The Aid Worker and the Parade
Four drone strikes hit Gaza on Sunday, according to local journalists, leaving at least two people dead and 16 wounded.
Gaza sources named one of the dead as Saqr Nabil Musa Qaisi, the Gaza representative of the Turkish aid organization Deniz Feneri, after a car was struck near Deir al-Balah. Initial Palestinian accounts put the wounded total from that strike anywhere between one and 10.
Israel later said Qaisi was a Hamas Nukhba Force operative who took part in the October 7 assault and had recently worked to attack Israeli troops and civilians and rebuild Hamas capabilities.
The IDF said he also ran Deniz Feneri’s Gaza operation, alleging that the Turkish charity employed Hamas operatives and financed them. Deniz Feneri presented Qaisi as its humanitarian-aid coordinator.
The car bombing therefore arrived with two biographies attached: Turkey’s aid worker and Israel’s October 7 operative.
The organization sits close enough to Ankara for the politics to be obvious. Deniz Feneri has hosted Hamas figures Khaled Mashaal and Sami Abu Zuhri at its gatherings, and Qaisi was known locally as an imam who preached in mosques across southern Gaza.
Turkey calls this solidarity. Israel calls it a Hamas funding channel. Either way, another Turkish-linked institution has become part of the Gaza battlefield.
Elsewhere, Gaza sources reported the killing of municipal employee Muadh Abu Nseira near Hamad City in Khan Younis, four wounded in Beit Lahiya, two in al-Salatin and three injured in Jabalia.
Figures remain fragmented because the attacks, casualty reporting and claims of responsibility are moving faster than verification.
In Rafah, the anti-Hamas Popular Forces militia under Ghassan al-Dahini released video of dozens of armed men marching under the title “Spear Force.”
The group says it is expanding recruitment and is thought to field roughly 600 to 800 fighters, making it the largest armed faction openly operating against Hamas inside Gaza. A militia parade is not a victory over Hamas. It is a recruitment commercial filmed inside a war zone.
The drone killed a man described as both aid official and Nukhba fighter. The militia marched to advertise its men.
Gaza now has humanitarian logos, Hamas cells and anti-Hamas uniforms sharing the same terrain. Every side calls it protection. Every side needs more bodies.
#Gaza #Hamas #Turkey #Rafah
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Four drone strikes hit Gaza on Sunday, according to local journalists, leaving at least two people dead and 16 wounded.
Gaza sources named one of the dead as Saqr Nabil Musa Qaisi, the Gaza representative of the Turkish aid organization Deniz Feneri, after a car was struck near Deir al-Balah. Initial Palestinian accounts put the wounded total from that strike anywhere between one and 10.
Israel later said Qaisi was a Hamas Nukhba Force operative who took part in the October 7 assault and had recently worked to attack Israeli troops and civilians and rebuild Hamas capabilities.
The IDF said he also ran Deniz Feneri’s Gaza operation, alleging that the Turkish charity employed Hamas operatives and financed them. Deniz Feneri presented Qaisi as its humanitarian-aid coordinator.
The car bombing therefore arrived with two biographies attached: Turkey’s aid worker and Israel’s October 7 operative.
The organization sits close enough to Ankara for the politics to be obvious. Deniz Feneri has hosted Hamas figures Khaled Mashaal and Sami Abu Zuhri at its gatherings, and Qaisi was known locally as an imam who preached in mosques across southern Gaza.
Turkey calls this solidarity. Israel calls it a Hamas funding channel. Either way, another Turkish-linked institution has become part of the Gaza battlefield.
Elsewhere, Gaza sources reported the killing of municipal employee Muadh Abu Nseira near Hamad City in Khan Younis, four wounded in Beit Lahiya, two in al-Salatin and three injured in Jabalia.
Figures remain fragmented because the attacks, casualty reporting and claims of responsibility are moving faster than verification.
In Rafah, the anti-Hamas Popular Forces militia under Ghassan al-Dahini released video of dozens of armed men marching under the title “Spear Force.”
The group says it is expanding recruitment and is thought to field roughly 600 to 800 fighters, making it the largest armed faction openly operating against Hamas inside Gaza. A militia parade is not a victory over Hamas. It is a recruitment commercial filmed inside a war zone.
The drone killed a man described as both aid official and Nukhba fighter. The militia marched to advertise its men.
Gaza now has humanitarian logos, Hamas cells and anti-Hamas uniforms sharing the same terrain. Every side calls it protection. Every side needs more bodies.
#Gaza #Hamas #Turkey #Rafah
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1,835 Green Lights
Britain’s Green Party has made anti-Zionism official policy by a vote of 1,022 to 813.
The motion, submitted by the internal group Greens for Palestine, defines Zionism as an ethnonationalist ideology, calls for it to be treated as a form of racism.
The group demands one Palestinian state across historic Palestine with equal rights for Jews. Israel itself receives no right of continued existence in the text.
The majority was 56 percent. The electorate was 1,835 people in a party with more than 200,000 members. Less than 1 percent of the membership has decided that the British Greens should classify the Jewish national movement as racism. Representative democracy has never been so compact.
Leader Zack Polanski did not vote. His deputy voted for the motion. The party says anti-Zionism is not antisemitism and supports Palestinian “liberation,” the right of return, BDS and a full arms embargo against Israel.
