Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2025 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

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

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

More Stories

Uncategorized
Hamas Crushes Islamist Group in Gaza

Hamas Crushes Islamist Group in Gaza

Some 22 militants died in fighting in Gaza between Hamas and the Army of God’s Helpers on Friday, the latter being a radical fundamentalist cult […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
American Grassroots Diplomacy in Damascus

American Grassroots Diplomacy in Damascus

Check out this blog of an interesting experiment in American public diplomacy in Syria: “The American MidEast Leadership Network’s (AMLN’s) Virtual Scrapbook is an online […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
7 Killed, 91 Wounded in Suicide Bombing at NATO HQ in Kabul

7 Killed, 91 Wounded in Suicide Bombing at NATO HQ in Kabul

A suicide bomber penetrated several rings of security in Kabul and detonated his payload outside NATO headquarters next to the American Embassy, killing 7 persons […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Epic Fail: Time Magazine on Uselessness of Exercise for Weight Loss

Epic Fail: Time Magazine on Uselessness of Exercise for Weight Loss

I am sure they are smart people, but every once in a while the journalists working for the mainstream media deliver themselves of the opinion […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Twin Bombings Kill 21 Yazidis; Al-Maliki Seeking ‘Nationalist’ Coalition

Twin Bombings Kill 21 Yazidis; Al-Maliki Seeking ‘Nationalist’ Coalition

Two suicide bombers hit a cafe in the Yazidi town of Sinjar, Iraq, on Thursday, killing at least 21 persons and wounded many more. The […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Cheney shoots W. in the Face with Memoirs

Cheney shoots W. in the Face with Memoirs

Former VP Richard Bruce Cheney says he will air his dissatisfactions with George W. Bush’s policies, especially in the second term when Cheney feels he […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
4 NATO Troops Killed; Assassination attempt on Rabbani Fails; 50,000 Greet Abdullah in Mazar

4 NATO Troops Killed; Assassination attempt on Rabbani Fails; 50,000 Greet Abdullah in Mazar

Four NATO troops, including one American and three Britons, were killed in Afghanistan on Thursday. The American was killed by small arms fire. The three […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
70 Killed in Taliban / Bhittani Clashes in Pakistan; US Soldier Killed in Afghanistan; Abdullah Pledges Negotiations with Militants

70 Killed in Taliban / Bhittani Clashes in Pakistan; US Soldier Killed in Afghanistan; Abdullah Pledges Negotiations with Militants

Pakistani Taliban loyal to slain leader Baitullah Mahsud attacked the forces of Baitullah’s former supporter turned enemy, Turkistan Bhittani in the frontier region of Jandola. […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Who Benefits from Israel's Colonization of the West Bank?

Who Benefits from Israel’s Colonization of the West Bank?

The Real News Network asks and answers the question of who, exactly, benefits economically from the Israeli colonization of the West Bank. See also Lamia […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2350
  • Page 2351
  • Page 2352
  • Page 2353
  • Page 2354
  • …
  • Page 3027
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Featured

France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza’s Mass Graves

H. Scott Prosterman

Omar Khayyam

“Look to the Rose:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:13

Juan Cole

Islamophobia

52 Ways to Combat Malignant Hatred of Muslims

The Conversation

censorship

Protesting Claremont Colleges Library Censorship of “Policing Palestine”

Committee on Academic Freedom

Popular

  • Scientists Prove Justinian's Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis
  • Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar's strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance
  • The 21st Century has a before and after Gaza: Brazilian Author Frei Betto,
  • Israel's Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children
  • Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved