By Adonis Storr | The National | October 21, 2026
The BBC have been “very compliant to Israel, reporting their arguments even where it’s screamingly obvious, even to viewers, that what’s happening in Gaza is an international scandal,” a BBC insider has said.
A senior broadcaster, speaking on the condition of anonymity, has told The National: “The BBC have navigated themselves into a position where you can’t use [the word genocide]. And I think that’s a mistake.”
The source said that the BBC have “listened to Israel very closely and reproduced and reported Israel’s defence arguments, which is not their role” and that, “they should be much more investigative and much more deliberative about their views”.
The comments come in the wake of Francesca Albanese’s latest UN report.
Truth Under The Rubble: Media In The Time Of Genocide levelled heavy criticism at the UK’s public broadcaster, accusing the corporation of being one part of an interconnected system that is “intrinsic to genocide”. … continue
By Lucy Jackson | The National | October 19, 2026
Now, a damning new United Nations (UN) report could force news organisations to confront their own failures in accurately reporting on the scale and reality of the atrocities committed by Israel.
The report, by Francesca Albanese – UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories – lays bare the media’s complicity in Israel’s brutal onslaught of Gaza, which the UN, human rights organisations and leading academics have concluded amounts to genocide.
It argues that Israel has committed “mediacide”, finding that Israel has used “three interconnected patterns” which have both facilitated genocide and hindered accountability:
- The systematic killing of Palestinian journalists
- An information regime of propaganda and censorship within Israel
- International media amplifying Israeli narratives while silencing Palestinian voices
Particularly striking are the report’s findings on the role played by major broadcasters and newspapers in shaping the public’s understanding of the genocide.
The BBC is singled out as an example of how Palestinian suffering has been obscured through the repetition of unverified Israeli claims, the stripping away of historical context and a reliance on official Israeli sources over Palestinian voices.
Its own editorial guidance omits Gaza from the occupied territory and refers to the West Bank and Gaza as “disputed” territories, despite their status under international law. … continue
By Andy Worthington | October 21, 2026
There is no doubt that Israel’s sustained genocidal assault on the largely civilian population of the Gaza Strip, now in its fourth year, has been the deadliest military conflict for journalists in human history.
As the journalist Nick Turse reported for Brown University’s “Costs of War” project in April 2025, “The war in Gaza has, since October 7, 2023, killed more journalists than the US Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including the conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined.”
Under international humanitarian law, as most noticeably enshrined in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977, “Civilian journalists engaged in professional missions in areas of armed conflict must be respected and protected as long as they are not taking a direct part in hostilities.” (emphasis added).
The State of Israel, however, has nothing but contempt for international humanitarian law. As far as they are concerned, everyone who works for a media outlet that is, in any way, aligned with the military wing of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or any other militant faction in Gaza, is a terrorist, and can be targeted and killed, and anyone who works as a journalist but has previously had any suspected involvement with any of these military factions in any kind of capacity can also be targeted and killed.
Israel doesn’t recognize that, by the same application of its lawless logic, almost every journalist in Israel could be regarded similarly by the Palestinians, because military service is mandatory in Israel. Most crucially, however, it fails to recognize that, if an individual has, in the past, been a part of a Palestinian military faction in any way, that doesn’t apply endlessly as a justification for their targeted killing. If they don a press vest and begin reporting, international humanitarian law makes it clear, as noted above, that they cannot be regarded as a legitimate military target unless they are specifically “taking a direct part in hostilities.”
In a cynical, devious and sustained effort to erase these distinctions, Israel has targeted and killed journalists for what it regards as “suspicious activity” — using drones to secure footage or photos, for example, or using vantage points on buildings, both for the overview they provide, but also, often, to secure transmission signals in an environment in which internet and mobile phone signals are often notoriously unreliable.
It has also, increasingly, resorted to black propaganda, alleging, almost entirely without providing evidence, that the journalists it has killed were not journalists at all, but were military operatives masquerading as journalists, and it has sometimes targeted these journalists directly, texting or calling them to tell them to stop their work or threatening them that, if they don’t stop, they or their families will be targeted and killed.
One reason why Israel feels empowered to so comprehensively erase the distinctions between combatants and civilians is because, since the 1990s, western governments (including the US in 1997, the EU in 2003, and the UK in 2021) have obligingly designated the whole of Hamas as a terrorist organization — not just its military wing, but also the whole of the civilian administrative government in Gaza.
Since October 7, 2023, this has allowed to Israel to claim that, for example, doctors and medical staff can — if a devious enough excuse can be invented — be regarded as terrorists because they work for the Ministry of Health. This is a western-approved betrayal of the absolute prohibition on targeting doctors or hospitals, which Israel has thoroughly embraced, making risible and never-proven claims that the hospitals were Hamas control and command centres, and that the doctors, like the journalists, were not actually doctors at all, but were military operatives pretending to be doctors. … continue
By Wyatt Reed | The Grayzone | October 23, 2026
Israeli soldiers have looted and demolished the family home of Radwan Mortada, a prominent Lebanese investigative journalist who directed the recent viral Al Jazeera 360 documentary “The Trap.” The film exposes the surreptitious network and planning behind Israel’s notorious pager attack, which left hundreds of Lebanese citizens wounded and maimed, and has become one of the channel’s most-watched in recent history.
Israel’s destruction of Mortada family home on October 17 has drawn condemnation from at least one international press freedom group, the Committee to Protect Journalists. On October 21, the organization issued a statement declaring that it “strongly condemns the Israeli military’s demolition of journalist Radwan Mortada’s family home in southern Lebanon. Just three weeks earlier, Mortada released an Al Jazeera documentary on the Israeli 2024 pager attack. In the days leading up to the demolition, Israeli soldiers launched a sound bomb, a tank tore down the entrance, and soldiers looted personal belongings. CPJ fears this destruction is in retaliation for Mortada’s work, marking another dangerous violation of international law and disregard for the press.”
Speaking to The Grayzone, Mortada recalled how he learned that Israel’s military forces destroyed the estate he and his family had painstakingly constructed over almost a decade. … continue
By David Miller | Tracking Power | October 24, 2026
Start in Gaza, not in a dean’s office. A UNESCO assessment with the Ministry of Education and AWRAD, presented in November 2025, covered 21 higher-education institutions and 38 campuses. Twenty-two campuses were completely destroyed, 14 more were damaged, and 195 of 206 buildings were unusable. Of 5,102 staff, 1,112 had been killed, detained or injured. Islamic University, Al-Azhar, Al-Aqsa, Al-Israa: the sector as a physical fact had been hit.
