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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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International Criminal Court
Biden lifts outrageous US Sanctions on Int’l Criminal Court; now it should Join Treaty of Rome on Human Rights

Biden lifts outrageous US Sanctions on Int’l Criminal Court; now it should Join Treaty of Rome on Human Rights

Human Rights Watch – (Washington, DC) – US President Joe Biden’s cancellation of punitive sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court (ICC) removes a serious obstacle […]

Human Rights Watch

Australasia
Seriously ugly: here's how Australia will look if the world heats by 3°C [5.4°F] this century

Seriously ugly: here’s how Australia will look if the world heats by 3°C [5.4°F] this century

By Ove Hoegh-Guldberg and Lesley Hughes | – Imagine, for a moment, a different kind of Australia. One where bushfires on the catastrophic scale of […]

The Conversation

European Union
Over objections of Dem Hawks, Biden agrees to indirect Talks with Iran in Vienna to return to the 2015 Nuclear Deal

Over objections of Dem Hawks, Biden agrees to indirect Talks with Iran in Vienna to return to the 2015 Nuclear Deal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – AFP reports that an arrangement was reached at Friday’s teleconference in Vienna between the current signatories to the 2015 Iran […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Why has Israel Just demolished the Palestinian Village of Al-Araqeeb for the 185th Time?

Why has Israel Just demolished the Palestinian Village of Al-Araqeeb for the 185th Time?

By Nabil Al-Sahli | – (

Middle East Monitor

Germany
Green hydrogen could reduce CO2 emissions by up to 25 million tonnes in German Ruhr region

Green hydrogen could reduce CO2 emissions by up to 25 million tonnes in German Ruhr region

By Charlotte Nijhuis | – Green hydrogen technology can help reduce emissions from industry, transport and heating in the German Ruhr region up to 72 […]

Clean Energy Wire

Books
An Egyptian woman writer who dared: the Nawal El Saadawi I knew

An Egyptian woman writer who dared: the Nawal El Saadawi I knew

By Omnia Amin | – Throughout the Middle East and beyond, the name Nawal El Saadawi is not one that can be received with indifference. […]

The Conversation

European Union
UN Security Council to meet with Iran without the US in quest to Restore 2015 Nuclear Deal breached by Trump

UN Security Council to meet with Iran without the US in quest to Restore 2015 Nuclear Deal breached by Trump

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The European Union announced yesterday that today, Friday, Iran will meet by video with the current signatories to the 2015 […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Biden Administration is back to calling Palestinians 'Occupied,' but can't see them being Colonized

The Biden Administration is back to calling Palestinians ‘Occupied,’ but can’t see them being Colonized

( Middle East Monitor) – In another move that shows US President Joe Biden is navigating between the Trump administration’s era and the return to […]

Ramona Wadi

Egypt
Suez canal: what the ‘ditch’ meant to the British empire in the 19th century

Suez canal: what the ‘ditch’ meant to the British empire in the 19th century

By Jonathan Parry | – The week-long blockage of the Suez canal by the Ever Given container ship has reminded us that the canal, though […]

The Conversation

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