Latest Mideast
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Mercier: Saudi Arabia vs Qatar
Middle East Controlled-Demolition Plan?
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Cook: Egypt-Saudi Red Sea islands deal
Tel Aviv could use diplomatic capital gained in its approval of Tiran and Sanafir deal for support on Palestinian issue
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Falk: Jewish Ethnicity, Palestinian Solidarity, Human Identity
[Prefatory Note: the following interview with Abdo Emara, an Arab...
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Cole: Pressuring Qatar to close down Aljazeera
In a bid completely to return the Middle East to the old system of strict government media censorship, four countries have demanded that Qatar close down the Aljazeera television channel
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Abunimah: EU washes its hands of Gaza
After 10 years of Israeli blockade, conditions for two million...
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Feffer: A Coming Conflict with Iran?
Behind all of Trump's boneheaded policies in the Middle East is an unmistakable urge for confrontation with Iran
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What politicians said in the wake of Grenfell Tower rings hollow if you’ve seen it all before in the Middle East
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Algherbawi: Life in a septic tank
Every day, 100,000 cubic meters of raw sewage are discharged into the sea around Gaza
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Benjamin: Helping Saudi Arabia Bomb Yemen
Selling weapons to Saudi Arabia has consequences. The intense anti-US sentiment in Yemen should be a wake-up call for Americans
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Hartung: Destabilizing the Middle East (Yet More)
The Saudi Regime Is Playing Donald Trump With Potentially Disastrous Consequences
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Bennis: Bombs Won’t Eradicate Terrorism
US-backed forces are using tactics that cause a 'staggering' number of civilian deaths, but military action won't defeat ISIS
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Konstantakopoulos: The Left in Britain and the Middle East
The youth is looking for a solution to its huge social problems, but also feels that the planet is on the wrong course
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Kelly: Feed the Hungry, Treat the Sick: A Crucial Training
We should, individually and collectively, do all that we can to prohibit U.S. supported Saudi-led coalition onslaughts against Yemeni civilians
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Falk: Remembering a Priest and a Voice for Palestine
Father Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann was a man who spoke truth to power and expected others to do the same
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Cook: UN last hurdle for Israel
The framework of international laws and institutions established after the Second World War is at risk of being dismembered
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Saudi Arabia Wants Qatar to Come Under Its Heel: Even Old Saudi Allies Aren't Exactly Going Along with That
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Ahmad: Remaking the Middle East?
How far will US and Saudis go?
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One can but wonder how much softer the echo might be if Qatar ceases its long term efforts to build détente with Iran and abandons its commitment to the resistance in Palestine
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Morley: U.S.-Saudi war alliance
President Trump now has his own war. The two terror attacks in Iran that left 12 people dead are its opening shots
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday called on Saudi Arabia and its allies to halt their blockade of Qatar.
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The Qatar crisis proves two things: the continued infantilisation of the Arab states, and the total collapse of the Sunni Muslim unity ...
Iran
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Feffer: A Coming Conflict with Iran?
Behind all of Trump's boneheaded policies in the Middle East is an unmistakable urge for confrontation with Iran
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Sjursen: America’s Iran Hysteria
The Irrationality of Iran Vilification
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Solomon: Warfare State at War with Trump
Interview on the Trump/Russia affair and plans to isolate and perhaps attack Iran
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Harvey: Stay the Course With Rouhani
The world cannot afford the breakdown of the Iran nuclear deal
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Fisk: Good news for Iran, bad news for Trump
The Saudis will be appalled that a (comparatively) reasonable Iranian has won a (comparatively) free election that almost none of the 50 dictators gathering to meet Trump in Riyadh would ever dare to hold
Israel/Palestine
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Cook: Egypt-Saudi Red Sea islands deal
Tel Aviv could use diplomatic capital gained in its approval of Tiran and Sanafir deal for support on Palestinian issue
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Falk: Jewish Ethnicity, Palestinian Solidarity, Human Identity
[Prefatory Note: the following interview with Abdo Emara, an Arab...
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Abunimah: EU washes its hands of Gaza
After 10 years of Israeli blockade, conditions for two million...
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Algherbawi: Life in a septic tank
Every day, 100,000 cubic meters of raw sewage are discharged into the sea around Gaza
Iraq
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Habib: Iraqi Elections infected by Fake News
The latest trend in politics in Iraq involves the creation of seemingly innocuous Facebook pages, that are used to spread rumours and lies about the opposition.
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People trapped in the Old City of Mosul are dying of hunger because they have not received any food for almost three weeks
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Cockburn: Civilians in Western Mosul Shot At
Civilians trying to flee the besieged Isis-held enclave in west Mosul are being shot dead by Isis and Iraqi army snipers as they try to cross the Tigris River
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Sandlin: A Crime Against Humanity?
When U.S. rivals committed atrocities in Aleppo, Western talking heads were appalled. But when the U.S. supports them in Mosul? Silence
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Mideast Video
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Abunimah: Democrats Out of Step on Israel-Palestine
Democratic politicians, even progressives like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, are out of touch with their supporters when it comes to defending Palestinian rights
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Barghouti: Recounting Victories
Describing victories of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS) in the effort for Palestinian justice
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Wilkerson: Attack Driven by Domestic Politics
The Syrian Government may not be responsible for the chemical attack and that Trump's response was a violation of international law
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Bennis: US Syria Strike Was Illegal
Trump is receiving praise for his swift decision to bomb the Syrian airbase allegedly responsible for carrying out Tuesday's gas attack, but the President's grounds for action are shaky at best
Mideast Blogs
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Tripathi: Behind Netanyahu’s ‘leaked’ plan to attack Iran
The American presidential election is just two months away, and...
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Tripathi: What’s Changed in Egypt?
CounterPunch, 5 June 2012; Palestine Chronicle, June 4, 2012 The day...
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Tripathi: On Power and Delusions of Grandeur
International Policy Digest First the video of United States Marines...
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Tripathi: When Netanyahu Crossed the Line
CounterPunch The bombing of an Israeli embassy car in Delhi...