There is emerging debate inside the Pentagon about the wisdom of sending ships, fighter jets, and troops to the Middle East and whether the move helps prevent further escalation or encourages Israel to get bolder in its strikes because of the U.S. support.
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LEBANON DEATH TOLL
Israel is reportedly planning for an ‘imminent’ ground invasion in Lebanon and has been bombing the country to its north to weaken Hezbollah’s resolve. About one million people in Lebanon have been displaced and thousands have fled into Syria as the Israeli shelling continued.
U.S. SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL OPENS DOOR FOR CHINA INFLUENCE
The U.S. support for Israel’s genocide and increased aggression in the Middle East is alienating Washington and allowing China to exert more influence in the region.
SMOTRICH WARNS NETANYAHU NOT TO AGREE TO GAZA CEASEFIRE
Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli finance minister, told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reject any international pressure to agree to a ceasefire in Gaza and called any such deal nothing more than a capitulation.
UN: GAZA HELL, ‘TOTAL LAWLESSNESS’
Gaza has become a “lawless wasteland” after eight months of punishment from Israel in response to the Hamas attack in October, Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary-general, said.
NO CEASEFIRE: ISRAELI GENOCIDE GANG PLEDGES TO KEEP WAR GOING
The massacre in Gaza will continue for at least another seven months for Israel to complete its objective to snuff out Hamas in Gaza, Tzachi Hanegbi, head of the Israeli National Security Council, said last week.
BULLSHIT HAS ITS OWN SOUND: NETANYAHU SAYS THERE IS NO HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE IN RAFAH
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week told the world not to believe its lying eyes and said there was no humanitarian catastrophe in Rafah, where 1.7 million people are sheltering during the Israeli bombardment.
BIDEN PRAISES SCHUMER FOR STANDING UP AGAINST NETANYAHU, WITHOUT CALLING FOR CEASEFIRE
U.S. President Joe Biden praised Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., last week for stating that Israel should hold new elections amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza—but both men—who never held a job outside Washington were shrewd and refused to call for a ceasefire.
NOTHING COMPARES TO THE NIGHTMARE IN GAZA: WORLD PEACE FOUNDATION’S CHIEF
Alex de Waal, the executive director of the World Peace Foundation, told reporters last week that the starvation campaign inflicted on the Palestinians in Gaza is a uniquely horrific event in recent history.
PUTIN KEPT PUSHING FOR CEASEFIRE IN DONBASS IN 2019, BUT I REJECTED IT: ZELENSKY
Before the Ukraine War began on 24 February 2022, we had urged that Russia and Ukraine negotiate for a ceasefire.