How Big Oil Is Taking Us for a Fossil-Fuelized Ride
With the World the Hottest in 125,000 Years, We're Being Gaslighted.
This Is a War on Children, and ‘Safe Zones’ Are Death Traps: UNICEF
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Gaza was a free-fire zone on Saturday and Sunday, with UN officials saying that no place in the Strip…
50 Israeli Hostages To Be Exchanged for 150 Palestinian ‘Prisoners’ — Why the Prisoners Are Also Hostages
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that Qatar successfully brokered the exchange of 50 Israeli hostages held by Hamas for 150 Palestinians…
Palestine’s Obituary
Juan Cole offers his expertise in the Middle East to explain how we’ve gotten to the current state of affairs in Palestine and Israel.
Israel in Search of Its Hiroshima: Massive Bomb Wipes Out 20 Apt. Buildings, Kills, Wounds 400 Civilians
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In one of the biggest massacres it has so far committed, the Israeli Air Force on Tuesday bombed the…
Can Hamas Survive the Stupidity of Its ISIL-Style Tactics?
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Hamas leaders have said they were driven to their attack on Israel this weekend by two major considerations, the…
Tribalism Versus International Law in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!” Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road…
Arizona Dems End GOP Sweetheart Saudi Deal
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Arizona state government of Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs and Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes are terminating the license…
Libya’s Climate Disaster Shows We Can’t Afford Erratic Leaders Like Trump and Haftar Anymore
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – For the past two weeks the Mediterranean has been reeling from the massive devastation wrought regionally by Hurricane Daniel,…
Belgian Minister Says What Biden Won’t: Israel Is Wiping Entire Palestinian Villages Off the Map
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I heard Noam Chomsky speak in my youth about the press coverage of the Middle East in the United…
Idalia: DeSantis May Not Want to “Politicize” Climate Change, but Climate Change Is Determined to Politicize DeSantis
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, on being asked about human-caused climate change, said he did not want to “politicize the…
Israeli Minister Eliyahu: The Palestinians Aren’t Under Apartheid, They’re Just in a Prison Camp
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Other members of the the extremist Jewish Power Party are adding fuel to the firestorm that broke out last…
How Israel Occupied Itself
The Way the Crisis on the West Bank Became the Crisis in Israel Itself
58% Depressed: The Racism of Israel’s Apartheid Regime Toward Palestinians Shows in Their Mental Health
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – While the Democrats in Washington, D.C. conduct a bizarre debate about whether Israel is a racist state, The World…
Israel Moves Toward ‘Dictatorship’ and Polarization
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the eve of Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s controversial visit to the United States, which several members of Congress…