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Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children
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Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That is […]

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

09/15/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

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The Israeli Government turns Screws on Haaretz Newspaper to Cease Critical Coverage of War

The Israeli Government turns Screws on Haaretz Newspaper to Cease Critical Coverage of War

By Colleen Murrell, Dublin City University | – The Israeli government is putting pressure on the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz to line up in support of […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Is it Time (Once Again) for Nonviolent Rebellion?  On Ending Dreams of Revenge in Israel, Palestine, and Elsewhere

Is it Time (Once Again) for Nonviolent Rebellion? On Ending Dreams of Revenge in Israel, Palestine, and Elsewhere

( Tomdispatch.com) – When I was in my early twenties, I seriously considered murdering someone. He had given my best friend genital herpes, which many […]

Rebecca Gordon

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The Gaza Crisis has Exposed the Bankruptcy of the UN and International Humanitarian Law, Threatening a Rules-Based Order

The Gaza Crisis has Exposed the Bankruptcy of the UN and International Humanitarian Law, Threatening a Rules-Based Order

Gaza has been enduring one of the most devastating massacres in this century. The Strip has been under blockade for two decades, and the world […]

Hilal Cibik

Foreign Policy
Iran and America: They weren’t Always Enemies

Iran and America: They weren’t Always Enemies

Review of Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Heroes to Hostages America and Iran, 1800–1988 (Cambridge U.P., 2023) When the subject of Iran and America comes to mind, two […]

Fariba Amini

Climate Crisis
COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the Oil Giant hosting 2023 Climate Change Summit

COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the Oil Giant hosting 2023 Climate Change Summit

By Emilie Rutledge, The Open University and Aiora Zabala, The Open University | – The United Arab Emirates (UAE), the world’s seventh largest oil producer, […]

The Conversation

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President Biden needs to Dump his War Hawks and Turn to Peace Work if he wants to Salvage his Presidency

President Biden needs to Dump his War Hawks and Turn to Peace Work if he wants to Salvage his Presidency

Grand Blanc, Mi. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – It has been clear since the horrid terror attack of October 7 by Hamas that President […]

Omer Abid

Climate Crisis
A Slow-Motion Gaza: Or how to Carbonize the Planet Earth

A Slow-Motion Gaza: Or how to Carbonize the Planet Earth

( Tomdispatch.com) – Imagine this: humanity in its time on Earth has already come up with two distinct ways of destroying this planet and everything […]

Tom Engelhardt

Israel/ Palestine
A Humanitarian Pause or a Surge in Human Rights Violations?

A Humanitarian Pause or a Surge in Human Rights Violations?

by Ramona Wadi ( Middle East Monitor ) – After much useless public debate over Israel’s alleged right to defend itself, the international community regained […]

Ramona Wadi

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Juan Cole: Infidel or Pagan? Understanding Kufr (كفر) in the Qur’an | Muhammad the Prophet of Peace

Juan Cole: Infidel or Pagan? Understanding Kufr (كفر) in the Qur’an | Muhammad the Prophet of Peace

Gabriel Said Reynolds of Notre Dame writes: “In this video I interview Professor Juan Cole, the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the […]

Juan Cole

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