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The Sodomites seem to acknowledge that their most subversive colony (The United States of Isn’t Real) is turning away.

Giving these genocidal monsters a land and a state, brought about a disaster humanity may struggle to survive.

As Israel Shelling Continues, Lebanon Agriculture Minister Says 22.5% of Farmland Damaged

 

Turkey may be looking to expand influence in southern Lebanon

by Jason Ditz | November 2, 2026 at 2:41 pm ET | Israel, Lebanon, Turkey

Israeli forces continued with their destruction of southern Lebanon, and while most of the focus is rightly on the municipalities they’ve attacked and in many cases outright destroyed, the long-term struggle for reconstruction could be the extent of damage to farmland on the outskirts of those villages.

Southern Lebanon has (or had) heavily agriculture-based economy, and artillery shelling isn’t just helping the IDF level buildings, but also scorching the earth in general, and leaving a growing amount of Lebanon’s agricultural land burned or otherwise damaged.

Nazir Hani, the Lebanese Agriculture Minister, reported that some 56,000 hectares of farmland, or about 22.5% of the overall farmland across all of Lebanon, has been damaged by the Israeli war. 24,000 hectares of that appears to be olive groves.

Olive trees in Marjayoun District were destroyed in white phosphorous strikes | Image from X

Some of the trees are bulldozed or otherwise uprooted, and still others have been burnt down by the use of Israeli incendiaries, including white phosphorus munitions. Access to those olive groves still standing has been limited this harvest season, as the IDF strictly restricts access to many of them in occupied territory.

Today’s reports of strikes centered around Bint Jbeil District, which is in the far south along the Israeli border, and enclosed within the occupied “security zone” The strikes hit the outskirts of Aita al-Jabal and the area around the town of al-Tayri.

Adding to the complexity of the situation are reports that Turkey is taking an interest in southern Lebanon, potentially as part of their growing regional rivalry with Israel. President Erdogan’s son Bilal has reportedly considered a possible visit to the south, though such plans are unconfirmed.

https://news.antiwar.com/2026/11/02/as-israel-shelling-continues-lebanon-agriculture-minister-says-22-5-of-farmland-damaged/

US Strikes Iran’s Qeshm Island: Wall Street Journal

The paper cited anonymous officials who said the US has been engaging in 'secret strikes' against Iran for several weeks

by Dave DeCamp | November 2, 2026 at 8:29 pm ET | Iran

The US bombed Iran’s Qeshm Island on Monday, The Wall Street Journal has reported, an attack that came as President Trump was downplaying the prospects of renewed full-scale war with the Islamic Republic ahead of the US midterm elections.

Iranian media reported earlier in the day that five explosions were heard in Qeshm and that residents saw two aircraft flying overhead. The blasts came after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said that its forces brought down two US MQM-170 drones south of Qeshm using electronic warfare.

Israel’s Channel 12 also reported the blasts as US strikes, while Trita Parsi, the Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute, said on his Substack that Iranian sources believed Israel was behind the strikes and that a US source told him the US wasn’t responsible.

A satellite image shows Qeshm Island following suspected oil spills at sea, off the coast of Iran, August 10, 2026 (via Reuters)

The Journal report cited anonymous officials who said the US has been conducting small-scale strikes against Iran for several weeks as Iran has been targeting commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. One official said that the US has been keeping quiet about the strikes so as not to signal any intention of resuming the full-scale bombing campaign against Iran.

Iran has so far not commented publicly about the reported US strikes on Qeshm, which comes as President Trump and Vice President JD Vance have been signaling progress in negotiations, though the US and Israel have launched major escalations against Iran in the past while the US and Iran were engaged in talks.

The US strikes came around the same time that Trump touted a drop in oil prices on Truth Social, saying that “people feel that there will not be a War with Iran” and that Iran wants “a settlement, as soon as possible. It could happen!”

So far, Iranian officials haven’t issued any statements about the strikes on Qeshm. Iran’s military has repeatedly warned that any renewed US attacks would result in significantly expanded Iranian retaliatory attacks.

https://news.antiwar.com/2026/11/02/us-strikes-irans-qeshm-island-wall-street-journal/

"Why does the West hate Russia as a country and a people?" Jeffrey Sachs' speech before the European Parliament:

