International newspapers and websites shed light on various topics, most notably the famine in the Gaza Strip, the American role in Syria, and the pager attack launched by Israel on Lebanese Hezbollah in light of the opinion of security experts.
The Independent newspaper revealed that the United States of America is putting pressure on the Famine Early Warning Systems Network to withdraw its report on the famine in the northern Gaza Strip, which is based on analyzing data from neutral experts.
The report warned that the number of people who will die of hunger in northern Gaza may range between 2 and 15 people per day between January and next March if Israel does not change its approach.
Regarding the issue of Syria, an analysis in the New York Times indicated that some foreign policy experts in the United States believe that Washington is required to engage strongly in the Syrian file and learn from the lesson of Afghanistan, and America’s former special envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, says that the Joe Biden administration “I made a mistake by turning away from the Taliban after they took power in Kabul,” he said, calling on American officials to take a more active approach towards Syria.
A report in the Financial Times recalls what it described as the shock caused by the Israeli attack against Hezbollah’s pager devices in Lebanon. In interviews with more than 12 current and former senior security officials from Israel’s Western allies, only 3 said that they would agree to carry out a similar action. The former director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Leon Panetta, even described the attack as “a form of terrorism.”
On the other hand, the newspaper “Haaretz” wrote about what it called a dirty campaign launched by Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz “under orders from above” against Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, and said that Halevi “faces a daily ordeal near the end of his term, as fake news is promoted and he is portrayed as defeated.” “.
Haaretz added that some of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesmen were instructed to repeat that Netanyahu was the one who made important decisions, such as the Pager operation and the assassination of Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah.
In an article in Foreign Affairs magazine, writer Alexander Punov said, “Russian President Vladimir Putin preferred Ukraine over Syria, which may lead other allies to conclude that Moscow cannot be relied upon.”
The writer adds that “the fall of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russia’s indifference to the collapse of his regime resulted from Putin’s deep desire to avoid a decisive defeat in Ukraine.”
