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21 Oct 2024, 9:03 pm

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In the beginning of WW2 , nobody paid attn to Germany over running France and the Netherlands and Denmark and annexing Austria, Then came Polands turn .. and the extermination of the Warsaw Ghetto onto Russia.Does this parallel any situation that might be familiar here... in the Middle East ...this coincidence should be posted to the media ,
but yet noone sees this.
Then Attacks on England , After the fact ..Occassionally War is necessary to stop Madmen..but None sees this ??.
This was an early opportunity to decapitate the snake . Of this Israeli juggernaut . And due to their successes they seem emboldened..to still War on other Nations , Using the same lip service as Adolph did in world War 2 .Just hoping Israel will stop , just as we did with Germany ( WW2 era). So onto Lebanon ....If they knew of these Hezbollah issues in Lebanon....Why did they not approach Lebanon about it earlier ( What was up the Mossauds sleeve.) These targeted after the fact
assasinations could have happened anytime before they attacked Palestine. But they did not , instead, they wished to capture and gain control of lands. As Did Germany in WW2 . Now the post talks about Plans a War with Iran ....
And we are supporting/Assisting them. War is Good for Corporate based Military Industrial economies . :twisted:

But these are not population centric business, So please consider the potential of a very real possibility , Israel and
Iran , will be a death blow to the population of this earth. After it is enshouded in a Nuclear Cloud.
We have lost Palestine,Now Lebanon has not appeared to even try to hold up their own borders.
Then Iran has Allies..Russia , China. and North Korea.And Israel has not necessarily very wise allies too.
This is an early opportunity to Engage and stop the crazies....before more Death. :twisted:

[[[And Yes ! , History Does Repeat itself ]]] :ninja:

The Leaders of these Countries have Vast underground bases, shelters for high Politicians..food for years ...
Guess WHO will survive the potential Global Nuclear Holocaust . Certainly NOT ," We the People"

[If you look on line for Congressional members , Often their will be a directory will have a line to input your zipcode
And that will bring up your areas Congressmen. Drop their Staffers aline perhaps and prehaps express your own opinions of what is manifesting in the middle East. or just simple say you would not like your congressman to support
this situation.]. .....Drop a Dime on these Representatives of our Legal arm of the Global Military Industrial empire .And so far these are merely my own humble observations. (With a touch of Fear)

please pardon ..no personal offence to any WP peoples intended!

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23 Oct 2024, 5:07 am

Israel says it killed Hezbollah official who was set to be group’s next leader

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Israel said Tuesday that it had killed the Hezbollah official poised to become the militant group’s next leader in an airstrike outside Beirut earlier this month.

Hashem Safieddine was expected to succeed his cousin Hassan Nasrallah, one of the founding members of the Iran-backed Lebanese group, who was killed last month in a large-scale Israeli attack on a southern suburb of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon.

Hezbollah has so far not confirmed Safieddine’s death.

In a statement Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces said Safieddine was killed about three weeks ago in an airstrike that hit Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Dahieh, a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut. At the time of the strike, more than 25 Hezbollah members were inside the underground headquarters, it said.

The commander of Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters, Ali Hussein Hazima, who the IDF said was responsible for directing numerous attacks on Israeli troops, was also killed in the strike.

Israel considering Egyptian plan for 2-week cease-fire with Hamas, source says

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Israeli officials are weighing an Egyptian proposal for a small-scale cease-fire with Hamas aimed at building momentum for a larger deal, an Israeli official told NBC News, as Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived for a renewed diplomatic push.

Israel’s security Cabinet has discussed the Egyptian proposal for a two-week truce in Gaza, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. The Egyptian proposal calls for the release of just six Israeli hostages in exchange, the official said. It was suggested by Hassan Mahmoud Rashad, the new head of Egyptian intelligence, who took up his post last week.

It comes as Israel continues to mount a deadly offensive in northern Gaza, where thousands of people have fled intense Israeli operations in areas like the Jabalia refugee camp in recent days. Israeli forces also continued their invasion of southern Lebanon targeting Hezbollah on Tuesday while striking parts of the country's capital, Beirut, in an assault that sparked the evacuation of a local hospital.

