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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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The Arts of the Arab Uprisings at the Arab-American Museum

The Arts of the Arab Uprisings at the Arab-American Museum

VOA interviews my colleague Christiane Gruber of the Art History Department at the University of Michigan on the exhibit she helped curate at the Arab-American […]

Juan Cole

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Assassination by Leak:  US floats Trial Balloon of Droning an American to Death

Assassination by Leak: US floats Trial Balloon of Droning an American to Death

(By Tim Cushing) Administration Officials Perform Some Very Public Handwringing Over Extrajudicial Drone Killing (via Techdirt) The administration has sort of painted itself into a […]

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Iraq illegally Jailed thousands of Women, Torture & Abuse Alleged

Iraq illegally Jailed thousands of Women, Torture & Abuse Alleged

(Human Rights Watch) (Baghdad) – Iraqi authorities are detaining thousands of Iraqi women illegally and subjecting many to torture and ill-treatment, including the threat of […]

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Big Green Energy is Remaking Africa and Asia

Big Green Energy is Remaking Africa and Asia

(By Juan Cole) A significant part of the population of Africa and Asia at present has no access to electricity, and in some countries those […]

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Abraham Foxman To Step Down as Anti-Defamation League Chief

Abraham Foxman To Step Down as Anti-Defamation League Chief

Abraham H. Foxman announced he will step down from his position as National Director of the Anti-Defamation League on July 20, 2015, bringing to a […]

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8 Unsustainable Delusions of the American Way of Life

8 Unsustainable Delusions of the American Way of Life

(By Tom Giesen) The ideal of the American way of life as formulated in the twentieth century has collapsed early in the new Millennium without […]

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Brokers of Deceit: Massive US Aid to Israel has Enabled a Colonial Project

Brokers of Deceit: Massive US Aid to Israel has Enabled a Colonial Project

(By Chase Madar via Tomdispatch) We Americans have funny notions about foreign aid. Recent polls show that, on average, we believe 28% of the federal […]

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20 Banks Funding most Dirty Coal Mining, Climate Disruption, Worldwide

20 Banks Funding most Dirty Coal Mining, Climate Disruption, Worldwide

(By Michael Winship) Turning Up Heat on Banks Funding Fossil Fuels (via Moyers & Company) As environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben tells Bill Moyers […]

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Top 10 Reasons Rand Paul's Lewinsky Gambit Can't Obscure GOP War on Women

Top 10 Reasons Rand Paul’s Lewinsky Gambit Can’t Obscure GOP War on Women

(By Juan Cole) Sen. Rand Paul, in preparation for his run at the presidency in 2016, has been attempting to deflect the GOP disadvantage with […]

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