Politics & environs 2023

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Exclusive: Food aid to Gaza falls as Israel sets new rule

 

By David Gauthier-Villars and John Davison

October 2, 20241:59 PM GMT+2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/food-aid-gaza-falls-israel-sets-new-aid-rule-sources-2024-10-02/

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One year on, Gazan families mourn their dead and question what future holds

 

Families from Gaza look back on a year of loss and displacement, and remember their lives before the war

 

Jason Burke and Malak A Tantesh in Gaza

Wed 2 Oct 2024 15.35 CEST






https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/02/one-year-on-gazan-families-mourn-their-dead-and-question-what-future-holds
 

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Iran braces for Israeli strikes as supreme leader calls for west to leave Middle East

 

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei makes first public appearance after attack on Israel in retaliation for Hezbollah leader’s killing

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Wed 2 Oct 2024 11.52 CEST






https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/02/iran-braces-israeli-strikes-supreme-leader-west-leave-middle-east
 

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US Jewish groups mark 7 October anniversary amid growing fractures

 

American Jews will commemorate in different ways – reflecting the deep community divisions since the attacks

 

Emily Tamkin

Wed 2 Oct 2024 15.00 CEST







https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/02/jewish-groups-7-october-anniversary
 

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Regional War Feared as Biden Backs Israel’s Threat to Retaliate After Iranian Missile Attack

 

October 02, 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/2/iran_missile_attack_israel_middle_east

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Lebanon ground fighting escalates with Israeli troop losses as UN Security Council meets

 

By Rupam Jain, Sharique Nasim, Marc Jones, Joe Bavier, Deborah Kyvrikosaios, Kate Abnett, Farouq Suleiman, Stephen Farrell, Kylie Maclellan, Zoe Law and Vanessa Balintec

 

Last updated 9 min ago

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/israel-iran-live-updates-netanyahu-says-iran-will-pay-missile-attack-2024-10-01/

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After a fortnight of military triumph, what is Israel’s endgame?

 

Hawks argue Tehran’s missile assault gives legitimacy to a direct attack on Iran – but would ‘wars and wars and wars’ guarantee greater security?

 

Wed 2 Oct 2024 21.54 CEST

Emma Graham-Harrison

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/02/after-a-fortnight-of-military-triumph-what-is-israels-endgame

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‘We will resist’: defiance amid destruction in Beirut’s deserted suburbs

 

Almost everyone from the Lebanese capital’s southern districts has fled, leaving behind empty streets and bombed-out buildings

 

William Christou in Beirut

Wed 2 Oct 2024 20.06 CEST






https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/02/we-will-resist-defiance-amid-destruction-in-beiruts-deserted-suburbs
 

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Dozens killed in Israeli strikes and ground operations in southern Gaza

 

At least 70 dead as Israeli strikes against Hamas continue despite attention shifting to Lebanon and Iran

 

Malak A Tantesh in Gaza, Jason Burke and agencies

Wed 2 Oct 2024 20.12 CEST







https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/02/dozens-killed-in-israeli-strikes-and-ground-operations-in-southern-gaza
 

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Rediscovering radical Palestinian cinema as hope for today and the future

 

The title of Terri Ginsberg’s monograph Films of Arab Loutfi and Heiny Srour: Studies in Palestine Solidarity Cinema hardly hints at the theoretical breadth and depth of the work which is incredibly prescient in these perilous times as the world is once more on the brink of world war because of the unresolved issues in this area. This is also a densely layered essay that makes an important contribution not only to Arab film studies but, through its material and particular attention to Palestinian cinema, to film studies as a whole........

 

October 2, 2024 10:34 AM CDT

By Dennis Broe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/rediscovering-radical-palestinian-cinema-as-hope-for-today-and-the-future/

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CIA expands online recruitment of informants to China, Iran, North Korea

 

By Jonathan Landay

October 2, 20248:42 PM GMT+2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cia-expands-online-recruitment-informants-china-iran-north-korea-2024-10-02/

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Christmas Caracas: early festivities are no joke as Maduro tightens grip

 

Venezuela’s president attempts to move on from bitterly disputed election result by declaring Christmas in October

 

Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent and Patricia Torres in Caracas

Thu 3 Oct 2024 12.30 CEST








https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/christmas-caracas-early-festivities-are-no-joke-as-maduro-tightens-grip
 

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How remigration became a buzzword for Europe’s far right

 

