Latest Mideast
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Kelly: Vigil for Peace in Yemen, a New Norm
Particularly now, with intense focus on U.S. health care, it’s timely to recognize that in the past five years U.S. supported Gulf Coalition airstrikes bombed Yemen’s health care facilities 83 times
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Cole: No Mercy even in a Pandemic
Israeli Occupation Authorities Demolish Makeshift Field Hospital in Palestinian Hamlet
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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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Abunimah: West Bank woman is first Palestinian to die from COVID-19
Israel has not eased up on its abuses of Palestinians despite the pandemic. In one shocking incident on Monday, a Palestinian laborer with flu-like symptoms and a fever was dumped at a West Bank checkpoint by Israeli police
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Cole: The Coronavirus and Vulnerable Gaza
California releasing inmates for fear of Coronavirus, but Israelis Keep Vulnerable Gaza as Largest Open Air Prison
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Cole: Israel Considers admitting Palestinian-Israelis to Political Game
This unexpected development introduces a whole new set of premises into Israeli politics, considering as thinkable what was once unthinkable
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Benjamin: Saudi’s Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
How can the world’s leaders pretend that it is acceptable to meet in a country that imprisons and tortures peaceful women activists and bombs civilians in Yemen? It isn’t
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Cole: Netanyahu, failing to get a majority for the third time, Lashes out
Netanyahu accused the “Joint List” made up of 15 Palestinian-Israelis elected to parliament of being “terrorists” and put them out of consideration in the formation of a government
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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
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Petersen-Smith: Ending the Myth That Trump Is Ending the Wars
Trump has sent more new troops to the Middle East than he’s bringing home from Afghanistan
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Baroud: A Terrifying Scenario: Coronavirus in ‘Quarantined’ Gaza
What is needed is a fundamental and structural change that would emancipate the Palestinian healthcare system from the horrific impact of the Israeli occupation and the Israeli government’s policies of perpetual siege and politically-imposed ‘quarantines’ - also known as apartheid
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Awad: Nonviolent Noncooperation: A Palestinian Response to the Kushner/Trump Plan
I call on Americans and Israelis to reject this campaign stunt and to support genuine equality and mutuality as the basis for peace
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Abunimah: European ex-prime ministers condemn Trump plan as apartheid
Where was their clear-eyed thinking about apartheid when they could have done something, instead of collectively spending decades in governments aiding and abetting Israel’s crimes?
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Baroud: Beyond Israeli Elections: Israel at the Cusp of a Bleak Era
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, must be channeling the spirit of Houdini as he continues to plot his escape from one of the most convoluted political dilemmas in Israel’s history
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Cole: Sanders calls out Netanyahu, Bloomberg charges Mideast with “age-old hatreds”
Bloomberg declares the moving of the US embassy to Jerusalem irrevocable, when in fact the US can put its embassy where it wants and does not have to bless Netanyahu’s illegal annexation of the occupied Palestinian east of the city
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Cole: Israel’s Netanyahu boasts of having Destroyed US 1st Amendment and Free Speech
etanyahu just boasted that his ministry of strategic affairs has managed to undermine first amendment protections for free speech in the United States by lobbying state legislatures to pass laws forbidding the boycott of Israel
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Cole: Rockets slam into US Embassy Compound in Iraq, as Base with US Troops also Comes under Fire
Trump has threatened to destroy the Iraqi economy with severe sanctions if the Iraqi executive follows through on parliament’s decree that US troops must leave
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Lustick: One State Is Not the Solution, But It Is the Reality
A “Dead Solution Walking.”
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Cook: Duh, Jared! So who built the PA as a ‘police state’?
By pushing the Middle East peace process to its logical conclusion, Donald Trump has made crystal clear something that was supposed to have been obscured: that no US administration has ever really seen peace as the objective of its “peacemaking”
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Baroud: The ‘Deal of the Century’ Challenge for Palestinians
The Palestinian leadership cannot be absolved from its responsibility towards the Palestinian people, and its unmitigated failure to develop a comprehensive national strategy
Iran
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Eskow: Iran Sanctions Are Biological Warfare Against Civilians
This is not an economic policy. It is the collective punishment of civilians. It is an act of biological warfare against children, the elderly, and people of all ages
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No other country in the world is being subjected to the type of regime change strategy that the Trump administration is applying to Venezuela
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Cole: ran Covid-19 Deaths Rival US as Trump Blockade blocks Medical Supplies
The European Union has activated the Instex trading mechanism for the purpose of sending medicine and medical supplies to Iran to fight the coronavirus outbreak
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Capaccio: The Virus of Sanctions: Flattening the Curve
If ever there were an opportunity for people to recognize each other's humanity and cast aside their mutual fears and antagonisms, now is that opportunity when everyone is facing the same life-threatening disease
Israel/Palestine
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Cole: No Mercy even in a Pandemic
Israeli Occupation Authorities Demolish Makeshift Field Hospital in Palestinian Hamlet
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Abunimah: West Bank woman is first Palestinian to die from COVID-19
Israel has not eased up on its abuses of Palestinians despite the pandemic. In one shocking incident on Monday, a Palestinian laborer with flu-like symptoms and a fever was dumped at a West Bank checkpoint by Israeli police
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Cole: The Coronavirus and Vulnerable Gaza
California releasing inmates for fear of Coronavirus, but Israelis Keep Vulnerable Gaza as Largest Open Air Prison
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...