Failing to Defeat Hezbollah, Israel & US Pressure Syria’s Ahmed al-Sharaa to Join War

 Openly declaring its intent to illegally occupy southern Lebanon, Israel finds itself in a costly ground battle with Hezbollah, from which there are indications Syria may soon be roped in. This is born from the understanding that in order to successfully weaken the Lebanese resistance, the Israeli military must penetrate the Bekaa Valley area and that’s why Israel wants Syria’s military to invade Lebanon’s border and attack Hezbollah, aiming to go after what is labelled critical infrastructure belonging to the Lebanese group. The Trump administration has directly put pressure on Syrian leader Ahmed al-Shara’a to do just that but growing resistance inside of Syria against Israel is pushing back.

Robert Inlakesh
بواسطة Robert Inlakesh
Syria Israel Peace Feature photo

 Openly declaring its intent to illegally occupy southern Lebanon, Israel finds itself in a costly ground battle with Hezbollah, from which there are indications Syria may soon be roped in. This is born from the understanding that in order to successfully weaken the Lebanese resistance, the Israeli military must penetrate the Bekaa Valley

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Hezbollah Destroys 50 Israeli Merkava Tanks in Three Weeks As Israel Fails to Occupy South Lebanon

Yet despite the intensity of Israel’s bombardment, Hezbollah has not collapsed. On the contrary, the group continues to demonstrate significant military capability. Reports indicate that just in the last three weeks, 50 Israeli tanks have been destroyed, and Hezbollah units remain active across multiple fronts. Far from being diminished, the organization is widely believed to retain a force numbering in the tens of thousands—potentially exceeding the size of the Lebanese army itself.

Mnar Adley
بواسطة Mnar Adley

On this week's MintCast podcast, MintPress director Mnar Adley is joined by Robert Inlakesh, a staff writer at MintPress and political analyst specializing in Middle East geopolitics -- they discuss Hezbolla's military wins against Israel. As Israel intensifies its military campaign in Lebanon, the gap between its strategic ambitions and

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Terror Alarm: Inside the Shady Israeli Group Crowdfunding the Kidnapping of Dr. Marandi

Terror Alarm promotes itself as a service that can predict who will carry out attacks, based on their social media posts, and can share that information with governments and police forces. However, its own source code, netizens have exposed, dictates which groups are considered worthy of support and which are “opposed entities.” While the UAE, Turkey, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Israel and “Jews and Zionists worldwide” are considered positive groups, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, the Chinese Communist Party are all placed on their own private terrorist list. 

Alan Macleod
بواسطة Alan Macleod

Shadowy pro-Israel group Terror Alarm is crowdfunding a $1 million bounty for the capture of a well-known Iranian academic and media personality – and Twitter is refusing to remove it. But who are Terror Alarm? MintPress traces the company back to its source and exposes its role as a private security firm.  Last week, the official Terror Alarm

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Failing To Destroy Hezbollah, Israel Seeks To Spark A Lebanese Civil War

It is unlikely that the Lebanese Army would remain intact if they were ordered to attack Hezbollah, as a large component of its fighters are speculated to sympathise with the Party that is resisting Israeli aggression. Although there is no census allowed, it is speculated that the Lebanese Army itself could be composed of between 25% to 50% Shia Muslims, the same sect as Hezbollah.

Robert Inlakesh
بواسطة Robert Inlakesh
Hezbollah

Surprised by the intensity of Hezbollah’s retaliatory attacks against it, Israel appears to be pivoting to sow internal chaos within Lebanon’s borders in a bid to trigger a catastrophic civil war. An attempted coup against the Lebanese military’s leadership may be the catalyst. At the beginning of May, the extent of the rocket and drone fire

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Corporate Media Go All Out To Support The US-Israeli War on Iran

Across the West, corporate media have employed the same tactics of using the passive voice and not naming the perpetrator when describing U.S./Israeli aggression. A perfect encapsulation of this was the BBC’s headline, “At least 153 dead after reported strike on school, Iran says,” that made it sound as if the children died in a lightning strike or a labor dispute, rather than that they were bombed by hostile foreign powers. 

Alan Macleod
بواسطة Alan Macleod
Raffi Berg Feature photo

Corporate media of all stripes have rushed to support the U.S./Israeli attack on Iran, throwing objectivity and accuracy by the wayside in order to manufacture consent for regime change.  On February 28, the U.S. and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran, bombing cities across the country, assassinating its supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and

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US Radars Destroyed: Iran writes handbook for Modern War with Empire | Interview: Sharmine Narwani

While CNN censors reports of failing Israeli interceptors, Iran is writing the handbook for how to defeat the US – Israeli empire. From destroyed US FAD radars to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the repercussions of this imperialist aggression against the Islamic Republic have massive global implications and is revealing the true nature of the Arab Gulf states and their commitent to Zionism as explained by political analyst Sharmine Narwani.

Mnar Adley
بواسطة Mnar Adley
Iran goes max, iran war

The United States and Israel have launched a horrific new war on Iran, but the mainstream media is hiding the true cost to the US military and its installments in West Asia. In this in-depth interview, political analyst and editor of The Cradle Sharmine Narwani joins MintPress director Mnar Adley to break through the "Fog of War" and expose the

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