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Pope Leo XIV: “We Know Israel does not … Accept” Palestinian State, But “We see it as the only Solution”
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Pope Leo XIV: “We Know Israel does not … Accept” Palestinian State, But “We see it as the only Solution”

Juan Cole

What I like about Pope Leo’s remarks is that he openly admitted that the Israeli government is die-hard opposed to a two-state solution

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The ruptured Mirror: How 7 October broke the Israeli Narrative

The ruptured Mirror: How 7 October broke the Israeli Narrative

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The Putinization of America

The Putinization of America

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Al-Khoei:  Ayatollah Sistani is Iraq’s Bulwark against Iran:  Wikileaks

Al-Khoei: Ayatollah Sistani is Iraq’s Bulwark against Iran: Wikileaks

Hayder al-Khoei writes in a guest column for Informed Comment The “cablegate” leaks have gone a long way in embarrassing governments all over the world, […]

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Afghanistan
Top Ten Middle East Wikileaks Revelations so Far

Top Ten Middle East Wikileaks Revelations so Far

1. The British government’s official inquiry into how it got involved in the Iraq War was deeply compromised by the government’s pledge to protect the […]

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Gates: Saudis want to Fight Iran to the Last American

Gates: Saudis want to Fight Iran to the Last American

Wikileaks Quote of the Day: Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates to French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, Paris, February 8, 2010: “… the Saudis always […]

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Wikileaks:  UK, US Planned to Pressure IAEA on Iran, Tie Tehran to Pyongyang

Wikileaks: UK, US Planned to Pressure IAEA on Iran, Tie Tehran to Pyongyang

Scott Peterson’s fine piece at CSM on Iranian reactions to the Wikileaks cables is given further credence by yet another document that surfaced Tuesday. Peterson […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Gaza as Israel’s Gimp

Gaza as Israel’s Gimp

In Quentin Tarantino’s camp noir classic, Pulp Fiction, the Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames characters have an altercation and one chases the other into a […]

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Egypt
Arabs Urged US to Launch Attack on Iran, but Talk is Cheap:  Cole in the Guardian

Arabs Urged US to Launch Attack on Iran, but Talk is Cheap: Cole in the Guardian

My essay on the implications of the wikileaks revelations about Sunni Arab states urging the US to launch a surgical strike on Iranian nuclear facilities […]

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Iraq
Wikileaks on Israel, Iraq and the Iranian Specter

Wikileaks on Israel, Iraq and the Iranian Specter

A 2007 cable from then US ambassador to Israel to Secretary of State Condi Rice shows a) that the Israeli leadership did not want the […]

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Afghanistan
Wikileaks Gates: No Iranian Help to Taliban

Wikileaks Gates: No Iranian Help to Taliban

What they tell us: In summer of 2009, it was revealed that Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair informed the US Congress that, according to […]

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Blair, Hitchens Debate Religion

Blair, Hitchens Debate Religion

Here is the transcript of the debate between Tony Blair and Christopher Hitchens on the motion, “Be it resolved, religion is a force for good […]

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