Latest Mideast
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Baskin: Israelis and Palestinians must join forces in creating a new shared vision
Walls and fences are not the recipe for peace
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A war crimes complaint has been filed against Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump adviser Jared Kushner in the International Criminal Court
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Baroud: On Israel’s Bizarre Definitions: The West Bank is Already Annexed
Wednesday, July 1, was meant to be the day on which the Israeli government officially annexed 30% of the occupied Palestinian West Bank and the Jordan Valley. This date, however, came and went and annexation was never actualized.
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Mariniello: Will the ICC Investigation Bring Justice for Palestine?
Will the US succeed, once more, in blocking another international investigation?
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For Israelis, the Palestinian issue of peace has been off the agenda for many years. For Palestinians, the issue of peace has never seemed further away from their daily reality
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Grim: J Street Facing New Pressure to Back Conditioning Aid to Israel
More than 1,000 former and current members of J Street U are calling on the group’s leadership to get behind a legislative effort to condition funding of the state of Israel if it goes forward with illegally annexing Palestinian territory
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Surin: UK’s Labour Leader Sacks Most Left-Wing Member of His Shadow Cabinet
At these conferences Minnesota police were instructed in the brutal techniques used by Israeli forces as they coerce and terrorize Palestinians living in the occupied territories under the pretense of security operations
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Tramel: Palestinian farmers fight against annexation and pandemic
The violent Israeli encroachment and annexation of Palestinian land is putting the future of the West Bank and its residents in an extremely vulnerable position
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Cole: Sanders, AOC, Tlaib Threaten to Cut Israeli Funding
The letter is a turning point in US-Israeli relations since 1967, during which the American public and political elite has been happy to support Israeli colonization of the Palestinians
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Abunimah: Pro-Israel racist group ADL moves to co-opt Black Lives Matter
Supporting Israel and Zionism is totally incompatible with any quest for justice. All the slick spin and PR campaigns cannot hide this simple truth: You can’t be an anti-racist racist.
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Ghanim: ‘Annexation has made the Palestinian struggle anti-colonial once again’
While it will be hard to stop annexation, this moment presents an opportunity to bring the struggle back to basics
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Vandenbroucke: What Do Americans Know—and Want to Know—about Palestine?
We declared independence to achieve freedom from colonial rule; we still cherish ideals like liberty and justice for all. Palestinians yearn for the same
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Benjamin: Will Biden Remain Tone Deaf to Palestinian Rights?
Biden’s unconditional support for Israel’s rightwing government is not only less and less popular among Americans, but it guarantees continued repression against Palestinians and continued unrest in the region
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Cook: Chokehold on diplomat exposes Israel’s special type of apartheid
An Israeli diplomat filed a complaint last week with police after he was pulled to the ground in Jerusalem by four security guards, who knelt on his neck for five minutes as he cried out: “I can’t breathe.”
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Cole: PM Netanyahu’s son Calls for Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian-Israelis from Tel Aviv
Injustice on racial grounds cries out for redress and for the achievement of equality of opportunity wherever it is found
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Winstanley: Legal blow for pro-Israel lobby as BDS continues its long advance
The long campaign against Israeli occupation, apartheid and expulsion requires stamina; we will win, but it will require tenacity
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Baroud: Exposing Israel’s Direct Role in US Violence
It is critical that we do not reduce our understanding of this troubling rapport between the US and Israel to military hardware and intelligence sharing
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Abunimah: European Court upholds right to boycott Israel
“Israel, an apartheid country, cannot forever prevent the truimph of justice and freedom for the Palestinian people.”
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Baskin: The search for a new vision for Israeli-Palestinian peace
I will consult with, I imagine, at least 50 more interested people. I have not yet consulted with enough haredim or with enough Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. But I will.
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Cook: Israel and the US step up efforts to intimidate the Hague war crimes court
A criminal suspect does not get to decide whether their victim can make a complaint, or whether the legal system should investigate. The same must apply in international law if it is to have any meaningful application.
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Palumbo: How the Saudis, the Qataris, and the Emiratis Took Washington
A Monumental Lobbying Battle Over American Foreign Policy
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Cole: Israel’s Netanyahu says the Quiet Part Out Loud
Palestinians to be “subjects,” not Citizens in Apartheid Annexation
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Baskin: Beyond two states – the vision for the future
Jaffa is as important to Palestinians and Shechem (Nablus) is to Israeli Jews
Iran
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Salas: Venezuela’s Economy Under Siege
A polemical economist reflects on the government’s policies in the face of harsh sanctions, including its general tendency toward dollarization.
