"By way of deception, thou shalt do war." -- Motto of the Mossad
By Tara Reade. rt contributor
less to hope for at home
Published 5 Aug, 2026 12:09 | Updated 5 Aug, 2026 13:10
In the early 2000s, I worked with domestic violence victims in Seattle, Washington.
by arabnews.com
AMMAN: The importance of Al-Aqsa for Muslims, Christians and Jews means that Israel’s current forceful measures to maintain control of the sacred site has caused considerable strife.
Ministers from Arab and Muslim nations, who held an emergency meeting in Amman recently, warned that Tel Aviv’s actions at Al-Aqsa Mosque risks dismantling its historical and legal status quo, potentially igniting a wider religious confrontation and threatening regional security.
by Jason Ditz, antiwar.com
War is heating back up as US-brokered talks adjourn for the month.
While the US-brokered Israel-Lebanon talks didn’t actually wrap up until Thursday, Israel was already scaling the war back up substantially on Wednesday, giving the impression that the relative reduction in violence of recent weeks is coming to an end.
Posted by Tyler Durden, Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,
The Spanish Red Cross is treating the military-age men who swam around the border fence and stormed Ceuta like victims of an earthquake.
by Dohmen Capital Research
(Written by Bert Dohmen & Dion Dohmen, contains excerpts from our latest July Wellington Letters)
by Tyler Durden The scenes from the Ceuta invasion were deeply alarming, as 60,000 predominantly military-aged men, many carrying no supplies, crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave. The invasion set off alarm bells across the West, reinforcing concerns that uncontrolled mass migration poses a major national security risk.
middleeasteye.net
Lebanon's National News Agency reported that Israeli warplanes launched missile attacks on the outskirts of Nabatieh al-Fawqa at around 1am local time (10pm GMT), causing loud reverberating explosions that were heard in nearby towns.
Elsewhere in the town of Yaroun, Haroun and Bint Jbeil, the state agency reported that phosphorus bombs were dropped, resulting in large fires in the areas' olive and pine groves.
Later in the day, Israeli troops opened fire using machine guns towards Wadi Hamoul, near Naqoura.
arabnews.com
RAMALLAH: The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society says the case of detainee Mohammad Musa Hamid, 15, exposes systematic crimes committed by the Israeli prison authorities against inmates, including the denial of medical treatment, which it described as “slow killing.”
The society said Hamid, born on Aug. 13, 2010, from Tuqu’ town southeast of Bethlehem, was detained by Israeli forces on Feb. 25, 2026, and held in the minors’ section of Ofer Prison.
Dave De Camp, antiwar.com
The so-called Board of Peace (BoP), the US-led body created to oversee President Trump’s Gaza plan, has walked back a key part of the Hamas disarmament agreement after its representatives met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
by Ran Paul, antiwar.com
After several days of increasing threats against Iran, including social media posts like “FINISH THE JOB!” and “Take the oil. No mercy!,” President Trump has over the weekend called off a planned major escalation in the Middle East. For now.