Tag: Lebanon
Israel to ‘escalate in Lebanon’ after failing to defeat Iran – Max Blumenthal
RT June 29, 2026 Israel will continue trying to escalate the conflict in Lebanon after failing to “break Iran’s deterrence,” Max Blumenthal, editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, has said. Israeli officials have criticized the memorandum of understanding signed by Washington and Tehran on June 17, arguing that it does not serve the Jewish state’s interests. Meanwhile, the IDF […]
Ben Gvir’s genocidal rhetoric on Lebanon draws international backlash
By Al Mayadeen May 20, 2026 World figures including Yvette Cooper, Jake Tapper, and Marjorie Taylor Greene condemn Itamar Ben-Gvir’s call for “all of Lebanon to burn.” The backlash also drew commentary on what the remarks revealed about Israeli political discourse itself. Writer and activist Alon Mizrahi who identifies as ex-Israeli wrote that the post […]
Israel’s Ben-Gvir says ‘all of Lebanon must burn’ after four soldiers killed
TRT World June 19, 2026 The US-Iran agreement has been viewed in Israel as harmful to its interests, underscoring Netanyahu’s limited success in influencing Trump’s approach. Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Friday that “all of Lebanon must burn” after Israel’s military announced the deaths of four soldiers there. The Israeli losses […]
Lebanon files UN complaint over Israeli herbicide spraying in border areas
TRT World June 14, 2026 Beirut says laboratory tests and chemical analyses confirmed the presence of glyphosate at high concentrations in villages along Lebanon’s southern border. Lebanon’s foreign ministry has said it lodged a complaint with the United Nations over Israel’s spraying of the herbicide glyphosate in Lebanese territory near the border earlier this year. […]
Pluralia Dialogos with Mike Robinson and Vanessa Beeley
Streamed live on Jun 7, 2026 Mike Robinson (editor at UK Column) and geopolitical Analysis Vanessa Beeley join host Matt Ehret on Pluralia Dialogos to discuss the dynamics surrounding the ongoing war with Iran, Hormuz straits blockade, attacks on Lebanon, and South American dynamics which include Peter Thiel‘s move to Argentia, the strange Isaac Accords […]
Israel intensifies strikes on Lebanon during “ceasefire” (sic)
BBC May 28, 2026 Israel has intensified its strikes on Lebanon, saying it has hit hundreds of Hezbollah targets in the last few days. Verified videos show strikes on densely populated neighbourhoods in southern Lebanon along with the destruction caused. The Lebanese health ministry has said more than 3,000 people have been killed since the […]
Israel has just set off a chain reaction that will set the Gulf on fire
RT By Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow). 19-March-2026 Facing a struggle for survival, Iran is making world’s entire energy economy its battleground By March 19, 2026, the pattern is unmistakable. What began as a war centered on Israel, Iran, Lebanon, and the waters around the Strait of […]
“Moving Fast; Breaking Things”: A new doctrine takes root; a new era of coerced dominance
Alastair Crooke October 8, 2025 Creeping, thunderous changes are underway in the West. A new political doctrine has taken root: Western Conservative (and younger) populist thinking is being rebuilt as something rougher, meaner, and far less sentimental, or tolerant. It aspires to emerge too, as ‘dominant’, deliberately coercive, and radical. Throwing components of the exiting order […]
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