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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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Arab World
Revolutionary Guards Commander Gives Rare Estimate Of Money Iran Spent On Proxies, Military Aid In Region

Revolutionary Guards Commander Gives Rare Estimate Of Money Iran Spent On Proxies, Military Aid In Region

( RFE/RL) – Iran has spent nearly $20 billion pushing its controversial foreign policy objectives in the region, the deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

censorship
Rethinking Saudi Arabia: A Biden administration could ensure that Khashoggi’s death was not in vain

Rethinking Saudi Arabia: A Biden administration could ensure that Khashoggi’s death was not in vain

By Abderrahmane Amor | – Breaking News The Biden-Harris campaign releases a statement on the two-year anniversary of Khashoggi's murder stating that his death "will […]

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
Why Trump's Age and weakened Immunity puts him at special Risk from his COVID-19 Infection

Why Trump’s Age and weakened Immunity puts him at special Risk from his COVID-19 Infection

By Brian Geiss | – President Donald Trump’s announcement that he’s tested positive for COVID-19 is especially concerning because of his age. At 74 years […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Trump, who mocked Joe Biden for wearing a Mask, gets Covid-19

Trump, who mocked Joe Biden for wearing a Mask, gets Covid-19

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Donald Trump and first lady Melania have tested positive for the coronavirus and have gone into quarantine, the president said […]

Juan Cole

Addiction
Warped Speed: How Trump’s Push for a Quick and Dirty Covid Vaccine could Boomerang and Destroy Public Trust

Warped Speed: How Trump’s Push for a Quick and Dirty Covid Vaccine could Boomerang and Destroy Public Trust

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – Despite more than 205,000 dead and 7.2 million infected, including him, Trump mendaciously claims that the pandemic “affects virtually […]

Dan Dinello

Death Penalty
Two years after Khashoggi’s murder, why is Trump’s America still an accomplice to MBS’s crimes?

Two years after Khashoggi’s murder, why is Trump’s America still an accomplice to MBS’s crimes?

( Code Pink) – Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered on October 2, 2018 by agents of Saudi Arabia’s despotic government, and the […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Donald Trump
Trump's Over-the-Top War Talk is a War Crime: 'Systematic, Constant, Vicious, Remorseless'

Trump’s Over-the-Top War Talk is a War Crime: ‘Systematic, Constant, Vicious, Remorseless’

What pops into your head when you hear the number 1,000 in a political-military context? Having studied German military history, I immediately think of Adolf […]

William J. Astore

Authoritarianism
Arab World, Alarmed at US Debate Debacle, Worries about Military Coup and 'Banana Republic' on Potomac

Arab World, Alarmed at US Debate Debacle, Worries about Military Coup and ‘Banana Republic’ on Potomac

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Arabic press watched the Trump-Biden fiasco of a debate with alarm. The US is so involved in the Arab […]

Juan Cole

Islam
On how there are no “Infidels” in the Qur’an, and how Christians and Jews are never Called That

On how there are no “Infidels” in the Qur’an, and how Christians and Jews are never Called That

My new article is out in The Journal of the American Oriental Society about the meaning of the root k-f-r in the Qur’an, the Muslim […]

Juan Cole

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