Latest Mideast

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  Kolhatkar: Why Are Some on the Left Falling for Fake News on Syria?

  Editor’s note: Reports of a chemical attack in Syria have...
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  Baroud: The Ghost of Herut: Einstein on Israel, 70 Years Ago

  Albert Einstein, along with other Jewish luminaries, including Hannah Arendt, published a letter in the New York Times on December 4, 1948 denouncing Israel’s newly-founded Herut party and its young leader, Menachem Begin
• Abunimah: Snipers ordered to shoot children, Israeli general confirms

  An Israeli general has confirmed that when snipers stationed along Israel’s boundary with Gaza shoot at children, they are doing so deliberately, under clear and specific orders
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  Avnery: The Great Day

  Recently, the State of Israel celebrated its 70th birthday. For...
• Chelala: Gideon Levy: A Voice of Sanity from Israel

  In spite of a systemic policy of demonization against him, Gideon Levy continues denouncing the Israeli government crimes against the Palestinians
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  Cockburn: We should be skeptical

  None of the arguments currently being used in Britain and the US to smear those skeptical of the governmental and media consensus are new
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  Cook: Palestinians mark 70 years of Israeli injustice

  ‘A place I do not recognise’
• Barrows-friedman: Barnard students vote for divestment

  In a major victory for the Palestinian rights movement on...
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  Falk: Attacking Syria

  [Prefatory Note: This post is an assessment of the recent...
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  Hallinan: New Alliance Could Re-shape Middle East

  The “troika alliance”—Turkey, Russia and Iran—consists of three countries that don’t much like one another, have different goals, and whose policies are driven by a combination of geo-global goals and internal politics
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  Baroud: Media Cover-up: Shielding Israel is a Matter of Policy

  It is a calculated and long-term campaign, aimed at guarding Israel and demonizing Palestinians
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  Cook: Robert Fisk’s Douma report rips away excuses for air strike on Syria

  All of us have a moral responsibility to stop simply believing what our governments and their propagandists in the corporate media tell us
• Lucas: UK Journalist Given Access to Douma to Deny Chemical Attacks

  A British journalist has been escorted to the town to give a pro-regime account denying that the attacks ever occurred
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  Fisk: The search for truth in the rubble of Douma

  One doctor’s doubts over the chemical attack
• Morrissey: No Endgame

  Towards a Critical Recent History of the US in the Middle East
• Dika: Syria and the Politics of International Law

  The American bombing campaign has no standing in international law whatever. Just because one country has broken international law, it does not follow that other countries have a right to attack it
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  Cole: Iraq on Syria Strikes

  We’ve seen this Movie and it doesn’t End Well
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  Fisk: Hypocrites and chemical warfare in the Middle East

  Not a soul today is mentioning the terrible war fought between 1980 and 1988, which was fought with our total acquiescence. It's almost an 'exclusive' to mention the conflict at all, so religiously have we forgotten it
• Smith: Outrage Over Douma But Not Children of Gaza & Yemen

  While the US and the UK are appalled by this weekend’s attack on Syria, they have no qualms about selling billions of dollars worth of weaponry to Saudi Arabia
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  Cole: Why Trump can’t reverse Syrian regime dirty win in Ghouta

  The Trump administration and the May government in the UK seem poised to launch missile strikes on Syria in the near future. It probably won’t matter
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  Baroud: Why Israel Feels Threatened by Popular Resistance in Palestine

  As thousands of Palestinians walked peacefully into the deadly 'buffer zone' along the Gaza border into the sights of Israeli snipers, their intention was clear: to be seen by the world as ordinary citizens, to show themselves as ordinary human beings
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  Greenwald: U.S. & Israel Revving Up War Machine

  We begin today’s show in Syria, where Israeli F-15 bomber...
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  Glass: A Loyalist Victory in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta? More Violence

  The outcome in eastern Ghouta is not in doubt, but the cost depends on whether and when the rebels depart
• Barrows-friedman: Irish students, teachers vote for solidarity with Palestine

  The union, which represents approximately 374,000 students in higher education across the country, resolved to boycott Israeli institutions
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  Fisk: Predictions of Middle Eastern politics are an exercise in futility

  There will always be a margin of error, but after years of reporting on the region, certain things can be fairly accurately anticipated, such as the outcome of Arab elections