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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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Telecom contracts Under Suspicion of Graft The Financial Times says that the Pentagon is investigating the interim Iraqi minister of communications and two officials of […]

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Poor Us Military Intelligence In Iraq

Poor US Military Intelligence in Iraq The Associated Press did a story on Friday on the US military’s lack of good human intelligence skills and […]

Juan Cole

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Al Hakim Faults Plan For Transition To

Al Hakim Faults Plan For Transition To

Al-Hakim Faults Plan for Transition to Sovereignty Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq and a member of the […]

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Powerful Explosions Rip Through

Powerful Explosions Rip Through

Powerful Explosions Rip through Palestine, Sheraton Hotels Guerrillas fired rockets into the Palestine Hotel and the Sheraton in downtown Baghdad on Thursday. Several persons were […]

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Gunmen Trade Fire With Guards Of Japans

Gunmen trade fire with Guards of Japan’s Embassy Gunmen began firing on Wednesday night near the Japanese embassy in Baghdad. The embassy guards got into […]

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Khafaji Added To Igc Salma Al Khafaji

Khafaji Added To Igc Salma Al Khafaji

Khafaji added to IGC Salma al-Khafaji has been added to the Interim Governing Council, succeeding the slain Aqilah al-Hashimi, who was assassinated. Al-Khafaji is a […]

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Season Of Bombs 8 People Killed In Iraq

Season Of Bombs 8 People Killed In Iraq

Season of Bombs The 8 people killed in Iraq since Wednesday by various guerrilla bombings and attacks are dwarfed by the disaster in Istanbul. A […]

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Vatican Denounces Islamist Attacks On

Vatican Denounces Islamist Attacks On

Vatican Denounces Islamist Attacks on Christian Schools in Mosul Radical Muslims sprayed machine gun fire at properties of the Assyrian Antiochan church in Mosul and […]

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Talabani Muqtada Welcome In

Talabani Muqtada Welcome In

Talabani: Muqtada Welcome in Transitional Government Muqtada al-Sadr, the heretofore radical Shiite cleric of Kufa, would be welcome in the Iraqi government, according to Interim […]

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