Fri 20 October 2023: Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday that India’s decision to revoke the diplomatic immunity of 41 Canadian diplomats is a violation of the Vienna Convention and it should worry all countries in the world, hours after New Delhi rejected Ottawa’s attempt to portray the implementation of parity as a […]
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Police stand guard as Jordanians gather during a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, near the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan October 7, 2023. (photo credit: REUTERS/JEHAD SHELBAK) Fri 20 October 2023: Israel has evacuated several of its embassies in the Middle East, including in Bahrain, Jordan, and Morocco, according to the Israeli Broadcasting Authority’s official website on Thursday. Without […]
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Fri 20 October 2023: An initial tranche of direly needed humanitarian aid is set to enter the besieged Gaza Strip within 48 hours, U.S. President Joe Biden said Friday. Biden said he secured agreements from Israel and Egypt to open the Rafah border crossing, but said the roadway in to the coastal enclave had to […]
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Fri 20 October 2023: Israel is getting ready to attack and Palestinian fighters are preparing to defend Gaza. Both sides are determined and experienced and both have announced that they will ultimately prevail. Leaving aside for the moment the very important question of what would constitute victory for either of the warring sides, it is pertinent […]
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Fri 20 October 2023: Nearly 80% of Israelis blame Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the failure to prevent the Oct. 7 attack by the Palestinian group Hamas, according to a recent survey conducted in Israel. The Lazar Institute conducted the survey on October 18-19, and it was commissioned by Israel’s Maariv newspaper. Only 8% of […]
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Fri 20 October 2023: Nearly two weeks into Israel’s aerial bombardment, this is the question many in Gaza and around the world are asking. For nearly two weeks following Hamas’s attack, the Israeli response has been to bomb the Gaza Strip relentlessly from the air. But as time passes, the world is asking: Will Israel […]
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Fri 20 October 2023: The US has alleged that China has considerably expanded its nuclear arsenal over the past years and will continue to rapidly modernise, diversify, and expand its nuclear forces. The assessment came in an annual report submitted to the US Congress by the Pentagon. “The PRC (People’s Republic of China) is developing […]
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Fri 20 October 2023: Russia on Friday responded to US President Joe Biden’s request to Congress for $100 billion in emergency aid for Ukraine and Israel, claiming that the wars are a “smart investment” because they are not taking place on American soil. “They used to call it ‘fighting for freedom and democracy.’ Now it […]
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Fri 20 October 2023: The Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem released a statement late Thursday expressing its “strongest condemnation” of an Israeli airstrike on its church compound in the city of Gaza and stressing its commitment to its humanitarian duty to shelter civilians regardless of the Israeli “war crime.” In the statement published on its official […]
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Thu 19 October 2023: In an interview with NBC News, Barak warned that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would “need to deploy on the ground tens of thousands of pairs of boots” in order to “eliminate every launching pad, every rocket, every weapon, every training site” of Hamas. He said: I don’t like to use the word inevitable, […]
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