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Netanyahu Says he’s making Israel a “Sparta:” He means a global Pariah State
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Netanyahu Says he’s making Israel a “Sparta:” He means a global Pariah State

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to position Israel as the modern day Sparta, and to sell […]

Israel’s Gaza City Invasion: Forced Migration and Hospitals Besieged and Bombed

Israel’s Gaza City Invasion: Forced Migration and Hospitals Besieged and Bombed

09/23/2025 By International Middle East Media Center

UK, France and other Western Nations recognize Palestinian State  – but symbolic Action won’t make Statehood happen

UK, France and other Western Nations recognize Palestinian State – but symbolic Action won’t make Statehood happen

09/23/2025 By The Conversation

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Gun Culture, Israeli Style

Gun Culture, Israeli Style

Mitchell Plitnick  ( Waging Nonviolence ) -Firearms are not uncommon in Israel. Armed security guards have long been a routine sight at shopping malls, clubs, […]

Waging Nonviolence

Israel/ Palestine
Dead on Arrival: Israel's Blowback Genocide

Dead on Arrival: Israel’s Blowback Genocide

By Ellen Cantarow ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Words can’t express the horrors of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. To actually feel the nightmare, you would have […]

Tomdispatch

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Netanyahu, Empowered by Biden's Grant of Impunity, baits Iran into his genocidal Gaza War

Netanyahu, Empowered by Biden’s Grant of Impunity, baits Iran into his genocidal Gaza War

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Despite all the hype about Iran’s largely symbolic barrage of over 200 drones and cruise and ballistic missiles, unleashed on […]

Juan Cole

Children
Gaza: Israel's Imposed Starvation deadly for Children

Gaza: Israel’s Imposed Starvation deadly for Children

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut, April 9, 2024) – Children in Gaza have been dying from starvation-related complications since the Israeli government began using starvation […]

Human Rights Watch

Inequality
Tax Day: The America I wish my Taxes paid for

Tax Day: The America I wish my Taxes paid for

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – In June 2023 Amanda Jones, an African American who had recently given birth to her second daughter Miranda, […]

H. Patricia Hynes

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Cracks in Biden's Zionist Wall:  Warren, Powers admit "Genocide, Famine" in Gaza as Israeli Atrocities Continue

Cracks in Biden’s Zionist Wall: Warren, Powers admit “Genocide, Famine” in Gaza as Israeli Atrocities Continue

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Cracks are showing in the Iron Wall of the Biden administration knee-jerk support for the far-right, extremist Israeli government’s total […]

Juan Cole

Artificial Intelligence
Gaza Conflict: Israel using AI to identify Human Targets raises Fears Innocents are Targeted

Gaza Conflict: Israel using AI to identify Human Targets raises Fears Innocents are Targeted

By Elke Schwarz, Queen Mary University of London | – A report by Jerusalem-based investigative journalists published in +972 magazine finds that AI targeting systems […]

The Conversation

Israel
Are the United States and Israel heading toward a Divorce?

Are the United States and Israel heading toward a Divorce?

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Critics of Israel once occupied the fringes of the debate in the United States. Then, in 2007, J […]

John Feffer

Central Intelligence Agency
The Origins of the West’s Iran Crisis: Oil, Autocracy and Coup

The Origins of the West’s Iran Crisis: Oil, Autocracy and Coup

Review of David S. Painter and Gregory Brew, The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951–1954. Chapel Hill: The University of North […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

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