Latest Mideast

• Baskin: Prejudices and ignorance among Israeli settlers in the West Bank

  The main, by far, obstacle to Palestinian economic development is the Israeli occupation and its strangling impact on the Palestinians
• Barrows-friedman: How can colleges fight Israel lobby’s threats?

  These accusations are part of an expanding attack on students and faculty at US universities by Israel lobby groups trying to criminalize Palestine solidarity organizing by conflating criticism of Israel with anti-Jewish bigotry
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  Baroud: In the Name of “Israel’s Security”

  Retreating US Gives Israel Billions More in Military Funding
• Shniad: Canada must not suppress free speech on Israel

  We are opposed to all forms of racism. We advocate for justice and peace for both Israelis and Palestinians
• Jacobs: Iranian Opposition—1970s to 2020

  As residents of those nations working to return Iran back to its previous status as a client of imperialism, our task is to oppose the sanctions demanded by the United States and the war moves accompanying those sanctions
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  Cole: Challenge to Trump

  Muqtada al-Sadr & Iraqi Shiite leaders Call for a Million-Man March against US Military Occupation
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  Baroud: Sealed Off and Forgotten

  What You Should Know about Israel’s ‘Firing Zones’ in the West Bank
• Litvin: Zionism and ‘Anti-Semitism’: A Chronicle of a Smear Foretold

  On the road to liberation, only a consistent and unapologetic anti-Zionist framework is effective and congruent with leftist, anti-racist values
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  Cole: Trump Admin. declares US an Occupying Power in Iraq

  Puts US Troops in Jeopardy by Refusing to Leave
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  Cole: Trump’s “WMD” Scandal?

  Was the Charge of “Imminent” Soleimani Attack Just Made Up?
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  Cole: All the Times the US allied with Gen. Soleimani against Common Enemies

  The prime minister of Iraq says he invited Soleimani to Baghdad for peace negotiations with Saudi Arabia and then Trump just suddenly blew his guest away. Soleimani came openly on a commercial flight and went through passport control with his diplomatic passport
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  Lesher: About That Hate And Fear March — Sorry, That “No Hate, No Fear” March Last Sunday

  Its right-wing organizers may have cloaked it in gauzy rhetoric about "solidarity" and "love" -- but anyone genuinely attuned to its message knew better. Inside the silken glove was the familiar iron fist
• Weiss: ICC will likely throw out Palestine’s case for war crimes

  “The battle is going to be played out behind closed doors and in the court of public opinion"
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  Prashad: Is This the End of U.S. Interference in the Middle East?

  To understand U.S. fears about Iran, it is important to recognize the ideological threat that Iran poses to Saudi Arabia.
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  Cockburn: Trump’s Actions in Iraq Could Plunge Country Into Crisis Again

  Leaving Iran as Strong as Ever
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  Bacevich: A Report Card on the American Project

  The “Revolution of ’89” Reassessed
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  Baroud: Justice at Last?

  ‘Panic’ in Israel as the ICC Takes ‘Momentous Step’ in the Right Direction
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  Fang: TV Pundits Praising Assassination Neglect to Disclose Ties to Arms Industry

  Many of the pundits who appeared on national television or were quoted in major publications to praise the president’s actions have undisclosed ties to the defense industry — the only domestic industry that stands to gain from increased violence
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  Bennis: Soleimani’s Assassination Violates International Law

  Congress must stop Trump from taking the U.S. to war without any justification or provocation
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  Cole: Iraqi Parliament Resolves to Kick Out US Troops

  Trump Threatens Mother of All Sanctions
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  Cockburn: Iraq’s Worst Fears Have Come True: a Proxy War on Its Doorstep

  General Soleimani died in the wake of his greatest failure and misjudgement. But the manner of his killing may convince many Shia Iraqis that the threat to Iraqi independence from the US is greater than that from Iran
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  Grossman: A war on Iran would be different from Iraq, and far, far worse

  Trump's action could set into motion a regional conflagration, the violent break-up of Iran into ethnic enclaves, and a death toll that would make the Iraq War look like a warm-up exercise
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  Rasmus: Trump’s Deja Vu Wartime Playbook

  Evidence lately is leaking out that Trump and his neocon foreign policy radical advisors have been planning the assassination at least since late December, and probably earlier
• Ritter: The US unwittingly helped create Qassem Soleimani

  Then they killed him
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  Baroud: The ‘Great Game’ is Afoot

  Killing Soleimani Reflects US Desperation in the Middle East