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Losing the Plot: Israel’s Prime Minister to Face New Gaza Reality

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by Ramzy Baroud Netanyahu’s war-turned-genocide in Gaza has backfired badly – his strategy has helped resurrect Hamas, the very movement he tried desperately to crush Aside from being a major military setback, Israel’s war on Gaza has also disoriented the policies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu like never before. Since the announcement of a ceasefire on 26 August, his statements …

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The Hope Index “Lebanon”

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As a part of a report called ( A State of Mind ) Lebanon in Number Introduction Access to reliable data on socio-economic and political issues in Lebanon has been a rare and seasonal privilege, more often than not restricted to private circles. As a result, statistics offering a quantitative perspective on current affairs have been largely absent from the …

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Political coalition claims Iran planning to “export fundamentalism” after revolutionary gains in Yemen

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A political coalition on Monday said that an Iranian lawmaker, a close associate of Ali Hosseini Khamenei, made remarks which revealed the regime’s role in developments in Yemen and plans for “exporting terrorism and fundamentalism”. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) quoted Alireza Zakani referring to the Islamic Republic’s plan of “’unifying Muslims by Islamic Revolution”. On its …

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US: Training Syrian rebels won’t “happen overnight”; Iran open to talks on IS threat

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On Friday, The White House warned that training and providing arms to moderate rebel troops in Syria to fight the Islamic State (IS) will take months, only a day after the US Congress approved the plan in a rare show of bipartisanship. “We will move out as rapidly as can be done, in partnership with the countries that will host …

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Vienna: Western powers want Iran to address nuclear weapons fear

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Western powers on Thursday told Iran that it must cooperate with the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) investigation team looking into suspected nuclear weapon research conducted by the country if it wants an expansive nuclear deal which would lift some sanctions. The warning was given out after a board meeting of the IAEA at Vienna, as negotiators from six …

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US imposes more sanctions in Iran

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On Friday, the United States imposed new sanctions on networks connected to Iran, intensifying pressure over Iran’s nuclear program, its backing to terrorism and evasion of international and US sanctions. The new sanctions expanded the international sanctions already imposed on Iran despite a temporary lift of sanctions in exchange for the suspension of some of Iran’s nuclear activities. “Today we …

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Tomgram: William Astore, The Bomber Will Always Get Funded — and Used

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Bombing Iraq, as retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and TomDispatch regular William Astore indicates today, has become an American pastime.  (These days, you can’t be president without sending in the bombers and drones.)  So let’s try to get our heads around the latest U.S. air strikes in northern Iraq against the forces of the new “caliphate.”  It’s a campaign that President Obama …

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UN’s Gaza investigator faces Israeli smear campaign

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  Even before starting work as chairman of a United Nations human rights commission investigating Israeli war crimes in Gaza, Canadian law professor William Schabas has been vilified as an apologist for Iran incapable of setting aside his perceived anti-Israel bias. Full page adverts have been taken out against him in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington …

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Iran: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accuses Israel of “genocide” in Gaza

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Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday accused Israel of “genocide” and called on the Muslim world to arm Palestinians battling “the Zionist regime”. In a speech that marked the festival of Eid al-Fitr, Iran’s supreme leader said that Israel was behaving like a “rabid dog” and a “wild wolf” in acts which are causing a humanitarian crisis …

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United States says Syrian raids not the solution to Iraqi crisis

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The United States on Thursday said that it is opposed to a Syrian role in resolving the turmoil in Iraq after the Syrian government had carried out air strikes against the militants. Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who is facing insurgents from Syria who are sweeping across his nation, told the BBC that the Syrian air force had, earlier in …

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