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    HEZBOLLAH SAYS IT IS “READY” FOR POSSIBLE ISRAELI INVASION Despite the pain caused by the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, the “Hezbollah” movement said today that it is “ready” to face Israeli forces if they invade southern Lebanon. More than 100,000 armed members are prepared to respond to an aggression. The warning was made by the deputy of the assassinated leader, Sheikh Naim Qassem, in a statement recorded from a secret location and was broadcast by the “Al-Manar” channel that supports Hezbollah. Israel will pay a very high price if it enters the territory of the country of the cedars, analysts estimate. Israel has not hit Hezbollah’s military capabilities, said Sheikh Naim Qassem on Monday as he delivered a message of defiance in a public address. Despite the setbacks suffered during the bombing of Lebanon in recent days, he insisted that the armed group will continue to fight. The possibility that the Lebanese government might try to dismantle Hezbollah has been r...

                                   TOUGH SITUATION FOR HAMAS AND HEZBOLLAH In a short space of time, Israel has managed to decapitate Hamas and Hezbollah, two radical movements that in the West are considered terrorists. The blow has been very hard and it will take time for them to reorganize. It is even possible that they will have to wait for a new generation to pass the baton. What is certain is that they are not going to disappear as Prime Minister Netanyahu believes. When Hamas committed a terrorist attack in Israel, no analyst imagined that it would lead to two wars, in Gaza and Lebanon; and that Ismael Haniyeh and Nasan Nasrallah and so many other military and political leaders of both movements would be killed. Today, Israel can boast of its victories, while continuing to strip and kill Palestinians and Lebanese. Israel's victory is due to its possession of modern aircraft supplied by the ...

                                        HEZBOLLAH CONFIRMS NASRALLAH'S DEATH The radical Lebanese movement has confirmed the death of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, 64, in an Israeli air strike in Beirut on Friday, which hit the housing complex used by Hezbollah south of the Lebanese capital. In an information, Saturday, the group said ”Nasrallah “has joined his fellow martyrs. We will continue the holy war against the enemy and in support of Palestine.”. The death of the leader is a hard blow to all the organizations that fight for the existence of an independent state of Palestine, while at the same time facing the policy of assassinations carried out by the Jewish state. Thanks to the possession of ultra-modern aviation, provided by the United States, Israel has the sky free of obstacles to attack where and when it wants. This is the reality. To counter Jewish aircraft, it would be nec...

                               HASSAN NASRALLAH KILLED. ACCORDING TO IOSRAEL Israel has stated this Saturday that the top leader of the radical movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, has been killed in one of the bombings carried out by the Jewish forces this Friday. The military said that it carried out a precise airstrike while Hezbollah leadership met at their headquarters in Dahiyeh, south of Beirut There is no doubt that, once confirmed, this will be the hardest blow received by Hezbollah. Its leader was an emblematic personality inside and outside Lebanon. His interventions were carried out through a television channel and were followed by thousands of his supporters. His main support has always been Iran. TheJews military said Saturday morning it was activating three battalions of reserve soldiers, after earlier sending two brigades to northern Israel earlier in the week to train for a possible ground...

                  LEBANON; ARABS, FRANCE AND USA CALL FOR CEASEFIRE While Israel has been striking Beirut and Syria in Lebanon in order to punish Hezbollah, various countries have joined together in the framework of the UN General Assembly to demand a ceasefire for 21 days. Israel has not responded to this request. The countries demanding it are: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Emirates, the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Australia and the United States. In a joint statement, the allies said the recent fighting is “intolerable and presents an unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation”. The objective of this statement is to initiate negotiations with Israel and Hezbollah in order to reach a truce, first of all, and to establish a longer-term ceasefire. The desired thing is a permanent ceasefire. The United States has stated that it “strongly supports” the text presented at the United Nations. But in the meantime, on th...

                      UNO: ARAB LEADERS DEMAND PEACE IN GAZA AND LEBANON The presidents and high dignitaries of the Arab countries have called for a peace solution in Gaza and Lebanon, in speeches made before the General Assembly of the United Nations. Faced with the worsening of the situation in the Palestinian enclave and in the south of Lebanon, where Israel has not stopped the air strikes and announced that it will increase the pressure, the Arab countries express their condemnation of the Jewish state before the General Assembly in which the highest leaders of the world participate. Israel, meanwhile, has concentrated a thousand soldiers on the border with the country of the cedars, which could be the prelude to an invasion. The Israeli Prime Minister, Netanyahu, has traveled to New York to also participate in the General Assembly. Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, said the world faces challenges that cross bounda...

