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Israeli Overreach in Palestine and West Asia

by Paul Larudee, published on Paul’s  Substack, September 22, 2025 In an extraordinary televised statement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the Zionist faithful that the state of Israel will curtail its current ambitions as part of a longer term strategy. The statement is short on specifics, but it …

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Resistance Factions Respond to Israel’s Strike on Qatar

By a guest author posted on Workers World, September 11, 2025 Representatives of multiple Palestinian resistance groups. In the following segments of their statements published by Resistance News Network, the regional Resistance factions respond to the “Israeli” strike on Qatar targeting Hamas’ negotiating delegation: The Popular Front for the Liberation …

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Hezbollah Chief Says Lebanese Govt ‘Bears Full Responsibility for Any Civil Strife’

from the News Desk at The Cradle, published August 15, 2025 Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said in a speech on 15 August that the Lebanese government bears responsibility for any civil strife that may occur over its decision on disarming the resistance earlier this month. “The Lebanese government bears full …

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As Reconstruction Stalls in Lebanon, Victims of Israeli Strikes Say they Won’t Bow to U.S. Pressure to Normalize With Israel

by Sabah Haidar, published on Mondoweiss, March 24, 2025 The IMF and World Bank are conditioning reconstruction funds on Lebanon’s normalization with Israel and disarming Hezbollah. In the Dahiya suburb of Beirut, the people who’ve lost their homes in the war think this is unacceptable. Since February 2025, the United …

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Israeli Minister Threatens Bashar al-Assad: ‘You are in Danger’

from The News Desk at The Cradle, October 28, 2024 Editor’s note: Israeli ministers certainly are arrogant and entitled.  Here, among the threats are acknowledgements of their participation in the so called “Syrian Civil War” which was actually an all out attack on Syria by US allies in the region …

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Why Israel Targets Syria: The Geopolitical Stakes of Damascus’s Support for the Resistance

by Mohamed Nader Al-Omari, published on The Cradle, November 1, 2024 Over the past decade, Syria has faced hundreds of Israeli air attacks claiming to primarily target weapons manufacturing, transport, and storage facilities. According to Tel Aviv, these strikes are intended to “cut off supply routes” from Iran to Lebanon’s …

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Boiling the Israeli Frog in In Southwest Asia (video)

A lecture by Sharmine Narwani at the American University in Beirut, Posted by The Cradle, September 4, 2024 This talk really  helps with a understanding a lot of issues occurring in the “Middle East” at this time, so that many people who oppose the wars, oppose the occupation of Palestine …

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Arab League Drops Hezbollah ‘Terrorist’ Designation

News from The Cradle, June 30, 2024 The Assistant Secretary-General of the Arab League announced on 29 June that the body had canceled its designation of Lebanon’s resistance movement, Hezbollah, as a terrorist organization. “In previous Arab League decisions, Hezbollah was designated as a terrorist organization, and this designation was …

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The Gathering in Support of the Choice of Resistance Met in Tehran to Honor the Achievements of the Martyr Qasem Soleimani

by Judith Bello, January 19, 2024 I traveled to Tehran to meet with the Gathering in Support of the Choice of Resistance the first week in January this year.   The Gathering is an international organization based in Lebanon, but our meeting in Tehran at this time was an opportunity to …

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