Middle East and North Africa
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Demonizing Hezbollah to Legitimize a US/Israel Onslaught on Lebanon
fair.org Demonizing Hezbollah to Legitimize a US/Israel Onslaught on Lebanon — FAIRCoverage of the US/Israeli assault on Lebanon has evinced a casual disregard for Lebanese lives, and often an outright zest for killing the country’s people.
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'WE WOULD LOSE' War with Iran (w/ Col. Lawrence Wilkerson)
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Saudi, Iranian senior military officials discuss defense cooperation
www3.nhk.or.jp Saudi, Iranian senior military officials discuss defense cooperation | NHK WORLD-JAPAN NewsSenior Saudi Arabian and Iranian military officials have discussed bilateral defense cooperation. This development follows US President-elect Donald Trump's strong show of support for Israel and his hardline stance toward Iran during his campaign.
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Could Israel Become a FAILED State? | Aaron Bastani Meets Ilan Pappe
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- www.aa.com.tr Lebanon’s top Christian cleric calls for diplomacy to end Israeli war
‘The war has shattered the economy of the Lebanese people,’ says Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai - Anadolu Ajansı
- www.aljazeera.com Outrage over Israeli warship passing through the Suez Canal
Video showing an Israeli warship passing through the Suez Canal sparked outrage online.
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US bolsters Israel defense, deploys B52 bombers, warships to West Asia
thecradle.co US bolsters Israel defense, deploys B52 bombers, warships to West AsiaTel Aviv is awaiting Tehran's retalitation for its 26 October attack on Iranian radar and anti-aircraft batteries
- presstv.ir Iraqi resistance conducts new drone strikes on key Israeli positions
Iraqi anti-terror groups launch a series of drone attacks on key positions in the Israeli-occupied territories.
- www.theguardian.com Sudan militia accused of mass killings and sexual violence as attacks escalate
Experts fear reports of 124 dead in attack on villages south of Khartoum are significant underestimation
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Stunned by unexpected outbursts from Jordanian minister, Blinken loses voice | Janta Ka Reporter
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- sudantribune.com RSF rampage in East Al-Jazirah leaves scores dead, thousands displaced
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- nationalinterest.org The U.S. Navy is Firing Missiles in the Middle East Faster Than They Can be Replaced
The concern is the rate at which SM-3 missiles and other ordnances, including the SM-2 and SM-6, are now being fired. The U.S. is now depleting its stockpiles faster than the missiles can be replaced, and that has raised alarms.
- www.windowscentral.com Rumors swirl that Xbox is pulling out of Saudi Arabia and other Middle East regions, and now Microsoft has responded
A new report suggested that Xbox is planning to end Xbox sales in Saudi Arabia leading to widespread speculation about a total exit from the wider Middle East region.
- www.nytimes.com Iranian Official Heads to Saudi Arabia as Israel Postpones U.S. Meeting
The Biden administration is dealing with complex dynamics in the Middle East as it tries to keep conflicts involving Israel from escalating further.
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The Iraqi pedophilia law
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/42179082
So this amendment to the personal issues law is very important to be discussed and understood This post will be containing discussion of child sexual abuse though I will leave it to the 10th point so you could read the other things that this law will affectively do without having to read it if you are triggered by it, I do to a small extent respect this community so I tried as much as possible not to use the most vulgar language which is my mainstream.
- This law is basically changing the personal status law of 1959 in a complete way that we will discuss here
- First thing that this law does is that it takes the authority of dealing with personal issues from the courts and give it to the clergy killing the secular state,
- This law requires the main religious institutions to get a paper done where each one of the religious sects will have their own personal issues law increasing the Divide and sectarianism within the society
- This law effectively kills equal inheritance for men and women so in the Sunni sect a woman will take half of what a men takes, and in the Shia sect a woman cannot inherent land
- According to the old law custody would be given to the person who is more likely to give better care of the child, this amendment would make it that a child would be with his mother for the first two years and spent the rest with his father no matter the circumstances
- In the old law a man should give his wife spousal support even after divorce if the wife does not work or incapable of having a job do to a disability or social issues, this amendment makes it so that the wife cannot get spousal support unless she sleeps with her husband even after divorce 7 this amendment effectively kills any type of civil marriage meaning that if you want to get married outside of religion you need to go to Cyprus
- This amendment will legalize temporary marriages, which basically means that it's legal prostitution but the women will come out of it as a divorcee which is socially unacceptable
- This amendment was a proposed by the Shia plurality which means that they cannot pass it on their own so they are working with the Sunni minority on getting an amnesty law passed which will lead to at least a thousand confirmed Isis members to be freed from prison
- And now let's talk about the child sexual abuse of it all, first of all in Islam there is no age of consent in marriage, that was because the old days you marry your daughter for Political alliances, but if you had an age of consent that would effectively mean that you should hold your alliance, the effects of this passing today means that you can go to the court or to a clergyman and Mary a child and nobody could tell you anything, a child which does not have a specific age that could mean a two-year-old or 2-day or could get married in this law and they will say but you cannot penetrate that child because they are a child you can only penetrate them when they are old enough as in nine year old, which Falls flat because of two reasons the first of which is that nine-year-old is still a child and the second one is that you could still sexually enjoy the two-year-old that you have married without penetration, another really important to issue that it's gives a child the ability to consent which means a seven-year-old girl could consent to a marriage without her parents even known that, another thing is that we have discussed in this post before the issue of temporary marriage so combine it with this issue and I don't need to explain.
This law is going to effectively ensure the total dismantlement of the last threads that this society hangs on.
- mondoweiss.net A ‘dark period’ of repression: Jordanian authorities arrest thousands in year since October 7
Jordan has witnessed increasing popular protests expressing solidarity with Gaza and demanding an end to normalization with Israel. The Jordanian government has responded with an unprecedented crackdown on protests and free expression.
- www.presstv.ir Israel jails journalist who revealed damage to bases hit by Iranian missiles
Jeremy Loffredo compiled a revealing report that uncovered significant damage to the occupying regime’s bases.
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- www.aljazeera.com Pakistan opposition protesters rally demanding release of ex-PM Imran Khan
Demonstrators rally, demanding Imran Khan be released from jail despite a ban on protests and police crackdown.
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‘Western Press Obscured the Sheer Terror of What Israel Had Carried Out’: CounterSpin interview with Mohamad Bazzi on Lebanon pager attacks (FAIR)
fair.org ‘Western Press Obscured the Sheer Terror of What Israel Had Carried Out’: CounterSpin interview with Mohamad Bazzi on Lebanon pager attacks"What unfolded in Lebanon last week was something dystopian, but it wasn't a movie. It affected real people's lives."
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Greater Israel Explained: The Israeli Plan to Conquer the Arab World
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- www.irishtimes.com Israel Defense Forces tells Ireland and Unifil to remove peacekeepers from Lebanese border outpost
Request rejected on day when 24 Irish citizens managed to leave country with Dutch and Canadian assistance
- thecradle.co Lebanese soldier killed after Israel bombs Red Cross convoy
The convoy was hit as it rescued people from the war-torn region despite coordinating its movements with the UN
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> CNN has reported that Israel’s Mossad headquarters are located in a “densely populated area” in Tel Aviv, posing risks to civilians during Iran’s attack. > > “The concern is if your firing, even though Iran might consider that a military target, it is in a densely populated city with civilians around it," CNN reported. > > The remarks raised questions on social media on why West did not accuse the intelligence agency of using Israeli civilians as “human shields”, as they claim Hamas and Hezbollah do.