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Netanyahu Says he’s making Israel a “Sparta:” He means a global Pariah State
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Netanyahu Says he’s making Israel a “Sparta:” He means a global Pariah State

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to position Israel as the modern day Sparta, and to sell […]

Israel’s Gaza City Invasion: Forced Migration and Hospitals Besieged and Bombed

Israel’s Gaza City Invasion: Forced Migration and Hospitals Besieged and Bombed

09/23/2025 By International Middle East Media Center

UK, France and other Western Nations recognize Palestinian State  – but symbolic Action won’t make Statehood happen

UK, France and other Western Nations recognize Palestinian State – but symbolic Action won’t make Statehood happen

09/23/2025 By The Conversation

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Amr: Official Egyptian Press Tall Tales about the Protesters

Amr: Official Egyptian Press Tall Tales about the Protesters

Ahmed Amr writes from Egypt in a guest column for Informed Comment The campaign against the Egyptian protest movement by Egyptian officialdom, has been two-pronged. […]

Juan Cole

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Egypt:  I ask Myself Why

Egypt: I ask Myself Why

I ask myself why. Why would authorities in a European county like Switzerland entertain the idea of trying George W. Bush for torture if he […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
5 Year Old Child Heads Demo in Alexandria Egypt

5 Year Old Child Heads Demo in Alexandria Egypt

5 Year Old Child Heads Million Strong Demo in Alexandria Egypt He is chanting about freedom, the nation, the need for the regime of Hosni […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Top Ten Accomplishments of Egypt Demonstrators

Top Ten Accomplishments of Egypt Demonstrators

The protest movement in Egypt scored several victories on Friday, but did not actually succeed in getting President Hosni Mubarak to step down. Their accomplishments […]

Juan Cole

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Cunningham: Every Uprising is Different

Cunningham: Every Uprising is Different

Philip J Cunningham writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Every uprising is different. But given shared human strengths and weaknesses, the dynamics of […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Repression Fails as Thousands Demand Mubarak Departure

Repression Fails as Thousands Demand Mubarak Departure

Anti-Mubarak Egyptians prepared themselves on Friday for a major campaign of street protests that they are calling not another “Day of Wrath” but rather a […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Mubarak Defies a Humiliated America, Emulating Netanyahu

Mubarak Defies a Humiliated America, Emulating Netanyahu

It should be remembered that Egypt’s elite of multi-millionaires has benefited enormously from its set of corrupt bargains with the US and Israel and from […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Mubarak's Basij

Mubarak’s Basij

On Wednesday, the Mubarak regime showed its fangs, mounting a massive and violent repressive attack on the peaceful crowds in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo. […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Why Egypt 2011 is not Iran 1979

Why Egypt 2011 is not Iran 1979

Alarms have been raised by those observing the popular uprising in Egypt that, while it is not itself a Muslim fundamentalist movement, the Muslim fundamentalists […]

Juan Cole

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