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Jews, the minority that disturbs Jews are a hated minority. They have always been. They have been hated longer than any other minority, more universally, and usually with higher intensity. Why is that? What is it about Jews that disturbs so much? There is nothing particularly unique to Jews. Jews are not a homogeneous minority. […]

Iran’s leaders are not likely to be deterred by US President Donald Trump’s warning on Dec. 31 that Tehran would be held responsible for attacks on US forces in Iraq and the storming of the US embassy in Baghdad. The mob of thousands of Kataib Hezballah supporters who broke into the embassy on Tuesday heralded […]

31 Dec 2019Military.com At least 100 infantry Marines from a crisis response unit designed to respond to emergencies at U.S. embassies have been dispatched to Iraq, where supporters of an Iran-backed militia smashed into an American diplomatic facility on Tuesday. The Marines are assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command, a ground-based […]

Dec 31 2019 09:19 Gmt+3 Tensions between Turkey and several eastern Mediterranean states could soon escalate into the most dangerous crisis the region has faced since the late 1990s. Then Turkey threatened to attack the Greek Cypriot-run internationally recognised Republic of Cyprus if it deployed Russian long-range S-300 air defence missiles. A year earlier Turkey […]

The Iraqi prime minister has asked rioters to stay away from the U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad, stating that any aggression against embassies or foreign representations will be prevented and punished by law.

2019-12-31 /* custom css */ .td_uid_6_5e0b33bbb07e6_rand.td-a-rec-img { text-align: left; } .td_uid_6_5e0b33bbb07e6_rand.td-a-rec-img img { margin: 0 auto 0 0; } Moscow views US air strikes against Hezbollah facilities in western Iraq and eastern Syria as unacceptable and counter-productive, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday. An Iraqi base near Kirkuk that is used by […]

The Israel Defense Forces has been placed on high alert after the US struck several military sites in Iraq and Syria belonging to Iranian-backed Kata’ib Hizbullah, which Washington has accused of targeting American troops. The US attack was a response to Friday’s coordinated rocket strikes on the K1 military base in Kirkuk, Iraq, which killed […]

Iran is mobilizing Iraqis to oppose the US presence in Iraq SETH J. FRANTZMAN In the wake of US airstrikes in Iraq that killed members of the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah, Iran is seizing the opportunity to use its clandestine networks in Iraq to push the US to leave the country. The US has already left […]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s $3.6 billion offshore Leviathan field started production on Tuesday, paving the way for multi-billion dollar gas export deals with Egypt and Jordan in the coming weeks. Natural gas began flowing from Israel’s largest field despite regulatory delays and court petitions by groups opposing the project raised doubts that its operators would […]

Iran’s Zarif in Russia and China for strategic diplomatic push Iran’s goal is to conduct strategic dialogue with major non-western countries, including Russia, India and China, positioning itself as part of a large system of countries. By SETH J. FRANTZMAN DECEMBER 31, 2019 10:48  Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has had a busy forty-eight hours. […]

 The Leviathan gas field off Israel’s Mediterranean shore goes operational on Tuesday following the flushing of the rig which was underway on Tuesday. The process was delayed when the Ministry of Environmental Protection said that Noble Energy had not yet properly calibrated the instrumentation for measuring harmful benzene emissions. When those conditions were met and […]