That is scholasticide, a pillar of the genocide, not collateral. In July 2025 the presidents of Gaza’s universities wrote an open letter refusing a reconstruction designed by donors and occupiers. The Emergency Committee was set up mid-genocide to keep the institutions alive without their buildings. Academic freedom in Gaza is the freedom to teach in a tent because the campus was bombed. … continue
The Cradle | October 24, 2026
On 23 October, the Israeli military demolished homes and expelled about 1,500 Palestinians from Hebron in a campaign of collective punishment, after resistance fighters killed two Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint outside the occupied West Bank city.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rushed to Hebron after the gun battle on Friday, promising the destruction of the neighborhood the two resistance fighters hailed from.
“We are going to apply the successful, aggressive model we used in the refugee camps,” Netanyahu stated, referring to earlier military campaigns to destroy the Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams camps in the West Bank.
The first home demolitions began within hours of the attack on Friday. Ministers in Netanyahu’s cabinet also rushed to the site, hoping to use the incident to campaign for next Tuesday’s Knesset elections.
Religious Zionism leader and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich posted a video showing himself standing in front of a bulldozer as it demolished a Palestinian home near the site of the gun battle.
The destruction of the home, whose owners had no ties to the Palestinian resistance fighters, was intended to “create deterrence and exact a price,” Smotrich said.
Smotrich further called for Israel to launch a campaign in the West Bank “exactly like in Gaza or Lebanon,” where Israeli troops have erased entire Palestinian and Lebanese villages and cities to prepare for Jewish settlement.
The gunfight began Friday when two Palestinian resistance fighters were stopped by Israeli occupying troops at a temporary checkpoint. The fighters killed two Israeli soldiers and injured three others before they were killed, according to Israeli officials.
Armed resistance to foreign occupation is lawful under international law. Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem in 1967. … Full article
IMEMC | October 24, 2026
The Commission Against the Wall and Settlements documented 19 separate attacks carried out by the Israeli occupation forces and armed Israeli paramilitary colonists against Palestinian olive pickers and their lands in 6 governorates in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, since early Saturday morning.
The attacks included firing live bullets and gas bombs at olive harvesters, abducting and beating the olive harvesters, stealing olive fruits and harvesting equipment, vandalizing agricultural property, preventing farmers from reaching their lands and forcing them to leave.
In Jerusalem Governorate, Israeli paramilitary colonists protected by the Israeli occupation forces attacked olive pickers in the village of Beit Iksa, northwest of Jerusalem, despite prior coordination for the harvest. The Israeli occupation forces fired live bullets and gas bombs at the farmers, and abducted citizen Muhammad Sidr after beating him and spraying his face with pepper gas, while the colonists stole the harvest cloths.
In Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, the village of Sinjil witnessed three raids on agricultural lands during the day, including attacks on farmers in the Al-Tall and Al-Waer areas, an assault on an elderly man and the theft of his phone and harvesting equipment, in addition to the release of sheep into agricultural lands and stealing water designated for irrigating trees.
In Salfit Governorate, Israeli colonists surrounded farmers in the Wadi al-Ahmar area east of Marda village, smashed one of their vehicles, and forced them to leave their land. In Deir Ballut, colonists attacked Mahmoud Othman Mustafa’s family in the Wadi al-Shami area, stealing 8 bags of olives, a picking machine, and an electric bike, and damaging mobile phones. … continue
Palestinian Information Center – October 24, 2026
GAZA – Four Palestinian civilians, including two women, were martyred and others were wounded in fresh Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning, while another one died of injuries sustained in an earlier strike.
Local sources reported that a young girl was killed by Israeli gunfire in the Tal al-Dahab area of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.
Another citizen was also killed and three others were injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a group of civilians near Palestine Stadium in Gaza City’s al-Rimal neighborhood.
Later in the evening, a woman was shot dead by Israeli gunfire at al-Zahra School in Khan Yunis refugee camp, south of Gaza.
In central Gaza, Israeli forces opened fire towards Deir al-Balah, killing one citizen.
Meanwhile, a citizen was pronounced dead after succumbing to injuries sustained in a previous strike in the west of Khan Yunis, south of Gaza.
In northern Gaza, a woman was critically wounded by Israeli gunfire in Beit Lahia, while another woman was injured after being shot by an Israeli quadcopter in Jabalia refugee camp.
In Gaza City, several residents were injured and property was damaged after Israeli tanks fired projectiles at two inhabited homes near the Shuja’iya junction in the east of the city.
Additionally, widespread military activity, including shooting incidents, artillery shelling, drone overflights, and demolitions, was reported in different areas of Gaza today.
Press TV – October 24, 2026
Syrians rallied in several locations on Friday, including Damascus and Homs in central Syria, condemning Israeli incursions and attacks in the southern provinces of Quneitra and Daraa, AFP correspondents and state media reported.
In Damascus, outside a United Nations building, the family of a Syrian man kidnapped by Israel demanded his release, with children holding posters reading, “I want my dad.”
Protester Taysir al-Hariri told AFP that demonstrators aimed to show the world that Syrians stand strong and united against “Israeli incursions and against anyone who is tempted to tamper… with national security.”
State media released footage of other rallies showing protesters holding posters reading, “We are all Moaz.” Moaz Salameh al-Baair was a young man with Down syndrome who was killed by Israeli fire on Thursday during an incursion in Daraa province.
Demonstrators in the town of Khan Arnabah carried banners in Arabic and English denouncing the repeated violations and demanded the release of kidnapped Syrians held by Israeli forces. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | October 24, 2026
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq said US military and surveillance aircraft violated Iraqi airspace 171 times between September 30 and October 23, accusing Washington of breaching its commitments to Baghdad and undermining Iraq’s sovereignty.
In a statement issued on October 24, the Resistance said the documented violations were carried out by combat and reconnaissance aircraft, calling on the Iraqi government to inform the public about the situation.
The movement also criticized the closure of airports and border crossings with Iran, arguing that the decisions reflected US pressure and restricted Iraq’s independent national decision-making.
It questioned how Iraq could claim full sovereignty while foreign powers continued to violate its airspace and influence its national decisions. … Full article
By Larry C. Johnson | SONAR21 | October 24, 2026
Good news, everyone. The war is over, at least in the United Arab Emirates. That is the only conclusion you could draw from this month’s headlines. On October 14, Bloomberg reported the International Energy Agency’s estimate that UAE oil supply hit a record 5.3 million barrels a day in September. Fujairah, the port the Emirates built so they would never have to worry about the Strait of Hormuz, loaded a record 2.62 million barrels a day. The giant Ruwais refinery was declared back at full capacity at the end of August. Pop the (non-alcoholic) champagne.
