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France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza’s Mass Graves
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France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza’s Mass Graves

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – French President Macron is taking the lead in a doomed bid to keep a two-state solution alive. […]

“Look to the Rose:”  Edward FitzGerald’s  Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:13

“Look to the Rose:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:13

09/16/2025 By Juan Cole

52 Ways to Combat Malignant Hatred of Muslims

52 Ways to Combat Malignant Hatred of Muslims

09/16/2025 By The Conversation

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Fundamentalist Pandemics:  What Evangelicals and Khomeinists Could Learn From The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

Fundamentalist Pandemics: What Evangelicals and Khomeinists Could Learn From The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

This essay by Juan Cole was originally published in Tomdispatch.com. See the original for a perceptive introductory essay by Tom Engelhardt. This spring, the novel […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Why Israel Elites Fear the Nakba: How memory became Palestine’s greatest weapon

Why Israel Elites Fear the Nakba: How memory became Palestine’s greatest weapon

( Middle East Monitor ) – On May 15, thousands of Palestinians in Occupied Palestine and throughout the ‘shatat’, or diaspora, participated in the commemoration […]

Ramzy Baroud

Displaced and Refugees
Locked up with no escape: refugees and migrants in Libya face bombs,virus and everything in between

Locked up with no escape: refugees and migrants in Libya face bombs,virus and everything in between

By Marwa Mohamed | – (openDemocracy.net) – Libya today is facing its greatest challenge to date. In spite of years of internal conflict, the country […]

Open Democracy

Cults
The Church of QAnon: Will Trumpian conspiracy theories form the basis of a dangerous new religious movement?

The Church of QAnon: Will Trumpian conspiracy theories form the basis of a dangerous new religious movement?

By Marc-André Argentino | – Followers of the QAnon movement believe in wild and dangerous conspiracy theories about U.S. President Donald Trump. Now a faction […]

The Conversation

Arms Sales
Did Trump fire State Dept. Inspector to Protect Shady Arms Deal with Saudi Arabia?

Did Trump fire State Dept. Inspector to Protect Shady Arms Deal with Saudi Arabia?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The mystery deepens. Late last Friday, Trump summarily fired the State Department Inspector General, Steve Linick. While in US law […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Workers in Israel and Coronavirus Vulnerability

Palestinian Workers in Israel and Coronavirus Vulnerability

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment) – The novel coronavirus pandemic, by its nature, highlights inequalities of race, class and gender in its victims. Palestine is […]

Mohammed Samaana

Donald Trump
The Trump Administration Is Rushing Deportations of Migrant Children During Coronavirus

The Trump Administration Is Rushing Deportations of Migrant Children During Coronavirus

By Lomi Kriel | – ( ProPublica) – The girls, 8 and 11, were alone in a rented room in a dangerous Mexican city bordering […]

ProPublica

Domestic Terrorism
When Leaders like Trump call for Vigilanteism, White Supremacists have through History been Happy to Oblige

When Leaders like Trump call for Vigilanteism, White Supremacists have through History been Happy to Oblige

By Shannon M. Smith | – White supremacist and militia organizations are exploiting the government’s chaotic response to the coronavirus for recruitment efforts. Whatever his […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Iran et États-Unis: l’ironie d’une curieuse affinité

Iran et États-Unis: l’ironie d’une curieuse affinité

Introduction par Tom Engelhardt 19 mai 2020. Traaduit de l’américain par Jean Granoux Nous sommes dans un moment religieux étrangement viral. Récemment encore, une Maison […]

Juan Cole

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