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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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US calls Israeli Squatter attacks on Palestinians 'Terrorism'; Israel says 'only vandalism'

US calls Israeli Squatter attacks on Palestinians ‘Terrorism’; Israel says ‘only vandalism’

(Via AFP) Israel police challenge US ‘terror’ findings (via AFP) Israeli police on Thursday challenged Washington’s inclusion of Jewish extremist attacks on Palestinians in a […]

Juan Cole

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In Deep South where GOP Rejected Obamacare, tens of 1000s die Unnecessarily every Year

In Deep South where GOP Rejected Obamacare, tens of 1000s die Unnecessarily every Year

(By Juan Cole) The Center for Disease Control house found that 900,000 people a year die of five leading causes every year in the US, […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
43% of Denmark's Power from Renewables: Aiming for 70% by 2020

43% of Denmark’s Power from Renewables: Aiming for 70% by 2020

(By Juan Cole) Denmark is now getting 43% of its power from renewable energy (mainly wind and biomass). It is thus on track to meet […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Fossil Fuel Subsidies Cost some $2 Trillion Annually, According To IMF

Fossil Fuel Subsidies Cost some $2 Trillion Annually, According To IMF

Originally published on RenewEconomy.By Sophie Vorrath Science informs us about the environmental cost of our global fossil fuel habit – the IPCC recently reported that CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes contributed…

Juan Cole

Dissent
The Cost of Repression: Turkey on May Day

The Cost of Repression: Turkey on May Day

(By Emma Sinclair-Webb @esinclairwebb ) With a reported 39,000 police officers and 50 water cannon vehicles, plentiful supplies of teargas, and a complete shutdown of […]

Juan Cole

Israel
It's Not about Hamas: Decrying Palestinian Unity

It’s Not about Hamas: Decrying Palestinian Unity

(By Gregory Harms) Aside from the occasional cross-border violence between Gaza and Israel, Hamas, which governs the coastal strip, has received little attention in the […]

Juan Cole

Economy
This Land is their Land, it isn't Your Land: Growing inequality in a Declining Empire

This Land is their Land, it isn’t Your Land: Growing inequality in a Declining Empire

(By Peter van Buren via Tomdispatch.com) As America’s new economy starts to look more like the old economy of the Great Depression, the divide between […]

Juan Cole

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Top 10 Attacks on US Embassies in Republican Administrations that Lindsey Graham doesn't Care about

Top 10 Attacks on US Embassies in Republican Administrations that Lindsey Graham doesn’t Care about

(By Juan Cole) The Republicans in Congress keep beating the dead horse of Benghazi. Now they have sprung a briefing memo for Susan Rice, based […]

Juan Cole

Rick Jacobs Threatens to Pull URJ Out of Presidents Conference After J Street Fiasco

Rick Jacobs Threatens to Pull URJ Out of Presidents Conference After J Street Fiasco

Reform Movement leader Rabbi Rick Jacobs has signaled that the Union of Reform Judaism could consider dropping out of the Conference of Presidents in response […]

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