Then Karl Miller sent me his October 22 assessment of the UAE’s oil and gas system, and spoiled the party. … continue
By Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation | October 24, 2026
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has found a novel way of solving Britain’s cost-of-living crisis. By bombing Yemen.
Yes, you read that correctly. This week, Burnham authorized the deployment of British Typhoon fighter jets to Saudi Arabia for its war with Yemen.
Downing Street assured the British public that the deployment was for “defensive” operations only. The BBC and other British media outlets indulged this fantasy by repeating over and over that the Royal Air Force was being deployed for “defensive actions”. The RAF would not be engaging in attacking Yemen, it was claimed, and the British fighter jets were being sent to “protect” Saudi Arabia from “escalating” Houthi aggression.
Britain’s Minister of Defense Wes Streeting (a former health minister, please note) framed the RAF mission as necessary to counter instability in the Middle East and soaring energy prices. As if Britain was not the cause of instability and higher fuel costs by backing Trump’s aggression on Iran. … continue
The Cradle | October 24, 2026
Saudi warplanes killed or wounded at least 21 people in strikes on a civilian home in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, and a cement factory in the surrounding governorate, the Yemeni Health Ministry announced on 24 October.
The strike on housing for cement factory workers in the Hamdan district killed eight people, including six women and a girl, and wounded more than 10, according to Yemeni media. This is up from the ministry’s initial count of seven killed and eight wounded.
The strike on a civilian’s home in the capital’s Asr area killed three people and wounded three others. Both strikes were part of a wave of Saudi raids on Sanaa.
Saudi missiles also hit the Maran district of Saada Governorate, while Saudi warplanes launched 20 airstrikes on the coastal city of Mokha in western Taiz Governorate since morning.
Saturday’s escalation followed an announcement the previous day by Brigadier General Yahya Saree, spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF), that Saudi warplanes had carried out 124 airstrikes on civilian facilities across several Yemeni governorates within 24 hours. … Full article
RT | October 24, 2026
Three people have been killed in a Ukrainian missile strike on the Russian city of Oryol, Governor Andrey Klychkov has said.
The bodies were recovered from the rubble of a civilian enterprise targeted by Kiev on Friday, Klychkov announced on Saturday.
According to the governor, Ukrainian forces used NATO-made missiles in the attack. He shared photos of missile fragments bearing markings in English as evidence of their alleged Western origin.
Klychkov did not specify the type of weapons used, although Russian military bloggers earlier claimed that Kiev had fired British-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
The governor condemned Friday’s strike as “especially cynical,” saying it took place during rush hour, when people were returning home from work to their families. … Full article
Strategic Culture Foundation | October 23, 2026
Diplomacy, as the saying goes, is the art of the possible. A peaceful settlement to the war in Ukraine is possible if all sides were to engage in genuine diplomacy. That’s the easy, more civilized way.
If not, Russia will achieve peace the hard way through complete military victory.
Diplomacy is being prevented because European politicians, in particular, are held hostage by their own twisted ideology and false propaganda.
Ironically, the NATO proxy war in Ukraine was intended to “strategically defeat” Russia. It turns out, however, that it is the NATO axis that is staring at a historic defeat. The chaos surging across Europe is a manifestation of that failure, driven by higher energy prices and reckless, unsustainable militarism. … continue
By Patrick LAWRENCE | Strategic Culture Foundation | October 24, 2026
Given the gush of vitriol and condemnation since Oct. 9, when Donald Trump announced his deal to import 5 million metric tons of Russian diesel, roughly 37 million barrels, one would think the president had surrendered the United States’ sovereignty to the Kremlin, or handed over the Ukrainians to the Russian army, or rankly betrayed the Europeans or altogether renounced what we picturesquely call Western civilization.
This is, indeed, what we read daily in the corporate press these days and what we are supposed to think. It is 2016 redux, it seems. Another round of Russiagate may not be far off, given 16 House Democrats have introduced a Prohibit Corrupt Russia Oil Deals Act and 12 senators now attack the diesel accord as “a gift to our adversary.”
If there is one thing essential to recall about those dreary years it is that the wobbly-from-the-first Russiagate edifice, the whole of it, was made of mis– and disinformation, hyperbole, innuendo, extravagant abuses of office and propaganda incessantly disseminated in corporate media.
It was, in short, the Deep State’s attempt to scuttle any effort to advance beyond the poisonous Russophobia it had spent a decade cultivating (taking my date from Vladimir Putin’s era-defining speech to the Munich Security Conference in 2007).
It is the same again as Trump tries once more to end the war in Ukraine and refashion East–West relations, a project the old “MICIMATT”— the military-industrial, congressional, intelligence, media, academic and think tank blob — simply cannot abide. … continue
RT | October 24, 2026
Billionaire Elon Musk has accused US politicians of putting Kiev’s interests ahead of their own country’s, alleging that American taxpayer money sent to Ukraine is being laundered back into political campaigns.
Writing on X on Friday, the SpaceX founder suggested that financial interests could explain why some American lawmakers remain staunch supporters of Kiev in its conflict with Russia.
“Some of that US taxpayer money comes back through multiple laundry machines to fund political campaigns in America, which is why you see some politicians caring more about Ukraine than America!” Musk wrote, without identifying the beneficiaries. … continue
By Lewis Kamb | U.S. Right to Know | October 15, 2026
On a Sunday morning in October 2019, the chief of the virus ecology unit at the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories emailed a postdoctoral scientist in his lab with an idea.
Vincent Munster and his postdoc, Michael Letko, had spent that year building a system to rapidly test whether dozens of SARS-related bat coronaviruses could infect human cells.
That week, Munster read a new preprint from prominent virologists Vineet Menachery and Ralph Baric’s lab groups showing that the protease trypsin could unlock entry for certain coronaviruses that otherwise would not infect human cells.
Letko had forwarded him the paper two days earlier with the note, “Seems like more groups will be converging on this idea soon.”
“You should be able to make S with a more broader cleavage signature (like furin-like) to enhance infectivity,” Munster wrote back on Oct. 6, 2019. “You can include a motif like this R-X-[K/R]-R↓ Might be cool to get some synthesized.”
In virology parlance, “S” is the coronavirus spike protein, which allows the virus to latch onto the cells it infects, and R-X-[K/R]-R is a furin cleavage site motif, which can make viruses better able to infect cells and spread.
Munster was suggesting that his postdoc engineer a furin site into a coronavirus spike protein to make it more infectious.
