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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 […]

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

09/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

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Suicide Bomber Kills 9, Wounds 39 Outside Home of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim A carbomber detonated his payload Monday morning outside the home in Baghdad of […]

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How To Save Iraqi Elections Reprint

How to Save the Iraqi Elections (Reprint Edition) The following piece appeared in the Detroit News in early December: Sunday, December 5, 2004 Bush policies […]

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Iraqthemodel On December 12 Just

IraqTheModel On December 12, just before I went off to Japan on a trip, I drew attention to a web log entry by Joseph Mailander […]

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Bombings and Assassinations Mar Christmas Day in Iraq Douglas Ireland of the LA Weekly has a fine piece on the problems with the coverage of […]

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Study Of Arabic In Us Harry Levins Of

Study of Arabic in the US Harry Levins of the St. Louis Post Dispatch has an interesting article on the lack of Arabic speakers in […]

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Hiding Christmas In Iraq Us Christian

Hiding Christmas in Iraq The US Christian Right has been loudly complaining about the alleged exclusion of Christmas from the US public sphere. (There isn’t […]

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At Least 30 Killed, Dozens Wounded in Iraq Violence AFP and other wire services report that violence in Iraq on Friday killed at least 30 […]

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Radical Militants On Planet Al Qaeda

Radical Militants on Planet al-Qaeda Wanted Bush to Win US Election Georges Malbrunot, one of two French journalists recently released by radical Muslim fundamentalists in […]

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Four US Troops Killed Guerrillas in al-Anbar province killed 3 Marines on Thursday. In Baghdad, guerrillas used a roadside bomb to kill one US soldier […]

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