Links to commentary from Common Dreams, and to FOUR reports: from the Cradle, Middle East Eye, and the Associated Press; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (Scroll down for WEST BANK 2-15-26, and up or down for GAZA, LEBANON, IRAN and MEDIA.) — MCM

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Happy Presidents Day to the squalid Epstein class, by Robert Reich | Common Dreams  These people are an interconnected world of hugely rich, prominent, entitled, smug, powerful, self-important (mostly) men. Trump is honorary chairman. READ MORE . . .

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NEWER  Palestinian security forces express ‘deep regret’ after killing two children in West Bank’s Tubas. From the Cradle. The Palestinian Authority’s security forces released a statement today expressing “deep regret” over its killing of two children in the occupied West Bank governorate of Tubas on Sunday night. READ MORE . . .

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PA forces kill Palestinian toddler and teenager in West Bank shooting, by Mera Aladam | Middle East Eye  Palestinian Authority forces shot dead a three-year-old girl and her teenage brother in the occupied West Bank city of Tubas on Sunday. READ MORE . . .

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FROM FEB. 15  Israel will begin contentious West Bank land registration in new step to deepen control, by Melanie Lidman | AP  TEL AVIV — Israel will begin a contentious land regulation process in a large part of the occupied West Bank, which could result in Israel gaining control over wide swaths of the area for future development, according to a government decision on Sunday. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others. Click HERE for report from Middle East Eye.

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