Eleven weeks later, a coronavirus carrying a similar furin cleavage site emerged in Wuhan, China, spawning the COVID-19 pandemic. It remains the only known sarbecovirus, the SARS-related group of coronaviruses that Munster and Letko were then screening, to have one. … continue
By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH | Focal Points | October 21, 2026
Large numbers of prominent athletes continue to die unexpectedly or suffer anomalous medical emergencies since the mRNA gene therapies were rolled out.
Across the NFL, NHL, NCAA football, professional rugby, women’s basketball, and international hockey, athletes ranging in age from just 18 to 56 have suffered major medical events, including pulmonary emboli, cardiac arrest, an aortic dissection, an emergency heart transplant, and several deaths. … continue
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender | October 23, 2026
Highlights:
- Seven Dutch plaintiffs sued Bill Gates, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and 15 other defendants over alleged COVID-19 vaccine injuries. Two plaintiffs have since died.
- At a hearing this week, plaintiffs’ attorney Peter Stassen alleged that the pandemic and vaccines were part of a coordinated “Great Reset” project involving deception and violations of individual rights.
- Defense attorneys maintained that the vaccines were safe and effective and saved millions of lives, while challenging the plaintiffs’ allegations and witnesses’ qualifications.
- The court limited the plaintiffs’ four expert witnesses to video statements rather than in-person testimony, drawing objections from Stassen and others quoted in the article.
- A ruling is expected as early as December, though it could be delayed until February 2027.
Read article
RT | October 23, 2026
‘Cambridge Analytica’ is by now a byword for the social media Wild West of 2016, when regulations were non-existent and unscrupulous brokers sold personal user data to advertisers and political operatives. RT explores the scandal that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg still can’t dodge.
On October 22, Meta was ordered by a New Mexico judge to pay $25 billion in civil penalties over the collection of personal data from 44 million Facebook users by Cambridge Analytica more than a decade earlier.
The judge concluded that Meta’s misconduct warranted a penalty exceeding $219 billion under state law, but reduced the amount to $25 billion, making it one of the largest fines ever imposed on an American corporation.
Meta, operating at the time as Facebook, knowingly and systematically deceived users about how it managed their personal data and allowed its harvesting by third-party companies like Cambridge Analytica. The jury also found Meta’s senior executive team knew of, and lied about, deceiving users about how it planned to investigate data-harvesting companies after the Cambridge Analytica scandal became public.
To understand how Meta ended up owing an eighth of its annual revenue in just one judgment, it’s necessary to go back to 2013, when Cambridge Analytica emerged from Britain’s shadowy private intelligence sector. … continue
By Glenn Diesen | October 23, 2026
The very public execution of my professorship and reputation continues in Norway. Today’s media article about me makes three claims that are misleading and/or false. … continue
By Robert Inlakesh | Palestine Chronicle | October 23, 2026
Amidst widespread confusion about the Saudi-Yemen War, British journalist Sami Hamdi has weighed in on the debate. Unfortunately, his stance and analysis not only miss the mark, but are replete with factual errors, undemonstrable assumptions, and an incorrect timeline of how events transpired.
Until recently, the war in Yemen has long been ignored by the corporate media in the West. Despite the conflict being over a decade old, most references to it highlighted a humanitarian crisis and presented a narrative that a Saudi-Iranian proxy war was raging on. “The Houthis” have been labeled as terrorists, and many have found it rather difficult to understand what is truly going on inside the country.
Therefore, the goal of this article is to push back against Sami Hamdi’s portrayal of events inside the country and provide key context that will help a wider audience understand this issue in greater depth. It is not an attack on Hamdi himself, or an attempt to discredit him as a journalist; instead, it is a criticism of his narrative on this issue and a correction of false information he has presented. … continue
By David Miller | Tracking Power | October 23, 2026
What is it with anti-Zionist Jews claiming that Christians invented Zionism? … continue
The Cradle | October 23, 2026
Cyprus hosted the leadership of the pro-Israel US lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), in Nicosia on 21 October, pledging to deepen the island’s ties with Israel and the US.
Outgoing AIPAC president Bernard Kaminetsky and his successor, Yehuda Neuberger, led the delegation to the presidential palace for talks with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides.
The talks focused on accelerating the 3+1 Mechanism, a partnership binding Cyprus, Greece, Israel, and the US to coordinate on energy, security, and infrastructure.
AIPAC, in return, pledged to keep championing Cypriot interests in Washington.
Meanwhile, pro-Israel lobbies have been embedding themselves inside the Cypriot and Greek parliaments, with Israel Allies Foundation (IAF) launching caucuses in both legislatures to bring lawmakers into line with Israel’s regional agenda.
IAF president Josh Reinstein unveiled the Cypriot caucus on 14 October after meeting Christodoulides, explicitly pitting the initiative against Ankara by branding Turkiye a “common enemy” of Israel and Cyprus. … continue
Palestinian Information Center – October 23, 2026
WEST BANK – Israeli occupation forces (IOF) demolished a residential building containing three apartments in the Farsh al-Hawa neighborhood of al-Khalil, in the southern occupied West Bank, on Friday, as part of a collective punishment policy targeting Palestinian families and threatening to leave them homeless.
The demolition coincided with the closure of entrances to the city and the imposition of severe restrictions on the movement of residents and vehicles.
Local sources reported that Israeli bulldozers began demolishing a building belonging to Palestinian resident Riyad Amreish. The building contained three residential apartments, each measuring approximately 200 square meters.
According to the sources, the IOF ordered the residents to evacuate the building before carrying out the demolition. They added that Israeli troops sealed off the surrounding area and its main entrance, which serves as the only access point connecting al-Khalil to the bypass road, further restricting movement throughout the city.
The IOF also closed all entrances and roads leading into al-Khalil, preventing residents and vehicles from entering or leaving the city as military restrictions intensified in the surrounding area.
The demolition and road closures followed a shooting attack in al-Khalil earlier this morning that killed two Israeli soldiers.
Following the resistance operation, Israeli government officials threatened to demolish Palestinian homes and other structures near the site of the shooting. … Full article
MEMO | October 23, 2026
Israeli forces detained 11 international solidarity activists on Thursday while they were helping Palestinian farmers harvest olives in the village of Al-Buwaib, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to a Palestinian volunteer campaign.
The Fazaa campaign said in a statement that the activists had been held since Thursday morning, without Israeli authorities providing an explanation for their detention.
