Monday, May 25, 2026

AFRICA
Ethiopia-Egypt: Africa's Next 'World War'? - The potential hot conflict is essentially about water. https://www.memri.org/reports/ethiopia-egypt-africas-next-world-war

IRAN
JCPOA sunset restrictions on enrichment in 2026 and the ballistic missile limitations as of 2023. No matter which way things had played out, the current administration would be trying to renegotiate nuclear and ballistic missile and proxy terror support right now. 
EmojiCENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper  confirmed that Iranian-backed groups carried out more than 350 attacks against U.S. troops and diplomats in the 30 months leading up to the conflict. This averages to an attack roughly every three days, resulting in 4 U.S. service member deaths and around 200 injuries https://youtu.be/nlVPv8P5aaE?si=4xG235mlHCIvLGlb
EmojiADNOC (owned by UAE’s national oil company and Chinese petrochemicals giant Wanhua Chemical Group) and QatarEnergy have been running a wartime shipping operations through the Strait of Hormuz using "ghost fleet" or 'dark transit" tactics  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-25/adnoc-s-tankers-are-slipping-oil-gas-and-fuel-through-hormuz
EmojiIran demands US give regime $12 billion in frozen assets held in Qatar 
EmojiIran’s Revolutionary Guards used a UAE-based company to procure advanced Chinese satellite communications equipment linked to its drone program https://www.ft.com/content/371fee77-8637-4b99-ab5a-4b6fae253a44

LEBANON
EmojiHezbollah continues to violate the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, targeting Israeli forces and northern Israeli communities with drones, rockets, explosives, and more. Hezbollah has carried out over 160 attack waves in the past week.
 EmojiU.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control levied sanctions on nine Hezbollah-aligned individuals, including some in the Lebanese parliament and military, who are impeding the terror group's disarmament.

PALESTINIANS
EmojiTop Palestinian Authority official and released terrorist calls for unity with Hamas https://palwatch.org/page/42218
EmojiDr. Nawaf Al-Takrouri, head of the Palestinian Scholars Abroad Association: No Muslim can criticizie Oct 7 based on the fantastic gains https://www.memri.org/tv/nawaf-al-takrouri-october-7-million-martyrs-al-aqsa

UN
EmojiLes réfugiés palestiniens : pourquoi cette exception historique? https://1001histoires.fr/les-refugies-palestiniens-pourquoi-cette-exception-historique/

USA
EmojiEmojiEmojiCommittee to Protect Journalists has been caught quietly removing terrorists’ names from its widely cited list of journalists killed in Gaza - this should be bigger news as their propaganda has been widely used as a source by MSM. https://freebeacon.com/media/new-blow-to-new-york-times-gaza-rape-report-key-source-gets-caught-quietly-removing-terrorists-names-from-list-of-slain-palestinian-journalists/
EmojiJournalists should be skeptical of intelligence leaks on Iran’s remaining missile capacity https://www.camera.org/article/journalists-should-be-skeptical-of-intelligence-leaks-on-irans-retaining-missile-capacity/
EmojiClutching at Straws: New York Times’ Desperate Defense of Kristof
EmojiThe Making of the Kristof Column — with Matti Friedman (the heart of the matter starts at 17 minutes) 
Emoji"The New York Times and the Shape of the Modern Blood Libel." - There is a pattern emerging in the coverage of Israel that should trouble anyone who still believes there is a moral difference between accusation and proof, between proportion and false equivalence. 

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