🇮🇱🇺🇸 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is banking all he has on a single bet: that the U.S. will go the full nine yards in his madcap idea of a regional war between Israel and Iran’s proxies in the region.

For Netanyahu, this was always the plan from the very beginning. But it will take a series of stepping stones to get to this objective. First off is that he has to convince the Biden administration to join the IDF in its war within the Gaza Strip. And even that’s not going to be easy.

The temptation by Netanyahu to arrange a false flag attack on the Americans is too great if and when he sees the conflict not going his way 💢

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When we talk about the US or the EU we often forget that we are not facing a rational actor with clear geopolitical goals but rather clusters of multinational corporations and financial elites with conflicting interests, lobbies and think tanks that control the knowledge and information that decision-makers act upon... and they are engaged in a global struggle for power, information and resources. Elites often have diverging interests and while pursuing their own agenda they are vying for influence both at home and abroad. The US is as politically divided as the EU, and though some players are pushing for an escalation in the Middle East, others are very much against it. ▪️It is cooperation that underlies the ability of human groups, whole societies and political organizations, such as states, to achieve their shared goals. But Western societies have fostered cut-throat competition rather than cooperation, which has bred mutual distrust and social disgregation. As Peter Turchin observed, beyond a certain point a formerly great empire becomes so dysfunctional that more cohesive neighbors begin tearing it apart. Eventually the capacity for cooperation declines to such a low level that "barbarians" can strike at the very heart of the empire without encountering significant resistance. But barbarians at the gate are not the real cause of imperial collapse. They are a consequence of the failure to sustain social cooperation. As the British historian Arnold Toynbee said, great civilizations are not murdered—they die by suicide. @LauraRuHK

🛑 It’s by now confirmed that Egyptian intel warned their Israeli counterparts only 3 days before Al-Aqsa Flood that something “big” was coming from Hamas. Tel Aviv, its multi-billion dollar security apparatus and the IDF, “the strongest army in the world”, chose to ignore it.

That configures two key vectors.

1️⃣ Tel Aviv get its “Pearl Harbor” pretext to implement a remixed “war on terror” plus a sort of Final Solution to the “Gaza problem” (already in effect).

2️⃣ The Hegemon abruptly changes the narrative away from the incoming, inevitable, cosmic joint humiliation of the White House and NATO in the steppes of Novorossiya – a strategic defeat that configures the previous humiliation in Afghanistan as a masked ball in Disneyland.

The total blockade of “human animals” (copyright Israeli Defense Ministry) in Gaza, in fact a civilian population of 2.3 million, has been imposed this past Monday. No food, no water, no fuel, no essential commodities.

The war against Russia in Ukraine and the Israeli “war on terror” in Gaza are just parallel fronts of a single, horrifyingly evolving, global war 💢

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🇵🇱 The future government may have difficulties in ironing out differences with minor coalition partners and running Poland in an efficient manner, Richard Barton writes.

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🇹🇭 As the slaughter in Gaza continues, the Royal Thai Air Force is emerging yet again as the only adult in the room.

💬 Declan Hayes writes

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Killed at least 4.5 million people.

And cost over $8 trillion.

It's now called "rules-based international order".

Western leaders talk a lot about the trauma of Jews – trauma their states were often responsible for – and the resulting need not to offend Jews by being critical of Israel. France and Germany have banned demonstrations in solidarity with Gaza, and the UK is close to following suit.

None of those leaders seem concerned that the families in Gaza currently being expelled live with the trauma of having been forced from their homes at gunpoint by Israel several times before, not least during the Nakba in 1948 and during the 1967 war.

This latest expulsion order forces them to relive that trauma – as well as the terror of living under Israel’s bombs – not just in their imaginations but in the real world. They are being ethnically cleansed once more by their serial tormentor.

They have every reason to fear that this is not some temporary 'relocation', even assuming they can reach the 'evacuation' zone and that the zone actually turns out to be safe.

This risks turning into another Nakba, except the footage this time is in high definition and colour.

For years, Israeli leaders have secretly worked with western allies to pressure Egypt to refashion the Sinai desert, next to Gaza, as a sham Palestinian state. Those machinations are one of the reasons Cairo has kept its short land border with Gaza so tightly closed.

