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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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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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Zogby:  Arab Voices — Listening and Moving Beyond Myth

Zogby: Arab Voices — Listening and Moving Beyond Myth

James Zogby writes in a guest column for Informed Comment After decades spent trying to better explain the Arab World to other Americans, all too […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
The Rumors of Multiculturalism's death Are Exaggerated (Against Merkel)

The Rumors of Multiculturalism’s death Are Exaggerated (Against Merkel)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel over the weekend declared “multiculturalism” dead in her country and demanded that labor immigrants be assimilated, through German language and German […]

Juan Cole

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Cole on “Iran and Islam” at USIP Iran Primer

Cole on “Iran and Islam” at USIP Iran Primer

Iran commentary in the United States generates more heat than light for the most part, and much of it is frankly driven by ignorance. Veteran […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Recommended Reading at Tomdispatch.com

Recommended Reading at Tomdispatch.com

Tomdispatch.com has been on a tear in the past two weeks. From Bacevich on the US military as quagmire specialists to Pepe Escobar on central […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Clinton Cabinet Member Sought Iraq Provocation <br> But W. Himself Proposed Ruse

Clinton Cabinet Member Sought Iraq Provocation
But W. Himself Proposed Ruse

Retired Gen. Hugh Shelton reveals in his new book that in the late 1990s a Clinton cabinet member asked him if was possible to fly […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Thousands Demonstrate in Tel Aviv against Racist Loyalty Oath <br> Could the Netanyahu Government Fall over New Settlements?

Thousands Demonstrate in Tel Aviv against Racist Loyalty Oath
Could the Netanyahu Government Fall over New Settlements?

Several thousand Jews and Arabs marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest the loyalty oath recently approved by the Israeli cabinet, which would force […]

Juan Cole

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