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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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Iraq Petroleum Production Suffocating

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Iraq Petroleum Production “Suffocating”: Bahr al-Ulum An informed observer writes: ‘ Reuters reports that “average exports in November fell to 1.21 million barrels a day […]

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Middle East And America In 2005 How

Middle East And America In 2005 How

The Middle East and America in 2005: How the Region Has Changed The Bush administration has several major policy goals in the Middle East, which […]

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International Team To Assess Elections

International Team To Assess Elections

International Team to Assess Elections Al-Hakim meets Talabani In Baghdad, , AP reports that the International Mission for Iraqi Elections will send a team of […]

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10 20 Dead In Failed Terrorist Prison

10 20 Dead In Failed Terrorist Prison

10-20 Dead in Failed Terrorist Prison Break Sunni Arabs Demonstrate Against Election Results in Samarra Prison guards killed between 4 and 16 inmates when some […]

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Kurds Plan To Seize Kirkuk Militarily

Kurds Plan To Seize Kirkuk Militarily

Kurds Plan to Seize Kirkuk Militarily: Knight Ridder Tom Lasseter of Knight Ridder reports that the Kurds have seeded 10,000 peshmerga militiamen into the Iraqi […]

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Over 10000 Sunnis Secularists March In

Over 10000 Sunnis Secularists March In

Over 10,000 Sunnis, Secularists March in Baghdad against Election Results; Al-Hakim meets Kurdish Leaders AP reports that in Iraq, over 10,000 mainly Sunni Arab demonstrators […]

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Top Ten Myths About Iraq In 2005 Iraq

Top Ten Myths About Iraq In 2005 Iraq

Top Ten Myths about Iraq in 2005 Iraq has unfortunately become a football in the rough and ready, two-party American political arena, generating large numbers […]

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Over 20 Dead 46 Wounded In Guerrilla

Over 20 Dead 46 Wounded In Guerrilla

Over 20 Dead, 46 Wounded in Guerrilla War; Governor of Diyala Wounded in Assassination Attempt Sunnis Threaten Boycott A wave of guerrilla bombings and apparently […]

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Shiites Sunnis Demonstrate Against One

Shiites Sunnis Demonstrate Against One

Shiites, Sunnis, Demonstrate Against one Another over Elections; Five Percent of Ballots Fraudulent: IECI According to Sabrina Tavernise of the New York Times, Sunni Arab […]

Juan Cole

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