June, 2024

• 5 June

  Iran Update, June 4, 2024

  

  A senior Hamas official responded negatively on June 4 to the latest Israeli ceasefire proposal for the Gaza Strip. Hamas appears unlikely to accept a proposal that does not meet the maximalist demands that Hamas has maintained since December 2023. Hamas Political Bureau member Osama Hamdan said Hamas cannot agree …

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• 5 June

  Russia Holds BRICS Games Amid Heightened Geopolitical Divergences – OpEd

  

  At the beginning of 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin recieved the baton of BRICS chairmanship, according to the decision adopted by the 15th BRICS Summit in August 2022, and in an acceptance statement underscored the fact that the association’s priorities include promoting youth exchanges, cooperating on frequent cultural interaction through …

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• 5 June

  Moscow’s First Move Against NATO Could Take Place In Norway’s Svalbard Archipelago – Analysis

  

  Given Moscow’s bellicose rhetoric about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and threats to attack one or more of its members if the West continues to support Ukraine, many in Russia and the West have been speculating about where such a Russian move might occur. Most have focused on Poland, …

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• 5 June

  Spotlight on Terrorism :
  Hezbollah, Lebanon and Syria
  May 27 – june 3, 2024

  This past week Hezbollah claimed responsibility for 56 attacks on military and civilian targetsin northern Israel, using anti-tank missiles, mortar shells, UAVs and various types of rockets,including heavy rockets, and their firepower increased. An IDF unmanned aircraft was shotdown and an IDF post was attacked at close range. There were …

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• 5 June

  Summary of ISIS Activity around the Globe in 2023

  In 2023, there was a sharp decline (about 50%) in the scope of ISIS’s terrorist activityaround the world compared with 2022.2 The downward trend in the volume of activity hadcontinued since 2020. However, 2023 saw the sharpest decline. E_091_24Download

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• 5 June

  Gaza: The Donkey and the Fate of Western Civilization

  

  Blackened smoke in the background, the raging inferno ripped through tents long after Israel had bombed another designated “safe” zone for evacuated civilians from north of Gaza. A charred body, of a boy or a girl, pulled from the wreckage, still burning. It’s the “bigger shoah,” the bigger Holocaust, Matan …

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• 5 June

  ISIS tells Americans they’ll ‘drink their blood’ in terrifying promise to attack

  

  ISIS has told Americans it wants to “drink their blood” in a twisted message promising attacks on the US. Circulating on pro-Islamic State messaging channels the statement follows warnings of attacks on the major sporting events this summer including the T20 World Cup and Paris Olympics. Titled “An open letter …

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• 5 June

  The Dangerous Myth of Deglobalization

  

  Misperceptions of the Global Economy Are Driving Bad Policies Aconsensus is emerging that the world is cleaving into blocs—not only geopolitically but economically, too. In 2020, the economist Douglas Irwin wrote that “the COVID-19 pandemic is driving the world economy to retreat from global economic integration.” In the years since, …

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• 5 June

  Why Russians Still Support the War

  

  Despite some Western expectations of an imminent decline in Russian backing for the conflict in Ukraine, akin to the fading public support observed in recent Western conflicts, Russia’s civilians and soldiers exhibit an unwavering determination to sustain their support. Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing for a two-day trip …

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• 5 June

  Iran’s allies in Iraq are firing at Israel. Could that trigger a wider war?

  

  Iran-backed Shi’ite armed groups in Iraq have ramped up rocket and missile attacks on Israel in recent weeks, raising concerns in Washington and among some Iranian allies of potential Israeli retaliation and regional escalation should they draw blood. Though the attacks, often from hundreds of miles (kms) away, are not …

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