West Jerusalem has reportedly given Washington a list of conditions for a diplomatic solution to the conflict, according to the outlet

Israel has reportedly demanded that the US allow the Israel Defense Force (IDF) to freely operate in southern Lebanon as a condition to ending the war in the country, Axios reported on Monday, citing two Israeli and two US officials.

According to the outlet, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office sent the list of demands to the White House last week, ahead of the visit of US President Joe Biden's envoy, Amos Hochstein, to Beirut on Monday where he is expected to discuss a diplomatic solution to the Lebanon conflict.

The documents reportedly contain two main demands, according to Israeli officials who spoke with Axios. The first is that the IDF be allowed to engage in "active enforcement" to make sure Hezbollah militants cannot rearm and rebuild their military infrastructure in southern Lebanon near the Israeli border. The second demand is that the air force be granted the freedom to operate in Lebanese airspace, Axios reported.

Bank and crypto stocks do not speak in favor of the Democratic nominee, Stanley Druckenmiller claims.

Markets have been pricing in a Donald Trump victory in the upcoming US presidential election, American billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller has said in an interview with Bloomberg Television.

The founder of the Duquesne Family Office investment firm and hedge fund manager specified that the trend is clearly visible in bank stocks, crypto and even in the performance of the former president's social media company Trump Media & Technology Group.

"I would have to guess Trump is the favorite to win the election," Druckenmiller told the news channel on Wednesday, emphasizing that the market has seemed "very convinced Trump is going to win" over the past 12 days.

The US Democratic candidate believes Israel's killing of Yahya Sinwar could pave the way to ending the Gaza conflict

The killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by Israel has created an "opening" for ending the war in Gaza, US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has claimed.

Sinwar, who assumed full leadership of the Palestinian militant group in August, was assassinated by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) earlier this week in southern Gaza. Hamas officially confirmed his death on Friday. He was widely regarded as the key architect of the surprise attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which triggered the IDF's invasion of the Palestinian enclave. The US has also accused Sinwar of blocking a potential ceasefire deal.

During a press briefing before a campaign event in Detroit on Saturday, Harris was asked to assess the risk of losing the November election amid the continued fighting in Gaza, which has brought "a lot of churn and turmoil within the Arab-American and Muslim communities" in Michigan, a battleground state with the largest concentration of Arab Americans in the country.

The Israeli military announced on Thursday that it killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

Sinwar was reportedly killed on Wednesday by ground troops who did not realize they were engaged with Israel's most-wanted man, apparently having no prior intelligence of his location.

Israel's police claimed that "dental records and fingerprints have allowed definitive identification of Sinwar's remains," Reuters reported. Graphic images and videos purportedly showing Sinwar's body were published by Israeli media.

On Friday, Hamas confirmed the death of Sinwar, widely viewed as the mastermind of the 7 October 2023 surprise attack that devastated the Israeli army's southern command and forever shattered the myth of Israeli military invincibility.

U.S. officials are extremely concerned about a potentially major security breach after two alleged U.S. intelligence documents about Israel's preparations for an attack on Iran were published by a Telegram account affiliated with Iran.

Why it matters: The alleged leak comes as Israel completes weeks of preparations for a retaliation against Iran, which attacked Israel with a barrage of ballistic missiles on Oct. 1.

• The leak could be an attempt to disrupt the Israeli operation.
• The Pentagon and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment on the leaked documents, but did not dispute their authenticity.

Driving the news: A Telegram channel by the name "Middle East Spectator" claimed on Friday that it had received documents from a source in the U.S. intelligence community about Israel's preparations for an attack on Iran.

• The Telegram channel routinely publishes pro-Iranian content, and the profile of the X account affiliated with the channel says it is located in Iran.
• The documents include an alleged Visual Intelligence report by the Department of Defense National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) distributed inside the U.S. intelligence community earlier this week.
• The authenticity of the documents has not been independently verified by Axios.

The DoD's Special Operations Command is seeking advanced technology to deploy falsified human behavior, according to The Intercept.

The Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) wants better tools that can fabricate a living person's online footprint using advanced generative technologies, The Intercept reported on Thursday, citing a procurement document.

The unclassified wishlist for acquisitions expresses interest in producing fake imagery, including that of humans with different facial expressions, virtual environments, and "selfie videos" that can withstand scrutiny by social media algorithms and real humans. The solutions should also provide audio layers specific for locations of simulated footage.

Throughout the decades of the Cold War, whilst the blocs were competing, two major attractions worked powerfully to the advantage of the West. Firstly, the comfort and prosperity that it was able to provide to its citizens, which its Eastern rivals could hardly match. The second feature that in the eyes of the world gave the West a huge competitive edge was the comparatively better performance of its institutions with regard to individual liberties.

