For now, links to reports from the Cradle and Middle East Eye and to commentaries from or via Middle East Monitor; others are accessible by clicking on their names. (Scroll up or down for today’s UKRAINE, IRAN and LEBANON so far, and down for GAZA 5-28-26.) — MCM

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Israel’s Netanyahu orders army to seize 70 percent of Gaza. From Middle East Eye. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he had ordered the army to occupy 70 percent of the Gaza Strip, in the latest violation of the October ceasefire. He said that “at this point, we are fully in control of 60 percent of the territory of the Gaza Strip.” READ MORE . . .   Click HERE for report from the Cradle.

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FROM MAY 28  Netanyahu’s theatre of ruin, by Jasim Al-Azzawi | Middle East Monitor  Benjamin Netanyahu has defeated nobody. Not one enemy. Not one objective. After Gaza, after Lebanon, after Syria, after Iran, after all the airstrikes and the assassinations and the pager operations and the . . . READ MORE . . .

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Stop blaming Netanyahu, stupid . . . by Jamal Kanj | Middle East Monitor  By blaming Netanyahu et al., the Zionist-managed Western media and liberals in the U.S. and Europe want you to believe that there is a moral daylight between the politics of the Israeli governing coalition and the state they lead. READ MORE . . .

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