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Gaza, Yemen, Iran: Trump’s Opening Gambits in the Middle East (Juan Cole on The Bitchuation Room with Francesca Fiorentini)
Donald Trump

Gaza, Yemen, Iran: Trump’s Opening Gambits in the Middle East (Juan Cole on The Bitchuation Room with Francesca Fiorentini)

Juan Cole

Juan Cole Interviewed by Francesca Fiorentini: “The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini): How To Lose a Country In 100 Days with Josh Gondelman & Juan […]

The Gaza Precedent: Criminalizing Humanitarian Aid

The Gaza Precedent: Criminalizing Humanitarian Aid

05/18/2025 By Middle East Monitor

The Gulf States have Long Boosted US Economic Dominance, even if not every President Got a Free Private Jet

The Gulf States have Long Boosted US Economic Dominance, even if not every President Got a Free Private Jet

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Afghanistan: The Taliban’s ‘Vice and Virtue’ Laws Reimpose the Harsh Repression of Women

Afghanistan: The Taliban’s ‘Vice and Virtue’ Laws Reimpose the Harsh Repression of Women

By Kambaiz Rafi, Durham University | – (The Conversation) – Until the collapse of Afghanistan’s US-backed government in August 2021, few knew clearly what the […]

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UN Idled, as Israel Expels 258K Palestinian Civilians in Gaza, including Aid workers, imperiling Polio Vaccination Drive

UN Idled, as Israel Expels 258K Palestinian Civilians in Gaza, including Aid workers, imperiling Polio Vaccination Drive

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israelis are not only expelling thousands of innocent civilians from the town of Deir al-Balah in the center of […]

Juan Cole

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In a new era of Campus Upheaval, the 1970 Kent State Shootings show the Danger of deploying Troops to crush legal Protests

In a new era of Campus Upheaval, the 1970 Kent State Shootings show the Danger of deploying Troops to crush legal Protests

By Brian VanDeMark, United States Naval Academy | – (The Conversation) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has expressed his intention, if elected to a […]

The Conversation

censorship
Denouncing the University of Pennsylvania’s collaboration with the House Education Committee investigation of Faculty Members

Denouncing the University of Pennsylvania’s collaboration with the House Education Committee investigation of Faculty Members

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Larry Jameson Interim President, the University of Pennsylvania president@upenn.edu   John Jackson Provost, the […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Morocco: Popular anger against Israel's war on Gaza Spills into the Streets, Posing Dilemma for Rabat

Morocco: Popular anger against Israel’s war on Gaza Spills into the Streets, Posing Dilemma for Rabat

Istanbul (Speciall to Informed Comment, Feature) – The Palestinian question has been a central topic for the Arab world for many decades now. Over the […]

Mohamed Jegham

Hizbullah
Israel and Hezbollah step Back from War, but for how Long? All eyes are now on Iran’s next Move

Israel and Hezbollah step Back from War, but for how Long? All eyes are now on Iran’s next Move

By Ian Parmeter, Australian National University | – (The Conversation) – For weeks, Israel had been anticipating a major attack from Hezbollah in retaliation for […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Israel: Palestinian Healthcare Workers Tortured

Israel: Palestinian Healthcare Workers Tortured

Human Rights Watch – (Jerusalem) – Israeli forces have arbitrarily detained Palestinian healthcare workers in Gaza since hostilities began in October 2023, deported them to detention facilities […]

Human Rights Watch

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What would America be Like if it was Like Gaza?

What would America be Like if it was Like Gaza?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – What would America be like if it was like Gaza? On October 8, 2023, the Alien invasion long feared by […]

Juan Cole

Islam
The Verse “Hear O Israel” is Common to Judaism and Islam

The Verse “Hear O Israel” is Common to Judaism and Islam

( The Times of Israel) – This Shabbat we read the second paragraph of the Shema, and last week we read the first paragraph which […]

Shamai Leibowitz

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