SÁNG ÁNH – 20/11/2023 10:33 GMT+7

TTCT – Israel sẽ vừa phải tấn công Gaza vừa phải để một mắt dè chừng phía bắc nước này, nơi giáp giới Lebanon và có lực lượng Hezbollah mạnh gấp nhiều lần Hamas đang hoạt động.

Những người ủng hộ Hezbollah tề tựu nghe bài phát biểu của lãnh tụ Hassan Nasrallah trong lễ rước ngày Ashura ở ngoại ô nam Beirut, Lebanon, tháng 8-2021. Ảnh: EPA

Đây là cửa hàng tạp hóa thứ ba mà tôi ghé. Nó ở gần trung tâm thành phố Beirut và chỉ cách Trường đại học American, Beirut khoảng nửa cây số, là chỗ xập xình hàng quán ngày đêm sinh viên ăn chơi. 

Nhưng đây là khu dân cư đi ngủ sớm, chứ không phải phố đi bộ chớp nháy đèn. Tôi vào bên trong lấy mấy chai bia lạnh. Khi ra quầy tính tiền, tôi nói với ông chủ tiệm là hai cửa hàng tôi mới ghé đều không có bia. Ông nhìn thẳng vào mắt tôi và nói thật đanh thép: “Ở cửa hàng này, tôi bảo đảm là ông sẽ luôn tìm được bia rượu!”.

Continue reading Hezbollah: Nỗi lo thực sự của Israel? →

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESSUpdated 12:43 PM GMT+7, November 18, 2023Share

In the weeks since the Israel-Hamas war erupted on Oct. 7, people across the globe have taken to the streets en masse — some in support of Israel and some in support of Palestinians.

In Tel Aviv, Israel, friends and family of some 240 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza call for their return as they participate in a five-day “March for the Hostages” from Tel Aviv to the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem.

In Manila, capital of the Philippines, activists scuffle with police while marching toward the United States Embassy in solidarity with the Palestinians. In Washington, D.C., a river of people fills the National Mall in support of Israel — a sea of Israeli and U.S. flags.

AJ+ = 16-11-2023

SÁNG ÁNH – 14/11/2023 10:52 GMT+7

TTCT – Có một chuyện tiếu lâm kể về 5 người Do Thái. Một là Moses: Luật là tất cả. Hai là Giê Su: Tình yêu là tất cả. Ba là Marx: Vốn là tất cả. Bốn là Freud: Tình dục là tất cả. Và năm là Einstein: Tất cả đều tương đối.

Ảnh: European Commission

Chuyện vui này cho thấy tầm quan trọng và ảnh hưởng của người Do Thái trong tâm tưởng Tây phương. Nó nhắm vào trước hết là cái “thông minh” của “dân tộc” này, để từ đó dẫn tới tiền của, tài khoa học hay kỹ thuật cũng như thương mãi. Tại sao người Do Thái lại được ưu tiên và mang tiếng như vậy?

Trước khi thù địch, Israel và Iran từng “thân” như thế nào?

NĐT -: Thứ 7, 11/11/2023 | 00:23- 17:26

Sau cuộc chiến với các nước Ả Rập năm 1948, Israel đối mặt với thách thức an ninh cực lớn khi bị bao quanh bởi phần lớn các nước thù địch. Tình thế này khiến Israel phải đưa ra giải pháp trước khi quá muộn. Và họ chọn Iran.

Trước khi thù địch, Israel và Iran từng hình thành một liên minh chiến lược. Ảnh minh họa: Sky News

Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s tentative proposal needs Western backers.

By Justin Ling, a journalist based in Toronto. FP

NOVEMBER 9, 2023, 4:30 PM

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has a plan for peace in Gaza and Israel. If it has any hope of becoming reality, he’ll need Western backers. Thus far, he doesn’t have any.

It’s time for Western leaders to step up.

As the death toll in Gaza grows, now over 10,000, Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has been trying to win allies for his three-step peace plan. First, Mikati proposes, would come a five-day pause in hostilities, during which Hamas would release some of its Israeli hostages and Israel would open its border crossings to more humanitarian aid. If the peace can hold for those 120 hours, negotiations would begin for the release of the remaining hostages in exchange for prisoners held by Israel. As that happens, work on an international summit for a permanent two-state solution would begin.

If it can get off the ground, Mikati’s proposal would channel the worst violence Israelis and Palestinians have seen in decades into the most serious peace effort since the collapse of the Oslo Accords.

AJ+ – 27-1-2022

China is bad. At least, that’s what even a glance of U.S. reporting on China tells us. It’s a way of reporting that follows a long history of constructing the Chinese — in news, popular culture and the halls of DC — as a threat. In the first episode of Backspace, a new media critique series from AJ+, Sana Saeed explores what China and the Chinese have looked like in the American imagination, how that impacts and is impacted by U.S. immigration and foreign policies, and ways we can retell that story.

