#Netanyahu is determined to drag #Biden down and mire #US into an all-consuming #MiddleEast #permanentStateOfWar
#Israel and #Lebanon escalate rhetoric as US tries to prevent war
“Israeli Foreign Minister Israel #Katz warned on Tuesday that a decision on an all-out war with #Hezbollah was coming soon, even as the United States tries to avert any escalation.”
#Nasarallah #NasarallahWasCoy #Hamas #Iran #AxisOfResistance
⬆️ #US senior advisor in #Lebanon in effort to calm tensions between #Hezbollah and #Israel
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Amos #Hochstein, a senior advisor to President Joe #Biden, met with officials during a visit to Lebanon in an effort to find a diplomatic solution to head off a larger war in the region. Cross-border attacks by Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have been taking place almost daily since the war in Gaza began in October and have escalated in recent weeks
⬆️ It was a different era when #GeorgeHWBush easily convinced #YitzhakShamir of #Israel not to escalate its conflict with #SaddamHussein in #Iraq
[Wikipedia] On 17 January 1991, Iraq initiated a missile campaign against Israel. Over the course of the next month, approximately 42 Scud missiles were fired into Israeli territory, primarily at the cities of #TelAviv and #Haifa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Iraqi_missile_attacks_against_Israel
#Nasarallah is no longer coy and is baring his teeth.
#Lebanon’s #Hezbollah has new weapons [from where, #Iran?] and intelligence capabilities that could help it target more critical positions deeper inside #Israel in case of an all-out war, the militant group’s leader warned a day after a top #US envoy met #Lebanese officials in his latest attempt to ease tensions.
“We now have new weapons. But I won’t say what they are,” Nasarallah said.
https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-gaza-nasrallah-d3296bff6264582b7e7b90fe6061b16f
The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group says it has new weapons and intelligence capabilities that could help it target more critical positions deeper inside Israel in case of an all-out war. Hassan Nasrallah’s comments on Wednesday come as the cross-border conflict simmering between Hezbollah and Israel for more than eight months appears to be reaching a boiling point. The remarks also come a day after a top U.S. envoy met Lebanese officials in his latest attempt to ease tensions between Hezbollah and Israel over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Nasrallah said in 2021 that Hezbollah has 100,000 fighters, but now he claims it's far beyond that. He didn't elaborate.
⬆️ #China laid out the #Chinese checkers and chess pieces on the Board before #Biden, #Blinken, and #Bibi became aware of them.
#CRINK #AxisOfResistance #NasarallahWasCoy #Hamas #Oct7 #Gaza #Hezbollah #Lebanon
#Rapprochement that killed #Arab-#Israeli #normalization ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111434916898306609
⬆️ >> #China laid out the #Chinese checkers and chess pieces on the Board before #Biden, #Blinken, and #Bibi became aware of them.
Meeting between #Putin and #Pezeshkian offers #Russia an opportunity to burnish its self-image as a superpower “…as the bigger partner, and #Iran as a regional partner.”
So this makes the pecking order clear in the #CRINK axis:
China (#SeniorPartner) > Russia (#JuniorPartner) > Iran (drone supplier) > #NorthKorea (cannon fodder supplier)
CNN — Just three days before US President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, Russia and Iran are set to finally sign a “comprehensive partnership agreement,” a deal that’s been in the works for months. It’s a move that will refocus attention on a partnership that has shaped the battlefield in Ukraine, and which remains committed to challenging the US-led international order - even as the new US administration promises greater engagement with Russia. Russian and Iran share a complicated past, peppered with conflict, and even now tread a fine line between cooperation and mistrust. And yet, the war
It is ignorant and bigoted to take away agency from Arabs.
When an indigenous people are faced with a foreign threat, they resist. China has nothing to do with it.
>> It is ignorant and bigoted to take away agency from #Arabs
Where did I do that?
>> When an indigenous people are faced with a foreign threat, they resist. #China has nothing to do with it.
Did you read about the #China-brokered secret #rapprochement that killed the #Arab-#Israeli #normalization just 7 months before #Hamas attacks? I even provided a link for your convenience.
#NasarallahWasCoy shows #Oct7 was NOT as "surprise" to ALL.
And you are calling ME ignorant?
Ramesh #NotGoingBack
Radio Free Arabia