For now, links to reports from Middle East Monitor and the Cradle, and to analyses from Middle East Eye and Jonathan-Cook.net; others are accessible by clicking on their names. (Scroll up or down for today’s ALL OF IT, WEST BANK, IRAN and MEDIA so far, and down for LEBANON 5-23-26.) — MCM

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FROM MAY 24  Israeli strikes kill 14, wound several in southern Lebanon in latest ceasefire violation. From Middle East Monitor. At least 14 people were killed and several others wounded in Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Sunday amid continued violations of an ongoing ceasefire, Anadolu reports. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from the Cradle.

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Those who resist Israel are now called internal enemies of the state, by Amal Saad | Middle East Eye  As with previous rounds of negotiations, the latest U.S.-brokered talks between Lebanon and Israel, held in Washington earlier this month, signalled the laundering of war through diplomacy. READ MORE . . .

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FROM MAY 1   The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel – and about itself – is finally being burst, by Jonathan Cook | Jonathan-Cook.net  For months, Israel has been blowing up village after village in south Lebanon. It is destroying Gaza’s water supplies, as it earlier did the tiny enclave’s hospitals and health system. It kills journalists and emergency crews in Gaza and Lebanon week after week, month after month, and it raises barely an eyebrow from the political and media class. READ MORE . . .

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