“The thinking is that efforts at a big deal kept meeting challenges. So the idea is to get the momentum going with a smaller deal,” the Israeli official said. The official cautioned that while the proposal has been discussed by Israeli leaders, it has not been approved.

It’s also unclear if Hamas would be open to a smaller agreement.

While the U.S. is hopeful that the killing of the militant group's hard-line leader last week could create an opportunity for negotiations, a U.S. official acknowledged that Washington does not know who — if anyone — is currently in charge of Hamas and could negotiate on its behalf.

Asked about the Egyptian proposal, a U.S. official told NBC News: “Who are you going to negotiate with? Hamas has to decide on its next leader.”

Later, Blinken met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and discussed the need to chart "a new path forward in the post-conflict period that allows Palestinians to rebuild their lives and provides governance, security, and reconstruction for Gaza," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement.

"The Secretary emphasized the need for Israel to take additional steps to increase and sustain the flow of humanitarian assistance into Gaza and ensure that assistance reaches civilians throughout Gaza," the statement added.

Beirut hospitals hit
As Blinken arrived in Israel, an NBC News team visited a residential area adjacent to the Rafic Al Hariri Hospital in southern Beirut that had been struck by the Israeli military.

Though Israel regularly warns about impending airstrikes in the Lebanese capital, this zone was hit without any warning. It is only steps away from one of the largest and most important hospitals in Lebanon’s capital, which was already struggling with an influx of injured people from all over the country.

Family members were still digging through the rubble looking for missing loved ones, rescue workers said hours after the attack.

Here, as everywhere in Lebanon, there were signs of the government’s absence. Two earth movers dug through a chaotic scene that looked like an entire leveled city block. About a few dozen rescue workers were on hand as members of the public openly walked through the scene.

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23 Oct 2024, 6:49 am

^ Just because Hamas hasn't yet replaced Sinwar, doesn't mean that there's nobody to negotiate with. I've seen another news article stating that Hamas has decided instead to use a committee of 5 men (who are all currently in Qatar) to make all the decisions for them instead of appointing a replacement and I assume that they are the ones who will probably make the decisions about the negotiations. Nonetheless, I think that that the decision to not replace Sinwar immediately is probably a smart move on their part because Israel will probably target and kill anyone who replaces him.

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23 Oct 2024, 11:54 am

Per the above posting. about The Egyptian Peace plan. This is exactly as Germany had done in the Early invasion of other Countries nearby..It was actually a stalling tactic, So the Allies did not come together soon enough to stop the German WW2 juggernaut ..Blitzkreig..But history must repeat itself , but now has the appearances .
Of the US being on potentially the Wrong side..Even in WW2 germany .. The Judiac population bailed out of Germany
of the ones that had means to leave, the writing was on the Wall..! And it is appearing that "we ,the people"are either not being made aware of plans . Or the Worse has yet to come . But I possible am Over reacting ? Besides many thousand of Palestinians cant all be wrong, And if Lebanese Hospitals are now targets for Israelis IDF..perhaps ? the writing is on the wall for them too.
Then add things Trump has said about Israel and Ukraine...(in the Local news in the midwest..? ) And the info. that Trump is neck and neck in the polls against Harris...Something is certainly off about the US populace...voting for the Next President.....
Had over heard a radio broadcast that here about " that the word "democracy" used in the Company of groups of MAGAS now is interpeted to mean you are a democrat..". . So much for a democratic nation? IMHO

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24 Oct 2024, 6:11 am

IDF pounds Beirut after Hezbollah’s Simhat Torah eve rocket fire at central Israel

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Lebanon state media reported 17 Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, with six buildings leveled and the vacated offices of a Hezbollah-linked broadcaster hit on Wednesday, after the Lebanese terror group fired rockets at central Israel as the country began marking the Simhat Torah holiday.

AFPTV footage showed a massive explosion followed by smaller blasts in the southern suburbs following an Israeli army evacuation warning for the area, where Hezbollah holds sway.

