Latest Mideast

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  Cook: Trump enjoys bipartisan support for plan to eradicate Palestinian cause

  The US seeks to engineer a suitable regional environment before it begins implementing the ‘deal of the century’
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  Baroud: Kushner as a Colonial Administrator

  Let’s Talk About the ‘Israeli Model’
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  Achcar: The seasons after the Arab Spring

  Revolt if not revolution in Sudan and Algeria: is this the next phase of a profound change in the Arab world? The uprisings haven’t repeated the mistakes of 2011
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  Fisk: While the World Watches Trump

  The real stories are getting pushed down the page – or “to the back of the book”
• Ellenson: Anti-occupation coalition grows stronger in the face of Israeli military violence

  I know the sting of xenophobia, anti-Semitism and otherness, so I must work to ensure that no one else ever feels it
• Weiss: Bernie Sanders and Palestine

  Bernie Sanders links Hitler’s murder of his family to his fight against occupation of Palestinians
• Baskin: Terrorists and freedom fighters

  The gaps between Israeli political positions and Palestinian positions have become deeper and deeper in recent years
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  Baroud: Facing the Facts: Israel Cannot Escape ICC Jurisdiction

  Israel’s judicial system is untrustworthy and the ICC has the legal right and moral duty to carry out the will of the international community and hold to account those responsible for war crimes anywhere, including Israel
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  Cook: A second Israeli election proves Netanyahu’s grip on power is slipping

  Netanyahu was forced to dissolve the 120-member parliament to block his chief rival, Benny Gantz, from getting a chance to assemble an alternative governing coalition
• Adler: A century later, Trump’s deal for Palestine is no better than Britain’s

  The British left Palestine in 1948 with their tail between their legs, having laid the groundwork for 100 years of conflict. With people like Trump and Kushner leading the way, we should expect nothing better for our own century
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  Kane: God, Gas, and Cash

  How Texas Fell in Love With Israel — and Then Trampled on the Constitution
• Sjursen: Troika Fever

  Key American Allies in the Middle East Are the Real Tyrants
• Baskin: Money can’t buy you love – or your independence

  The Palestinian resistance to the Trump plan is reasonable, understandable and even admirable, and if we were in their place we would strive to do the same
• Carroll: My Pentagon Regret

  As the U.S. Rattles Its Sabers at Tehran, Echoes of Sabers Past
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  Baroud: Resurrecting the PLO is Palestine’s Best Response to the ‘Deal of the Century’

  The only difference between the US ‘peace process’ of the past and today’s ‘Deal of the Century’ is in the style and tactics as opposed to the substance and details
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  Cole: Iran was screwed over by the US

  This civilian nuclear enrichment for fuel is what Iran has been doing for the past 16 years. It is very different from making a bomb, which requires a whole set of other technologies
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  Cook: The western media is key to Syria deceptions

  The media are not a watchdog on power but the public relations arm of giant corporations pursuing their narrow interests in the Middle East
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  Fisk: The Evidence We Were Never Meant to See About the Douma Gas Attack

  It is difficult to underestimate the seriousness of this manipulative act by the OPCW
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  Falk: R2P and the Palestinian Ordeal: Humiliating the UN

  The only path to ending current patterns of criminal victimization is by a combination of Palestinian national resistance and global solidarity initiatives
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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
• Walker: US-Iran dispute threatens to escalate into serious conflict

  By withdrawing from the JCPOA without a fallback position beyond punitive sanctions and threats of military action, the US has separated itself from its allies and left itself few options beyond further sanctions – or military threats
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  Bennis: Foreign Aid That Costs an Arm and a Leg — Literally

  The U.S.-funded Israeli military is shooting so many unarmed Palestinians that the UN is warning of an amputation crisis in Gaza
• Hashem: How to Lobby Washington to Death

  A Business Model From Hell and the War in Yemen
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  Zunes: The Threat of War with Iran

  Is the U.S. lurching towards another illegal war in the Middle East?
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  Bennis: The Alarming Rise of Civilian Deaths in the War On Terror

  New reports show an escalation in civilian casualties from U.S. operations in Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia — and a pattern of U.S. denial about the scale of the problem