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                          TERRIBLE STORM IN SPAIN: 51 DEAD, PROVISIONAL BALANCE The huge storm that has hit eastern Spain since last weekend has so far caused 51 deaths, while the number of missing is "in the dozens", according to the first assessment made by the regional government of Valencia. In some places the rains reached 520 liters per square meter. Ravines and river basins that were normally dry have increased the flow to levels totally unknown until now Among the deceased are two civil guards who were participating in the rescue of citizens in the middle of the storm, who were swept away by the waters. Practically all the towns in the province of Valencia were affected by the storm, while in the province of Castellón the damage was less. Most of the roads remain closed, and the railways are also not working because the storm swept away part of the tracks. Many affected people are asking for help through their soci...

                                       HEZBOLLAH ANNOUNCES NAIM QASSEM TO BE NEW TOP LEADER The radical Lebanese movement, Hezbollah, announced today that the cleric, Naim Qassem, will be the new leader of the organization after the assassination of his predecessor, Hassan Nasrallah, who lost his life in one of the bombings of the Israeli air force on Beirut on September 27. Qassem was Nasrallah's lieutenant, so it seems that his appointment is due to his hierarchy and the fact that he always supported Nasrallah's line of action, based on confronting the incursions of the Jewish army on Lebanese territory, as well as supporting Hamas, especially after Israel began its genocidal action in the Palestinian enclave. Israel, through the mouth of the Minister of Defense, Yael Gallant, assured that Qassem is now one of the main objectives to eliminate. "His presidency will be temporary," he said...

                                                    MOSSAD AND CIA NEGOTIATE A LIMITED TRUCE IN QATAR. The directors general of the intelligence services of Israel and the United States (Mossad and CIA) are meeting in Doha with the Prime Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, in order to negotiate a limited truce that will allow the release of captives held by Hamas, it was officially announced. In this way, negotiations are resumed with the sole participation of Qatar as a country interested in reaching an agreement that will end the war, if not totally, then partially. For its part, Egypt, another mediating country, has proposed a truce of only two days, to release part of the prisoners. Both negotiations have little chance of generating an agreement, if one takes into account that the Prime Minister of Israel, Netanyahu, sa...

ISRAEL BOMBS IRAN AGAIN IN RETALITION The Jewish armed forces have claimed to have attacked several missile manufacturing sites in Iran on Saturday, in retaliation for the firing of similar weapons against Israel on October 1. Netanyahu had promised that he would not attack oil and nuclear facilities in the Islamic Republic; in response to a demand made by the American president, Joe Biden. Tehran says that the damage caused by the Israeli aviation “is of a limited nature”. In this way, the cycle of attack-retaliation between Tehran and Tel Aviv has taken a new step. The Iranians fired missiles against their greatest enemy after Israel assassinated in Tehran, on July 31, the political leader of Hamas, Ismael Haniyeh, in the temporary residence where he was attending the presentation of the new Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian. Saudi Arabia, which has reestablished relations with Iran thanks to mediation by China, condemned the Israeli attacks on Saturday and again called on the int...

                      FRANCE ACCUSES ISRAEL OF “SOWING BARBARISM” French President Emmanuel Macron accused Israel of “sowing barbarism” in Gaza and Lebanon. He did so in a speech in Paris on Thursday, at the start of an international conference to collect aid for Lebanon, victim of the war declared by the Hebrew state. “A civilization does not defend itself by sowing barbarism. Causing more damage; more victims; more bombings; will not put an end to terrorism or to the insecurity of all,” stressed Macron, in an open and harsh condemnation of the aggressions committed by Israel, through Prime Minister Netanyahu, in Gaza and Lebanon. "I am sure of one thing. It is that the possibility of a civilization is at stake in Lebanon," said the President of the Republic. Delivering his vision of a country where "women and men whose origins and religions are different share the same territory and live for the same project,"  A total of 70 ...

