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Netanyahu Says he’s making Israel a “Sparta:” He means a global Pariah State
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Netanyahu Says he’s making Israel a “Sparta:” He means a global Pariah State

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to position Israel as the modern day Sparta, and to sell […]

Israel’s Gaza City Invasion: Forced Migration and Hospitals Besieged and Bombed

Israel’s Gaza City Invasion: Forced Migration and Hospitals Besieged and Bombed

09/23/2025 By International Middle East Media Center

UK, France and other Western Nations recognize Palestinian State  – but symbolic Action won’t make Statehood happen

UK, France and other Western Nations recognize Palestinian State – but symbolic Action won’t make Statehood happen

09/23/2025 By The Conversation

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Cole and Clemons on the Middle East: Bloggingheads

Cole and Clemons on the Middle East: Bloggingheads

See my discussion at bloggingheads.tv of contemporary Middle East issues with Steve Clemons of the Washington Note blog.

Juan Cole

Iraq
US Soldier Killed; US Second to Eurozone;

US Soldier Killed; US Second to Eurozone;

I can still remember, as a child, the other children on the playground boasting that the US was the greatest country in the world, and […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Reflections on Petraeus’s Comments On lack of Political Progress

Reflections on Petraeus’s Comments On lack of Political Progress

General David Petraeus is quoted in WaPo as saying that no one, American or Iraqi, thinks that there has been sufficient political progress in light […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Bomber Kills 18, Wounds 64; Archbishop Found Dead; Mahdi Army at Kut Shells US Base

Bomber Kills 18, Wounds 64; Archbishop Found Dead; Mahdi Army at Kut Shells US Base

A suicide bomber in a BMW killed 18 Iraqis in Baghdad on Thursday and wounded 64. With regard to yet another tragedy on Thursday, The […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Iraq: $3 Trillion War

Iraq: $3 Trillion War

Aljazeera English on the $3 Trillion War in Iraq, as argued by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and his co-author Linda J. Bilmes. Note […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
15 US Troops Killed Since Sunday; McCain more Hawkish than Bush

15 US Troops Killed Since Sunday; McCain more Hawkish than Bush

Guerrillas fired rockets at a US base south of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 3 US soldiers and wounding 2. An Iraqi civilian was also wounded. […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Wave of Violence in Iraq Kills 62; March sees Spike in Violence; Is Fallon Fall Guy for McCain?

Wave of Violence in Iraq Kills 62; March sees Spike in Violence; Is Fallon Fall Guy for McCain?

AP reports that political violence left 42 dead across Iraq on Tuesday, including the bombing of a bus near Nasiriya in the south. Actually, McClatchy […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
8 US Troops Killed; Bombings in Baghdad, Baladruz, Sulyamaniya; Pentagon: No Saddam-al-Qaeda Ties

8 US Troops Killed; Bombings in Baghdad, Baladruz, Sulyamaniya; Pentagon: No Saddam-al-Qaeda Ties

Sunni Arab Iraqi guerrillas launched a four-pronged attack on their enemies on Monday. They killed eight US troops in two separate bombings, one in the […]

Juan Cole

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1799: French Pillage Palestinians

1799: French Pillage Palestinians

At the Napoleon’s Egypt blog, Gen. Berthier describes how the French, having failed to take the fortress at Acre, destroy the city’s aqueduct in revenge […]

Juan Cole

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