🇬🇧❌🇮🇱 UK threatens to expel 27 Israeli diplomats if Jerusalem consulate is shuttered

Britain has warned Israel that it could expel 27 Israeli diplomats from the embassy in London if Israel follows through on its decision to close the British consulate in East Jerusalem, where 27 British diplomats work, according to an unsourced Ynet report on Monday.

British Ambassador to Israel Simon Walters has conveyed the message to Israeli officials, the report said, with London threatening to expel one Israeli diplomat for each British diplomat whose work at the consulate is terminated.

The threat would be the latest escalation in badly strained ties between Jerusalem and London. Last month, the United Kingdom announced sweeping measures targeting Israeli settlements in the West Bank, prompting Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar to announce a series of countermeasures, including the closure of the East Jerusalem consulate within 30 days — a deadline set to take effect this Thursday.

🔗 https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-threatens-to-expel-27-israeli-diplomats-if-jerusalem-consulate-is-shuttered-report/

🇸🇪🗳 Migrants from Africa have learned how to win elections in Sweden

The results of the recent parliamentary elections in Sweden are being questioned. Numerous complaints have emerged alleging widespread fraud.

Incidents in the Stockholm district of Järva and in the Norrbotten region in northern Sweden have caused particular concern. In Järva, a candidate from the Left Party, Ilyas Hassan, was at the center of a scandal due to an abnormal surge in votes at his polling stations.

According to journalists from Svenska Dagbladet, pre-filled ballots were handed out to voters at the entrance to polling stations in Järva, with a checkmark next to Hassan's name.

A preliminary investigation has been launched on charges of "improper influence during voting" and "improper receipt of compensation during voting." The Left Party and Hassan himself deny the allegations, calling them "politically motivated."

Right-wing forces accuse the Left Party of practicing "clan voting" in areas with migrant populations and of treating voters as "voting cattle." This is because migrants, when moving to Sweden, continue to live in close-knit communities.

There are suspicions that the Left Party has found a way to win over tribal leaders, who in turn began supplying them with groups of voters in exchange for future benefits – government subsidies, premises, positions, or other privileges.

"There is nothing good for ordinary Swedes – this means that their country is gradually slipping away from them. Now, migrants have become the most important trump card in the electoral competition, and tomorrow they will come to power directly. Tomorrow's Sweden will be completely different," said political scientist Maxim Reva.

🔗 https://vz.ru/world/2026/10/5/1458772.html

🇪🇺 Von der Leyen warns against EU budget cuts

Commission president dismissed Germany’s calls for big savings, arguing that they would undermine EU-wide priorities.

During a speech in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday, von der Leyen said that reducing the size of the EU’s common cash pot would undermine critical EU-wide priorities such as competitiveness and energy autonomy.

“I would like to caution against large cuts. It would risk cutting deep into critical priorities that we all together have agreed on,” von der Leyen told MEPs.

The warning comes days before the Irish presidency of the Council of the EU, which is steering the budget talks, is expected to put forward a budget negotiating document with new figures.

Germany and its allies in Northern Europe have pressured Dublin to make cuts worth hundreds of billions of euros across the board.

But 17 EU countries from Southern and Eastern Europe — led by Italy and Romania — are pushing in the opposite direction. They asked to preserve farmers’ subsidies and regional payouts, known as cohesion policy, in a joint letter last week.

📝: The war in Ukraine, the push for decarbonisation and the EU's ambition to become a player in the AI race, an endeavour which requires a whole lot of polluting industry, have taken a toll on the Union's budget.

To be able to afford all of these and the programs which generated support for the EU inside and outside of the Union such as the EU's agricultural subsidies and cohesion funds, Brussels will need to increase or introduce new taxes which will harm its prospects for regaining competitivity and prove it is the "global power" it claims to be.

The group of fiscal conservative states led by Germany who pay more to Brussels than they receive in return would prefer to cut the budgets made for agriculture and social cohesion from which states in Eastern and Southern Europe benefit the most and those funds being the engine driving up support for EU membership in the Western Balkans and the Caucasus. Without those funds, EU support in Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Albania, North Macedonia, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Turkey would collapse overnight and anti-EU movements will spring up and gain immense traction across much of Southern, Central and Eastern Europe, countries that have been hollowed out by the industrial economies of Western Europe.

If Germany, The Netherlands, France, Austria and Scandinavia aren't willing to continue spending money on Southern, Central and Eastern Europe, then there's no reason for those countries to stay united.

So which will it be?

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/ursula-von-der-leyen-warns-against-eu-budget-cuts/

🇾🇪❌🇸🇦 — KSA's General Authority of Civil Aviation has acknowledged successful Ansarallah strikes against King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Intl. Airport, Jazan and Najran Intl. Airport, Najran yesterday.

Three people were hospitalized for minor injuries, and airport property was damaged.

