Drone strikes were launched against a convoy of trucks, carrying fuel, along the Syria-Iraq border this Wednesday morning, reportedly causing up to 25 deaths. Despite the possible implications of the attack, it has gone largely underreported in Western media. A fuel convoy, consisting of around 22 trucks, came under attack from Israeli drone strikes this Read More...
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu is now poised to form the next Israeli government, after defeating his main opponents Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid in Tel Aviv’s fifth election in only three years. However, the longest serving Israeli Prime Minister has come out at the expense of putting himself at the mercy of fanatical ultra-nationalists that may Read More...
I refer you to one of the first articles I ever posted on my personal website: You Don’t Use A Microscope To Find The Cow That’s Left The Barn. To quote myself . . . You can magnify a single bacteria a thousand times but it will not tell you that your entire herd is […]
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Despite the attempts of the Israeli military to put down Palestinian armed resistance by force, armed attacks against Israeli settlers and soldiers are rapidly increasing. A trend of new armed groups announcing themselves throughout the West Bank has led to policies of collective punishment (a flagrant war crime) against entire Palestinian populations inside cities and Read More...
Lebanon and Israel have concluded a maritime-border demarcation agreement, granting Lebanon the right to explore and extract natural gas from the Qana field prospect to its coast. The agreement may have averted not only a Lebanon-Israel war, but also tells us a lot about the strategic thinking of Lebanese Hezbollah and how it achieved granting Read More...
Moscow’s highly effective usage of Iranian drone technology in Ukraine has sparked a fierce backlash from Washington and its NATO allies. However, the criticism of Tehran for supplying drones, and in the future possibly ballistic missiles to Russia, reflects astounding Western hypocrisy. Calls for everything from a probe into Iranian drone usage in Ukraine to Read More...
Reports have emerged indicating that a deal between the Palestinian Authority and Egypt, over the extraction of natural gas that is located off the coast of the besieged Gaza Strip, could be within reach. Although this has been hailed as a positive development by Ramallah and Cairo, the issue could cause more harm than good Read More...
Mainstream US media outlets have given favorable interviews to former Israeli Prime Minister and candidate at the new Israeli elections next month, Benjamin Netanyahu, refusing to do their jobs and ask the Israeli far-Right politician any meaningful followup questions. What does this say about the state of US media? As the Israeli Likud Party leader, Read More...
Jerusalem has again become a battleground in the past week, with Israeli extremist settlers and police forces attacking Palestinian demonstrators throughout occupied East Jerusalem. With armed attacks against Israeli forces on the rise and protesters taking to the streets across all territories in occupied Palestine, will this drag the armed movements based in the Gaza Read More...
US President Joe Biden has declared that “there will be consequences” for Saudi Arabia’s decision, along with OPEC+, to cut oil production. Yet it is unlikely the US Government will act to punish Riyadh. if they do, then it will fit in as the next piece in a long saga of mob-mentality global politics. US Read More...
