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by Bassam Tawil • June 10, 2020 at 5:00 am
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* How can Hamas and its supporters around the world continue to complain about poverty and misery when new shopping malls and supermarkets filled with clothes, and various types of luxury goods are being opened every few weeks in the Gaza Strip?
* These images are also an embarrassment to anti-Israel propagandists seeking to portray a completely different reality of life in the Gaza Strip as part of their campaign to delegitimize Israel and demonize Jews by holding them fully responsible for the "suffering" of Palestinians.
* Why are foreign correspondents and Palestinian journalists covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict dumping photographic documentation of these sunny, positive developments in the Gaza Strip into the dustbin? Is it because such images do not fit their anti-Israel narrative and agenda?

How can Hamas and its supporters around the world continue to complain about poverty and misery in the Gaza Strip when new shopping malls and supermarkets filled with clothes, and various types of luxury goods are being opened there every few weeks? Pictured: A newly-opened shopping mall in Gaza City on February 22, 2017. (Photo credit should read Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images)

The Palestinian terror group Hamas has warned Palestinians in the Gaza Strip not to publish photos from the Gaza Strip on social media platforms.

In a June 9 statement, the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Interior claimed that "Israeli intelligence agencies have been asking residents of the Gaza Strip -- through social media -- to use their mobile phones to take pictures of various places in the Gaza Strip."

Hamas warned Palestinians against complying with the alleged Israeli request and claimed that Israel was using social media accounts to "recruit collaborators and obtain information."

Hamas added that its security forces were monitoring Israeli and Palestinian social media accounts and would take "legal measures" against Palestinians who interacted with the purported Israeli intelligence agencies.

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by Lawrence A. Franklin • June 10, 2020 at 4:00 am
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* Beijing's hostility is likely a message to New Delhi that China will aggressively target any attempt by an increasingly pro-Western India to establish a military alliance with the U.S and its allies and obstruct China's far-reaching claims of sovereignty in the Western Pacific Ocean and beyond.
* China apparently plans to deploy air, sea, and ground forces in an amphibious assault exercise on the Pratas Islands, an island chain also claimed by Taiwan.
* The US needs urgently to develop a policy committed to countering China's escalating aggression. The policy should ideally include no commerce with China whatsoever. Beijing clearly has no intention of honoring any deal to which it agrees and has already been caught trying to steal remedies for the virus it unleashed.
* Just as the U.S. would not have tried to enrich the Third Reich or the former Soviet Union, the U.S. -- and all countries hurt by China -- should have no place enriching a China that has shown itself to have killed more than 100,000 Americans, more than 400,000 people worldwide, has thrown more than 40 million Americans out of work, cost the world trillions in crippled economies and is openly bent on dominating the planet.

In response to China's threatening posture toward both Vietnam and Malaysia, the U.S. Navy reacted by dispatching several attack submarines to Pacific waters. The U.S. Navy also sent an aircraft carrier and the USS Bunker Hill, a missile-equipped destroyer, to the South China Sea. Pictured: The USS Bunker Hill. (Image source: U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Clarence McCloud)

While Western media is almost exclusively focusing on supposed "race riots" and the messy wake of the Covid-19 virus, China has quietly been going about consolidating recent gains in the South China Sea. It has, as dangerously, still been attempting to expand its influence throughout the entire Indo-Pacific Region and everywhere else the world will let it.

Beijing's latest provocative stances -- in addition to sparking recent incidents with mainland and archipelago states in Southeast Asia such as Vietnam and Malaysia -- include generating a rock-throwing brawl with India's mountain troops at a disputed border post in Northern Sikkim, raising tensions with Taiwan, and threatening the liberty of Hong Kong.

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