[T]he West’s political “elites” condemned Israel for defending itself by targeting Hezbollah’s leadership.
There was no mention of international law for Hezbollah’s unprovoked, year-long attacks: bombardments of missiles and attack drones every day at a country smaller than New Jersey.
Established In: 1987
Established By: Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, Mahmoud Zahar
Also Known As: Ḥarakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah Islamic Resistance Movement
Country Of Origin: Palestine
Leaders: Ismail Haniyeh, Yehiya Sinwar;
Key Members: Ismail Haniyeh [Chief of the Political Bureau], Yehiya Sinwar [Political Leader], Fawzi Barhoum [Spokesperson], Mousa Abu Marzouq [Deputy Chief of the Political Bureau], Khaled Mashal [Deputy Chief of the Political Bureau]
Operational Area: Middle East
Number Of Members: 10,000–17,000
Involved In: Terrorist Attacks, Rocket Attacks, Suicide Bombings, Kidnapping
October 7 marked the one-year anniversary of the start of the current Arab-Israeli war. Let us summarize the results of the ongoing conflict to date, since there is no truce and no sign of any compromise solution acceptable to the two sides.
The UN, as a universally recognized international institution, is going through a crisis in its ability to make timely and fair decisions on topical issues of international relations, and is thus in need of reform.
The main causes of the crisis in the UN’s activities
The world’s first universally recognized international organization was formed at the end of the First World War in accordance with the decisions of the Paris Peace Conference, enshrined in the Treaty of Versailles. This institution, the League of Nations, was established in 1919 and existed until April 18, 1946, that is, until the formation of the United Nations as a result of the Second World War and the Yalta and Potsdam Peace Conferences.
The question now hangs in the air: will Berlin reconsider its role with Russia, or let the engine seize up?
Recently, an important Brazilian geopolitical channel invited me to shed some light on the political situation in Europe and especially in Germany. Since I’ve been in Berlin, I’ve also been closely following the reaction of the Brazilian internet public to the decline of the EU and Germany, which is already impossible to hide. As far as I can tell, Brazilians still admire a country they have come to know as a global economic power and “the engine of the European project”, but there is also a growing contempt for the Atlanticist foreign policy that Germany has pursued in recent years, which is seen as forced and not particularly genuine.
L’Occident impérialiste, ce colosse aux pieds d’argile, s’effondre sous le poids de ses propres contradictions. La domination est remplacée par la décadence, l’hégémonie par la déroute. Le roi est nu, et le Sud global rit de sa misère. Bienvenue dans le monde post-impérialiste, où les anciens maîtres deviennent les nouveaux sujets.
Un nombre croissant de soldats israéliens refusent discrètement l’ordre de retourner au combat à Gaza.
Après un an de génocide à Gaza, de plus en plus de soldats israéliens tentent discrètement de se soustraire au combat dans la bande de Gaza, se disant déprimés, épuisés, psychologiquement affectés et démotivés, selon un rapport publié le 20 octobre par le magazine Ha-makom.
Some 570 migrants were sent back to Poland from Germany in 2024, according to the official data by the Polish border guard, far from the 40,000 cited in Polish media last week.
Under the readmission agreements and the EU’s Dublin rules, German officials sent the migrants between January and the end of September, compared with 1,922 according to the German government.
The Spanish government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is finalising the details of a massive regularisation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in the country, in sharp contrast to the recent migration control plans of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Analysis: Israel is trying to depopulate the north to geographically reconfigure Gaza into disconnected enclaves and maintain indefinite control, analysts say.
Residents of northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, along with those in the nearby towns of Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun, were urgently ordered to evacuate on 6 October as Israel launched a new ground operation in the enclave’s northern region.