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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between […]

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:”  FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

09/17/2025 By Juan Cole

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

09/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Wind and Solar generate Fully 20% of US Electricity in April for First time as Renewables Jump to 26.5%

Wind and Solar generate Fully 20% of US Electricity in April for First time as Renewables Jump to 26.5%

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United States generates 6.5% of its electricity from dams, producing hydroelectricity, mainly in the West. Up until about a […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
Women to the Rescue:  Review of “Hope but Demand Justice” by Pat Hynes

Women to the Rescue: Review of “Hope but Demand Justice” by Pat Hynes

A Review of “Hope, But Demand Justice” By Pat Hynes (Haley’s, 2022) — by Nick Mottern (Special to Informed Comment) – The basic conclusion that […]

Nick Mottern

Israel/ Palestine
World Bank observations on Palestine's economy gloss over Israel's Colonialism and Apartheid

World Bank observations on Palestine’s economy gloss over Israel’s Colonialism and Apartheid

( Middle East Monitor ) – Humanitarian aid, which has played a major role in stagnating Palestine and Palestinians, is one of the factors mentioned […]

Ramona Wadi

Civil Rights
The Empire’s New Clothes: The Veneer of Accountability Is Wearing Thin in Twenty-First-Century America

The Empire’s New Clothes: The Veneer of Accountability Is Wearing Thin in Twenty-First-Century America

( Tomdispatch.com ) – If you watched TV in the 1960s and 1970s as I did, you would undoubtedly have come away with the idea […]

Karen J. Greenberg

American Jews
Majority of Americans of all Religions or None want Legal Abortion, except for Evangelicals and 47% of Catholics

Majority of Americans of all Religions or None want Legal Abortion, except for Evangelicals and 47% of Catholics

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Pew Research Center has a poll out on views about abortion of American religious groups. It shows that in […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
SCOTUS Dispensing with Roe v. Wade Is Attack on Religious Freedom and Jewish Law

SCOTUS Dispensing with Roe v. Wade Is Attack on Religious Freedom and Jewish Law

Oakland (Special to Informed Comment) – The leaked SCOTUS draft to overturn Roe v. Wade leaves a lot to unpack. For Jews, Muslims and other […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Russia
Did the Ukraine War lead to Turkish-Saudi Rapprochement?

Did the Ukraine War lead to Turkish-Saudi Rapprochement?

Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Turkish President Recep Erdogan visited Jeddah in July 2017 and met Saudi Arabia’s King […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Protecting Biodiversity – and making it Accessible –  has paid off for Costa Rica

Protecting Biodiversity – and making it Accessible – has paid off for Costa Rica

By Alejandra Echeverri Ochoa, Stanford University and Jeffrey R. Smith

The Conversation

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Jared Kushner to invest Saudi Funds in Israeli Tech: Is MBS sidestepping his father King Salman on Palestine?

Jared Kushner to invest Saudi Funds in Israeli Tech: Is MBS sidestepping his father King Salman on Palestine?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dion Nissenbaum and Rory Jones at the Wall Street Journal got the scoop that Affinity, Jared Kushner’s investment firm, will […]

Juan Cole

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