Latest Mideast
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Falk: Banning U.S. Congresspersons from Israel
I believe that by singling these two members of Congress, who happen to be the first two Muslim women ever elected to the House of Representatives, in the manner of Trump’s tweet is a clear instance of racism and hate speec
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Netanyahu Blocks Tlaib and Omar Visit to Israeli-Occupied Palestine
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Monitor: Criticising Israel government is not anti-Semitic
Speaking at a town hall meeting, Bernie Sanders told the crowd that “as somebody who is proudly Jewish”, to be critical of a right-wing government led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is not to be anti-Semitic”.
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Baskin: Israel’s Most Crucial Elections
The results of the upcoming Israeli elections will determine whether or not it will be possible to continue to keep the two-state solution a viable option for the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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Clennon: I Said No to Netflix Audition Because I Support Palestinian Rights
I decided on a small act of resistance. I take some comfort in knowing that I’m not alone. And I’m optimistic that others in our industry will seriously consider withholding their talent
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Lesher: Sorek Hysterics and “Moderate” Madness
If I've learned one paradoxical truth from years of writing about occupied Palestine, it's that a sophisticated Israeli propagandist is nearly always more brutish than a merely ignorant one
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Falk: Context Matters Except for the Palestinians
Just imagine the Israeli reaction to a peace plan put...
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By my count, the six Oslo agreements established 26 joint working bodies, commissions, committees and frameworks for cooperation. Not one of them exists today
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Hodes: Global Crackdown On BDS Is Not About Solidarity with Jews
An increasingly international campaign to tar the BDS movement as “anti-Semitic” comes as Israel’s staunchest global defenders are increasingly anti-Semites themselves
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Cook: With criticism crushed in the west, Israel can enjoy its impunity
Recent events have shone a spotlight not only on how Israel is intensifying its abuse of Palestinians under its rule, but the utterly depraved complicity of western governments in its actions
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Fisk: It’s Trump Who Needs to be Deterred From War Not Iran
Let’s stop pretending that Middle East sanity can emerge from the current inhabitant of the White House
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Fisk: At the Gestapo Museum, U.S. Visitors are Drawing their Own Parallels
At Cologne’s Gestapo museum, visitors are drawing modern parallels – can we really say they’re being simplistic?
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I know that this is really hard for Israelis to...
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Skibell: Ethiopian-Israelis Protest Police Violence in a Divided Israel
The fatal police shooting of an unarmed Ethiopian-Israeli, 18-year-old Solomon Tekah, on June 30th in the northern city of Haifa sparked a wave of demonstrations across Israel
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Falk: Required Reading: Noura Erakat on Palestine and Law
A review of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, by Noura Erakat
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Hong: Resisting the Wall Industry, From Mexico to Palestine
The institutions responsible for harming people operate across borders far more than most people realize, yet many groups are joining forces to gain strength
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Cook: How Goliath of Jerusalem settler movement persuaded the world it’s David
Israeli police forced out the Siyam family from their home in the heart of occupied East Jerusalem last week, the final chapter in their 25-year legal battle against a powerful settler organization
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Fisk: Trump’s fit will blow a chill wind across Middle East
The betrayal of our man in Washington sends a message to every British diplomat: don’t criticise the dictators or their cops or their torturers. Stick to the cocktail circuit. And whatever you do, don’t tell the truth
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Falk: World Court Opinion on Israel’s Separation Wall After 15 Years
Although the decision is labeled as an ‘advisory opinion’ it has the authoritative backing of a fully reasoned and documented consensus of the world’s most distinguished jurists
Iran
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Last month, the Trump White House put out a typically Orwellian statement, chock-filled with lies, distortions, and half-truths about Iran and the 2015 nuclear deal
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Falk: Will Trump’s War-Mongering Lead to War with Iran
I think that Iranian diplomacy has so far exhibited composure and resolve, communicating to Washington a determination by Tehran not to be intimidated even by the ‘maximum pressures’ reportedly mounted by Trump
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Prashad: There Must Be Bones Under the Paved Street
Withdrawal from the INF treaty is only one sign of danger. Another is that the various nuclear powers – led by the United States – have once more placed their nuclear weapons at the heart of their military strategy
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Cole: Germany, France Refuse Trump’s Operation against Tehran
The government of Angela Merkel in Germany has rejected participation in the the Trump administration’s naval mission, “Operation Sentinel”
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Kelly: An Honorable Course in Iran: End Sanctions, Resume Dialogue
Rather than planning cyberattacks and new means of aggression, the United States should heed calls for dialogue and negotiation
Israel/Palestine
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Falk: Banning U.S. Congresspersons from Israel
I believe that by singling these two members of Congress, who happen to be the first two Muslim women ever elected to the House of Representatives, in the manner of Trump’s tweet is a clear instance of racism and hate speec
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Netanyahu Blocks Tlaib and Omar Visit to Israeli-Occupied Palestine
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Monitor: Criticising Israel government is not anti-Semitic
Speaking at a town hall meeting, Bernie Sanders told the crowd that “as somebody who is proudly Jewish”, to be critical of a right-wing government led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is not to be anti-Semitic”.
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Baskin: Israel’s Most Crucial Elections
The results of the upcoming Israeli elections will determine whether or not it will be possible to continue to keep the two-state solution a viable option for the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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Clennon: I Said No to Netflix Audition Because I Support Palestinian Rights
I decided on a small act of resistance. I take some comfort in knowing that I’m not alone. And I’m optimistic that others in our industry will seriously consider withholding their talent
Iraq
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Mohammed: Two Iraqi Peace Activists Confront a Trumpian World
As the Trump Administration Weighs War, Iraqis Prepare a Carnival for Peace
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Cole: Could US-Iran Conflict Tear Iraq Apart Again?
The rising tensions between the Trump administration and Iran have the potential to roil the entire Middle East, and no country feels the heat more than Iraq
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Cole: Calls to Expel US Troops from Iraq
Trump’s assertion that he intends to keep US troops in Iraq to spy on Iran has produced a firestorm of protest and controversy in Baghdad
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Mideast Video
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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
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Israel, with U.S. backing, has caused a "humanitarian disaster" in Gaza, and international human rights groups have failed to uphold justice for its besieged people
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...