Now 2.3 million Palestinians will be pressed up against that border, clamouring for an exit from the killing fields.

Jonathan Cook

U.S. Neutrality Would Be So Much Better For The World (And So Much Better For Americans)

✝️ The Chinese should make their presence felt by sending limitless supplies, under CPLA control, to the Rafah Crossing and proposing and then implementing, as far as is practicable, a solid solution to this 75 year-old problem.

💬 Declan Hayes writes

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🗽 The current events as well as ahead of time electoral campaigning are a demonstration of what the U.S. democracy amounts to.

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🗽How Americans View the U.S. Political System in 2023

According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, Americans’ views of politics and elected officials are unrelentingly negative, with little hope of improvement on the horizon. There are some findings ⬆️

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🇦🇲🇦🇿 Com as atenções centradas na Ucrânia, que desde fevereiro de 2022 resiste à invasão pela Rússia, há o risco de passar despercebido um outro conflito no antigo espaço soviético, aquele que opõe o Azerbaijão aos separatistas arménios do Nagorno-Karabakh e que está prestes a terminar com uma vitória total do Exército Azeri.

💬 Por Leonídio Paulo Ferreira

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💰🪖During 11 days of Israel's hostilities in the Gaza Strip, the capitalization of the top 40 military-industrial corporations of the West increased by $55 billion. Before that, on the background of the failure of the so called Ukrainian counteroffensive, the capitalization of corporations fell, losing the same 7% ($58 billion) for 4 months.

Top 10 public corporations of the Western MIC by capitalization, $ billion (by 06.10.23,%)

1. 🇺🇸 Boeing – 112 (-1%)
2. 🇺🇸 Lockheed Martin – 111 (+10%)
3. 🇺🇸 Raytheon – 108 (+6%)
4. 🇺🇸 Northrop Grumman – 74 (+16%)
5. 🇺🇸 General Dynamics – 66 (+10%)
6. 🇺🇸 TransDigm – 48 (+2%)
7. 🇬🇧 BAE Systems – 40 (+10%)
8. 🇺🇸 L3Harries – 34 (+9%)
9. 🇫🇷 Thales – 32 (+11%)
10. 🇺🇸 Booz – 17 (+8%)

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Al Jazeera: The death toll in the Gaza Strip has now risen to 3,300, with more than 13,000 injured since October 7. The death toll in Israel is 1,400 people, another 4,475 were injured.

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📛 Western leaders have been traipsing to Tel Aviv over the past week, vowing to give their full support for Israel even as the Israeli regime wantonly wages a genocidal war on Palestinians.

It is absolutely shocking that the world is witnessing such mass killing of civilians and yet Western governments and news media seem to do everything to justify, minimize and cover-up the atrocities. Cover-up they should because they are complicit in this horrific slaughter.

U.S. President Joe Biden, as well as Britain’s Rishi Sunak, Germany’s Olaf Scholz and the European Union chief Ursula Von Der Leyen, are among the Western leaders who have blood dripping from their hands.

They talk about Israel’s “right to self-defense” while the Israeli military pulverizes Gaza with indiscriminate air strikes and shoots Palestinians dead in the ghettoes of the West Bank. The Palestinian people in both enclaves are being targeted with genocidal ferocity as Israeli leaders denigrate them as “human animals”.

Western leaders lining up with the Israeli regime in its genocidal barbarity are fully complicit in that genocide 🛑

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🦅 It would be infinitely better to light a candle than to curse the dark that NATO parrots are paid to propagate.

💬 Declan Hayes writes

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is exploiting Hamas’s horror attack on October 7 to now implement a “final solution” to wipe out Palestinians. That’s the view of Ofer Cassif, a lawmaker in the Israeli parliament.

The definitive subjugation plan has been part of the Netanyahu government policy for several years. The war on Gaza is the opportunity to execute this plan.

The United States and the European Union are complicit in facilitating the genocidal operation being carried out by the Israeli regime.

Since the inception of the Israel state in 1948, Western governments have been complicit in the relentless oppression of Palestinians by giving their unswerving support for Israeli crimes.

That 75-year genocide is now advancing to a final phase, Ofer Cassif, lawmaker in the Israeli parliament, says in an interview with Finian Cunningham.

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