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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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Outbreak of Armed Conflict in Kirkuk Feared

Outbreak of Armed Conflict in Kirkuk Feared

Outbreak of armed conflict in Kirkuk feared. Fighting between Russia, Georgia risks wider war. Iraq will try to ensure that its army is “self-sufficient” by […]

Juan Cole

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Ali-Karamali: Of Documentaries and Dehumanization

Ali-Karamali: Of Documentaries and Dehumanization

Sumbul Ali-Karamali writes in a guest op-ed for IC: A lazy way to dismiss conflicts as hopeless is to characterize (usually erroneously) the disputing parties […]

Juan Cole

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Al-Iraqiyah: Arab-Kurdish Polemics over the Oil City of Kirkuk

Al-Iraqiyah: Arab-Kurdish Polemics over the Oil City of Kirkuk

BBC Monitoring carries a translation of a discussion of the Kirkuk crisis on al-Iraqiyah televisions between a Kurdish and an Arab member of parliament.: August […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
2000 Georgian Troops Leaving; Huge Blast at Tal Afar Kills 21; Arab-Kurdish Tensions in Kirkuk; Mahdi Army to Disarm if US Leaves

2000 Georgian Troops Leaving; Huge Blast at Tal Afar Kills 21; Arab-Kurdish Tensions in Kirkuk; Mahdi Army to Disarm if US Leaves

A huge bomb blast in the northern Turkmen city of Tal Afar killed 21 and wounded 70 on Friday. Tal Afar has been taken over […]

Juan Cole

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Kwame Trumps Georgian War

Kwame Trumps Georgian War

These are the top three stories at google.news at 3:00 pm on Friday, generated by reader interest. Wouldn’t, like, war in the Caucasus be more […]

Juan Cole

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InformationClearingHouse Web Owner Threatened

InformationClearingHouse Web Owner Threatened

Are armed thugs threatening owners of progressive anti-war web sites in the United States? Tom Feeley who runs InformationClearingHouse.info says he and his family are […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Plight of Iraqi Refugees

Plight of Iraqi Refugees

The US has virtually ignored the 4.7 million Iraqis displaced by its illegal war in Iraq and its after-effects. In an honest republic, this issue […]

Juan Cole

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Crisis in Pakistan: Articles of Impeachment against Musharraf

Crisis in Pakistan: Articles of Impeachment against Musharraf

President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan has decided to fight the articles of impeachment introduced against him in the parliament by the ruling coalition of the […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
SOFA Near to Agreement?; US Combat Troops out by end of 2010? Kurds Unify Peshmerga, Surround Kirkuk

SOFA Near to Agreement?; US Combat Troops out by end of 2010? Kurds Unify Peshmerga, Surround Kirkuk

US out of Iraq at end of 2010? McClatchy reports that two high Iraqi officials are leaking details of an “almost completed” security agreement between […]

Juan Cole

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