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Manufactured Famines in Gaza began almost 2 Decades Ago, So why Haven’t they been Halted?
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Manufactured Famines in Gaza began almost 2 Decades Ago, So why Haven’t they been Halted?

Dan Steinbock

New York (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Recently, international media has highlighted the mass famine in Gaza. Yet, there have been effectively three waves […]

“A thousand Blossoms with the Day Woke:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:8

“A thousand Blossoms with the Day Woke:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:8

09/02/2025 By Juan Cole

Symbolism, Exile and Identity explored in Paintings: An Interview with Massoud Hayoun

Symbolism, Exile and Identity explored in Paintings: An Interview with Massoud Hayoun

09/02/2025 By Global Voices

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Biden Reveals Netanyahu’s Determination to Turn Gaza into Hiroshima, and his own Complicity

Biden Reveals Netanyahu’s Determination to Turn Gaza into Hiroshima, and his own Complicity

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Joe Biden’s interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell demonstrates that the project of right-wing Zionism, led by Israeli Prime Minister […]

Juan Cole

Israel
Protesting the Impact of the Israeli Military Campaign on Education in Lebanon

Protesting the Impact of the Israeli Military Campaign on Education in Lebanon

Middle East Studies Association Board Joint Statement with the Committee on Academic Freedom Concerning the Impact of the Israeli Military Campaign on Education in Lebanon […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Improved Medicare for All Can Heal This Sick Country

Improved Medicare for All Can Heal This Sick Country

( Commondreams.org ) – It’s the beginning of the end for corporate control of health care. The tsunami of outrage against the health insurance industry […]

Common Dreams

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The Fatal Despair of Exile:  An Iran they could neither Live in nor Leave Behind

The Fatal Despair of Exile: An Iran they could neither Live in nor Leave Behind

Nothing takes me from the butterflies of my dreams to my reality: not dust and not fire. What will I do without roses from Samarkand? […]

Fariba Amini

Democracy
What I Learned after the End of History

What I Learned after the End of History

( Tomdispatch.com ) – “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” So declared Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ah, […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Israel/ Palestine
Israel/Palestine: An Abyss of Human Suffering in Gaza and a Biden Double Standard

Israel/Palestine: An Abyss of Human Suffering in Gaza and a Biden Double Standard

( Human Rights Watch) – (Jerusalem) – The Israeli military killed, wounded, starved, and forcibly displaced Palestinian civilians in Gaza in 2024, and destroyed their homes, schools, […]

Human Rights Watch

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The Fatal Effort to Dismantle the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees

The Fatal Effort to Dismantle the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees

Over the past 15 months, the international community has failed to prevent genocidal atrocities in Gaza. Dismantling the UN refugee agency would perfect the nightmare. […]

Dan Steinbock

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza Deal: What it means for Peace in the Middle East

Gaza Deal: What it means for Peace in the Middle East

By Scott Lucas, University College Dublin (The Conversation) – After 15 months of bitter conflict on the Gaza Strip, a ceasefire deal has been agreed […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza: A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy

How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza: A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy

by Brett Murphy ( ProPublica ) – Empty Threats: Since Oct. 7, 2023, Biden has repeatedly issued threats that Israel ignored. U.S. officials tried to […]

ProPublica

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Why Even “Progressive” Dem Leaders won’t Stand up on Gaza: AIPAC’s Undue Influence

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Let them in: Opening Gaza to the foreign Press Corps

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