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Why’d Al Mayadeen Claim That An Alleged Israeli Base In Eritrea Came Under Attack?

https://zububrothers.com/whyd-al-mayade ... er-attack/

October 28, 2023



This narrative was too “politically convenient” for Al Mayadeen to pass up as they try to keep their supporters’ spirits high amidst the Palestinians’ suffering that the Resistance Axis has been unable to relieve thus far.

Al Mayadeen recently reported that an alleged Israeli base in Eritrea’s Dahlak Islands had come under attack, which was refuted by Minister of Information Yemane G. Meskel. He tweeted that:

Beirut-based Al Mayadeen Tv Channel floats a ludicrous story of ‘attacks’ against phantom ‘Israeli bases’ in Eritrea. Blatant disinformation – with variations on adjacent Iranian & even Houthi military bases – are recycled intermittently by intel operatives for sinister ends.

No evidence has emerged in support of Al Mayadeen’s allegations, which casts further doubt on their veracity when coupled with the latest official denial and previously unconfirmed reports on this subject that were earlier rubbished as well. Considering this, there’s no reason to believe the claim that Israel has a secret base in the Dahlak Islands, nor that any such facility recently came under attack even if one imagines that it exists. The question therefore arises as to why Al Maydeen published their report.

This outlet is very popular in West Asia and seen as sympathetic to the Iranian-led Axis of Resistance, which refers to those regional forces whose worldview is based on the premise that Israel’s entire creation is illegitimate, not just its occupation of Palestine’s pre-1967 borders. They regard it as an unprecedented historical injustice that must be reversed for anti-imperialist, humanitarian, and religious reasons, and they’ve dedicated their lives to this cause.

The latest Israeli-Hamas war https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/ ... -on-israel is increasingly viewed by both parties and their supporters as an existential struggle, but a larger regional war has yet to break out since Israel and the Resistance Axis’ de facto Iranian leader are each aware of how mutually destructive that would be. That isn’t to say that such a scenario might not soon unfold, even if only by miscalculation, but just that those two have thus far been very careful not to do anything that could lead to an uncontrollable military escalation.

For as pragmatic as this approach has been in some ways, one unintended outcome from the Resistance Axis’ perspective is that Israel hasn’t felt pressured by this bloc to lift its blockade of Gaza and stop its bombing of that densely population territory, which has worsened the humanitarian crisis there. Palestinians continue dying as a result and the Resistance Axis’ supporters, who’ve devoted themselves to their cause, are understandably upset that this continues happening.

It’s within this highly emotive context that Al Mayadeen published their report, which was arguably intended to make their targeted Resistance Axis audience think that this bloc is dealing damage to Israel on a far-away front so that they don’t become too despondent amidst the Palestinians’ suffering that their side has been unable to relieve. Prior unsubstantiated claims about an Israeli base in Eritrea’s Dahlak Islands were referenced for three reasons of “political convenience” that’ll now be touched upon.

For starters, this outlet’s targeted audience had likely come across what Minister Meskel described as these “intermittently recycled” reports sometime in the past, which served the purpose in the present of preconditioning them into falsely thinking that there might be some truth to this latest supposed update. Second, the Resistance Axis was displeased with Eritrea for the support that it provided to the Saudi-led coalition during the height of their military intervention in Yemen against Iran’s Houthi allies.

That country was then subjected to an information warfare campaign waged by this bloc in order to impugn President Isaias Afwerki, who’s proven himself to be a multipolar visionary, https://korybko.substack.com/p/everyone ... -president as revenge for supporting the Resistance Axis’ coalition enemies. And finally, the aforesaid observation about their axe to grind with Eritrea adds another dimension to Al Mayadeen’s report, which suggests that this bloc’s Houthi allies finally gave that country its comeuppance for supporting their enemies in Yemen.

These three points explain why Eritrea was selected as the far-away front where the Resistance Axis claimed that they’ve dealt damage to Israel in response to its blockade and bombing of Gaza. It was too “politically convenient” for Al Mayadeen to pass up as they try to keep their supporters’ spirits high amidst the Palestinians’ suffering that their bloc has been unable to relieve as explained. With these soft power motives in mind, it can’t be ruled out that more such reports might soon follow.

Middle East
Drone blasts hit two Egyptian Red Sea towns, Israel points to Houthi

By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Dan Williams

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-ea ... 023-10-27/

Summary:

• Explosions hit Taba and Nuweiba near Israeli border

• Israel says drones launched by Yemen's Houthi movement

• No claim of responsibility, Egypt blames drones

• Incidents show risk of spillover from Israel-Gaza war

CAIRO/JERUSALEM, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Drones caused explosions that rocked two Egyptian towns on the Red Sea on Friday, the Egyptian army said, while Israel said Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi movement sent them to strike Israel.

The explosions injured six people and illustrated the risk of regional spillover from the Israel-Gaza conflict. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-ea ... 023-10-26/

There was no claim of responsibility.

Israel's foreign ministry said the Iran-backed Houthi launched drones and missiles

with the intention of harming Israel.

Egypt's military spokesman Colonel Gharib Abdel-Hafez said two drones were fired from the southern Red Sea aiming north. Yemen is at the south end of the sea and Israel at the north.

One drone crashed into a building adjacent to a hospital in the Egyptian town of Taba on the border with Israel, injuring six, in the early hours of Friday, Egypt's military said.

The second drone was downed outside Egyptian airspace on Friday morning, and the debris fell in a desert area of Nuweiba town, about 70 km (43 miles) from the Israeli border, Egypt said.

Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said that combat helicopters had been scrambled when

an aerial threat was spotted in the Red Sea region.

To our understanding, the strike that took place in Egypt originated in this threat,

he added in a televised briefing before Israel's foreign ministry attributed the drones to the Houthi.

Witnesses in Taba and Nuweiba, popular tourist destinations on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, said they heard explosions and saw smoke as well as Egyptian warplanes flying overhead.

EGYPT EXPOSED

The air force and air defence force are intensifying efforts to secure Egyptian airspace on all strategic directions,

the Egyptian military said.

The Israeli spokesman said,

Israel will work with Egypt, and the United States, and bolster regional defences against threats from the Red Sea region.

The U.S. said last week a Navy warship in the Red Sea https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-nav ... 023-10-19/ intercepted projectiles launched by the Houthi, potentially toward Israel.

Bordering both Gaza and Israel, Egypt is exposed to the conflict that blew up after Hamas' Oct. 7 assault on Israel and the subsequent bombardment of the Gaza Strip.

Cairo has been prominently advocating for aid flows into Gaza, the release of Hamas' hostages and a ceasefire.

On Wednesday, Hamas said it had targeted the Israeli town of Eilat, across the border from Taba, with a missile in what appeared to be the Islamist group's longest-range Palestinian attack since Oct. 7.

Reporting by Emily Rose and Dan Williams in Jerusalem, Ahmed Mohamed Hassan, Nafisa Eltahir, Ahmed Tolba, Hatem Maher, and Mai Shams El-Din in Cairo, Yusri Mohamed in Ismailia, Nayera Abdallah, Nadine Awadalla and Ahmed Elimam in Dubai; writing by Rami Ayyub and Nafisa Eltahir; Editing by Michael Perry, Andrew Cawthorne, Jonathan Oatis and Cynthia Osterman

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