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Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank
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Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank

Mohammed Samaana

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; feature) – As a native Palestinian, visiting my homeland is not just about seeing family and friends. It’s also about […]

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

09/24/2025 By Frida Berrigan

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

09/24/2025 By Middle East Studies Association

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Nonviolence
Teach police nonviolence, scholars say, and how to work with local residents

Teach police nonviolence, scholars say, and how to work with local residents

By Jennifer Earl, James J. Nolan, Jessica Maves Braithwaite and Kirssa Cline Ryckman | – Scholars: Kirssa Cline Ryckman, Jennifer Earl, Jessica Maves Braithwaite, University […]

The Conversation

Eastern Orthodox
When even Trump's Supreme Court upholds Gay Rights, You know Christian Fundamentalism has Lost

When even Trump’s Supreme Court upholds Gay Rights, You know Christian Fundamentalism has Lost

Charleston, WV (Special to Informed Comment) – This month’s Supreme Court decree that gays cannot be fired from jobs simply because they’re gay is a […]

James A. Haught

China
The Final Defeat of the John Bolton Hawks?  How Russia and China could humiliate Trump on Eve of Election by Lifting Iran Arms Embargo

The Final Defeat of the John Bolton Hawks? How Russia and China could humiliate Trump on Eve of Election by Lifting Iran Arms Embargo

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump is about to go up against China and Russia at the United Nations Security Council over the looming end […]

Juan Cole

Militarization
Martin Luther King’s Giant Triplets: Racism, Yes, But What About Militarism and Materialism?

Martin Luther King’s Giant Triplets: Racism, Yes, But What About Militarism and Materialism?

(Tomdispatch.com) – In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, Americans are finally — or is it once again? — confronting the racism […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Israel/ Palestine
Will Biden Remain Tone Deaf to Palestinian Rights?

Will Biden Remain Tone Deaf to Palestinian Rights?

( Codepink) – Joe Biden wants you to believe that he is opposed to Israel’s likely annexation of parts of the West Bank that Netanyahu […]

Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold

History
Covid-19 makes Saudis Largely Cancel Pilgrimage (Hajj), But Plagues and Sectarianism have Intervened Before

Covid-19 makes Saudis Largely Cancel Pilgrimage (Hajj), But Plagues and Sectarianism have Intervened Before

By Ken Chitwood | – Saudi Arabia has effectively canceled the hajj for most of the world’s Muslims, saying the obligatory pilgrimage to Mecca will […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
The other Pandemic: Siberia hits over 100° F, hotter than Miami, 80 Years Early, because Coal and Gasoline

The other Pandemic: Siberia hits over 100° F, hotter than Miami, 80 Years Early, because Coal and Gasoline

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As if the coronavirus pandemic, depression-era unemployment, and a mad President in the White House were not enough, Mother Nature […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Saudi Arabia ends Lockdown as Infections Surge:  Is it on a Trumpian path to Disaster?

Saudi Arabia ends Lockdown as Infections Surge: Is it on a Trumpian path to Disaster?

(Al-Bab.com) – Saudi Arabia ended its coronavirus lockdown this morning despite record numbers of new infections during the past week. Lifting the lockdown brings an […]

Brian Whitaker

Syria
Will Trump's Caesar sanctions force the Assad Regime to Negotiate, or Simply Increase Syrians' Misery?

Will Trump’s Caesar sanctions force the Assad Regime to Negotiate, or Simply Increase Syrians’ Misery?

By Muhammad Hussein | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Seeing is believing, as the saying goes. And after seeing the 53,275 photographs proving […]

Middle East Monitor

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