🇾🇪❌🇾🇪 — Ansarallah has released a statement on the PLC's recent attempted offensive against the Bab el-Mandeb front, announcing that the PLC offensive "southwest of Al-Wazi'iyah" was repelled. Ansarallah claims to have destroyed multiple armored vehicles and cause dozens of PLC casualties.

Ansarallah also reports that PLC reinforcements towards the sector were targeted with ballistic missiles, causing further casualties.

🇾🇪❌🇾🇪 — The Houthis (Ansarallah) released new footage of attacks on the Saudi-backed PLC forces on several fronts using FPV drones.

🗳 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 Canada (Quebec), provincial election result, seat count:

Final result

PQ (regionalist): 59
PLQ (centre-right): 40
PCQ (conservative): 19
QS (left|regionalist): 9

The governing CAQ (conservative) has been wiped out. PQ is expected to lead a minority government.

📎 America Elects

🗳 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 2026 Quebec General Election

127 seats in the National Assembly of Quebec 64 seats needed for a majority

The sovereigntist Parti Québécois won the election, though short of an outright majority.

The second-place Liberal Party doubled its seat total from 2022, mainly through gains in the Montérégie and Laval regions. The Conservative Party will make its first appearance in the National Assembly, winning 19 seats from the Capitale-Nationale and Chaudière-Appalaches regions.

These gains came at the expense of the left-wing Québec Solidaire, which lost support in every region except Montréal. The governing Coalition Avenir Québec will no longer have any representation in the National Assembly. In 2022, the party won roughly 70% of the seats and 41% of the vote.

📎 Michael Lannes

📝🇮🇱🗳 CIA Report Warns Israel Could Head Toward Civil War, Total Collapse

Israel is at risk of civil war or state collapse, a classified CIA assessment warns, as years of genocide in Gaza and war in Lebanon and Iran deepen political, economic, and social fractures within the country.

The August report, titled “Fracture From Within,” was compiled by experts in the CIA’s Red Cell, according to two U.S. sources who described the contents of the report to Drop Site News. The Red Cell, which is the unit responsible for providing “alternative analysis” within the agency, produced the assessment through a combination of open source information and U.S. intelligence. The assessment appears to refer only to Israel’s Jewish citizens and does not consider its Palestinian citizens, who make up approximately 20% of Israel’s population and who live under various forms of discrimination that Amnesty International and other human rights groups have labelled as part of a broader system of apartheid. The CIA did not respond to a request for comment.

CIA experts pointed to a volatile mix of pressures converging ahead of Israel’s elections on October 27: economic crisis and soaring military spending; heavily armed veterans returning from prolonged combat, many carrying serious psychological trauma; growing fury over ultra-Orthodox men who are exempt from military service; escalating settler violence in the occupied West Bank; and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fighting to hold onto power and igniting a constitutional crisis.
The CIA’s “red teams” are tasked with developing analysis and ideas that challenge prevailing assumptions and expose groupthink or blind spots that can take hold within the intelligence apparatus. “The writers of this are Israel experts,” a source in the intelligence community noted, “this isn’t a fantastical what if—with the upcoming election and the fissures in Israel we should take seriously their conclusion that Israel is one spark away from real internal conflict.”

One of the deepest fractures in Israeli politics has emerged not over opposition to the country’s war crimes—but over who is expected to fight and who is exempt. Ultra-Orthodox men have historically received broad exemptions from military service while continuing to receive state benefits, an arrangement that has become increasingly contentious amid repeated reserve mobilizations. Their collective refusal to serve is not rooted in opposition to Israel’s wars, as ultra-Orthodox leaders argue that military service threatens religious life and their obligation to Torah study. But after years in which reservists have been repeatedly called away from their jobs and families, the exemption has become a potent source of resentment in Israeli society. Households have also been absorbing the costs of Israel’s belligerent policies. Food prices have reached record highs , with the cost of food—including fresh fruit and vegetables—rising 9.5 percent over the past two years, deepening an already severe cost-of-living crisis after years of war.

Yet much of the opposition to Netanyahu is not opposition to Israel’s brutality against Palestinians, but anger over how he has managed it. The major anti-Netanyahu Zionist parties are themselves divided over leadership and coalition strategy, while a central line of attack against Netanyahu has been his responsibility for the October 7 security failure. Recent polling has shown both the Netanyahu and anti-Netanyahu blocs struggling to reach the 61 seats required to govern.

The sources warned that the combination of political fracture and a growing population of heavily armed, traumatized veterans has historical precedents. “Famously the Freikorps of Germany were PTSD-addled veterans with weapons and bloodthirst,” he said. “I’m not saying Israel post Gaza is Germany post-WWI but there are certainly aspects of this that ring similar to me.”

Israel is also confronting growing isolation abroad, including an erosion of support in the United States that Israeli officials themselves have privately treated as a long-term threat. The August report pointed to Israel increasingly becoming a pariah state as a factor that could lead to state breakdown.

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