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

  Scoop: White House has discussed U.S. military response if Hezbollah attacks Israel

  

  The White House has been discussing the possibility of using military force if Hezbollah joins the war in Gaza and attacks Israel with its huge arsenal of rockets, three U.S. officials and one Israeli official with knowledge of the situation tell Axios. Why it matters: Lebanon-based Hezbollah joining the war …

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• 20 October

  Israel says it wants to destroy Hamas. But who would govern Gaza after that?

  

  In talks with Middle Eastern governments, U.S. officials are broaching the subject of Gaza’s future without Hamas in charge. Biden administration officials and lawmakers support Israel’s plans to strike hard at Hamas but they worry their ally has no clear plan for who will govern Gaza if and when the …

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• 20 October

  Apply the logic of the Afghanistan withdrawal to Syria

  Key points The logic President Biden used for removing U.S. troops from Afghanistan applies to Syria. Since a U.S. intervention should be defined by clear, achievable goals, and since long-range strikes, instead of occupying forces, can accomplish U.S. counterterrorism goals, there is no good case for keeping U.S. troops in …

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• 19 October

  Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei Says About Israel’s Attacks On Gaza ‘We Must Respond; Let’s Respond; Today, In The Case Of Gaza, This Response Is On All Of Us; We Must Respond’; Calls On President Biden To Restrain Israel – As His Advisor Velayati Calls On Hamas To Continue ‘In Full Force’

  

  At an October 17, 2023 meeting with members of Iran’s elite scientific circles, at the Imam Khomeini Husseiniya[1] in Tehran, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei instructed the commanders in Iran and the leaders of the resistance organizations that they must respond to Israel’s attacks against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. …

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• 19 October

  Hamas offensive of October 7, 2023 and Tet offensive of January 30, 1968. Similar, yet divergent

  

  Commentators are comparing the Toofan Al-Aqsa offensive by Hamas against Israel with the 1973 Yom Kippur event, when a coalition of Arab armies led by Egypt and Syria, overwhelmed Israeli forces. But that was a war led by state-sponsored armies, whereas the latest attack on Israel has been carried out …

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• 19 October

  Gaza Conflict May Spark Far Wider War

  

  A hospital bombed, thousands killed, made homeless, deprived of food, water and power. The racist degradation of Zionist Israel has reached a new depth as the number lives it annihilates soars. The one thing certain is that the crimes of Hamas will pale by comparison. Israeli leaders, for over a …

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• 19 October

  Why do Palestinians not deserve support for their self-defence?

  

  Israeli occupation forces raid Palestinian cities, villages and refugee camps in the occupied West Bank almost every day. They storm Palestinian homes, detain whoever they want and most times kill Palestinians, including women, children and elderly. As the whole world watches, the Israeli occupation authorities claim that they target wanted …

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• 19 October

  Analysis: Will Gaza be Israel’s Stalingrad?

  

  Despite far superior military capabilities, Israel could find itself trapped in Gaza. The deadly bombing of the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday night, which has killed at least 500 people according to health officials, has sparked global outrage and triggered another round of mutual accusations. The Palestinian …

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• 19 October

  Why has Jordan cancelled Biden visit after bombing of Gaza hospital?

  

  Jordan has long had a complex working relationship with Israel. The crisis in Gaza is stressing it — especially after the bombing of Al-Ahli Arab Hospital. It was to be a centrepiece of United States President Joe Biden’s visit to the Middle East on Wednesday: a trip to Jordan to …

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