The Burden Gets Gold Leaf
The European Parliament’s building in Strasbourg now contains a naked Donald Trump covered in 23-karat gold leaf. Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt’s eight-foot The Orange Plague puts the president on a smaller man’s shoulders, with a golf club, a globe-shaped ball and scales. Even naked, he travels with assets.
The inscription supplies the politics:
The artist calls the installation a protest against the volatility of America’s environmental and foreign policy.
Danish MEP Per Clausen defended the exhibition by declaring that anyone too thin-skinned to tolerate it has
Parliament has found a qualification for global leadership it can test without passing legislation.
The sculpture reworks Galschiøt’s earlier Survival of the Fattest, which portrayed global inequality through a starving boy carrying an overweight woman. Trump supplies the new face. The person underneath keeps the job.
Strasbourg gets to exhibit the burden. The little man still has to carry it.
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The European Parliament’s building in Strasbourg now contains a naked Donald Trump covered in 23-karat gold leaf. Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt’s eight-foot The Orange Plague puts the president on a smaller man’s shoulders, with a golf club, a globe-shaped ball and scales. Even naked, he travels with assets.
The inscription supplies the politics:
“I will do anything to help him. Except stepping down from his back.”
The artist calls the installation a protest against the volatility of America’s environmental and foreign policy.
Danish MEP Per Clausen defended the exhibition by declaring that anyone too thin-skinned to tolerate it has
“no place on the world stage.”
Parliament has found a qualification for global leadership it can test without passing legislation.
The sculpture reworks Galschiøt’s earlier Survival of the Fattest, which portrayed global inequality through a starving boy carrying an overweight woman. Trump supplies the new face. The person underneath keeps the job.
Strasbourg gets to exhibit the burden. The little man still has to carry it.
#Trump #EuropeanParliament #PoliticalArt #BabylonBurning
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From Army Psychiatrist to Death Row: The Final Chapter of the Nidal Hasan Case
The United States is preparing to turn a particularly dark page in its military history. Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army major and psychiatrist of Palestinian descent, is scheduled to be executed by firing squad on December 3, 2026, at Fort Hood, Texas. Unless the courts intervene, the execution would be the first of a U.S. service member since 1961.
The location gives the case an especially chilling dimension. It was at Fort Hood, on November 5, 2009, that Hasan opened fire inside a military medical facility. Within minutes, 13 people were killed and 32 others were wounded. Most of the victims were service members on the base preparing for overseas deployments.
At the time, Hasan was himself an Army officer and psychiatrist. His role included providing psychological care to soldiers dealing with the effects of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The contrast between his position as a military doctor and his transformation into the perpetrator of a deadly shooting profoundly shocked the American public.
In 2013, following a court-martial, Hasan was convicted of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder. He was sentenced to death.
Hasan chose to represent himself during the trial and largely did not dispute the facts presented against him. His conviction was followed, however, by years of legal proceedings that delayed the final resolution of the case.
That changed recently when U.S. authorities moved forward with plans to carry out the execution.
said Mike Mulligan, a former military prosecutor involved in the case. According to Mulligan, further legal challenges could still delay the execution.
Geoffrey Corn, a former Army lieutenant colonel and military law expert, has also emphasized the complexity of the process. Under the U.S. military justice system, a death sentence must clear multiple legal stages before it can actually be carried out. Setting an execution date, therefore, does not mean the outcome is legally guaranteed.
But the Hasan case has already brought the issue of military capital punishment back into the national spotlight.
The decision to use a firing squad adds another extraordinary dimension to the case. The method is exceedingly rare in the United States today and belongs largely to an earlier era of military justice. The last U.S. service member to be executed was put to death in 1961.
If the sentence is carried out, Hasan would become the first U.S. service member executed in 65 years. He could also become the first person in the modern era of the U.S. military to be put to death by firing squad.
The symbolism is difficult to ignore. Fort Hood would not simply remain the site of the 2009 shooting that claimed 13 lives. The base could also become the setting for the final chapter of a case that has stretched across nearly 17 years.
The case, however, remains surrounded by uncertainty. Hasan’s attorneys can still ask the courts to halt or postpone the execution. A judicial ruling could therefore alter the currently announced schedule.
For the victims’ families, the prospect comes after more than a decade of waiting. For the U.S. military, it raises a historic question: after 65 years without a military execution, is America preparing to revive a practice many believed belonged to the past?
The countdown is now underway.
On December 3, 2026, at Fort Hood, Nidal Malik Hasan could be led before a firing squad. Unless the courts intervene, the former Army psychiatrist would become the first member of the U.S. armed forces executed since 1961.
A case born in blood nearly 17 years ago could thus reach its final chapter at the very place where it began.
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The United States is preparing to turn a particularly dark page in its military history. Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army major and psychiatrist of Palestinian descent, is scheduled to be executed by firing squad on December 3, 2026, at Fort Hood, Texas. Unless the courts intervene, the execution would be the first of a U.S. service member since 1961.
The location gives the case an especially chilling dimension. It was at Fort Hood, on November 5, 2009, that Hasan opened fire inside a military medical facility. Within minutes, 13 people were killed and 32 others were wounded. Most of the victims were service members on the base preparing for overseas deployments.
