October, 2023

• 20 October

  What Comes After Hamas?

  

  A Plan to Return the Gaza Strip to Palestinians and Keep Israel Safe Israel’s offensive against the Gaza Strip is ramping up. After the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas spilled out of Gaza to stage a brutal attack on Israel on October 7, the enclave is now under siege. Israel has …

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• 20 October

  What Friends Owe Friends

  

  Why Washington Should Restrain Israeli Military Action in Gaza—and Preserve a Path to Peace Israel’s desire to destroy Hamas once and for all is entirely understandable. The terrorist group’s October 7 attacks resulted in the deaths of more than 1,300 Israelis, injuries to thousands more, and the seizure of some …

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• 20 October

  Forgotten Front: Why Syria Is Becoming a Headache for Russia

  

  Syria has not only failed to become a secure base for Russian forces in the Middle East, but is increasingly generating its own crises.For several years, Russia has set itself the joint mission with Iran of pushing the United States out of Syria—and ideally out of the entire Middle East. …

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• 20 October

  German Elite Forces Are Ready For Possible Gaza Operation, Says Bild

  

  The German government has decided to deploy some of Germany’s top Special Forces units to Cyprus as it prepares for potential crisis situations in Israel, Gaza, and the Middle East, the German tabloid Bild reported on Wednesday, citing security sources. The German Army’s Special Forces Command (KSK) has been deployed …

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• 20 October

  Resurrecting Arafat in Beirut?

  

  Hamas, with Hezbollah’s help, is building up a military presence in Lebanon, whose ultimate consequences could be devastating. During the past two years of turmoil in Lebanon, Hezbollah has taken to slowly overturning the accepted postwar norms regarding Lebanon’s policy vis-à-vis the Palestinian refugee camps and the Palestinian issue as …

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• 20 October

  Gaza Has Created a Dilemma for Hezbollah

  

  The party has spent almost two decades building up a deterrence capacity, and now may be its prisoner. Since Hamas’ attack against Israeli towns on October 7, and the ensuing Israeli bombardment and military operations in and around Gaza, Hezbollah’s response in southern Lebanon has been mostly restrained. The party …

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• 20 October

  Taliban Leaders Conspicuously Silent on Israel-Hamas War in Gaza

  

  Amid heightened tensions in the Middle East, the Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has been notably quiet on the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza — in sharp contrast to the fervent, daily anti-Israel comments from neighboring Iran. While Akhundzada has no public-facing digital accounts, his edicts and statements …

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• 20 October

  Troops hurt after three drones attack US bases in Iraq as tensions flare after Gaza hospital blast

  

  Coalition forces were slightly injured in Iraq in a spate of drone attacks over the last 24 hours at U.S. bases in Iraq as regional tensions flare following the deadly explosion at a hospital in Gaza. Two drones targeted the al Asad airbase in western Iraq used by U.S. forces …

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• 20 October

  The Iron Swords War
  Updated to 1 p.m., October 18, 2023

  

  The southern sector: The IDF continued its activity in the Gaza Strip, mainly by conductingairstrikes on terrorist targets of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Terrorist facilitieswere damaged and several senior Hamas terrorist operatives were killed, the most prominentof whom was Ayman Nofal. In the evening the Palestinian Authority reported …

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• 20 October

  Russia’s Support Of Palestinian Independence Shouldn’t Be Spun As An Anti-Israeli Policy

  

  The Alt-Media Community is lying about the Kremlin’s balanced policy towards the latest conflict just as much as the Mainstream Media is, albeit from the diametrically opposite position of falsely disassociating Russia from Israel while their putative rivals seek to falsely associate it with terrorism. The latest Israeli-Hamas war has …

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