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‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 188: Tensions Rise Over Potential Iranian Response to Israeli Attack on Consulate in Damascus – Qassam Muaddi 4/11/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Israel and Iran escalated threats of war as the U.S. central command chief visited the region on Thursday. Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes intensify in the central Gaza Strip.

Casualties 

  • 33,545 + killed* and at least 76,049 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
  • 456+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.**
  • Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,139.
  • 604 Israeli soldiers have been killed since October 7, and at least 6,800 injured.***

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Israel is Crossing All Boundaries as America Tires of its Endless Wars – Daniel McAdams 4/10/24

Source: Antiwar.com

Last week the Israelis scored a bloody “hat trick” – slaughtering seven international food aid workers, demolishing the last major hospital operating in Gaza, and – perhaps most dangerous – attacking an Iranian diplomatic facility in Damascus, Syria, in which several senior Iranian military figures were killed.

There is a very good reason diplomatic facilities are off limits even in times of war. It has been mutually beneficial for thousands of years for all parties to know that they may continue to communicate and conduct diplomacy even during crises and war with messengers and diplomats able to fulfil their duties unmolested. Attacks on diplomatic facilities are so rare that when they do occur even the most apology-averse regimes find themselves obligated to break out the ashes and sackcloth. When the US bombed the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia in 1999, for example, there were moments when a US war with China was suddenly not beyond imagination. It was extremely tense – until the US government offered profuse apologies and compensation to the families of the victims.

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Netanyahu Killed an Iranian General in Damascus to Provoke a Regional Conflict; and the U.S. Media is Covering Up for Him. – James North 4/4/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Benjamin Netanyahu continues to raise the risk of a regional war which could draw in the U.S. — and the mainstream media is hiding the danger from its audience.

Benjamin Netanyahu continues to raise the risk of a Mideast regional war which could draw in the U.S. — and the mainstream media is hiding the danger from its audience. Israel’s provocative aerial assassination of a senior Iranian military leader in Damascus on April 1 is only Netanyahu’s latest effort to expand the fighting across the region, partly to put off his own painful day of reckoning. He knows that America has troops stationed all over the Mideast, and he hopes that Iran will retaliate against them, escalating conflict.

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Israel Mounts Largest Attack On Syria In Years, Over 40 Dead – ZeroHedge 3/29/24

Source: ZeroHedge.com

On Friday Israel conducted its deadliest strikes on Syria in months, or perhaps even years, given the immense death toll is mounting into several dozens killed amid a large emergency response to the scene.

The airstrikes were conducted deep into Syria, in northern Syria’s Aleppo province, and left over 40 people dead. This reportedly included Syrian soldiers, Hezbollah militants, and civilians. Most international reports are saying 42 were killed, but the Syrian government did not initially give a precise casualty count.

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Inside the Anti-Syria Lobby’s Capitol Hill Push for More Starvation Sanctions – Hekmat Aboukhater 3/20/24

Source: TheGrayzone.com

A week from the 13th anniversary of the US-backed Syrian dirty war, the American Coalition for Syria held its annual day of advocacy in Washington DC. I went undercover into meetings with Senate policy advisors and witnessed the lobby’s cynical campaign to starve Syria into submission.

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The Israel Lobby’s Persistent Role in Sanctioning Syria – Hekmat Aboukhater 2/22/24

Source: MintPressNews.com

On February 13, the U.S. House of Representatives deliberated on Resolution 3202, the “Assad Regime Anti-Normalization Act of 2023.” The following day, the House passed the bill with a 389 to 32 bipartisan majority. Now, the bill moves on to the Senate, where it will most likely pass with similar bipartisan support and a ringing endorsement from President Biden once it reaches his desk.

The bill was pushed with a veneer of Syrian support represented by the advocacy of the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF) and the Syrian American Council (SAC) – Syrian opposition groups in the U.S. While its aims seem, at face value, to focus on humanitarian issues and a quest for accountability, the reality is much more complicated.

