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Protesting Gaza War, Massive Crowds Shut down Tel Aviv, Storm TV Station, Call for General Strike
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Protesting Gaza War, Massive Crowds Shut down Tel Aviv, Storm TV Station, Call for General Strike

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Rubaie Sawaid, writing for the Israeli newspaper Arab 48, reports that on Saturday enormous crowds demonstrated in Israel against the […]

Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Their Country From Within

Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Their Country From Within

08/10/2025 By ProPublica

How Israel’s Self-Image changed from Self-Reliance to Aggressive Militarism

How Israel’s Self-Image changed from Self-Reliance to Aggressive Militarism

08/10/2025 By The Conversation

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Israel’s Netanyahu: An Oliver Cromwell for our Times

Israel’s Netanyahu: An Oliver Cromwell for our Times

“When plunder [and dispossession]  becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves […]

Hugh J. Curran

Apartheid
Israel now ranks among the world’s leading jailers of journalists. We don’t know why they’re behind bars

Israel now ranks among the world’s leading jailers of journalists. We don’t know why they’re behind bars

By Peter Greste, Macquarie University | – (The Conversation) – Israel has emerged as one of the world’s leading jailers of journalists, according to a […]

Peter Greste

Climate Crisis
Old Forests are Essential for Slowing Climate Change: Prohibit Logging Them!

Old Forests are Essential for Slowing Climate Change: Prohibit Logging Them!

By Beverly Law, Oregon State University and William Moomaw, Tufts University | – (The Conversation) – Forests are an essential part of Earth’s operating system. […]

The Conversation

Displaced and Refugees
Netanyahu says Israel must Control from the River to the Sea, but it won't cost him his Job as it does Palestinians

Netanyahu says Israel must Control from the River to the Sea, but it won’t cost him his Job as it does Palestinians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports on the press conference in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening of Prime Minister Binyamin […]

Juan Cole

Middle East
Ukraine as a Global Economic War, and the Role of the Middle East

Ukraine as a Global Economic War, and the Role of the Middle East

Review of Maximilian Hess, “Economic War: Ukraine and the Global Conflict between Russia and the West” (London: Hurst & Co., 2023). Barcelona (Special to Informed […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Far Right
Our World-Historical Turning Point – Kairos – is Now, and Everything Depends on the Youths

Our World-Historical Turning Point – Kairos – is Now, and Everything Depends on the Youths

( Tomdispatch.com) – “All Americans owe them a debt for — if nothing else — releasing the idealism locked so long inside a nation that […]

Liz Theoharis

Donald Trump
America's Theater of the Absurd Election:  Trump, Fascism, Reality and . . . the Rhinoceros

America’s Theater of the Absurd Election: Trump, Fascism, Reality and . . . the Rhinoceros

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In 1968, the Youth International Party nominated a pig named Pigasus for president; in 2024, the Republican Party […]

Dan Dinello

Houthi
US Officials Care More about Protecting Oil Tankers than Palestinians

US Officials Care More about Protecting Oil Tankers than Palestinians

By Edward Hunt | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – While Israel continues its military offensive in Gaza, the United States is directing […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Archaeology
Gaza's Oldest Mosque, Destroyed in Israeli Airstrike, was once a Pagan Temple, a Church and had Jewish Engravings

Gaza’s Oldest Mosque, Destroyed in Israeli Airstrike, was once a Pagan Temple, a Church and had Jewish Engravings

Stephennie Mulder, The University of Texas at Austin The Omari Mosque in Gaza was largely destroyed by Israeli bombardment on Dec. 8, 2023. It was […]

The Conversation

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