The formula is simple: dissolve the Jewish state, promise Jews equal rights in the state that replaces it, and file the program under anti-racism.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the Greens had stopped functioning as a political party and become a body that supports terrorism. The phrase is political combat. The vote is a fact: a British party with five MPs has placed the removal of Israel from its political map.
A country that once issued the Balfour Declaration now has an environmental party treating Zionism as pollution. The conference has voted for removal.
#UK #GreenParty #Israel #Zionism
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Britain’s Green Party has made anti-Zionism official policy by a vote of 1,022 to 813.
The motion, submitted by the internal group Greens for Palestine, defines Zionism as an ethnonationalist ideology, calls for it to be treated as a form of racism.
The group demands one Palestinian state across historic Palestine with equal rights for Jews. Israel itself receives no right of continued existence in the text.
The majority was 56 percent. The electorate was 1,835 people in a party with more than 200,000 members. Less than 1 percent of the membership has decided that the British Greens should classify the Jewish national movement as racism. Representative democracy has never been so compact.
Leader Zack Polanski did not vote. His deputy voted for the motion. The party says anti-Zionism is not antisemitism and supports Palestinian “liberation,” the right of return, BDS and a full arms embargo against Israel.
The formula is simple: dissolve the Jewish state, promise Jews equal rights in the state that replaces it, and file the program under anti-racism.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the Greens had stopped functioning as a political party and become a body that supports terrorism. The phrase is political combat. The vote is a fact: a British party with five MPs has placed the removal of Israel from its political map.
A country that once issued the Balfour Declaration now has an environmental party treating Zionism as pollution. The conference has voted for removal.
#UK #GreenParty #Israel #Zionism
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The Lone-Wolf Convenience
Israeli investigators now assess that Flydubai co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami likely acted alone when he attacked Captain Smit Machchhar and attempted to seize Flight FZ1073 on its way from Dubai to Tel Aviv.
The UAE has called the attack terrorism. Israel’s preliminary assessment calls it a lone-wolf operation. Both can be true, but the second version has one bureaucratic advantage, no state needs to explain how a known extremist reached a cockpit on an Israel route.
The aircraft transmitted 7700, the general-emergency code, and seven minutes later 7500, the code for unlawful interference. Flight data reviewed by Reuters showed the Boeing 737 dropped about 16,000 feet in roughly 30 seconds before the captain and people who entered the cockpit regained control. The plane later landed in Saudi Arabia.
Corriere della Sera reports, citing Israeli intelligence and two Boeing 737 captains who reviewed available video, that al-Hammami disconnected the autopilot, forced the aircraft into a dive and may have moved both engine fuel switches from “run” to “cutoff.”
The newspaper says he intended to kill the captain with the cockpit crash axe and crash the plane into a Tel Aviv skyscraper. Those specific claims have not been independently confirmed by the UAE-led investigation.
Australia’s Joint Counter Terrorism Team, which includes federal police, Victoria Police and ASIO, is investigating al-Hammami’s links to the country, where he studied in 2014–15.
Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Israel are also examining the incident and the suspect’s contacts. The question is no longer whether the cockpit attack happened. It is how a pilot previously flagged over extremist concerns was cleared to fly a Boeing full of Israelis toward Tel Aviv.
Iran is the obvious geopolitical suspect because Tehran has threatened bases and targets linked to Israel and the United States. But no evidence made public so far connects Iran to al-Hammami.
The investigation may find a network. A lone wolf still needs a boarding pass.
#Flydubai #Aviation #Terrorism #Israel
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Israeli investigators now assess that Flydubai co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami likely acted alone when he attacked Captain Smit Machchhar and attempted to seize Flight FZ1073 on its way from Dubai to Tel Aviv.
The UAE has called the attack terrorism. Israel’s preliminary assessment calls it a lone-wolf operation. Both can be true, but the second version has one bureaucratic advantage, no state needs to explain how a known extremist reached a cockpit on an Israel route.
The aircraft transmitted 7700, the general-emergency code, and seven minutes later 7500, the code for unlawful interference. Flight data reviewed by Reuters showed the Boeing 737 dropped about 16,000 feet in roughly 30 seconds before the captain and people who entered the cockpit regained control. The plane later landed in Saudi Arabia.
Corriere della Sera reports, citing Israeli intelligence and two Boeing 737 captains who reviewed available video, that al-Hammami disconnected the autopilot, forced the aircraft into a dive and may have moved both engine fuel switches from “run” to “cutoff.”
The newspaper says he intended to kill the captain with the cockpit crash axe and crash the plane into a Tel Aviv skyscraper. Those specific claims have not been independently confirmed by the UAE-led investigation.
Australia’s Joint Counter Terrorism Team, which includes federal police, Victoria Police and ASIO, is investigating al-Hammami’s links to the country, where he studied in 2014–15.
Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Israel are also examining the incident and the suspect’s contacts. The question is no longer whether the cockpit attack happened. It is how a pilot previously flagged over extremist concerns was cleared to fly a Boeing full of Israelis toward Tel Aviv.
Iran is the obvious geopolitical suspect because Tehran has threatened bases and targets linked to Israel and the United States. But no evidence made public so far connects Iran to al-Hammami.
The investigation may find a network. A lone wolf still needs a boarding pass.
#Flydubai #Aviation #Terrorism #Israel
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Bolsonaro Leads Lula Into Brazil’s Runoff
Flávio Bolsonaro finished first in Brazil’s presidential election, with 47.03% of valid votes to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s 45.16%. Neither cleared 50%, so they will face each other again on October 25.
