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May 16 2026 
How Lebanon’s Leaders Are Enabling Israel’s War on Their Own Country
Mourners cry over a coffin during the funeral of three Lebanese Civil Defense members who were killed in an Israeli air strike, in the southern city of Tyre on 30 April 2026 (AFP)
Amal Saad – Middle East Eye
By adopting a US State Department memo and entering asymmetrical talks, Beirut has enlisted in Israel’s counter-resistance project… Continue reading
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May 14 2026 
Lebanon : after Gaza
We watched the horror of Gaza which has not stopped. Hamas stated that they will not disarm as the agreement proffered has been broken.
Now, we watch Lebanon and this is the heartbreak that is routine.
From Marwa Osman:
A heartbreaking testimony from a school teacher in South Lebanon… Continue reading
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May 12 2026 
Could Trump’s Iran Fiasco Be America’s Suez Crisis?
Global Research
Smoke rises from oil tanks beside the Suez Canal hit during the initial Anglo-French assault on Port Said, 5 November 1956.Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and defined by critical tipping points. There are many differences between… Continue reading
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May 10 2026 
A new West Asia order is in the horizon
Virtually the whole planet will pay an extremely hefty price for the latest American Dementia.
Strategic Culture
Let’s start with a false flag.
Iran attacked the UAE port of Fujairah – its oil export Holy Grail – with more than a dozen ballistic and cruise missiles.
No, it didn’t. The IRGC vehemently denied it. UAE media – a… Continue reading
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May 10 2026 
Marwa Osman : South Lebanon
In case you don’t know, let me be straightforward about what’s happening, because apparently the world needs reminding. https://t.me/Marwa_OsmanLB/5567
There is no ceasefire. There never was. Israel has been bombing southern Lebanon continuously, towns, villages, people and the world has decided, collectively, that this is acceptable. The so-called “ceasefire” was violated in practice from day one,… Continue reading -
May 09 2026 
Why the US is at War with Iran and Why the War Might Pause but Won’t End
The New Atlas
Brian Berletic – The prospect of US war against Iran and around the globe continuously escalating in the near to intermediate future is inevitable because the wars taking place now are being fought specifically to prepare for a future confrontation with China itself. For this reason, the prospects of the US arriving at… Continue reading
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May 09 2026 
Mohsen Rezaei: Iran’s victory will accelerate Israel’s destruction and the collapse of the American empire
Translation by our friends at Resistance News Unfiltered
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By lecridespeuples on 9 May 2026
### Interview of Major General Dr. Mohsen Rezaei, Former Commander-in-Chief of the IRGC, Member of Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council.
Source : Al-Mayaedeen, May 6, 2026
Translation: resistancenews.org
– 47 Years of Hostility and 70 Days of War
– The Strait of Hormuz: A New Instrument of Iranian… Continue reading -
May 07 2026 
Ex-IDF, Ex-Israeli: Gilad Atzmon on What’s Really Driving Israel’s Genocidal Logic
Gilad Atzmon served in the IDF. He left Israel at 30. He now identifies as neither Israeli nor Jewish. And he argues that what’s driving the war on Iran isn’t Zionism — it’s something older, deeper, and far more dangerous.
In this episode, Atzmon — international jazz musician, bestselling author and former IDF conscript — makes… Continue reading
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May 06 2026 
US Pressing Others to Help Reopen Hormuz is to Socialize Liability of Its Self-Made Trouble
China’s Diplomacy
This is an editorial from China Daily.
History’s recurring lesson is that great powers often mistake ultimatums for rational strategy. The Middle East crisis offers another tutorial on that error.
United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has pressed allies in Europe and Asia to contribute to a US-led effort to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, arguing… Continue reading
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May 05 2026 
Israel Has Kidnapped Two of Our Most Important Pro-Palestine Activists
Two foreign activists – Thiago Avila and Saif Abu Keshek – from a Gaza-bound flotilla who were brought to Israel for interrogation and appeared before an Israeli court on May the 3rd (Photo by Ilia Yefimovichvia Getty Images).
Chris Hedges – The Chris Hedges ReportNothing illustrates the inversion of the international and moral order more than… Continue reading
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May 04 2026 
India Not Playing A Balancing Act In War On Iran
By Press TV Website Staff
India has abandoned any pretence of neutrality in West Asian developments and the war against Iran, openly siding with Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to an Indian journalist and author.
Ghazala Wahab, a New Delhi-based senior journalist and author, who edits FORCE magazine, told the Press TV website that… Continue reading
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May 04 2026 
A negotiated settlement for a sovereign Iran is nigh impossible
Trump today seems torn between the prospect of ‘heavy’ military escalation and an extended Hormuz blockade.
Strategic Culture
Putting two sides together — let alone three — who have wildly diverse chronicles of their histories and even less commonality in charting their future national trajectory was innately unlikely to reach an agreed settlement. More likely in such ill-prepared… Continue reading
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May 04 2026 
War on Iran – 7
Previous Thread: https://sovereignista.com/2026/04/04/war-on-iran-6/
Thanks so much to Jangjo for regular updates – much appreciated!
May 31
Criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
I instructed the IDF to expand the maneuver in Lebanon. Our forces crossed powerful obstacles. They seized commanding terrain and captured the Beaufort Ridge.
And now my instruction is to deepen and expand our hold on areas that… Continue reading
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May 03 2026 
Kevork Almassian & Marwa Osman : The Hidden Alliance
Syriana Analysis
Is Syria’s New Leader in a Hidden Alliance with Israel?
Is Ahmad al-Sharaa helping Israel choke Hezbollah through Syria? In this livestream, Kevork Almassian speaks with Marwa Osman about Israel’s escalating attacks on southern Lebanon despite the ceasefire, the deeper strategy behind efforts to sever Hezbollah’s supply and logistics routes, and whether Syria’s new leadership… Continue reading