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US Drone Strike In Baghdad Assassinates Top Iraqi Official – Robert Inlakesh 2/7/24

Source: TheLastAmericanVagabond.com

Two prominent leaders in Iraq were assassinated by a US drone strike on their car in Eastern Baghdad, this Wednesday, leading to an initial wave of street protests and potentially initiated a renewed escalation of the Gaza-Israel war. Western media have attempted to sanitize the strikes, which represent a clear violation of Iraq’s sovereignty and an act of war against crucial components of the nation’s security apparatus.

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US Strikes At Least 85 Targets In Iraq & Syria, Including From B1 Bombers – ZeroHedge 2/3/24

Source: ZeroHedge.com

Update(1715ET): Importantly, there have been no reports of US airstrikes in Iran this evening, and US officials say that the Pentagon does not plan to hit targets inside the Islamic Republic. But the strikes on eastern Syria and in western Iraq were large, and targeted IRGC assets and personnel and their affiliates. According to a CENTCOM statement, the initial wave, which started at 4pm US Eastern Time (interestingly, just after markets closed), included over 85 targets, with some of them hit more than once:

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 106: Israel Bombs Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, U.S. Bombs Yemen – Mondoweiss 1/20/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Biden insists Netanyahu is open to a two-state solution, despite Netanyahu stating the opposite. Meanwhile, a Palestinian-American teenager was killed by Israelis in the West Bank, and the UN estimates two mothers are killed in Gaza every hour.

Casualties:

  • 24,927 killed* and at least 62,388 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
  • 369 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
  • Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.
  • 550 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, including 194 since the beginning of the ground invasion, and at least 3,221 injured.**

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Israel is Provoking the U.S. into a Conflict with Iran, but the Media Ignores the Danger – James North 12/30/23

Source: Mondoweiss.net

In addition to killing thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, Israel has been routinely attacking at least four other nations in the region: Iran, Yemen, Syria, and Lebanon. Why does the U.S. media keep the American public in the dark?

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A Delusional Recipe for Armageddon – Matthew Ehret 12/5/23

Source: TheLastAmericanVagabond.com

In 1996, a nest of American-born imperialists revolving around Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Richard Perle created a new think tank called “The Project for a New American Century.”

While the principled aim of the think tank ultimately hinged on a new “Pearl Harbor moment” that would justify a new era of regime-change wars in the Middle East, a secondary but equally important part of the formula involved the dominance of “Greater Israel” Likud fanatics then taking power over the murdered body of Yitzhak Rabin.

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Israeli War Crimes and Propaganda Follow US Blueprint – Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies 11/14/23

Source: Antiwar.com

We have both been reporting on and protesting against U.S. war crimes for many years, and against identical crimes committed by U.S. allies and proxies like Israel and Saudi Arabia: illegal uses of military force to try to remove enemy governments or “regimes”; hostile military occupations; disproportionate military violence justified by claims of “terrorism”; the bombing and killing of civilians; and the mass destruction of whole cities.

Most Americans share a general aversion to war, but tend to accept this militarized foreign policy because we are tragically susceptible to propaganda, the machinery of public manipulation that works hand in hand with the machinery of killing to justify otherwise unthinkable horrors.

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Israel Bombs Syria in Response to Eilat Drone Attack – The Cradle 11/10/23

Source: New.TheCradle.co

A drone that struck Israel’s southern port city of Eilat on Thursday – causing a large blast – originated from Syrian territory, the Israeli army said on 10 November.

The army claimed that it targeted the group behind the drone attack in Syria without specifying who was behind it.

“The Syrian regime is fully responsible for all terror activity that is carried out from Syrian territory. The IDF will respond severely to any attempt to attack the territory of the State of Israel,” an Israeli military statement read….

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 34: Children who Survive the Bombs May Die of Starvation, Disease, and Dehydration – Leila Warah 11/9/23

Source: Mondoweiss.net

UN agencies report that fuel shortages will force Gaza hospitals, desalination plants, and bakeries to close, indirectly killing many. “The situation is catastrophic. Civilians, especially children, continue to pay the heaviest price,” says Save the Children.

