdispatch.com) Let’s face it: we live in a state of pervasive national security anxiety. There are various possible responses to this […]

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

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

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

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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