At the time, Hasan was himself an Army officer and psychiatrist. His role included providing psychological care to soldiers dealing with the effects of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The contrast between his position as a military doctor and his transformation into the perpetrator of a deadly shooting profoundly shocked the American public.
In 2013, following a court-martial, Hasan was convicted of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder. He was sentenced to death.
Hasan chose to represent himself during the trial and largely did not dispute the facts presented against him. His conviction was followed, however, by years of legal proceedings that delayed the final resolution of the case.
That changed recently when U.S. authorities moved forward with plans to carry out the execution.
“The fact that the president has approved the execution does not necessarily mean it will take place on the scheduled date,”
said Mike Mulligan, a former military prosecutor involved in the case. According to Mulligan, further legal challenges could still delay the execution.
Geoffrey Corn, a former Army lieutenant colonel and military law expert, has also emphasized the complexity of the process. Under the U.S. military justice system, a death sentence must clear multiple legal stages before it can actually be carried out. Setting an execution date, therefore, does not mean the outcome is legally guaranteed.
But the Hasan case has already brought the issue of military capital punishment back into the national spotlight.
The decision to use a firing squad adds another extraordinary dimension to the case. The method is exceedingly rare in the United States today and belongs largely to an earlier era of military justice. The last U.S. service member to be executed was put to death in 1961.
If the sentence is carried out, Hasan would become the first U.S. service member executed in 65 years. He could also become the first person in the modern era of the U.S. military to be put to death by firing squad.
The symbolism is difficult to ignore. Fort Hood would not simply remain the site of the 2009 shooting that claimed 13 lives. The base could also become the setting for the final chapter of a case that has stretched across nearly 17 years.
The case, however, remains surrounded by uncertainty. Hasan’s attorneys can still ask the courts to halt or postpone the execution. A judicial ruling could therefore alter the currently announced schedule.
For the victims’ families, the prospect comes after more than a decade of waiting. For the U.S. military, it raises a historic question: after 65 years without a military execution, is America preparing to revive a practice many believed belonged to the past?
The countdown is now underway.
On December 3, 2026, at Fort Hood, Nidal Malik Hasan could be led before a firing squad. Unless the courts intervene, the former Army psychiatrist would become the first member of the U.S. armed forces executed since 1961.
A case born in blood nearly 17 years ago could thus reach its final chapter at the very place where it began.
#UnitedStates #NidalHasan #FortHood #DeathPenalty
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Peaceful Connectivity, Military Cargo
China and Pakistan have activated a border commission to facilitate the movement of goods and people.
Beijing has a particular category of goods in mind: weapons bound for Central Asia and Iran. Islamabad would help turn the disputed Shaksgam Valley into a delivery route.
The commission held its inaugural meeting in Islamabad on Sept. 16–17, putting a 2013 border-management agreement into operation. The official agenda covered joint surveys and cross-border coordination. Military logistics apparently appreciates a well-organized committee.
Pakistan transferred roughly 5,180 square kilometers of Shaksgam to China under their 1963 agreement. India claims the territory and rejects both the transfer and the commission’s authority.
Beijing and Islamabad are arranging traffic across land New Delhi says neither had the right to bargain away.
India supplies the legal objection. China and Pakistan supply the administrative machinery. If the reported arms route takes shape, disputed sovereignty will become another item for the shipping department.
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China and Pakistan have activated a border commission to facilitate the movement of goods and people.
Beijing has a particular category of goods in mind: weapons bound for Central Asia and Iran. Islamabad would help turn the disputed Shaksgam Valley into a delivery route.
The commission held its inaugural meeting in Islamabad on Sept. 16–17, putting a 2013 border-management agreement into operation. The official agenda covered joint surveys and cross-border coordination. Military logistics apparently appreciates a well-organized committee.
Pakistan transferred roughly 5,180 square kilometers of Shaksgam to China under their 1963 agreement. India claims the territory and rejects both the transfer and the commission’s authority.
Beijing and Islamabad are arranging traffic across land New Delhi says neither had the right to bargain away.
India supplies the legal objection. China and Pakistan supply the administrative machinery. If the reported arms route takes shape, disputed sovereignty will become another item for the shipping department.
#China #Pakistan #Iran #BabylonBurning
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The Harvest Comes Armed
Ali al-Bazzari, a 44-year-old Palestinian National Security Forces officer, was killed near Burqa on Oct. 7 during violence around the olive harvest. His cousin said he had gone there after hearing of an attack on the harvesters. Palestinian officials reported 16 wounded.
Israeli reports described Palestinians first attacking settlers from a nearby farm with stones, leaving one hospitalized with a head injury and four others treated at the scene.
Settlers then reportedly attacked Palestinians harvesting olives. The army acknowledged that soldiers and settlers opened fire. Reuters could not establish whose shot killed al-Bazzari.
The army said a commander shot a man running toward him with a “suspicious object.” That account and the Palestinian account leave the fatal sequence disputed.
The presence of armed civilians alongside troops is already on the record.
In Deir Nidham, settlers reportedly torched an Israeli activist’s car and left a warning for the army’s West Bank commander: “Avi Bluth, watch out.”
