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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 […]

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

09/24/2025 By Juan Cole

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

09/24/2025 By Middle East Studies Association

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Civil War Violence Leaves 60 Dead Over

Civil War Violence Leaves 60 Dead Over

Civil War Violence Leaves 60 Dead over 100 Wounded 130,000 Displaced in Past 4 Months Bombings and other civil war violence took the lives of […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqi Petroleum Exports Up 25 Killed

Iraqi Petroleum Exports Up 25 Killed

Iraqi Petroleum Exports up 25 killed in Civil War Violence Borzou Daragahi of the LA Times reports severe doubts about PM Maliki’s reconciliation plan in […]

Juan Cole

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23 Killed In Renewed

23 Killed In Renewed

23 Killed in Renewed ViolenceReconciliation Plan to be Unveiled US troops had briefly arrested, then released, Shaikh Jamal Abdul Karim al-Dabaan. He is the chief […]

Juan Cole

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Militias Oppressing Iraqi Women Usg

Militias Oppressing Iraqi Women Usg

Militias Oppressing Iraqi Women The USG Open Source Center translates an article about the oppression of women in the new Iraq. Woman’s Rights Observatory on […]

Juan Cole

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Bombings In Basra Hibhib Kill At Least

Bombings In Basra Hibhib Kill At Least

Bombings in Basra, Hibhib kill at least 20 Ayman al-Zawahiri, the number 2 man in al-Qaeda, released a video Friday in which he pledged that […]

Juan Cole

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Cair Miami Cult Not Muslims I Just Saw

Cair Miami Cult Not Muslims I Just Saw

CAIR: Miami Cult not Muslims I just saw the spokesman for the Council on American Islamic Relations on CNN saying that the Miami cult members […]

Juan Cole

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Senate Rejects Withdrawal Bombings In

Senate Rejects Withdrawal Bombings In

Senate rejects Withdrawal Bombings in Basra, Baghdad, Diyala 25 Executed at Mosul 53% of Americans want a timetable for a phased withdrawal of troops from […]

Juan Cole

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Press Access To Internet Being

Press Access To Internet Being

Press Access to Internet being Censored Journalists at the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere are suffering a loss of internet access as a result of […]

Juan Cole

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Western Soldiers Writing From Iraq

Western Soldiers Writing From Iraq

Western Soldiers writing from Iraq, Then and Now War Post shares letters of soldiers in Iraq back home, from two historical periods. Some letters are […]

Juan Cole

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