Lula had expected to end the race in the first round. Instead, he enters the runoff behind the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who called the result proof that Brazil wants change.
Lula said the result was unexpected and that he had been sure he would win outright.
The congressional vote made the race harder for Lula even if he wins the presidency.
Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party is projected to hold 28 of the Senate’s 81 seats from February 2027, while right-wing parties and allies are expected to control more than 45 seats.
Brazil may elect Lula again and give him a chamber built to price every vote.
The runoff is no longer about whether Lula can win. It is about whether Brazil wants a fourth term for Lula or the return of Bolsonaroism under a new surname.
#Brazil #Lula #Bolsonaro #Elections
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Flávio Bolsonaro finished first in Brazil’s presidential election, with 47.03% of valid votes to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s 45.16%. Neither cleared 50%, so they will face each other again on October 25.
Lula had expected to end the race in the first round. Instead, he enters the runoff behind the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who called the result proof that Brazil wants change.
Lula said the result was unexpected and that he had been sure he would win outright.
The congressional vote made the race harder for Lula even if he wins the presidency.
Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party is projected to hold 28 of the Senate’s 81 seats from February 2027, while right-wing parties and allies are expected to control more than 45 seats.
Brazil may elect Lula again and give him a chamber built to price every vote.
The runoff is no longer about whether Lula can win. It is about whether Brazil wants a fourth term for Lula or the return of Bolsonaroism under a new surname.
#Brazil #Lula #Bolsonaro #Elections
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The City Between Two Drone Fleets
Oleshky, a city across the Dnipro from Kherson, is starving inside a battlefield both armies have turned into a kill zone. About 2,000 civilians, including roughly 40 children, remain among mines, drones, burned cars and destroyed infrastructure. The last known food delivery by road arrived on May 26.
Residents told the New York Times they are cooking their last food stores: one beet, a few potatoes, an onion, a zucchini, a tomato and barley. No carrots. No regular water, electricity, gas, heat or medical care.
A city that once held more than 20,000 people has been reduced to old people searching collapsed basements for scraps while drones decide whether a trip outside ends in food or death.
Ukraine says Russia blocks evacuations, intimidates civilians who receive aid and intercepts drone deliveries. Moscow says Ukrainian forces prevent residents from leaving and disrupt food and water shipments. The competing accounts have one shared fact: civilians cannot safely get out, and food cannot safely get in.
Russia captured Oleshky on the first day of the full-scale invasion, February 24, 2022. After losing Kherson later that year, Russian forces used Oleshky as a fortified position across the river, with artillery and drone sites aimed at the Ukrainian-held city.
Ukraine now strikes back from Kherson. Between them lies a river that became a front line, roads seeded with mines by one side or both, and a civilian population that neither army has extracted.
Russia drops food and medicine by drone. Ukraine shoots down some of the drones, Russian officials say. Russia says Ukraine’s drones are the problem. The UN and Red Cross are being asked to arrange a corridor. Nobody has one.
A Russian-held city is starving. Ukraine calls the residents “our people.” Russia calls it Ukraine’s fault. The drones are bipartisan.
#Ukraine #Russia #Oleshky #War
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Oleshky, a city across the Dnipro from Kherson, is starving inside a battlefield both armies have turned into a kill zone. About 2,000 civilians, including roughly 40 children, remain among mines, drones, burned cars and destroyed infrastructure. The last known food delivery by road arrived on May 26.
Residents told the New York Times they are cooking their last food stores: one beet, a few potatoes, an onion, a zucchini, a tomato and barley. No carrots. No regular water, electricity, gas, heat or medical care.
A city that once held more than 20,000 people has been reduced to old people searching collapsed basements for scraps while drones decide whether a trip outside ends in food or death.
Ukraine says Russia blocks evacuations, intimidates civilians who receive aid and intercepts drone deliveries. Moscow says Ukrainian forces prevent residents from leaving and disrupt food and water shipments. The competing accounts have one shared fact: civilians cannot safely get out, and food cannot safely get in.
Russia captured Oleshky on the first day of the full-scale invasion, February 24, 2022. After losing Kherson later that year, Russian forces used Oleshky as a fortified position across the river, with artillery and drone sites aimed at the Ukrainian-held city.
Ukraine now strikes back from Kherson. Between them lies a river that became a front line, roads seeded with mines by one side or both, and a civilian population that neither army has extracted.
Russia drops food and medicine by drone. Ukraine shoots down some of the drones, Russian officials say. Russia says Ukraine’s drones are the problem. The UN and Red Cross are being asked to arrange a corridor. Nobody has one.
A Russian-held city is starving. Ukraine calls the residents “our people.” Russia calls it Ukraine’s fault. The drones are bipartisan.
#Ukraine #Russia #Oleshky #War
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Geography Returns With a Knife
The global economy spent three decades pretending distance was dead. Then Iran squeezed the Strait of Hormuz and reminded everybody that oil still needs a narrow piece of water, a ship and a captain willing to enter a kill zone.
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has turned Hormuz into a tariff booth operated with mines, drones and missiles.
Oil has begun moving again, but largely under U.S. Navy escort.
Iran’s power is not technological parity with Washington. It is the map: one shoreline beside the world’s most important energy chokepoint.
That is why a regional war now reaches supermarkets, diesel pumps, factories and farms far from the Gulf. Higher energy prices feed inflation.