American Elections  IF TRUMP IS RE-ELECTED, WILL IT BE BAD NEWS FOR ARABS? There are only 13 days left for the American presidential elections. The latest polls on Arab Americans indicate that they will vote for Trump in their majority, even though they know that he is a declared accomplice of Israel and supports the wars in Gaza and Lebanon. It seems incredible that Arab-Americans give their votes to Trump; which in a way would be ignoring Israel's genocide in Gaza and the aggression against the land of the cedars. Do they ignore that the real estate magnate, if he wins, will support the new war crimes that Netanyahu will probably carry out? Supporting Trump is going against the majority opinion of Arabs and other Muslims about the man who has advised Netanyahu to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. With Trump in the White House, will Israel continue to violate human rights and international law? And will its great American ally continue to pressure Arab leaders who do not recogni...

                                              THE CLOCK OF HISTORY Fidel Castro said, with probable certainty, that the clock of history turns incessantly on the dial, until it stops at an unpredictable time... and history begins again. This vision could be applied to Israel and to Benjamin Netanyahu. In particular, the Hebrew prime minister has celebrated, as could be imagined, the physical disappearance of the top leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah: Ismael Haniyeh, Yahya Sinwar and Hasan Nasrallah. Other important members of these movements with terrorist connotations according to the West, which the Palestinian people do not share, have also been eliminated. There is no doubt that Netanyahu is not a man of peace, but a champion or leader of war. War is his "leitmotiv" and peace negotiations do not represent any interest to him, as long as he considers that his "work" has not...

                                    HAMAS WILL LIVE ON, SAYS KHAMENEY Iran's "supreme leader", Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, declared on Saturday that despite the severe blows dealt to Hamas by Israel, "it is still alive and will continue to exist." This statement means that Tehran will continue to support the radical Palestinian movement in Gaza, which is in any case very weakened by the attacks of "Tsahal." In the West, with the exception of Turkey, there has been congratulations on the disappearance of Yahya Sinwar, the alleged organizer of the terrorist attack committed on October 7 in Jewish territory. US President Biden believes that Israel should now accept a ceasefire that would allow the release of captives held by Hamas. But Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu remains deaf to all calls to end the war in Gaza and stop attacking Lebanon. The war, therefore, continues, and it is even taken for grante...

THE DEATH OF YAHYA SINWAR, ANOTHER HARSH BLOW FOR HAMAS In a short space of time, Israel has managed to assassinate two top leaders of the radical Palestinian movement “Hamas”. The latest was Yahya Sinwar, who died last Wednesday in the area of ​​Tal Al Sultan, in a clash with Israeli forces south of Gaza. “Tsahal” saw a group of armed Palestinians and fired a missile and several rounds from an armored vehicle at them. Among these three people was Sinwar. Sinwar had replaced Ismael Haniyeh, killed in Tehran last July in a strike by the Jewish air force on the building where he had a temporary residence. These two deaths have allowed the war criminal, Netanyahu, and his government to declare victory, forgetting that “Hamas” are not only men, but an idea of ​​magnitude in the minds of young Palestinians. Hamas emerged in 1987 during the first Intifada. Its origins date back to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood movement from which it drew its ideology. In 2006, the movement won elections in...

                                                GAZA'S HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE While all eyes are on the Israeli aggression in Lebanon, the situation in Gaza is becoming more and more of a humanitarian catastrophe. It is no longer just 42,409 Palestinians who have been killed by Jewish forces. It is now known that 400,000 Palestinians are suffering from hunger and thirst in various parts of the territory. This is the latest figure that the health authorities in Gaza have released, accusing Israel of obstructing the entry of food, trucks with water and other essential needs into the enclave. Palestinian families in Gaza now only ask for a bowl of soup and a glass of water during the day. Jewish forces kill Gazans with air strikes, but also make them suffer from hunger and thirst. We add that Prime Minister Netanyahu completely ignores the requests of US President Joe B...