The official National News Agency (NNA) reported at least 17 Israeli raids, marking one of the most intensive nights of strikes targeting the area in the past month.

Six buildings were destroyed around the suburb of Laylaki, NNA said, calling the raids “the most violent in the area since the beginning of the war.”

The strikes came shortly after the Israel Defense Forces’ Arabic-language spokesman, Avichay Adraee, issued evacuation warnings on social media platform X.

There was no warning, however, for a strike that hit the Jnah neighborhood in southern Beirut that targeted an office the pro-Iran TV channel Al-Mayadeen said it vacated.

The strike killed one person and wounded five others, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. The name of the person killed was unknown.

Israel launched strikes earlier Wednesday in the ancient coastal city of Tyre, which according to NNA caused “massive destruction and serious damage to homes, infrastructure, buildings, shops and cars.”

The Lebanese health ministry said 16 people were wounded in the strikes on Tyre, while AFP footage showed entire neighborhoods buried under rubble.

“The whole city shook,” Rana, a resident who asked to only use her first name over security concerns, told AFP after fleeing to the seafront following an Israeli military warning for people to evacuate much of Tyre’s center in the morning.

The IDF strikes targeted “command and control complexes of various Hezbollah units,” according to a social media post by Adraee.

Before the Israel-Hezbollah border skirmishes began last year, at least 50,000 people lived in Tyre, a vibrant city home to both Christians and Muslims. The city was emptied of most of its population when Israel’s escalated its offensive against Hezbollah last month.

Only 14,500 remained there on Tuesday, said Bilal Kashmar of Tyre’s disaster management unit.

But the city saw a fresh exodus on Wednesday as people began to escape immediately after the Israeli army issued an evacuation warning for four neighborhoods at 8:00 a.m.

Emergency teams drove around the city, urging people to evacuate over megaphones, a video journalist collaborating with AFP said.

An AFP photographer in the city of Sidon, further north, saw dozens of cars on the coastal highway filled with families carrying mattresses, suitcases and clothes.

Tyre is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It is home to important archaeological sites, mainly from Roman times.

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25 Oct 2024, 4:04 am

Iran readying for war with Israel as it braces for response to missile attack — NYT

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Iran is readying for war with Israel while at the same time seeking to avoid one, according to a Thursday report, and its next steps will be determined by Israel’s response to Tehran’s October 1 ballistic missile attack, the outline of which was said to have been approved in recent days.

Citing four Iranian officials, The New York Times reported that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered Iran’s armed forces to formulate numerous plans based on the potential outcome of an expected retaliatory attack by Israel, which has been weeks in the making. “Iran has ordered the armed forces to be prepared for war but also to try to avoid it,” the report said.

The officials, two of whom belong to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said that if Israel were to inflict significant damage on sensitive sites, such as oil and nuclear facilities, or if it were to target senior Iranian officials, Iran would without a doubt escalate further.

In this instance, the sources said, Iran could fire a barrage of up to 1,000 ballistic missiles — a significant step up in comparison to the 200 it fired on October 1 — or even disrupt global energy supplies and international trade routes.

However, if Jerusalem were to limit its response to striking weapons warehouses or military bases, Tehran may conclude that it is in its best interest to do nothing, bringing an end to the latest round of direct conflict between the two countries.

Israel had previously been thought to be mulling attacks on Iranian oil infrastructure or nuclear sites, both opposed by the US for their potential to escalate fighting, including Iranian reprisals aimed at civilian infrastructure in Israel or other regional countries aligned with the West.

Iranian leaders publicly maintain that they are not seeking to descend into an all-out regional war, and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi went on an intensive regional tour last week to stress that point. However, they also fear looking weak, the report said, and a heavy blow at the hands of Israel could leave them vulnerable and feeling as though they must reassert dominance in the region.

Israel’s plans for retaliation were said to have been thrown off course recently after confidential US documents on the matter were leaked last Friday, revealing US observations of measures taken by the Israeli Air Force on October 15-16 in the lead-up to an attack.

Amid reports that Israel had been forced to change tactics and delay its plans as a result of the leak, Army Radio quoted an unnamed Israeli official on Thursday who insisted that this was not the case.

