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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

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

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

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Protesting LA Public Library’s Cancellation of “Read Palestine” Week, Uninviting Authors

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Saudi Tsunami Fundraising Drive Raises over $30 million in First Day Saudi Arabia Television held a fundraising drive for the victims of the tsunami and […]

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Mysterious Us Strike In Irbil

Mysterious Us Strike In Irbil

Mysterious US strike in Irbil Condemned by Kurds The US military appears to have become convinced that Ansar al-Sunnah, a breakaway group from the largely […]

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Murphy Sunnis Not Registered Dan

Murphy: Sunnis not Registered Dan Murphy of the Christian Science Monitor reports from Baghdad that many Sunni Arab families in Iraq are not registered to […]

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Car Bomb At Hilla Police Academy Kills

Car Bomb at Hilla Police Academy Kills at Least 20 Guerrillas detonated a car bomb outside a police academy in Hilla, a city of 500,000, […]

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Baghdad Governor 6 Bodyguards

Baghdad Governor 6 Bodyguards

Baghdad Governor, 6 Bodyguards Assassinated 5 US Troops, 10 Iraqi Commandoes also Killed The pro-American governor of Baghdad and his convoy were ambushed on Tuesday […]

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Downsides Of Partitioning Iraq Some

Downsides Of Partitioning Iraq Some

Downsides of Partitioning Iraq Some readers asked me why I was so against partitioning Iraq. It is because it would cause a great deal of […]

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Carnage Continues With 27 Dead

Carnage Continues With 27 Dead

Carnage continues With 27 Dead Bombings and assassinations resulted in at least 27 deaths in Iraq on Monday. Not only was a bomb exploded outside […]

Juan Cole

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2 Killed 14 Wounded At Allawi Party Hq

2 Killed 14 Wounded At Allawi Party Hq

2 Killed, 14 Wounded at Allawi Party HQ Wire services and Lebanese Broadcasting Channel were reporting early Monday morning that guerrillas had detonated a car […]

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Middle Eastern Contributions To

Middle Eastern Contributions To

Middle Eastern Contributions to Tsunamic Relief in Context Someone on an email list drew my attention to the following exchange from last week, with Tucker […]

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