The Rise of Settler Terrorism in the West Bank

From Foreign Affairs: According to UN investigations, in 2011, extremist settlers launched almost 300 attacks on Palestinian property, causing over 100 Palestinian casualties and destroying or damaging about 10,000 trees of Palestinian farmers. The UN has also...

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‘Ya Know Who’s Messianic? Netanyahu.’

With the drum beat for war on Iran intensifying in recent weeks, the question seems to come down to whether or not Israel is bluffing about their implied military strike on Iran before the November presidential elections in the US. Al-Monitor yesterday interviewed...

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Weakness

90 Days, 90 Reasons is a project conceived by author Dave Eggers to rekindle young(ish) America's romance with Barack Obama. Each day features a post by someone you might have seen in movies or heard on NPR. Today's post is by Reza Aslan, "an internationally acclaimed...

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Iran’s Nuclear Program Merely a Pretext

Former CIA analyst and Antiwar.com contributor Ray McGovern spoke with Business Insider about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hankering to bomb Iran and why "delaying Iran's nuclear capabilities is not the primary concern of a military strike, but simply...

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America’s Empire of Bases Gets More Expensive

In Foreign Affairs, Alexander Cooley writes about how a less unipolar world is prompting competition for foreign expansion among the great powers, particularly the US, Russia, and China in the Central Asian countries. And it means the American Empire is costing a lot...

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Always Wrong: Predicting Iranian War and Weapons

Stephen Walt has a piece up at Foreign Policy cataloguing the persistent predictions of a US or Israeli war on Iran, which always turn out to be dead wrong. My favorite bit: In September 2010, for example, The Atlantic published a cover story by Jeffrey Goldberg ("The...

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