Israel/ Palestine

Juan Cole: Israel’s Invasions of Lebanon Produce Radicalization, Help Iran and End Badly (ScheerPost)

Bob Scheer’s long interview with me, “Where is the Middle East Heading?” is available at ScheerPost. I’m providing an excerpt below, but be sure to head on over to his site for the entire interview and audio link, as well as the full transcript. I’m embedding the full YouTube video believe. Excerpt from the Interview […]

Israel/ Palestine

How Netanyahu’s Ambitions in Lebanon undermine Biden’s Middle East Strategy

Foreign Policy in Focus

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The Biden administration’s approach to the Middle East crisis that erupted in the wake of October 7, 2023 is on the brink of collapse. Israel’s aggressive maneuvers, coupled with Iran’s growing involvement, are pushing the region toward a full-scale war, one that the Biden administration ostensibly hoped to […]

Israel/ Palestine

UN: Gaza home to largest Number of amputee Children in modern History

Middle East Monitor

( Middle East Monitor ) – In a statement to the UN General Assembly, Lisa Doughten from OCHA warned of the dire humanitarian situation in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, saying the besieged Strip ‘is home to the largest cohort of child amputees in modern history’. ‘Each day 10 children are losing 1 or […]

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UNHCHR: Israel Guilty of Deliberately Destroying Gaza Healthcare and … Extermination

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a report dated October 11th, the United Nations Office of the High Commission on Human Rights concluded that Israel has implemented a deliberate policy of destroying Gaza’s healthcare system and is guilty of the crime against humanity of “extermination.” The numbers revealed by the investigation for the first nine […]

Israel/ Palestine

How to find Hope and Common Ground one Year into Gaza War

Open Democracy

Nandini Naira Archer ( OpenDemocracy.net ) On the year anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attacks and the start of the devastating war on Gaza that’s killed more than 15,000 Palestinian children, there appears no end in sight. If anything, this month it’s escalated further with violence spreading to Iran, Lebanon and Jordan. All-out war […]

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What the Messianic Hardliners in Netanyahu’s Government want from the War

The Conversation

By Paul Rogers, University of Bradford | – (The Conversation) – Much recent media focus has rightly been on the anniversary of the October 7 attacks, where Hamas assailants murdered nearly 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals and abducted a further 251. Coverage has also centred on Israel’s expanding ground operation in Lebanon, which follows an […]

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“Greater Israel:” Cabinet Minister Plots Seizure of Territory from 6 Neighbors, including Lebanon

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Thursday that Israel has no designs on Turkey, denying charges by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan that “the Israeli government, which has gone mad in the Holy Land, will possibly target our homeland with its religious fanaticism after Palestine and Lebanon.” Unfortunately for Herzog, on the […]

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“A Direct Death Sentence” – Israel seeks to Expel 400K Palestinians from N. Gaza, and to Empty its Hospitals

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a further crime against humanity, Israeli authorities are now attempting to complete the ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza, where 400,000 Palestinians are still residing, despite earlier Israeli efforts to force them out. The Norwegian Refugee Council said that Israeli occupation officials instructed residents to escape via perilous paths to […]

Israel/ Palestine

The Gaza War and the Jordanian Dilemma

Middle East Monitor

by Marwan Muasher A whole year has passed since the Israeli war on Gaza, during which Israel has crossed all humanitarian, political and military lines. It does not seem that the Israeli Prime Minister has any clear strategy other than remaining in power for as long as possible. After Israel assassinated Hezbollah Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah, […]