Latest Mideast
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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
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Swanson: How to Get Yourself Named “Pro-Assad”
Will those who have thus far believed that bombing by only one of those parties or the other is evil come to grips with the evil in bombing conducted by the pair of them?
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Lesher: Bds Doesn’t Delegimitize Israel, Mr. Prime Minister – Your Effort To Ban It Does
The nonviolent anti-occupation campaign can never threaten Israel; it can only improve it
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Baroud: Divide and Rule: How Factionalism in Palestine Is Killing Prospect for Freedom
For Israel, Palestinian factionalism is a central piece in its strategy to divide and rule. Sadly, many Palestinians are playing along, and by doing so are jeopardizing their own salvation
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Fisk: Isis has not radicalised young Muslims, it has infantilised them
Isis has broken down the precious wall which separates childhood from adulthood, innocence from guilt. This, far more than mass murder, is its final dark achievement
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Contributors: Gaza Strip: Blockade Causing an End to Fresh Water Resources
The successive attacks on the Gaza Strip have severely affected the sewage systems and destroyed thousands of septic tanks, causing in many cases wastewater to end up in the aquifer
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Fisk: Erdogan’s meeting with Putin will tell us what the future holds for Syria
Not long ago, it was Hillary Clinton who wanted to press the “reset” button with Putin. Now it’s Erdogan – with, one suspects, a lot more effect
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Falk: Dreaming of Freedom: Palestinian Child Prisoners Speak
With such knowledge solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom and dignity becomes almost a psychological inevitability and an even more urgent moral imperative
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Fisk: No, Aleppo is not the new Srebrenica – the west won’t go to war over Syria
There are no ‘good guys’ among the Syrian warlords yet, despite all the evidence, we want to find them. It's time to stop lying to the people of the Middle East
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Fisk: Qatar exerts huge control over British business, but it could be heading for an ‘Arab autumn’
Investments by Qatar’s state-owned companies in Britain are the largest in western Europe
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It’s all about the growing military power of Nusra
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Baroud: Farewell to Yarmouk: A Palestinian Refugee’s Journey from Izmir to Greece
Wanting opportunities and a chance at a real life, they knew this was just a temporary stopover in their long-term plans
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It all comes down to the same thing in the end. If Muslims attack us, they are terrorists. If non-Muslims attack us, they are shooters. If Muslims attack other Muslims, they are attackers
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Zunes: Is anti-Zionism inherently anti-Semitic?
As the U.S. movement in support of Palestinian rights gains...
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Falk: An Unlikely AMEXIT: Pivoting Away from the Middle East
The Case for Disengagement A few years ago Barack Obama...
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Fletcher: Changing the Paradigm: Women, National Liberation & Revolution in the 21st Century
A review of A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State, by Meredith Tax
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Baroud: Being Black Palestinian: Solidarity as a Welcome Pathology
There is an unmistakable sense of being permanently exiled that is shared by many Palestinians, regardless of their political backgrounds
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Swanson: Will the Zanana Ever Stop?
In the dialect of Gaza, where drones buzzed and blew things up for 51 days two years ago, there's an onomatopoetic word for drones: zanana
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Cole: Is Kerry Right? Are Freemen of Syria and Army of Islam Radical Terrorists?
Josh Rogin of the Washington Post caused a stir by...
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Lesher: When Mourning Is Complicity
What looks from the outside like silence is really anger. Anger at the way the occupation corrupts all it touches
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Cole: Clintonites in Democratic Party Back Settler Colonialism (Not a 1905 Headline)
The Clinton loyalists debating the Democratic Party platform have defeated...
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The massacre in Orlando triggered a predictable sandstorm of political and pundit opinion on the causes and prevention of these horrible events
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Olson: Israel and U.S. Schmooze About Arabs and Indians
Rabbi Irgun Kahane-Ariel, Israel’s Deputy Minister for Occupation Affairs, sat...
Iran
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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
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Falk: Aftermath of Political Ruptures: Iran, Egypt, Turkey
Comparing these political ruptures is instructive with respect to grasping what works and what fails when it comes to transformative politics that are variously engineered from below, from above, from without
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Fisk: Why our nuclear deal with Iran is turning to dust
Many of Europe’s largest banks won’t do business with Iran for fear of breaching other US sanctions, which have nothing to do with the nuclear agreement – but a lot to do with US agencies and prosecutors
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Cole: Obama in Hiroshima, Memorial Day and the Iran Deal
The MIC is so powerful that sooner or later they will get a candidate into the White House and turn some ramshackle third world piggy bank upside down and shake out its billions into their accounts
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Jafari: Iran After the Elections
Iran’s radical left must build on the space opened by reformists in recent elections
Israel/Palestine
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We remain steadfast in our condemnation of the State of Israel and their illegal occupation of the Palestinian people’s homeland no matter the consequence
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Lesher: Bds Doesn’t Delegimitize Israel, Mr. Prime Minister – Your Effort To Ban It Does
The nonviolent anti-occupation campaign can never threaten Israel; it can only improve it
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Baroud: Divide and Rule: How Factionalism in Palestine Is Killing Prospect for Freedom
For Israel, Palestinian factionalism is a central piece in its strategy to divide and rule. Sadly, many Palestinians are playing along, and by doing so are jeopardizing their own salvation
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Contributors: Gaza Strip: Blockade Causing an End to Fresh Water Resources
The successive attacks on the Gaza Strip have severely affected the sewage systems and destroyed thousands of septic tanks, causing in many cases wastewater to end up in the aquifer
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Falk: Dreaming of Freedom: Palestinian Child Prisoners Speak
With such knowledge solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom and dignity becomes almost a psychological inevitability and an even more urgent moral imperative
Iraq
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Bignell: Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq
Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq
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Five Ways the Newest Story in Iraq and Syria is... That There Is No New Story
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Baghdad unrest signals disintegration of a political system established in wake of US invasion
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Cole: The End of American Iraq: Poor Shiites invade Parliament over corrupt Spoils System
The Bush administration presided over the installation of an Iraqi spoils system more rowdy and rapacious than anything Andrew Jackson ever imagined
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Mideast Video
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Finkelstein: A Dialogue on Israel and Palestine
This is a panel from the 2016 Left Forum, held May 20 -22 at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. The conference theme was "Rage, Rebellion, Revolution: Organizing Our Power."
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Chomsky: German Weapons Exports to Israel & Saudi Arabia and the Refugee Crisis
Interview on the impacts of arms and weapons exports into Saudi Arabia and the refugee and Syrian crisis that is engulfing neighboring states as well as the European continent
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Interview on his public spat with the Turkish president, the war against ISIL and Russia’s annexation of Crimea
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Achcar: Obama Touts U.S. Strikes on ISIL, But Can Military Escalation Make Up for Failed Strategy?
On Monday, Obama touted the gains of the U.S.-led military coalition in Iraq and Syria while offering an implicit rebuke of Middle East allies
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...