Annihilate Jews, Win a State!

[Corona]

Key Takeaways:

• Gaza Strip: The IDF is moving “more deliberately” in Rafah, according to Israeli officers who recently left Rafah who spoke to the New York Times on May 25.
  
• Humanitarian Aid in the Gaza Strip: A US Army landing craft and part of the US-constructed pier in the Gaza Strip was swept away by waves to Ashdod, Israel.
  
• Lebanon: Lebanese Hezbollah conducted at least nine attacks from southern Lebanon into northern Israel.
  
• West Bank: Israeli forces engaged Palestinian fighters in at least two locations in the West Bank on May 25.
  
• Iraq: The Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed one drone attack targeting an unspecified “vital target” in Eilat, southern Israel.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-may-25-2024

Hopefully Hezbollah is summarily defeated like Hamas. 

[D2D]

Sadly, until Iran stops being a supporter of terrorism that is unlikely!

[D2D]

This is all Iran's fault!

[D2D]

Key Takeaways:

• Iranian Elections: The Iranian supreme leader reportedly appointed his policy adviser, Rear Adm. Ali Shamkhani, in March 2024 to leader nuclear negotiations with the United States. The publication of this information now may be meant to boost Shamkhani’s political position ahead of Iran’s presidential election.
  
• Iranian Presidential Candidates: Prominent Iranian hardliner Saeed Jalili announced his candidacy for the Iranian presidential elections in June 2024. Iranian journalists reported that several other prominent political figures are planning to run.
  
• Iranian-backed Militias in Iraq: Several Iranian-backed Iraqi militias are reportedly considering resuming attacks on US forces days after a meeting between Iranian-backed militia leaders from throughout the region and the IRGC in Tehran.
  
• Northern Gaza Strip: The IDF is fighting three Hamas battalions that are defending Jabalia camp. Two of the battalions were previously “dismantled,” which underscores the requirement for a sustainable political and military end state in the Gaza Strip.
  
• Israeli Strike in Rafah: An IDF airstrike killed two Hamas officials in Rafah on May 26, but the strike also caused a fire that killed 35 Palestinian civilians.
  
• Rafah Border Crossing: Israeli and Egyptian forces exchanged small arms fire at the Rafah border crossing.
  
• Lebanon: A Likud minister said that Israel will conduct a military operation targeting Hezbollah to return displaced residents from northern Israeli if political efforts to stop Hezbollah attacks into northern Israel fail. This statement echoes previous Israeli statements about the possibility of operations into Lebanon.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-may-27-2024

[D2D]

[D2D]

Key Takeaways:

• Iran’s Nuclear Program: Iran has increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels amid recent statements from Iranian officials about Iran’s ability to procure a nuclear weapon.
  
• Iranian Parliament: Iranian parliamentarians re-elected hardline politician Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf as parliament speaker, with Ghalibaf receiving 198 of 287 votes.
  
• Rafah: The IDF expanded operations into Western Rafah. IDF units moved deeper into Rafah along the Egypt-Gaza Strip border overnight on May 27 and 28. The IDF has so far identified ten smuggling tunnels that cross into Egypt from the Gaza Strip.
  
• Iraq: Nationalist Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al Sadr demanded that the Iraqi government expel US Ambassador to Iraq Alina Romanowski and close the US Embassy in Baghdad in retaliation for US support for Israel.
  
• Yemen: The Houthis damaged a Marshall Islands-flagged merchant vessel in the Red Sea.
  
• Ceasefire Negotiations: Israel submitted a new ceasefire proposal that offered “flexibility” on the number of living hostages to be released in the deal’s first phase. Hamas has not acknowledged the proposal as of the data cutoff.
  
• Russo-Iranian Cooperation: Iran's continued support for Russia's defense industrial base (DIB) and provision of lethal aid to Russia is bolstering Russia's technological output and military capabilities on the battlefield in Ukraine.

https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-may-28-2024

[Dan]

Yassir Arafat, the once leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, was offered everything the Palestinians asked for from Israel.  But Arafat rejected the offer and started another terror campaign against Israel.

Yassir Arafat was rewarded with the Nobel “Peace” Prize. 

This is proof Palestinians have no desire to let Israel continue to exist, or to allow any Jew to continue to live.  Their goal is not to live in peace in a land of their own.  Their goal is genocide - to completely annihilate the Jewish race.

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Yes, that was one of the first times the Nobel committee devalued the prize!

[Dan]

Al Gore and Barack Obama, but not the two presidents who actually achieved major peace milestones - ending the Cold War, and negotiating peace treaties between Israel and several Middle East nations.

It’s only a matter of time until Biden wins it for perpetuating the Ukraine conflict and stopping Israel from defending itself.

[D2D]

The Nobel Prize is a joke!

[D2D]

Key Takeaways:

• Southern Gaza Strip: The IDF announced that it established “operational control” of the Philadelphi Corridor on the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
  
• Iraq: Iraqi Interior Minister Abdul Amir al Shammari traveled to Tehran to discuss internal security cooperation with senior Iranian military officials.
  
• Yemen: Iran is broadcasting that it has helped the Houthis develop anti-ship ballistic missile capabilities.
  
• Northern Gaza Strip: Israeli forces have expanded their clearing operations in Jabalia in recent days.
  
• Humanitarian Aid: The United States suspended operations at its temporary pier in the Gaza Strip due to damage sustained at sea.
  
• West Bank: Palestinian fighters fired small arms at two towns in Israel from the West Bank.
  
• Southern Lebanon and Golan Heights: Iranian-backed militias, including Lebanese Hezbollah, conducted at least eight attacks into northern Israel.
  
• Iran: Policy adviser to the Iranian supreme leader, Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, appears to be re-entering public Iranian discourse ahead of the Iranian presidential election in June 2024.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-may-29-2024

[D2D]

Key Takeaways:

• Gaza Strip: Israel reportedly withdrew some IDF units from Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas will almost certainly try to exploit these withdrawals to continue reconstituting its forces.
  
• Iran: The registration period for the Iranian presidential election began. One only prominent individual, hardliner Saeed Jalili, has registered thus far. The registration period lasts until June 3.
  
• Syria: Syrian President Bashar al Assad traveled to Tehran to meet with senior Iranian officials. The visit may be part of recent efforts by Iran and its so-called “Axis of Resistance” to coordinate their actions vis-a-vis the Israel Hamas war.
  
• West Bank: The al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed that its fighters entered Bat Hefer in Israel to kill an IDF officer there. The claim comes amid an uptick in activity around the Israel-West Bank border, specifically around Bat Hefer.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-may-30-2024