Latest Mideast
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Cook: Immunity passports: Does social solidarity only count when it gets us back to the pub?
The ethics of immunity passports, or vaccine apartheid, depends on a wider debate about what our societies mean – and what they obscure – when they discuss issues of trust, the public good and social solidarity
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Feffer: The Talented Mr. Bin Salman
The Saudi prince, like the Patricia Highsmith character, is a confidence man, serial killer, and all-around psychopath. The United States should stop enabling him
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Abunimah: EU backs ICC after Netanyahu’s “anti-Semitism” smear
After years-long delays and decades of waiting for justice, Palestinians are at last seeing their quest to hold Israel accountable and check its crimes bearing fruit
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Ritter: Continued Israeli airstrikes on Syria are testing Moscow’s patience
Jerusalem would do well not to poke the Russian bear
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The ‘Fascinating Story’ of Hamas’s Political Evolution
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Cockburn: The government may feel vindicated over the Shamima Begum verdict – but it shouldn’t
If Begum is a national security risk she should face trial in the UK. Since 9/11, governments purporting to fight terrorism have provided propaganda for al-Qaeda and Isis
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Parsi: Biden “Illegally” Bombs Iranian-Backed Militias in Syria
Jeopardizes Nuclear Talks with Tehran
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Biden imposed sanctions only on aides to Mohammed bin Salman even though a new intelligence report said that MBS approved the mission on Khashoggi
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Cole: Biden’s Double Standards
Iranian Civilians under severe US Sanctions but not accused Saudi Murderer Bin Salman
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Essa: Palestine Is a ‘Taboo Issue Among Certain Circles in High Places’
Cornel West says he is being denied tenure at Harvard University because of his views on Israeli occupation. There is a long history of attempts to suppress or have outspoken critics of Israel fired from academic posts
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Benjamin: Biden’s Reckless Syria Bombing Is Not the Diplomacy He Promised
After failing to prioritize diplomacy and rejoin the Iran nuclear agreement, Biden has now, barely a month into his presidency, reverted to the use of military force
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In Nadir of US-Saudi Relations, release planned of CIA report Accusing Crown prince of Murder
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Baroud: Imagining Palestine: On Barghouti, Darwish, Kanafani and the Language of Exile
Millions of Palestinians continue to live in exile, generation after generation, painstakingly negotiating their individual and collective identities, neither able to return, nor feeling truly whole
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Cole: Is Harvard denying Tenure to Cornel West over his views on Palestine?
West is convinced that his views on the Palestine issue are the real reason for which Harvard will not give him a permanent job
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Paul: Guardian Columnist’s Firing Over Israel Joke Highlights Paper’s Rightward Drift
The Guardian has fired one of its columnists for its US edition, Nathan Robinson, because Robinson jokingly tweeted about US military aid to Israel
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Levy: Jewish National Fund for Apartheid
If anyone still had any doubts about the nationalist and racist – yes, racist – character of Zionism, even in its modern dress, then along came the chairman of the JNF, Avraham Duvdevani, and removed the last of these doubts
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Varoufakis: In Defence of Ken Loach
Ken Loach is now the target of a character assassination campaign waged by those who will stop at nothing to shield the apartheid policies of Israel
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Abunimah: Israeli soldiers cheer after protester shot
A video shows Israeli occupation forces celebrating after a sniper shoots and injures a Palestinian protesting the theft of land by settlers in the central occupied West Bank on 27 November
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Murphy: Fauci champions Israeli medical apartheid
Israel is refusing to distribute vaccines to millions of people living under its single system of unequal rule
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Cockburn: The Arab Spring Failed But the Rage Against Misery and Injustice Continues
The greatest force for revolutionary change in this vast war-ravaged and misruled region is that the humiliation, misery and injustice that Ayat denounced 10 years ago is even greater today – and so is the rage they inspire
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Mancias: Gendered Experiences of Genocide: Anfal Survivors in Kurdistan-Iraq
Review of Gendered experience of genocide: Anfal survivors of Kurdistan-Iraq – (Voices of development management), by Choman Hardi
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Wise: Facebook might censor criticism of Zionists. That’s dangerous
By making ‘Zionists’ a de facto protected category, Facebook would shield the Israeli government from accountability and harm efforts to dismantle antisemitism
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Terrell: Ending the Other War in Yemen
Peace in Yemen, peace in the world, demands no less than an end to the production, trade and use of weaponized drones
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Sourani: ICC’s “Landmark Decision” Could Open Door to Prosecuting Israel for War Crimes
The International Criminal Court has ruled it has the authority to investigate alleged Israeli war crimes in the Palestinian territories
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Murphy: Israel lashes out as ICC okays war crimes probe
The International Criminal Court has territorial jurisdiction to investigate suspected war crimes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, a panel of judges affirmed last week
Iran
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Leupp: Biden Acts with Impunity (to Send Iran a Message, by Attacking Iraqis in Syria)
On 2/25 Biden attacked three countries simultaneously to remind them that the U.S. “does not distinguish” between its Muslim foes but conflates Persians with Arabs, Sunnis and Shiites, terrorists and anti-terrorist militia
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Parsi: Biden “Illegally” Bombs Iranian-Backed Militias in Syria
Jeopardizes Nuclear Talks with Tehran
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Cole: Biden’s Double Standards
Iranian Civilians under severe US Sanctions but not accused Saudi Murderer Bin Salman
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Benjamin: Is Biden Committing Diplomatic Suicide Over the Iran Nuclear Agreement?
Can Biden’s America be part of the solution? After only three weeks in office, surely it can’t be too late. But the ball is in his court, and the whole world is watching
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Falk: Iran’s Islamic Republic Celebrates its 42nd Anniversary
I believe it is correct that the failure of the United States to overcome Iranian resistance to its destabilization and counterrevolutionary efforts is viewed as one dimension of American imperial decline
Israel/Palestine
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Cook: Immunity passports: Does social solidarity only count when it gets us back to the pub?
The ethics of immunity passports, or vaccine apartheid, depends on a wider debate about what our societies mean – and what they obscure – when they discuss issues of trust, the public good and social solidarity
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Abunimah: EU backs ICC after Netanyahu’s “anti-Semitism” smear
After years-long delays and decades of waiting for justice, Palestinians are at last seeing their quest to hold Israel accountable and check its crimes bearing fruit
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Ritter: Continued Israeli airstrikes on Syria are testing Moscow’s patience
Jerusalem would do well not to poke the Russian bear
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The ‘Fascinating Story’ of Hamas’s Political Evolution
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Essa: Palestine Is a ‘Taboo Issue Among Certain Circles in High Places’
Cornel West says he is being denied tenure at Harvard University because of his views on Israeli occupation. There is a long history of attempts to suppress or have outspoken critics of Israel fired from academic posts
Iraq
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Mancias: Gendered Experiences of Genocide: Anfal Survivors in Kurdistan-Iraq
Review of Gendered experience of genocide: Anfal survivors of Kurdistan-Iraq – (Voices of development management), by Choman Hardi
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Driver: The Illusion of Democracy 2: Power and Secrecy
If Britain and the US had genuine democracies, where the views of ordinary people matter, the invasion, slaughter and torture in Iraq would not have happened
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Chulov: ‘Our Blood is Cheaper than Water’: Anger in Iraq Over Trump Pardons
Biden to be lobbied to reverse decision to pardon security guards jailed over massacre
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What did we learn from the Iraq War Logs?
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...