Habib Siddiqui

  Israel has launched fresh airstrikes in southern Beirut, targeting  Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters . The latest attack comes after a strike in central Beirut — the first time Israel has struck the area  since 2006   —  killed at least nine people  early on Thursday.   • Israel issued  evacuation orders for additional villages  in southern Lebanon, signaling a broadening of its ground incursion in the country. More than 1,000 people  in Lebanon  have been killed and about 1 million residents displaced since Israel escalated its war with Hezbollah. •  Israel’s war cabinet is weighing its response after Iran launched its  largest-ever attack  on the country this week. Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon told CNN that retaliation “ will be soon .” •  Iran’s military chief has  warned of broader strikes  if Israel responds. US President Joe Biden said he does not support a potential Israeli attack  on Iranian nuclear sites . 40 firefighters and ambulance workers killed in Lebanon ov

  The Biden-Harris genocide-facilitation team is   celebrating   the latest atrocities from Gaza to the West Bank to Lebanon, as is to be expected from an imperialist core power bloc lacking an iota of humanity when it comes to the peoples whom Israelis now oppress beyond comprehension. But what also needs contemplating is a sub-set of  economically- pro-Israel ruling classes where one might not expect them: within the BRICS+ bloc. Four of them are such blatant supporters that on September 27 at the United Nations, Benjamin Netanyahu painted them green with “THE BLESSING” label on a map: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and India. BRICS+ foreign ministers typically  utter platitudes  about wanting a conflict-free world and post-Western geopolitical arrangements, including a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. So this public recognition by Netanyahu of their usefulness should be humiliating enough. (At the United Nations, among BRICS+ members only Ethiopia typically jo