Iraq is at a pivotal juncture, diverging from its post-2003 vision of a federated state as pro-Iranian Shia groups in Baghdad aggressively drive recentralization. This transformation is most evident in Baghdad’s aggressive attempts to erode the federal status of Kurdistan, Iraq’s sole autonomous region.
Jordan has spearheaded Arab calls for a cease-fire in the Gaza war as casualties mount. An Israeli ground invasion to destroy Hamas, Arab analysts warn, could escalate into a wider regional conflict. Israel’s peace partners, Jordan and Egypt, decry any mass transfers of Palestinians to their countries.
Hamas worked out a scheme to make Israelis focus on the West Bank and Lebanon as the two most immediate sources of threat while portraying Gaza as relatively calm.
Iran may have helped sell that narrative in a number of ways.
Toute une partie de l’extrême gauche française ne veut pas voir du terrorisme dans les actions du Hamas, mais un groupe armé résistant à une occupation.
Les langues se délient. Interrogée par Jean-Jacques Bourdin sur l’antenne de Sud Radio, la députée France Insoumise Danièle Obono a dévoilé le fond de sa pensée. Elle a ainsi refusé de déclarer que le Hamas était un groupe terroriste, préférant le définir comme un « groupe politique islamiste » qui « résiste à une occupation » et qui œuvre à la « libération de la Palestine ».
At all costs, America believes that it must do whatever’s necessary to prevent the Israeli state from exercising its sovereign right under Bibi’s restored leadership to balance between the US-led West’s Golden Billion and the Sino-Russo Entente in the New Cold War instead of decisively take the former’s side against the latter. Most immediately, its “deep state” wants Israel to arm Kiev, which Bibi himself warned earlier this month could abruptly catalyze a crisis with Russia in Syria, thus opening a “second front” in the US’ Eurasian-wide “containment” campaign.
Russia’s dispatch of S-300s to Syria was meant to distract from last September’s tragedy and wasn’t intended to be a “game-changing” military development by any means, but the systems have since taken on a cult-like following all across Alt-Media because there are plenty of people afflicted with a “savior complex” who project their political fantasies onto these “status symbols”.
Tehran has been militarily and financially propping up Hamas for years, which ultimately advanced the terrorist group’s ability to launch the attack against Israel on October 7.
The UAE has become a haven for Iranian and Russian sanctions evasion and circumvention. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an international coordinating body combating money laundering, has gray-listed the UAE.
The Mivne Group claimed on its Facebook page that it ‘donated’ an alternative building for the Israel Police in Sderot, after the station there was destroyed in fighting with Hamas. Last week, the police were granted emergency funding of 8.4 million shekels ($2.1 million) to rent the building for three years – which appears to be higher than the average rent in the area. The Finance Ministry insists that it’s a reasonable price. A Shomrim exposé
Footage of apartment buildings in the Gaza Strip crumbling under Israeli airstrikes and suffering Palestinian civilians has filled Russian political talk shows and newscasts for weeks.
“They are razing Gaza to the ground,” state television anchor and propagandist Vladimir Solovyov said during a recent show. “We [the Russian army] don’t fight like that, not even close.”
