October, 2024

• 12 October

  Spotlight on Iran and the Shiite Axis

  On October 1, 2024, the IRGC fired about 200 ballistic missiles at Israel in response to the killing of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, and Hassan Nasrallah and a senior IRGC officer in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut. Most of the missiles were intercepted by the Israeli Air Force and air …

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• 12 October

  BRICS Expansion, the G20, and the Future of World Order

  

  With the addition of new members in BRICS+, the group of emerging powers will be more globally representative­—but also face more internal divisions. This month, Russian President Vladimir Putin will host the first-ever summit of BRICS+ from October 22 to 24 in the Tatarstan city of Kazan. There, the founding …

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• 12 October

  Destruction of Gaza heritage sites aims to erase – and replace – Palestine’s history

  

  In 2016, British photographer James Morris published Time and Remains of Palestine. The images in this book bear witness to an absence of architectural monuments, and to the invisible moments of history buried in the rubble and wastelands of Palestine. Situated at the crossroads between Asia and Africa, Palestine has …

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• 12 October

  The Age of Depopulation

  

  Surviving a World Gone Gray Although few yet see it coming, humans are about to enter a new era of history. Call it “the age of depopulation.” For the first time since the Black Death in the 1300s, the planetary population will decline. But whereas the last implosion was caused …

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• 12 October

  West Bank Israeli settlers fundraise online for military equipment

  

  Israeli settlers resort to multinational nonprofit status and crowdfunding to purchase military equipment that is used against Palestinians in the West Bank. Heavily armed and openly coordinated across a range of online platforms, networks of connected fighters have emerged to secure and develop Israeli settlements in the Palestinian West Bank. …

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• 10 October

  Israel expands ethnic cleansing and deliberate starvation in northern Gaza

  

  A Palestinian man holds the body of a relative killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at a hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024 [AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana] One year after the start of the Gaza genocide, Israel, with the support of US imperialism, is …

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• 10 October

  ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency in August 2024

  

  ISIS carried out at least 19 confirmed attacks in August in the Homs, Raqqa, and Deir Ez Zor governorates. These attacks killed at least 12 pro-Assad regime soldiers and seven civilians and wounded at least 25 others. There were also six high quality* attacks carried out during the month. The …

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• 10 October

  THE ANALYSIS OF DAHIYA DOCTRINE
  IN THE CONTEXT OF ISRAEL’S FURTHER SECURITY CLAIM

  Abstract This study aims to understand, determine and explain the Dahiya Doctrine that was adopted during the Lebanon War (2006), and that was applied as a deterrence model. In this frame, it deals with Israel’s dissuasive expectation through the doctrine which was based on harming military infrastructure of theorganizations and …

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• 10 October

  Has Israel used ‘toxic’ depleted uranium in Lebanon?

  

  The New Arab looks into the accusations that Israel has used depleted uranium, as well as what the substance is and why it’s so dangerous. Israel has been accused of using bombs containing depleted uranium in its bombardment of Lebanon. “The extent of destruction and the penetration of buildings and …

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• 10 October

  The Dahiya Doctrine: How is Israel using this strategy in its war on Lebanon?

  

  Repeating its strategy of the 2006 summer war, Israel has already flattened wide areas in Beirut’s southern suburbs and elsewhere in Lebanon Swathes of Beirut’s southern suburbs have been reduced to rubble because of the Israeli military’s near-daily bombardment of the area. Scenes of widespread destruction are also visible in …

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