Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2025 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza
Featured

Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza

Dan Steinbock

Bezazel Smotrich is one of political leaders of Israel’s Messianic far-right. But he is also a shrewd administrator executing a biblical “decisive plan” of ethnic […]

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

09/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

09/18/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

More Stories

Climate Change
Global Heating Paradox: Europe's Heat Waves are Driving Air Conditioning Sales-- Which Cause more Global Heating

Global Heating Paradox: Europe’s Heat Waves are Driving Air Conditioning Sales– Which Cause more Global Heating

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – The second summer in a row with record temperatures has fuelled worries about the global climate crisis in Germany and […]

Clean Energy Wire

China
G20: The Real Crisis Confronting Global Leaders is Trump-China Trade War

G20: The Real Crisis Confronting Global Leaders is Trump-China Trade War

By Bill Durodie | – On June 28 and 29, the G20 summit will convene for the 14th time in Osaka, Japan. This gathering of […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
How Israeli "Rules of Engagement" Allow Soldiers to Shoot Children in the Back

How Israeli “Rules of Engagement” Allow Soldiers to Shoot Children in the Back

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – The Haifa-based Palestinian human rights group Adalah has done a lot of important work over the years. Its […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Change
Politicians are Choosing Corporate Polluters & Planet Wreckers over Our Welfare: Can we Make them Stop?

Politicians are Choosing Corporate Polluters & Planet Wreckers over Our Welfare: Can we Make them Stop?

By Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson | – (Otherwords) – From the White House to Ohio, too many politicians care more about protecting toxic industries than their constituents. […]

OtherWords

Featured
Scotland's Green Energy makes Enough Electricity 1st Quarter to power 88% of Households

Scotland’s Green Energy makes Enough Electricity 1st Quarter to power 88% of Households

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the first three months of 2019, Scotland produced 17 percent more electricity from renewables than in the same quarter […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Trump & Kushner aren't Offering Palestinians $50 bn.: They're Bribing the Neighbors to Bury Them

Trump & Kushner aren’t Offering Palestinians $50 bn.: They’re Bribing the Neighbors to Bury Them

By Hossam Shaker | – Donald Trump’s administration has recently shown great interest in Palestinians and their welfare. Even Jared Kushner, the US President’s son-in-law, […]

Middle East Monitor

Iran
After Trump's Breach, Iran said it Would Withdraw from Some of the Nuclear Deal: It Hasn't

After Trump’s Breach, Iran said it Would Withdraw from Some of the Nuclear Deal: It Hasn’t

(Informed Comment) – In early May, on the anniversary of US withdrawal from the JCPOA, Iran announced that in view of US violations of the […]

Farhang Jahanpour

Climate Change
Saudi Arabia erases Science, Blocks Progress at Bonn Climate Summit, Pushing Dirty Oil

Saudi Arabia erases Science, Blocks Progress at Bonn Climate Summit, Pushing Dirty Oil

If this Makes you Angry, buy an Electric Car

Juan Cole

Libya
Watching another of America's Forgotten Wars from Libyan Rooftops

Watching another of America’s Forgotten Wars from Libyan Rooftops

( Tomdispatch.com ) – TRIPOLI, Libya — Sometimes war sounds like the harsh crack of gunfire and sometimes like the whisper of the wind. This […]

Nick Turse

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 932
  • Page 933
  • Page 934
  • Page 935
  • Page 936
  • …
  • Page 3027
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Featured

Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Iran

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump

The Department of War is Back; But no Wars won in Decades

William J. Astore

Popular

  • Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
  • Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar's strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance
  • Scientists Prove Justinian's Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis
  • Israel's Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children
  • France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza's Mass Graves
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved