Middle East

( Middle East Monitor ) – At the 2025 ASEAN-GCC-China Summit in Kuala Lumpur, leaders from Asia and the Arab world gathered under the glow of diplomatic language and cautious optimism. The joint statement from the summit acknowledged key developments — including the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion deeming Israel’s occupation unlawful, and praised […]

Donald Trump

Is Trump’s Axis of the Plutocrats Marginalizing Israel?

Juan Cole

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Colorful career criminal Willie Sutton once may (or may not) have been asked why he robbed banks. “Because that is where the money is,” he supposedly replied. A similar principle may explain the first foreign trip of President Donald J. Trump’s second term, which was not to a traditional U.S. ally […]

Israel/ Palestine

10% of Gaza Palestinians have been Killed, Injured, Detained or are Missing

Middle East Monitor

( Middle East Monitor ) – Ten per cent of Gaza’s Palestinian population has been killed, injured, disappeared, or detained as a result of the genocide committed in the Strip by Israel since 7 October 2023, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor reported yesterday. The Geneva-based monitor published an infographic marking 600 days since the beginning of […]

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Turkiye gets 11% of its Electricity from Wind, plans $1.5 Bn. Investment this year

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkiye’s wind power sector continues to grow, albeit at a somewhat slower pace than at the beginning of this decade. The country gets 11% of its electricity from wind. Turkiye is third in Europe for onshore wind power growth, It installed 1.5 gigawatts of new wind in 2024, more than […]

Israel/ Palestine

The Massacre of Gaza’s Children: A Stain on Humanity

Middle East Monitor

( Middle East Monitor ) – There are moments in history that burn into the conscience of humanity—so steeped in injustice that to look away is to become complicit. Gaza is one such moment. As we scroll through our screens on social media, the hollow eyes of wounded children in Gaza stare back at us. […]

Israel/ Palestine

IDF firing ‘Warning Shots’ near Diplomats sets an unacceptable Precedent in International Relations

The Conversation

By Andrew Forde, Dublin City University (The Conversation) – The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) appears to have “crossed the Rubicon” in the West Bank town of Jenin, when it opened fire in the vicinity of a group of visiting diplomats on May 21 – in flagrant violation of international law. The group of diplomats representing […]

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German Chancellor Merz in Historic Rebuke of Israel: Attacks on Civilians not Justified by Hamas Terror

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Because of the Nazi Holocaust in which six million European Jews were murdered, German governments have felt a need to provide Israel with unqualified support. Without German persecution of Jews in the 1930s and then the genocide of the 1940s, arguably Israel would never have come into existence. There were […]

Academic Freedom

Protesting Punishing a Commencement Address on Palestine at George Washington U.

Committee on Academic Freedom

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Letter to George Washington University protesting the administration’s actions against graduating senior Cecilia Culver because of remarks she made about Palestine during her commencement address Ellen Granberg President, George Washington University president@gwu.edu … Dear President Granberg and Ms. Speights: We write on behalf […]

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Morocco Plans Floating Solar PV over Reservoirs to Stop Evaporation

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Morocco is on a green energy roll, as the government’s far-sighted plan to move the North African country to renewables makes it a leader in the region. The installed renewables capacity increased 5% from 2021 to 2025, to 12 gigawatts, according to an announcement in mid-May of the Minister of […]