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How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation
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How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation

Dan Steinbock

As The Voice of Hind Rajab is winning over Hollywood, the real-life story is fostering complicity allegations against the Israeli military and Western complicity. New […]

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11

09/09/2025 By Juan Cole

Gaza Diary: How I risk Death to feed my Family

Gaza Diary: How I risk Death to feed my Family

09/09/2025 By Open Democracy

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‘Cancel This Failed Experiment’: Physicians Tell Biden HHS to End Medicare Privatization Pilot

‘Cancel This Failed Experiment’: Physicians Tell Biden HHS to End Medicare Privatization Pilot

By Jake Johnson | – ( Commondreams.org) – A national physician group this week called for the complete termination of a Medicare privatization scheme that […]

Common Dreams

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In 2023, Biden may have to Choose between Sanctions against Russia's Ukraine War and Maximum Pressure on Iran

In 2023, Biden may have to Choose between Sanctions against Russia’s Ukraine War and Maximum Pressure on Iran

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Does President Joe Biden have a choice of winning his struggle with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, or continuing “maximum pressure” sanctions […]

Juan Cole

Israel
Israel’s Netanyahu facing off against the supreme Court and proposing to limit judicial Independence – and 3 other Threats to Israeli Democracy

Israel’s Netanyahu facing off against the supreme Court and proposing to limit judicial Independence – and 3 other Threats to Israeli Democracy

By Boaz Atzili, American University School of International Service | – Democracy is not just about holding elections. It is a set of institutions, ideas […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Why 1.8 Billion Muslims are Furious: By Status Quo, Jordan is supposed oversee their 3rd Holiest Shrine, in Jerusalem, but Israel won't Let it

Why 1.8 Billion Muslims are Furious: By Status Quo, Jordan is supposed oversee their 3rd Holiest Shrine, in Jerusalem, but Israel won’t Let it

By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli occupation forces detained the Director of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Omar Al-Kiswani, as […]

Middle East Monitor

Peace
America has staged 392 military Interventions since 1776; How Can we Have fewer in Future?

America has staged 392 military Interventions since 1776; How Can we Have fewer in Future?

By Nan Levinson | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – I like to sing and what I like best is to do so at the top […]

Tomdispatch

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Israel Plunged into Constitutional Crisis as Supreme Court Orders Corrupt Netanyahu Cabinet Minister to Step Down and He Refuses

Israel Plunged into Constitutional Crisis as Supreme Court Orders Corrupt Netanyahu Cabinet Minister to Step Down and He Refuses

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel has entered a profound constitutional crisis, after the country’s Supreme Court insisted that Shas Party leader Aryeh Makhlouf Deri, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
New Israeli Power Broker seeks to rewrite History to justify Violence against Palestinians

New Israeli Power Broker seeks to rewrite History to justify Violence against Palestinians

By Curtis Hutt, University of Nebraska Omaha | – (The Conversation) – A right-wing Israeli politician is trying to recast a key part of American […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Israel's has always been a 'Religious War': On Ben-Gvir and the Slipperiness of Zionism

Israel’s has always been a ‘Religious War’: On Ben-Gvir and the Slipperiness of Zionism

( Middle East Monitor ) – In a self-congratulatory article published in the Atlantic in 2017, Yossi Klein Halevi describes Israeli behaviour at the just-conquered […]

Ramzy Baroud

censorship
Saudi Arabia must release Two of its Citizens Jailed for editing Wikipedia

Saudi Arabia must release Two of its Citizens Jailed for editing Wikipedia

By Advox | – ( Globalvoices.org) – Osama Khaled (L) and Ziyad Sufyani (R), two wikipedians who have been sentenced to 32 and 8 years […]

Global Voices

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