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How Donald Trump’s Gaza deal came together

Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social · 8d

How Donald #Trump’s #Gaza deal came together - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @financialtimes.com

The hurried diplomacy and backroom arm-twisting that shaped the White House plan

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Full text of Donald Trump’s proposal to end the war in Gaza

Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social · 8d

Full text of Donald #Trump’s proposal to end the war in #Gaza - on.ft.com/46uvmrd via @financialtimes.com

The White House published its plan ahead of a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Musa al Sadr: Body seen in Libyan mortuary could solve 50-year mystery of vanished religious leader - BBC News

Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social · 18d

Another consideration relevant to this thesis (Musa al-Sadr killed by Qaddafi, due to Iran hardliners' pressure) is that it fits with the the antagonism between Khomeini and Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, cousin of Musa, and equally politically active in Iraq.
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Compelling evidence to suggest Lebanese Shia leader Musa al-Sadr was killed in Libya is uncovered by BBC.

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Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social · 19d

Timing may or may not be casual, but #KSA #Pakistan defence treaty is another sign of the eastward shift of the barycentre of power in world politics, caused *also* by Western states to support #Israel unconditionally.
on.ft.com/4mkzajd via @financialtimes.com

Petrodollars and the ‘Islamic Bomb’: how a Saudi-Pakistan pact was forged

Gulf nation backed Islamabad’s nuclear weapons programme, say experts. A new defence pact draws the Sunni allies closer

How Israel is dismantling the dream of a Palestinian state

Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social · 20d

Illuminating and yet deeply depressing report on how #Israel extreme right exploits what is left of #Oslo to cripple the West Bank and the Palestinians.
Free access link👇.
on.ft.com/46EBkWl via @financialtimes.com

While attention has been focused on Gaza, Israel has undermined the delicate architecture of governance in the West Bank built up over three decades

One year on, scars of the Hezbollah pager attack: A crack in the armor

Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social · 21d

A very deep and important report by L'Orient Le Jour on the pagers attack against Hezbollah by #Israel in #Lebanon a year ago.
today.lorientlejour.com/article/1477...

Neife Awad, 31, takes off her sunglasses to reveal two empty eye sockets. Around them, a constellation of scars marks the moment when a booby-trapped pager exploded in her face, plunging her into...

Syrian delegation in Beirut: Mitri reveals the behind the scenes

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Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social · 28d

An interview with France 24 on the events in #Doha #Qatar yesterday. Key points: hard to believe US did not know about this in advance, #Qatar and other Gulf countries concerned about their security, evidence of #Israel crimes in #Palestine piles up...
Link to video: 📺https://youtu.be/P2k1hvb3BTU

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Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social · Sep 4

Important steps in re-establishing #Lebanon-#Syria relations as equal partners.
Major points: border demarcation, #Hezbollah, and the rescission of the infamous Treaty of Brotherhood and Cooperation.
today.lorientlejour.com/article/1475...

After being postponed for several days, the coordination meeting between Lebanon and Syria finally took place on Monday in Beirut, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Mitri, who welcomed a...

www.clingendael.org/publication/... via @clingendael.bsky.social

Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Silent Frontlines: Why the “Axis of Resistance” Stayed Quiet in the Iran-Israel War

By Renad Mansour and Hamidreza AziziEditor’s introduction

www.clingendael.org

Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social · Aug 28

#Israel confirms that has no intention to de-escalate and give sufficient respite to the GoL to lay the basis for the monopoly of force in #Lebanon. Instead violence continues reinforcing #Hezbollah's narrative and weakening the government.
today.lorientlejour.com/article/1475...

Israeli air force strikes several areas in Jezzine district, southern Lebanon

SOUTH LEBANON — The Israeli air force carried out a series of strikes in southern Lebanon on Thursday afternoon, targeting several areas in the Jezzine district, north of the Litani River, our...

As all eyes are on Iran, the horror in Gaza persists

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Prof Anastasia Shesterinina @ashesterinina.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thanks to the @civilwarpaths.bsky.social research team for your contributions & @filippodionigi.bsky.social @rtapscott.bsky.social @marniehowlett.bsky.social for bringing this Forum together!
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Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social · Jun 29

"As all eyes are on #Iran, the horror in #Gaza persists"

Free access to this article from The Economist. You can open the link five times within seven days
www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Where people once died in air strikes, now they are dying as they try to find food

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Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social · Jun 23

My two cents on the latest developments #USA, #Israel, #Iran for BBC Radio Bristol 🎙️.
Listen via the link below if interested. 👇
youtu.be/0bMtXw2gFMc

BBC Radio Bristol 23 06 2025

YouTube video by Filippo Dionigi

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Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social · Jun 18

Rather hilarious piece on @alphaville.ft.com regarding defence, AI and all that...
Link below gives free access to a few of those who click on it.
on.ft.com/3ZAN9sM

Meanwhile, in the British army…

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Trump’s three excruciating choices on Iran

Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social · Jun 16

🎁Free article: You can open the link five times within seven days.

#Trump’s three excruciating choices on #Iran

www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Israel started the Iran war. Only America can finish it

www.economist.com

Israel has taken an audacious but terrifying gamble

Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social · Jun 13

#Israel has taken an audacious but terrifying gamble
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

The world would be safer if Iran abandoned its nuclear dreams, but that outcome may prove unattainable

www.economist.com

Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social · Jun 13

Can #Israel destroy #Iran’s nuclear sites? - on.ft.com/4lpHpL5 via @FT

Can Israel destroy Iran’s nuclear sites?

Country would need bunker-busting bombs to take out reinforced atomic facilities

YouTube video by Filippo Dionigi

Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social · Jun 13

Sharing my interview🎙️below with France24 En, regarding the latest #attack of #Israel against #Iran and the uncertainties that this causes in the region and globally.
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youtu.be/fyvWq-RvUr4

F24 13 06 2025

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Justin Bronk @justin-br0nk.bsky.social · Jun 13

Notable that many of the F-15s and F-16s in #IAF footage - supposedly from last night - are carrying 2000lb GBU-31(V)1 JDAMs. Suggests Israel has established sufficient control of the air to operate non-stealth aircraft directly over Iranian targets without relying on standoff weapons like Rampage

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Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social · Jun 13

Foreseeable and yet striking stance from #Hezbollah saying that it will not initiate hostilities against #Israel in conjunction with its attack against #Iran.
today.lorientlejour.com

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Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social · Jun 13

#Israel's explanation of #IranUnderAttack implies 2 violations of Int. Law:

Using force to "roll back a threat" is preventive, not covered by self-defence.

Nuclear scientists, unless they R members of the Iranian armed forces, are not legitimate targets of attack under IHL.

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Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social · Jun 13

In the meanwhile in #Gaza...

UNRWA @unrwa.org · Jun 12

We have lost all contact with our UNRWA colleagues in Gaza, communications have been cut off.

This morning, for the first time in months, we did not receive their morning messages to say, "good morning" and "we are fine/alive".

We anxiously await to hear from our colleagues.

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Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social · Jun 13

FirstFT: Israeli strikes target Iranian commanders and nuclear plant - on.ft.com/43Jt0TX via @FT

FirstFT: Israeli strikes target Iranian commanders and nuclear plant

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