Inflation pressures central banks. Interest rates rise. Transport costs jump. The same route that carries Gulf oil also carries the cost of fertilizer, food and electricity to countries with no vote in the war.
The Houthis learned the same lesson at Bab el-Mandeb, the southern gateway to the Red Sea. Iran cannot match the American fleet. The Houthis cannot match Iran.
But each can sit beside a corridor that richer countries built their economies around and charge the planet for passing through.
Globalization did not abolish geography. It put supply chains on top of it and called the result resilience.
The new world order is brutally physical. Ukraine is a hinge between Europe and Eurasia. Taiwan anchors the island chain off China’s coast.
The Panama Canal needs rain. The Rhine needs water. Hormuz needs an agreement, or an escort fleet. Every app still depends on a port, a river, a cable, a refinery and a strait somebody else can close.
Trump said at the UN, “To the victor belong the spoils,” speaking about Venezuela’s oil. Iran heard the same doctrine and found its own spoils: tolls on global trade. The American answer is naval power. The Iranian answer is geography.
The ships move again only when a warship says they can. That is not free trade. It is a convoy system with a Bloomberg terminal.
#Iran #Hormuz #Oil #Geopolitics
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The global economy spent three decades pretending distance was dead. Then Iran squeezed the Strait of Hormuz and reminded everybody that oil still needs a narrow piece of water, a ship and a captain willing to enter a kill zone.
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has turned Hormuz into a tariff booth operated with mines, drones and missiles.
Oil has begun moving again, but largely under U.S. Navy escort.
Iran’s power is not technological parity with Washington. It is the map: one shoreline beside the world’s most important energy chokepoint.
That is why a regional war now reaches supermarkets, diesel pumps, factories and farms far from the Gulf. Higher energy prices feed inflation.
Inflation pressures central banks. Interest rates rise. Transport costs jump. The same route that carries Gulf oil also carries the cost of fertilizer, food and electricity to countries with no vote in the war.
The Houthis learned the same lesson at Bab el-Mandeb, the southern gateway to the Red Sea. Iran cannot match the American fleet. The Houthis cannot match Iran.
But each can sit beside a corridor that richer countries built their economies around and charge the planet for passing through.
Globalization did not abolish geography. It put supply chains on top of it and called the result resilience.
The new world order is brutally physical. Ukraine is a hinge between Europe and Eurasia. Taiwan anchors the island chain off China’s coast.
The Panama Canal needs rain. The Rhine needs water. Hormuz needs an agreement, or an escort fleet. Every app still depends on a port, a river, a cable, a refinery and a strait somebody else can close.
Trump said at the UN, “To the victor belong the spoils,” speaking about Venezuela’s oil. Iran heard the same doctrine and found its own spoils: tolls on global trade. The American answer is naval power. The Iranian answer is geography.
The ships move again only when a warship says they can. That is not free trade. It is a convoy system with a Bloomberg terminal.
#Iran #Hormuz #Oil #Geopolitics
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Iran’s Three-Front Security State
Iran woke to a patrol ambush in Sistan and Baluchestan, two executions in Isfahan and a warning that Starlink could become a military target. The state faces gunmen on a southeastern highway, prisoners in its jails and satellite terminals on its rooftops.
Gunmen attacked a police patrol from the Nokju station near Bampur on the Bampur–Iranshahr road. Two officers, Amirhossein Ghasemi and Nezam Dastgoshadeh, were killed and a third was wounded, according to Iranian media.
No group immediately claimed responsibility. Tasnim, a state-linked outlet, blamed forces it described as affiliated with the “U.S.-Israeli enemy.”
Iran also executed Alireza Sepahi and Alireza Raeisi, two men arrested during the January protests in Isfahan. Iran’s judiciary said they were convicted of membership in an armed rebel group, “waging war against God” and involvement in the deaths of four police officers.
Rights groups described them as protesters tried in the Alikhani Square case. The executions bring to at least seven the number of defendants in that case put to death, according to rights-monitoring reports.
Mohammad Amin Aghamiri, secretary of Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace, said the authorities had disabled Starlink terminals during the January unrest.
He warned that satellite-internet infrastructure used for military purposes could become a target. Tehran treats internet access as a battlefield because a phone signal can mobilize a crowd faster than a police van can disperse it.
Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Ali Abdollahi gave the external version. A new war against Iran, he said, would spread across the region.
If Washington moves against Tehran before or after the midterms, Iran would strike U.S. interests without limits. The message is aimed at Washington, but it lands on every Gulf state hosting American troops.
Iran calls its enemies terrorists, rioters and foreign agents. The categories change according to the battlefield. The answer does not: treat every threat as war, then make the target disappear.
#Iran #Starlink #IRGC #SistanBaluchestan
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Iran woke to a patrol ambush in Sistan and Baluchestan, two executions in Isfahan and a warning that Starlink could become a military target. The state faces gunmen on a southeastern highway, prisoners in its jails and satellite terminals on its rooftops.
Gunmen attacked a police patrol from the Nokju station near Bampur on the Bampur–Iranshahr road. Two officers, Amirhossein Ghasemi and Nezam Dastgoshadeh, were killed and a third was wounded, according to Iranian media.
No group immediately claimed responsibility. Tasnim, a state-linked outlet, blamed forces it described as affiliated with the “U.S.-Israeli enemy.”
