SPY EYES ANALYSIS

To begin to make sense of the escalating conflict in Gaza, we need to go back to the night of Oct. 23 in Khartoum. Around 11 p.m. that night, the Yarmouk weapons facility in the Sudanese capital was attacked, presumably by the Israeli air force. There were indications that Iran had been using this facility to stockpile and possibly assemble weapons, including anti-aircraft missiles, guided anti-tank missiles and long-range Fajr-5 rockets capable of reaching Tel Aviv and Jerusalem from Gaza.  One of the major drivers behind Israel's latest air and assassination campaign is its belief that Hamas has a large cache of long-range Fajr-3 and Fajr-5 rockets in its possession. Israel's primary intent in this military campaign is to deny Hamas the ability to use these rockets or keep them as a constant threat to Israel's population centers. This likely explains why in early October, when short-range rocket attacks from Gaza were still at a low level, Israeli officials began conditi...

We often hear from politicians and in the news talk about reasons why we should go to war against Iran  and previously Iraq because they have  broken a UN resolution  or are not complying with the wishes of weapon inspection teams . Our leaders often like to take the moral high ground when talking about human rights and how the wishes of the international community must be adhered to when the  UN  makes a decision. They use the force of the  UN  and the security council when they require moral legitamacy to go to war yet they are prepared to ignore or circumvent it when votes don’t go their way. When the west uses the  UN  to deal with issues surrounding the  Middle East  they are perfectly prepared to issue resolutions that legitimise the death of millions of children through starvation as they did during the sanctions regime imposed on Iraq. They are also perfectly willing to use the  UN  to legitim...