SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

WILL DISCONTENT ON SEVERAL FRONTS LEAD TO A MULTI-PRONGED CIVIL WAR IN ISRAEL? 

The office of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacked his security minister Yoav Gallant, stating that “he has lost his mind,” Israeli news channel Kan 11 reported on Sunday; those close to Netanyahu are reportedly furious over Gallant’s demand to cancel the cabinet’s decision on retaining the Philadelphi Corridor under Israeli control, which led to further obstacles in the ceasefire negotiations as it is against one of the main conditions laid out by the Palestinian Resistance in Gaza – a  full Israeli withdrawal from the Strip; Gallant was accused of “trying to ignite protests in the streets against the government,” which refers to the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who took to the streets on Sunday evening, mainly in Tel Aviv, demanding a prisoner exchange and ceasefire agreement with the Palestinian Resistance; contributing to the eruption of the demonstrations was the Israeli military announcement that the bodies of six captives were recovered in Gaza’s Rafah; meanwhile in the north, Israeli settlers are reported to have been tired of living on edge, according to settlement chief, Eitan David who said: “Waiting with bags packed for weeks or months is exhausting and demoralizing due to the uncertainty”, with Israeli Channel 14 reported growing frustration among settlers over prolonged evacuations from their settlements, and Israeli opposition top figure Benny Gantz criticising the PM for neglecting the north; a third front of discontent is the continued resentment of the ultra-Orthodox Jews who are against mandatory military service when protestors gathered on Monday near a recruitment office in the Tel HaShomer neighbourhood to protest, the public broadcaster KAN said; for months, the army has faced a personnel shortage amid its ongoing war in Gaza, military raids in the West Bank, and cross-border clashes with Hezbollah; in June, Israel’s Supreme Court mandated the drafting of ultra-Orthodox Jews, or Haredi, into the army and banned financial aid to religious institutions whose students refused military service; Haredi Jews make up about 13% of Israel’s population of approximately 9.9 million and do not serve in the military, dedicating their lives to studying the Torah, while Israeli law requires all Israelis over 18 to serve in the military, and the exemption of Haredi has been a contentious issue for decades; then there seems to be a discontent in another front when an Iranian children movie allegedly in disguise sneaks its way to Israeli theatres, causing a polemic in the art and entertainment scene; the fact that the Israeli distributor of the movie is defending its screening in Israel is symptomatic of the deep division in Israeli society, this time in the cultural field, perhaps indicating that certain segments in Israel may want a rapprochement with Iran no matter how impossible it may seem; meanwhile the chief of the Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 8200 and architect of its military’s Artificial Intelligence (AI), Brigadier General Yossi Sariel, is expected to resign in the upcoming weeks, according to a report by the Israeli news website Walla; nearly 11 months after his unit failed to warn the Israeli military command of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023, the general is finally resigning, with an Israeli security official saying, “The unit that has become an international brand is supposed to undergo rehabilitation after the great crisis”; it is to be noted that Sariel’s resignation came a week after the Hezbollah strike on his unit HQ near Tel Aviv in retaliation to the killing of martyr Fuad Shukr; Unit 8200, known for its expertise in signal intelligence (Sigint), code decryption, cyber warfare, military intelligence, counterintelligence and surveillance, plays a pivotal role in Israeli security and is comparable to the US National Security Agency (NSA).

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Hamas is not collapsing, Israel is: Israeli media

Hamas rebuilds forces in northern Gaza, recruits 3,000 fighters: Report

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‘West Bank from a time bomb to bomb ready to explode’: Israeli media

West Bank Resistance catches IOF in ambush, kills, injures soldiers

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West Bank Resistance catches IOF in ambush, kills, injures soldiers

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Palestinian Resistance in Gaza confront IOF across battle frontlines

Orders to ‘deal with’ captives if IOF nears their location: Abu Ubaida

UK suspends 30 of 350 arms exports licenses to ‘Israel’

Egypt reaffirms rejection of Israeli control over Philadelphi, Rafah

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Elon Musk’s Starlink arrives in ‘Israel’ for use in occupied north

