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17,000 Unaccompanied Orphans in Gaza, in World’s Biggest Orphan Crisis
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17,000 Unaccompanied Orphans in Gaza, in World’s Biggest Orphan Crisis

Juan Cole

The reason Gaza has this monstrous number of orphans is that the Israeli government killed their parents, including their mothers

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Trump’s Plan for Strikes on Iran carries major Risks – and the US Military knows it

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Kashmir Earthquake Victims Tens of thousands of earthquake victims in Pakistani Kashmir are facing winter with inadequate shelter, medicine and food. John Walbridge of Indiana […]

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Iraqi Elections Post Election

Iraqi Elections: Post-Election Coalition Possibilities An informed reader writes: ‘ “Moreover, a group of Sadrists, the Messengers, ran separately from the UIA in the south […]

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Guest Editorial By Fisher State Dept

Guest Editorial by Fisher: State Dept. Replaces DoD in Iraq IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION: STATE IN, PENTAGON OUT By William Fisher After a thousand days of widely […]

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Sunnis Seek Negotiations With Shiite

Sunnis Seek Negotiations with Shiite Parties Saddam says Americans Lied Saddam Hussein took advantage of being before the cameras again on Thursday to engage in […]

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Iraq Update Bulgaria and the Ukraine began their pull-out of troops from Iraq. For real news, go to the San Francisco Chronicle. Robert Scheer points […]

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Republic If You Can Keep It Congress

A Republic, If you Can Keep It Congress has banned harsh treatment of terrorism suspects in US custody and demanded a quarterly report on such […]

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Shiite Religious Parties Dominate 10

Shiite Religious Parties dominate 10 of 18 Provinces Talabani calls for Government of National Unity The Los Angeles Times reports that the secular Iraqiya list […]

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Fundamentalist Shiites Will Dominate

Fundamentalist Shiites Will Dominate

Fundamentalist Shiites Will Dominate New Parliament Secularists Lose Badly Bush Poll Numbers on Iraq Fall The American public is not in a mood to be […]

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Arato Guest Editorial On Election

Arato Guest Editorial on the Election Election, Government Formation and the Question of Historic Compromise in Iraq Andrew Arato “In the midst of the great […]

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