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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 […]

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

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The “Defense” Department has always been about War

The “Defense” Department has always been about War

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Cobban And Cole Check Out Helena

Cobban And Cole Check Out Helena

Cobban and Cole Check out Helena Cobban’s “Just World News” for an account of our program together on Sunday in Ann Arbor on Iraq, and […]

Juan Cole

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Khameneis Conspiracy Theory Links Pope

Khameneis Conspiracy Theory Links Pope

Khamenei’s Conspiracy Theory Links Pope to Bush’s Crusade Kayhan reports in Persian on remarks of Supreme Jurisprudent Ali Khamenei of Iran on the Pope’s Regensburg […]

Juan Cole

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At Least 26 Dead In Kirkuk Bombings 32

At Least 26 Dead In Kirkuk Bombings 32

At least 26 Dead in Kirkuk Bombings 32 Bodies Found in Baghdad Early reports said that a massive truck bombing downtown Kirkuk killed 19 and […]

Juan Cole

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Pope:  Manuel II’s Views Of Muhammad Are Not my Own

Pope: Manuel II’s Views Of Muhammad Are Not my Own

Pope: Manuel II’s Views of Muhammad are not My Own Muslim Brotherhood Optimistic about end of Crisis Pope Benedict said on Sunday that the quote […]

Juan Cole

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Scholl Guest Editorial Response To

Scholl Guest Editorial Response To

Scholl Guest Editorial: Response to Amis Response to Amis Steven Scholl ‘In his Sept 10 op-ed piece for The Observer, Martin Amis provides what is […]

Juan Cole

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48 Bodies Found In Baghdad Us

48 Bodies Found In Baghdad Us

48 Bodies found in Baghdad US Officials Impatient with Maliki Paul Richter of the Los Angeles Times discusses the frustrations of American officials in Baghdad […]

Juan Cole

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Popes Non Apology Pope Stopped Short

Popes Non Apology Pope Stopped Short

The Pope’s non-Apology The Pope stopped short of an apology on Saturday. He did say he was sorry that Muslims took offense to his quotation […]

Juan Cole

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Popes Trip To Turkey In Doubt Protests

Popes Trip To Turkey In Doubt Protests

Pope’s Trip to Turkey in Doubt Protests Grow Turkish officials are becoming skittish about Pope Benedict XVI’s planned November trip to Turkey, an almost entirely […]

Juan Cole

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50 Bodies Found Baghdad Ditch Called

50 Bodies Found Baghdad Ditch Called

50 Bodies Found Baghdad Ditch called Impractical Brain injuries are the signature debility of wounded Iraq War vets. Reuters reports civil war violence in Iraq […]

Juan Cole

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