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"Why does the West hate Russia as a country and a people?" Jeffrey Sachs' speech before the European Parliament: "Why did the British start to hate the Russians? Why? I'll tell you, because yesterday I published a book about the phenomenon of fear of Russia in Europe. In the first chapter of this book, I talk about a brilliant study conducted by a historian named Gleason in 1950. This historian posed a vitally important question, which still applies perfectly to our reality today. He said that Britain and Russia were allies in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, but they became enemies just 25 years later. What happened? He began by studying the records of parliamentary debates, examining all public documents, and reading everything, including everything said in the House of Commons and every speech delivered there. And his conclusion in this brilliant book was that Russia's greatest crime was that its area is 17 million square kilometers. That was its biggest crime! Why? Because Britain considered that Russia, with its enormous size of 17 million square kilometers, posed a threat to British rule in India. And by the way, this never even crossed the mind of the Russian Tsar. But Britain began to stoke its fears and arouse its anxiety to a great extent, and by 1840, Russia had become its enemy. And in 1853, Palmerston, that typical imperialist, ignited a war in the Crimean Peninsula. Why? The story is long, but it was fundamentally about crushing Russia. In 1852, Russia said we can settle all disputes, and there is no reason for conflict to break out. But Palmerston said: We will march on Sevastopol. And the reason was simply that he wanted to turn Russia into a marginal power of no consequence, so that it couldn't invade the British Empire. And thus the bloody Crimean War broke out, which lasted three years. This is our revolutionary way of making peace! As you know, just a few days after Germany's surrender in 1945, Churchill asked his war cabinet: Why don't we invade the Soviet Union now? And the plan was named 'Operation Unthinkable,' before being abandoned once it became clear it was unfeasible. And when the United States took over leadership of the British Empire in 1945, Russia became an enemy of the United States. And when the Soviet Union collapsed, the opportunity was there before us, if we wanted to seize it, to establish peace for the entire next century. The Russians had already grown weary of 75 years of Bolshevism, and they wanted peace, cooperation, and friendship. But all the American strategists could think of was that Russia is a vast country, and we must ensure it remains a third-rate power. So it was decided to encircle Russia with NATO. And if we continue this approach long enough, the result will ultimately be the war in Ukraine. This is not Putin's war, but our war. And the reasons are exactly the same ones that drove Palmerston and Napoleon III to ignite the first Crimean War. The fact is that Russia had no interest whatsoever in advancing toward Europe. That was never its goal, except for the times when Napoleon came to bother it, and then when Hitler came to attack it."

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They discovered that frightening westerners about Muslims made them like Israel more

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They discovered that frightening westerners about Muslims made them like Israel more In 2025, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs commissioned an American marketing company to find out how to make people in Europe and the United States feel better about Israel. The company was Stagwell Global, headed by Mark Penn. A man who had advised Bill Clinton and helped Menachem Begin win the Israeli elections in 1981. They conducted surveys, organised focus groups and tested different messages on Western audiences. In September 2025, the research leaked. One of the problems they discovered was that many Europeans had come to regard Israel as a genocidal, apartheid state. Even people who disliked Hamas and Iran were using those descriptions. Quite a public relations problem. So what would make people more sympathetic to Israel? The researchers tested different approaches. Some emphasised women's rights. Others LGBTQ rights. Others portrayed Hamas as determined to destroy Jews and spread jihadism. And they found something particularly effective. Fear of radical Islam. One finding in the leaked recommendations was that the notion of radical jihadism was universally effective. Another message, portraying 'Free Palestine' as a slogan of terrorism rather than freedom, performed particularly well with American conservatives. When researchers combined these themes with messages about Israeli values, support for Israel improved by more than 20 points on average in each of the five countries examined. What was being measured here? Not whether Palestinians were being treated humanely. Not whether the bombing of Gaza was justified. Not whether the settlements were legal. Which messages made foreigners more sympathetic to Israel. On October 29, 2026, researchers Marc Owen Jones and Sohan Dsouza published the results of a three-year investigation into an enormous covert advertising campaign. They documented 533 million exposures to anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and anti-Qatar propaganda across 30 countries. The advertisements portrayed Qatar as secretly engineering Muslim migration into Europe. Muslims were presented as an invading population. The material borrowed from the far-right 'Great Replacement' conspiracy theory. The researchers traced technical evidence, including Hebrew-language computer file paths and an Israeli IP address, pointing to production in Israel. They concluded with moderate to high confidence that the operation originated there. They could not establish who ultimately financed it. These are separate investigations. There is no demonstrated connection between Stagwell's research and the people who organised this advertising operation. But consider the overlap. One investigation documents an Israeli government-commissioned study identifying fear of radical Islam as a particularly effective way to improve Israel's reputation. The other documents an enormous, apparently Israeli-origin campaign flooding Western audiences with frightening stories about Muslims. An ordinary human being becomes a convenient object of fear. A commercial opportunity. A tested message. An advertising impression. And somewhere, behind a computer screen, someone measures whether the fear is working.

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