Phoenix Hall of the Temple Byōdō-in, Uji, by Kawase Hasui, 1933

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Today we learned that an Israeli military court has placed Palestinian Christian young woman Layan Nasir, who was arrested last week, in administrative detention for four months (renewable). No charges have been presented. Layan is just one of thousands of Palestinians who are in…

1/5 Ex-US intel officer Scott Ritter: “when we talk about Israel's defence, Israel cannot defend itself. There has been proof of that: Iranian missiles hit Israeli bases. What we also have to understand is the amount of money spent to defend Israel against drones & cruise missile

5/5 “Iran didn't want casualties or damage, they wanted to prove something, and they did… Israel cannot be defended. That's what they wanted to prove. There’s nothing anyone can do if Iran decides to destroy it.”

4/5 “Iran will take Israel apart when it runs out of air defences. In the event of a full-scale conflict, Iran would wait until Israel spent its missiles destroying its drones, and then begin destroying Israeli infrastructure with more powerful missile weapons.

3/5 “They will run out of missiles before Iran runs out of drones. Guess what happens after that? If Iran ends up with the number of missiles and drones necessary to sustain this level of action for a week, they will have exhausted Israel's ability to defend itself…

2/5 “It’s billions of dollars. This is an unrepeatable event. How many days in a row will Israel and its allies be able to use high-tech, multi-billion dollar missile defenses?… The answer is three or five days.

'Saying What Can't Be Said: Israel Has Been Defeated – a Total Defeat' Chaim Levinson, Haaretz, Israel

An exceptional article from Israel with self-criticism, that we don't hear anymore in the entire Western media, but only from Scott Ritter .
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I dare anyone intellectually honest to find a single lie in this UN speech by Iran. I personally couldn't.

By contrast you have countries like the US, UK, France and Germany calling their attack 'unjustifiable and highly irresponsible' (in the German Chancellor's words), which…

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