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Excerpted from Dawn (Democracy for the Arab World Now) Israel’s total war on Gaza, following Hamas’s horrific terrorist attack on Oct. 7, has roiled higher education in the United States. The atrocities committed by Hamas in southern Israel two months ago have reverberated on many U.S. campuses, deeply traumatizing many Jewish students. But so too […]

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The Real Dr. Strangelove: Kissinger’s Legacy of Mass Murder, Contempt for Human Rights, and Military Aggression

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Amid media whitewashing of Henry Kissinger’s atrocities after his death at 100, we must not lose sight of who he really was. The genocidal policies that Kissinger enacted and enabled resulted in an estimated death toll of between three and four million, according to historian Greg Grandin, author […]

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The Moral Consequences of the War on Gaza

Hugh J. Curran

Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The moral high ground, has been lost by Israel in the Gaza onslaught while it attempts to avenge the Hamas attacks on Oct 7. The leaders of the Knesset seem convinced that the slaughter of 15,000 civilians is justified and that there will be no moral consequences. […]

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Russian Roulette: Doctors w/out Borders Demand Immediate Ceasefire as Hospitals turned into “Morgues”

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Doctors without Borders (the French volunteer organization Médecins Sans Frontières [MSF]) has written a poignant letter to the United Nations Security Council imploring for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. They took this step after Israeli troops deliberately attacked MSF rescue vehicles and destroyed them with tank fire. Making the shotMaking […]

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This is a War on Children, and “Safe Zones” are Death Traps: UNICEF

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Gaza was a free-fire zone on Saturday and Sunday, with UN officials saying that no place in the Strip is safe. Hundreds were killed, almost all of them innocent noncombatants, and including a worrisome number of children. Although Israel tried to pull the stunt of issuing a map with supposedly […]

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Palestinian-Israeli Leader Mansour Abbas: Nonviolent Struggle Necessary; Hamas’s Oct. 7 Atrocity Blasphemed against Islamic Values

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – They don’t often get a lot of attention in the US media, but the 2.1 million Israeli citizens of Palestinian heritage, 21% of the population, have also been victims of Hamas’s October 7 atrocities and of the subsequent political fallout. They are furious and outraged at Hamas, whose terror gangs […]

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Did Israeli PM Netanyahu start Bombing Gaza Again to Stay out of Jail and Appease Fascists in his Cabinet?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The propaganda put out by the Biden administration would have us believe that the Israeli government, shocked by the horrid October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas, is turning Gaza into rubble in a quest to destroy Hamas and prevent the recurrence of such an assault. On December 1, the United […]

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How War Criminal Kissinger paved the Way for a Genocidal Total War on Gaza’s Civilians

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Henry Kissinger’s death at 100 is an opportunity to consider the ways in which his lawlessness helped undermine International Humanitarian Law, the laws of war that responsible leaders attempted to erect to prevent the horrors of WW II from recurring. In his single-minded calculation of supposed “national” interest, which he […]

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How Israel Sabotaged U.S. Nuclear Diplomacy with Iran

Marc Martorell Junyent

Critical Review of Ilan Evyatar, Yonah Jeremy Bob and Jonathan Davis, Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2023. Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The book starts with a heist […]