                                       ARABS AND AFRICANS DEMAND REFORM OF UNITED NATIONS On the occasion of the UN General Assembly, Arab and African countries have once again called for reform of the Security Council, with the aim of obtaining two permanent seats on it. This request, unfortunately, does not have the support of the current permanent representatives: the USA, China, Russia, France and the United Kingdom. It is an old aspiration. The Security Council has the power to veto a resolution and the countries that demand reform believe that they should have this privilege, given that they have never obtained it. All they have are temporary seats on this body. The United States and Russia are the two members that have vetoed resolutions the most. The Council is expected to discuss the war in Lebanon launched by Israel, with the aim of punishing Hezbollah. In the attacks carried ou...

                                          100 DEAD IN ISRAELI STRIKES IN LEBANON We have said in recent days that the possibility of a second war in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah seemed close. This is confirmed by the bombing carried out today Monday by the Israeli air force in several Lebanese towns, with an impressive toll of 100 dead and 400 wounded. Some 300 sites where Hezbollah fighters are believed to be have been attacked, according to a spokesman for the IDF, the Hebrew armed forces. The highest-ranking Jewish military officer, General Herzi Alevi, approved this intervention, the government in Tel Aviv said. There is no doubt that these attacks are a major escalation in this war. The language of war remains the only one spoken by Prime Minister Netanyahu and his government. And it also happens that these strikes follow a statement by US President Joe Biden, in which h...

                                                                    ISRAEL'S TWO WARS When the Palestinian Hamas movement committed a terrorist act on Jewish territory on October 7, it was known that Israel's response would be very harsh. It was extremely harsh and disproportionate, and it did not take long to turn into an open war, in which the Netanyahu government would reach the red line of genocide. And a peace agreement has still not been reached, despite the efforts of the mediators. It has not only been the bombings that have destroyed more than 50 percent of Gaza and caused more than 41,000 Palestinian deaths. The Mossad has dedicated itself to assassinating senior Hamas leaders. Its political chief, Ismael Haniyeh, was eliminated when he was in Tehran to attend the inauguration of the new Iranian president. Thi...

                  THE DESABILIZATION OF LEBANON, ISRAEL'S NEW OBJECTIVE The government of Benjamin Netanyahu is showing its interest in destabilizing Lebanon, making use of its technological advances in communication, hitting Hezbollah and serving as a warning to Beirut to limit its support for this radical group, despite the fact that it is a legal political party in the Lebanese Parliament. After the explosion of the pagers, walkie-talkies and solar energy equipment of the Lebanese movement, branded as terrorist in Western countries, have exploded, with a balance of another 20 dead and 450 wounded, according to health sources in the country of the cedars. The responsibility of Israel in these attacks is borne by Beirut and Hezbollah jointly. In the Middle East region, only Israel has a technological advance of such importance, which is even superior to that of many Asian and European countries. Probably only China is equal to Israel, or eve...

                                              IS A SECOND WAR ON THE REGION? Israel and the Lebanese movement, Hezbollah, are engaged in a war characterized by air strikes on the one hand and rocket and missile fire on the other. But on Tuesday, an attack took place in Lebanon, which caused nine deaths and some 2,800 injuries. This means that a new war could break out in the region. The attack was caused by the simultaneous explosion of Hezbollah's "lagers," also known as pagers. "Lagers" are small devices that communicate encrypted personal messages outside of communication networks, so that they cannot be intercepted. But for their batteries to explode, which would become "bombs," they must be physically manipulated. It is clear that in Lebanon, neither the Mossad nor any other intelligence service can manipulate so many small devices. So, there is the possibility of carr...

                                                        HATE AND INFAMY Today, international diplomacy is a set of good disciplines and a dark side represented by hatred and infamy. One of the most prominent examples of this negative aspect remains that given by the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel Katz, who a few days ago attacked Spain again in a fierce criticism of the Foreign Affairs Commissioner, Josep Borrell, accusing him of being “an accomplice of Iran”. Borrell, a Spanish national, will leave his post in the next few days and will be replaced by the Prime Minister of Estonia, Kaja Kallas. But the Israeli minister has not taken this into account and has developed a strong campaign against Borrell, stating on the social network X that he is in favour of the establishment of an independent Palestinian state “which can only be a terr...

            SPAIN CALLS MEETING OF ARAB MINISTERS TO STUDY GAZA CONFLICT The Spanish government has called a meeting of Arab foreign ministers on Friday, in which the problems and possible solution to the conflict with Israel should be studied, focusing on the peaceful existence of two states. The Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez, is one of the European leaders who pays the greatest attention to Palestine. He has officially recognized it, provoking the anger of the Jewish prime minister, Netanyahu. He has also strongly condemned the genocide in Gaza and has stressed that Palestine has as much right to exist as Israel. The meeting is attended by the foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, as well as the Palestinian prime minister, Mohsmed Mustafa. The head of foreign policy of the European Union (EU), José Borrell, is among those attending. Other attendees are the high representatives of the Arab League and the Organization of the...

