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World War III has already started - Fyodor Lukyanov


RT
Tue, 31 Oct 2023 16:17 UTC
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© Dan Kilwood/Getty ImagesSmoke rises from rocket strikes in Gaza • October 28, 2023 • Seen from Sderot, Israel
The new global war comes as a series of intertwined conflicts rather than a single, major one, the Russian foreign policy expert believes...

The Third World War is already underway, Fyodor Lukyanov, Russia's leading foreign policy expert, has said. A world order that has been "unpleasant" but "manageable" is being broken down and currently there seems to be no mechanism for the resolution of conflicts, including the ongoing escalation between Israel and Hamas, he believes.

Lukyanov, who is chairman of the presidium at the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy (SVOP) think tank and editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, made the remarks in an interview published last week by newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Of late, the world has been seen old, frozen conflicts being re-ignited, Lukyanov said, citing the Nagorno-Karabakh hostilities, the Russia-Ukraine standoff and the new escalation in the Middle East as examples.
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Israel rushes warships to Red Sea after attacks by Yemen's Houthis, raises possibility conflict will spill over into Syria

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 01 Nov 2023 18:05 UTC
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An Israeli navy missile boat seen off the coast of Eilat in the Red Sea, IDF handout.
Israel has rushed warships to the Red Sea, where US naval assets are also patrolling, after Yemen's Houthis declared "war" earlier this week. The Houthis had also reportedly launched a ballistic missile at Israel, and released a video showing the launch. In total the Houthis are believed to have attempted three drone and missile attacks on Israel. One of the initial projectiles days ago had been intercepted by a US warship off Yemen, and another was stopped as follows:
The Israeli military on Tuesday used its Arrow missile defence system for the first time to intercept an "aerial threat" over the Red Sea, believed to have been a ballistic missile.
According to newly released Israeli military images, Sa'ar-class corvettes are now patrolling near Eilat port in the Red Sea.

Comment: Contrary to the last claim made by Durden, much of the Houthis' retaliation against Saudi Arabia involved rudimentary drones. And despite Saudi Arabia and the US causing what the UN called the 'world's worst humanitarian catastrophe' in Yemen, the Houthis still managed to not only fend them off, but they even managed to cause sufficient disruption, to these infinitely better funded and supplied countries, that Saudi Arabia was actually reluctant to continue on with their criminal, US-backed, war.

See also: Yemen's Houthis announce attacks against Israeli settlements will continue until aggression stops, warns US against direct involvement

I'm posting this two-segment video to set the record straight; there is credible information that indicates Israel, with the backing of the United States, intends to assassinate Syria's President Bashar al-Assad if Hezbollah opens a wide front from southern Lebanon.

To put this in proper context; since 2011, the U.S. waged a secret covert operation in Syria to topple Assad and install a friendly government in Israel. To achieve this goal, the U.S. and its regional allies spent tens of billions in arming and training multinational takfiri terrorist groups.

According to the New York Times, the secret program (Timber Sycamore) was one of the most expensive CIA covert operations in the history of the agency. However, Syria emerged victorious and the terror groups were mostly destroyed with the help of Iran, Russia, and Hezbollah.

While President Trump ended the covert operation in 2017, the Pentagon sent troops to the Eastern shore of the Euphrates to occupy the oil and gas fields and hence, disallow the Syrian government from using the revenues of the oil to reconstruct the war-torn country.

The pro-Syria alliance believes the CIA's attempt to remove Assad was urged by Israel because a pro-Israeli government in Damascus means the isolation of Hezbollah and eventually the Palestinian militant groups fighting against Israel.

With the escalation of the conflict in Palestine and the carpet bombing of Gaza, it is believed that Hezbollah has mobilized its elite forces and kept 1/3 of the Israeli army busy on the northern front by firing ATGMs and rockets at the Israeli forces. But if Israel wages a full-scale invasion of Gaza, it is believed that Hezbollah will intervene and wage a ground offensive on the settlements in northern Israel.

