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Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West Bank

Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West BankScroll downCredit: Avishay Mohar, B'TselemHagar ShezafShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsAppThese images appear again and again – from the ground, from the air, and on maps: dozens of Palestinian communities wiped off the landscape, while illegal Israeli settler outposts continue to spread across the West Bank.Since October 7, 2023, this phenomenon has intensified significantly. Unlike the war in Gaza, there is no discussion in Israel about ending this parallel campaign of dispossession.

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The GuardianMusicUnited Kingdom

Cheltenham raised a cheer – but fatalities and fallouts tainted bounce-back festival

Attendances and British-trained winners were on the up but low points included more starting trouble and jockey spatsAttendance: up. British winners: up. Bookies’ profits: through the roof. Punters will wince at the last of those after a ferociously difficult four days at Cheltenham, with winners at 66-1, 50-1, 40-1 and 33-1 among the biggest skinners for the books. The Paddy Power client in Ireland who was paid €558,000 (£484,000) after putting Friday’s first six winners into a 50 cent each-way Lucky 63 would be a very worthy inductee into the Cheltenham Hall of Fame.With the betting blinkers off, though, this was very much a bounce-back festival, for the track and British racing as a whole after three years of declining crowds and a decades-worth of embarrassing pastings for the home team at the hands of the Irish.

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The GuardianMusic

Trump backs FCC chair’s threat to pull licenses of news outlets over Iran war coverage

US president on social media said he was ‘thrilled’ that Brendan Carr was looking into broadcasters’ licenses Donald Trump reinforced made by Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), threatening the broadcast licenses of news organizations that report unfavorably on the war in Iran.In a Truth Social post Sunday night, Trump said he was “thrilled” that Carr was “looking at the licenses of some of these Corrupt and Highly Unpatriotic ‘News’ Organizations. They get Billions of Dollars of FREE American Airwaves, and use it to perpetuate LIES …”.

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The GuardianDiplomacy

Middle East crisis live: European countries resist Trump’s demand for help to clear the strait of Hormuz

Italy, Germany, UK and Greece react cautiously after Trump threatens failure to do assist would be ‘very bad for the future of Nato’Continued from previous post:Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has said she has no immediate plans to send her country’s maritime self-defence forces to help protect tanker traffic in the strait of Homuz.We have not made any decisions whatsoever about dispatching escort ships. We are continuing to examine what Japan can do independently and what can be done ⁠within the legal framework.I would like to ⁠engage in solid discussions based on Japan’s views and position regarding the need for early de-escalation.

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BBCMusicUnited Kingdom

Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise after evidence outrage drove engagement, say whistleblowers

Social media giants made decisions which allowed more harmful content on people's feeds, after internal research into their algorithms showed how outrage fuelled engagement, whistleblowers told the BBC. More than a dozen whistleblowers and insiders have laid bare how the companies took risks with safety on issues including violence, sexual blackmail and terrorism as they battled for users' attention.

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The New York TimesWar & ConflictIslamic World

This is what happened on March 15.

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HaaretzGadgetsIslamic World

Ballistic TerrorHow Three IranianCluster MissilesHit Seven Israeli Cities

Ballistic TerrorHow Three IranianCluster MissilesHit Seven Israeli CitiesDuring the 12-day war, Iran fired over 500 ballistic missiles at Israel, including at least three cluster munitions. Striking seven cities across 18 sites, the attacks had no military value and were intended to spread terror, experts sayBar Peleg, Oded Yaron and Eden SolomonIllustration: Nadav GazitShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsApp6 miles4 milesOver the 12-day war, Iran launched more than 500 ballistic missiles at IsraelEach missile carried a warhead with 500 to 1,000 kilograms of explosivesAmong the hundreds of launches, several missiles carried a unique type of warhead – armed with cluster munitionsIran has developed three types of cluster-munition missiles; the largest can carry up to 80 bomblets.At least three of these missiles managed to penetrate Israel’s air defense systemAt an altitude of about seven kilometers, the warhead breaks apart, releasing numerous submunitions – or bomblets.

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DawnWar & ConflictLondon

Iran warns other nations to stay away as US looks to expand war

• Trump asks allies to send ships to protect Hormuz shipping• Tehran turns down any chance of negotiations after US president says he’s not ready for a deal• Araghchi claims ‘ample evidence’ that bases across Gulf being used to target his country• Larijani warns ‘9/11-style’ incident may be staged, blamed on Iran• US base in Baghdad, Italian facility in Kuwait come under attack• Hamas official among 850 killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon

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The GuardianElections

Aipac: toxicity of pro-Israel Super Pac’s money to be tested in US primaries

Status of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s money will be put to test in Tuesday’s primaries in IllinoisFour Democratic congressional primaries in and around Chicago on Tuesday have turned into the most expensive test yet of a question the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) would rather not answer: what happens when your money is so toxic you have to pretend it isn’t yours?Aipac, one of Washington’s most powerful lobbying forces supporting Israel, and affiliated political action committees have spent at least $13.7m across four Illinois races, according to an , Chicago’s public radio station, funneling it through a pair of Super Pacs so determined to hide their origins that they don’t mention Israel once in their ads, with anodyne-sounding names: Elect Chicago Women, and Affordable Chicago Now.

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HaaretzGadgetsUSA

Between Freud and Epstein, the Zionist Left's Crisis in the Diaspora Is Uncanny to the Extreme

The words of U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee, who said it would be "fine" if Israel took the lands from Egypt to the Euphrates River, illustrate how easy it has become for holders of a nationalist-ethnocentric worldview to support Israel, and how hard it is to find international support for the idea of "another Israel," one that strives for peace, justice and recognition of the national rights of both peoples living between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.

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HaaretzGadgetsIslamic World

The War That Turned the Muslim World Against Iran

There is an extraordinary dynamic playing out across the Muslim world: Instead of rallying behind Iran, attacked two weeks ago by the United States and Israel, it is turning against it, and the conditions are being quietly assembled under which Muslim-majority states could collectively challenge Tehran diplomatically, economically and even militarily. Some of the sharpest data points in this assemblage relate to Pakistan, and its relationship to Saudi Arabia.

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The GuardianWar & Conflict

War in Iran, chaos in the Gulf, repression in the west: and the thread that binds them all is Palestine | Nesrine Malik

In the Middle East, the occupation is the original sin. And those who banked on this US-backed ‘stability’ now find it giving way beneath them A war . A death toll now in the thousands across and . Energy . The Gulf . It’s one of those eras that feels bewildering, incomprehensible, out of control. But there is, at the heart of it, a simple logic: everything that is unfolding is a result of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians.As the conflagration spreads, the connection to Palestine becomes obscured. But it is clear how much of the stability of the Middle East was secured at the expense of the Palestinians. Look at the region before 7 October 2023. US policy on the Middle East focused on “integration’’: containment of Iran, signing up more Arab countries to and the creation, therefore, of a bloc of economic and security interests under the US military umbrella.

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