Daily Archives: June 29, 2022

2022-06-29: News Headlines

Jason Ditz (2022-06-29). Iraq's Sadr Slams President for Not Signing Ban on Israel Ties. news.antiwar.com In late May, Iraq's parliament passed a bill forbidding and criminalizing all ties with Israel. The bill forbids officials, media, and others from establishing relations with Israel, punishable by death. | Iraqi President Barham Salih did not sign the bill, and this is being made a huge deal by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who says it is " Salih's office denies any support for ties with Israel, saying he had the law published already, and emphasized his long support for the Palest…

Staff (2022-06-29). Arab states unlikely to join Israeli-led anti-Iran alliance. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 29 (MNA) — Logoglu says despite problems, Arab states have no interest in antagonizing Iran, especially in collaboration with Israel, adding that Biden is after Jewish lobby support in the upcoming mid-term election.

I. J. Hoppes (2022-06-28). BDS Pittsburgh announces Pillsbury campaign victory. liberationnews.org Since October 2021, the Pittsburgh BDS coalition has been holding actions as part of a national campaign to boycott Pillsbury products in response to Pillsbury's participation in Israeli apartheid.

Dave DeCamp (2022-06-28). Report: Israel To Ask Biden To OK Giving Saudi Arabia Laser Air Defense System. news.antiwar.com According to a report from Israeli TV, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz

_____ (2022-06-28). Tensions between Lebanon and Israel Escalate. journal-neo.org Against the backdrop of the recent deterioration in Israel's relations with Iran and the worsening of Tel Aviv's relations with the Palestine Liberation Organization, whose militias operate from Lebanon, Syria and the Golan Heights, the situation on the border between Lebanon and Israel is becoming much more complicated. The IDF's readiness for a new military …

_____ (2022-06-28). Russia and Israeli Exceptionalism. journal-neo.org After years of indiscriminate bombing of Syrian infrastructure by Israel, it was reported, in mid-May 2022 that Russia fired a "warning shot" S-300 missile "near" Israeli planes. These planes were attacking a military facility near Latakia and, as is generally the case, collateral damage, meaning dead civilians, are the norm. In fact, I just received …

Staff (2022-06-28). Israeli regime cannot defend itself: IRGC chief. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — The commander-in-chief of IRGC Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami criticized the act of some Arab states in normalizing their ties with the Israeli regime while the regime cannot defend itself.

WSWS (2022-06-28). US, Israel and Gulf States discuss anti-Iran alliance as nuclear talks set to restart in Qatar. wsws.org Top military leaders from the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Jordan and Egypt met in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh last March to discuss defence coordination against Iran.

Staff (2022-06-28). Egypt totally oppose engaging in any conflict with Iran. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — As the US and Israeli attempt to form an anti_Iran military allience in the Middle East, sources have told the media that Egyptian military and political organizations totally oppose to any military conflict with Iran.

_____ (2022-06-27). Search for a Solution for Syria Intensifies. journal-neo.org In recent months, the United States, Israel, Turkey and a number of other countries have attempted to take advantage of Russia's distraction in a special operation to denazify Ukraine, in order to aggravate the situation in Syria and pursue their own military and strategic objectives in that country. Thus, the US is trying hard to …

Benjamin Norton (2022-06-27). Israeli military conspiring with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Egypt against Iran. multipolarista.com The US organized a meeting with top military officials from apartheid Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, the UAE, and Bahrain to conspire against Iran, as Jordan's king calls for a "Middle East NATO."

Staff (2022-06-27). 28 June, Twitterstorm: #IsraeliApartheidTech to say Israel out of the Tour de France #TDF2022. samidoun.net The 2022 edition of the Tour de France cycling competition is once again including the "Israel Premier Tech" team, self-described "ambassadors" of the apartheid regime. The participation of this team in one of the world's greatest sports competitions has a clear objective: the promotion and normalization of Israeli apartheid. Many organizations are calling for a …

Editor (2022-06-27). A Staggering Story of Palestinian Exile. scheerpost.com Hadi Tabbal in the New York premiere of The Vagrant Trilogy, written by Mona Mansour and directed by Mark Wing-Davey, at The Public Theater. (Photo by Joan Marcus) | By Alisa Soloman / The opening of Mona Mansour's engrossing three-part epic about Palestinian displacement, The Vagrant Trilogy, was postponed for the last two years. But there's also a sense in which its run at New York's Public Theater was delayed by 33 years. In 1989—two and a half years into the First Intifada, which had brought the violenc…

_____ (2022-06-27). Israel and the US are Creating a "Middle East Alliance" journal-neo.org According to Israeli Minister of Defense Benny Gantz, Israel and the US have recently been working hard to establish a formal "Middle East air defense alliance." The minister said that the matter would be discussed in depth during US President Joe Biden's visit to Israel, scheduled for July 13-14. At a meeting of the Israeli …

_____ (2022-06-27). US Officially Makes Israel the New Middle Eastern Hegemon. journal-neo.org Two years ago, when the Abraham Accords were signed and Donald Trump hailed them as a truly historic moment, there were very few who believed anything substantial could come out of them. Even a US intelligence report of the Department of Homeland Security warned that these pacts could lead to an increase in terrorism. But …

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