“There’s no connection between the leaking of the documents from the Pentagon and the choice of timing for the attack on Iran,” the official said.

While several windows had been discussed, the official said that no final date had been set for Israel’s response and the decision would be made “according to operational opportunities.”

At the same time, the Kan public broadcaster reported Thursday that the Israeli Air Force has completed its preparations for the reprisal and is now waiting for the political leadership to set it in motion.

The plans have been approved by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi and by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, a security official told Kan, and it is now just a matter of deciding on an appropriate time to launch the attack.

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25 Oct 2024, 4:34 am

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IDF pounds Beirut after Hezbollah’s Simhat Torah eve rocket fire at central Israel

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25 Oct 2024, 8:59 am

So based on previous recent Posts here: It appears that Israel is drawing the situation into a "World War .."
These groups of the supposably previously mentioned terrorist groups , they claim to be striking , in other countries soil
under any circumstances !" Is anything but an act of outright War" . And expecting other countries not to respond
is a absolutely ridiculous notion, they seem to be expressing .. And That they wish to exert dominance in the middleEast.
"The cost of doing business" in the MiddleEast is to respect the fact that Islam is a much more and longer established
base in that region..."Circumstance of being in that region" And Islamic ,Middle East grew up much farther back in history.
Before the new Israel has been established in that region..IMHO . Consequently these ( terrorist)organizations are a much more entrenched in the Middle East ....than all of current day Israel, based on when Israel got recognition as a independant Country. Am not sure, Israel even got recognition from all major Countries in the MiddleEast areas......
And all of these other Countries , With their respective organizations, are actually a cost of merely doing business
in that area........
Israel for over twenty years had been disrespectful of that, based on Palestinian citizens,second class humans treatment, By that Same country , based on most all media broadcasts , over the years,that I have veiwed.
Attacking Al Jeezera, offices ( a news broadcasting company in other Countries Soveriegn borders). Might be compared
to Russia , blowing up offices of the New York times in New York,because they might have been a "terrorist connection".
In the USA . ( sending missiles at their offices ) because they might print something ,that could be understood as being supportive of Ukraine ......Without prior warning , IMHO,because Russia wants to show dominance in their neighbourhood.
If this sound ridiculous ?, imagine, what the People in Lebanon must feel like , possibly ?. It is not a great leap of belief
to make a such a comparison , Like this , I feel. :roll: ..Please consider , that my posts ,Are merely my own observations of what I read in this thread. And are exposed to in my local media . This is a real life human trajedy going on, And now USA media focuses on a political race of two humans to lead a country.Because of Media Saturation of our news broadcasts . Please consider that thousands of humans are being killed or displaced , while the IDF conducts various types of media broadcasts into Lebanon to get People to leave their own homes and head for the ocean .
Where it will be hard to provide any supportive infrastructure for their own existence . Makes me think of The phrase
"drive them into the sea" one has to wonder if "Israeli settlement organizations" are now possibly considering moving into prime real Estate in that country. just as a thought ,It is impossible that Israel is trying to get respect from other
countries peoples by bombing their homes . Consider ,please, for a moment , How many generations of those peoples
countries ,of those countries bombed,will think of Israelis in general
..... . But if you consider, what made Israel act so
badly.Due to their own countries treatment by the other Countries .? but consider most other countries might have a few "bad people.Usually those countries,usually deal with their own terrorist groups. But for a Country to bomb anybody elses country because of these types of associations . ...Might be a bit extreme ?If not criminal in thise acts .? :evil:

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25 Oct 2024, 10:02 am

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This is a just lovely article ( written sarcastically) ..So operations in Israel are based on revenge ?. Imagine all the suspected terrorists stopped at Israeli check points , before all this started. And how many possible undeserving people ,whom might have responded poorly to Israeli guards and how many Palestinians may have been killed in those encounters . So where does the concept of revenge lead to..? A World War ? A giant regional War . :ninja:

How many different people, not even involved , have been killed or displaced by Israeli IDF . Those people, whom operate based on revenge, (on such a vast areas of nationalities) , Would not ? , be historically considered " psychopaths"
in their actions . And "condemned" possibly by any Court in the World :skull:

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It is hard for me not to express strong feelings in the face of the carnage ,The Israeli government has created in that region .