Iran also executed Alireza Sepahi and Alireza Raeisi, two men arrested during the January protests in Isfahan. Iran’s judiciary said they were convicted of membership in an armed rebel group, “waging war against God” and involvement in the deaths of four police officers.
Rights groups described them as protesters tried in the Alikhani Square case. The executions bring to at least seven the number of defendants in that case put to death, according to rights-monitoring reports.
Mohammad Amin Aghamiri, secretary of Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace, said the authorities had disabled Starlink terminals during the January unrest.
He warned that satellite-internet infrastructure used for military purposes could become a target. Tehran treats internet access as a battlefield because a phone signal can mobilize a crowd faster than a police van can disperse it.
Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Ali Abdollahi gave the external version. A new war against Iran, he said, would spread across the region.
If Washington moves against Tehran before or after the midterms, Iran would strike U.S. interests without limits. The message is aimed at Washington, but it lands on every Gulf state hosting American troops.
Iran calls its enemies terrorists, rioters and foreign agents. The categories change according to the battlefield. The answer does not: treat every threat as war, then make the target disappear.
#Iran #Starlink #IRGC #SistanBaluchestan
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Chosenness Has a Finance Department
Rabbi Dov Lando says Israel would have been better off never being founded. His political allies negotiate with the government. The state’s spiritual value and its payment schedule belong to separate departments.
Lando exposed a disagreement over what Jewish chosenness requires. In the Haredi model, Jews owe obligations to Torah. The state earns its keep by supporting that life. Religious Zionism gives land and sovereignty a sacred purpose. Secular Zionism translates chosenness into democracy and military morality. Each camp arrives with a different job description for Israel.
Religious Zionists want the army to secure the promised land. Secular Zionists want it to protect the country and certify its moral distinction. Lando’s standard asks whether the national project serves Torah.
A flag answers that question poorly. A budget line does better.
Netanyahu’s coalition makes these competing interpretations administratively compatible. Politicians who sanctify sovereignty need votes from politicians whose religious authority questions the state’s very existence.
The latter can collect public funding without purchasing the accompanying theology.
Three versions of chosenness share one treasury. Coalition negotiations handle the exchange rate.
#Israel #Haredim #Zionism #Netanyahu
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Rabbi Dov Lando says Israel would have been better off never being founded. His political allies negotiate with the government. The state’s spiritual value and its payment schedule belong to separate departments.
Lando exposed a disagreement over what Jewish chosenness requires. In the Haredi model, Jews owe obligations to Torah. The state earns its keep by supporting that life. Religious Zionism gives land and sovereignty a sacred purpose. Secular Zionism translates chosenness into democracy and military morality. Each camp arrives with a different job description for Israel.
Religious Zionists want the army to secure the promised land. Secular Zionists want it to protect the country and certify its moral distinction. Lando’s standard asks whether the national project serves Torah.
A flag answers that question poorly. A budget line does better.
Netanyahu’s coalition makes these competing interpretations administratively compatible. Politicians who sanctify sovereignty need votes from politicians whose religious authority questions the state’s very existence.
The latter can collect public funding without purchasing the accompanying theology.
Three versions of chosenness share one treasury. Coalition negotiations handle the exchange rate.
#Israel #Haredim #Zionism #Netanyahu
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Neutrality, NATO-Compatible
Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksii Honcharenko has put neutrality on the negotiating table. It comes with NATO cooperation and a Ukrainian army financed from a joint European budget. Moscow gets the label. Kyiv keeps the military connections. Europe gets the invoice.
On Oct. 5, Ukrainian News reported his formula: “We cannot defeat Russia. Russia cannot defeat us.” Honcharenko proposes separate agreements on shipping, energy and civilian infrastructure, each with its own guarantor.
Sanctions on Russian energy would ease in exchange for concessions, then return if attacks resumed. Peace would arrive in installments.
Calling this “Ukrainians want a ceasefire to rearm” turns one politician’s proposal into a national confession.
Honcharenko’s neutrality preserves Western military cooperation and European army funding. His plan gives Russia sanctions relief while keeping Ukraine’s defense tied to the West.
Ukraine would retain something worth bringing to the next confrontation.
Poroshenko’s European Solidarity announced on Oct. 5 that it could no longer continue its political partnership with Honcharenko over his positions on ending the war and Ukraine’s future security arrangements. Even discussing the price of compromise carries a domestic bill.
In December 2022, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel described the 2014 Minsk agreement as an attempt to “give Ukraine time” to strengthen its defenses. Honcharenko’s proposal puts neutrality alongside continued NATO cooperation and European funding for Ukraine’s army.
A ceasefire can stop the shooting while the military budget keeps working. Merkel explained the value of the interval afterward. Honcharenko puts the financing in the prospectus.
#Ukraine #Russia #NATO #Ceasefire
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Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksii Honcharenko has put neutrality on the negotiating table. It comes with NATO cooperation and a Ukrainian army financed from a joint European budget. Moscow gets the label. Kyiv keeps the military connections. Europe gets the invoice.
On Oct. 5, Ukrainian News reported his formula: “We cannot defeat Russia. Russia cannot defeat us.” Honcharenko proposes separate agreements on shipping, energy and civilian infrastructure, each with its own guarantor.
Sanctions on Russian energy would ease in exchange for concessions, then return if attacks resumed. Peace would arrive in installments.
Calling this “Ukrainians want a ceasefire to rearm” turns one politician’s proposal into a national confession.
