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Erdogan: Turkey Opposes NATO Cooperation With Israel

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Turkey vowed on July 12 to oppose NATO’s cooperation with Israel. During a press conference at the 75th NATO Summit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, “Until comprehensive, sustainable peace is established in Palestine, attempts at cooperation with Israel within NATO will not be approved by Turkey.” Foreign Minister Israel Katz rebuffed Erdogan’s statement on X: “First of all, Erdogan, you decide nothing. Furthermore, a country like Turkey, which supports the murderers and rapists of Hamas and the Iranian axis of evil, should not be a member of NATO.”

Israel’s use of ‘Hannibal Directive’ on 7 October confirmed by new evidence

In a startling revelation, documents obtained by Haaretz have confirmed that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) implemented the controversial Hannibal Directive during the Hamas cross-border incursion on 7 October, and killed its own citizens. This confirmation comes after months of denial and attempts to discredit alternative news sources that had reported on the use of this contentious military protocol.

The Convulsed Republic: The Shooting of Donald Trump

As a nation, the United States, as if we did not already know, is convulsed. Paranoid and divided, giddy with conspiracy and deranged by a fear of totalitarian seizure, hyper partisan and hostile to debate and any loose definition of facts (this condition afflicts the entire political spectrum), the only thing missing so far was this: an assassination attempt on a presidential candidate.

Russian Kh-101 missile strike on children’s hospital in Kyiv, Russian Armed Forces breakthrough to New York. What happened on the front this week

  • In today’s summary:
  • DeepState – Russian troops have made significant advances in the Toretsk direction and entered New York
  • The Russian Armed Forces have achieved success on the northern flank of the Avdeevka operational area, while their offensive on the southern flank has been stopped
  • In the north of the Kharkiv region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to disrupt the enemy’s logistics and recapture some of the positions in Glubokoe
  • It has been reliably established that the Okhmatdit Children’s Hospital in Kyiv was hit by a Russian Kh-101 missile on July 8
  • In June, the Russian Aerospace Forces launched over 2,300 glide bombs at Ukrainian territory
  • The Economist — the total losses of killed and wounded on the Russian side in the war amount to between 462,000 and 728,000 people
  • NATO countries have secured a commitment to provide Ukraine with €40 billion in military aid in 2025
  • Investigative journalists have found that the EU’s actual artillery ammunition production capacity is at least half that stated
  • The situation at the front
  • According to DeepState , Russian troops have been advancing in the Torets direction for almost the entire week . In particular, they managed to enter New York ( Novgorodskoye in 1951–2021 ) and reach the center of the village. The Russian Defense Ministry, in turn, reported the capture of the village of Chigari , which is actually the southern outskirts of Pivnichnoye , located to the north .

The first cyberpunk. The war in Ukraine has turned into a battle of ultra-modern and antediluvian weapons at the same time

Cutting-edge technologies in the Russian-Ukrainian war are bizarrely mixed with century-old inventions: FPV drones on Starlink with thermal imagers drop shells from the 1950s or ram other drones with a tethered stick, “maize” drones from the First World War shoot down drones with machine guns or turn into unmanned drones themselves, and a wide variety of transport, from horse-drawn carts to unicycles, scurry behind the front line. Russians are going into assault attacks on motorcycles (which they didn’t do even in the Second World War), and the sky is protected by century-old Maxim machine guns with thermal imagers. The Insider tells how the co-evolution of modern technology and century-old equipment has turned the battlefield into a Mad Max sequel.

Gaza: There Is No Alternative To UNRWA, Guterres Says

UN Secretary-General António Guterres, standing alongside top officials in New York on Friday, underscored the essential need to bolster the UN agency assisting Palestine refugees (UNRWA) across the Middle East amid continued attacks on its mandate, staff, premises and operations.

Iraq-based Iranian Proxy, Kataib Hezbollah, Threatens Saudi Arabia and Israel

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Kataib Hezbollah, an Iraq-based Iranian proxy militia, threatened Saudi Arabia in a statement on July 13 for enabling the “the battle against the Palestinians.” Following previous threats to Riyadh, the group criticized via Telegram the “malicious role of Saudi Arabia’s rulers in harnessing their land routes to perpetuate the momentum of the battle against the Palestinians.”

Orders of Disorder

Who Disbanded Iraq’s Army and De-Baathified Its Bureaucracy?

The history of Iraq was already being rewritten by L. Paul Bremer on his flight into Baghdad. It was May 2003, and Bremer, an experienced former ambassador and bureaucratic player—he’d served as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s chief of staff—was just weeks into his new role as presidential envoy to the freshly liberated country. After a flurry of briefings in Washington and a final Oval Office meeting with President George W. Bush, “Jerry,” as everyone called Bremer, had flown into Qatar and on to Kuwait and then Iraq. Bremer’s diplomatic career had taken him to most Middle Eastern capitals, but this was the first time he’d ever seen Baghdad. He had spent the previous two weeks trying to learn as much as he could about the country he would now rule.

Why Is Georgia Risking Its Relationship With The EU? – OpEd

From EU aspirations to political turmoil
Georgia’s relations with the West have seen better days. The country has recently found itself embroiled in controversy and diplomatic tensions, stemming from the passage of a controversial “foreign influence” law. This law has had far-reaching consequences, including the suspension of Georgia’s EU membership bid and the annulment of Western financial aid and military drills.

The 2024 NATO Washington Summit: A Pre-Storm Gathering?

Political challenges among NATO members, the spectre of a second Trump presidency, and a bleaker military situation in Ukraine – compared to the expectations at the 2023 Vilnius Summit for the Ukrainian counteroffensive – made Washington feel like a ‘pre-storm summit’.