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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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Arab League Troops For Iraq Al Hakim

Arab League Troops For Iraq Al Hakim

Arab League Troops for Iraq? Al-Hakim Rejects Tyranny of the Minority Rumors are flying in Cairo that the US is asking Arab countries to send […]

Juan Cole

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Strike In Pakistan Fails Pakistan

Strike In Pakistan Fails Pakistan

Strike in Pakistan Fails Pakistan Demands Apology Ooops. The bombing of a village in northern Paksitan, apparently done in hopes of killing al-Qaeda #2 Ayman […]

Juan Cole

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Us Helicopter Shot Down Sunni Arabs

Us Helicopter Shot Down Sunni Arabs

US Helicopter Shot Down Sunni Arabs Cannot Block Formation of Government Guerrillas north of Mosul engaged Iraqi police in a firefight. When a US helicopter […]

Juan Cole

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Bush And Caliphate Karl Vick Of

Bush And Caliphate Karl Vick Of

Bush and the Caliphate Karl Vick of the Washington Post does his readers an enormous favor by explaining the idea of the Sunni Muslim caliphate, […]

Juan Cole

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Us Strike On Al Qaeda Safe House On

Us Strike On Al Qaeda Safe House On

US Strike on al-Qaeda Safe House on Afghanistan Border ABC News is reporting that a US air strike on a village at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border […]

Juan Cole

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Sunnis Insist On Trying To Change

Sunnis Insist On Trying To Change

Sunnis Insist on Trying to Change Constitution US Military Torture Investigations cut Short Only Agence France Presse among Western news agencies carries the Sunni Arab […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq Bloggers Souring Sheldon Rampton

Iraq Bloggers Souring Sheldon Rampton

Iraq Bloggers Souring? Sheldon Rampton of The Center for Media & Democracy kindly writes: “In case this hasn’t crossed your viewfinder, you might want to […]

Juan Cole

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Sharon As Jailer Cole At Salon

Sharon As Jailer Cole At Salon

Sharon as Jailer: Cole at Salon.com My article on Ariel Sharon’s “gated community” approach to Israeli-Palestinian relations is out at Salon.com. Excerpt: “Even as Israeli […]

Juan Cole

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British General Blasts Us Military On

British General Blasts Us Military On

British General Blasts US Military on Iraq Counter-Insurgency Brigadier Nigel Aylwin-Foster has a trenchant critique of the US military’s failures at counter-insurgency and doing ordinary […]

Juan Cole

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