Military authority apparently has to negotiate its standing with people willing to advertise their objections beside a burning vehicle.
The army can explain its soldiers’ gunfire. The settlers have supplied a written explanation of how much they respect the army.
#WestBank #SettlerViolence #Israel #BabylonBurning
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Ali al-Bazzari, a 44-year-old Palestinian National Security Forces officer, was killed near Burqa on Oct. 7 during violence around the olive harvest. His cousin said he had gone there after hearing of an attack on the harvesters. Palestinian officials reported 16 wounded.
Israeli reports described Palestinians first attacking settlers from a nearby farm with stones, leaving one hospitalized with a head injury and four others treated at the scene.
Settlers then reportedly attacked Palestinians harvesting olives. The army acknowledged that soldiers and settlers opened fire. Reuters could not establish whose shot killed al-Bazzari.
The army said a commander shot a man running toward him with a “suspicious object.” That account and the Palestinian account leave the fatal sequence disputed.
The presence of armed civilians alongside troops is already on the record.
In Deir Nidham, settlers reportedly torched an Israeli activist’s car and left a warning for the army’s West Bank commander: “Avi Bluth, watch out.”
Military authority apparently has to negotiate its standing with people willing to advertise their objections beside a burning vehicle.
The army can explain its soldiers’ gunfire. The settlers have supplied a written explanation of how much they respect the army.
#WestBank #SettlerViolence #Israel #BabylonBurning
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Trump Could Order Another Strike on Iran as Midterm Elections Near
After several weeks of relative calm, the prospect of a new escalation between Washington and Tehran is once again moving to the forefront.
According to reporting by The Atlantic, the Trump administration is considering several military strike options against Iranian targets, including the possibility of launching an operation before the November 3 midterm elections.
No final decision has been made. U.S. officials cited in the reporting said the scope of any potential operation, its objectives and even whether it should go forward remain under discussion. Still, the fact that such scenarios are being actively prepared is significant.
The White House is seeking to maintain pressure on Tehran while weighing the military, economic and political consequences of another confrontation. Energy prices are a particularly sensitive issue. A fresh escalation in the Middle East could drive up oil and gasoline prices in the United States, putting additional pressure on household budgets just as voters head toward the polls.
A new U.S. strike would also carry major military risks. An attack on Iran could trigger retaliation from Tehran and set off another cycle of violence across the region. American forces stationed throughout the Middle East could become targets, while U.S. facilities and interests could face retaliatory attacks.
The Strait of Hormuz represents another major vulnerability. Any disruption to shipping through the strategic waterway could have an immediate impact on global energy markets and intensify economic pressure on Western countries.The Pentagon is therefore working through multiple scenarios, but preparing military plans does not necessarily mean an attack has been authorized.
The U.S. military routinely develops operational plans for a range of potential threats.The situation would change dramatically if Washington decided to significantly reinforce its military posture in the region and ordered the Pentagon to carry out one of the prepared options.
According to recent reports, the U.S. military command responsible for the Middle East is being instructed to remain prepared for the possibility of renewed large-scale operations against Iran. Potential targets could include Iranian military and energy infrastructure as well as facilities connected to the country’s nuclear program.
Diplomatically, the situation remains just as uncertain. Channels between Washington and Tehran have not completely closed, but negotiations remain extremely fragile. Iran says it is prepared to continue talks under certain conditions, while Washington continues to pursue a policy of maximum pressure.
Trump himself has kept his intentions deliberately ambiguous. The president has not ruled out another military operation while leaving the door open to a diplomatic agreement. The strategy allows the White House to keep pressure on Tehran without formally announcing another war.
The approaching midterm elections, however, add an explosive political dimension. A new military campaign could become a serious liability for Republicans if it led to sustained increases in energy prices, additional American casualties or a prolonged conflict.
Conversely, a limited operation portrayed as swift and successful could allow Trump to reinforce his image as a tough leader and demonstrate that Washington still holds the initiative against Iran. That calculation is at the heart of growing speculation about a possible strike before the election.
For now, there is no confirmation that a U.S. attack is imminent. No final order has been announced, and diplomatic options have not been exhausted. But the message from Washington is unmistakable: as the U.S. midterm elections approach, the possibility of another military confrontation with Iran is once again on the table.
#UnitedStates #Iran #Trump #Geopolitics
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After several weeks of relative calm, the prospect of a new escalation between Washington and Tehran is once again moving to the forefront.
According to reporting by The Atlantic, the Trump administration is considering several military strike options against Iranian targets, including the possibility of launching an operation before the November 3 midterm elections.
No final decision has been made. U.S. officials cited in the reporting said the scope of any potential operation, its objectives and even whether it should go forward remain under discussion. Still, the fact that such scenarios are being actively prepared is significant.
The White House is seeking to maintain pressure on Tehran while weighing the military, economic and political consequences of another confrontation. Energy prices are a particularly sensitive issue. A fresh escalation in the Middle East could drive up oil and gasoline prices in the United States, putting additional pressure on household budgets just as voters head toward the polls.
A new U.S. strike would also carry major military risks. An attack on Iran could trigger retaliation from Tehran and set off another cycle of violence across the region. American forces stationed throughout the Middle East could become targets, while U.S. facilities and interests could face retaliatory attacks.
