...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
on Wednesday warned that a "full-fledged confrontation" between Israel and Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
would be a "total disaster" amid fears of a wider war.
| A disaster for Hezbollah and the amour propre of the Arab world. Not at all the same as a disaster for Israel. |
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
| No. This time they’re going to enjoy the natural consequences of their actions. |
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...'s unprecedented October 7 attacks on Israel.
Since then, the Lebanese-Israeli border has witnessed a near daily exchange of fire between Israel's army and Hezbollah, a Hamas ally.
| And whose fault is that, pray tell? |
| If Hezbollah chose to sit quietly with folded hands, there would be no spillover. Just like Gaza was peaceful on October 6th. |
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the
Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels have also struck what they consider Israeli-linked shipping in the Red Sea in solidarity with Paleostinians in Gaza since the war there started on October 7.
The United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
chief suggested that a ceasefire would help to avoid further chaos.
| Not when Hamas has promised to repeat October 7th as often as it takes to make Israel Judenfrei. |
| Does that mean Hamas will repair all the harm they have committed against the people of Israel by their continued aggression? A much better use for the donations coming in from the UN, et al, which would only be used to rebuild the war tunnels. |
"I believe that the present situation has demonstrated that the two-state solution is an absolutely central way to solve this problem," he said.
| That’s nice. How fortunate that your opinion doesn’t matter. |