Jordan urges UN to act on Al-Aqsa Mosque ‘before it is too late’
In a post on X, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, has urged the UN Security Council to “take immediate effective action” to stop Israel from violating holy sites in occupied East Jerusalem, including the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
Safadi said Israeli plans to change the mosque’s identity were fueled by “hate-driven ideology” and urged the international community to respond, “before it is too late”.
“The situation is already explosive”, Safadi added.
As we reported earlier, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have condemned the Israeli government for allocating funds for far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
Ex-PLO official calls out ‘bizarre’ US hypocrisy over support for Israel’s ‘genocidal army’
Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian political leader and former key member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), has described as “bizarre” the US’s provision of “unlimited lethal weapons” and cash to Israel’s army while also saying it is “doing everything” to stop the escalation of conflict.
Pointing out the deep contradictions between what the US does militarily on behalf of Israel and what US diplomats say regarding peace in the region, Ashrawi said: “Enough!”
In a post on social media, Ashrawi said the US had sent its warships, submarines and fighter planes to the Middle East in preparation to “fight Israel’s war of ‘self defence’. At the same time, the US was also “manipulating a charade of ‘negotiations’ to buy Israel more time to pursue its carnage & ethnic cleansing in Gaza & the West Bank”, she said.
Nothing can be more bizarre than the US showering Israel with $billions, supplying its genocidal army with unlimited lethal weapons & munitions, deploying its own warships, submarines, & fighter planes to the region in readiness to fight Israel’s wars of “self defence,”…
— Hanan Ashrawi (@DrHananAshrawi) August 27, 2024
Right on the nose, and the Western Media either keeps buying it or is part of the narrative
US hopeful that likelihood of wider conflict breaking out between Israel and Hezbollah has reduced, officials say
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/27/politics/israel-hezbollah-war-likelihood-reduced/index.html
Days after Hezbollah and Israel exchanged some of the heaviest cross-border fire in years, US officials are tentatively hopeful that the threat of a larger conflict between the two sides has, at least for now, been forestalled, though they are still closely watching Iran to see whether it strikes Israeli targets.
The US assesses that Hezbollah, the most powerful, capable and independent of Iran’s proxies across the region, does not want a full-scale war with Israel now, according to current and former US officials, even as it has engaged in a long-running series of relatively contained fire across the border.
It's not Hezbollah nor Iran you have to worry about. But keep turning it around while Netanyahu keeps escalating the conflict. Neither Hezbollah nor Iran wants a full scale war, Netanyahu and his war cabinet are the ones that want perpetual war.
Hezbollah is not going to stop though as long as the genocide in Gaza continues, nor the Houthis. Meanwhile Israel keeps widening the war on the West Bank and East Jerusalem. As well as killing civilians in Lebanon and Syria.
