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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza
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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza

Dan Steinbock

Bezazel Smotrich is one of political leaders of Israel’s Messianic far-right. But he is also a shrewd administrator executing a biblical “decisive plan” of ethnic […]

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

09/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

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The Great Reagan Pyramid Scheme Comes Crashing Down

The Great Reagan Pyramid Scheme Comes Crashing Down

The Republican Party that Nixon invented melded the moneyed classes of the Northeast with the white evangelicals of the South. This odd couple went on […]

Juan Cole

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NIE: Pakistan on Brink

NIE: Pakistan on Brink

The new National Intelligence Estimate on Pakistan will apparently depict that country as ‘on the edge,’ with ‘no money, no energy, no government.’ The fear […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Church Bombed in Mosul; Christian Leaders Protest Gov't Unconcern; Sadrists Show Support for Christians

Church Bombed in Mosul; Christian Leaders Protest Gov’t Unconcern; Sadrists Show Support for Christians

A church in the northern metropolis of was bombed in Mosul on Tuesday, as Christian leaders accused the government of PM Nuri al-Maliki of minimizing […]

Juan Cole

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Daughter of Mossad Chief Jailed for being a Conscientious Objector

Daughter of Mossad Chief Jailed for being a Conscientious Objector

Omer Goldman, daughter of a former head of the Israeli intelligence organization, Mossad, has gone to jail as a conscientious objector. She visited the West […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Hashimi: Security Agreement in Doubt; UN Worries about Iraqi Christians; Physicians Close Clinics in Karbala

Hashimi: Security Agreement in Doubt; UN Worries about Iraqi Christians; Physicians Close Clinics in Karbala

The UN is concerned about the continued flight of Christians from the northern metropolis of Mosul. Sunni radicals are targeting them and several have been […]

Juan Cole

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Guantanamo Counsel Resigns in Disgust

Guantanamo Counsel Resigns in Disgust

Lt. Col. Darrel J. Vandeveld resigned from the military commissions tribunals at Guantanamo convinced that the system denies defense attorneys exculpatory evidence that the government […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
1000 Policemen Sent to guard Christians of Mosul; Turkish War Planes Strike Again

1000 Policemen Sent to guard Christians of Mosul; Turkish War Planes Strike Again

Turkish war planes again bombed positions in northern Iraq where guerrillas of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) were thought to be holedup. Iraqi authorities ordered […]

Juan Cole

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Polk: Iran falling into the “net” of a “worldwide policy”: On the U.S. Foreign Policy Doctrine and Its Dangers

Polk: Iran falling into the “net” of a “worldwide policy”: On the U.S. Foreign Policy Doctrine and Its Dangers

Ali Fathollah-Nejad interviews veteran Middle East Expert William R.Polk on United States foreign policy toward Iran: Iran falling into the “net” of a “worldwide policy”: […]

Juan Cole

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Zogby: I am an Arab and a Decent Man

Zogby: I am an Arab and a Decent Man

James Zogby: :John McCain: I Am an Arab and a Decent Man”: ‘ We are disturbed by the degree to which ‘Arab’ has become the […]

Juan Cole

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