🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇱🇧 Washington gives Netanyahu ‘full backing’ to expand war on Lebanon: Report

🔶️ Former Israeli intelligence and security official Yuval Malka told Hebrew media on 25 July that Washington has greenlit a wider war on Lebanon.

🔶️ “According to the information I received from the delegation and what I know, Netanyahu has received full legitimacy in the United States to wage a war in Lebanon,” Malka told Israel’s Channel 14.

🔶️ The Israeli army has reportedly signaled to the government that the time is ripe for an expanded war against Lebanon, according to a defense analyst for Hebrew media.

🔶️ “The Israeli army is prepared for a major ground maneuver in Lebanon and warns: Any delay will be in Hezbollah’s favor when there is progress in the background in negotiations to release the hostages,” said Amir Bohbot, military editor and senior defense analyst for Israeli news site Walla, on 24 July.

🔶️ “The Israeli army is sending a signal to the government – we are at the height of preparations for war in the north, and now is the right time,” he added.

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— 🇫🇷 BREAKING: Just before the start of the Olympics in France, all of the country's major railway lines have been sabotaged by cutting cabels and setting them on fire

French police say that a 'coordinated sabotage effort' to disrupt nationwide rail traffic was carried out on three sectors: The Atlantic TGV Line (Paris-Le Mans), the Eastern TGV Line (Paris-Strasbourg) and the High Speed Rail between Paris and Lille.

In the southeast of the country, law enforcement prevented sabotage of another major train line. Approximately one million people are affected by the train sabotage, and the situation is expected to be back to normal on Monday.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Haaretz reports that the 'Atlantis' Project, a plan by the Israeli army to pump seawater into Gaza's tunnels with the aim of destroying them and eliminating senior Hamas officials, has completely failed and been abandoned

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🇺🇸🦁🇮🇱⚡️- President Trump and Israeli PM Netanyahu pictured together, Netanyahu holding a blue hat that reads “Total Victory”

— 🇺🇸/🇱🇧 NEW: USAF Intelligence Aircraft, Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk, Registration 11-2046, Callsign FORTE15, Flying at 54,000 Feet off the Lebanese Coast

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— I just opened the 'Paris Olympics 2024' Wikipedia page and this shows up.

Respectfully, WHAT?

⚡️🇱🇧🇺🇸🇵🇸❗️❗️ On July 26th, 2024, the United States has issued a Memorandum on the Deferred Enforced Departure for Certain Lebanese Nationals.

What this effectively means is that all Lebanese citizens who are in the United States (unless they left the US recently or are already on the way back to Lebanon) are free to extend their stay for as long as necessary and as long as the Memorandum is valid (18 months).

The United States Government cites "humanitarian" reasons, citing the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel.

What is glaring and uncomfortable about the issuance is that this was issued for the passport holders of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan before the Taliban took over the country, and that was by a few weeks, as the U.S saw the inevitable collapse of the government and the country.

The U.S most likely sees an inevitable invasion of Lebanon by Israel and has thus issued this Memorandum as a way to handle the state of affairs for Lebanese citizens in the U.S

The Memorandum can be read at the website of the White House.

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Wikipedia has now fixed the issue.

2024 is funny, I'll admit that

What did he mean?

— 🇺🇸 NEW: A new Washington Post report reveals that a third of all nations are under U.S. sanctions

In just two years, the Biden administration imposed over 6,000 sanctions on various countries.

The United States is imposing sanctions at a record-setting pace again this year, with more than 60% of all low-income countries now under some form of financial penalty.

U.S. officials are increasingly concerned about the effectiveness of sanctions as a means to isolate nations viewed as 'national security threats.' However, plans to reform the sanctions system have been shelved since 2021.

The overuse of U.S. sanctions has made the tool significantly less valuable. In an article from May, WSJ wrote how Western sanctions have led to the creation of an 'Axis of Evasion' led by China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela, effectively foiling Washington's financial warfare.

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Leaving this here.

— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 BREAKING: Hebrew sources confirm several fatalities, possibly more than 10

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