Casualties 

Gaza

10,818 Killed, 4,412 including children

26,905 injured

West Bank

175 Palestinains Killed

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The Israeli-Hamas Conflict Is A Continuation of the 9/11 Plot – Paul Craig Roberts 10/30/23

Source: PaulCraigRoberts.org

This is not a conspiracy theory.  It is the most likely explanation we have of the information at this time.

The Hamas October 7 attack on Israel was the opening gun of a plot devised by US neoconservatives and Netanyahu to renew the US attack on Hezbollah’s suppliers in behalf of Greater Israel.  Greater Israel is a Zionist belief that Israel comprises the territory from the Nile in Egypt to the Euphrates in Iraq. The purpose of 9/11 was to launch under the guise of a “war on terror” the wars that the American neoconservatives had called for in their publications and that General Wesley Clark told us about against Israel’s enemies in the Middle East.  The purpose of Washington’s “war on terror” was to destroy Hezbollah’s suppliers–Iraq, Syria and Iran.  Israel and the neoconservatives want these three countries destroyed because they supply Hezbollah with money and weapons that permits Hezbollah to successfully repeal Israel’s attempts to occupy southern Lebanon.  Israel needs the water resources in southern Lebanon.  With the Iraq, Syrian, and Iranian regimes destroyed, avenues are opened to Greater Israel.

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Syrian Democratic Forces Official Killed in Turkish Drone Strike: Report – The Cradle 10/27/23

Source: New.TheCradle.co

A Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) official was killed on 27 October in a suspected drone strike from Turkiye, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

The monitor said that the SDF official was targeted while leaving his house; a woman and child were also injured in the attack.

Since early October, Turkiye has boosted their targeting of Kurdish and Kurdish allied forces in what is being called a retaliation for a dual suicide bombing attack on a government building in Ankara….

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US Jets Bomb Eastern Syria in ‘Self-Defense’ – The Cradle 10/27/23

Source: New.TheCradle.co

The Pentagon announced on 27 October that US warplanes conducted midnight air raids in Syria’s Deir Ezzor governorate, allegedly targeting two storage facilities used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

“These precision self-defense strikes are a response to a series of ongoing and mostly unsuccessful attacks against US personnel in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-backed militia groups,” US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement.

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How Much Longer will Palestinians be a Martyr People? – Eric Margolis 10/16/23

Source: Antiwar.com

It’s not a real war. The bloody carnage in Israel and Palestine that we now witness is a large prison uprising being crushed by Israel’s military might.

M-16 lightweight rifles against Merkava tanks; home-made rockets (little more than flying pipe bombs) versus U.S.-state of the art F-15 and F-16 fighter bombers; a few thousand Hamas fighters versus 600,000 or more Israeli soldiers and police backed by drones and heavy artillery.

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Turkiye Bombs Syria as Erdogan Declares ‘First Phase’ of Anti-Kurdish Campaign Complete – The Cradle 10/10/23

Source: New.TheCradle.co

The new waves of attacks by the Turkish air force hit northern Syria on 10 October, targeting dozens of Kurdistan Workers Party fighters (PKK) fighters.

The Turkish Defense Ministry says the airstrikes were launched against 16 PKK targets in Metina (al-Dahi).

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Syrian Jets Pound Idlib Extremists in Retaliation for Homs Massacre – The Cradle 10/6/23

Source: New.TheCradle.co

The Syrian air force continued its targeting of the northern Idlib governorate on 6 October, striking the positions of extremist groups in response to a deadly drone attack in Homs the day before, which killed dozens of people and injured over 250, among them women and children.

Airstrikes pounded the positions of the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) and the Emigrants Brigade, foreign extremist militias consisting of Chinese Uyghur and Chechen militants, on 6 October. …

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100+ Dead In Syria Terrorist Attack As The US Shoots Down Turkish Drone – Robert Inlakesh 10/6/23

Source: TheLastAmericanVagabond.com

At least 100 Syrians were killed in a drone attack on a ceremony at a military college this Thursday, resulting in a declared three days of national mourning. This attack represents one of the largest attacks on the country’s military installations – in terms of casualties – in history. On the same day, perhaps coincidentally, the Pentagon affirmed that their own fighter jet had for the first time downed a drone belonging to NATO ally Turkey.

