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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza
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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza

Dan Steinbock

Bezazel Smotrich is one of political leaders of Israel’s Messianic far-right. But he is also a shrewd administrator executing a biblical “decisive plan” of ethnic […]

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

09/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

09/18/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Muslim- and Liberal-Hater Breivik Confronted by Survivors in Open Court

Muslim- and Liberal-Hater Breivik Confronted by Survivors in Open Court

Norway’s mass murdered Anders Behring Breivik, a right wing white Christian supremacist who has confessed to killing 77 Labor Party youth activists and allegedly wounded […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Herman Cain Painfully Clueless on Libya

Herman Cain Painfully Clueless on Libya

Herman Cain more or less admits that he has no idea what he would have done about the Libyan Revolution and no idea whether his […]

Juan Cole

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GOPers Promise you War on Iran & Torture & Poverty

GOPers Promise you War on Iran & Torture & Poverty

Saturday’s Republican debate, sponsored by CBS and the National Journal, revealed a Republican field that is promising war on Iran and a revival of the […]

Juan Cole

Libya
No, that wasn’t an al-Qaeda Flag over Benghazi

No, that wasn’t an al-Qaeda Flag over Benghazi

I asked a Libyan scholar about the silly urban legend going around that an “al-Qaeda” flag flew from a government building in Benghazi recently. Here […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Arab League Sets Syria for Suspension

Arab League Sets Syria for Suspension

The Arab League initiated the suspension of Syria’s membership on Saturday, giving Damascus three days to cease shooting down Syrian demonstrators or else the country […]

Juan Cole

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Could Electronic Communication Cooperatives Protect Us?

Could Electronic Communication Cooperatives Protect Us?

Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a member of parliament in Iceland, has written a column in which she complains that the US Department of Justice asked Twitter to […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Pyramids Partially Closed in face of New Age “Threat”

Pyramids Partially Closed in face of New Age “Threat”

The Egyptian Antiquities authority partially closed the Pyramids to foreign tourists on Friday, in an attempt to prevent Western New Age groups from holding rituals […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
The Little Iran Nuclear Report that Couldn’t

The Little Iran Nuclear Report that Couldn’t

A key allegation in the IAEA report on Iranian nuclear activities has fallen apart. Gareth Porter has been able to use interviews and other material […]

Juan Cole

Tomgram: Juan Cole, Protesting a Pasha-the-Tiger World

Tomgram: Juan Cole, Protesting a Pasha-the-Tiger World

From Tunis to Tel Aviv, Madrid to Oakland, a new generation of youth activists is challenging the neoliberal state that has dominated the world ever since the Cold War ended.  The massive popular protests that shook the globe this year have …

Juan Cole

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