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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

09/24/2025 By Middle East Studies Association

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Cameron Plans changed by RPG Threat; <br/> Taliban Resurge in Helmand

Cameron Plans changed by RPG Threat;
Taliban Resurge in Helmand

British Prime Minister David Cameron was forced to abandon a planned visit to a military base in Helmand, Afghanistan during his trip to that country […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza Humanitarian Workers Release Video

Gaza Humanitarian Workers Release Video

Democracy Now! interviews Iara Lee about the video she managed to get past Israeli jamming, from the Israeli raid on the Mavi Marmara aid ship […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Colbert:  Palestinians Should Go Back where they Came From

Colbert: Palestinians Should Go Back where they Came From

Stephen Colbert, who parodies rightwing t.v. pundits, debates himself on the Israeli assault on the Gaza aid flotilla and tells the Israeli ambassador to the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Video Shows Israeli Commando Executing American

Video Shows Israeli Commando Executing American

Update: Paul Woodward has discovered an earlier video posted to the Web from which the following was apparently culled, via what he calls ‘creative editing.’ […]

Juan Cole

Environment
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BP Spills Coffee

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Israel’s Gift to Iran’s Hardliners: <br/> Cole at Tomdispatch

Israel’s Gift to Iran’s Hardliners:
Cole at Tomdispatch

My essay on the anniversary of the protests in Iran and the ways in which Israeli and US Mideast policy has strengthened the hard liners […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
40 Killed in Afghan Wedding Bombing; <br/> 4 US Troops killed in Helicopter Downing

40 Killed in Afghan Wedding Bombing;
4 US Troops killed in Helicopter Downing

A wedding in Nagaan in Qandahar province was bombed on Wednesday, killing at least 40 persons and wounding at least 70. The new violence comes […]

Juan Cole

Islam
A Sign of Modernization: Saudi Clerics Promote Kinship by Sharing Breast Milk

A Sign of Modernization: Saudi Clerics Promote Kinship by Sharing Breast Milk

Two Saudi clerics have followed an Egyptian one in advocating breast-milk feeding as a way of establishing kinship between men and women, which would then […]

Juan Cole

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Mystery of Iranian Nuclear Scientist and the Duelling YouTube Videos

Mystery of Iranian Nuclear Scientist and the Duelling YouTube Videos

Aljazeera English reports on the two contradictory videos that have surfaced, in one of which Dr. Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist, maintains that he […]

Juan Cole

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