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The Middle East is on the brink of all-out war – so why is the EU still navel-gazing? | Nathalie Tocci

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 06:00

A decade ago, Europe helped broker the Iran nuclear deal. Now, it seems at a total loss, absent from efforts to stop the unfolding crisis

Sometimes, you have to ask why the EU seems to operate in a vacuum, seemingly unable to fathom how it relates to the rest of the world. Violence is raging in the Middle East and the prospect of all-out war, after Iran’s latest missile attack on Israel , is growing by the day. Yet Europe’s core political community is missing in action.

Internally, the political dust is settling after June’s European parliament elections and a new five-year cycle is starting in Brussels. Ursula von der Leyen is back for a second term as the president of the European Commission, having sailed through her confirmation hearings in the European parliament. The policy glass on a range of key questions from climate to technology is at least half full.

Nathalie Tocci is a Guardian Europe columnist

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Six killed in Israeli strike on medical centre in central Beirut, Lebanon officials say

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 05:14 · 1 minute

Lebanese health ministry says another seven were injured in attack on district of Bachoura; Israeli military tells residents in some southern neighbourhoods to flee ahead of strikes

Report: US would not support Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, says Biden

Israeli strikes on a central Beirut medical centre have killed at least six people, after Israel’s military suffered its deadliest day on the Lebanese front in a year of clashes with Iran-backed Hezbollah .

Residents in Beirut heard a missile flying above the city before hearing the sound of the explosion. Videos showed the floor of an apartment building burning. Residents living in nearby areas began to flee, driving away quickly in scooters and cars.

Lebanon’s health ministry said prior to the strike on central Lebanon that 46 people had been killed and 85 wounded in Israeli strikes on Lebanon in the past 24 hours. Israeli strikes have killed more than 1,000 people in Lebanon over the past two weeks, many of them women and children, according to the ministry.

Israel will respond to Iran’s missile attack and its forces can strike anywhere in the Middle East, its military chief said. “We have the capability to reach and strike every location in the Middle East and those of our enemies who have not yet understood this, will understand this soon,” Herzi Halevi, chief of the general staff, said in a video on Wednesday. “Iran made a big mistake tonight – and it will pay for it.” Israel’s foreign minister Israel Katz threatened Israeli retaliation for Iran’s “brutal” missile attack.

Iran braced itself for likely Israeli attacks on its nuclear sites as the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urged the west to leave the Middle East. The unprecedented Iranian salvo of more than 180 ballistic missiles came less than 24 hours after the Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the largest ground incursion into southern Lebanon in a generation.

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‘It’s tragic’: Bank of England governor watching Middle East crisis closely

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 05:00

Exclusive: in an interview with the Guardian Andrew Bailey says he fears conflict will affect oil prices

The Bank of England is monitoring the Middle East crisis amid fears that a worsening conflict between Iran and Israel will make it impossible to stabilise oil prices and leave the global economy vulnerable to a 1970s-style energy shock.

Andrew Bailey, the Bank’s governor, said he was watching developments “extremely closely” and that there were limits to what could be done to prevent the cost of crude rising if things “got really bad”.

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Iran Would Need Much More Than Weeks to Build a Nuclear Bomb

news.movim.eu / TheNewYorkTimes · Yesterday - 23:06

Nuclear experts see Tehran as facing up to a year of hard work to master the knotty basics of building a deliverable atom bomb.

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After a fortnight of military triumph, what is Israel’s endgame?

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 19:54

Hawks argue Tehran’s missile assault gives legitimacy to a direct attack on Iran – but would ‘wars and wars and wars’ guarantee greater security?

Israel is enjoying a moment of military and intelligence triumph. Over two weeks, it has killed an “archenemy” in his secret bunker , decimated Hezbollah’s leadership , blown up the militant group’s communications networks and parts of its arsenal and humbled its sponsor, Iran.

As its ground troops marched into Lebanon, Israel fended off a large-scale Iranian ballistic missile attack with backing from the US and other allies.

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After Iran’s Missile Attack, Israel May Be Ready to Risk All-Out War

news.movim.eu / TheNewYorkTimes · Yesterday - 19:11

Israel seems ready to respond in a much more forceful and public way with Iran after Tehran launched its second massive missile attack on Israel this year, analysts and officials say.

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Flare-Up in Israel-Iran Conflict Leaves Harris Unable to Avoid the Subject

news.movim.eu / TheNewYorkTimes · Yesterday - 19:05

Missiles over Tel Aviv fed Donald Trump’s narrative of a world in chaos and vaporized any hopes of an end to the war. In the near term, that poses political problems for Democrats.

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West planned for months to repel long-range Iranian attack – but Israel did not need them

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 17:45

Most of the defensive effort appears to have been undertaken by Israeli air defence systems

Middle East crisis – live updates

Quiet planning by the US, UK and other allies to help Israel repel an Iranian long-range attack have been going on for several months or more – but most of the defensive effort appears to have been undertaken by Israeli air defence systems.

The only reported military engagements in support of Israel were a dozen interceptors fired by two US warships in the Eastern Mediterranean, while Jordan said its own air defence systems and air force were involved in targeting Iranian missiles.

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‘Something terrible has happened’: Israelis in Jaffa recall shock of terror attack

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 17:19

The assault, in which seven people were killed, happened minutes before Iran’s missile bombardment was launched

Middle East crisis – live updates

Debbie Kay, who lives in the seaside neighbourhood of Jaffa in Tel Aviv, was arguing with her teenage son on Tuesday evening about whether or not it was safe to leave the house.

He was wanting to meet friends, while she was concerned about reports that Iran was about to launch ballistic missiles at Israel.