Is Israel really Palestine

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Key Takeaways:

• A Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated organization invited Hamas Political Bureau Chairman Ismail Haniyeh to deliver a major speech at its General Assembly in Doha. Haniyeh laid out his most comprehensive argument to date about Hamas’ October 7 attack into Israel and appealed for donations and weapons transfers.
• The al Qassem Brigades—the militant wing of Hamas—claimed several attacks on Israeli forces in the northern Gaza Strip.
• The Israel Defense Forces continued clearing operations in Maghazi and Bureij in the Central Governorate of the Gaza Strip.
• Israeli forces expanded clearing operations in some urban areas of southern Khan Younis City. Palestinian militias continued attempting to defend against Israeli clearing operations in Khan Younis.
• Israeli and Egyptian delegations met in Cairo to discuss resuming talks on the release of hostages and a ceasefire agreement.
• Palestinian militias conducted two indirect fire attacks into Israel from the Gaza Strip.
• Israeli forces clashed with Palestinian fighters in nine locations across the West Bank.
• Lebanese Hezbollah conducted a one-way drone and rocket attack targeting the IDF Northern Command headquarters in Safed, Israel. Iranian-backed militias, including Lebanese Hezbollah, conducted nine other attacks from southern Lebanon into northern Israel.
• The Israel Defense Forces killed Lebanese Hezbollah Air Force Commander for Southern Lebanon Ali Hussein Burji in an airstrike in southern Lebanon.
• Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant reiterated that Israel’s top priority is enabling displaced Israeli citizens to return to their homes in northern Israel in a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
• The Iraqi federal government continues to fail to protect US forces, who are deployed to fight the Islamic State, from Iranian-backed militia attacks while also rejecting the United States’ right to defend its servicemembers in Iraq. Politico reported that senior advisers to the Iraqi prime minister privately told US officials that he seeks to keep US forces in Iraq.
• Kataib Hezbollah spokesperson Jafar al Husseini warned that Iranian-backed Iraqi militias would help Lebanese Hezbollah fight Israel if war erupted between Israel and Hezbollah.
• The Jordanian Royal Air Force conducted airstrikes targeting Iranian-linked drug smuggling operations in southern Syria. This airstrike is part of growing Jordanian operations against these smuggling networks.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-january-9-2024

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Key Takeaways:

• Israeli forces continued clearing operations in the central Gaza Strip.
• The IDF 98th Division continued clearing operations in Khan Younis.
• Hamas and other unspecified Palestinian political factions discussed the state of the Israel-Hamas war in an “emergency national meeting,” which may signal that Palestinian political factions are considering re-opening indirect talks with Israel after talks froze on January 2.
• Iranian-backed militias, including Lebanese Hezbollah (LH), conducted 11 attacks from southern Lebanon into northern Israel.
• The Islamic Resistance in Iraq—a coalition of Iranian-backed Iraqi militias—claimed a rocket attack targeting US forces at al Shaddadi, Hasakah Province, Syria.[1]
  
• Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein stated that the Iraqi federal government will announce a start date soon for talks to remove US forces from Iraq during an interview with Saudi-owned al Arabiya.
• Houthi Spokesperson Mohammad Abdulsalam rejected United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2722 and announced that the Houthis will continue to target Israeli ships in the Red Sea.
• An online shipping tracker organization reported that the IRGC spy ship Behshad, which provides the Houthis with real-time intelligence has left the Red Sea and is en route to Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province, Iran.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-january-11-2024

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/7W4uzI5NGTo" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/7W4uzI5NGTo</a>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W4uzI5NGTo

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/zgHmj4yek9M" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/zgHmj4yek9M</a>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgHmj4yek9M

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Key Takeaways:

• The United States and the United Kingdom conducted joint strikes on January 11 that targeted Houthi military facilities to degrade the group’s capability to attack ships transiting the Red Sea.
• The Houthis will likely continue to attempt attacks against international shipping in the Red Sea because the January 11 airstrikes do not sufficiently threaten the Houthis’ position within Yemen.
• Palestinian militias in the northern Gaza Strip are disrupting Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operations to destroy military infrastructure and secure areas bordering Israel.
• The IDF is conducting clearing operations in Bureij and Maghazi in the Central Governorate of the Gaza Strip.
• The IDF continued clearing operations in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
• The Islamic Resistance in Iraq—a coalition of Iranian-backed Iraqi militias—claimed two attacks targeting Israel on January 12.

https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-january-12-2024

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The Controversial UN Agency Accused of Aiding Hamas!

The UN agency created almost 75 years ago to handle the Palestinian refugee crisis has become an obstacle to peace, critics say.

All these recent incidents swirl around a controversial agency, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

The agency is at the heart of the refugee crisis. Some see UNRWA as a critical provider of services to beleaguered Arab populations of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, which Israelis often refer to as Judea and Samaria.

Others see it as an enabler of the crisis, an agency meant to perpetuate a “refugee” status no longer applicable to most Palestinians and doing it to obstruct any peace process indefinitely.

Many observers say it’s both—an essential provider of services and an obstacle to peace.

UNRWA’s defenders say it’s just doing the mission assigned by the U.N. almost three-quarters of a century ago.

Opponents say UNRWA is way too close to Hamas, the terrorist group that controls Gaza and triggered the current war with its Oct. 7 massacre of about 1,200 Israelis.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/the-controversial-history-of-the-un-agency-accused-of-complicity-with-hamas-5550728

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/K7lVK0bFTbc" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/K7lVK0bFTbc</a>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7lVK0bFTbc

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Key Takeaways:

• The Iranian-backed Badr Organization announced the submission of a draft law that requires the removal of US forces from Iraq. This law aims to increase pressure on Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al Sudani and to force him to expel US forces from Iraq.
  
• Israeli forces destroyed military infrastructure in the northern Gaza Strip.
  
• Palestinian fighters targeted Israeli forces in three locations across the West Bank.
  
• Iranian-backed militias, including Lebanese Hezbollah (LH), conducted nine attacks from southern Lebanon into northern Israel.
  
• The USS Carney launched Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles targeting a Houthi radar site at Dailami Airbase near Sana’a.
  
• The Islamic Resistance in Iraq—a coalition of Iranian-backed Iraqi militias—claimed a rocket attack targeting US forces at the Conoco facility in northwestern Syria

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-january-13-2024

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/jWniGLkmdnY" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/jWniGLkmdnY</a>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWniGLkmdnY

Another scumbag for Democrats to mourn!

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Yes, Democrats insist you always have more to give in the name of compromise!

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https://www.youtube.com/v/kEjqeYYMTtw