The Strait of Hormuz represents another major vulnerability. Any disruption to shipping through the strategic waterway could have an immediate impact on global energy markets and intensify economic pressure on Western countries.The Pentagon is therefore working through multiple scenarios, but preparing military plans does not necessarily mean an attack has been authorized.
The U.S. military routinely develops operational plans for a range of potential threats.The situation would change dramatically if Washington decided to significantly reinforce its military posture in the region and ordered the Pentagon to carry out one of the prepared options.
According to recent reports, the U.S. military command responsible for the Middle East is being instructed to remain prepared for the possibility of renewed large-scale operations against Iran. Potential targets could include Iranian military and energy infrastructure as well as facilities connected to the country’s nuclear program.
Diplomatically, the situation remains just as uncertain. Channels between Washington and Tehran have not completely closed, but negotiations remain extremely fragile. Iran says it is prepared to continue talks under certain conditions, while Washington continues to pursue a policy of maximum pressure.
Trump himself has kept his intentions deliberately ambiguous. The president has not ruled out another military operation while leaving the door open to a diplomatic agreement. The strategy allows the White House to keep pressure on Tehran without formally announcing another war.
The approaching midterm elections, however, add an explosive political dimension. A new military campaign could become a serious liability for Republicans if it led to sustained increases in energy prices, additional American casualties or a prolonged conflict.
Conversely, a limited operation portrayed as swift and successful could allow Trump to reinforce his image as a tough leader and demonstrate that Washington still holds the initiative against Iran. That calculation is at the heart of growing speculation about a possible strike before the election.
For now, there is no confirmation that a U.S. attack is imminent. No final order has been announced, and diplomatic options have not been exhausted. But the message from Washington is unmistakable: as the U.S. midterm elections approach, the possibility of another military confrontation with Iran is once again on the table.
#UnitedStates #Iran #Trump #Geopolitics
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Departures Under Fire
The Houthis have declared Saudi airspace a military target, except over Mecca and Medina. A religious exemption apparently counts as passenger protection.
Saudi aviation authorities say attacks on Abha and Riyadh’s King Khalid airports on Oct. 6–7 killed three civilians and injured 36. The dead were Moroccan, Algerian and Sudanese nationals.
The Houthis claimed responsibility for the attacks. Their war with Riyadh comes with an international passenger list.
Gulf Cooperation Council Secretary-General Jassim Mohammed al-Budaiwi called the targeting of civilian airports “a dangerous escalation and a flagrant violation of international laws and norms.”
The Saudi-led coalition subsequently announced that it had destroyed 82 Houthi military targets. The condemnation now has a sortie count.
Yemen’s internationally recognized government has launched Operation Dawn of Yemen with Saudi support, naming the removal of the Houthis from Sanaa as a goal.
Meanwhile, new protective fencing has appeared around Aramco fuel tanks near Riyadh’s airport.
The coalition is planning the capture of a capital. Aramco is installing cages around the fuel.
#Yemen #Houthis #SaudiArabia #BabylonBurning
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The Houthis have declared Saudi airspace a military target, except over Mecca and Medina. A religious exemption apparently counts as passenger protection.
Saudi aviation authorities say attacks on Abha and Riyadh’s King Khalid airports on Oct. 6–7 killed three civilians and injured 36. The dead were Moroccan, Algerian and Sudanese nationals.
The Houthis claimed responsibility for the attacks. Their war with Riyadh comes with an international passenger list.
Gulf Cooperation Council Secretary-General Jassim Mohammed al-Budaiwi called the targeting of civilian airports “a dangerous escalation and a flagrant violation of international laws and norms.”
The Saudi-led coalition subsequently announced that it had destroyed 82 Houthi military targets. The condemnation now has a sortie count.
Yemen’s internationally recognized government has launched Operation Dawn of Yemen with Saudi support, naming the removal of the Houthis from Sanaa as a goal.
Meanwhile, new protective fencing has appeared around Aramco fuel tanks near Riyadh’s airport.
The coalition is planning the capture of a capital. Aramco is installing cages around the fuel.
#Yemen #Houthis #SaudiArabia #BabylonBurning
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The Chosen Army Meets Venice
NAZA won Venice’s Special Jury Prize. Israel’s culture minister responded by demanding that directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor lose their citizenship. The film questions the army’s conduct. The minister questions whether its witnesses should remain Israeli.
The polling helps explain the nerve it struck. In October 2024, Dor Moriah and Geocartography asked 1,005 Israeli adults to position themselves between “the Jews are the chosen people” and “the Jews are one of many ancient peoples.” According to the supplied article, 63.7% leaned toward chosenness.
A separate INSS survey in September 2025 found 75% expressing high trust in the IDF, but only 37% expressing high trust in its investigations and lessons-learned processes. The institution commands considerably more confidence than its ability to examine itself.
Chosenness has competing political uses. Religious Zionists attach it to land and sovereignty. Secular Zionists translate it into moral distinction, with the “most moral army in the world” serving as a national credential. NAZA puts that credential before a foreign audience through testimony about Gaza targeting and AI-assisted warfare.
