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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between […]

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:”  FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

09/17/2025 By Juan Cole

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

09/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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To Defend Israel's Actions, the US is Destroying the Int'l Legal System it once Constructed

To Defend Israel’s Actions, the US is Destroying the Int’l Legal System it once Constructed

( Middle East Monitor ) – In a conversation in 2020 with Princeton Professor Emeritus, Richard Falk, he told me that historically, colonised nations that […]

Ramzy Baroud

Education
The War in Gaza is wiping out Palestine's Education and Knowledge Systems

The War in Gaza is wiping out Palestine’s Education and Knowledge Systems

By Chandni Desai, University of Toronto | – (The Conversation) – Gaza’s education system has suffered significantly since Israel’s bombardment and assault on the strip […]

The Conversation

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War, Trauma, and Forgetting

War, Trauma, and Forgetting

Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Our memories are often suppressed by trauma, a word derived from “Traumatiko”, a wound or mental shock. […]

Hugh J. Curran

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Palestinians of Gaza are Starving:  Don't Cut Aid

Palestinians of Gaza are Starving: Don’t Cut Aid

By Phyllis Bennis | ( Otherwords.org ) – Earlier this year, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s actions in Gaza plausibly constitute genocide. […]

OtherWords

nationalism
My Malaysia Ordeal shows how Religion can Fuse with Nationalism to Silence Dissent

My Malaysia Ordeal shows how Religion can Fuse with Nationalism to Silence Dissent

By Ahmet T. Kuru, San Diego State University | – (The Conversation) – I hadn’t expected my book tour in Malaysia to end with a […]

The Conversation

Dissent
Aaron Bushnell Sacrificed himself to Stop Gaza Genocide: "I won't be Complicit"

Aaron Bushnell Sacrificed himself to Stop Gaza Genocide: “I won’t be Complicit”

Connecticut (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Despondence, mixed with commitment, courage, and action, can be a starter for epochal change. Aaron Bushnell set himself […]

Azam Saeed

censorship
Islamophobia: Defending Rutgers’ Center for Security, Race and Rights from Senate Judiciary Committee

Islamophobia: Defending Rutgers’ Center for Security, Race and Rights from Senate Judiciary Committee

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | Senator Richard Durbin Chair, Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate fax: […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Climate Crisis
How Climate Change is Messing up the Ocean’s Biological Clock, a Potential Catastrophe

How Climate Change is Messing up the Ocean’s Biological Clock, a Potential Catastrophe

By Frédéric Cyr, Memorial University of Newfoundland | – Every year in the mid-latitudes of the planet, a peculiar phenomenon known as the phytoplankton spring […]

The Conversation

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Black Thursday: Israel's Great Flour Massacre in Gaza kills over 100 Civilians, wounds Hundreds

Black Thursday: Israel’s Great Flour Massacre in Gaza kills over 100 Civilians, wounds Hundreds

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports on the Great Flour Massacre committed by the Israeli army […]

Juan Cole

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