If Hezbollah's offensive materializes, my information indicates that Israel will bomb Damascus and try to kill Assad. Will Israel dare to do that? I believe with the current mentality governing Tel Aviv, everything is possible.

NOTE: the above text is an analysis based on my personal knowledge and different sources. It is not wishful thinking or scaremongering. It is simply a political analysis based on the available information to me.


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Putin sends classified message through Syrian envoy to Iran's President Raisi


Islamic Republic News Agency
Wed, 01 Nov 2023 17:49 UTC
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Russian president's special envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev handed over Vladimir Putin's message to his Iranian counterpart President Ebrahim Raisi through the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council.

During his trip to the Iranian capital city of Tehran, Lavrentiev met and held talks with Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Akbar Ahmadian on Wednesday.

The two sides discussed the latest developments in the region, the situation in Gaza, and the ways of cooperation between the two countries under such circumstances.

Also, Lavrentiev conveyed the message of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Ahmadian to hand over to the Iranian president.

Comment: This is possibly notable because there is speculation that Syria is a prime target:



I'm posting this two-segment video to set the record straight; there is credible information that indicates Israel, with the backing of the United States, intends to assassinate Syria's President Bashar al-Assad if Hezbollah opens a wide front from southern Lebanon.

To put this in proper context; since 2011, the U.S. waged a secret covert operation in Syria to topple Assad and install a friendly government in Israel. To achieve this goal, the U.S. and its regional allies spent tens of billions in arming and training multinational takfiri terrorist groups.

According to the New York Times, the secret program (Timber Sycamore) was one of the most expensive CIA covert operations in the history of the agency. However, Syria emerged victorious and the terror groups were mostly destroyed with the help of Iran, Russia, and Hezbollah.

While President Trump ended the covert operation in 2017, the Pentagon sent troops to the Eastern shore of the Euphrates to occupy the oil and gas fields and hence, disallow the Syrian government from using the revenues of the oil to reconstruct the war-torn country.

The pro-Syria alliance believes the CIA's attempt to remove Assad was urged by Israel because a pro-Israeli government in Damascus means the isolation of Hezbollah and eventually the Palestinian militant groups fighting against Israel.

With the escalation of the conflict in Palestine and the carpet bombing of Gaza, it is believed that Hezbollah has mobilized its elite forces and kept 1/3 of the Israeli army busy on the northern front by firing ATGMs and rockets at the Israeli forces. But if Israel wages a full-scale invasion of Gaza, it is believed that Hezbollah will intervene and wage a ground offensive on the settlements in northern Israel.

If Hezbollah's offensive materializes, my information indicates that Israel will bomb Damascus and try to kill Assad. Will Israel dare to do that? I believe with the current mentality governing Tel Aviv, everything is possible.

NOTE: the above text is an analysis based on my personal knowledge and different sources. It is not wishful thinking or scaremongering. It is simply a political analysis based on the available information to me.


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The Collapse of International Law

Christopher Black
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:14 UTC
Money and Gavel
© New Eastern Outlook
International law has essentially collapsed with the US backed Israeli siege of the Palestinian people of Gaza, in response to the Hamas attack on Israeli occupation forces on October 7. The Palestinians have no expectation of mercy from the Israelis, when they have suffered decades of Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinian lands and their replacement by Israeli settlers, all in violation of international law and several UN resolutions, including of course, Resolution 242 which required Israel to withdraw from all the lands they seized in the 1967 War; a war which they now admit was started on a pretext in order to seize those lands and push out the Palestinians who lived there.

Israel has been granted impunity for its aggression and occupation of Palestinian lands for decades by the nations that helped to create it and support it after World War I and World War II; the USA, Britain and their allies, who granted it impunity to act as it wishes because Israel serves their objectives in the Middle East, acting as the local agent of the nation that seeks to be the world hegemon, the United States.

Meanwhile, the International Criminal Court says nothing about the crimes being committed by the Israelis against the Palestinians in the occupied lands and Gaza, even though it has had a file open on Palestine-Israel since 2019. Its lack of action is in stark contrast to the quick issuance of a warrant of arrest against President Putin some months ago based on no real investigation whatsoever.

