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Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank
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Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank

Mohammed Samaana

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; feature) – As a native Palestinian, visiting my homeland is not just about seeing family and friends. It’s also about […]

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

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Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

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Wikileaks on Hiding the War; and, American Security?  Rethinking Afghanistan Pt. 6

Wikileaks on Hiding the War; and, American Security? Rethinking Afghanistan Pt. 6

The Taliban now claim that they killed one US sailor and captured another in Logar Province as the US mounts a massive manhunt for the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Jahanpour: Iran, Turkey and Israel: New Global Realities

Jahanpour: Iran, Turkey and Israel: New Global Realities

Farhang Jahanpour writes in a guest editorial for Informed Comment : Iran, Turkey and Israel: New Global Realities Ten years ago this month (11 July […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Women of Afghanistan: Rethink Afghanistan, Part 5

Women of Afghanistan: Rethink Afghanistan, Part 5

Rethink Afghanistan, pt. 5, directed by Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films, covers women’s issues. Recent news on this front: On Saturday it became clear […]

Juan Cole

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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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