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Lebanon on fire: Why Israel derailed US-Iran diplomacy

Murad Sadygzade
RT
Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:51 UTC
Israeli artillery unit
© CopyrightIsraeli artillery unit firing toward Southern Lebanon
Netanyahu's new offensive has undermined talks, strained European patience and raised the risk of another long occupation.

The situation in Lebanon has pushed Iran out of the negotiating process with the US and has once again shown that Middle Eastern diplomacy today depends less on formal negotiations than on what is happening on the ground.

Tehran has suspended its indirect exchange of messages with Washington through intermediaries against the backdrop of Israel's expanding operation against Lebanon and Hezbollah. This decision was a reaction to a broader crisis in which the Lebanese front has become intertwined with US-Iranian negotiations, Israel's security calculations, Lebanon's domestic politics, Hezbollah's position, Tehran's regional strategy, and the Trump administration's attempt to impose at least a temporary formula for de-escalation.

Comment: An article which gives another perspective of the forces at play or what is influencing the decision makers in Israel and the US in particular though not exclusively:
Are World Leaders Possessed? The Ancient Technology of Demonic Transfer

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Star of David

Can't make this up: Israelis complain US military has turned Ben Gurion Airport into 'its own base'

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:34 UTC
Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv
Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv
In a deep irony, Israelis are increasingly complaining the United States military has effectively taken over Israel's international travel hub.

Media reports this week are going so far as to call Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport a "US military base" - as the prominent local newspaper Haaretz does:
The US refueling aircraft and other military assets, which have been stationed at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport for months, are causing congestion and may result in flight cancellations, Israeli officials and media reports have said, calling the facility a "US military base."
The report complains that "U.S. Air Force refueling aircraft have been stationed at Ben Gurion International Airport for three months, occupying parking spots, taking up takeoff and landing slots and worsening congestion at Israel's main international gateway since the war with Iran erupted in late February, officials say."
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Mr. Potato

If only there was a German word for Berlin's UN humiliation


RT Newsroom
Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:22 UTC
Johann Wadephul
Johann Wadephul takes part in the election for the non-permanent members of the UN Security Council at the General Assembly in New York, June 3, 2026.
The UN assembly has turned its back on Germany, for the first time in the country's modern history.

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has blamed Berlin's failure to secure a seat at the UN Security Council on his country's superior moral positions. If only there were a German word for that...

Germany failed to win a temporary seat on the UN Security Council for the first time in history on Wednesday, losing out to Portugal and Austria in the 'Western Europe and Others' group. Germany easily won all six contests that it entered since 1977, usually with the support of its European and NATO allies.

Having won every round it has entered since the mid-twentieth century, this time around, Germany could only manage to secure 104 votes, while Portugal won 134 and Austria - a non-NATO member - took 131. Despite Berlin's long-held insistence that it deserves a permanent seat on the UNSC, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul was forced to listen as the results were read out by none other than Annalena Baerbock.


Comment: The Germann foreign minister believes that the loss was due to Germany's superior moral positions. The mind buggles at the scale of delusion.

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Star of David

Israel's African powerplay thwarted: US reaffirms Somali sovereignty in blow to Somaliland independence

Oscar Rickett
Middle East Eye
Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:09 UTC
somaliland
© ReutersSomaliland military armed vehicles take part in a parade during the self-declared Independence Day, with celebrations commemorating their 1991 breakaway from Somalia, on 18 May 2026
State Department report 'effectively closes the door on any lingering hopes of US recognition for Somaliland', which is recognised by Israel

Somaliland military armed vehicles take part in a parade during the self-declared Independence Day, with celebrations commemorating their 1991 breakaway from Somalia, on 18 May 2026 (Reuters) By Oscar Rickett Published date: 2 June 2026 17:18 BST | Last update: 2 days 5 hours ago

The US has reaffirmed "the sovereignty and territorial integrity" of Somalia, in a move seen as a blow to Somaliland, the breakaway region recently recognised by Israel and close to the United Arab Emirates.

In a report to Congress on "Potential Areas for Improved United States Engagement with Somaliland", the US State Department stated that Somaliland was included in the Federal Republic of Somalia.
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Attention

Ukraine is causing more regime change in the EU than in Russia

Rachel Marsden
RT
Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:02 UTC
Ukrainian drone operator
© Diego Fedele/Getty ImagesUkrainian drone operator with a kamikaze UAV
Kiev's stray drones are rattling Baltic and Nordic allies, but they prefer to blame the usual suspect.

Unelected European Commission President 'Queen' Ursula von der Leyen was in Lithuania a few days ago to come up with a plan to tackle Ukrainian drones that risk regime changing European allies. The strategy? Blame Russia - the political equivalent of a universal remote to change the channel from one's own incompetence. Not only does Russia get to be held responsible for its own stray drones, but also for Kiev's.

So why Lithuania? Well, its president, Gitanas Nauseda, has been making proclamations about how his country won't be used for military ops or have its sovereignty violated by drones or anything else. Okay, but what if it's just the doing of a Ukrainian with shaky stick control - like a teenager with one hand on the gamepad and the other buried in a bag of Doritos? Except that it's setting off national emergencies. That's cool, right?
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Big Bomb

Lunatic Zelensky orders massive drone attack as 'Putin's Davos' forum opens with Candace Owens & Trump official in attendance

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:27 UTC
ukraine drone attack st petersberg
© Exilenova+ / TelegramSmoke rises over St. Petersburg, Russia, following Ukrainian attack on June 3, 2026.
Ukraine's President Zelensky has freshly stated that he's ready for direct talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in order to end the war, but he also warned that the alternative is for Ukraine to increase its retaliatory strikes on Russia,

The head of Ukraine's Presidential Office, Kyrylo Budanov, stated this week: "Zelensky has instructed officials to try to end this war as quickly as possible, preferably before winter." But the ground war reality as well the escalating tit-for-tat air campaigns, tell a different story of a brutal and largely stalemated conflict which is likely to just grind on for the foreseeable future.

