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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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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

Israel/ Palestine
U Toronto Dumping of Legal Scholar critical of Israel has Chilling effect on Research, Academic Freedom

U Toronto Dumping of Legal Scholar critical of Israel has Chilling effect on Research, Academic Freedom

By Farida Deif | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – The University of Toronto’s law school allegedly rescinded a job offer for director of […]

Human Rights Watch

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