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“Real Estate Bonanza:” The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza
Donald Trump

“Real Estate Bonanza:” The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza

Dan Steinbock

When the bombing of Gaza will finally cease, the U.S. administration will push the post-genocide opportunity for property development. In this quest, Tony Blair is […]

“In this batter’d Caravanserai:” FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:16

“In this batter’d Caravanserai:” FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:16

09/22/2025 By Juan Cole

As Gaza bleeds, Israel plans its next move: Annexing the Palestinian West Bank

As Gaza bleeds, Israel plans its next move: Annexing the Palestinian West Bank

09/22/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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As the Palestinian minority takes to the streets, Israel is having its own Black Lives Matter moment

As the Palestinian minority takes to the streets, Israel is having its own Black Lives Matter moment

( The Conversation) – The images and reports coming from Israel, Jerusalem and Gaza in recent days are shocking. They are also surprising to those […]

James L. Gelvin

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Gaza and Israel's Kidnapper's Dilemma: Keeping a Million Children Brutalized in its dark Basement

Gaza and Israel’s Kidnapper’s Dilemma: Keeping a Million Children Brutalized in its dark Basement

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A war is when two antagonists fight one another all-out, until in fairly short order one wins and the other […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Letter from a Father in Gaza: Our Six-Year-Old can't block out the Sounds of Israel's Bombardment

Letter from a Father in Gaza: Our Six-Year-Old can’t block out the Sounds of Israel’s Bombardment

By Yasser Abu Jamei, MD | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – I am writing this letter looking at my terrified 6-year-old son, who […]

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli settlers’ aggressive takeover of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem is part of a decades-long struggle

Israeli settlers’ aggressive takeover of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem is part of a decades-long struggle

Written byأيمن حسونة Translated byYasmeen Omera ( GlobalVoices.org) – “If I don’t steal your house, someone else will.” This is how an Israeli settler called […]

Global Voices

Islam
Why the Al-Aqsa Mosque has often been a site of conflict

Why the Al-Aqsa Mosque has often been a site of conflict

By Ken Chitwood | – The violence that spread from Jerusalem to cities across Israel and the Palestinian territories, leaving at least 60 dead so […]

The Conversation

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Shooting Fish in a Barrel: Israel bombs Palestinian Refugees from Israel in Gaza, 50% of them Children

Shooting Fish in a Barrel: Israel bombs Palestinian Refugees from Israel in Gaza, 50% of them Children

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Steve Hendrix, Shira Rubin and Michael E. Miller at WaPo report that Israeli air strikes on the densely populated urban […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
How Trump's "Abraham Accords" Inflamed Tensions by Marginalizing Palestinians  and how Biden must hold Israel Accountable

How Trump’s “Abraham Accords” Inflamed Tensions by Marginalizing Palestinians and how Biden must hold Israel Accountable

Oakland, CA (Special to Informed Comment) – Formal military units and street gangs are fighting it out separately throughout Israel, Palestine and the territories. Both […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Israel/ Palestine
Protests by Palestinian citizens in Israel signal growing sense of a common struggle

Protests by Palestinian citizens in Israel signal growing sense of a common struggle

By Maha Nassar | – The world’s attention has turned again to deadly scenes of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip and the launching of […]

The Conversation

women
Mother’s Day Tears:  The Fierce Prophetic Vision of Poor Women

Mother’s Day Tears: The Fierce Prophetic Vision of Poor Women

( Tomdispatch.com) – One hundred and fifty years ago, in the bloody wake of the Civil War, the abolitionist Julia Ward Howe issued a “Mother’s […]

Liz Theoharis

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