Venice awarded a film, not a factual verdict. Zohar nevertheless reached for the filmmakers’ passports.
The army’s investigations get 37%. Its critics get a citizenship test.
#Israel #NAZA #IDF #BabylonBurning
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NAZA won Venice’s Special Jury Prize. Israel’s culture minister responded by demanding that directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor lose their citizenship. The film questions the army’s conduct. The minister questions whether its witnesses should remain Israeli.
The polling helps explain the nerve it struck. In October 2024, Dor Moriah and Geocartography asked 1,005 Israeli adults to position themselves between “the Jews are the chosen people” and “the Jews are one of many ancient peoples.” According to the supplied article, 63.7% leaned toward chosenness.
A separate INSS survey in September 2025 found 75% expressing high trust in the IDF, but only 37% expressing high trust in its investigations and lessons-learned processes. The institution commands considerably more confidence than its ability to examine itself.
Chosenness has competing political uses. Religious Zionists attach it to land and sovereignty. Secular Zionists translate it into moral distinction, with the “most moral army in the world” serving as a national credential. NAZA puts that credential before a foreign audience through testimony about Gaza targeting and AI-assisted warfare.
Venice awarded a film, not a factual verdict. Zohar nevertheless reached for the filmmakers’ passports.
The army’s investigations get 37%. Its critics get a citizenship test.
#Israel #NAZA #IDF #BabylonBurning
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Coalition Admissions Office
Yoaz Hendel wants a broad Zionist government without extremists. On Oct. 8, the Reservists-Economic Party leader invited Ofer Winter to sign a surplus-vote agreement and jointly exclude Haredi and Arab parties from the next coalition.
His broad government starts with a restricted guest list.
The offer also asks Winter to abandon his commitment to a Netanyahu government with the Haredi parties. Netanyahu needs those partners. Hendel wants their exclusion to become the organizing principle of an alternative. Both camps are selling coalition arithmetic as national salvation.
The proposed agreement pools leftover votes when allocating the final Knesset seats. It works only if both parties cross the 3.25% threshold.
Recent polls put Winter below it and Hendel around the cutoff. The prospective “blocking bloc” first needs to avoid being blocked by the electorate.
Avigdor Liberman brought a different campaign asset to Reichman University: “200% certainty” that Washington will secure Palestinian statehood through the UN Security Council.
He accused Netanyahu of knowingly allowing it to happen.
Netanyahu’s challengers promise tighter coalition boundaries and warn of a Palestinian state beyond them.
For now, the border Hendel and Winter most urgently need to cross is 3.25%.
#IsraelElections #Hendel #Liberman #BabylonBurning
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Yoaz Hendel wants a broad Zionist government without extremists. On Oct. 8, the Reservists-Economic Party leader invited Ofer Winter to sign a surplus-vote agreement and jointly exclude Haredi and Arab parties from the next coalition.
His broad government starts with a restricted guest list.
The offer also asks Winter to abandon his commitment to a Netanyahu government with the Haredi parties. Netanyahu needs those partners. Hendel wants their exclusion to become the organizing principle of an alternative. Both camps are selling coalition arithmetic as national salvation.
The proposed agreement pools leftover votes when allocating the final Knesset seats. It works only if both parties cross the 3.25% threshold.
Recent polls put Winter below it and Hendel around the cutoff. The prospective “blocking bloc” first needs to avoid being blocked by the electorate.
Avigdor Liberman brought a different campaign asset to Reichman University: “200% certainty” that Washington will secure Palestinian statehood through the UN Security Council.
He accused Netanyahu of knowingly allowing it to happen.
Netanyahu’s challengers promise tighter coalition boundaries and warn of a Palestinian state beyond them.
For now, the border Hendel and Winter most urgently need to cross is 3.25%.
#IsraelElections #Hendel #Liberman #BabylonBurning
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To the Last Yemeni
Riyadh has a condition for a ceasefire: its Yemeni allies must first recover all the territory they lost. An anonymous regional source told AFP on Oct. 9 that Saudi Arabia would reject a truce until then and refuse Houthi “military blackmail.” The ceasefire comes after the counteroffensive delivers.
The arrangement gives the sponsor considerable influence over how long its ally keeps fighting. Saudi support sustains the campaign. Yemen supplies the battlefield and the people living on it.
The Houthis export that battlefield into Saudi airports. Saudi aviation authorities say Thursday’s attacks on Riyadh’s airport killed three Saudi citizens and targeted airport facilities and a Saudia aircraft. Civilian passengers have acquired a role in the negotiations.
Turkey has already drawn a line. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Oct. 8 that the Mecca pact is defensive and ruled out an offensive role. Pakistan describes its contribution as reconnaissance support. Neither position amounts to endorsing Riyadh’s reported territorial condition for a truce.
The pact makes an attack on one an attack on all. It leaves a harder question open: can Riyadh make its terms for ending the war everybody else’s obligation?
Meanwhile, the war has reached the sponsor’s departure board. After the Houthis claimed an Oct. 8 attack on Riyadh’s airport, Lufthansa Group suspended flights through Oct. 16. Air India and Akasa Air canceled services through Oct. 10. An Air India flight from Delhi turned back before reaching the Saudi capital.
