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European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel
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European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Thursday, the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, passed a resolution asking European Union member states to recognize a Palestinian […]

How America helped create the Palestinian Authority – only to undermine it ever since

How America helped create the Palestinian Authority – only to undermine it ever since

09/12/2025 By The Conversation

Unhoused and Policed in the Age of Trump

Unhoused and Policed in the Age of Trump

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Can Christianity Survive in Turkey, the Birthplace of the Holy Roman Empire?

Can Christianity Survive in Turkey, the Birthplace of the Holy Roman Empire?

By Ramazan Kılınç | – Vowing to better protect Christians, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told media at the White House recently that Turkey will […]

The Conversation

Lebanon
Lebanon’s October Revolution: Resistance and Popular Culture

Lebanon’s October Revolution: Resistance and Popular Culture

By Amal Ghazal | – I am following Lebanon’s October Revolution from Vancouver. Between me and the revolution stand two continents, an ocean, a sea […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Now that Trump deems Israeli Squatting Legal, will More Palestinians be Kicked off their Land?

Now that Trump deems Israeli Squatting Legal, will More Palestinians be Kicked off their Land?

By Anne Irfan | – When US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the US government will no longer view Israeli settlements in the […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
What does Fraud and Bribery trial of Israeli PM Netanyahu tell us about Trump Impeachment?

What does Fraud and Bribery trial of Israeli PM Netanyahu tell us about Trump Impeachment?

Revised By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Israel’s attorney general, Avichai Mandelblit on advice from the police, indicted caretaker Israeli prime minister […]

Juan Cole

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Israeli "Crime Minister" Netanyahu Indicted, Political System in Freefall

Israeli “Crime Minister” Netanyahu Indicted, Political System in Freefall

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s attorney general has indicted prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Ari Shapiro and Daniel Estrin report at NPR, on charges of […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
It Isn't only Syrian Kurds who Feel abandoned by Trump:  Ask the Iraqis

It Isn’t only Syrian Kurds who Feel abandoned by Trump: Ask the Iraqis

By Mieczysław P. Boduszyński | – In all the hand-wringing that critics and commentators have done since President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of U.S. […]

The Conversation

Congress
Trump's War on our Language:  Fudging, Waffling and Lying weave Alternative Universe

Trump’s War on our Language: Fudging, Waffling and Lying weave Alternative Universe

( Tomdispatch.com ) – These days, witnessing the administration’s never-ending cruelty at the border, the shenanigans of a White House caught red-handed in attempted bribery […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Congress
Quid Pro Quo: 4 GOP Defenses of Trump that Sondland and others have Shot Down

Quid Pro Quo: 4 GOP Defenses of Trump that Sondland and others have Shot Down

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – 1. No quid pro quo (“this for that”). The Republicans, and Trump himself, kept asserting that the president didn’t offer […]

Juan Cole

Politics&Culture
Why are there so many Mass Protests in Today's World but so Few real Revolutions?

Why are there so many Mass Protests in Today’s World but so Few real Revolutions?

By Peter McPhee | – We live in a world of violent challenges to the status quo, from Chile and Iraq to Hong Kong, Catalonia […]

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