Yet in the case of Palestine, the ICC prosecutor states that though her office found that Israel has committed war crimes, it takes time to investigate the allegations, a lot of time, she said, meaning no charges will be forthcoming from her against Benjamin Netanyahu anytime soon, and likely not at all. It appears odd that the Prosecutor did not feel it necessary to take her time investigating the bizarre allegations coming out of Kiev made against Russia, but not so odd when we realise who controls the ICC, the USA and the European Union.

The double standards, the hypocrisy exhibited by the West have become so clearly defined that just last week 842 EU staff members wrote an open letter to Ursula Von Der Leyden attacking her support of Israeli actions in Gaza for completely undermining the credibility of the EU in the world since she claims, against the evidence, that Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine, and that Russia must stop its military operations while enthusiastically supporting Israel's attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure in Gaza and the openly stated objective of the Israelis to ethnically cleanse Gaza and to exterminate the population if they cannot, to commit genocide in fact.

The letter was reported in the Irish Times on October 20tth,
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Light Saber

Bolivia cuts ties with Israel, other Latin American countries recall envoys


Al Jazeera
Wed, 01 Nov 2023 10:45 UTC
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Screenshot of Bolivia's announcement. Countries blame Israel's 'disproportionate' attack on Gaza and reiterate calls for a humanitarian ceasefire.
Bolivia has cut official ties with Israel over the war in Gaza as two other Latin American countries recalled their ambassadors in Tel Aviv for consultations.

Bolivia "decided to break diplomatic relations with the Israeli state in repudiation and condemnation of the aggressive and disproportionate Israeli military offensive taking place in the Gaza Strip," Deputy Foreign Minister Freddy Mamani said at a press conference on Tuesday night.

Minister of the Presidency Maria Nela Prada also announced the country would send humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Comment: Footage of Bolivia's government announcement, and their representative at the UN



"free Palestine is not just a cause of the Palestinian people, but rather a question of global justice and peace. The Liberty and dignity of human beings must be respected in all corners of this planet and it is our duty to work together to achieve a future in which Palestine can once and for all be free".


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Bullseye

UN NY director of human rights quits over 'text book case of genocide' of Palestinians, says US, UK, EU 'wholly complicit'

Ed Pilkington
The Guardian
Tue, 31 Oct 2023 22:04 UTC
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© Bebeto Matthews/APFILE PHOTO
The director of the New York office of the UN high commissioner for human rights has left his post, protesting that the UN is "failing" in its duty to prevent what he categorizes as genocide of Palestinian civilians in Gaza under Israeli bombardment and citing the US, UK and much of Europe as "wholly complicit in the horrific assault".

Craig Mokhiber wrote on 28 October to the UN high commissioner in Geneva, Volker Turk, saying: "This will be my last communication to you" in his role in New York.

Mokhiber, who was stepping down having reached retirement age, wrote: "Once again we are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes and the organization we serve appears powerless to stop it."

Comment: It begs the question of why the West would involve itself in such brazen and risky as criminality that is so clearly exposing its true nature and agenda? Apparently, not only is it blinded by wishful thinking, but it feels compelled to act, likely because for them, despite the exposure, the means meet the end:

In the Twitter/X thread linked above, Investigative journalist John McEvoy provdes more detail of the resignation letter:
UN human rights director in New York: "This is a text-book case of genocide. The European, ethno-nationalist, settler colonial project in Palestine has entered its final phase, toward the expedited destruction of the last remnants of indigenous Palestinian life in Palestine".

"The governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, and much of Europe, are wholly complicit in the horrific assault... They are in fact actively arming the assault, providing economic and intelligence support, and giving political and diplomatic cover".

"Western corporate media, increasingly captured and state-adjacent, are in open breach of Article 20 of the ICCPR, continuously dehumanizing Palestinians to facilitate the genocide"

"In recent decades, key parts of the UN have surrendered to the power of the US, and to fear of the Israel Lobby, to abandon these principles, and to retreat from international law itself".