Riyadh insists its allies recover territory before negotiations can stop the fighting. The Houthis have found another negotiating table: the international flight schedule.
#SaudiArabia #Yemen #MeccaPact #BabylonBurning
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Riyadh has a condition for a ceasefire: its Yemeni allies must first recover all the territory they lost. An anonymous regional source told AFP on Oct. 9 that Saudi Arabia would reject a truce until then and refuse Houthi “military blackmail.” The ceasefire comes after the counteroffensive delivers.
The arrangement gives the sponsor considerable influence over how long its ally keeps fighting. Saudi support sustains the campaign. Yemen supplies the battlefield and the people living on it.
The Houthis export that battlefield into Saudi airports. Saudi aviation authorities say Thursday’s attacks on Riyadh’s airport killed three Saudi citizens and targeted airport facilities and a Saudia aircraft. Civilian passengers have acquired a role in the negotiations.
Turkey has already drawn a line. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Oct. 8 that the Mecca pact is defensive and ruled out an offensive role. Pakistan describes its contribution as reconnaissance support. Neither position amounts to endorsing Riyadh’s reported territorial condition for a truce.
The pact makes an attack on one an attack on all. It leaves a harder question open: can Riyadh make its terms for ending the war everybody else’s obligation?
Meanwhile, the war has reached the sponsor’s departure board. After the Houthis claimed an Oct. 8 attack on Riyadh’s airport, Lufthansa Group suspended flights through Oct. 16. Air India and Akasa Air canceled services through Oct. 10. An Air India flight from Delhi turned back before reaching the Saudi capital.
Riyadh insists its allies recover territory before negotiations can stop the fighting. The Houthis have found another negotiating table: the international flight schedule.
#SaudiArabia #Yemen #MeccaPact #BabylonBurning
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Hormuz Has an Enforcement Department
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it struck the LPG carrier NV Sunshine for attempting to use an “illegal route” south of the Strait of Hormuz.
Its statement says the strike caused a major fire in the engine room and propulsion system. The shipping violation apparently required combustion.
On Oct. 9, the Guard also announced that enforcement would extend beyond the strait: “Any vessel that passes through an unauthorized passage will be pursued throughout the region.” Tehran’s maritime regulations now come with a traveling punishment service.
The Guard named a company it called Natwit. Maritime databases identify NV Sunshine as Vietnamese-flagged, owned and managed by Nhat Viet Transportation Corp. A Vietnamese LPG carrier has been drafted into Iran’s confrontation with Washington.
Washington is pushing to reopen Hormuz. Tehran is reviewing proposals for reopening it while the Guard advertises attacks on ships attempting passage.
Shipowners can wait for diplomacy or test the enforcement department.
Freedom of navigation has two competing sales offices. The carrier gets the invoice in its engine room.
#Iran #Hormuz #Shipping #BabylonBurning
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it struck the LPG carrier NV Sunshine for attempting to use an “illegal route” south of the Strait of Hormuz.
Its statement says the strike caused a major fire in the engine room and propulsion system. The shipping violation apparently required combustion.
On Oct. 9, the Guard also announced that enforcement would extend beyond the strait: “Any vessel that passes through an unauthorized passage will be pursued throughout the region.” Tehran’s maritime regulations now come with a traveling punishment service.
The Guard named a company it called Natwit. Maritime databases identify NV Sunshine as Vietnamese-flagged, owned and managed by Nhat Viet Transportation Corp. A Vietnamese LPG carrier has been drafted into Iran’s confrontation with Washington.
Washington is pushing to reopen Hormuz. Tehran is reviewing proposals for reopening it while the Guard advertises attacks on ships attempting passage.
Shipowners can wait for diplomacy or test the enforcement department.
Freedom of navigation has two competing sales offices. The carrier gets the invoice in its engine room.
#Iran #Hormuz #Shipping #BabylonBurning
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National Security, Campaign Property
Gadi Eisenkot says he will seek a Knesset confidence vote even without a declared 61-seat bloc. The prospective government is ready for presentation. Its parliamentary support remains under development.
Democrats leader Yair Golan has identified a security advantage in keeping an elderly enemy alive. On Oct. 9, he called the assassination of Ali Khamenei a mistake because it left Israel facing “more extreme and violent individuals.” At 86, the Iranian ruler apparently qualified as the manageable option.
Yoaz Hendel is shopping for a partner. He wants Ofer Winter to sign a surplus-vote agreement and commit to a government without Haredi or Arab parties.
Winter’s colleague Natali Shem-Tov replied that Hendel had already served in a government without Haredi parties and failed to get Haredi men drafted. The proposed partnership has reached the reference-check stage.
Itamar Ben-Gvir’s campaign has a more tangible resource: public employees. Central Elections Committee chairman Noam Sohlberg has ordered police officers blurred in one campaign video and a prison video removed altogether.
In the prison video, Ben-Gvir stood beside uniformed guards and told a convicted Hamas terrorist, “I want to kill you.” The committee ruled it election propaganda produced with public resources.
The opposition campaigns on its superior judgment on national security. Ben-Gvir films state power as a personal credential.
The committee has found at least one enforceable boundary: the police belong to the state, even when the minister wants them in his campaign.
