Zionists pushing Sunni verses Shia war in Lebanon

• Sovereignista: A reminder. We hear of a new security and defense structure for West Asia. It is noticeable that ALL the countries that are rumored to be part of this bloc, signed up to the Board of Peace. Yes, Pakistan, the ‘Great Negotiator’ is part of the Board of Peace. So is Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, slated to be part of the new security and defense structure. You may also remember that this Board of Peace was not supported by Russia and China at the UNSC. Both were roundly criticized though because they did not veto. Afterwards FM Lavrov explained that there is no trust in this Board of Peace as it is illegal in terms of International Law but the Gulf countries asked them to let this go ahead. They would not give it legal standing with a veto, and stood aside upon request of the Gulf countries. So, here we are. These are internment camps that are in the process of being implemented. 
• Sovereignista: Expect that nothing much will happen in West Asia until the funeral procession of Martyr Sayyed Ali Khamenei with his family members who were killed, is over in about six days (if this is not destabilized).  This is going to be one of the biggest mass events that we have ever seen if we count the streams of pilgrims pouring into Iran, as well as many smaller events in more than 100 countries across the world.   Even Dmitry Medvedev will attend:  “Iran’s Embassy in Moscow announced that Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev will attend the funeral of the martyred leader Sayyed Ali Khamenei in Tehran as the special envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin.”

• The Israeli army launched a series of aggressive pre-dawn raids across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, arresting five prominent female health committee activists alongside 15 other Palestinians. According to local reports, Israeli occupation forces stormed private residences in Ramallah, Nablus, and Hebron to target the women. The incursions involved aggressive property searches and the blindfolding and handcuffing of the detainees. Abdul Rahman Bader, the husband of 66-year-old activist Etaf Bader, told Middle East Eye that heavily armed soldiers raided their Hebron home, demanded his wife's identification, and immediately placed her under arrest without providing a legal justification.

• Lebanese Sunni scholar Sheikh Hassan Moraib revives Zionist lies claiming Iran's Martyr Sayyed Ali Khamenei was responsible for the death of millions of “Sunni women and children in Syria”. [Pure BS.] He further claims Martyr Khamenei killed more women and children in Syria than Israel did in Gaza. [More BS.] This is a rally of Zionist mercenaries in Lebanon and Syria to transition to a new front. A sectarian front creating a Sunni vs Shia battlefield to move into the finals steps to end Hezbollah once and for all. God please be with with Hezbollah and its Shia supporters who only fight to end Zionist control and occupation of Lebanon.
• Israel will keep its troops in occupied areas of Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria indefinitely, Defense Minister Israel Katz has said, describing the policy as necessary for “defending the borders.” Katz also renewed an earlier warning to Iran, saying it would be struck with “full force” if it retaliated over Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon. The warning echoed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent pledge that Israel’s pursuit of “total victory” over Iran and its allied groups “never ends.”  Tehran has made an end to Israeli military operations in Lebanon one of its key conditions in the ongoing peace talks with the US.

• Economist Michael Hudson: "The Oil War is going to cause cutbacks in spending on non-oil products, because paying more for gasoline, diesel and aircraft fuel, fertilizer, naphtha and sulfur will cut into profits, leading to layoffs. And some time this month, rising energy costs will force up electricity prices. This will limit the ability of IT and AI to meet the optimistic expansionary sales goals that they have set. This will lead many investors to consider the big runup to have reached its limit. And falling profits throughout the economy will be leading to a widespread stock decline."
• The CIA is declassifying a new trove of documents relating to its ‘MKUltra’ program, Representative Anna Paulina Luna (Repub-Florida) said on Tuesday. Nazi scientists (who came to the US after WW2 under Operation Paperclip) were involved in the agency’s mind-control drug experiments.
• RT: Former top Ukrainian General Valery Zaluzhny has told Vladimir Zelensky he will challenge him in the next presidential election, with current polling suggesting he would win in a run-off, Ukrainskaya Pravda reported on Wednesday. Zelensky’s presidential term expired more than two years ago, and he has since been reluctant to hold a new election despite repeated calls from the US.
• Horrific Health and Environmental Crisis in Gaza Amid Israel’s War: Severe Shortage of Safe Drinking Water. Cracked jerrycans and containers many of them visibly contaminated and unfit for human use have become the only available means to carry water. 

• US Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, whose agency was responsible for enforcing controversial security measures targeting the Iranian soccer team at the World Cup, has said the job made him dance with joy and he was happy Iran was eliminated.

• Prof. Jeffrey Sachs on the farce of Western countries telling Congo to ‘just govern properly’: "The Kingdom of Belgium created a slave colony in Congo for 30 years. The government of Belgium ran the slave colony for another 40 years. The CIA assassinated Congo’s first popular leader Patrice Lumumba, and then installed another dictatorship for the next 30 years. And then Glencore and others now suck out your cobalt without giving Congo tax income. We don’t reflect on that. We say what’s wrong with you? Why don’t you govern properly?"
• Australia’s Prime Minister admitted three Australian navy personnel were on the US submarine that torpedoed the Iranian warship off Sri Lanka. That means Australia is a co-combatant in a war it never even debated. No parliamentary vote. No public mandate. Just three Australians helping sink a ship that had just sailed in a goodwill naval parade in India.
• A joint investigation finds German conglomerate Bayer is behind the frequent Israeli use of glyphosate and white phosphorus inside Lebanon.

• British anti-terrorism police at Liverpool John Lennon Airport have detained a US human rights attorney and international lawyer, sparking fresh condemnation over the UK’s expanding use of draconian border powers against prominent dissidents, independent journalists, and legal professionals. Dan Kovalik, whose high-profile legal repertoire includes representing Colombian President Gustavo Petro, was subjected to intense interrogation under the country's sweeping counter-terrorism legislation.
• Omar Hamad in Gaza: "I tell myself every day: Don’t die. Don’t get tired. Check on the children. Look for water. Check if there are any holes in the tent so the water doesn’t leak in. Then stand up—don’t die. Don’t you dare die from some silly illness. Resist. Save your tears for a more painful day. Don’t you dare say, 'I’m tired'. Look for food. Don’t be afraid of the bombing. Gather your things and flee. Set up a tent. Flee again—don’t get tired. Write, and then write, and then write. Write your own death with your own hands—don’t let anyone write about you. Live, and don’t die."
• Stars & Stripes: The US Navy was searching Wednesday for a missing crew member after an MH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to USS George H.W. Bush conducted an emergency water landing in the Arabian Sea, Naval Forces Central Command/U.S. 5th Fleet said. Three of the helicopter’s four crew members have been recovered and are in stable condition aboard George H.W. Bush.