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** Biden sends US troops to Israel weeks ahead of election ([link removed])
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By Aaron Sobczak on Oct 14, 2024 04:07 pm
Featured Image The escalation of conflict in the Middle East will now apparently involve U.S. troops. President Biden has directed the deployment ([link removed]) of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to Israel, along with around 100 American soldiers needed to operate it. This is the first time that U.S. troops will have been sent to Israel since Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault ([link removed]) .
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** US 'training & equipping' Lebanese Army is worst kind of déjà vu ([link removed])
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By Jennifer Kavanagh on Oct 14, 2024 12:05 am
Featured Image Though Washington once opposed Israel’s invasion into Lebanon, reports have emerged that some inside President Joe Biden’s administration now see an opportunity as the Israel Defense Forces score tactical gains against Hezbollah.
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** Netanyahu to UN: Get your peacekeepers out of Lebanon ([link removed])
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By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos on Oct 10, 2024 03:19 pm
Featured Image UPDATE 10/13: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday ([link removed]) that Israel regretted the “harm done” to UNIFIL peacekeepers this week in Southern Lebanon but if the United Nations doesn't want further injuries to its forces then it needs to “remove them from the danger zone.”
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** UK to return Chagos Islands — but secretive US base will remain ([link removed])
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By Sam Bull on Oct 10, 2024 12:05 am
Featured Image The United Kingdom agreed last week ([link removed]) to return the Chagos Islands, a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to the African nation of Mauritius after buying the islands and forcibly removing its native inhabitants in the late 1960s to make way for a U.S. military base.
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** Is Israel playing hardball, sucking the US into plot to attack Iran? ([link removed])
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By Daniel Larison on Oct 09, 2024 11:03 am
Featured Image The Israeli government has been keeping the Biden administration in the dark about the details of its planned reprisal against Iran.
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** How Blinken turned the diplomatic corps into a wing of the military ([link removed])
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By Ted Snider on Oct 09, 2024 12:05 am
Featured Image It is said that Henry Kissinger asserted that little can be won at the negotiating table that isn’t earned on the battlefield.
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