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Cole: Russia shoots down “Ridiculous” Trump demand for Arms Embargo on Tehran
The Neoconservative wing of the Trump administration, which is dying to drag the United States into a war with Iran, suffered an embarrassing setback on Monday when its latest flimsy scheme crashed and burned.
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Falk: Revisiting Meeting Ayatollah Khomeini in January, 1979
A major dimension of AK’s legacy is that he managed to bring stability to the Islamic Republic by overcoming formidable obstacles during the first difficult decade of its existence. Unfortunately, for Iran the struggle goes on with no end in sight
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Benjamin: Who Are the Secret Puppet-Masters Behind Trump’s War on Iran?
The message of these groups dedicated to “countering extremism” is clear and none too subtle: Saudi Arabia and the UAE are always U.S. allies and victims of extremism, never a problem or a source of danger, violence or chaos
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Prashad: Why Iran’s Fuel Tankers for Venezuela Are Sending Shudders Through Washington
At the United Nations China has been outspoken against the regime change policy driven by the United States against both states. It has been this Chinese shield that enabled the tankers to go through what is effectively a U.S. naval blockade of Venezuela
Israel/Palestine
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Baskin: Israelis and Palestinians must join forces in creating a new shared vision
Walls and fences are not the recipe for peace
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A war crimes complaint has been filed against Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump adviser Jared Kushner in the International Criminal Court
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Baroud: On Israel’s Bizarre Definitions: The West Bank is Already Annexed
Wednesday, July 1, was meant to be the day on which the Israeli government officially annexed 30% of the occupied Palestinian West Bank and the Jordan Valley. This date, however, came and went and annexation was never actualized.
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Mariniello: Will the ICC Investigation Bring Justice for Palestine?
Will the US succeed, once more, in blocking another international investigation?
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For Israelis, the Palestinian issue of peace has been off the agenda for many years. For Palestinians, the issue of peace has never seemed further away from their daily reality
Iraq
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Martin: Social distancing? Peace and social justice demand more coming together, not more distancing
Let’s get all U.S. troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, make peace with Iran, and address the real threats to human security like pandemics and the climate crisis
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Erlich: In a Plague Year, Trump Ratchets up Tensions with Iran and Iraq
Trump can continue his “maximum pressure campaign” against Iran and face continued Iraqi attacks on US troops. Or he can back off to focus on domestic concerns and avoid a wider war
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Benjamin: 12 Ways the U.S. Invasion of Iraq Lives on in Infamy
The U.S. invasion was a crime of aggression under international law, and was actively opposed by people and countries all over the world
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Cole: As Trump stumbles on Coronavirus, He Bombs Shiites in Shiite-Ruled Iraq
The Trump administration is now more or less forcibly occupying Iraq against the will of its elected representatives, and is waging a low intensity war on a section of the Iraqi military with which the US is supposed to be allied
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Zangana: The Iraqi uprising is a quantum leap in collective awareness
The uprising, with the courage and sacrifices of its youth, has given the people hope for real change
ZMag Mideast
Mideast Video
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Hedges: The Miracle of Kindness
Take a brief journey through the eyes of American, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges to Jerusalem, Gaza, and Iraq, and discover the sacred bonds that make us human
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Podur: On the Soleimani Assassination and preventing World War Three
A talk on the assassination of Iranian general Qasem Suleimani in Iraq, about who he was, why this moment is so dangerous, and what the principles of an antiwar movement should be
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Petersen-Smith: Trump Oversees Death and Destruction in Syria, Afghanistan, and More
Amnesty International released a major report about US-led massacres of more than 1,600 civilians in Raqqa, Syria from June to October of 2017
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Bennis: The Crisis in Gaza and a Potential Ceasefire
Discussing the recent Israeli special forces operation inside the Gaza Strip that killed 7 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier, as well as Israeli air strikes and a potential ceasefire
Mideast Blogs
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Tripathi: Behind Netanyahu’s ‘leaked’ plan to attack Iran
The American presidential election is just two months away, and...
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Tripathi: What’s Changed in Egypt?
CounterPunch, 5 June 2012; Palestine Chronicle, June 4, 2012 The day...
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Tripathi: On Power and Delusions of Grandeur
International Policy Digest First the video of United States Marines...
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Tripathi: When Netanyahu Crossed the Line
CounterPunch The bombing of an Israeli embassy car in Delhi...