Honcharenko’s neutrality preserves Western military cooperation and European army funding. His plan gives Russia sanctions relief while keeping Ukraine’s defense tied to the West.
Ukraine would retain something worth bringing to the next confrontation.
Poroshenko’s European Solidarity announced on Oct. 5 that it could no longer continue its political partnership with Honcharenko over his positions on ending the war and Ukraine’s future security arrangements. Even discussing the price of compromise carries a domestic bill.
In December 2022, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel described the 2014 Minsk agreement as an attempt to “give Ukraine time” to strengthen its defenses. Honcharenko’s proposal puts neutrality alongside continued NATO cooperation and European funding for Ukraine’s army.
A ceasefire can stop the shooting while the military budget keeps working. Merkel explained the value of the interval afterward. Honcharenko puts the financing in the prospectus.
#Ukraine #Russia #NATO #Ceasefire
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The Army Needs an Escort
Military police went to Modi’in overnight to arrest a deserter. By morning, the soldiers had left under police protection. The deserter celebrated surrounded by hundreds of protesters.
Reports offered competing versions of the operation. One described a failed arrest after violence against police.
Another said protesters stormed a police station and forcibly freed the detainee.
A third described a crowd forcing its way into a building to prevent his arrest. The ending stayed consistent: the arrest target stayed, and the arresting force needed an escort out.
The opposition promptly opened its campaign office at the scene. Gadi Eisenkot promised a draft law that would strengthen the army. Naftali Bennett offered a financial sanction: “In our government, anyone who doesn’t serve won’t get a shekel.”
Avigdor Lieberman supplied the coalition arithmetic: “Without the draft dodgers, Bibi has no government.”
Netanyahu depends on the political partners the opposition blames for obstructing military service.
His rivals promise to bring them into line once they take office. The soldiers sent to enforce the existing rules needed police protection to leave.
The deserter got his celebration immediately. Enforcement comes after the election.
#Israel #Conscription #Haredim #Netanyahu
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Military police went to Modi’in overnight to arrest a deserter. By morning, the soldiers had left under police protection. The deserter celebrated surrounded by hundreds of protesters.
Reports offered competing versions of the operation. One described a failed arrest after violence against police.
Another said protesters stormed a police station and forcibly freed the detainee.
A third described a crowd forcing its way into a building to prevent his arrest. The ending stayed consistent: the arrest target stayed, and the arresting force needed an escort out.
The opposition promptly opened its campaign office at the scene. Gadi Eisenkot promised a draft law that would strengthen the army. Naftali Bennett offered a financial sanction: “In our government, anyone who doesn’t serve won’t get a shekel.”
Avigdor Lieberman supplied the coalition arithmetic: “Without the draft dodgers, Bibi has no government.”
Netanyahu depends on the political partners the opposition blames for obstructing military service.
His rivals promise to bring them into line once they take office. The soldiers sent to enforce the existing rules needed police protection to leave.
The deserter got his celebration immediately. Enforcement comes after the election.
#Israel #Conscription #Haredim #Netanyahu
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Al Jazeera has aired a report on a striking development: members of Mexican and Colombian drug cartels are reportedly joining Ukraine’s International Legion in significant numbers to gain battlefield experience, particularly in the use of drones...
#Ukraine #Drones #Cartels #AlJazeera
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Diplomacy Without Notice
Trump says he is "always open to direct talks with Iran." On Monday, his Treasury warned that foreign banks still transacting with sanctioned Iranian institutions "could be targeted at any time without advance notification."
The invitation is open. So is the penalty box.
Tehran has answered the first offer. Iran's president says negotiating with Washington is meaningless. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says U.S. sanctions froze Iran's oil exports completely last month, as the rial hit record lows.
On Monday evening, Trump linked Iran to the attempted attack aboard a flydubai flight. Accounts called it an attempted crash, a hijacking attempt and a terrorist attack. Asked whether Iran was responsible for "this attack," Trump answered, "Yes."
Trump defends the war despite higher U.S. fuel prices and has taken the argument onto the campaign trail with "We're saving the world." American drivers get to contribute at the pump.
Telegram channels associated with the Iranian opposition reported air-defense activity above the Revolutionary Guard's al-Mahdi base in Urmia and explosions in the Strait of Hormuz. Those reports supply the soundtrack but do not establish who fired or what was hit.
Saving the world comes with a campaign slogan and a fuel surcharge.
#Trump #Iran #Sanctions #Hormuz
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Trump says he is "always open to direct talks with Iran." On Monday, his Treasury warned that foreign banks still transacting with sanctioned Iranian institutions "could be targeted at any time without advance notification."
The invitation is open. So is the penalty box.
Tehran has answered the first offer. Iran's president says negotiating with Washington is meaningless. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says U.S. sanctions froze Iran's oil exports completely last month, as the rial hit record lows.
On Monday evening, Trump linked Iran to the attempted attack aboard a flydubai flight. Accounts called it an attempted crash, a hijacking attempt and a terrorist attack. Asked whether Iran was responsible for "this attack," Trump answered, "Yes."
Trump defends the war despite higher U.S. fuel prices and has taken the argument onto the campaign trail with "We're saving the world." American drivers get to contribute at the pump.
Telegram channels associated with the Iranian opposition reported air-defense activity above the Revolutionary Guard's al-Mahdi base in Urmia and explosions in the Strait of Hormuz. Those reports supply the soundtrack but do not establish who fired or what was hit.
