August, 2024

• 14 August

  China Is Now Goading Iran into Attacking Israel

  

  As countries around the world pressure Iran not to strike Israel — Tehran blames the Jewish state for the bomb that killed Haniyeh on July 31 — China was, in effect, publicly goading Iran to act. Hamas is a proxy of Iran. Iran’s regime believes that it is no one’s …

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• 14 August

  Spotlight on Terrorism: Hezbollah, Lebanon and Syria August 5-12 , 2024

  

  During the past week Hezbollah claimed responsibility for 59 attacks on military and civiliantargets in northern Israel. A civilian was killed and 14 were injured by the interception of aHezbollah UAV launched at the Western Galilee. Hezbollah announced 14 operatives had been killed. A senior commander in Hamas’ militarywing was …

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• 14 August

  The 1948 Irgun Re-Born? – OpEd

  

  The signposts are there for all to read: The West – in deliberately overlooking such explicit markers – cannot then complain, or escape, the ensuing consequences. No, the “tin ear” is not some new western derangement – a unique mass collapse of sanity – that we are living through. It …

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• 14 August

  Subliminal message from Beijing to Washington in the midst of the war drums

  

  Anger is arsonist. Below its grip, there is a tendency to provoke a reaction from the adversary, which will serve as fuel to fan the flames, thereby increasing the legitimacy of the angry hell. The method is convenient for practising accusatory reversal and making the one who reacts to aggression …

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• 14 August

  Israël dirige les États-Unis. Non, les États-Unis dirigent Israël. Non, attendez …

  

  Ce discours dérangé que Bibi Netanyahou a prononcé devant une session conjointe du Congrès le mois dernier : Je n’arrive pas à le chasser de mon esprit. Cela n’a rien changé – ni le Premier ministre israélien ni ses hôtes ne semblent vouloir ou avoir l’intention de changer quoi que …

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• 14 August

  Comment Washington a utilisé les mouvements takfiri et l’islamophobie pour atteindre ses objectifs géopolitiques

  

  Au cours des deux derniers siècles, l’islam a été une identité culturelle manipulée par les Anglo-Saxons, d’abord par les Britanniques, puis par les Américains. Les États-Unis d’Amérique – au cours du XIXe siècle et jusqu’aux suites immédiates de la Première Guerre mondiale – ont eu une stratégie nationale qui a …

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• 14 August

  La Déclaration Balfour et l’État d’Israël aujourd’hui

  

  Dans une lettre adressée au Premier ministre, Lloyd George, le 23 août 1917, Edwin Montagu, le seul juif de son gouvernement, écrit que la déclaration Balfour «provoquera en définitive un terrain de ralliement pour les antisémites, de tous les pays du monde… il semble inconcevable que le sionisme soit officiellement …

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• 13 August

  Fake News Alert: Iran Isn’t Plotting To Strike Azerbaijan

  

  Iran knows that NATO-member Turkiye is Azerbaijan’s mutual defense ally so a wider war could easily follow if Iran strikes Azerbaijan out of the misguided desire to de-escalate tensions with Israel. The Telegraph’s scandalous report on Friday alleging that “Iran’s new president battles revolutionary guard to stop all-out war with …

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• 13 August

  Iran Knows It Cannot Win a War against Israel

  

  [T]he likelihood of Iran launching another attack against Israel in retaliation for Haniyeh’s assassination appears to be receding, not least because Tehran is well aware that, in any major military confrontation with Israel, it will inevitably be the loser. Israeli officials also believe that the initial assault will not originate …

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• 13 August

  Iran Update, August 10, 2024

  

  Different elements of the Iranian regime have advocated for varying responses to Israel’s killing of Hamas Political Bureau Chairman Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31. The different messages across the regime are very likely emblematic of differences in opinion between different camps in the regime. The messages may also …

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