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Netanyahu Says he’s making Israel a “Sparta:” He means a global Pariah State
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Netanyahu Says he’s making Israel a “Sparta:” He means a global Pariah State

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to position Israel as the modern day Sparta, and to sell […]

Israel’s Gaza City Invasion: Forced Migration and Hospitals Besieged and Bombed

Israel’s Gaza City Invasion: Forced Migration and Hospitals Besieged and Bombed

09/23/2025 By International Middle East Media Center

UK, France and other Western Nations recognize Palestinian State  – but symbolic Action won’t make Statehood happen

UK, France and other Western Nations recognize Palestinian State – but symbolic Action won’t make Statehood happen

09/23/2025 By The Conversation

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s new government doesn't give Palestinians much hope. It could be time for a radical approach

Israel’s new government doesn’t give Palestinians much hope. It could be time for a radical approach

By Ian Parmeter | – Even by the standards of previous Israeli coalitions, the new government that’s just been announced includes strange bedfellows. The eight […]

The Conversation

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Israel's Netanyahu pledges to destroy President Biden's Iran, Settlements Policies if he Can Survive

Israel’s Netanyahu pledges to destroy President Biden’s Iran, Settlements Policies if he Can Survive

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Outgoing Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu lost his chance to form a government as the deadline ran out on Thursday, […]

Juan Cole

Israel
Bye Bye Bibi Blues: Netanyahu was Israel's Trump

Bye Bye Bibi Blues: Netanyahu was Israel’s Trump

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former President Donald Trump have both steered their countries, parties and political ships […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Israel
The more it Changes . . . What can we Expect from the new Unity Coalition Government in Israel?

The more it Changes . . . What can we Expect from the new Unity Coalition Government in Israel?

By John Strawson | – Israeli politics are entering a new chapter. After inconclusive elections in March, a politically diverse coalition has formed to end […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
Lest we Forget: Trump’s and Billionaires’ Covid Profiteering, Debasing Science and Death on the scale of the Civil War

Lest we Forget: Trump’s and Billionaires’ Covid Profiteering, Debasing Science and Death on the scale of the Civil War

By Nina Burleigh | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Now that we’re all unmasking and the economy seems set to roar into the 2020s, what will […]

Tomdispatch

Barack Obama
Top Ways Israel's Netanyahu Torpedoed Mideast Peace and Harmed Israel and America

Top Ways Israel’s Netanyahu Torpedoed Mideast Peace and Harmed Israel and America

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A step was taken by his rivals toward unseating long-serving Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday when opposition parties […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Some Israeli perspectives on the tragedy of the Middle East

Some Israeli perspectives on the tragedy of the Middle East

( Richard Drake) – The sickening events lately occurring in the Middle East have shocked and outraged the conscience of the world. The experts who […]

Richard Drake

Democracy
Democracy: On the Precipice?

Democracy: On the Precipice?

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – If we extrapolate from the current trend lines, democracy will be gone in a couple decades, melted away like […]

John Feffer

Climate Crisis
One in three heat deaths since 1991 linked to climate crisis – here's how else warming affects our health

One in three heat deaths since 1991 linked to climate crisis – here’s how else warming affects our health

By Chloe Brimicombe and Hannah Cloke | – Since 1991, 37% of lives lost due to extreme heat globally can be attributed to climate change […]

The Conversation

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