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Latest Mideast
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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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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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Corbyn is not an anti-Semite. His real sin is to fight against injustice in the world, including the version Israel perpetrates
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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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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
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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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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
Iran
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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
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Cockburn: How Tehran-backed forces are taking over in Iraq
Protests represent the biggest threat to the Iraqi political establishment since Isis was advancing on Baghdad
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Falk: Iran’s Gulf Peace Proposal: HOPE
The plan outlined by President Rouhani should be further developed by the government in Tehran. It should be presented to the world as a serious and constructive proposal
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Prashad: Iran’s capacity to strike back should even make Trump think twice
The claim that Iran is the main “sponsor of terrorism” is one that has become a cliché from Washington to Riyadh
Israel/Palestine
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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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Baroud: The War on Truth: How Israel’s Social Media Trolls Conquered Facebook
Israel may have found a way to circumvent the influence of Facebook on the discussions pertaining to Palestinian rights and the Israeli occupation
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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
Iraq
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Cockburn: Resignation will not automatically stop mass uprising
The departure of Adel Abdul-Mahdi as prime minister is unlikely to defuse the protests, because the Iraqi state is probably incapable of reforming itself
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Solomon: The Official Secrets Movie vs. Joe Biden’s Lies About the Iraq War
As he pursues the presidency, Joe Biden is persisting with dismal innovations to falsify his record on the Iraq war. In the process, he’s operating completely at odds with what the Official Secrets film and Katharine Gun are all about
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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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Cockburn: UK failure in Iraq and Afghanistan highlighted by war crime claims
If true, claims would be in keeping with UK’s completely dismal record in both theatres of conflict
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Murtaza Hussain, Ronen Bergman: A Spy Complex Revealed
Leaked Iranian Intelligence Reports Expose Tehran’s Vast Web of Influence in Iraq
ZMag Mideast
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 Links
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End the Occupation
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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...