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25 Oct 2024, 7:27 pm

Israel says it has launched retaliatory attacks in Iran - NBC News Live Updates

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Israel confirmed that had launched "precise strikes on military targets in Iran" early Saturday morning local time. The Israel Defense Forces said the strikes were in response to "months of continuous attacks" from Iran. On Oct. 1, Iran launched nearly 200 ballistic missiles at Israel.

The initial strike targeted a barracks or office and a weapons depot near Tehran, two senior Arab officials told NBC News.

The strikes today came as Israel intensified its campaigns in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon
Secretary of State Antony Blinken finished a whirlwind trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia, where he attempted to get Hamas and Israel to agree a cease-fire and calm spiraling tensions that have raised fears of a region-wide war.

Israel is ethnically cleansing in Gaza, Jordan charges

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Jordan, one of the United States' closest allies in the Middle East, confronted Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday with a stark and unwelcome assessment: Israel is ethnically cleansing Palestinians from Gaza.

Blinken was in London after holding meetings in Israel, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, during which he pressed the need for a cease-fire and the return of hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza.

"We do see ethnic cleansing taking place" in Gaza, Blinken's Jordanian counterpart, Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, said, speaking to the American delegation in front of journalists. "It has got to stop."

Safadi added that the Israeli government “is not listening to anybody” and the situation in Gaza is “only getting worse.”

The Israeli military has intensified its bombardment of northern Gaza, surrounded hospitals and refugee camps, forced tens of thousands of Palestinians to flee and fueled fears of a targeted starvation campaign.

On Monday, Blinken said that the U.S. rejects “any effort to create a siege, to starve people, to hive off northern Gaza,” and that Netanyahu had informed him directly “that is not Israel’s policy.”

“The horror Israel is bringing on the entire population of northern Gaza is inhumane,” Safadi said in a statement on X a few hours after meeting with Blinken. “It is pure evil and a war crime that humanity should not tolerate. This massacre should be faced with a decisive international action to stop it immediately, including through imposing an arms embargo and effective sanctions.”

Journalists killed
Also on Friday, an Israeli airstrike killed three journalists in Lebanon, their networks and local officials said, and Israeli strikes killed 38 people in southern Gaza as Israeli forces detained patients and staff as they besieged and stormed one of the few functioning hospitals in the north, according to local health officials.

While Hezbollah earlier said it had shot a salvo of missiles at the area, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz linked the deaths directly to the Lebanese militant group's backer, Iran.

"The world must stop Iran now — before it’s too late," he wrote on X.

The deadly strikes came as U.S. and Israeli negotiators prepared to travel to Qatar in the coming days to resume cease-fire talks.

Meetings will resume Sunday in Doha, according to a senior administration official, as the U.S. tries to seize an opening to jumpstart negotiations after the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. CIA Director William Burns will represent Washington as intelligence chiefs from the U.S., Qatar, Egypt and Israel will gather at a critical moment.

’A war crime’
In Lebanon, the Beirut-based pan-Arab network Al-Mayadeen TV said two of its journalists — camera operator Ghassan Najar and broadcast technician Mohammed Rida — were both killed in an Israeli strike that hit a compound housing journalists in the country's southeast in the early hours of Friday morning.

Photos from the scene showed burned-out cars marked “PRESS” covered in rubble.

Broadcaster Al-Manar, which is owned by the Iran-backed militant and political group Hezbollah, said its camera operator Wissam Qassim was also killed in the strike, which took place in the Hasbaya region.

Lebanon's health ministry said another three media workers were also injured in the attack, which the ministry confirmed had killed three, adding to a death toll of more than 2,500 people in the country since hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah began last year.

Lebanese Information Minister Ziad Makary accused Israel of intentionally targeting the journalists in an attack he said amounted to a "war crime."

The deadly strike comes as Israel faces mounting accusations of intentionally targeting journalists in Gaza, which it denies.

