Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DemocracyNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DemocracyNow</span></a>!<br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEast</span></a> Braces as <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a> & <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Hezbollah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hezbollah</span></a> Vow Retaliation for <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israeli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israeli</span></a> Assassinations [interview]</p><p>"Iran has rejected a call by France, Germany and the UK demanding it refrain from any retaliatory attacks over the assassination of Hamas leader <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/IsmailHaniyeh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IsmailHaniyeh</span></a> in Tehran. Tensions also remain high on <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>’s northern border as Hezbollah vows to respond to the Israeli assassination of its military commander Fuad Shukr. On Friday, <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> continued its assassination campaign by killing a <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hamas</span></a> commander in the Lebanese city of Sidon. “It’s a very, very tense time here in Beirut, and in Lebanon more generally,” says Karim Makdisi, a professor of international politics at the American Univ. of Beirut. He says the cycle of escalation across the region has a clear cause, which is Israel’s war on <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> backed by the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a>, and that ending the violence there will bring calm elsewhere. “Get a ceasefire, everything stops.”"</p><p><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2024/8/13/karim_makdisi_iran_israel_lebanon_gaza" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">democracynow.org/2024/8/13/kar</span><span class="invisible">im_makdisi_iran_israel_lebanon_gaza</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>israel</span></a></span></p>