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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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Iraq
Sadr Returns Triumphantly to Najaf

Sadr Returns Triumphantly to Najaf

Al-Zaman (The Times of Baghdad) writes in Arabic that Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Sadr Movement, returned on Wednesday to Najaf after 4 years […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Wikileaks: Israelis ‘Intend to Keep the Gazan Economy on the Brink of Collapse’

Wikileaks: Israelis ‘Intend to Keep the Gazan Economy on the Brink of Collapse’

The Norwegian newspaper Aftenpost has released a March, 2008, US embassy cable describing the Israeli blockade and siege of Occupied Gaza as an attempt to […]

Juan Cole

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Reagan gave Medicare the Tea Party Treatment

Reagan gave Medicare the Tea Party Treatment

2011: GOP pledges to repeal Health Care as socialist plot, on behalf of big Pharma. 1961: Ronald Reagan attacks Medicare as socialist plot, on behalf […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Calls for Peace, Tolerance in Cairo

Calls for Peace, Tolerance in Cairo

Hundreds of Christians peacefully marched on Tuesday evening to a cathedral in Cairo, protesting the New Year’s Day bombing of the Church of Two Saints […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
Death of Pakistani Progressivism?

Death of Pakistani Progressivism?

Salman Tasir, the governor of Punjab Province in Pakistan, was assassinated by one of his own guards Tuesday, allegedly for his desire to repeal Pakistan’s […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Wrong Again, Sen. Graham:  Cole in Truthdig

Wrong Again, Sen. Graham: Cole in Truthdig

My column is just out in Truthdig, entitled “Wrong Again, Sen. Graham,” on the South Carolina senator’s modest proposal to keep two big American air […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Women enlist as Fighters in Gaza

Women enlist as Fighters in Gaza

CNN reports on a handful of militant women in Gaza who have joined the radical al-Nasir Salahuddin Brigades and gained training as guerrillas. The women […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Taliban Getting Stronger, As US Public Support for Afghanistan War Collapses

Taliban Getting Stronger, As US Public Support for Afghanistan War Collapses

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is getting weaker over time, and the Taliban are getting stronger, according to Jessica Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment for […]

Juan Cole

Environment
5000 Birds fall out of Sky in Arkansas

5000 Birds fall out of Sky in Arkansas

An environmental mystery: The blogosphere is abuzz about the mystery of thousands of birds falling out of the sky in Arkansas. Such things happen sometimes […]

Juan Cole

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