Bulletins and News Discussion from January 20th to January 26th, 2025 - Viva La Resistance

Image is of many Hamas soldiers supervising the handing over of Israeli hostages to cars heading out of the Gaza Strip.

After 15 months of genocide - and resistance to it - the Israeli regime realized that they could not win a military victory against Hamas, and were forced to sign a humiliating ceasefire in order to get their hostages returned.

With much of Syria under the control of Al-Qaeda, and an increasing level of covert infiltration into Lebanon, the crisis in the Middle East is not over, and we may still be in its beginning stages, as the center of hegemony continues its gradual shift away from the United States. Their navy, once considered the best in the world, is likely also not very happy about their ships and aircraft carriers being forced to retreat by Yemen, one of the poorest countries; and all eyes are on Iran, who has, over the last year and a half, demonstrated a newfound confidence and strength to directly strike Israel.

The recovery for Gaza will take, at a minimum, decades; it could indeed never fully recovery to even how it was before, considering it is not in Israel's interests to see their concentration camps recover. But Hamas has proven to be steadfast and the tunnel network has proven its resilience, despite facing some of the most powerful conventional bombing in history. This shows that Palestine's liberation is a when, not an if; and hopefully a much sooner "when" than expected before October 7th.

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Trump's office said that "the largest deportation in the history of the United States has already begun," Bild reports. According to the US President's press secretary Caroline Levitt, 538 illegal immigrants have already been detained. Recall that one of Trump's first orders was to declare a state of emergency on the Mexican border and send additional troops there. He promises to expel "millions" of illegal migrants.
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- This is true, the deportation flights were visible on FlightRadar24. Two C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft flew from El Paso, Texas, and Tucson, Arizona; United States, to Guatemala City; Guatemala. México did not allow these flights to utilise their airspace, so they had to fly around México and over Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica instead.
  
  Each aircraft reportedly carried 80 migrants each, and are set to deport a total of 5000 people in the coming weeks, according to Reuters.

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