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Turkiye Bombs Kurdish Targets in Syria, Iraq in Overnight Operation – The Cradle 10/4/23

Source: New.TheCradle.co

The Turkish air force launched multiple airstrikes overnight on 3 October in northern Iraq and Syria, targeting a vehicle belonging to the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria’s Hasakah governorate and multiple positions of the SDF-allied Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR).

Local sources told Al-Mayadeen that “the explosion was caused by a Turkish drone targeting a military vehicle belonging to the SDF at the entrance to the Gweiran neighborhood from the north.”

“The Turkish targeting is the first of its kind in the center of Hasakah,” the source added. …

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UK Intelligence Spun 2013 Syria Chemical Attack, Leaked Docs Show – Kit Klarenberg 9/19/23

Source: TheGrayzone.com

US officials suppressed internal assessments that Al Qaeda’s Syrian wing had an “advanced” sarin production cell even as the US publicly blamed the Assad government for a 2013 chemical weapons attack, a report reveals.

Leaked documents obtained by The Grayzone show a shadowy British intelligence contractor helped sell the story that Assad was responsible – and nearly triggered Western intervention.

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Israel Assassinates two in Missile Strike in Syria – The Cradle 9/21/23

Source: new.TheCradle.co

Israel assassinated two men in a drone strike near the Syrian town of Beit Jinn, near the border of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, pro-opposition Syria TV reported on 21 September.

Local reports say the two men, Ali Okasha Abu Jarrah and Zaher as-Saadi Abu Alaa, were killed by a missile while riding a motorcycle.

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Syria Demands UN Hold Washington Accountable for Oil-Theft Operations – The Cradle 9/11/23

Source: New.TheCradle.co

The Syrian government on 10 September called on the UN and the international community at large to hold US officials “accountable” for the ongoing theft of Syrian oil from the resource-rich northeast.

“US officials [must] be held accountable for the looting, and the US government [must] be obliged to pay compensation, end the illegal presence of US forces, and return the lands it occupies and the oil and gas fields to the Syrian state,” a letter from the Syrian foreign ministry addressed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reads.

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Jordan Launches Rare Airstrike On Alleged Syrian Captagon Factory – ZeroHedge 9/1/23

Source: ZeroHedge.com

Previously we described how what’s been dubbed “poor man’s cocaine” at as little as $3 a pill is threatening to proliferate across the Middle East and into Europe. The synthetic stimulant Captagon has been popular for years in parts of the Middle East and North Africa, and was big during ‘Arab Spring’ protests, but mainstream media of late has blamed the Assad government and allied militias for its now rapid spread.

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US Reaper Drone “Severely Damaged” By Russian Jet Intercept Over Syria – ZeroHedge 7/25/23

Source: ZeroHedge.com

The Pentagon has announced a new major incident involving Russia over the skies of Syria, after a string of hostile close encounters between Russian fighter jets and US drones which were ostensibly conducting ‘counter-ISIS’ missions.

The military says a US MQ-9 Reaper drone was damaged after being intercepted and harassed by an Su-35 fighter, during which time the Russian warplane released flares close to the American drone.

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Who Is National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, the Man Running US Foreign Policy – Rick Sterling 6/27/23

Source: Antiwar.com

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan is arguably the key person driving US foreign policy. He was mentored by Hillary Clinton with regime changes in Honduras, Libya and Syria. He was the link between Nuland and Biden during the 2014 coup in Ukraine. As reported by Seymour Hersh, Sullivan led the planning of the Nord Stream pipelines destruction in September 2022. Sullivan guides or makes many large and small foreign policy decisions. This article will describe Jake Sullivan’s background, what he says, what he has been doing, where the US is headed and why this should be debated….

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