#IsraelElections #Eisenkot #BenGvir #BabylonBurning
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Gadi Eisenkot says he will seek a Knesset confidence vote even without a declared 61-seat bloc. The prospective government is ready for presentation. Its parliamentary support remains under development.
Democrats leader Yair Golan has identified a security advantage in keeping an elderly enemy alive. On Oct. 9, he called the assassination of Ali Khamenei a mistake because it left Israel facing “more extreme and violent individuals.” At 86, the Iranian ruler apparently qualified as the manageable option.
Yoaz Hendel is shopping for a partner. He wants Ofer Winter to sign a surplus-vote agreement and commit to a government without Haredi or Arab parties.
Winter’s colleague Natali Shem-Tov replied that Hendel had already served in a government without Haredi parties and failed to get Haredi men drafted. The proposed partnership has reached the reference-check stage.
Itamar Ben-Gvir’s campaign has a more tangible resource: public employees. Central Elections Committee chairman Noam Sohlberg has ordered police officers blurred in one campaign video and a prison video removed altogether.
In the prison video, Ben-Gvir stood beside uniformed guards and told a convicted Hamas terrorist, “I want to kill you.” The committee ruled it election propaganda produced with public resources.
The opposition campaigns on its superior judgment on national security. Ben-Gvir films state power as a personal credential.
The committee has found at least one enforceable boundary: the police belong to the state, even when the minister wants them in his campaign.
#IsraelElections #Eisenkot #BenGvir #BabylonBurning
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Justice Gets a Shutdown Notice
Washington has sanctioned the International Criminal Court itself. Penalizing judges and prosecutors apparently left too much of the courthouse standing. The Oct. 9 designation blocks assets under U.S. jurisdiction and generally bars American companies and individuals from doing business with the court.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio supplied the terms: “Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC.” He also told allied governments that rely on American troops for their defense to “rein in the court.” Judicial independence now comes with a reminder about who provides security.
The court called the sanctions an attack on the rule of law and promised to continue its work. Washington controls something more practical than the court’s mandate: access to American financial services, technology and dollars. Treasury licenses provide a six-month wind-down period and exemptions for certain transactions. The shutdown notice includes customer support.
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas called those six months “a window for dialogue” and said Europe has options to keep the court functioning. Rubio threatens demolition. Brussels schedules a conversation about preserving the building.
The court says it answers to law and evidence. Washington has asked the court’s service providers to reconsider.
#ICC #Trump #Sanctions #BabylonBurning
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Washington has sanctioned the International Criminal Court itself. Penalizing judges and prosecutors apparently left too much of the courthouse standing. The Oct. 9 designation blocks assets under U.S. jurisdiction and generally bars American companies and individuals from doing business with the court.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio supplied the terms: “Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC.” He also told allied governments that rely on American troops for their defense to “rein in the court.” Judicial independence now comes with a reminder about who provides security.
The court called the sanctions an attack on the rule of law and promised to continue its work. Washington controls something more practical than the court’s mandate: access to American financial services, technology and dollars. Treasury licenses provide a six-month wind-down period and exemptions for certain transactions. The shutdown notice includes customer support.
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas called those six months “a window for dialogue” and said Europe has options to keep the court functioning. Rubio threatens demolition. Brussels schedules a conversation about preserving the building.
The court says it answers to law and evidence. Washington has asked the court’s service providers to reconsider.
#ICC #Trump #Sanctions #BabylonBurning
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Cleared for Takeoff
The flydubai co-pilot passed the airline’s professional and security checks. UAE prosecutors now say he planned to crash the aircraft into Ben Gurion Airport’s passenger terminal in a suicide attack inspired by 9/11.
The paperwork found a qualified employee. The captain encountered the rest of the applicant.
According to the Oct. 9 statement, the Omani suspect confessed to acting alone. Investigators traced signs of radicalization to his studies in Australia in 2017.
None surfaced during the airline’s screening. His earlier flights to Tel Aviv allegedly doubled as reconnaissance.
Another pilot, a flight attendant and passengers intervened when he attacked the captain with the cockpit’s emergency ax. The aircraft landed safely in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
A tool supplied for emergencies became the weapon, but the people aboard stopped the attack.
In Paris, airport workers applied their own clearance procedure to an Elbit Systems shipment.
After unions and pro-Palestinian groups blocked military components from traveling on Air France, the cargo was reportedly rebooked on El Al. Workers refused to load it there too.
An attempted mass-casualty attack and a cargo boycott are different acts. In one, an airline’s checks missed a threat in the cockpit. In the other, an arms shipment’s booking failed to get it through.
The passenger flight survived because people intervened. The military cargo stayed behind for the same reason.
#Flydubai #ElAl #Aviation #BabylonBurning
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The flydubai co-pilot passed the airline’s professional and security checks. UAE prosecutors now say he planned to crash the aircraft into Ben Gurion Airport’s passenger terminal in a suicide attack inspired by 9/11.
The paperwork found a qualified employee. The captain encountered the rest of the applicant.
According to the Oct. 9 statement, the Omani suspect confessed to acting alone. Investigators traced signs of radicalization to his studies in Australia in 2017.
