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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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Erdogan's Agony: Has Istanbul just begun saving Turkish Democracy?

Erdogan’s Agony: Has Istanbul just begun saving Turkish Democracy?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Istanbul has clapped back for democracy big time, electing as mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu of the secular Republican Peoples Party. İmamoğlu […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump's Dismantling of our Government: Deregulating our Way to Disaster

Trump’s Dismantling of our Government: Deregulating our Way to Disaster

(Informed Comment) – While Trump’s xenophobic and protectionist agenda, thankfully often blocked by the courts, has received the lion’s share of media attention, his henchmen […]

John Buell

Iran
Mideast Peril: How Hardliners in Washington and Tehran are Reinforcing Each Other

Mideast Peril: How Hardliners in Washington and Tehran are Reinforcing Each Other

London (Informed Comment) – Donald Trump’s increasingly aggressive stance towards the Islamic Republic of Iran to supposedly curtail its nuclear capabilities is doomed to fail, […]

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Iran
Trump caught in Iran War Trap of his own Making

Trump caught in Iran War Trap of his own Making

Kuwait City (Informed Comment) – Iran–US tensions have reached the tipping point. The downing of a Global Hawk RQ4C surveillance drone, a high prized US […]

Mohammed Nuruzzaman

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Dear Trump:  Iran doesn't Have a Military Nuclear Program and Gave up Bomb-Making Potential

Dear Trump: Iran doesn’t Have a Military Nuclear Program and Gave up Bomb-Making Potential

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Julian Borger at The Guardian reports that Trump said Saturday to reporters, “They’re not going to have a nuclear weapon. […]

Juan Cole

Immigration
Why Interning Refugee Children In Military Bases puts them at Risk in Age of Trump

Why Interning Refugee Children In Military Bases puts them at Risk in Age of Trump

By Jana Lipman | – Fort Sill, an army base in Oklahoma, will soon become a refugee camp. The Department of Health and Human Services […]

The Conversation

Saudi Arabia
A Terrible Week for Saudi’s MBS Shows Tide is Turning

A Terrible Week for Saudi’s MBS Shows Tide is Turning

Arms Sales Suspensions and Damning Report on Khashoggi Murder Are a Strong Signal to Riyadh

Human Rights Watch

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Crown Prince Haunted by Ghost of Murdered dissident Journalist Khashoggi

Saudi Crown Prince Haunted by Ghost of Murdered dissident Journalist Khashoggi

By Hazem Ayyad | – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman tried to pre-empt the release of the final report of the international inquiry into […]

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
Trump cites "Proportionality" in Iran pullback, though He has often Violated It

Trump cites “Proportionality” in Iran pullback, though He has often Violated It

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump in an interview Friday with Meet the Press attributed his decision not to go ahead with a strike on […]

Juan Cole

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