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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

09/18/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Belgium
Belgium has decided to Label Squatter-Settler goods from Occupied Palestine as Not from Israel -- Will it start a Wave?

Belgium has decided to Label Squatter-Settler goods from Occupied Palestine as Not from Israel — Will it start a Wave?

( Middle East Monitor ) – Labelling Israeli settlement products “strengthens extremists, does not help promote peace in the region, and shows Belgium as not […]

Ramona Wadi

Climate Crisis
Whether Gov'ts like it or not, Coal Plants are doomed by Cheap Solar and Wind Power

Whether Gov’ts like it or not, Coal Plants are doomed by Cheap Solar and Wind Power

By James Ha and Alison Reeve | The international climate summit in Glasgow aimed to “consign coal power to history”. But while some major coal-consuming […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
Lincoln's Invention of Thanksgiving was all About how Black Lives Matter

Lincoln’s Invention of Thanksgiving was all About how Black Lives Matter

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Thanksgiving Day, as is well known, was an invented tradition arising from the Civil War, promoted by Abraham Lincoln and […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Having Left the Iran Nuclear Deal, can the US revive it with the seventh round in Vienna?

Having Left the Iran Nuclear Deal, can the US revive it with the seventh round in Vienna?

By Hani Habeeb | – ( Middle East Monitor) – While the American Special Representative to Iran, Robert Malley, surprised observers of the nuclear file […]

Middle East Monitor

Militarization
No, Modern Warfare is not "Accurate" or "Accountable" and dead Innocents are not "Collateral Damage"

No, Modern Warfare is not “Accurate” or “Accountable” and dead Innocents are not “Collateral Damage”

By Lauren Gould, Jolle Demmers, and Nora Stel | – The US military is facing allegations it covered up civilian casualty cases in the US-led […]

The Conversation

Archaeology
Pandemic History: The Great Plague of Justinian in the 500s AD was a Black Death that Shaped the Century before Islam

Pandemic History: The Great Plague of Justinian in the 500s AD was a Black Death that Shaped the Century before Islam

Research News of the University of Cambridge | – ‘Plague sceptics’ are wrong to underestimate the devastating impact that bubonic plague had in the 6th– […]

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censorship
Apple Sues Israeli gov't-backed NSO Spyware Company: "Notorious Hackers - Amoral 21st C. Mercenaries"

Apple Sues Israeli gov’t-backed NSO Spyware Company: “Notorious Hackers – Amoral 21st C. Mercenaries”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Apple is suing the NSO group, which produced the spyware that Israel uses to keep under surveillance the 5 million […]

Juan Cole

Iran
'It's My Decision': Iran's New Population Law Blasted For Restricting Access To Contraceptives, Abortions

‘It’s My Decision’: Iran’s New Population Law Blasted For Restricting Access To Contraceptives, Abortions

By Golnaz Esfandiari and Elahe Ravanshad | – ( RFL/RE ) – Authorities have approved new legislation that imposes further restrictions on abortions, bans the […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

CO2
Climate Emergency: Big Oil wants to go on drilling while greenwashing with imaginary "Carbon Capture"

Climate Emergency: Big Oil wants to go on drilling while greenwashing with imaginary “Carbon Capture”

By June Sekera and Neva Goodwin | – After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now […]

The Conversation

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