"It bears repeating, in spite of Israel lobby smears to the contrary, that criticism of Israel's human rights violations is not antisemitic, any more than criticism of Saudi violations is Islamophobic, criticism of Myanmar violations is anti-Buddhist...".

"The world is watching. We will all be accountable for where we stood at this crucial moment in history. let us stand on the side of justice".

For more on the West's suicidal motivations, check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Israel and US Implementing 'Final Solutions' to End Palestine and Multipolar World



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Wolf

Pentagon admits US Special Operation Forces are in Israel, claims they're to 'support hostage recovery'


NHK
Wed, 01 Nov 2023 09:45 UTC
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The US Defense Department says its Special Operations Forces are in Israel to offer advice and intelligence support to help locate hostages held by Hamas.


Comment: Lest we forget the US was doing the same for Ukraine, which included directing the Kiev-junta's attacks on Russia, in addition to having a number of military staff working on the ground.


Pentagon Press Secretary Pat Ryder spoke at a news conference on Tuesday.

Ryder said the Pentagon was aware that a medium-range ballistic missile or a cruise missile targeting Israel was fired by Houthis, an Iranian-backed rebel group in Yemen. The missile was downed by Israel over the Red Sea.

Ryder added that US has decided to deploy an additional 300 troops to the US Central Command in the Middle East.

He said those troops are not going to Israel, but will support deterrence efforts to further bolster US force protection capabilities in the region.

Comment: Israel's Hannibal Directive acknowledges that hostages are not its priority, and its slaughter of them on October 7th proves this point:
Hannibal Directive: Israel's forces responsible for Israeli civilian & military deaths following October 7 attack, testimony reveals

US involvement in Israel's ethnic cleansing in Gaza, and the intention to incite a wider war through the continued genocide of Palestinians, are already becoming quite clear:

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Iowa: Donald Trump builds on big lead, Nikki Haley pulls even with Ron DeSantis

Brianne Pfannenstiel
Des Moines Register
Tue, 31 Oct 2023 18:53 UTC
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© Getty Images(L-R) Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley
A Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows 43% of likely Republican caucusgoers pick Trump as their first choice for president, with DeSantis and Haley tied for second at 16%

Support for Nikki Haley has swelled in Iowa: The former United Nations ambassador has pulled even with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in what has become a heated battle for second place in the first-in-the-nation caucus state.

But former President Donald Trump still dominates the race. He's ahead by 27 percentage points — a lead that has expanded slightly despite his mounting legal problems.

A new Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows 43% of likely Republican caucusgoers choose Trump as their first choice for president, up from 42% in an August Iowa Poll.

DeSantis and Haley are now tied for second place with 16%.

That's a drop of 3 percentage points for DeSantis, who was the first choice of 19% of caucusgoers in August. And it's a 10-point jump for Haley, who was at 6%.

Comment: And from Fox News:
Media, Democrats warn Trump may defeat Biden in 2024: 'The White House should be terrified'

Democrats and members of the media are sounding the alarm on the prospect of a Donald Trump victory in 2024, suggesting that Biden's dismal messaging and poll numbers may see him exiting the White House next November.

According to a Suffolk University/USA Today poll released on October 23, 37% of registered voters said they would support Biden and 36% would support Trump.

A substantial majority said they either disapproved (15%) or strongly disapproved (41%) of Biden's job performance. Just 27% said they approved and 13% said that they strongly approved.

Amid Biden's low poll numbers, Minnesota Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips recently announced a presidential primary challenge against the president for the party's 2024 nomination.


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US quietly expands secret military base in Israel

Ken Klippenstein, Daniel Boguslaw
The Intercept
Fri, 27 Oct 2023 11:55 UTC
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© Edgar Grimaldo/U.S. Air ForceU.S. Air Force airmen hand off cargo to the Israeli military
Nevatim Air Base, Israel • Oct. 15, 2023
Government documents pointing to construction at a classified U.S. base offer rare hints about a little noted U.S. military presence near Gaza.

