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Latest Mideast
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Fisk: The Autocrats of the Middle East are No Longer a Global Anomaly
Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, is absolutely right about Donald Trump. One wonders how he might describe Boris Johnson
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Wadi: Decolonize Palestine to achieve liberation
Palestinians have rejected the Manama summit taking place today for several legitimate reasons – all pointing to how the US prelude to the so-called “deal of the century” normalises Israel at an unprecedented level
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Abunimah: NY Times publishes call for Palestinian “national suicide”
Palestinians have not surrendered despite all the atrocities Israel has committed and commits against them. And op-eds using genocidal terminology in The New York Times will not bring them to their knees either
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Baroud: The Day After: What if Israel Annexes the West Bank?
Encouraged by the Donald Trump administration’s decision to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Israeli government officials feel that the time for annexing the entirety of the West Bank is now
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Fisk: The West is Silent Over Morsi
The lack of comment from our heads of state is positive encouragement to every Middle Eastern leader who now knows their own misdeeds will go unpunished
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Fisk: Trump’s ‘evidence’ of Iran’s role is dodgy
In the real world, there should be a military alliance between the US and Iran. But as its withdrawal from the nuclear deal showed last year, Washington no longer moves through any known orbit
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Cook: Trump enjoys bipartisan support for plan to eradicate Palestinian cause
The US seeks to engineer a suitable regional environment before it begins implementing the ‘deal of the century’
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Achcar: The seasons after the Arab Spring
Revolt if not revolution in Sudan and Algeria: is this the next phase of a profound change in the Arab world? The uprisings haven’t repeated the mistakes of 2011
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Fisk: While the World Watches Trump
The real stories are getting pushed down the page – or “to the back of the book”
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Ellenson: Anti-occupation coalition grows stronger in the face of Israeli military violence
I know the sting of xenophobia, anti-Semitism and otherness, so I must work to ensure that no one else ever feels it
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Weiss: Bernie Sanders and Palestine
Bernie Sanders links Hitler’s murder of his family to his fight against occupation of Palestinians
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Baskin: Terrorists and freedom fighters
The gaps between Israeli political positions and Palestinian positions have become deeper and deeper in recent years
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Baroud: Facing the Facts: Israel Cannot Escape ICC Jurisdiction
Israel’s judicial system is untrustworthy and the ICC has the legal right and moral duty to carry out the will of the international community and hold to account those responsible for war crimes anywhere, including Israel
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Cook: A second Israeli election proves Netanyahu’s grip on power is slipping
Netanyahu was forced to dissolve the 120-member parliament to block his chief rival, Benny Gantz, from getting a chance to assemble an alternative governing coalition
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Adler: A century later, Trump’s deal for Palestine is no better than Britain’s
The British left Palestine in 1948 with their tail between their legs, having laid the groundwork for 100 years of conflict. With people like Trump and Kushner leading the way, we should expect nothing better for our own century
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Baskin: Money can’t buy you love – or your independence
The Palestinian resistance to the Trump plan is reasonable, understandable and even admirable, and if we were in their place we would strive to do the same
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Baroud: Resurrecting the PLO is Palestine’s Best Response to the ‘Deal of the Century’
The only difference between the US ‘peace process’ of the past and today’s ‘Deal of the Century’ is in the style and tactics as opposed to the substance and details
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Cole: Iran was screwed over by the US
This civilian nuclear enrichment for fuel is what Iran has been doing for the past 16 years. It is very different from making a bomb, which requires a whole set of other technologies
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Cook: The western media is key to Syria deceptions
The media are not a watchdog on power but the public relations arm of giant corporations pursuing their narrow interests in the Middle East
Iran
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Prashad: Reason will not deter hawks gathering to make war on Iran
With ties to big business that admits to gaining from disruption in the Middle East, key men in the US seem hellbent on regime change in Iran – using any and all means necessary
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Jahanpour: After Trump’s Breach
Reviewing the history of the nuclear deal or, to give it its full title, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
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Prashad: On Twitter, He Declares War on Iran
On Twitter, he has declared war; but his hand hovers over the orders, which he has not yet signed. But he could – at any moment. That is the mercurial attitude of Trump
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Parsi: Iran Says U.S. Has “Permanently Closed Path to Diplomacy”
President Trump announced Monday his administration is imposing a new...
Israel/Palestine
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Wadi: Decolonize Palestine to achieve liberation
Palestinians have rejected the Manama summit taking place today for several legitimate reasons – all pointing to how the US prelude to the so-called “deal of the century” normalises Israel at an unprecedented level
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Abunimah: NY Times publishes call for Palestinian “national suicide”
Palestinians have not surrendered despite all the atrocities Israel has committed and commits against them. And op-eds using genocidal terminology in The New York Times will not bring them to their knees either
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Baroud: The Day After: What if Israel Annexes the West Bank?
Encouraged by the Donald Trump administration’s decision to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Israeli government officials feel that the time for annexing the entirety of the West Bank is now
Iraq
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Mohammed: Two Iraqi Peace Activists Confront a Trumpian World
As the Trump Administration Weighs War, Iraqis Prepare a Carnival for Peace
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Cole: Could US-Iran Conflict Tear Iraq Apart Again?
The rising tensions between the Trump administration and Iran have the potential to roil the entire Middle East, and no country feels the heat more than Iraq
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Cole: Calls to Expel US Troops from Iraq
Trump’s assertion that he intends to keep US troops in Iraq to spy on Iran has produced a firestorm of protest and controversy in Baghdad
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Mideast Video
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Petersen-Smith: Trump Oversees Death and Destruction in Syria, Afghanistan, and More
Amnesty International released a major report about US-led massacres of more than 1,600 civilians in Raqqa, Syria from June to October of 2017
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Bennis: The Crisis in Gaza and a Potential Ceasefire
Discussing the recent Israeli special forces operation inside the Gaza Strip that killed 7 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier, as well as Israeli air strikes and a potential ceasefire
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Israel, with U.S. backing, has caused a "humanitarian disaster" in Gaza, and international human rights groups have failed to uphold justice for its besieged people
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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...