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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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Israel/ Palestine
Israel/Palestine: Facebook Censors Discussion of Rights Issues

Israel/Palestine: Facebook Censors Discussion of Rights Issues

Human Rights Watch – (Washington, DC) – Facebook has wrongfully removed and suppressed content by Palestinians and their supporters, including about human rights abuses carried […]

Human Rights Watch

Colonialism
Why 'Indigenous Peoples' Day is Replacing 'Columbus Day'

Why ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day is Replacing ‘Columbus Day’

By Susan C. Faircloth | – Columbus Day celebrations in the United States – meant to honor the legacy of the man credited with “discovering” […]

The Conversation

Anti-Vaccination
Wahhabi Saudi Arabia has a More Rational Vaccine Mandate than the US Republican Party

Wahhabi Saudi Arabia has a More Rational Vaccine Mandate than the US Republican Party

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Republicans, among all Americans, are the most Islamophobic or Muslim-hating, with 72% holding that Muslims are more likely than members […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Collective Punishment as War Crime:  90% of Afghan Families Lack enough Food because the West is Punishing the Taliban

Collective Punishment as War Crime: 90% of Afghan Families Lack enough Food because the West is Punishing the Taliban

By John Sifton | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Afghanistan’s humanitarian situation is spiraling into catastrophe. Millions of Afghans are now facing […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

censorship
Demands for Egypt's U.S.-backed Egyptian Strongman al-Sisi to Release Activist Alaa Abd El Fattah, detained for 2 Years without Charge

Demands for Egypt’s U.S.-backed Egyptian Strongman al-Sisi to Release Activist Alaa Abd El Fattah, detained for 2 Years without Charge

By Ellery Roberts Biddle | – The life of Egyptian blogger and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah is in danger. The 39-year-old was jailed in […]

Global Voices

Climate Crisis
Who are Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi, Climate Emergency Modelers who won Physics Nobel Prize?

Who are Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi, Climate Emergency Modelers who won Physics Nobel Prize?

By David Randall | – As a climate scientist myself, I was excited to learn that Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi have been […]

The Conversation

Bush
Iraq is seeking 10 Gigawatts of Solar Power; if World had gone Green in '80s, Would the US have ever invaded Iraq?

Iraq is seeking 10 Gigawatts of Solar Power; if World had gone Green in ’80s, Would the US have ever invaded Iraq?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a historic irony, Iraq is turning to solar energy, according to Dania Saadi at SPGlobal. Ali Jawad at the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
No Apartheid here:  Now Even Meretz Party just Meeting Palestinian Pres. Mahmoud Abbas shakes Israeli Coalition

No Apartheid here: Now Even Meretz Party just Meeting Palestinian Pres. Mahmoud Abbas shakes Israeli Coalition

By Adnan Abu Amer | The Israeli political and partisan scene is still experiencing echoes of the meeting that brought together leaders of the left-wing […]

Middle East Monitor

Immigration
Immigration Cruelty Goes Beyond the Border

Immigration Cruelty Goes Beyond the Border

By Josue De Luna Navarro | ( Otherwords.org ) – Images of Border Patrol officers on horseback whipping Black migrants shocked many Americans. President Biden […]

OtherWords

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France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza’s Mass Graves

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