May, 2021

• 27 May

  US, Egypt working closely to reinforce Gaza ceasefire, Blinken says

  

  Egypt has longstanding relations with both sides in the conflict and played a key role in brokering the Gaza ceasefire after 11 days of violence, in coordination with the United States. Egypt and the United States said they would work together to reinforce a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants …

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• 27 May

  From air defense to ‘occupation’: The plan for endless war in Gaza

  

  The occupation narrative is designed to press Israel into always having to take full responsibility for Gaza, which will always be “occupied” no matter what the Jewish state does. In the wake of the recent Gaza war, several narratives have emerged that are preparing the ground for the next war …

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• 27 May

  IDF: Nasrallah tried to threaten Israel, looked weak and sick instead

  

  A coughing Hezbollah leader called for creation of a ‘new equation’: Any violation of Jerusalem would lead to a regional war Any violations of Jerusalem will cause a “regional war,” warned Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday night, in his first speech since before Operation Guardian of the Walls began …

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• 27 May

  UNHRC poised to approve war crimes probe into Israel on Gaza, Jerusalem

  

  Pakistan and the Palestinian Authority submitted a resolution on the creation of a fact-finding mission that will be voted on Thursday when the UNHRC holds a special session on the matter in Geneva. The United Nations Human Rights Council is expected to establish a commission of inquiry into Israeli actions …

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• 27 May

  Hamas’s Sinwar: We have 500 km of tunnels in Gaza, only 5% were damaged

  

  “We are ready for the great battle, if the enemy commits a great folly in Jerusalem and the holy sites,” Sinwar said in his first speech since Operation Guardian of the Walls. Gaza’s Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar claimed on Wednesday that Hamas has 500 km. of tunnels in the Gaza …

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• 27 May

  Groups That Aid Israel’s War Crimes Can’t Deny All Responsibility for Those Crimes

  

  Here is something that can be said with great confidence. It is racist – antisemitic, if you prefer – to hold Jews, individually or collectively, accountable for Israel’s crimes. Jews are not responsible for Israel’s war crimes, even if the Israeli state presumes to implicate Jews in its crimes by …

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• 27 May

  Intelligence and Ideology: the Exaggeration of the Threat

  The three major military powers (the United States, Russia, and China) systematically and consistently engage in inflation of the threats they face. Each side tends to see the worst motivation and the greatest capabilities in assessing its adversaries in order to justify its own actions. This problem was endemic throughout …

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• 26 May

  Biden’s Palestinian Mission is Doomed to Fail

  

  The big problem, though, with Mr Biden’s commitment for the US to work with the Palestinian Authority in Gaza is that the ability of Mr Abbas’s organisation to exercise any influence over Gaza is virtually negligible. While Mr Abbas continues to indulge in the fiction that he is the legitimate …

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• 26 May

  Will PLO and Hamas find common ground?

  

  Hamas’ popularity has risen sharply, but this doesn’t help them much with the outside world. An understanding with Fatah is key to any potential role in regional diplomacy. If the relationship between the PLO and Hamas was on shaky grounds after President Mahmoud Abbas canceled the legislative elections, they are …

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• 26 May

  Tehran hard-liner council bans leading centrists from presidential race

  

  Iran’s Guardian Council disqualified all the major moderate contenders from the country’s presidential election, paving the way for a one-sided race and an anticipated victory for hard-line judicial chief Ibrahim Raisi. The lengths Iran’s Guardian Council went to to squash the presidential hopes of top moderates shocked even many hard-liners …

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