Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2025 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

Israel is Sinking into the Abyss of Netanyahu’s Dictatorship
Donald Trump

Israel is Sinking into the Abyss of Netanyahu’s Dictatorship

H. Scott Prosterman

Pardoning Netanyahu for his high crimes and felonies would mean Israel acquiescing to a Bibi dictatorship

Juan Cole Fundraiser
DONATED:$20,200
SUPPORTERS:234
TARGET:$30,000
REMAINING:$9,800
“With them the seed of Wisdom:”  FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:28

“With them the seed of Wisdom:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:28

12/12/2025 By Juan Cole

Trump as Nero: The Bible Condemns Rich Predators, Not Poor Trans Lovers

Trump as Nero: The Bible Condemns Rich Predators, Not Poor Trans Lovers

12/12/2025 By Liz Theoharis

More Stories

Democracy
Largest Israeli anti-War Rally since Gaza Campaign Began: 10,000 Protest in Tel Aviv

Largest Israeli anti-War Rally since Gaza Campaign Began: 10,000 Protest in Tel Aviv

Reuters: “Anti-war demonstrators protest against the war in Gaza at a rally in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square. Rough Cut” – Largest anti-war rally since attack […]

contributors

Bill of Rights
6 Things To Know If Police Stop You In The US

6 Things To Know If Police Stop You In The US

AJ+ “If a police officer were to stop you on the street in the U.S. and start questioning you, what would you do? Check out […]

contributors

Climate Change
Greenland Glaciers Collapsing much Faster than Thought

Greenland Glaciers Collapsing much Faster than Thought

Emory University: “Climate Change: The Physics of Glacier Loss” Related press release from UC Irvine from this spring: “ Greenland will be far greater contributor […]

contributors

Apartheid
After its Failed Gaza Campaign, What next for Israel?

After its Failed Gaza Campaign, What next for Israel?

By Paul Rogers, University of Bradford via The Conversation With a tenuous five-day ceasefire now underway, the pause in the Gaza War allows each side […]

contributors

Featured
Can al-Abadi win over Iraq's Moderate Sunnis?

Can al-Abadi win over Iraq’s Moderate Sunnis?

By Juan Cole Arguably, the so-called Islamic State (actually a vicious gang of serial killers) could never have taken over northern and Western Iraq if […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Inside Mosul: A Yearning for Deliverance from IS Radicals

Inside Mosul: A Yearning for Deliverance from IS Radicals

By Khales Joumah | Mosul | niqash | NIQASH listens in on a conversation between Mosul locals to find out how they feel about US […]

contributors

Israel
Israeli Assault killed Half of all Chickens in Gaza, Damaged Agriculture

Israeli Assault killed Half of all Chickens in Gaza, Damaged Agriculture

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Food and Agriculture Organization on Thursday warned that the Israeli assault on Gaza had caused extensive damage to the coastal enclave’s […]

contributors

Climate Change
Is Climate Change Making us Ill?

Is Climate Change Making us Ill?

By DW “More extreme and recurring heat periods and weather events, spreading diseases: Climate change has a huge impact on the life on our planet. […]

contributors

Apartheid
Dutch Lawyer who saved Jewish Boy in WWII returns Medal to Israel over Bombing of his Family in Gaza

Dutch Lawyer who saved Jewish Boy in WWII returns Medal to Israel over Bombing of his Family in Gaza

By Juan Cole Henk Zanoli, a 91-year-old Dutch attorney who in 1943 saved a Jewish boy from the Nazis, has returned to Israel the “Righteous […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1844
  • Page 1845
  • Page 1846
  • Page 1847
  • Page 1848
  • …
  • Page 3057
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Climate Crisis

Rate of Global Heating in the Arab World is Twice the Global Average

Juan Cole

Corruption

At Trump’s Prompting, Israel’s Netanyahu seeks a Pardon, But Israeli Law may not Work that Way

The Conversation

Colonialism

U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro: The Trump Corollary

Tomdispatch

European Union

Several Countries to Boycott Eurovision Singing Contest over Israeli Participation

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Was Volcano-Driven Climate Change partially Behind the Black Death?
  • War, Peace, and Erasure: Lessons from Wakara for Gaza and Beyond
  • Rate of Global Heating in the Arab World is Twice the Global Average
  • One way Zohran Mamdani could arrest Indicted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu
  • U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro: The Trump Corollary
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved