Latest Mideast

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  Cole: Israeli PM Netanyahu’s Wag the Dog Move

  Moves to Annex 25% of Palestinian West Bank
• Amery: Climate, not conflict, drove many Syrian refugees to Lebanon

  Many refugees told me that even if their home region became physically safe to return to, they would not go back. They feared they would be unable to eke out a living from the increasingly arid land
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  Baroud: End of the Netanyahu era and a political earthquake ahead

  The reason that Netanyahu is still in power after all the setbacks and outright failures is the fact that his rivals are yet to mobilise the necessary votes and public support to oust him for good
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  Fisk: I talked to everybody I could in Syria. That’s how you find out the truth

  I’ve spent months these past eight years in Syria’s amputated cities. They are a scar on all our lives – the Russians, the Syrians, the armed Islamists, the western powers that spent more time trying to destroy Syria than the Syrian regime
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  Baroud: The Unfinished ‘Coup’

  The End of Netanyahu’s Era and the Political Earthquake ahead
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  Falk: Contra Israeli Apartheid

  What the South African precedent tells us is that what seemed impossible until it happened, became possible all of a sudden because sufficient pressure had been brought to bear over time by robust resistance within and militant solidarity efforts without
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  Cole: Iraqi Crowds Erupt in Celebration as PM Offers to Resign

  The demonstrators have been demanding an end to corruption and the provision of services
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  Levy: The Contract on Corbyn

  Corbyn is not an anti-Semite. His real sin is to fight against injustice in the world, including the version Israel perpetrates
• Baskin: A higher moral standard

  A prime minister with integrity and a moral compass would understand the ethical obligation to resign under such circumstances
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  Baroud: Israel’s Next Move

  The Real Danger in US Decision to Normalize Illegal Jewish Settlements
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  Falk: Health and Human Rights in Gaza: Shame on the World

  Despite present appearances to the contrary, I am confident that justice will prevail, that Palestinians will achieve their rights, and surprise the world as did the opponents of South African apartheid a generation ago
• Davidson: Waging War Against the Rule of Law

  Despite all, the struggle of the Palestinians and their allies will go on
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  Fisk: How Belfast Prepared Me for the Middle East

  The transition from Belfast wasn’t from the frying pan into the fire. It was from imaginable violence to unimaginable cruelty on a mass scale
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  Cook: Is Netanyahu ready to inflame war to escape his legal troubles?

  This repeated scaremongering had an obvious goal: rallying the Jewish public to vote for his far-right, now overtly anti-Arab coalition
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  Falk: A New Cycle of Gaza/Israel Violence

  To establish peace, Israel will have to make a major decision to accept a coexistence of equals with the Palestinian people
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  Cole: Israeli “Crime Minister” Netanyahu Indicted

  Political System in Freefall
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  Fisk: Pompeo Scorns the Law Because He’s Never Had to Follow It

  Did US secretaries of state always lie so brazenly, so frighteningly, so mendaciously, so utterly without conscience?
• Ghazal: Lebanon’s October Revolution

  Resistance and the (re-)production of popular culture
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  Prashad: We Thought the House Was Empty

  Source: Tricontinental Institute for Social Research On 13 November 2019,...
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  Cohn: Trump’s New Policy on Israeli Settlements Is Illegal and Self-Serving

  Thumbing his nose at the Geneva Convention, the Rome Statute, the UN Security Council, the UN General Assembly and the International Court of Justice, Donald Trump decided that Israel’s unlawful construction of Jewish settlements in occupied Palestinian territory is lawful
• Gustafsson: Lebanon’s uprising remains united against political elite

  Unlike previous movements, demonstrations in Lebanon have spread to all parts of the country and are targeting the entire political establishment
• staff: ‘A threat to global stability’: US denies Israeli settlements illegal

  Mike Pompeo rolls back decades of policy and disregards international law in bombshell statement
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  Cockburn: Erdogan’s Ethnic Cleansing of the Kurds is Still Happening

  Such atrocities are ethnic cleansing in action and are what Trump greenlit when he opened the door to the Turkish invasion of Syria
• Murtaza Hussain, Ronen Bergman: A Spy Complex Revealed

  Leaked Iranian Intelligence Reports Expose Tehran’s Vast Web of Influence in Iraq
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  Scahill: The Changing of the Overlords

  From the Rubble of the U.S. War in Iraq, Iran Built a New Order