Prominent Lebanese opposition coalition ‘Vote for Change’ that has candidates all over Lebanon, saluted and sang the UAE anthem, as a thanks for hosting it and the expatriate election.

It is notable that the UAE is a tribal absolute monarchy, with a semblance of elections for the Federal National Council, “an advisory quasi-parliamentary body” of 40 members (Wiki). 20 are elected by a number of “hand-picked” citizens who have voting rights, and 20 appointed by the rulers of each emirate. The UAE is “an autocracy with the sheen of a progressive, modern state” (NYT). It has no formal commitment to free speech.

In response to western MSM Russian MFA Lavrov:

"If you can't sleep over the Ukrainian-Russian war, imagine it's in Africa or Middle East. Imagine Ukraine is Palestine or Russia is USA."

Speech started, check below to watch in English twitter.com/allushiii_new…

Similar to Hezbullah, Amal Movement in a rare media release states it's on high alert following the IDF's full-month war drills.

According to the annual US foreign aid report, the US military keeps thousands of PGM/JDAMs in Israel, to assist IDF in case IDF's stockpile dwindles during a prolonged war against Hezbullah in Lebanon or Gaza.

Hebrew media: Initial reports that IDF attacked an observation point in southern Syria near the border with occupied Palestine. twitter.com/SAMSyria0/sta…

Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen heads the investment operations in Israel for the SoftBank Group.

Cohen will lead the local operations of the SoftBank Vision Fund 2, which manages $30 billion, and will report to the fund’s management in London. twitter.com/Fxhedgers/sta…