According to the campaign, the detainees include nationals of Italy, Germany, the United States, Britain and Australia. […]
The activists were participating in efforts to support Palestinian farming communities facing threats and attacks by Israeli settlers during the olive harvest season. … Full article
IMEMC | October 22, 2026
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission documented 409 attacks by Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers against Palestinian olive farmers, olive trees, agricultural land, and agricultural equipment between October 1 and 21, 2026. Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out 317 of the documented attacks, while Israeli soldiers were responsible for 92.
The documented violations included preventing farmers from accessing their fields, assaulting them and forcing them to leave, stealing harvested olives, and damaging olive trees and agricultural equipment.
The Commission reported that the Nablus governorate recorded the highest number of attacks, with 166, followed by Salfit with 91, Ramallah and Al-Bireh with 69, Jenin with 36, Hebron with 30, Qalqilia with nine, Bethlehem with five, and Jerusalem with three. Nablus and Salfit together accounted for approximately 63% of all documented attacks.
The Commission documented 287 attacks directly targeting farmers, including 149 incidents of intimidation and threats, 50 physical assaults, 29 incidents involving restrictions on movement and denial of access, 18 abductions during the harvest, and 15 cases in which farmers were detained in olive groves.
It also documented 14 incidents involving the use of pepper spray or the firing of gas bombs at farmers, as well as 11 incidents involving live fire.
On October 7, 2026, Israeli paramilitary colonizers killed Ali Hassan Bazari, 44, a resident of Burqa town, northwest of Nablus, while he was harvesting olives. Sixteen Palestinians were injured by the colonizers and Israeli soldiers in the attack. … continue
MEMO | October 23, 2026
Three Palestinians were killed and others injured in Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip on Friday as violations of the October 2025 ceasefire continue unabated, Anadolu reports.
Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike targeting a motorcycle in the al-Nasr neighborhood, west of Gaza City, medical sources told Anadolu.
In a separate incident, the sources said several Palestinians were wounded in a strike on Gaza City’s al-Rimal neighborhood.
On Friday morning, another Palestinian was killed and others injured when a drone targeted a bicycle on al-Qubba Street in the al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, a medical source and local sources told Anadolu.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army expanded the areas under its control east of al-Masdar village in central Gaza.
Local sources said the army extended its control east of the village by moving the concrete blocks marking the so-called “Yellow Line” into areas beyond its existing zone of control. … Full article
Press TV – October 23, 2026
At least 30 Yemeni civilians have been killed or wounded over the past 24 hours in a fresh wave of airstrikes and artillery attacks by Saudi Arabia and its affiliated forces targeting residential areas in the provinces of Taiz and Hajjah, according to Yemen’s Al-Masirah network and local health authorities.
Al-Masirah reported early Friday that the Saudi coalition and its forces carried out five separate attacks on civilians, resulting in the deaths of nine people and injuries to 21 others. The majority of the casualties are women and children.
In Al-Ma’afir District of Taiz, three Saudi airstrikes struck a residential home in the Al-Nashma area, killing two civilians and wounding one woman and three children. The bombardment also destroyed civilian property. In the same district, Saudi fighter jets targeted the Al-Sharq Club and a sports hall in the Al-Sannah area, causing extensive destruction to public and private property, spreading terror among residents, and destroying sports facilities used by local youth.
A separate Saudi airstrike on a house in the Al-Omari area of coastal Dhubab District killed one woman and injured eight other civilians. The attack specifically targeted residential homes.
In Al-Ta’iziyah District, an artillery attack by Saudi-led coalition forces on the home of a Yemeni citizen in the Al-Arsh area killed three women and wounded three children from the same family. … Full article
The Cradle | October 23, 2026
QatarEnergy signed a deal with US firm Cheniere Energy Inc. to buy 4 million tons a year of liquefied natural gas (LNG) through 2054, in a bid to meet its obligations to customers after the disruption of its own production due to the US-Israeli war on Iran, Bloomberg reported on 22 October.
Qatar, the world’s second-largest LNG exporter before the war, needs gas to supply customers in Asia after Iranian strikes damaged its Ras Laffan facility during the first month of the war in March.
QatarEnergy has also been forced to dramatically reduce LNG exports through the Strait of Hormuz after Iranian attacks on vessels transiting the strategic waterway.
QatarEnergy will buy 2 million tons a year of LNG from each of Cheniere’s two plants, Sabine Pass in Louisiana and Corpus Christi in Texas, the company announced in a statement on Thursday. … Full article
“So Much Worse Than People Realize”
By Aaron Parnas and Ken Harbaugh | MeidasTouch | October 22, 2026
When the United States went to war with Iran in late February, the American public was told little about what was happening to the troops stationed across the Middle East. There were no embedded journalists. Casualty details trickled out slowly. Images of damage to American bases were almost nonexistent.
Now, service members, civilian contractors, and military families are breaking their silence.
MeidasTouch, in coordination with our partner VALOR Media Network, has obtained dozens of never-before-published photos and videos showing damage to U.S. military installations in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain, along with firsthand accounts from people who were there. They describe destroyed aircraft, bombed-out barracks and mess halls, troops digging their own foxholes, and military families hiding in parking garages while Iranian missiles flew overhead. … continue
Press TV – October 23, 2026
Iran has condemned “parasitic” military relations between the United States and Israel, citing the spending of $11 billion in American taxpayers’ money on missiles for the occupying regime over the past three years.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi made the remarks in an X post on Friday, saying the US has fired more interceptors to protect Israel than the usurping entity has.
“That is not a symbiotic relationship. It is a parasitic one,” he added. … continue
By Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation | October 23, 2026
There is a straightforward way to alleviate the social chaos sweeping Europe, as well as the war in Ukraine threatening to engulf the continent. It’s an easy fix… continue
RT | October 23, 2026
Russia remains ready to negotiate a lasting settlement in Ukraine but will achieve its objectives regardless, Russian President Vladimir Putin told journalist Pavel Zarubin on Thursday. He also outright rejected “schizophrenic” claims in Western media that Moscow could be seeking a war with Europe. … continue
No short-lived oil-price windfall can compensate for damage done by endless war between partners
By Murad Sadygzade | RT | October 22, 2026
… Western media and expert debates, including those focused on Middle Eastern politics, frequently portray Russia as a beneficiary of the war, arguing that disruptions to Gulf supplies drive up energy prices and create opportunities for Russian exporters.
A short-term price benefit is certainly possible, but to assume that war gives Russia a strategic advantage is analytically unsound, because the country’s national interests are not limited to a single source of export revenue. Additional income from commodity sales says little about the cost of damaged partnerships, postponed investment, and worsening conditions for long-term projects.