Two months before Hamas attacked Israel, the Pentagon awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to build U.S. troop facilities for a secret base it maintains deep within Israel's Negev desert, just 20 miles from Gaza. Code-named "Site 512," the longstanding U.S. base is a radar facility that monitors the skies for missile attacks on Israel.

On October 7, however, when thousands of Hamas rockets were launched, Site 512 saw nothing — because it is focused on Iran, more than 700 miles away.

The U.S. Army is quietly moving ahead with construction at Site 512, a classified base perched atop Mt. Har Qeren in the Negev, to include what government records describe as a "life support facility": military speak for barracks-like structures for personnel.

Though President Joe Biden and the White House insist that there are no plans to send U.S. troops to Israel amid its war on Hamas, a secret U.S. military presence in Israel already exists. And the government contracts and budget documents show it is evidently growing.

The $35.8 million U.S. troop facility, not publicly announced nor previously reported, was obliquely referenced in an August 2 contract announcement by the Pentagon. Though the Defense Department has taken pains to obscure the site's true nature — describing it in other records merely as a "classified worldwide" project — budget documents reviewed by The Intercept reveal that it is part of Site 512. (The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)

Comment: More likely the only ones who didn't know about this hush-hush facility were the American people.

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Hamas's main operations base is under Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, says IDF

Emanuel Fabian
The Times of Israel
Fri, 27 Oct 2023 08:53 UTC
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© screenshotIDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari briefs media that Hamas's main operations center is located under Gaza's Shifa Hospital, October 27, 2023
The Israel Defense Forces on Friday said the Hamas terror group's main base of operations is under Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, providing visuals and intercepted audio as evidence of the terror organization's activities.

In a briefing for reporters of international media outlets, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Hamas has several underground complexes under Shifa — the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip — that are used by the terror group's leaders to direct attacks against Israel.

Hagari said Israel has intelligence that there are several tunnels leading to the underground base from outside the hospital so that Hamas officials do not need to enter the hospital to reach it. But Hagari added that there is also an entrance to the underground complex from within one of the wards.

"Right now, terrorists move freely in Shifa Hospital, and other hospitals in Gaza," Hagari said.

The military spokesperson said Israel has "concrete evidence" that "hundreds of terrorists flooded into the hospital to hide" following the October 7 massacre, in which some 2,500 terrorists burst through the border under cover of a deluge of rockets, and rampaged through more than 20 communities near the Gaza Strip. They killed some 1,400 people, the vast majority of them civilians, massacring them in their homes and at an outdoor music festival. They also abducted over 220 people to the Strip as hostages.

According to the IDF, Hamas's internal security also has a command center inside Shifa Hospital, from which it directs rocket fire on Israel and stores weapons.


Comment: Israel continues bombing raids now focused on cutting off Shifa Hospital:
Israeli airstrikes have destroyed roads leading to the Shifa Hospital in Gaza on Sunday, the Associated Press reports. Tens of thousands of civilians are believed to be sheltering on the grounds of the hospital.

Residents of Gaza told the news agency that the strikes destroyed most of the roads leading to the hospital, which is the main medical referral facility serving the Palestinian enclave.

"It seems they want to cut off the area," a resident told AP, noting that Israel's airstrikes over the past two days have been "the most violent and intense" since the war began.

The IDF released a computer-animated video supposedly showing the layout of tunnels under Shifa Hospital, and published a video clip in which an interrogated Hamas fighter admits to the existence of the base. It is unclear, however, whether the militant was speaking under duress.

Speaking to reporters on Saturday, IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari refused to rule out bombing the hospital, declaring that "in this war, all options are on the table."
Israel has also threatened to bomb the Al-Quds hospital in Gaza City, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement on Sunday morning. The organization said that Israeli forces ordered the "immediate evacuation" of the hospital "as it is going to be bombarded." Palestinian news agency WAFA said shortly afterwards that hospital management refused to comply with the evacuation order.

The IDF refused to comment on either the evacuation order or the strikes near the Shifa Hospital when asked by AP.


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