The twin advantages of prosperity and the impression that the West valued freedom successfully neutralised much of the theoretical critique of the capitalist social and economic model. In particular, the West's ostensible commitment to personal liberties acted as a powerful magnet. As a political weapon it served its purpose effectively. It is indisputable that so long as scrupulous adherence to the rule of law and respect for individual rights were seen as the distinguishing characteristic of Western societies they were widely perceived as a desirable alternative to the competing systems, which often disregarded strict legality and did little to diminish arbitrariness.

This is the state of affairs that prevailed until roughly the 1990s, when the Western bloc finally reached the pinnacle of its global might and was widely perceived as triumphant over its adversaries. But ever since the social gains which had made the lives of common people relatively comfortable and safe, and society cohesive across class lines, are being dismantled throughout the Western world. The sense of legal security that for decades citizens of Western countries unquestionably enjoyed proved equally evanescent. The phenomena of lawless abuse and vulnerability to the powers that be, normal elsewhere but long extirpated from the practice of Western societies and largely faded from the memory of their citizens, have reappeared with a vengeance. On both the domestic and international levels, the "rule of law" rapidly morphed into its unrecognisable caricature. That metamorphosis ultimately became jokingly known as the "rules based order."

With scant internal opposition or even much public awareness, the core countries of the collective West became infected with the contagion of arbitrariness in the interpretation of inherent human rights and application of legal principles erected to protect them. The transformation, which in historical terms took place with lightning speed, was spearheaded by a ruthless and duplicitous political cabal and was implemented with the connivance of a judiciary which was utterly corrupt and shamefully impotent.

One week before the absolutely crucial BRICS summit in Kazan, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held a summit in Islamabad.

This convergence is important in more ways than one. The summit in Pakistan involved the Council of the Heads of Government of SCO member-states. Out of it came a joint communique stressing the need to implement decisions taken at the SCO annual summit last July in Astana: that's where the heads of state actually gathered, including new SCO full member Iran.

China, following the rotating SCO chairmanship of close ally Pakistan - now under a dodgy administration fully endorsed by the military goons who keep ultra-popular former Prime Minister Imran Khan in jail - has officially taken over the SCO presidency for 2024 to 2025. And the name of game, predictably, is business.

The motto of the Chinese presidency is - what else - "action". So Beijing took no time to start promoting further, faster synergy between the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU), whose predominant power is Russia.

Cue to the Russia-China strategic partnership fast advancing trans-Eurasia economic corridors. And that brings us to a couple of key connectivity subplots featured prominently at the Islamabad summit.

The Great Fright among the elite of the party ruling our country steals across the land chillingly now from sea to shining sea — as if all those ghouls, werewolves, zombies, and tormented wraiths assembled in the front yard Halloween displays send up one mighty wail of despair: Donald Trump will seek revenge against his enemies if you elect him! They scream into the pale moonlight.

Well, he ought to, of course, and remember: they are your enemies, too — the FBI thugs battering down your doors at five in the morning, the malicious US attorneys manufacturing phony felonies, the Soros-owned DAs and party-owned judges, and the thousands of spooks from agencies both known and unheard-of surveilling your every move, every purchase, every journey, every thought. Consider that it is not whether Mr. Trump might seek revenge but whether justice, and the mental health of the nation, require an accounting for the real crimes of actual persons against the people of America lo these years of the Woke Jacobin Inquisition.

Finally, as the days dwindle down to November 5, you understand exactly what motivates the three layers of evil heaping America with malice and punishment.

All-out conflict in the oil-rich region could drive energy prices through the roof, causing a chain reaction.

It has been over a year since the tragic attack by Palestinian groups on Israel on October 7. During this time, the conflict has expanded significantly, affecting not only Israel and Gaza, but also neighboring countries, particularly Iran. Ground operations, strikes on civilian infrastructure, and prolonged military actions, including direct exchanges between Iran and Israel, have worsened the humanitarian situation in the region.

The international community has made repeated attempts to mediate the conflict, but efforts for peaceful dialogue have yet to yield meaningful results. The conflict has also heightened political tensions, drawing in more neighboring states and creating a risk of a broader international crisis.

The economic consequences have become evident not only for Israel but for the global market as well. Expectations of rising oil prices due to regional instability continue to grow, further exacerbating inflationary pressures on the global economy. In Israel, GDP growth has slowed significantly, and investors are wary of engaging in new projects, not only in the country but throughout the region.