The Middle East matters to Russia as a political and economic partner, and stable relations depend on predictable institutions, transport routes, and financial transactions. A prolonged war raises shipping and insurance costs, complicates infrastructure agreements, and forces partners to divert resources from development toward immediate security needs. … Full article
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender | October 19, 2026
A British nurse who sustained permanent injuries after receiving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was denied compensation for her injuries because she is “not disabled enough” to meet the threshold set by the U.K.’s Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS). The Telegraph first reported the story last week.
Marie-Claire Hoyle, now 44 and a mother of three, worked for Royal Liverpool University Hospital in 2020, when she volunteered for AstraZeneca’s U.K. COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial.
Within two weeks of receiving her second dose, Hoyle developed transverse myelitis, a rare and permanent neurological condition caused by inflammation of the spinal cord that interrupts nerve signals between the body and the brain.
The condition left Hoyle “in agonising pain and unable to use her limbs fully,” The Telegraph reported.
While rare in the general population, hundreds of cases of transverse myelitis have been recorded among people injured after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. … continue
Ofcom wants emergency blocking powers, proactive scanning, and fewer ways for users to route around them.
By Cindy Harper | Reclaim The Net | October 22, 2026
UK’s speech regulator Ofcom and some members of the country’s parliament are looking for ways to expand their censorship powers, including by going after VPNs.
The biggest one is the power to get sites blocked in the UK straight away, while Ofcom is still investigating, if “there was ongoing, urgent, immediate harm to the public.” […]
Labour MP Jeff Smith asked whether VPNs, which allow users to circumvent geoblocks that sites put up in compliance with the Act, also allow those companies to “get off with not paying their fines.” … Full article
Remix News | October 22, 2026
Germany’s federal states are proposing that social media platforms reserve at least 20 percent of algorithmic recommendations for content from a pool of approved media outlets deemed important for opinion diversity, according to a draft under public consultation. The proposed measure is already being slammed as a state-mandated propaganda effort that would force German citizens to view content friendly to the ruling establishment parties.
The measure is part of the second stage of a planned Digital Media State Treaty developed by the Broadcasting Commission of the Federal States. Under the draft, public broadcasters such as ARD, ZDF and Deutschland Radio would automatically qualify for certain offerings.
Meanwhile, private outlets would generally need to apply and demonstrate that they meet criteria including news and political reporting, information and educational content, documentaries, local or regional coverage, original journalistic production, editorial staffing and accessibility standards. Approvals would be decided by the 14 state media authorities. […]
The rule would apply to algorithmic recommendations shown to users, such as in feeds or under videos on platforms including Instagram and X. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | October 22, 2026
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is getting out of the business of endorsing candidates, writing checks from its own PAC, and bundling donations for specific campaigns, CNBC reported. The move undoes an approach the pro-“Israel” lobbying group adopted five years ago, and it comes as the organization contends with growing political pushback.
AIPAC laid out the changes in a letter sent to members on Wednesday, which CNBC obtained. The letter says the group will keep running its super PAC, the United Democracy Project, and will instead steer more of its energy toward encouraging individual supporters to contribute to candidates themselves.
Spokesperson Deryn Sousa told CNBC the organization wants to substantially broaden its community’s role in politics and give its activists more direct influence and that this will be its priority over the next two years. The letter itself struck a more somber tone, describing 2026 as among the toughest political climates the group has faced in years and cautioning that conditions will likely worsen.
The restructuring removes AIPAC’s most public-facing political tools but leaves its capacity to deploy big money intact. It may also make the group’s footprint harder to trace. … Full article
Palestinian Information Center – October 22, 2026
GAZA – Trade unions and labor groups in about 100 ports distributed across 17 countries are preparing to organize strikes and protests on Friday, October 30, to demand a halt to the transfer of weapons and goods related to the Israeli war on Palestinians, in a move that raises Israeli fears regarding the impact on supply chains and shipping traffic, including shipments transiting through intermediate ports.
Under the slogan “Port workers do not work for war”, the organizers of the action seek to put pressure on shipping companies and commercial institutions, by refusing to participate in the transfer of weapons, ammunition, and military equipment to Israel, and opposing transactions that contribute to the continuation of its war effort. … continue
Al Mayadeen | October 22, 2026
An investigation by The Guardian and Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism has linked reports of electric-shock torture against Palestinian detainees in Israeli custody to weapons manufactured by US company Axon Enterprise, raising questions about the continued supply of the equipment to Israeli security agencies.
The investigation examined the case of Issa, a 43-year-old Palestinian who recalls Israeli soldiers repeatedly subjecting him to electric shocks while he was detained. More than 18 months later, marks from the shocks remain visible on his body, according to the report. The International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims said the proximity of two scars gives evidence that he received repeated shocks while tightly restrained.
Issa was abducted in January 2024 from the Jabalia refugee camp, where he had been staying after losing both feet in an Israeli aggression on his home. He was held at Ofer Prison before his release in October 2025.
‘Hell’s Wing’
According to his account, Israeli forces dragged him into a section of the prison known as “Hell’s Wing,” pushed him into a corner, and fired two rubber bullets at him. After binding him tightly, they continued beating him before one soldier used a stun gun against his body.
The investigation found that three other Palestinian detainees, subsequently released, also reported that Israeli personnel tortured them with Axon-manufactured weapons between 2024 and 2025. The company was formerly known as Taser International.
Axon’s business ties with Israeli security agencies
The investigation found that Axon has maintained commercial connections with Israeli entities for decades, with evidence indicating that its products and accessories continued to be supplied to Israeli security agencies.
In 1995, a delegation led by company founder Rick Smith attended a security trade exhibition in Eilat. More recently, Israeli distributors have facilitated the sale of its electroshock weapons.
In 2016, MR Hunter became an Axon distributor in “Israel” and signed a contract worth 13 million shekels, equivalent to approximately $3.5 million, to provide Israeli security agencies with Taser X26P weapons and related equipment.
Axon listed another Israeli distributor, Goren-Kidon Group, in 2025. The company’s customers include the Israeli police, the Police Ministry, the Ministry of War, and the Israeli Prison Service (IPS).
In June 2025, Axon held a conference in “Israel” to present its latest electroshock weapons to representatives of Israeli security agencies.
The weapons are manufactured in Arizona and exported under the category of crime-control equipment. US export regulations allow authorities to consider evidence of human rights violations when determining whether to grant export licenses.
Palestinians describe electric shocks, lasting injuries
The investigation also examined two video clips produced by the Israeli Prison Service over the previous year. The weapons shown appear to resemble Axon-manufactured tasers, according to the report. Issa and the three other former detainees interviewed identified the weapons they said had been used against them as tasers.