Saving the world comes with a campaign slogan and a fuel surcharge.
#Trump #Iran #Sanctions #Hormuz
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She Survived a Botched Execution. Now Christa Pike Is Awake and Speaking #️⃣
Christa Pike, the Tennessee death-row inmate whose execution failed last week, is conscious and able to speak, according to her attorneys. The development comes days after officials attempted to put her to death by lethal injection in a case that has raised new questions about the state’s execution procedures.
Pike, 50, was scheduled to be executed on September 30 at the Tennessee prison where she has been held for decades. The procedure did not go as planned. After receiving two doses of pentobarbital, she reportedly remained alive and was eventually placed on a ventilator.
Her attorneys now say Pike has regained consciousness and is communicating. They describe her condition as serious, however, and say she faces a prolonged recovery.
According to the legal team, Pike suffered significant injuries to her hands during the failed execution, including burns, swelling and blistering. Her lawyers have requested access to medical records and other documentation that could help establish exactly what happened inside the execution chamber.
The case has quickly become a major issue for Tennessee officials. Gov. Bill Lee ordered an independent review of the execution and paused subsequent executions in the state while the circumstances are investigated.
Pike’s lawyers are also seeking to have her death sentence changed to life in prison without the possibility of parole. They argue that the failed execution and the injuries she sustained raise serious constitutional and legal questions about whether the state should be permitted to attempt another execution.
Pike was convicted in the 1995 killing of Colleen Slemmer, a 19-year-old woman who was a fellow student at a Tennessee technical college. Prosecutors said Pike and two accomplices lured Slemmer into a wooded area, where she was attacked and killed.
The case attracted national attention because of the brutality of the crime and Pike’s age at the time. She was 18 when Slemmer was murdered, making her one of the youngest women ever sentenced to death in the United States.
Pike has spent decades on death row while her case moved through the courts. Her execution had already been delayed several times, including because of questions surrounding the state’s lethal-injection procedures.
The latest failure has placed those procedures under renewed scrutiny.
The central question now is what happened during the execution attempt and why the state was unable to carry it out. Medical and legal records are expected to play a key role in determining whether the problems were caused by the equipment, the injection process, Pike’s medical condition or a combination of factors.
For now, Pike remains alive and under medical care.
Her attorneys say the fact that she is conscious and speaking represents a significant change from the days immediately following the failed execution.
But they caution that her recovery could be lengthy and that the full extent of her injuries remains unclear.
The state’s investigation could ultimately determine whether Tennessee attempts to carry out Pike’s sentence again—or whether the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the failed execution lead to a different legal outcome.
What was supposed to be the final hours of a death-row inmate’s life has instead opened a new chapter in a case that has already lasted more than three decades.
#ChristaPike #Tennessee #DeathPenalty #US
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Christa Pike, the Tennessee death-row inmate whose execution failed last week, is conscious and able to speak, according to her attorneys. The development comes days after officials attempted to put her to death by lethal injection in a case that has raised new questions about the state’s execution procedures.
Pike, 50, was scheduled to be executed on September 30 at the Tennessee prison where she has been held for decades. The procedure did not go as planned. After receiving two doses of pentobarbital, she reportedly remained alive and was eventually placed on a ventilator.
Her attorneys now say Pike has regained consciousness and is communicating. They describe her condition as serious, however, and say she faces a prolonged recovery.
According to the legal team, Pike suffered significant injuries to her hands during the failed execution, including burns, swelling and blistering. Her lawyers have requested access to medical records and other documentation that could help establish exactly what happened inside the execution chamber.
The case has quickly become a major issue for Tennessee officials. Gov. Bill Lee ordered an independent review of the execution and paused subsequent executions in the state while the circumstances are investigated.
Pike’s lawyers are also seeking to have her death sentence changed to life in prison without the possibility of parole. They argue that the failed execution and the injuries she sustained raise serious constitutional and legal questions about whether the state should be permitted to attempt another execution.
Pike was convicted in the 1995 killing of Colleen Slemmer, a 19-year-old woman who was a fellow student at a Tennessee technical college. Prosecutors said Pike and two accomplices lured Slemmer into a wooded area, where she was attacked and killed.
The case attracted national attention because of the brutality of the crime and Pike’s age at the time. She was 18 when Slemmer was murdered, making her one of the youngest women ever sentenced to death in the United States.
Pike has spent decades on death row while her case moved through the courts. Her execution had already been delayed several times, including because of questions surrounding the state’s lethal-injection procedures.
The latest failure has placed those procedures under renewed scrutiny.
The central question now is what happened during the execution attempt and why the state was unable to carry it out. Medical and legal records are expected to play a key role in determining whether the problems were caused by the equipment, the injection process, Pike’s medical condition or a combination of factors.
For now, Pike remains alive and under medical care.
Her attorneys say the fact that she is conscious and speaking represents a significant change from the days immediately following the failed execution.
But they caution that her recovery could be lengthy and that the full extent of her injuries remains unclear.
The state’s investigation could ultimately determine whether Tennessee attempts to carry out Pike’s sentence again—or whether the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the failed execution lead to a different legal outcome.
What was supposed to be the final hours of a death-row inmate’s life has instead opened a new chapter in a case that has already lasted more than three decades.