Netanyahu lost ‘moral compass’, if any, ‘long ago’: Captive’s father

Knesset member injured as police throw stun grenades at protesters

West Bank in flames as resistance confronts vast Israeli offensive

Palestinian factions call for mobilization in defense of West Bank as clashes rage

France’s chief rabbi urges Israel to ‘finish the job’ in Gaza

Binance seizes Palestinian funds at Israel’s request

Israeli army mulls dismantling spy balloon system struck by Hezbollah

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Three Israeli police officers shot dead near Hebron

Trump advisor pushes to divert Palestine aid funds for Israeli annexation of West Bank

CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA: KEY BATTLEGROUNDS IN A NEW COLD WAR 

As the war in Gaza rages from numerous fronts like Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran, both Israel and Iran are also extending their reach into Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Central Asia and according to National Interest, the conflict is part of a larger struggle between the Western bloc led by the US, and the Eurasian bloc led by China, Russia and Iran; Iran has strengthened its alliance with Azerbaijan and expanded its ties with Central Asian nations, while Israel is enhancing its relationships with Armenia and reinforcing its position in Central Asia; Iran’s Bandar Abbas port on the Persian Gulf is being relied on by Central Asian states in getting much of their fossil fuels to be exported while Turkiye, as a geopolitical pivot, navigates between Western and Eurasian influences, has dropped a bombshell with a news report that it has applied for a Brics membership.


 

 

US NEEDS TO OMIT “STRATEGIC DEFEAT OF RUSSIA” FOR THE SAKE OF WORLD PEACE  

There’s only one outcome if the US greenlights Ukraine’s request on the use of long-range weapons to strike deep inside Russia, and that will be escalation that could lead to a total nuclear war since this will be construed by Russia as a direct attack by the US and Nato on Russian territory and a prelude to a “larger military incursion” meant to accomplish the US’ ultimate goal of “the strategic defeat of Russia,” former US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter told Sputnik on Aug 31; Ritter also recalled the warnings made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov who questioned the US’ apparent belief that a Russia-Nato conflict would be limited to only Europe, forgetting the fact a Russian retaliatory strike against the US is possible if such a conflict were to break out, which caused Ritter to lament: “This is a very dangerous escalation, one that could rapidly create the conditions conducive for not limited nuclear conflict, but a general nuclear war, a global-ending disaster, the destruction of the US, the destruction of Russia, the destruction of Europe, the destruction of the world. Why? Because the US and Nato are not honest about the state of affairs in Ukraine today”; stressing that Ukraine has already “lost the war”, an observation agreed by many western analysts, Ritter said nothing that Kiev might do to try and “tip the scales” in its favour is going to change that as “all it will do is provoke Russia into enlarging this conflict so that it’s not just Ukraine that pays the price, but Europe, the US, and the rest of the world”, and for all these reasons, the former US marine officer hoped that Washington would reject Kiev’s request to lift the restriction on the use of long range weapons during the visit of Ukraine’s defence minister, Rustem Umerov to the US on August 31; for the record, the US and other Western allies have provided long-range weapons to Ukraine but prohibit Kiev from launching them deep into Russia because they are concerned it would escalate the war.


 

 

A US REGIME CHANGE OPERATION IN ACTION

The US government has confiscated an airplane reportedly used by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for allegedly violating American sanctions on Caracas, an unnamed Washington official told CNN, which first reported the story on Monday saying: “Seizing the foreign head of state’s plane is unheard-of for criminal matters. We’re sending a clear message here that no one is above the law, no one is above the reach of US sanctions”; this quote reveals more than what it says when one takes into account that the US has charged Maduro with drug trafficking and refused to recognise his victory in the last two Venezuelan presidential elections; after all the lies in the past with regards to Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction, the reason for the invasion of Afghanistan, the Minsk agreement, the Maidan Revolution, and the current Gaza war including negotiations on a permanent ceasefire, no one will be that stupid not to see this as the beginning of a regime change operation in Venezuela. 

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