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Contents of N°65 - December 8, 2023

EDITORIAL

• Israel wants to establish ’buffer zones’ in Gaza and Lebanon

AMERICAS

• No more automatic visas to the USA for Israeli extremists
• General Lloyd Austin’s Worldview
• George Santos expelled from the House of Representatives
• Mike Johnson for a vote to impeach Joe Biden
• White House warns of halting subsidies to Ukraine
• House of Representatives blocks subsidies to Israel and Ukraine
• The OxyContin Case
• Hunter Biden summoned to appear before the House
• Which war poses a danger to the US?
• Samantha Power in Gaza
• Arrest of Manuel Rocha, U.S. diplomat and Cuban agent
• Referendum on the future of Essequibo
• Lebanon’s Hezbollah again implicated in Brazil

EUROPE

• Pope Francis calls Isaac Herzog to order
• £16.9 billion deficit in the equipment plan for the British Armies
• France makes up sanctions against Hamas
• Investigation into corruption in the European Parliament continues
• Israeli settlers in the West Bank banned in Belgium
• Italy withdraws from China’s ’Silk Roads’
• Saxony requires immigrants to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist in order to be naturalized
• The Baltic States vs. the Poles
• EU Budgetary Control Committee points finger at Ukraine and EU Commission
• The U.S. doesn’t want any more talk of Ukraine’s NATO membership
• Ukrainian Military Intelligence assassinates Ilya Kyva in Moscow
• Vladimir Putin in UAE and Saudi Arabia

AFRICA

• Egypt rejects EU plan for Gaza
• Questioning migration towards Europe
• Muslim Brotherhood at the center of Sudan’s civil war
• Niger breaks with EU
• Burkina Faso bans French daily Le Monde

ASIA

• Benjamin Netanyahu lays out his goals for Gaza
• Benjamin Netanyahu vows there will never be a Palestinian state
• On October 2, insiders bet on a decline in Israel’s economy
• The New York Times seeks to demonstrate that Netanyahu and Hamas are not complicit
• The notebooks of the assailants of October 7
• Timeline of the night of October 6-7
• Senior Soldiers Declare Defeat
• Bezalel Smotrich wants to continue the war to the end
• Israel’s ’total war’
• The Damage of "Total War"
• Yair Lapid calls for the dismissal of Benjamin Netanyahu
• The trial of Benjamin Netanyahu has resumed
• Is it possible to demonstrate against the war?
• Israel summons the Spanish ambassador to remonstrate
• Some kibbutzim refuse to talk to Benjamin Netanyahu
• Benjamin Netanyahu negotiates delivery of medicine to hostages
• Facebook and Instagram shut down accounts at Israel’s request
• Isaac Herzog meets Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani
• Israelis to travel less
• Palestinian Authority under threat
• Establishment of the "Youth of the Al-Aqsa Flood"
• Israel attacks Lebanese army
• Riad Salamé travels without a hitch
• The Syrian Arab Republic will be able to use the confiscated properties
• Syrians revolt against US occupiers and Kurdish mercenaries
• Jordan could break gas deal with Israel
• Targeted bombing of the Pentagon in Iraq
• The Red Sea Front
• For Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the West has given a license to kill to the "butcher of Gaza"
• Türkiye will not allow Palestinians to be murdered on its soil
• Türkiye admits financial support to Hamas
• Ebrahim Raisi cancels his participation in COP28
• Philippines rekindles Second Thomas shoal conflict
• South Korea launches spy satellite
• China is capable of destroying the U.S. military’s communications system

INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

• António Guterres refers the matter to the UN Security Council
• UN Security Council Examines Investigation into Daesh Crimes
• Russia no longer participates in the leadership of the IMO
• International Criminal Court Investigates October 7 Terrorist Attacks
• The controversial phrase