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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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19 years after 9/11, Americans continue to fear foreign extremists and underplay the dangers of domestic terrorism

19 years after 9/11, Americans continue to fear foreign extremists and underplay the dangers of domestic terrorism

By Jeff Gruenewald, Joshua D. Freilich, Steven Chermak, and William Parkin | – On a Tuesday morning in September 2001, the American experience with terrorism […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Has Israel's Plan to Annex the Palestinians been Cancelled or just Postponed?

Has Israel’s Plan to Annex the Palestinians been Cancelled or just Postponed?

By Adnan Abu Amer | – Middle East Monitor) – Ever since Israel’s plans to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank and Jordan […]

Middle East Monitor

Militarization
Generals to the End:  Patton and Westmoreland walk into a Bar . . .

Generals to the End: Patton and Westmoreland walk into a Bar . . .

( Tomdispatch.com ) – I’ve written a fair number of pieces for TomDispatch, but this one is a bit different — some might even say […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Donald Trump
Aztec Politics: Trump sacrificed 200K by Downplaying Covid-19 to save the Stock Market from Panic

Aztec Politics: Trump sacrificed 200K by Downplaying Covid-19 to save the Stock Market from Panic

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bob Woodward’s new book of interviews with Trump and figures in his administration records how Trump told the reporter in […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Fourth World: Or American Carnage from a Pandemic President

Fourth World: Or American Carnage from a Pandemic President

( Tomdispatch.com) – The year was 1991 and the United States was suddenly the globe’s lone superpower, its ultimate hyperpower, the last and greatest of […]

Tom Engelhardt

Christians
Why are Americans abandoning Religion in Droves?

Why are Americans abandoning Religion in Droves?

Charleston, W.Va. (Syndicated to Informed Comment) – Religion is fading more quickly in the United States than in any other nation, according to a forthcoming […]

James A. Haught

Health Care
De-Privatize and Expand Medicaid, NOW!

De-Privatize and Expand Medicaid, NOW!

Gainesville, Florida– (Special to Informed Comment) – The COVID-19 pandemic shows the urgent need for expansion of the Medicaid health insurance program. In too many […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula
Did the US War on Terror Displace 37 Million?

Did the US War on Terror Displace 37 Million?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Brown University Watson Institute Costs of War Project has put out a report concluding that the US-led “War on […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: A Psychological Reckoning

The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: A Psychological Reckoning

Auburn, Al. (Special to Informed Comment) – In this article I review the The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump by Dan P. McAdams [click], […]

Richard Penaskovic

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