October, 2023

• 19 October

  Germany readies elite forces for possible Gaza op – Bild

  

  Berlin has deployed several Special Forces units to Cyprus as it prepares for “all scenarios” in the Middle East, Bild reports FILE PHOTO: Members of the GSG 9 Special Forces unit of the German Federal Police. ©  Global Look Press / dpa / Rolf Vennenbernd The German government has decided to deploy some of the nation’s top Special Forces units to Cyprus …

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• 19 October

  Palestine asks world to stop ‘genocide’

  

  The Gaza hospital “massacre” should not be tolerated by the international community, Authority leaders insisted Palestinians bring wounded to the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, October 18, 2023 ©  AP / Ali Mahmoud           Palestinian officials have called on the nations of the world to step in and prevent the “deliberate genocide” of their people by Israel after hundreds were …

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• 19 October

  Biden snubbed by Middle East allies as Arab world seethes over Gaza hospital blast By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN

  

    US President Joe Biden embraces Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv on Wednesday. Evan Vucci/AP Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. Abu Dhabi, UAECNN —  Some of the United States’ closest Arab …

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• 19 October

  Protest In Middle East Countries Following Gaza Hospital Strike Killing More Than 600

  

  The strike on a Gaza Strip hospital that killed more than 600 Palestinians has sparked protests and riots in several Muslim-majority countries on Tuesday night, including Lebanon, Jordan, and Türkiye.  Beirut In Beirut, where the pro-Palestinian militant group Hezbollah has called for “a day of unprecedented anger,” protesters gathered in front of the U.S. embassy building in the Awkar neighborhood. …

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• 19 October

  US Faces Defeat in Geopolitical War in Gaza

  

  Israel will have to vacate its occupied territories and make space for a state of Palestine, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar. This crushing defeat for the U.S. will mark the end of its global dominance. A flag bearer leading the triumphal Arab entry into Akaba after the defeat of Ottoman defending forces, 1917. (T E Lawrence and the Arab Revolt 1916 – 1918, …

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• 19 October

  PATRICK LAWRENCE: Decency Becomes Indecent

  

  At this point, Washington’s defense of Israel becomes as baldly obscene as the apartheid state’s long record of lawless aggression toward the Palestinian population.  Man with body bags in Jabalia, Gaza Strip, Oct. 9. (Bashar Taleb, Palestinian News & Information Agency, or Wafa, in contract with APAimages, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) By Patrick LawrenceSpecial to Consortium News There have been many, very …

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• 19 October

  US Vetoes UN Resolution for Ceasefire in Gaza

  

  U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaking at U.N. Security Council meeting on Gaza war. (UN TV/YouTube) The United States Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have called for a humanitarian pause in the fighting in Gaza as well as for Israel to rescind its order to 1.1 million Gazans to leave their homes and move to the south of …

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