One former detainee described being doused with water before receiving an electric shock during his detention in 2024. He said he continued to experience severe vision problems, muscle spasms, and recurring fainting episodes. Water can intensify the effects of electric-shock torture, according to guidance cited in the investigation.
In August 2025, the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs reported that detainees at Gilboa Prison had been subjected to electric shocks before being dragged to shower areas, doused with water, and shocked again. … Full article
Palestinian Information Center – October 22, 2026
WEST BANK – The Palestine Center for Prisoner Studies has warned that approximately 9,400 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons face worsening conditions as winter approaches, amid continued deprivation of warm clothing, blankets, and heating for more than three years, alongside deteriorating living and health conditions inside prisons and detention centers.
Riyad al-Ashqar, director of the center, said Israeli occupation authorities have continued to deny prisoners access to clothing and blankets since October 7, 2023, while suspending family visits and closing prison commissaries, which prisoners previously relied on to purchase basic necessities.
In a statement issued by the center, al-Ashqar explained that Israeli authorities have prevented international organizations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), from delivering clothing to prisoners.
Meanwhile, prison authorities have confiscated prisoners’ personal belongings, including clothing and blankets, and removed mattresses and remaining bedding from rooms and cells during daylight hours.
Al-Ashqar added that prisoners have been forced to use the same clothing and blankets for extended periods without being able to wash or replace them, contributing to the spread of skin diseases, particularly scabies, amid inadequate medical care and a lack of necessary treatment. … continue
MEMO | October 22, 2026
Israeli strikes and gunfire across the Gaza Strip killed four Palestinians, including a girl, and injured more than 19 others on Thursday amid continued violations of an effective ceasefire agreement, medics said.
In the latest attack, a Palestinian was killed when an Israeli drone struck an electric bicycle west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, a medical source said.
Another Palestinian was killed and others were injured, one seriously, when an Israeli drone struck a civilian vehicle in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood southwest of Gaza City, the source said.
In the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian girl in the head in Jabalia, a medical source told Anadolu.
In southern Gaza, another Palestinian was killed and two others were injured when an Israeli drone struck a motorcycle in Khan Younis, the source said.
Four members of a displaced family were also injured when Israeli artillery fire hit a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in the city.
A medical source at Nasser Hospital said a man, his wife, and their two children arrived with varying injuries after the shelling targeted Mustafa Hafez School.
An Israeli artillery shell struck a tent sheltering the displaced family in the school courtyard, according to local sources.
Al-Manar | October 22, 2026
Israeli occupation forces killed a civilian with disabilities during an incursion into Syria’s Daraa province and abducted a young man while obstructing a UN patrol in neighboring Quneitra province in southern Syria on Thursday, according to local media reports.
Alikhbariah TV reported that Israeli forces entered Taranja village in northern Quneitra countryside with seven military vehicles, abducted a young man and obstructed the passage of a patrol belonging to the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) by blocking the village road. The broadcaster did not provide details about the young man’s identity or where he was taken. It added later that the young man was released.
Earlier Thursday, Israeli forces entered Jamlah village in western Daraa province and shot dead a civilian with disabilities, according to Syria’s official SANA news agency. The victim’s body was transferred to Daraa National Hospital. The agency did not identify him or specify the nature of his disability.
During the incursion into Jamlah, Israeli occupation forces deployed in the village’s eastern neighborhood and positioned snipers on the rooftops of residential buildings, SANA reported.
Alikhbariah TV also said Israeli troops searched several houses and fired indiscriminately in residential neighborhoods.
On Wednesday evening, Israeli artillery shelled the outskirts of Abidin village in the Yarmouk Basin area of western Daraa. SANA reported that two shells landed west of the village, with no information available on casualties or material damage. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | October 22, 2026
Yemen’s Foreign Ministry in Sanaa has renewed its welcome for Al-Azhar’s call to end wars in the region, urging pressure on Saudi Arabia to lift its siege, halt its aggression, and end its occupation of Yemeni territory.
In a statement, the ministry expressed readiness to welcome any serious efforts aimed at ending the aggression against Yemen, lifting the siege, and ending the Saudi occupation of Yemeni lands.
Sanaa has consistently called on the Saudi regime to withdraw its hand from Yemen, warning that Riyadh would bear full responsibility for the consequences if it failed to do so.
The ministry’s statement follows a call by Al-Azhar Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb for Arab and Muslim countries to work toward an immediate and comprehensive halt to wars and hostilities across the region.
Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam had called on Arab and Muslim countries to prioritize the bonds of religion, kinship, and language, urging them to embrace dialogue and reason and immediately halt acts of war, fighting, destruction, and devastation that drain people’s resources and claim innocent lives. … Full article
Press TV – October 22, 2026
A series of Saudi airstrikes against residential neighborhoods across Yemen have killed at least two women and injured several others, as conflict intensifies between the Sana’a-based Yemeni government on one side and Riyadh and the Saudi-backed forces on the other.
Yemen’s official Saba news agency, citing local sources, reported that a woman was killed and a girl sustained injuries after Saudi fighter jets dropped bombs on an area in the Bakil al-Mir district of in Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah on Thursday morning.
The development came hours after a woman lost her life and eight people were wounded when a Saudi airstrike targeted a residential building in the Dhubab district of Yemen’ southwestern province of Ta’izz. … Full article
A reported strike plan, paused only until after the midterms, exposes the limits of American strategic independence.
By Dr. Sara Neumann | MEMO | October 22, 2026
On October 21, the Financial Times reported that Benjamin Netanyahu had instructed his military to prepare a multi-day bombing campaign against Iran for the weekend of October 10—only for Donald Trump to block it until after the November 3 midterms . The operation would have targeted electricity plants, nuclear facilities, and regime sites, surpassing the intensity of the joint offensive launched in February. Trump’s opposition did not end the war. It rescheduled it.
That distinction is the entire story. The veto is being presented as proof that Washington can restrain Jerusalem. In reality, it is a demonstration of an alliance leash—a tether that permits tactical friction while leaving the strategic architecture of the war untouched. Trump can pull the leash to protect Republican seats. Netanyahu can pull it to protect Likud seats. Neither pull ends the war. Both manage the calendar.
The FT report is clear that the operation was not cancelled, only deferred. “There will either be a deal or an attack,” one person familiar with the matter said. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth traveled to Israel on Monday to meet Netanyahu, and Israeli officials presented an updated target bank that included civilian infrastructure not struck earlier in the year. The machinery of escalation remains fully assembled. The only variable that changed was the date. … continue
RT | October 22, 2026
The US-Israeli war on Iran has caused an “unprecedented” shock to global energy markets, removing some 3 billion barrels of oil supply, Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser has warned.