Al Jazeera – 8 thg 11, 2023

While attention has been on the war in Gaza, there’s been a rise in violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.#AJStartHere with Sandra Gathmann explains what’s happening.

00:53 – What is the West Bank?
01:25 – How control of the West Bank is divided between the Palestinian Authority and Israel
02:10 – How Israel restricts life for Palestinians in the West Bank
04:34 – Israeli army raids in the West Bank
06:40 – Israeli settlers in the West Bank
07:04 – Settler attacks on Palestinians
08:30 – How Palestinians have been displaced because of settler violence
09:12 – How the Israeli government supports settlers
10:07 – President Biden’s response to the settler attacks

This episode features: Nour Odeh – Political commentator & analyst Charles Stratford – Al Jazeera correspondent Hoda Abdel-Hamid – Al Jazeera correspondent Nida Ibrahim – Al Jazeera correspondent

Hinduism, Weaponised: A Secular India Under Threat | In Bad Faith – Part 1 | CNA Documentary

CNA – Insider 9-4-2022

We investigate the reasons behind the weaponisation of Hinduism by the Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing, paramilitary volunteer organisation that aims to create a Hindu Rashtra – a subcontinent only for the Hindus.

From supporting cow vigilantes in Rajasthan attacking Muslim cattle traders to spreading Islamophobia across RSS-backed television stations, why understand why India’s secular fabric is under threat. Continue reading In bad faith – 3 parts →

A Palestinian man reacts as others check the rubble of a building in Khan Younis, Gaza, on November 6. Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images

In pictures: Israel at war with Hamas

Updated 1:39 AM EST, Tue November 7, 2023

One month ago, the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a brutal assault on Israel, killing more than 1,400 people and kidnapping more than 240, according to Israeli authorities. It was the deadliest terror attack in the country’s history.

Israel’s retaliation has been lethal, with an air and ground campaign on the densely populated enclave of Gaza, which Hamas has controlled since 2007. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country would take “mighty vengeance” and was readying for “a long and difficult war.”

The siege of Gaza has killed more than 10,000 people, according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry there. Gaza’s population is also gripped by humanitarian crisis after Israel cut off access to food, water and electricity. Only a “trickle” of aid has been allowed to enter the isolated territory, according to the United Nations. Residents are grappling with severe shortages, and power is running out as fuel dwindles.

Editor’s note: This gallery contains graphic images. Viewer discretion is advised.

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1917 – 1947: British mandate

Palestine was among former Ottoman territories placed under UK administration by the League of Nations in 1922. All of these territories eventually became fully independent States, except Palestine, where in addition to “the rendering of administrative assistance and advice” the British Mandate incorporated the “Balfour Declaration” of 1917, expressing support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”. During the Mandate, from 1922 to 1947, large-scale Jewish immigration, mainly from Eastern Europe took place, the numbers swelling in the 1930s with the Nazi persecution. Arab demands for independence and resistance to immigration led to a rebellion in 1937, followed by continuing terrorism and violence from both sides. UK considered various formulas to bring independence to a land ravaged by violence. In 1947, the UK turned the Palestine problem over to the UN. Read more.

1947 – 1977: Partition plan, 1948, 1967, 1973 wars, inalienable rights

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US-China: Is A New NATO Emerging In Asia? | When Titans Clash 2 – Part 1/3 | CNA Documentary

CNA Insider – 29-4-2022

As the Ukraine crisis unfolds, China accuses the US of creating an Indo-Pacific version of NATO, and warns of a “Ukraine style tragedy” for Asia. On the other hand, countries like Japan, Philippines, India, Australia and South Korea, seek closer ties to the US as concerns emerge over China’s actions. Could Asia witness a war in the years ahead? Continue reading When titans clash 2 (3 parts) →

European and Asian allies of the United States increasingly doubt Washington’s ability to simultaneously help Israel and Ukraine – Bloomberg writes, citing sources.

The United States was confident in the normalization of relations between Israel and the Arab countries, so it moved resources from the Middle East to direct them to fight Russia or China, and is now forced to ask Tel Aviv to postpone the operation in the Gaza Strip in order to increase its forces in the region, the agency writes .

At the same time, Ukraine has exhausted its reserves of artillery shells from the United States and its allies, and attempts to increase ammunition production are facing various obstacles.

Al Jazeera English – 25-10-2023

“I just want the bombardment to stop so I can go back to school.” The daughter of Al Jazeera correspondent Youmna ElSayed describes what Israeli bombardment is like in Gaza, in a conversation with her mother.