| To: tntpal who wrote (42521) | 6/20/2024 8:09:48 AM | | From: tntpal | | | | Hezbollah leader threatens Cyprus as tensions with Israel ramp up
Beirut -
The leader of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah threatened Wednesday to target the European island of Cyprus if war breaks out between Israel and Lebanon.
“Cyprus will be part of this war too” if it opens its airports and bases to Israeli forces, Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised address that came just a day after Israel warned the powerful Iran-backed militant group that the prospect of “all-out war” was “getting very close.”
The comments by the Hezbollah leader are the first time he has threatened Cyprus, a member of the European Union that lies in the Mediterranean sea, roughly 125 miles (200 kilometers) from Lebanon, and which has held joint military exercises with Israel since 2014 and as recently as last year.
Nasrallah’s threat came as part of a fiery response to Israel’s warning that saw him boast of his group’s growing capabilities and threaten to “shake the pillars” of Israel if a war “were to be imposed on Lebanon.”
Tensions between Hezbollah and Israel have been rising since the October 7 Hamas attacks and the ensuing military campaign by the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza. In recent weeks, the intensity of cross-border attacks between the two has increased, raising concerns over the prospect of a full-blown war.
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| To: Les H who wrote (42558) | 6/20/2024 8:47:00 AM | | From: Les H | | | | Is There a Connection Between Palestinian Workers in Israel and Terrorist Attacks Within the Green Line?
By quantitatively analyzing the characteristics of all the attacks carried out by Palestinian terrorists within the Green Line over the past 17 years, the claim heard in the government and the public, that Palestinian workers who enter Israel with work permits constitute a security threat to the State of Israel, was examined. The results are presented here
INSS Insight No. 1866, June 17, 2024
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| To: Les H who wrote (42560) | 6/20/2024 8:52:41 AM | | From: Les H | | | | U.S. Pier for Gaza Aid Is Failing, and Could Be Dismantled Early
Officials hope a looming deadline will pressure Israel to open more land routes into the territory, which is facing extreme levels of hunger.
The Biden administration initially predicted that it would be September before surging seas would make the pier inoperable. But military officials are now warning aid organizations that the project could be dismantled as early as next month, a looming deadline that officials say they hope will pressure Israel to open more ground routes.
President Biden ordered the U.S. military to begin building the pier in March, at a time when he was being sharply criticized for not doing more to rein in Israel’s military response to the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks.
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| To: Les H who wrote (42561) | 6/20/2024 8:57:17 AM | | From: Les H | | | | It Is Possible to Defeat Hamas?
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Hamas has outlived usefulness to Israel. They did what they were supposed to do to facilitate a large land grab by Israel that couldn't be done with small-scale mortar attacks and incursions unless Israel was willing to take a similar amount of time it's taken to seize 50 percent of the West Bank. |
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| To: Les H who wrote (42562) | 6/20/2024 9:00:07 AM | | From: Les H | | | | Azov Leader Admits to Ukrainian Use of ‘Blocking Detachments’
State of the Union: The interview gives insight into the Ukrainian armed forces’ tenuous condition.
Mason Letteau Stallings
Jun 19, 2024
8:45 AM
In a June 16 interview with the news channel of Ukraine’s army, Armiya TV, an Azov commander admitted to his unit being used to prevent other Ukrainian units from retreating.
Dmitry Kukharchuk, the commander of the Second Battalion of Ukraine’s Third Assault Brigade, the current iteration of the neo-Nazi-linked unit, recounts a moment in 2022 when his unit was positioned behind a unit of Ukraine’s territorial defense forces (TRO) to prevent its retreat:
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| To: Les H who wrote (42563) | 6/20/2024 9:25:02 AM | | From: Les H | | | | Inside the ‘shocking’ police operation targeting pro-Palestine activists in Toronto
A heavily-resourced Hate Crimes Unit has engaged in surveillance, night raids, and ‘trumped up charges’ against the Palestinian solidarity movement
by Martin Lukacs
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| To: Les H who wrote (42565) | 6/20/2024 9:32:47 AM | | From: Les H | | | | Why the US and Ukraine Should Accept Putin’s Latest Peace Offer
Putin is likely planning a massive northern offensive to overrun eastern Ukraine, collapse its military and force Kyiv to capitulate if the West does not accept his last peace proposal very soon.
DAVID T. PYNE
JUN 20, 2024
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Ukrainians are expendable to US like Islamic mercenaries they've used in other wars. Hillary Clinton boasted the same mantra about US soldiers not dying in US' & NATO's war against Libya. Syria's war has been called the largest ever US covert war operation where they trained and armed 600,000 jihadists.. |
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| From: tntpal | 6/20/2024 10:24:35 AM | | | | | | Cigarette smuggling has crippled aid delivery in Gaza as smokes go for $25 apiec
The high price of tobacco in Gaza has given rise to a cigarette smuggling industry that now threatens United Nations aid convoys, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal.
Cigarettes can cost as much as $25 each in the war-torn region, and gangs have found ways to smuggle them in as contraband alongside aid deliveries. One group of Palestinian men demanded entry to a U.N. warehouse last week to secure a stash of cigarettes they knew was inside, according to the Journal.
The smuggling operation only enhances the dangers for aid convoys operating in Gaza, which have already faced mobs of Palestinians stopping them in their tracks... |
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