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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…

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,…

“[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…

“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…

“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…

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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…