#ChristaPike #Tennessee #DeathPenalty #US
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Mission Accomplished, Construction Resumed
Israel announced in March that it had destroyed Minzadehei, a compound northeast of Tehran where it said Iranian scientists were developing nuclear weapons.
In September and October, satellite images showed cars and trucks back inside the perimeter. Apparently, the site missed its own obituary.
The March 3 strike destroyed several buildings. The Institute for Science and International Security assessed that it likely damaged underground infrastructure, without confirming how much. The craters were visible. The full victory was an interpretation.
New Vantor imagery shows extensive cleanup, renewed vehicle traffic and earth-moving over the cratered courtyard.
The institute says the activity “may be indicative of an effort by Iran to reestablish a nuclear weapons development capability.”
The traffic shows the site is active again, while the extent of any restored weapons capability requires further assessment.
Israel announced the destruction in March. By fall, satellite images showed repair work and renewed traffic. “Destroyed” is beginning to look like a maintenance interval.
#Iran #Israel #NuclearProgram
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Israel announced in March that it had destroyed Minzadehei, a compound northeast of Tehran where it said Iranian scientists were developing nuclear weapons.
In September and October, satellite images showed cars and trucks back inside the perimeter. Apparently, the site missed its own obituary.
The March 3 strike destroyed several buildings. The Institute for Science and International Security assessed that it likely damaged underground infrastructure, without confirming how much. The craters were visible. The full victory was an interpretation.
New Vantor imagery shows extensive cleanup, renewed vehicle traffic and earth-moving over the cratered courtyard.
The institute says the activity “may be indicative of an effort by Iran to reestablish a nuclear weapons development capability.”
The traffic shows the site is active again, while the extent of any restored weapons capability requires further assessment.
Israel announced the destruction in March. By fall, satellite images showed repair work and renewed traffic. “Destroyed” is beginning to look like a maintenance interval.
#Iran #Israel #NuclearProgram
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Hormuz Comes With a Deed
Donald Trump says the Strait of Hormuz
Seven months of war, and the president is already announcing the property transfer.
On Oct. 6, Trump also claimed Iran’s departing oil minister had said,
That is Trump’s account of the minister’s words. Tehran’s resignation has acquired an American presidential ghostwriter.
Vice President JD Vance offered a less finished picture. In his Reuters interview, published Oct. 7, he demanded a “meaningful” reduction in Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity.
Washington is talking to President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, while remaining unsure how much authority either man holds.
Tehran’s negotiators discuss terms their own power structure may not let them deliver. Washington declares ownership of a waterway while trying to identify someone authorized to end the war.
The deed is ready. The other signatory is still being located.
#Trump #Iran #Hormuz #BabylonBurning
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Donald Trump says the Strait of Hormuz
“belongs to the United States Navy and the United States of America.”
Seven months of war, and the president is already announcing the property transfer.
On Oct. 6, Trump also claimed Iran’s departing oil minister had said,
“We have no economy, we have no oil, we have nothing.”
That is Trump’s account of the minister’s words. Tehran’s resignation has acquired an American presidential ghostwriter.
Vice President JD Vance offered a less finished picture. In his Reuters interview, published Oct. 7, he demanded a “meaningful” reduction in Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity.
Washington is talking to President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, while remaining unsure how much authority either man holds.
Tehran’s negotiators discuss terms their own power structure may not let them deliver. Washington declares ownership of a waterway while trying to identify someone authorized to end the war.
The deed is ready. The other signatory is still being located.
#Trump #Iran #Hormuz #BabylonBurning
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Victory Has a Road Closure
The Houthis claim fresh attacks on Saudi military facilities and airports. Saudi Arabia is being pulled deeper into the Iran war, with civilian aviation sharing the target list.
Around Taiz, rival accounts offer rival victories. Yemen’s internationally recognized government reports repelling Houthi assaults and holding its positions.
Houthi-aligned channels advertise advances toward the roads connecting Taiz to Aden. Each side’s map comes with its own publicity department.
One concrete result is a damaged road. Residents reported that Houthi fighters planted explosives in a culvert on the Hayjat al-Abd route and blew it up.
The Institute for the Study of War assessed that the Oct. 1 attack temporarily disrupted a major supply connection, forcing government-aligned forces to rely on a longer southern route.
The government counts repelled attacks. The Houthis sell their ability to threaten access. Civilians get the detour.
The victory maps remain disputed. The blown-up culvert requires no spokesperson.
#Yemen #Houthis #SaudiArabia #BabylonBurning
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The Houthis claim fresh attacks on Saudi military facilities and airports. Saudi Arabia is being pulled deeper into the Iran war, with civilian aviation sharing the target list.
Around Taiz, rival accounts offer rival victories. Yemen’s internationally recognized government reports repelling Houthi assaults and holding its positions.
Houthi-aligned channels advertise advances toward the roads connecting Taiz to Aden. Each side’s map comes with its own publicity department.
One concrete result is a damaged road. Residents reported that Houthi fighters planted explosives in a culvert on the Hayjat al-Abd route and blew it up.
The Institute for the Study of War assessed that the Oct. 1 attack temporarily disrupted a major supply connection, forcing government-aligned forces to rely on a longer southern route.
The government counts repelled attacks. The Houthis sell their ability to threaten access. Civilians get the detour.
The victory maps remain disputed. The blown-up culvert requires no spokesperson.
#Yemen #Houthis #SaudiArabia #BabylonBurning
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