Electoral success of parties in Germany and Austria backing mass deportation linked to the term’s growing use by mainstream politicians, say experts

 

Thu 3 Oct 2024 15.36 CEST

Ashifa KassamEuropean Community affairs correspondent

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/how-remigration-became-a-buzzword-for-europes-far-right

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Gulf leaders support Palestine – but many would not mind seeing Israel challenge Iran

 

The escalating Middle East conflict could create a dangerous vacuum – or an opportunity – for several states

 

Thu 3 Oct 2024 06.00 CEST

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/gulf-leaders-support-palestine-but-many-would-not-mind-seeing-israel-challenge-iran

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Gang violence leaves Haiti facing ‘worst hunger emergency in the western hemisphere’

 

Half the country’s population now struggling to find food as lawlessness and inflation cause ‘full-blown crisis’, say aid agencies

 

Luke Taylor

Wed 2 Oct 2024 15.26 CEST

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/oct/02/gang-violence-leaves-haiti-facing-worst-hunger-emergency-in-the-western-hemisphere

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“Don’t Do It”: Lebanese Lawyer Warns Israel Against Using War to Create a “New Middle East”

 

October 03, 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/3/israel_lebanon

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“Starving Gaza”: Al Jazeera Film Shows U.S. Keeps Arming Israel as It Uses Hunger as a Weapon of War

 

October 03, 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/3/starving_gaza_documentary

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Britain ‘emboldening’ Israel to commit further atrocities

 

Starmer accused of hypocrisy for quickly condemning Iran’s missile attack on Israel, but not condeming Israel’s genocide in Gaza, strikes on the Iranian embassy, or attacks on civilians in Lebanon

 

Elizabeth Short

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/britain-emboldening-israel-to-commit-further-atrocities

 

 

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Marine Le Pen Sets the Agenda for France’s Government

 

In the name of constructive opposition, Marine Le Pen has issued her conditions for tolerating new prime minister Michel Barnier. Her party wants to show it’s ready for high office — but is vaguer about its stance on Barnier’s austerity plans

 

By  David Broder

10.03.2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://jacobin.com/2024/10/le-pen-france-barnier-agenda

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Which countries have pledged aid to Lebanon as conflict worsened?

 

By Jana Choukeir and Tala Ramadan

September 30, 202411:09 AM GMT+2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/which-countries-have-pledged-aid-lebanon-conflict-worsened-2024-09-30/

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What atrocity would Israel have to commit for our leaders to break their silence?

 

To avenge 7 October, crimes of all kinds are condoned. But politicians should take note: the British public disagrees

 

Thu 3 Oct 2024 18.38 CEST

Owen Jones

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/03/slaughter-gaza-women-children-israel-7-october

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Lebanese healthcare workers fearful as growing numbers killed in strikes

 

At least 50 paramedics have been killed in Lebanon over the last two weeks

 

William Christou in Beirut

Thu 3 Oct 2024 18.48 CEST






https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/lebanese-healthcare-workers-fearful-as-growing-numbers-killed-in-strikes
 

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Communist lawmakers in Israel demand end to bloodshed in Gaza and Lebanon

 

TEL AVIV—The assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, who led Lebanese Hezbollah movement for more than three decades, will not bring peace or security for Israel. That’s the warning being given by lawmakers from the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) coalition.

 

The Israeli army announced Nasrallah’s killing on Saturday morning, Sep. 28, which immediately prompted a declaration from Hezbollah that the movement would “continue the Jihad (holy war) against the enemy and in support of Palestine”

 

 

October 3, 2024 10:56 AM CDT

By Zo HaDerekh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/communist-lawmakers-in-israel-demand-end-to-bloodshed-in-gaza-and-lebanon/

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‘Palestinians are taking the stand’: can legal challenges to Israel’s war in Gaza stop the continuing onslaught?

 

Diala Shamas is one of a cadre of lawyers operating around the world to give international law teeth to stop the war

 

Jonathan Guyer

Fri 4 Oct 2024 14.00 CEST

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/04/israel-gaza-war-international-law

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In Gaza, we have one question for the rest of the world: aren’t we human, just like you?

 

Every night we huddle together and pray our building doesn’t collapse over us. Who will stop this war – and give us a future?

 

A voice from Gaza  (writer is a 24-year-old woman who has lived in Gaza all her life)

Fri 4 Oct 2024 13.00 CEST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/04/gaza-question-world-human-war-future