For today, links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, National Public Radio and, via Popular Resistance, the Grayzone; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. Then, via Popular Resistance, commentary from ScheerPost. (Today’s UKRAINE and 9/11 TRUTH entries are HERE and HERE.) — MCM
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Israel pounds Gaza, evacuates town near Lebanon ahead of expected ground offensive against Hamas, by Najib Jobain, Samya Kullab and Joseph Krauss | AP KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Israel bombarded Gaza early today, hitting areas in the south where Palestinians had been told to seek safety, and it began evacuating a sizable Israeli town in the north near the Lebanese border, the latest sign of a potential ground invasion of Gaza that could trigger regional turmoil. Palestinians in Gaza . . . READ MORE . . .
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Biden declares Israel and Ukraine support is vital for U.S. security, will ask Congress for billions, by Chris Megerian and SelEung Min Kim | AP WASHINGTON — Declaring that U.S. leadership “holds the world together,” President Joe Biden told Americans on Thursday night the country must deepen its support of Ukraine and Israel in the middle of two vastly different, unpredictable and bloody wars. Acknowledging that “these conflicts can . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israeli defense chief says troops will soon see Gaza ‘from inside’, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Emily Rose | Reuters GAZA / JERUSALEM — Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told troops gathered at the Gaza borde on Thursday that they would soon see the Palestinian enclave “from inside”, suggesting an expected ground invasion with the aim of annihilating Hamas could be nearing. Israel pounded . . . READ MORE . . .
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In Gaza, medical supplies, food and water are running dangerously low. Michel Martin of NPR talks with Samer Abdeljaber, the World Food Program’s Palestine Country director, about the U.N. organization’s efforts to get food aid into Gaza. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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It’s unclear when desperately needed aid will be allowed into Gaza. From NPR. Critical supplies are running low for the more than two million Palestinians stuck in the Gaza Strip. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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Biden aims to support Israel while not further alienating Palestinians, Arab world. A Martinez of NPR talks with human rights lawyer Zaha Hassan, a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about the White House trying to walk a fine diplomatic line in the Middle East. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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Former ambassador Craig Murray detained under UK terror law, by Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone / Popular Resistance On Monday morning, counter-terror police in Glasgow Airport detained journalist, whistleblower, human rights campaigner, and former British diplomat Craig Murray upon his return from Iceland. After grilling him intensively about his political beliefs, officers seized Murray’s phone and laptop. Murray flew back to Glasgow after several days in Reykjavik, where he . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israel’s culture of deceit, by Chris Hedges | Scheer Post / Popular Resistance I covered war for two decades, including seven years in the Middle East. I learned quite a bit about the size and lethality of explosive devices. There is nothing in the arsenal of Hamas or Islamic Jihad that could have replicated the massive explosive power of the missile that killed an estimated 500 civilians in the al-Ahli Arab Christian hospital in Gaza. Nothing. If Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) had these kinds of missiles. . . READ MORE . . .