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News and Analysis (10/3/24)
The regional war expands: Iran Mustered Fiercer Attack than in the Spring, Warns of Even Worse (Washington Post) Israel Plans Massive Iran Payback with Middle East on Edge (Axios) Live Updates: Countries Plan Evacuations as Israel Pursues Incursions into Lebanon (AP) Israel Censors Reporting on Military Sites Hit by Iran, Obscuring Extent of Damage (Middle…
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News and Analysis 10/1/24
Israel invades Lebanon and U.S. anticipates Iranian reaction: Iran Preparing Imminent Missile Attack Against Israel: Senior U.S. Official (Axios) “Videos shared by the IDF show fighter jets they say were involved in the operation carrying BLU-109s, an American-made 2,000-pound munition”: Israel Likely Used U.S.-made 2,000-pound Bombs in Nasrallah Strike, Visuals Show (Washington Post) “Jared Kushner,…
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News and Analysis 9/29/24
“[W]ith the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah confirmed killed, the region, after 11 months, has finally stepped over the brink and into a place it has truly never been before”: The Killing of Hassan Nasrallah Leaves Iran with a Fateful Choice and the US Humiliated (The Guardian) “As well as killing Nasrallah, Friday’s strikes by Israel…
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News and Analysis 9/27/24
“We were leaving the building when they started pushing and hitting and throwing us against the floor” — Besan Zeidan, the president of Temple SJP: Temple Students Detained After Engineering Career Fair Pro-Palestine Protest (Temple News) “Israel’s decision to ramp up its offensive against Hizbollah, Iran’s most important regional proxy, has become the biggest test…
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News and Analysis 9/25/24
“Israel vowed to ‘accelerate offensive actions,’ while Hezbollah launched a new barrage of cross-border fire”: Thousands Flee Southern Lebanon as Israeli Strikes Kill More than 550 (NBC News) In testimony to Congress, Blinken contradicted conclusions by “U.S. government’s two foremost authorities on humanitarian assistance,” a denial that “a former senior civil military adviser in the…
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News and Analysis 9/23/24
It is not just that “an arms embargo is .. what 60% of Americans …” both the Foreign Assistance Act and the Leahy Law clearly demand it: An Arms Embargo on Israel Is Not a Radical Idea — It’s the Law (Israel-Palestine News) “New laws … mandate that men wear a fist long beard, bar…
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News and Analysis 9/21/24
Israeli war crimes continue: Israeli Soldiers Filmed Pushing Bodies of Palestinians Off West Bank Roof (The Guardian) Israel’s War on Gaza Live: ‘Netanyahu Knows the Americans Cannot Stop Him’ (Aljazeera) Six Palestinians Killed by Israeli Forces in Occupied West Bank’s Qabatiya (Reuters) … but however unrelenting they may be recently, they are not new: The…
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News and Analysis 9/18/24
Israel turns 20th century tech communication devices into weapons of death and destruction: Exploding Pagers Targeting Hezbollah Kill 9 and Wound Thousands, Lebanon Says (NY Times) Iran’s Ambassador to Lebanon Injured by Pager Explosion (Reuters) Exclusive: Hezbollah Suspicions Forced Israel to Expedite Lebanon Pager Attack (Al-Monitor) Hezbollah Vows to Punish Israel After Pager Explosions Across…
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News and Analysis 9/15/24
“The IDF said Aysenur Eygi was shot “unintentionally” during a “violent riot.” A Post analysis shows clashes had subsided and protesters had retreated”: New Video, Witnesses Challenge Israel’s Account of U.S. Activists’s Killing (Washington Post) “Even a key separatist organisation, Jamaat-e-Islami, which boycotted elections for the last four decades, has now entered the fray, gauging…
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News and Analysis 9/12/24
Biden’s professions of outrage are belied by his failure to to call the victim’s family (let alone cut off weapons for the perpetrators): Biden and Harris Condemn Killing of American Citizen by Israeli Troops in West Bank (USA Today) White House: Biden Has Not Called Family of American Citizen Killed in West Bank by Israeli…