The last 24 hour period has seen a significant drone wave rain down on Russia's second largest city of St. Petersburg.

Comment: Another PR stunt by Zelensky & co, to distract from the fact that Ukraine is being ground to dust where it matters, on the battlefield. Russia will likely be in possession of the entirety of the Donbass by the end of summer, Orikhiv will be lost as well, and Zaporizhzhia surrounded. But he thinks a fireworks display will turn the tide.

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Vader

Report says John Bolton to plead guilty in documents case, pay $2M fine

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:12 UTC
john bolton
© Getty ImagesJohn Bolton
John Bolton, former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors and is expected to plead guilty to one count of illegal retention of sensitive national security documents, according to CNN, citing three sources familiar with the matter.

Under the agreement, Bolton will pay a fine of more than $2 million. A single count of illegal retention carries a possible sentence of up to 60 months in prison.

A court hearing is currently scheduled for June 26.

Bolton was originally charged in Maryland with eight counts of transmission of national defense information and ten counts of retention of national defense information. The charges centered on diary-like entries from his time in the Trump White House that were allegedly kept at his residence.

Comment: Warmonger extraordinaire Bolton will probably scoff at the fine. His defense contractor buddies have always taken good care of him Apparently his acolytes still hold sway in the White House:

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Arrow Down

Moderna is building a modified mRNA 'vaccine' for Ebola Bundibugyo - CEPI just gave them $60 million to accelerate development

Jessica Rose
Unacceptable Jessica
Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:38 UTC
Ebola Vaccine
© Unacceptable Jessica
Predictably, Moderna has secured up to $60 million from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to accelerate development of an Ebola "vaccine" amid an ongoing outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where there have been 282 confirmed cases, 42 deaths, and around 1,100 suspected cases, plus nine confirmed cases (one fatal) in Uganda.[1,2]

In case you didn't know, CEPI is the brainchild of the WEF (conceived in 2015; launched in 2017) and co-founded (and co-funded with US$460 million) from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust.

This seems a little odd to me considering that Ebola is highly containable and Bundibugyo has a lower CFR than Zaire.

The PHEIC Ebola outbreak making it to the "news"

CEPI plans to advance their modified mRNA candidate to trials within months, while also funding other candidates (Oxford/Serum Institute and IAVI), though development remains unpredictable amid a challenging "security environment", including local resistance such as the recent burning of an Ebola treatment center over burial protocols.
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The Israelization of the United States military is proceeding. "Where and how will it all end? Ask Donald Trump!"

Philip Giraldi
Global Research
Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00 UTC
IDF and captives
© UnknownIDF and captives
Few Americans know the history of how Israel's "wag the dog" relationship with the United States developed.

Israel's 1967 successful war against its neighbors demonstrated to military planners in Washington how a qualitative edge in weapons could enable a small country to resist much larger and seemingly more powerful adversaries. Israel was largely supplied with French weapons at the time that reportedly out-performed the Russian equipment in the hands of Syria and Egypt.

As a consequence, in 1968, with strong support from a heavily lobbied Congress, Zionist-influenced US President Lyndon B Johnson approved the hitherto blocked sale of F-4 Phantom fighters to Israel, establishing the precedent for continuing US support of Israel's Qualitative Military Edge, generally referred to by the acronym QME, over its Arab and Christian neighbors.

Five years later, in the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the United States and Israel came to an understanding whereby they tacitly adopted the doctrine of active US maintenance of Israel's QME. After that war, the United States also quadrupled its foreign aid to Israel, effectively replacing France as Israel's largest arms supplier.
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Self-engineered decay: Why Israel's political collapse cannot be separated from its war crimes

Ramzy Baroud
CounterPunch
Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00 UTC
Israeli flag
© Cole Keister
For those unfamiliar with the intricate machinery of Israeli politics, the unanimous 110-0 vote to dissolve the Knesset on May 20 appears to be an earth-shattering event. On the surface, it looks as if the days of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition of far-right extremists are numbered. The reality, however, is far more complex.

Israel's current political implosion is fundamentally tied to its failure to escape the ghosts of October 7. When the country's military defenses collapsed on that day, Israel was transformed from a state with a formidable reputation as an invincible regional superpower into one trapped with a struggling army, structurally incapable of decisively winning a single war.

Since the launch of the devastating genocide in Gaza, neither the Israeli government nor the military establishment has been able to answer two fundamental questions:

One, how did the world's self-proclaimed "invincible army" collapse in a matter of hours, leaving the entire Southern Command — whose sole job was to keep Gazans besieged — in total shambles?

Two, why has that same heavily funded military machine failed to achieve a decisive victory despite the near-total destruction of the Strip and the unprecedented slaughter and wounding of much of its population?

Comment: Never an action without a plan. October 7: Israel's fake 'collapse' set the stage for all that came after including upcoming decisions. In that respect, it was an operational success.

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