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How the Palestinian West Bank is being Annexed by Israel, with Tacit US Support
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How the Palestinian West Bank is being Annexed by Israel, with Tacit US Support

Dan Steinbock

Behind the fog of war and the obliteration of Gaza, Israel’s far-right cabinet has escalated the annexation of the West Bank to Israel. New York […]

Do Palestinians deserve a State only if they are Genocided?

Do Palestinians deserve a State only if they are Genocided?

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Alice Walker: Palestinians face Oppression Much worse than Jim Crow of Old South

Alice Walker: Palestinians face Oppression Much worse than Jim Crow of Old South

On Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now!”, celebrated novelist and Pulitzer-Prize winner Alice Walker points out that Palestinians in the Occupied Territories under Israeli control face conditions […]

Juan Cole

Iraq War
Netanyahu 2002:  Iraq has Centrifuges 'the size of Washing Machines' to Produce A-Bomb

Netanyahu 2002: Iraq has Centrifuges ‘the size of Washing Machines’ to Produce A-Bomb

Israeli PM Binyamin “Chicken Little” Netanyahu tried to scaremonger about Iraq in 2002, as his contribution to the Anglo-American war of aggression on that country. […]

Juan Cole

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Annals of Settler Colonialism (3) German Namibia #savagesunite

Annals of Settler Colonialism (3) German Namibia #savagesunite

The rebellion of some among the much-abused Herero people is transformed by the German authorities and settlers into a race war and a pretext for […]

Juan Cole

Iran
It’s Psychological Warfare, Stupid:  Why Netanyahu Really wants to Destroy Iran

It’s Psychological Warfare, Stupid: Why Netanyahu Really wants to Destroy Iran

The Israeli Likud Party’s cover story for why it wants to draw the United States into a war with Iran makes no real sense. Prime […]

Juan Cole

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Cartoon:  Netanyahu Iran Bomb Warnings fall Flat at UN

Cartoon: Netanyahu Iran Bomb Warnings fall Flat at UN

Juan Cole

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Colbert Report: Obama’s Ottoman Conspiracy

Colbert Report: Obama’s Ottoman Conspiracy

Steve Colbert on Rep. Louie Gohmert’s crackpot allegation that Obama is resurrecting the Ottoman Empire The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor […]

Juan Cole

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Annals of Settler Colonialism (2) German Namibia #savagesunite

Annals of Settler Colonialism (2) German Namibia #savagesunite

An advertising campaign by bigots in San Francisco and New York asks us to choose, in Israeli-occupied Gaza and the West Bank, between the “civilized […]

Juan Cole

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Is Paul Ryan right that Obama's Foreign Policy is Blowing up in Our Faces?

Is Paul Ryan right that Obama’s Foreign Policy is Blowing up in Our Faces?

Paul Ryan knows nothing about the world or foreign affairs. I presume he may have been abroad at some point somewhere. I don’t know. As […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Annals of Settler Colonialism: German Namibia (1) #savagesunite

The Annals of Settler Colonialism: German Namibia (1) #savagesunite

Settler colonialism has a long and unsavory history and always involves displacing people from their land, driving them into penury, making and keeping them stateless, […]

Juan Cole

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