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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

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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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Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson Both far rightwing commentators Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson have been in the news this weekend. Limbaugh, of course, is […]

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Veiling And Male Cousins Noted

Veiling and Male Cousins Noted ignoramus Stanley Kurtz, an India anthropologist who wrote his dissertation on a psychoanalytic theory of Hindu mother goddesses and who […]

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Baghdad Most Dangerous City In World

“Baghdad Most Dangerous City in the World” “We’ve had people Killed on our Front Lawn” David Enders, a recent U-M graduate, has been trying to […]

Juan Cole

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Lame Pr Letters Supposedly From Us

Lame PR Letters supposedly from US Soldiers Backfire on Bush Administration LEDYARD KING GANNETT NEWS SERVICE The Olympian Online WASHINGTON — Letters from hometown soldiers […]

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Baghdad’s Homeless Orphans Justin Alexander, who is in Baghdad on a trip for Jubilee Iraq, discusses a problem I haven’t seen others mention, which is […]

Juan Cole

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4 Iraqi Policemen Wounded In Baqubah

4 Iraqi Policemen Wounded In Baqubah

4 Iraqi Policemen Wounded in Baqubah; Attacks in Karbala kill one; Pipeline, employees attacked In Falluja, a guerrilla threw a grenade on a passing U.S. […]

Juan Cole

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Army Of Mahdi On Move 10000 Demonstrate

Army of the Mahdi on the Move; 10,000 Demonstrate Militiamen of Muqtada al-Sadr’s Army of the Mahdi spread through the slums of East Baghdad Friday, […]

Juan Cole

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Northern Clergy Condemn Plan To Bring

Northern Clergy Condemn Plan To Bring

Northern Clergy Condemn Plan to bring Turkish troops into Iraq The “Union of Muslim Clerics” in nothern Iraq warned Turkey not to become entangled with […]

Juan Cole

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Weblog On Situation Of Women In Iraq

Weblog on Situation of Women in Iraq Thierry Robin, a French freelancer, is posting on the situation in Iraq from Baghdad Oct. 8 – 22, […]

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