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Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank
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Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank

Mohammed Samaana

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; feature) – As a native Palestinian, visiting my homeland is not just about seeing family and friends. It’s also about […]

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

09/24/2025 By Frida Berrigan

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

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Omar Khayyam (75)

Omar Khayyam (75)

That wine which can take on diverse forms in its essence sometimes becomes an animal, sometimes a plant. Don’t imagine that its being ever goes […]

Juan Cole

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Polish PM Reveals that US Tortured at Black Sites in his Country

Polish PM Reveals that US Tortured at Black Sites in his Country

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk is now more or less admitting what has long been suspected: The Bush administration established a secret CIA prison in […]

Juan Cole

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Top 5 Dangers that the Syria Conflict could Destabilize its Neighbors

Top 5 Dangers that the Syria Conflict could Destabilize its Neighbors

Aljazeera English (below) asks whether the Syria crisis will spill over onto neighbors and what impact it may have on the region. Aljazeera English reports: […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (73)

Omar Khayyam (73)

Clouds rolled in  and wept tears on the field. Without wine, purple flowers cannot grow. The greenery provides  pleasant scenery for me today. For whose […]

Juan Cole

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Happy Palestine Land Day:  Israel Earmarks 10% of West Bank for Settlements: White

Happy Palestine Land Day: Israel Earmarks 10% of West Bank for Settlements: White

Ben White writes in a guest editorial for Informed Comment: It has just come out that the Israeli military has earmarked ten percent of the […]

Juan Cole

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The Palestine Land Day post is now here (click)

Juan Cole

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Tomgram: John Feffer, Islamophobia, Obama, and the Art of Acting Muslim

Tomgram: John Feffer, Islamophobia, Obama, and the Art of Acting Muslim

Those who fervently believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim generally practice their furtive religion in obscure recesses of the Internet…

Juan Cole

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Divided Arab League Won't Call for al-Assad to Step Down

Divided Arab League Won’t Call for al-Assad to Step Down

The Arab League is meeting in Baghdad for the first time in 22 years, in the absence of long-time fixtures such as Zein El Abidin […]

Juan Cole

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Scalia and the Uninsured Children (Cartoon)

Scalia and the Uninsured Children (Cartoon)

Juan Cole

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