                                        THE NETANYAHU MACHIAVELO In one of Israel's most unjustified demands to continue its war in Lebanon, Netanyahu's government appealed to the United Nations on Sunday to withdraw the UNIFIL "blue helmets" because, it said, they are "in harm's way." In other words, IDF threatens to continue firing on the observation posts of this interposition force. The European Union (EU) Foreign Minister, Josep Borrell, has addressed Netanyahu to point out that he is not the one who orders and commands UNIFIL, since this corresponds exclusively to the UN Security Council. According to Borrell, it is evident that Israel violates international law and commits war crimes both in Gaza and in Lebanon. Spain has nearly 700 soldiers deployed in Lebanon, under the command of a general, who have not suffered attacks from Jewish forces. Instead, five blue helmets were wounde...

                                             DO NOT SEND WEAPONS TO ISRAEL It is a fact known to all, and it is not necessary to repeat it. In the Middle East, the country with the greatest military force is Israel. Not even Egypt has the same power. There was, however, a moment in history, at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War, in October 1973, when the Egyptian general, Saad Chazli, (whom I interviewed in Algiers) crossed the Suez Canal, destroyed the Bar-Lev Line, entered the Sinai, but was unable to continue because of the immediate reaction of the Jewish armed forces. An agreement ended the war at the end of that month. On Yom Kippur, the Egyptians were supported by the Syrian army, which occupied the Golan, but they were also forced to withdraw. If Israel defeated Chazli, it was because, frightened of seeing the Jews defeated, the United States sent its protégés a ph...

                                            SPAIN, A THING IN NETANYAHU'S SHOE The president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, spoke on Wednesday before the Parliament of Madrid to express his rejection of the invasion of Lebanon, which is being carried out by Israel, in parallel with the bombings that do not cease in Gaza. “What Israel is doing is invading a sovereign country and the international community must act to prevent it!”, he stressed. “It is clear that there has been an invasion by a third country of a sovereign state such as Lebanon, and therefore the international community cannot remain indifferent,” the Socialist premier told. The Lebanese government estimates that 2,000 people have lost their lives due to the attacks of the Jewish forces (Tsahal), while in Gaza there are already more than 41,000. Of all the critics of the war crimes caused by Netanyahu,...

A YEAR OF BLOODY HORROR Today, a year ago, a terrorist act took place in Israel that was to unleash a war in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, and later in Lebanon. The perpetrators of this massacre were not Israel or Afghanistan. The sole perpetrator was the Palestinian terrorist movement, Hamas, which for a long time was considered a liberation movement full of justice. We were wrong! Using parachutes and well armed, Hamas entered several Jewish kibbutzim and a music festival that the Star of David were organizing in the camp. There was no mercy. The men who fell from the sky murdered 1,250 Jews: civilians, soldiers, women and children. A massacre that, in part, is still recorded in photos and video tapes. It is possible that there were also rapes. ARABINFOCUS has a video of a well-known Jewish singer who was stripped, trampled and cruelly killed. It is possible that she was raped. We do not have that footage. If we start from the deep desire of young Palestinians to have their indepe...

                                        ISRAEL BEGINS THE INVASION OF LEBANON Israel has today launched the invasion of Lebanon, violating the sovereignty of this country and international laws. A war criminal named Netanyahu has once again shown his violent face with the intention of eliminating “Hezbollah”; an objective that will be very difficult to achieve. Netanyahu has assured that “limited operations” are being carried out in southern Lebanon, but his word cannot be trusted, because he has repeatedly lied, even to President Biden, as he stated. Israel has indicated that Lebanon is being attacked by land, air and by the navy. Netanyahu, as usual, has ignored a request from the United States for a ceasefire in the country of the cedars. President Biden has also indicated his distrust of the invasion, because its “limited” nature is yet to be seen. Netanyahu's goal is to destroy Hama...