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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between […]

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:”  FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

09/17/2025 By Juan Cole

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

09/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Iraq
Arab Press: Iraq Wikileaks will Damage US Reputation

Arab Press: Iraq Wikileaks will Damage US Reputation

Wikileaks’ publication of 400,000 pages of previously secret documents on the Iraq War is roiling Western capitals and Baghdad. Julian Assange maintains that some 15,000 […]

Juan Cole

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End Federal Tax Subsidies to Fox!

End Federal Tax Subsidies to Fox!

In response to Jim DeMint, Michelle Malkin, Bill O’Reilly, and other wingnuts who are calling for an end of Federal government support for National Public […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
Gul: Are Pakistan’s Generals Finally Breaking with Taliban?

Gul: Are Pakistan’s Generals Finally Breaking with Taliban?

Imtiaz Gul asks in a guest column for Informed Comment, “Is Kayani ready for North Waziristan mop-up?” When Pakistan’s army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
On Juan Williams' Firing for Islamophobia and how Most European Terrorism is by European Separatists

On Juan Williams’ Firing for Islamophobia and how Most European Terrorism is by European Separatists

A Europol report on terrorist attacks in Europe in 2009 [pdf] says that out of hundreds of terrorist attacks iin Europe in 2009, most were […]

Juan Cole

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Anzalone: Hamas’s Rhetoric as Spoiler

Anzalone: Hamas’s Rhetoric as Spoiler

Christopher Anzalone writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: On August 31, on the evening before new U.S.-backed Israeli-Palestinian National Authority (PNA) peace talks […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Taliban Torch Palestinian Girls' School, Destroy Olive Trees

Israeli Taliban Torch Palestinian Girls’ School, Destroy Olive Trees

The phrase “ethnic cleansing” conjures up a swift, comprehensive act of expulsion. But in reality, moving a large population off its land is the death […]

Juan Cole

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Carr: The Inquisitorial Gaze

Carr: The Inquisitorial Gaze

Matthew Carr writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: Until this year, Spain appeared to be relatively indifferent to the Islamophobic politics that have […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Alam:  Zionism: Two Deficits

Alam: Zionism: Two Deficits

M. Shahid Alam shares with us an excerpt from his recent book, Israeli Exceptionalism excerpted from the author’s Israeli Exceptionalism (Palgrave, 2009) “We do not […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Iran Backs al-Maliki, in Iran, for Iraqi PM

Iran Backs al-Maliki, in Iran, for Iraqi PM

Al-Hayat writes in Arabic that Iraqi caretaker Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki visited Iran on Monday, seeing Tehran’s support for his candidacy for a second term. […]

Juan Cole

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