Jeff Jackson

This is a reckless act of escalation that endangers us all. No discussion. No debate. What a disgrace. How on earth can the Prime Minister still pretend we are not involved? It doesn't matter how he dresses it up. Britain is participating in an illegal war of aggression.

Hizbullah’s record-breaking strike 200 km deep into Ashkelon, near the Gaza envelope settlements, has effectively transformed it from a ‘northern front’ problem into a force capable of putting Israel’s entire strategic depth at risk. This again points to Hizbullah's regenerative deterrent capacity, which developed not in spite of, but because of conditions of decapitated leadership, intense surveillance, disrupted supply lines, and a hostile internal political environment. In short, Israel’s systematic strangulation of the resistance and its support base has only strengthened its capacity for horizontal escalation. None of this will be without cost to Hizbullah or the resistance community, but it does mean that Israel cannot expand the war geographically without exposing its own strategic depth and wearing down its historically fragile home front resilience.

Israel flunkies think "blood libel" is some kind of magic spell. They remain convinced that if they chant it often enough, like "Abracadabra", the blood of tens of thousands of Palestinian children will suddenly and miraculously disappear from view.

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Israeli assassination machine spreads destruction in Beirut ▶️As Israel bombards Beirut, defence minister Israel Katz has sinisterly pledged 'significant surprises' for people in Lebanon socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-2023…

Guy Smallman's photo-galleries from Beirut are here socialistworker.co.uk/galleries/

The human cost of Israel’s war in Lebanon ⭐With over 880 killed in Israel’s attacks, the million people displaced from south Lebanon are surviving amid the rubble ⭐Socialist Worker photographer Guy Smallman reports from Beirut socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-2023…

Israel has just bombed Iran's largest natural gas processing facility in Bushehr Province. Israel stated that it conducted this attack in full coordination with the United States. The attack is consistent with Israel's strategy of aiming to destroy not only Iran's military and military industries, but also its industrial base and its economy. Israel's objective is not regime change but state collapse. In this particular case there is I believe an additional motivation behind the Israeli attack. Iran has repeatedly indicated that if its energy infrastructure is attacked, this crosses a bright red line and that it will retaliate with attacks on energy infrastructure throughout the Persian Gulf. If Iran does indeed respond in this manner, the prospects of direct participation in this war by Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states increases significantly. This is exactly what Israel would like to see, and would also explain why the US, which previously counselled against such attacks, now supports them and participates in their execution. This attack is not only a demonstration of US-Israeli capabilities, but also of US-Israeli strategic failure and arguably of growing desperation as well.

Breaking: Newly released documents reveal the US administration laid off the Delphic Oracle last year who had predicted that a mighty empire would fall if Persia was invaded.

Is it "how to shoot kids"?

Israel's reported preparations for a ground offensive in Lebanon potentially involving up to 450,000 troops--several times the roughly 100,000 it deployed in the 1982 invasion that reached Beirut--betray strategic frustration far more than confidence. Months of bombardment, decapitation strikes, and sustained attrition were designed to cripple Hizbullah and produce decisive results, but they clearly failed to do so. A ground offensive will be extraordinarily costly, and expose Israel to significant vulnerabilities while furnishing Hizbullah with the kind of larger and highly visible targets that years of standoff strikes could not, though it will not come without cost for the resistance either. What it does offer Hizbullah is something strategically valuable in its own right, namely predictability, though Israel appears willing to incur those risks precisely because the war has become existential for it as well. The assassination of Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah and decapitation of Hizbullah's senior military leadership were intended to cripple the organisation and considerably diminish its fighting capacity. But by eliminating the figures through whom Israel had long interpreted Hizbullah's behaviour, the decapitation campaign pushed Hizbullah toward deeper decentralisation and decision-making that is considerably harder to read. The events of March 1 illustrated this dynamic when Hizbullah launched a large preemptive salvo that surprised Israel and demonstrated an unexpected level of operational coordination and military effectiveness. Even more concerning for Israel, rather than paralyzing it, the assassinations appear to have accelerated an adaptation that left Hizbullah more strategically unknowable than it was before. This dynamic points toward what might be called regenerative deterrence, which differs from classical deterrence in a fundamental respect. Whereas classical deterrence seeks to prevent aggression altogether through the threat of retaliation or denial, regenerative deterrence operates at a different level and often becomes more apparent once war has already begun. Its logic lies not necessarily in convincing the adversary that attacking will fail — though it may produce that effect — but in demonstrating that even sustained and severe damage can't eliminate the threat. The signal it sends therefore is not simply, or only, “do not attack,” but rather that even if attacks continue and losses are inflicted, the demonstrated capacity to regenerate and sustain the fight ensures that a decisive or stratgeic defeat remains out of reach. Hizbullah officials themselves have made clear that they are prepared to fight “to the end”, which suggests that like Iran, they now believe in the need for a long war to end the US' and Israel's forever wars. The implication is not that Israeli escalation will cease in the immediate term, but that Israel could come to realise that even sustained and severe attrition can no longer deliver the decisive neutralization it desperately seeks.

In case you didn’t know who the actual nuclear threat was all along.

🚨🇮🇱🇱🇧Israel is planning massive ground invasion of Lebanon, aiming to seize the entire area south of the Litani River and dismantle Hezbollah's military infrastructure, Israeli and U.S. officials say. My story on @axios axios.com/2026/03/14/isr…

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This statement alone qualifies Hegseth as the most brilliant military analyst of his generation. Murdoch’s loss is Tehran’s gain.

Exchanges oppose potential US Treasury intervention in oil futures market reut.rs/47vQ2yV reut.rs/47vQ2yV

Iran’s new leader just made the strategy clear Tehran isn’t trying to defeat the U.S. or Israel on the battlefield It’s trying to fracture their coalition His first statement pressures Gulf states to expel U.S. forces and threatens the Strait of Hormuz That’s classic horizontal escalation — shifting the costs of war onto U.S. partners until the coalition cracks.

The FT's devastating reporting on Mandelson's close friendship with Epstein in June 2023 should have forced his retreat from public life; instead he was then hired first by Rupert Murdoch and then by Keir Starmer, and the shame of that belongs entirely to them

[Dispatches from the Lebanese Stronghold] Announcing the launch of our live blog for reports, testimonies, interviews, commentary, and photo blogs on the imperial war against the region — with coverage brought to you from the Lebanese stronghold.

The EU didn’t hold Israel accountable for: 1. Flour massacre 2. Killing Hind Rajab 3. Killing Ward 4. Killing Zomi Francom 5. Killing children in Gaza 6. Leaving neo-nates to die in their incubators in Gaza 7. Attacking paramedics and civil defence in Gaza 8. The pager attack in Lebanon