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Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran
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Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s militarily useless, entirely unprovoked and wholly illegal air war on Iran differs significantly from its previous wars in the […]

America’s Vacillating Mideast Policy: Is anyone in Charge?

America’s Vacillating Mideast Policy: Is anyone in Charge?

06/18/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

Israel-Iran War: History shows you cannot assassinate your way to Peace

Israel-Iran War: History shows you cannot assassinate your way to Peace

06/18/2025 By The Conversation

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Archaeology
The History of Gaza: On Conquerors, Resurgence and Rebirth

The History of Gaza: On Conquerors, Resurgence and Rebirth

( Middle East Monitor ) – Those unfamiliar with Gaza and its history are likely to always associate Gaza with destruction, rubble and Israeli genocide. […]

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
How the Keffiyeh – a practical Garment used for Protection against the desert Sun – became a Symbol of Palestinian Identity

How the Keffiyeh – a practical Garment used for Protection against the desert Sun – became a Symbol of Palestinian Identity

Armin Langer, University of Florida | – After Israel declared war on Hamas following the militant group’s surprise attack on Oct. 7, 2023, and hostilities […]

The Conversation

Cambodia
How War Criminal Kissinger paved the Way for a Genocidal Total War on Gaza's Civilians

How War Criminal Kissinger paved the Way for a Genocidal Total War on Gaza’s Civilians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Henry Kissinger’s death at 100 is an opportunity to consider the ways in which his lawlessness helped undermine International Humanitarian […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
COP28: A Billion Lives will be lost by 2100 without these Top Seven Climate Policies

COP28: A Billion Lives will be lost by 2100 without these Top Seven Climate Policies

By Joshua M. Pearce, Western University | – In a recent review of more than 180 peer-reviewed articles — which I conducted with fellow researcher […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
Kissinger and Walt Disney v. Salvador Allende:  Who will win our Souls?

Kissinger and Walt Disney v. Salvador Allende: Who will win our Souls?

By Ariel Dorfman | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – This year marks the anniversaries of two drastically different events that loomed all too large in […]

Tomdispatch

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How Israel Sabotaged U.S. Nuclear Diplomacy with Iran

How Israel Sabotaged U.S. Nuclear Diplomacy with Iran

Critical Review of Ilan Evyatar, Yonah Jeremy Bob and Jonathan Davis, Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Iran
Can US Threats Prevent a wider War in the Middle East?

Can US Threats Prevent a wider War in the Middle East?

( Code Pink ) – While Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has been frantically shuttling around the Middle East trying to stop the Israeli coflict […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Israel/ Palestine
Intensified Targeting of Palestinian Students in Israeli Universities must Cease

Intensified Targeting of Palestinian Students in Israeli Universities must Cease

Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu  Fax: +972-2-5664838   Minister of Education Yoav Kisch Fax: +972-2-5602390   Minister of […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Arab Americans
Three Young Men Shot down in the Name of an Anti-Palestinianism that cannot Be Named

Three Young Men Shot down in the Name of an Anti-Palestinianism that cannot Be Named

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As Peter Beinart correctly argues, anti-Palestinianism is not a word in American English. I can tell since the internet helpfully […]

Juan Cole

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