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The Gaza war has strained Egyptian-Israeli relations to an unprecedented level and raised questions about the future of their 1979 peace treaty that has been a cornerstone of Arab-Israeli peace. U.S. officials met recently in Cairo with their Israeli and Egyptian counterparts against a backdrop of mutually diminishing confidence between the two parties, particularly following Israel’s ground offensive in Rafah. This comes on the heels of a shooting incident between Israeli and Egyptian forces that left at least one Egyptian soldier dead, and Egypt joining South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Along with Qatar, Egypt is a key broker in the current Israel-Hamas cease-fire efforts and engages in extensive security cooperation with the U.S. and Israel.

Hezbollah said that it launched rockets and weaponized drones at several Israeli military sites in a coordinated attack on Thursday.

An Israeli strike that killed a senior Hezbollah field commander led to the retaliatory attacks, according to Hezbollah.

Last fall, the International Committee of the Red Cross made a rare public statement about an ongoing conflict:

International humanitarian law is clear: civilians must be protected.

Critical infrastructure must be protected.

Even wars have limits.

Forty days after the April 1, 2024 Israeli airstrike in Damascus in which seven senior IRGC Qods Force officials were killed, Qods Force deputy operations commander Gen. Mohsen Chizari was interviewed by the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency. In the May 12, 2024 interview, he discussed the role and personality of Mohammad Hadi Hajj Rahimi, the Qods Force “military advisor” killed in the attack along with his commander Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi.

Israel has intensified covert strikes in Syria against weapons sites, supply routes and Iranian-linked commanders, seven regional officials and diplomats said, ahead of a threatened full-scale assault on Tehran’s key ally Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Iran’s hard-liners controlled all levers of powers in the Islamic republic during Ebrahim Raisi’s presidency.

Despite Raisi’s death in a helicopter crash last month, hard-liners are expected to maintain their dominance as Iranians head to the polls to elect the ultraconservative president’s successor.

Comme le souligne le célèbre mathématicien russe Igor Shafarevich dans son essai sur la question juive, les juifs aiment s’attribuer le mérite de presque tout, alors qu’en réalité, ils n’ont inventé ou contribué que très peu à l’histoire moderne et n’ont pu faire ce qu’ils ont fait qu’en utilisant les outils qui leur ont été donnés par les cultures d’accueil dans lesquelles ils ont vécu :