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), at least 128 journalists have been killed in Gaza during Israel's yearlong offensive there. The committee has warned that more journalists were killed in the first 10 weeks of Israel's offensive in Gaza than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year.

Earlier this week, the Israel Defense Forces named six journalists working with Al Jazeera, saying they had been "exposed as Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists."

The network denied the accusations, and CPJ said Israel has “repeatedly made similar unproven claims without producing credible evidence.” In a statement published on social media Friday, it said it “strongly condemns Israel’s killing of three journalists.”

Chaos at Gaza hospital
In Gaza, the health ministry said 38 people had been killed and dozens injured in Israeli strikes on the southern city of Khan Younis. It also said that Israeli forces had "stormed and are present inside" the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia as they continued a deadly assault on the enclave’s north.

The health ministry said hundreds of patients, medical staff and displaced Palestinians who had sought shelter at the hospital amid widespread Israeli strikes in northern Gaza had been detained by Israeli forces.

"The situation inside the hospital is catastrophic in every sense of the word," the health ministry said.

The IDF did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News on the strikes in Khan Younis or the situation at the hospital Friday morning.

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said his organization had lost touch with personnel at the hospital.

"This development is deeply disturbing given the number of patients being served and sheltering there," he said.

Israel has waged a weekslong ramped up offensive in northern Gaza, where the United Nations has warned of a spiraling humanitarian crisis. More than 600 people have been killed in the offensive, according to local health officials.

The IDF said Friday that its forces were continuing their assault on the Jabalia refugee camp, from which thousands of people have fled amid heavy airstrikes. It said its troops were also active in both southern and central Gaza, where Israeli forces launched a deadly strike Thursday on a school in the area of the Nuseirat refugee camp.

Russia provided Houthis with tracking data to target ships in Red Sea — report

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Russia earlier this year provided satellite data to help Yemen’s Houthi rebels strike ships in the Red Sea, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

The US daily — citing “a person familiar with the matter” and two anonymous European defense officials — reported that the data was transmitted by members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stationed in Yemen and used to target ships with missiles and drones.

The Iran-backed Houthis, who control vast swaths of Yemen, started targeting commercial shipping in the Red Sea in what they say is solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza war, sparked by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terror onslaught against Israel.

The attacks have led to a dramatic drop in traffic through the key shipping lane.

In response, the United States and Britain deployed a naval coalition to the region and have bombed Houthi targets in Yemen.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has been keen to push back against the political and economic isolation imposed on his country by the West since his invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The report in the Journal comes on the heels of a summit of the BRICS countries, a diplomatic grouping that draws together nine countries that account for almost half the world’s population, including China, India and Iran.

Speaking at the BRICS summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin told leaders that the Middle East was on the brink of a full-scale war as the region braces for the expected Israeli response to Iran’s recent ballistic missile attack on the country.

The BRICS summit, attended by more than 20 leaders including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan, has shown the depth of Russia’s relations beyond the Western world.

Much discussion at the summit in the Russian city of Kazan was dedicated to the war in Ukraine and the violence in the Middle East, though there were no sign that anything specific would be done to end either conflict.

“The degree of confrontation between Israel and Iran has sharply increased. All this resembles a chain reaction and puts the entire Middle East on the brink of a full-scale war,” Putin, sitting beside Chinese President Xi Jinping, said.

Xi, speaking after Putin, said that there should be a comprehensive ceasefire Gaza, a halt to the spread of war in Lebanon and a return to the two-state solution under which states for both Israel and the Palestinians would be established.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian criticized international organizations, particularly the United Nations, for failing to end the conflict started by its proxy Hamas.

Putin said that unless Palestinians got their state, they would feel the burden of “historical injustice” and the region would remain in “an atmosphere of permanent crisis with inevitable relapses of large-scale violence.”

BRICS leaders in their summit declaration called for the establishment of a sovereign, independent and viable Palestinian state within the so-called 1967 lines. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attended the summit, accusing Israel of trying to “empty” the Gaza Strip of Palestinians, especially in the northern part where it launched a new offensive against Hamas this month.