The war launched in February effectively shut the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial oil and LNG artery, sending crude prices up roughly 50%. Despite Gulf exports recovering to a reported 80% of pre-war levels, renewed attacks on vessels have kept markets on edge, with Brent hitting a five-month high above $112 this week. Houthi attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure and shipping have compounded the crisis, threatening another vital trade chokepoint, the Red Sea’s Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
In an interview with Al Arabiya Business aired on Thursday, Nasser said the nearly eight-month crisis had deprived global markets of an estimated 3 billion barrels of oil. … continue
MEMO | October 22, 2026
US President Donald Trump on Thursday accused Iran of attempting to drive up global oil prices ahead of the midterm elections, Anadolu reports.
“Iran is doing everything they can to drive up the price of Oil prior to the U.S. Midterm Election. They are even making up fake hits, mines, and everything else, because more Oil is coming through the Hormuz Strait now than it did even prior to the beginning of the Conflict,” Trump wrote on his Truth social platform.
He accused Iranian authorities of continuing to kill protesters and others who oppose the government, claiming that 75,000 protesters had died in less than seven months.
By Larry C. Johnson | SONAR21 | October 22, 2026
Earlier this month, Aramco’s chief executive, Amin Nasser, assured the markets that “our system is intact” and that Saudi Arabia could restore its full 12 million barrels a day of capacity within days. It is a comforting message, and Washington, European capitals and oil traders have every reason to want to believe it. It is not true.
Karl Miller has just completed a 37-slide operating assessment of Saudi Arabia’s energy system, covering everything from the oil fields to the fuel depots, as of October 20. I have read it closely. It is the most careful accounting of this damage I have seen, and it is careful in a way that should worry anyone counting on Saudi oil this winter. Miller does not count Houthi boasts, social-media videos or plumes of smoke as damage. He separates confirmed hits from claims, and he refuses to add up the design capacity of every facility that was struck as if it were all offline at once. Even with all of that discipline, the picture is grim. … continue
By Philip Giraldi • Unz Review • October 21, 2026
If one were seeking to create something like a modern-day folk tale based on current realities and having the theme of “good versus evil” there are any number of real-life narratives available that could be exploited to invite speculation on actual environments that might have served as models for the fiction. I have found much of the bizarre and blood-soaked evil relationship between the United States and Israel, which serves no US interest at all, to be one such arrangement in which two countries have through their own behavior become the most hated in the world. They have successfully established an odd partnership based largely on a common view of which other nations they hate and would like to destroy. … continue
Press TV – October 22, 2026
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei says the United States’ negotiating behavior, marked by coercion and one-sided demands, rather than Iran’s religious beliefs, makes rational negotiations impossible.
In a post on his X account on Thursday, Baghaei questioned the relevance of Iranians’ “religious beliefs” to Washington’s failure to honor its diplomatic commitments and its addiction to force and pressure.
He said faith does not preclude rationality, noting that genuine diplomacy requires more than imposing terms on the other side. … continue
Al Mayadeen | October 22, 2026
A senior security official in Tehran said Iran would consider US political targets, along with the infrastructure of countries participating in a new war, legitimate targets if another round of broad war includes assassinations of officials and the massacring of civilians, Fars News Agency reported late on Wednesday.
The official said Iran has communicated this to its operational ranks.
The official explained that Iran takes a US and Israeli attack as a given and regards American diplomatic gestures as lacking credibility, a view that intensified after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s October 7 speech in Athens, which Tehran sees as giving the war a historical and civilizational cover.
The official said Iranian leaders and elites have reached the unprecedented conclusion that US Middle East policy is directed from Tel Aviv and that “Israel” will not allow a diplomatic solution, because for Trump, “Israel” comes first. … continue
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- Europe’s mounting social chaos… chickens coming home to roost for proxy war against Russia
- US-Russia Diesel Deal Becomes Massive Defeat for Ukraine
- Hormuz and the Looming Economic Catastrophe
- Dhubab offensive, media blitz and the rapid unraveling of Saudi-backed coalition’s new gambit
- Putin Conveys to Trump Iran’s Vision on Possible Conflict Resolution – Kremlin
- Kuwait signs $489 million deal for British air defense system
- ‘Harsh reality’: Iran says France seeks monopoly on power and intimidation, not peace for all
- Trump Announces Diesel Supply Deal With Putin Following Phone Call
- When Will This White House Madness End?
- US envoy Tom Barrack lobbied for business partner’s involvement in $15bn Syria-Iraq pipeline: Report
- Huckabee aide goes to ‘unusual lengths’ to portray ‘Israel’ positively
- Colonizers Assault Father and Child, Destroy Olive Trees
- Israeli army arrests 16 Palestinians including Ibrahimi Mosque director in occupied West Bank
- Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian, Injure Three in Central Gaza
- Israeli attack wounds six in northeastern Lebanon
- YAF repel second Saudi-backed advance toward Bab al-Mandab
- Saudi airstrikes on Sanaa injure civilians, destroy two factories
- Yemeni forces repel Saudi forces attack near Bab al-Mandab
- British chemical warfare commentator’s MI6 ties exposed in leaked emails
- Russian military blogger detained in NATO country
- Zelensky ‘doesn’t give a damn’ about Ukrainians – Russian envoy
- ‘The Nord Stream pipelines will be relaunched,’ says right-wing Polish MEP Braun during meeting with AfD in Germany
- MEP blasts ‘Euro-Gestapo’ for lecturing Russia on democracy
- Colonizers Injure Olive Harvesters Near Salfit
- Israeli forces launched brutal assault on Gaza detainees on October 7
- Eight Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, including two women and child
- Israeli attacks ravage South Lebanon, UNIFIL base near Kfar Chouba hit
- Israeli army shells outskirts of village in southern Syria
- Syria May Send Troops to Saudi Arabia Amid War with Ansar Allah
- Yemeni Armed Forces Warn Saudi Oil Facility Workers to Avoid Targeted Sites
- Houthis strike Saudi airports after ‘final warning’
- Pakistan secures $1.2 billion IMF bailout deal at key stage
- Pakistan rejects NYT report on military action against Yemen as ‘fake’
- Turkey rules out sending troops abroad to attack under Mecca Pact
- Sanaa forces advance in Taiz as Saudi-backed brigades surrender
- Baghaei to Rubio: Distorted narratives cannot erase US record of broken commitments
- UK whines about losing billions to ‘Putin tax’
