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  How Yemen’s 'Asabiyya' Is Reshaping Geopolitics PEPE ESCOBAR The Arabic word Asabiyya, or ‘social solidarity,’ is a soundbite in the west, but taken very seriously by the globe’s new contenders China, Russia, and Iran. It is Yemen, however, that is mainstreaming the idea, by sacrificing everything for the world’s collective morality in a bid to end the genocide in Gaza. When there is a general change of conditions, It is as if the entire creation had changed and the whole world been altered, as if it were a new and repeated creation, a world brought into existence anew. — Ibn Khaldun Yemen’s Ansarallah resistance forces have made it very clear, right from the start, that they set up a blockade in the Bab el-Mandeb and the southern Red Sea only against Israeli-owned or destined shipping vessels. Their single objective was and remains to stop the Gaza genocide perpetrated by the  Israeli biblical psychopathy . As a response to a morally-based call to end a human genocide, the ...

  Hamas In The Driver's Seat; US Considering Withdrawal From Syria MARK WAUCK Over the weekend Israel offered Hamas a two month ceasefire. This came basically out of the blue. What was driving this unexpected offer that seemed to fly in the face of all of Netanyahu’s public statements of intent? Maybe this—h/t Megatron. The Israeli general was speaking after the heavy casualties just the other day in an explosion in a storage facility: Israeli Chief of Staff: "We are still fighting, the battle will be long, and we will need reserve forces again. We will continue to fight Hamas with great determination for our right to live in safety. Our soldiers fell in battle during a defensive operation in the area separating Israeli towns and Gaza. The operation was aimed at creating security conditions for the residents of the Gaza envelope area to return to their homes safely. We will conduct an in-depth investigation and draw lessons so that such an incident will not be repeated." ...