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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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Repubs Plot Israel-Iran Apocalypse and the Collapse of the US Economy

Repubs Plot Israel-Iran Apocalypse and the Collapse of the US Economy

Jamal Abdi at HuffPo explains that almost a third of Republicans in the House have signed on to a resolution urging Israel to attack Iran. […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Civilian Casualties are Causing the War in the First Place: Rethinking Afghanistan, Pt. 4

Civilian Casualties are Causing the War in the First Place: Rethinking Afghanistan, Pt. 4

Part Four of Rethinking Afghanistan, directed by Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films, covering the issue of civilian casualties. A new study by America’s National […]

Juan Cole

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The Israel Lobbies and Breitbartism: Dirty Tricks, Taboos and the threat to American Democracy

The Israel Lobbies and Breitbartism: Dirty Tricks, Taboos and the threat to American Democracy

Phil Weiss notes that another of the Dirty Tricks divisions of the Israel lobbies in the US, CAMERA, has denounced CNN´s Ben Wedeman for retweeting […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
The $1 Trillion Cost of War:  Rethinking Afghanistan, Pt. 3

The $1 Trillion Cost of War: Rethinking Afghanistan, Pt. 3

Part 3 of Rethinking Afghanistan— on the cost of the war– directed by Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films. The wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Court Punishes Palestinian-Israeli for Passing

Israeli Court Punishes Palestinian-Israeli for Passing

The conviction in Israel of a Palestinian-Israeli man on rape charges because he had consensual sex with an Israeli woman who thought he was Jewish […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Pakistan:  Rethinking Afghanistan, Pt. 2

Pakistan: Rethinking Afghanistan, Pt. 2

Rethinking Afghanistan, Pt. 2, directed by Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films, treats the issue of the Taliban havens in northwest Pakistan and the use […]

Juan Cole

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Beck Subtext: Obama Planning to Assassinate Tea Partiers

Beck Subtext: Obama Planning to Assassinate Tea Partiers

Media Matters and Fair, day in, day out do an excellent job of refuting the often incorrect assertions made on Fox Cable News, which is […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Rethinking Rethinking Afghanistan, Pt. 1

Rethinking Rethinking Afghanistan, Pt. 1

In honor of Tuesday’s major donor’s conference in Afghanistan, Informed Comment is beginning a series of reposts of the classic six-part documentary, Rethink Afghanistan by […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Advice for General Petraeus on the Rules of Engagement:<br/> It’s Neither/Nor, Not Either/Or

Advice for General Petraeus on the Rules of Engagement:
It’s Neither/Nor, Not Either/Or

Tom Engelhardt, author of the recently-published The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s (Haymarket Books, July 2010) and editor of Tomdispatch.com, writes […]

Juan Cole

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