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Vance of Arabia: The Trump Administration’s Reality-TV “Peace” in Gaza
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Vance of Arabia: The Trump Administration’s Reality-TV “Peace” in Gaza

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Vice President J. D. Vance went out to the Middle East last week to show the MAGA […]

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The World confronts the Genocide Washington is trying to Bury

The World confronts the Genocide Washington is trying to Bury

10/28/2025 By Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

King Trump: Golfing while Rome Burns

King Trump: Golfing while Rome Burns

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Anzalone: Hamas’s Rhetoric as Spoiler

Anzalone: Hamas’s Rhetoric as Spoiler

Christopher Anzalone writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: On August 31, on the evening before new U.S.-backed Israeli-Palestinian National Authority (PNA) peace talks […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Taliban Torch Palestinian Girls' School, Destroy Olive Trees

Israeli Taliban Torch Palestinian Girls’ School, Destroy Olive Trees

The phrase “ethnic cleansing” conjures up a swift, comprehensive act of expulsion. But in reality, moving a large population off its land is the death […]

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Carr: The Inquisitorial Gaze

Carr: The Inquisitorial Gaze

Matthew Carr writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: Until this year, Spain appeared to be relatively indifferent to the Islamophobic politics that have […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Alam:  Zionism: Two Deficits

Alam: Zionism: Two Deficits

M. Shahid Alam shares with us an excerpt from his recent book, Israeli Exceptionalism excerpted from the author’s Israeli Exceptionalism (Palgrave, 2009) “We do not […]

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Iraq
Iran Backs al-Maliki, in Iran, for Iraqi PM

Iran Backs al-Maliki, in Iran, for Iraqi PM

Al-Hayat writes in Arabic that Iraqi caretaker Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki visited Iran on Monday, seeing Tehran’s support for his candidacy for a second term. […]

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Zogby:  Arab Voices — Listening and Moving Beyond Myth

Zogby: Arab Voices — Listening and Moving Beyond Myth

James Zogby writes in a guest column for Informed Comment After decades spent trying to better explain the Arab World to other Americans, all too […]

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Islamophobia
The Rumors of Multiculturalism's death Are Exaggerated (Against Merkel)

The Rumors of Multiculturalism’s death Are Exaggerated (Against Merkel)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel over the weekend declared “multiculturalism” dead in her country and demanded that labor immigrants be assimilated, through German language and German […]

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Cole on “Iran and Islam” at USIP Iran Primer

Cole on “Iran and Islam” at USIP Iran Primer

Iran commentary in the United States generates more heat than light for the most part, and much of it is frankly driven by ignorance. Veteran […]

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Afghanistan
Recommended Reading at Tomdispatch.com

Recommended Reading at Tomdispatch.com

Tomdispatch.com has been on a tear in the past two weeks. From Bacevich on the US military as quagmire specialists to Pepe Escobar on central […]

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