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War, Peace, and Erasure: Lessons from Wakara for Gaza and Beyond
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War, Peace, and Erasure: Lessons from Wakara for Gaza and Beyond

Max Perry Mueller

Long before Israelis invoked the bible erase a Palestinian homeland another colonizing people sought to remake a land in the image of their God

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Climate Breakdown:  Each Child Today is being Born into a Slow-Motion Hiroshima

Climate Breakdown: Each Child Today is being Born into a Slow-Motion Hiroshima

12/10/2025 By Tom Engelhardt

Syria: One Year since Assad’s Fall

Syria: One Year since Assad’s Fall

12/10/2025 By Human Rights Watch

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European Union
Will Ireland Recognize Palestine?

Will Ireland Recognize Palestine?

By Juan Cole After Sweden recognized Palestine, the Irish government began considering doing so. On Thursday, the Irish parliament asked Irish Foreign Minister, Eamon Gilmore, […]

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Israel
Surprising Map of Which Countries Recognize Palestine

Surprising Map of Which Countries Recognize Palestine

AJ+ “Sweden became the first European Union country to recognize the State of Palestine on Oct. 3, and the United Kingdom parliament voted 274-12 in […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Humanitarian Crisis: Health Care and Jordan's 600,000 Syrian Refugees

Humanitarian Crisis: Health Care and Jordan’s 600,000 Syrian Refugees

By Katy Montoya I was scrambling to take notes when the First Lieutenant of the Jordanian Security Forces joined my conversation with security personnel in […]

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Displaced and Refugees
The New McCarthyism on Israel:  Naming and Shaming . . . Hillel

The New McCarthyism on Israel: Naming and Shaming . . . Hillel

By Alice Rothchild Jewish communal and religious organizations have become increasingly donor driven and sclerotic when it comes to discourse on Israel/Palestine. This is clearly […]

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Turkey bargaining with base for US, wants no-fly zone in Syria

Turkey bargaining with base for US, wants no-fly zone in Syria

By Juan Cole Earlier this week Turkish officials met American ones on the issue of combating ISIL. The US wants to use Incirlik Air Force […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Real Estate Agents to the Terrorists:  ISIL Steals Mosul Refugee Property to Raise Money

Real Estate Agents to the Terrorists: ISIL Steals Mosul Refugee Property to Raise Money

By Nawzat Shamdeen via Niqash.org The Sunni Muslim extremist group that has taken over the northern city of Mosul has a new source of income: […]

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political Islam
Reza Aslan, religion Ph.D. vs. Sam Harris

Reza Aslan, religion Ph.D. vs. Sam Harris

The Young Turks: Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks and Professor Reza Aslan discuss Sam Harris. Cenk asks Reza how he feels about Harris’ […]

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Bill of Rights
Is the Center for Jewish Life stifling free speech at Princeton University?

Is the Center for Jewish Life stifling free speech at Princeton University?

By Max Weiss via The Princetonian I have never met Slav Leibin. Nonetheless, it recently came to my attention that he vetoed, with the approval […]

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Colonialism
America's Colonial Armies: Absentee Soldiers, Corrupt Officers and Collapse

America’s Colonial Armies: Absentee Soldiers, Corrupt Officers and Collapse

By William J. Astore via Tomdispatch.com In June, tens of thousands of Iraqi Security Forces in Nineveh province north of Baghdad collapsed in the face […]

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