May, 2024

• 2 May

  Children from Gaza send powerful messages to pro-Palestinian students in the US

  

  Palestinian children gathered on Wednesday in central Gaza Strip to express gratitude to students from American universities who have been protesting in solidarity with Gaza for days, risking arrests and academic suspensions. “Thank you to the brave students at American universities” and “Thank you for standing with Gaza” were some …

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• 2 May

  Is Turkey joining South Africa’s lawsuit against Israel?

  

  Turkey will seek to join the South African lawsuit against Israel for genocide before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, confirmed Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Wednesday. Turkey has decided to seek joining the South African lawsuit for genocide against Israel before the ICJ, emphasized Fidan …

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• 1 May

  Iran Update, April 30, 2024

  

  Russia and China are hosting talks to facilitate Hamas’ inclusion in the Palestinian Authority, which would result in a Hamas-influenced government in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. China hosted senior Hamas and Fatah officials in Beijing on April 26 to discuss “intra-Palestinian reconciliation” and to “strive for the …

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• 1 May

  France-Armenia Military Cooperation: A Double-Edged Sword In The Caucasus? – OpEd

  

  The evolving military-political alliance between Armenia and France has garnered significant attention, particularly in the context of its impacts on the security landscape of the South Caucasus—a region long characterized by its geopolitical sensitivities and strategic significance. Introduction to the Alliance amidst Geopolitical Change The Armenia-France partnership, especially post-Second Karabakh …

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• 1 May

  The State of al-Qa`ida Central

  

  Abstract: More than a year and a half after the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul, al-Qaida Central has yet to acknowledge the demise of its emir and announce his replacement. After having lost its franchises in Iraq and Syria and after having seen its hegemony on the global jihadi …

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• 1 May

  Les États-Unis et le Royaume-Uni poussent à une guerre totale sur tous les fronts

  

  Préambule : Cet article confirme ce que nous pensons également. La guerre en Ukraine est loin d’être terminée, ce n’est qu’une phase de réchauffement. Comme d’habitude, la stratégie occidentale a consisté, dans toutes les guerres précédentes, à se diriger vers une grande conflagration par à-coups. Guerre, pas de guerre ? …

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• 1 May

  The CIA and Zionism: A Complex History

  

  SUDDENLY, “ZIONISM” IS A FIGHTING WORD. The term for the nationalist movement to build a Jewish state in Palestine has not often figured in American political debate over the half century since the U.S.Ambassador to the United Nations, Patrick Moynihan, denounced a 1975 United Nations resolution asserting that “Zionism is …

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• 1 May

  Will International Humanitarian Law Survive the Israel-Hamas Conflict?

  

  The crisis in Gaza has raised serious questions about the relevance of international law—even of its very survival. States and armed actors involved in the conflict have duties, both positive and negative, to protect the right to health in the face of so much violence. The humanitarian catastrophe continues months …

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• 1 May

  The Emerging Iranian Military Threat in the Middle East

  

  The failure of Iran’s recent drone and missile attack on Israel is obscuring a critical inflection in the threat that Iran poses to the United States and its regional partners that has emerged over the past few years. Iran has shown that it is willing and able to project conventional …

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• 1 May

  Islamic State Resurgence: Four Assad Troops Killed in Syria Ambush

  

  An organization tracking violence in Syria reported on Monday that Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists killed four of dictator Bashar Assad’s soldiers in an attack intentionally targeting the military, the latest in what experts fear is an accelerating escalation of ISIS activity in the country. The incident reportedly occurred in the …

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