Latest Mideast

• ZAlbert: What does election of hard liner Raisi in Iran mean for Mideast Flashpoints?

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  Winstanley: Israel’s incitement gets a free pass

  Imagine that British police forces permitted a crowd of thousands to march through an area of London with a high Jewish population chanting "Death to the Jews" and other similar violently bigoted obscenities
• Seattle: Seattle PD crackdown can’t stop #blocktheboat movement vs. Israeli apartheid

  As part of the global movement to Boycott, Divest and Sanction Apartheid Israel, the Block the Boat movement has emerged to engage in peaceful direct action to stop the unloading of Israeli ships and cargo
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  Baroud: On Trumpism and Netanyahu-ism

  How Benjamin Netanyahu Won America and Lost Israel
• Baskin: Council of Top 5: A proposal to help Palestinians

  This body may be without legal authority, but it would be able to claim wide public legitimacy and advance Palestinian interests vis-à-vis Israel and the rest of the world
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  Bennis: The Real Danger of Israel’s New Government

  Some in Washington may be so glad to be rid of Netanyahu that they’ll welcome his even more hardline successor
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  de Sousa Santos: On Israel’s Colonial Occupation of Palestine

  The Final Solution Without End
• Nassar: Israel kills Palestinian child as settlers steal land

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• Gold: New Israeli Government, Same Israeli Apartheid

  While being hailed by many as the opportunity for a fresh start, Naftali Bennett is at best a continuer of Netanyahu’s policies and at worst an ideologue whose positions are to the right of Netanyahu’s
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  Abunimah: Israel’s government: Same ax, new executioner

  For Palestinians, the new leadership is merely like changing the executioner
• International: Defend Kurdistan against Turkish occupation

  Allies of the Kurdish people gather in Erbil today to call for solidarity in defense of Kurdistan against Erdoğan’s attacks
• Bruenig: What Ilhan Omar Actually Said

  No one should believe that Omar thinks the United States is identical to the Taliban
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  Falk: Whither Palestine? Whither Israel?

  After the Violence Spike, After the Abraham Accords, After Netanyahu
• Davidson: Zionist Academics Take The Side Of State Power

  The growing divide in the United States between Zionists and supporters of Palestinian rights has led to pronounced tensions in academia
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  Cook: Friedman’s Last Gasp

  Thomas Friedman’s recent column in the New York Times reflecting on Israel’s 11-day destruction of Gaza is a showcase for the delusions of liberal Zionism
• Mansour: BDS Gaining Momentum With #BlockTheBoat Actions in Oakland & Seattle

  The mobilizations in Seattle and Oakland are part of a coordinated, international #BlockTheBoat campaign that has been taking place across both U.S. coasts, in Canada, South Africa, Lebanon and at European ports
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  Engler: Canadian Venezuela conference and Liberal hypocrisy

  The sanctions have contributed to 100,000 deaths, according to former UN Rapporteur Alfred de Zayas, and massive outward migration
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  Schwarz: Political System Unites to Condemn Ilhan Omar for Telling the Truth

  The frenzied attacks by Republicans and Democrats on the Minnesota representative are about maintaining absolute impunity for the U.S. and Israel
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  Bello: Why Biden Might not be Able to Extricate the US from its Middle East Quagmire

  Biden has promised an end to the endless wars. But such promises are not easy to keep
• Johnson: ‘The Truth Can’t Be Hidden’

  Omar Hits Back at Dems Upset by Critique of US-Israel Atrocities
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  Bello: Osama’s Ghost: The Economics of Overextension

  Twenty years of military quagmire of the Middle East has contributed to the fraying of the U.S. economy even as China has rapidly become the new center of global capital accumulation
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  Baroud: How Gaza Dethroned the King of Israel

  On the Politics of Victory and Defeat:
• Karanth: Palestinian Activist Criticizes Attempts To Sanitize Forced Displacement In Sheikh Jarrah

  “Just because you can legalize an evil act doesn’t make it any less evil,” Mohammed el-Kurd, who was recently detained, told journalist Mehdi Hasan.
• Mendanlioglu: Rojava’s everyday democracy

  Drawing on first-hand experience in Rojava, Ramazan Mendanlioglu explores how radical decentralisation and self-administration look in practice
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  Bennis: Four Things to Know About Israel’s New ‘Change Coalition’

  The new government — if it takes power at all — is united only around ousting Netanyahu. Here’s what that could mean