For today, links to four reports: from the Associated Press, Reuters, and Middle East Eye; and to commentary from Antiwar.com via Consortium News and ScheerPost, and from Arabi21 via Middle East Monitor; other articles are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE and RITTER entries for this date are HERE and HERE.) — MCM
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Deadly violence persists in Gaza despite mediators’ hopes for a truce, by Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | AP DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — As mediators expressed optimism for an imminent cease-fire deal, violence raged today in the Gaza Strip, where an Israeli airstrike killed at least 18 people, all from the same family. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from Reuters.
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FROM AUG. 16 Gaza ceasefire talks paused with resumption planned next week, by Andrew Mills and Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters DOHA / CAIRO — Gaza ceasefire talks in Doha paused on Friday with negotiators to meet again next week seeking an agreement to end fighting between Israel and Hamas and free remaining hostages, as U.S. President Joe Biden said “we’re not there yet”. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from Middle East Eye.
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FROM AUG. 16 When presidents kill, by Andrew P. Napolitano | Antiwar.com / Consortium News Today, American troops are on the ground in Ukraine showing Ukrainian forces how to use American weapons to kill Russian troops and in Israel showing the Israeli Defense Forces how to kill civilians in Gaza — by secret presidential orders that . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM AUG. 14 Gaza’s genocide started with the Rabaa massacre, by Osama Gaweesh | Arabi21 / Middle East Monitor What I experienced eleven years ago and what I have been witnessing in the last ten months of genocide in the Gaza Strip makes me believe that the genocide in Gaza actually began on the day of the Egyption army’s massacre at Rabaa square in Cairo, Aug. 14, 2013. READ MORE . . .