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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between […]

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:”  FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

09/17/2025 By Juan Cole

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

09/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Mystifying the Map of Piri Reis

Mystifying the Map of Piri Reis

This site attempts to mystify the 1513 Piri Reis map of the world, including the New World, produced in Istanbul. It is alleged that it […]

Juan Cole

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Mystifying the Map of Piri Reis

Mystifying the Map of Piri Reis

This site attempts to mystify the 1513 Piri Reis map of the world, including the New World, produced in Istanbul. It is alleged that it […]

Juan Cole

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The Pakistan Link to Mumbai; Rashid: It was a Diversionary Tactic

The Pakistan Link to Mumbai; Rashid: It was a Diversionary Tactic

The Times of India worries that fundamentalist violence in Afghanistan and Pakistan are spilling over into India: ‘In Pakistan, deaths in bomb blasts and other […]

Juan Cole

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2 US Troops Killed in Mosul; Fallujah Bombers Kill 15, wound 150; Gates Prepared to Accelerate US Withdrawal

2 US Troops Killed in Mosul; Fallujah Bombers Kill 15, wound 150; Gates Prepared to Accelerate US Withdrawal

Two truck bombers in Fallujah, a former center of the Sunni Arab guerrilla movement, detonated two bombs on Thursday near a police station, killing 15 […]

Juan Cole

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Spanish Arab and Jewish Genetic Heritage

Spanish Arab and Jewish Genetic Heritage

Geneticists are now estimating that the Spanish Inquisition led to large amounts of intermarriage between nominally converted Muslims and Jews with Catholics in Spain after […]

Juan Cole

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Spanish Arab and Jewish Genetic Heritage

Spanish Arab and Jewish Genetic Heritage

Geneticists are now estimating that the Spanish Inquisition led to large amounts of intermarriage between nominally converted Muslims and Jews with Catholics in Spain after […]

Juan Cole

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Archeologists Discover Workers’ Town near Persepolis

Archeologists Discover Workers’ Town near Persepolis

Persepolis was the magnificent capital of ancient Iran, when that country ruled most of the civilized world, from Egypt to Central Asia and from Greece […]

Juan Cole

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Archeologists Discover Workers’ Town near Persepolis

Archeologists Discover Workers’ Town near Persepolis

Persepolis was the magnificent capital of ancient Iran, when that country ruled most of the civilized world, from Egypt to Central Asia and from Greece […]

Juan Cole

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Al-Maliki Refuses to Disband Councils; Talabani Invokes Constitutional Court; Basra Province Protests Iraqi Army

Al-Maliki Refuses to Disband Councils; Talabani Invokes Constitutional Court; Basra Province Protests Iraqi Army

The Kurdish president of Iraq, Jalal Talabani, is more or less threatening to sue the Shiite prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki. Al-Maliki has been creating Arab […]

Juan Cole

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