            CHINA TAKES A STANCE ON THE WARS IN UKRAINE AND GAZA Finally, China, which has been adopting a position of discreet support for Russia regarding the war in Ukraine, has broken its silence by stating this Friday through its Minister of Defense that in these two wars there can be no winner and that, therefore, they must be stopped as soon as possible and an appropriate solution negotiated. It is very possible that this declaration by the minister, Dong Jun, did not please Prime Minister Netanyahu, because he maintains and continues with the purpose that the war must continue until Hamas disappears. As for Ukraine, President Putin is less demanding and proposes to negotiate the end of the conflict, to avoid, according to him, a direct confrontation with NATO. This new exit by China responds to the desire of President Xi Jinping to reinforce his stature as an international leader, who must be counted on in conflict situations. Until now his greatest...

                        USA-ISRAEL: A HOT POTATO The war in Gaza has shown, for the first time in recent history, the existence of a crisis, surely temporary but real, between the United States and Israel. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have clashed on a few occasions, although the last word has almost always been given by the Israeli leader. Biden has repeatedly insisted to Netanyahu that the lives of innocent Palestinian civilians be respected. But what has been the reality? Israel has not stopped for a day bombing hospitals, schools and refugee camps, killing thousands of Palestinians with no responsibility in the conflict. No later than yesterday, Israeli forces killed 34 civilians in the bombing of a school theoretically protected by the United Nations, in Nuseirat, in the center of Gaza. “The massacres must not continue,” the White House has declared, without any result. In November the United S...

                                            THEIR MISSION IS TO KILL In each regiment of the “Tsahal”, the Israeli armed forces, there is a small group of snipers whose mission is to kill the known enemy, or those considered to be in a dangerous position. They must always shoot at the head, because the shot is always fatal. These soldiers are very well trained and adequately equipped. Palestinian-American journalist Shiren Abu Akleh was killed by a shot to the head in May 2022 when she was reporting on a clash in the city of Jenin (West Bank); and Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi, a graduate of the University of Washington, died at the beginning of this month when she was participating in a demonstration in favor of the Palestinians. Turkish President Erdogan accused Israel of “having hatefully murdered one of our daughters”. In both cases, as American citizens, President...

                                      ELEVEN MONTHS OF PAIN AND MASSACRES The Gaza war has been 11 months of pain and massacres, with Israel showing its capacity to destroy the Palestinian enclave and its contempt for the deaths of civilians, journalists and foreigners, with a figure that reaches 44,000 victims. This conflict will go down in history as one of the most brutal committed by Israel, although it must be stressed that its origin has been a massacre carried out by the extremist Hamas movement. A terrorist action that caused 1,200 Jewish victims, in addition to some 240 captives. All attempts to negotiate the release of the captives have failed, despite the efforts made by the mediating countries: Qatar, Egypt and the USA. And if they have failed it is due to Israel's refusal to negotiate a truce within the three-phase peace program submitted by President Joe Biden. Prime Minister Net...

                                             ISRAEL'S EXPANSIONISM DOES NOT STOP At the press conference for the foreign press in Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu used a map in which the West Bank appears as part of the Jewish state. This is further proof of the expansionist desires that drive the leaders in Tel Aviv. At this conference, held on Wednesday, Netanyahu made it known that the Israeli forces will not abandon the so-called "Philadelphia corridor" of fourteen kilometers. It links Gaza with Egypt and which, for the Prime Minister, is a conduit through which weapons and other supplies have reached the Hamas movement. Netanyahu added that the army has destroyed some 50 tunnels built by Hamas in this area and referring to Israel's objectives in the war - to destroy Hamas, rescue the hostages, ensure that Gaza no longer represents a threat to Israel and allow the retur...

                               NETANYAHU: “FORGET ABOUT THE DEAD HOSTAGES” “Forget about the dead hostages.” These were the harsh words pronounced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference on Monday, reaffirming that the release of the captives is not his main priority. What matters to him is the war and the destruction of Hamas. When the war began last October, no one could have imagined the tragedy it would become over time. Today, in this war, a psychopath has appeared with no interest in the Jewish captives; and Hamas has revealed itself to be a terrorist gang made up of murderers. The story of the six dead hostages is terrible. Netanyahu confirmed that the army had located the tunnel where they were and was about to release them, when Hamas made the brutal decision to kill them so that they would not be rescued by Jewish soldiers. But the worst thing is that Hamas has made a dec...

                                  ISRAELIS DEMAND NETANYAHU'S RESIGNATION Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv and Al-Quds on Sunday to demand the signing of an agreement with Hamas that would allow the release of the captives still held by Hamas and who may still be alive. The demonstrators called for the resignation of Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is increasingly unpopular among the Jewish population. These large demonstrations take place after the army recovered the bodies of six captives, who died in Gaza. The number of hostages still alive decreases with each passing week. According to calculations by analysts, around a hundred are still held by Hamas, although it is not known whether they are really alive. Netanyahu is the main person responsible for the failure to sign a truce with Hamas and the release of the captives. The Prime Minister does not heed the demands of the Jewish...