⚡️ Taiwan heightens combat readiness in response to Chinese drills

Taipei has deployed F-16V fighter jets for patrols and positioned Hsiung Feng anti-ship cruise missile launchers along its Hualien coast - after Chine’s PLA launched Joint Sword-2024B drills around the island.

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⚠️ JUST IN: Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez issues call for member states to suspend EU’s free trade agreement with Israel - over its actions in Gaza and Lebanon

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🤔 Israeli Emigration Levels Reach “Unprecedented Number” - Jerusalem Post

Some 55,400 people left the country last year - marking a sharp uptick from the annual average of 37,100 over the previous decade.

The trend has continued into 2024, with 40,600 Israelis having already emigrated in the first seven months of the year.

A substantial portion of those leaving are young adults in their 20s and 30s, who make up about 40% of emigrants despite representing only 27% of the population.

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😒 UK Sends RAF Spy Plane Overnight into Gaza to Collect Intel for Israel – Declassified

“The plane was likely over Gaza when Israel bombed tents housing displaced people at Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir el-Balah,” Declassified posted.

If the sight of human beings burning alive won’t stop the UK govt supplying arms to Israel and aiding the IDF, what will?

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⚠️ BBC report shows utter devastation caused by just one Israeli air strike on residential neighborhood in central Beirut

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❌NEW: Kamala Harris “Celebrates” Columbus Day

"European explorers... ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations. Perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease."

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😳Israeli Rights Groups Warn IDF Could be Implementing Plan to “Besiege” Northern Gaza

Israel has ordered the entire remaining population of the northern third of Gaza, estimated at around 400k people, to evacuate to the south and has blocked aid entering the area since the start of the month, according to the World Food Programme.

This has raised fears that Israel intends to implement a plan devised by former generals in which it would order all civilians out of northern Gaza and label anyone remaining there a combatant - a surrender-or-starve strategy that rights groups say would violate international law.

A statement by Israeli rights groups say there are “alarming signs” that Israel is beginning to implement it.

The statement, signed by B’Tselem, Gisha, Yesh Din and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, warns that states “have an obligation to prevent the crimes of starvation and forcible transfer.”

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👁Scale of Chinese Espionage “Overwhelms” Western Govts - WSJ

Beijing-backed hackers outnumber FBI cyber personnel by at least 50 to 1, the WSJ claims.

A recent FBI report found that China's hacking program is larger than all other major nations combined.

Further investigations revealed that Chinese cargo cranes at US seaports contained tech that could allow remote control by Beijing.

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❓ FLASHBACK to 2010: Israeli newspaper Ynet publishes a list, handwritten by Benjamin Netanyahu, of his closest and richest benefactors, sponsoring his political campaigns

Billionaire media baron Rupert Murdoch's name was number 2 on that list.

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❗️”Gaza Bombed, Wall St Booms”: Hundreds of Protesters Shut Down NYSE

Jewish Voices for Peace activists shut down the New York Stock Exchange Monday - to demand the US stop arming Israel.

“As Jews, many of us are descendants of those who survived genocide. Our ancestors taught us to never be bystanders in the face of injustice," the group tweeted.

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🇺🇳 Netanyahu reiterates calls for UNIFIL to leave Lebanon

The UN should remove its peacekeepers from their posts to “keep out of harm’s way,” the Israeli PM has warned.

“The charge that Israel deliberately attacked UNIFIL personnel is totally false,” he added.

Meanwhile, Beijing has said it will take ‘additional measures’ to strengthen the peacekeeping troops in Lebanon - strongly condemning Israeli attacks on the UN Interim Force. (Analodu)

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How the Israel lobby got Hezbollah banned in Britain

"Labour’s Lord Glasman declared his interest as a member of LFI before disputing Polak’s position on Hezbollah.
Glasman told parliament Hezbollah had been on “a remarkable journey over the last 20 years: it has joined the political and democratic process; it is the largest single party in Lebanon and got 300,000 votes, which is 100,000 more than any other party; and it has played a key role in brokering a broad-based coalition government there.”
He added: “It has not been mentioned today, but Hezbollah played a significant role in restoring the synagogue in Beirut…I ask the House to reflect that maybe it would be foolish to block conversation and possible negotiation with Hezbollah.”

https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-the-israel-lobby-got-hezbollah-banned-in-britain/

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