Latest Mideast

• Hamilton: Why I am on the Women’s Boat to Gaza

  In twenty-four hours, I will join the women on the third leg of the trip to Messina, Sicily, and from there the Zaytouna-Oliva will proceed to its final destination: Gaza
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  Cockburn: Government has no strategy, no plan and only ‘phantom’ allies in Syria, scathing Commons report reveals

  As ceasefire sits on the brink of collapse, MPs’ report paints a damning picture of Britain’s bombing campaign
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  Levy: With New Israel Aid Deal, Obama Is Patron of the Occupation

  U.S. generosity, which costs American taxpayers $300 a year, is detrimental to Israel will only help Israel make more war
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  Cook: US aid deal gives green light to Israel’s erasure of Palestine

  If Obama really wanted to pressure Netanyahu, he would have used the aid agreement as leverage. Now Netanyahu need not fear US financial retaliation
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  Fisk: They called the War on Terror a new world war – and then forgot all about it

  Just as the Great War led to the Second, so the world war against al-Qaeda led, via Iraq, to the war against the apocalyptic Isis
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  Cook: Israel’s bogus civil war

  Is Israel on the verge of civil war, as a growing number of Israeli commentators suggest, with its Jewish population deeply riven over the future of the occupation?
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  Cockburn: Isis fighter reveals group’s plan to spread even after defeat in Iraq and Syria

  The world powers underestimate its resilience because they do not understand the attractiveness of Isis and its ideology to those who find the status quo unacceptable
• Perugini: Human rights of the settler

  State-sanctioned ethnic cleansing and ongoing human rights violations is what enabled the Jewish settlers to occupy the lands on which they live in the first place
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  Fisk: Saudi Arabia cannot pay its workers or bills – yet continues to fund a war in Yemen

  The kingdom’s cash is not flowing so smoothly for the tens of thousands of sub-continental expatriates sweating away on his great building sites
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  Cole: Iran and Hizbullah Welcome Kerry-Lavrov Syria Ceasefire

  Hizbullah, the national guard for South Lebanon, announced Saturday that it supports the agreement on a truce in Syria
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  Baroud: Is Israel Pushing for a Palestinian Civil War?

  A quick look back at history tells us that Lieberman’s tactics will fail; the question is, however, at what cost?
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  Cohn: Iraqi Woman Uses Chilcot Report in War Crimes Lawsuit Against George W. Bush

  Sundus Saleh, an Iraqi woman, first filed her lawsuit against George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice and Paul Wolfowitz in September 2013
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  Falk: Clinton versus Trump: How It Might Matter for the Middle East

  [Prefatory Note: An earlier version was published on September 1,...
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  Cockburn: Syrian Kurds vow to fight to the death to stop Turkey ‘invading’ their territory

  Officials fear growing co-operation between the Syrian and Turkish governments in opposition to Kurdish separatism
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  Hallinan: Turkey’s Coup: Winners & Losers

  The obvious winner is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogen and his campaign to transform Turkey from a parliamentary democracy to a powerful, centralized executive with himself in charge
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  Fisk: Alan Kurdi symbolised an army of dead children. We ignore them at our peril

  One year on, has the world learned the lesson of the three-year-old boy washed up on a Turkish beach?
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  Baroud: ‘Activism’ and Its Consequences: Syrian Refugees Are Not Subjects for a Social Media Gallery

  A true humanitarian activist is one who is able to make a tangible difference in the lives of others
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  Cook: Israel to colour-code ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Palestinians

  Lieberman’s longer-term goal is to persuade Palestinians – and the international community – that their aspirations for self-determination are unattainable and counter-productive
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  Benjamin: U.S. Weapons Sales Are Drenched in Yemeni Blood

  Saudi Arabia is using billions in U.S. aid to fund their onslaught of innocent civilians in Yemen, but it's not too late for Congress to stop this madness
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  Fisk: Iraq’s hangmen are back and this time they’re becoming more efficient

  Sunnis have been the principal victims of the largely Shia hangmen now carrying out the ‘democratically elected’ Iraqi government’s executions
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  Baroud: Punishing the Messenger: Israel’s War on NGOs Takes a Worrying Turn

  With little or no accountability, Israel will continue with its fight targeting NGOs, threatening activists and restricting the work of anyone that dares to be critical
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  Baroud: The Obama Doctrine is Ravaging the Middle East

  Everyone seems to have a theory on how to obliterate...
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  Cockburn: “This is Our War & It is Shameful”

  Interview on the U.S. Role in the War in Yemen
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  Fisk: Turkey’s hit list of enemies is growing as Erdogan prepares to buddy up with Putin in Syria

  Whoever he wants to blame for the Gaziantep bombing, Erdogan must realise that these now regular atrocities are a direct result of his personal decision to involve himself in the Syrian war
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  Fisk: The Shias are winning in the Middle East – and it’s all thanks to Russia

  Just as Erdogan has become pals with Putin, the Turkish and Iranian foreign ministers have been embracing in Ankara with many a promise that their own talks will produce new alliances