“It has been a full year since the greatest catastrophe that the Palestinian people experienced after the Nakba of 1948, which is the Israeli war in which crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing are being committed in the Gaza Strip,” Abbas said in a speech.

“This is part of a plan to empty the territory of its people, especially now in northern Gaza where the occupation forces are resorting to starving the population there.

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Journalists killed
Also on Friday, an Israeli airstrike killed three journalists in Lebanon, their networks and local officials said, and Israeli strikes killed 38 people in southern Gaza as Israeli forces detained patients and staff as they besieged and stormed one of the few functioning hospitals in the north, according to local health officials.

While Hezbollah earlier said it had shot a salvo of missiles at the area, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz linked the deaths directly to the Lebanese militant group's backer, Iran.

"The world must stop Iran now — before it’s too late," he wrote on X.
End of above quote.

( by the Way, Iran has not appeared to be the issue here As Israel further seems to conflagurate the situation
With distractive International Statements, To Allow the IDF to further violate international Soveriegnity.
And further conquer foriegn nations territories ? :roll:

So in this above quote , from above...It sounds like a madman method of reasoning ! Read this word for word, Considering that Lebanon and Iran are two seperate Countries and including PalestineLegally and Internationally outside Israels , sphere of and legal or Moral influence. Its like France accusing the Netherlands of being responsible for some bombing concerning a third country, that France destroyed. And bombing the People of Luxemborg..Just cause they are nextdoor to that country..IMHO.
So if a countries has undesireables,that their Country may dislike..Do you bomb the Country ....Why then according to
some Political people , that do not like illegal immigration. including members of a undesireable Mexican gang.
We should bomb all Mexicans and Spanish speaking neighbour of Mexico....same logic applies ..! We should invade Mexico..And bomb all their Southern Spanish speaking neighbours? Perhaps because we think ? Mexican gang members have families in those other countries ? :evil: ..This kinda of Logic causes much difficulties for the World. (And can breed much hate.) ..Just because the USA has said so.? :roll: or in this case....just because Israel has said so?

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26 Oct 2024, 4:45 pm

Also: Vox asked some scholars last year if the war in Gaza constituted a genocide, and did a follow up a few days ago. Of the four people who said it did not that responded back, three of them changed their minds and now say it's a genocide.

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Iran says it has a ‘right to self-defense’ after Israel attack, as U.S. urges end to missile exchanges

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Three waves of pre-dawn strikes on military targets in Iran on Saturday completed Israel's retaliation on Iran, the Israel Defense Forces said, in what U.S. officials and others hoped would be the last shot in a hostile exchange between the two regional powers that has had the world on edge for weeks, fearing a dangerous expansion of the war.

The IDF said it hit aerial defense systems and missile manufacturing facilities in Iran, avoiding nuclear and oil facilities in what appeared to be a limited attack aimed at deterrence by showing its military might, while avoiding a major escalation.

In a briefing following the attacks, a senior official of the Biden administration told reporters that “This should be the end of the direct military exchange between Israel and Iran.”

The official said this is the “very strong view” of the U.S. and “it’s been communicated to our partners throughout the region.”

Iran's foreign ministry condemned the attack in a statement on Saturday, asserting Iran's “inherent right to self-defense,” but added that the country will uphold its “responsibilities for regional peace and stability,” making no mention of imminent retaliation.

The Iranian army said two soldiers were killed in the attacks, without adding further details. It also said the strikes targeted military centers in the provinces of Tehran, Khuzestan and Ilam, but downplayed the attack, saying "damage was limited," and that its defense forces "successfully intercepted" the strike.

Iran's state media reported several explosions that could be heard from the capital, Tehran, and video footage verified by NBC News showed Iran’s air defense forces appearing to engage with Israeli projectiles. The capital itself was not directly hit.

The strikes drew condemnation from other nations in the Middle East. Qatar and Saudi Arabia called the attack a “flagrant violation of Iran’s sovereignty,” while Iraq accused Israel of continuing its “aggressive policies.”Jordan, one of the U.S.’ closest allies in the region, called the strikes a “dangerous escalation” that “threatens the stability of the region.”

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