None surfaced during the airline’s screening. His earlier flights to Tel Aviv allegedly doubled as reconnaissance.
Another pilot, a flight attendant and passengers intervened when he attacked the captain with the cockpit’s emergency ax. The aircraft landed safely in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
A tool supplied for emergencies became the weapon, but the people aboard stopped the attack.
In Paris, airport workers applied their own clearance procedure to an Elbit Systems shipment.
After unions and pro-Palestinian groups blocked military components from traveling on Air France, the cargo was reportedly rebooked on El Al. Workers refused to load it there too.
An attempted mass-casualty attack and a cargo boycott are different acts. In one, an airline’s checks missed a threat in the cockpit. In the other, an arms shipment’s booking failed to get it through.
The passenger flight survived because people intervened. The military cargo stayed behind for the same reason.
#Flydubai #ElAl #Aviation #BabylonBurning
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Sanctions, Now With a Fuel Waiver
Trump says America has “complete control” of Hormuz. To bring down diesel prices, he has called Putin. Apparently, control of the strait comes without sufficient fuel.
On Oct. 9, Trump announced that more than 300,000 tons of Russian diesel would arrive immediately, another 500,000 in November and 1 million afterward.
A further 3 million would depend on the condition of Russia’s refineries. The promised price collapse has a maintenance clause.
The Treasury Department supplied the paperwork by issuing a temporary sanctions license through April 7, 2027.
Russian diesel, previously a target of the pressure campaign against Moscow, has become relief for an American administration facing expensive fuel before the midterms.
Crude oil and diesel tell different stories. CNBC reported on Sept. 30 that Gulf crude exports had essentially returned to prewar levels.
Refined-product shipments through Hormuz averaged 677,000 barrels a day, compared with 3.6 million before the war. Reopening the crude route has failed to refill the diesel market.
Putin gets a sanctions opening. Trump gets a fuel announcement. The administration that set out to squeeze Russian energy revenue now needs Russian energy to bring down American fuel prices.
#Trump #Putin #Diesel #BabylonBurning
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Trump says America has “complete control” of Hormuz. To bring down diesel prices, he has called Putin. Apparently, control of the strait comes without sufficient fuel.
On Oct. 9, Trump announced that more than 300,000 tons of Russian diesel would arrive immediately, another 500,000 in November and 1 million afterward.
A further 3 million would depend on the condition of Russia’s refineries. The promised price collapse has a maintenance clause.
The Treasury Department supplied the paperwork by issuing a temporary sanctions license through April 7, 2027.
Russian diesel, previously a target of the pressure campaign against Moscow, has become relief for an American administration facing expensive fuel before the midterms.
Crude oil and diesel tell different stories. CNBC reported on Sept. 30 that Gulf crude exports had essentially returned to prewar levels.
Refined-product shipments through Hormuz averaged 677,000 barrels a day, compared with 3.6 million before the war. Reopening the crude route has failed to refill the diesel market.
Putin gets a sanctions opening. Trump gets a fuel announcement. The administration that set out to squeeze Russian energy revenue now needs Russian energy to bring down American fuel prices.
#Trump #Putin #Diesel #BabylonBurning
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Now Boarding, Pending a War Decision
A missile struck the domestic terminal complex at Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on Oct. 10. Regional officials told The Associated Press that many people were wounded.
Saudi aviation authorities suspended operations while assessing casualties, damage and the safety of the facilities. The departure board now requires a structural inspection.
The strike followed an attack on the same airport on Thursday that killed three Saudi citizens, including a pilot.
The Houthis claimed that attack. No one immediately claimed responsibility for Saturday’s strike. Civilian terminals have become a recurring battlefield.
A day earlier, a regional source told AFP that Riyadh would accept no ceasefire until its Yemeni allies recovered all territory lost in recent weeks.
Saudi Arabia set a territorial condition for ending the war. Its passengers are discovering where the fighting can reach while that condition remains unmet.
Asked whether America would join Saudi strikes against the Houthis, Trump answered, “We may. We’re going to look at it.” He added, “We move very quickly.”
Washington is considering intervention. The missile has already completed its arrival procedure.
#SaudiArabia #Riyadh #Houthis #BabylonBurning
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A missile struck the domestic terminal complex at Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on Oct. 10. Regional officials told The Associated Press that many people were wounded.
Saudi aviation authorities suspended operations while assessing casualties, damage and the safety of the facilities. The departure board now requires a structural inspection.
The strike followed an attack on the same airport on Thursday that killed three Saudi citizens, including a pilot.
The Houthis claimed that attack. No one immediately claimed responsibility for Saturday’s strike. Civilian terminals have become a recurring battlefield.
A day earlier, a regional source told AFP that Riyadh would accept no ceasefire until its Yemeni allies recovered all territory lost in recent weeks.
Saudi Arabia set a territorial condition for ending the war. Its passengers are discovering where the fighting can reach while that condition remains unmet.
Asked whether America would join Saudi strikes against the Houthis, Trump answered, “We may. We’re going to look at it.” He added, “We move very quickly.”
Washington is considering intervention. The missile has already completed its arrival procedure.
#SaudiArabia #Riyadh #Houthis #BabylonBurning
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