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

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between […]

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

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

09/17/2025 By Juan Cole

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

09/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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

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

( Tomdispatch.com ) – My fellow Americans, my critical voice has finally been heard inside the Oval Office. No, not my voice against the $1.7 […]

William J. Astore

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France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza’s Mass Graves

France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza’s Mass Graves

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – French President Macron is taking the lead in a doomed bid to keep a two-state solution alive. […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Omar Khayyam
“Look to the Rose:”  Edward FitzGerald’s  Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:13

“Look to the Rose:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:13

Stanza no. 13 of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is about the free gifts we receive from […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
52 Ways to Combat Malignant Hatred of Muslims

52 Ways to Combat Malignant Hatred of Muslims

By Mehmet Ozalp, Charles Sturt University (The Conversation) – Australian Muslim communities have been calling for official recognition of Islamophobia as a serious social problem […]

The Conversation

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Protesting Claremont Colleges Library Censorship of “Policing Palestine”

Protesting Claremont Colleges Library Censorship of “Policing Palestine”

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Letter to the Claremont Colleges library condemning the censorship of the […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children

Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That is […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

By Yousef Ibrahim ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Israeli attempt to assassinate Hamas leaders in Doha was not simply an unsuccessful military operation—it […]

Middle East Monitor

China
Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

( Tomdispatch.com ) – That was President Trump’s blunt assessment of global power politics when it came to the United States and Russia following his […]

Michael T. Klare

Archaeology
Scientists Prove Justinian’s Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis

Scientists Prove Justinian’s Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring areas such […]

Juan Cole

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