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Peacemaker or Pirate of the Caribbean? Trump Celebrates Murder on the Open Seas
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Peacemaker or Pirate of the Caribbean? Trump Celebrates Murder on the Open Seas

Dan Dinello

US forces hit the targeted boat once, then hit it again — the second strike vaporizing two shipwrecked survivors clinging to the wreckage

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Review of ‘Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Road to Power in Syria’

Review of ‘Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Road to Power in Syria’

12/11/2025 By Middle East Monitor

“If I must die”: Poetry from Gaza creates an alternative Archive of Testimony

“If I must die”: Poetry from Gaza creates an alternative Archive of Testimony

12/11/2025 By The Conversation

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Israel/Gaza Cyberwar and Parallels to Abu Ghraib

Israel/Gaza Cyberwar and Parallels to Abu Ghraib

SC magazine reports that Muslim and Israeli hackers have been going at each other in cyberspace, as an adjunct to the fighting in Gaza: ‘More […]

Juan Cole

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Israel/Gaza Cyberwar and Parallels to Abu Ghraib

Israel/Gaza Cyberwar and Parallels to Abu Ghraib

SC magazine reports that Muslim and Israeli hackers have been going at each other in cyberspace, as an adjunct to the fighting in Gaza: ‘More […]

Juan Cole

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"It's Hell in Here" "They are Bombing 1.5 million People in a Cage"

"It’s Hell in Here" "They are Bombing 1.5 million People in a Cage"

CBS News broadcasts an interview with a Norwegian physician on the scene in Gaza. He says he has seen one military casualty come into the […]

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"It's Hell in Here" "They are Bombing 1.5 million People in a Cage"

"It’s Hell in Here" "They are Bombing 1.5 million People in a Cage"

CBS News broadcasts an interview with a Norwegian physician on the scene in Gaza. He says he has seen one military casualty come into the […]

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Have Bush and the Neocons Ruined it for the Israelis?

Have Bush and the Neocons Ruined it for the Israelis?

The Israeli propaganda blitz around their attack on Gaza has been greeted with uncharacteristic skepticism by the American public and even by some of the […]

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Davidson Guest Op-Ed: "Whose Interest Defines National Interest?"

Davidson Guest Op-Ed: "Whose Interest Defines National Interest?"

Lawrence Davidson, author of Foreign Policy, Inc.: Privatizing America’s National Interest, writes in a guest op-ed for IC: Why is it that most Americans pay […]

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Unlikelihood of a Shiite-Majority Cabinet in Iraq: 1939

Unlikelihood of a Shiite-Majority Cabinet in Iraq: 1939

A little bit of irony from the British archives on Iraq. “Muhammad al-Sadr, the President of the Senate, is believed to aspire one day to […]

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Gaza 2008: Micro-Wars and Macro-Wars

Gaza 2008: Micro-Wars and Macro-Wars

With regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict, we have entered the age of micro-wars. The first wars that Israel fought with its Arab neighbors were conventional […]

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Israel Destroys American School in Gaza, Kills Guard

Israel Destroys American School in Gaza, Kills Guard

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports of Israel’s heavy artillery bombardment of densely populated Gaza on Saturday that “The American […]

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