Opinion | America’s forgotten billionaires are at last given voice by Trump - The Washington Post

Members of the reality-based community might have noticed that Trump did not do any of these things but rather is claiming credit for the Biden administration's accomplishments. 

• Illegal crossings along the southern border are now lower than they were at the end of Trump's first term. (And Mexico's president, contrary to Trump's claim, said, "We reiterate that Mexico's position is not to close borders.") 
• It was the Biden administration that brokered the ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel. 
• Opioid deaths have been dropping at the fastest rate ever and are at or below levels seen at this point in Trump's first term. (And Canada's public safety minister describes the country's offer to Trump to boost border security measures as a "reassurance exercise" because "we believe that the border is secure.") 
• As for the stock market, the S&P 500 hit 47 record highs this year before Election Day...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/12/06/trump-billionaires-mothers-musk-hegseth/

Cattle, crops and ancient olive groves: Lebanon’s farmers ‘lose everything’ to Israeli bombs

Thousands of hectares of fertile land, including olive trees that have survived for millennia, have been destroyed in the country's agricultural heartland…

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/nov/12/cattle-crops-and-ancient-olive-groves-lebanons-farmers-lose-everything-to-israeli-bombs  

How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers - The New York Times

The Israeli government did not tamper with the Hezbollah phones that exploded, defense and intelligence officials say. It manufactured them as part of an elaborate ruse...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/world/middleeast/israel-exploding-pagers-hezbollah.html

Netanyahu says attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon ‘not the end of the story’

Israeli air raids on rocket sites are part of dangerous rise in hostilities, increasing fears a major conflict could erupt

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/25/netanyahu-says-attacks-on-hezbollah-in-lebanon-not-the-end-of-the-story

Israel and Hezbollah have escalated attacks on each other. How likely is war? (Terry Gross; Fresh Air podcast)

Hezbollah, the militant group based in Lebanon, shares Hamas’ goal of destroying the state of Israel. New Yorker writer Dexter Filkins talks about his reporting trip to the Lebanese/Israeli border.

Interview: 

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/g-s1-13320/israel-and-hezbollah-have-escalated-attacks-on-each-other-how-likely-is-war

Tensions flare between Israel and Hezbollah over disputed gas fields - The Washington Post

"War is much more honorable than the situation Lebanon is heading to now — collapse and starvation."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/13/israel-lebanon-border-threat/

Israeli think tank: Don’t destroy ISIS; it’s a “useful tool” against Iran, Hezbollah, Syria

According to a think tank that does contract work for NATO and the Israeli government, the West should not destroy ISIS, the fascist Islamist extremist group that is committing genocide and ethnically cleansing minority groups in Syria and Iraq.

Why? The so-called Islamic State “can be a useful tool in undermining” Iran, Hezbollah, Syria and Russia, argues the think tank’s director.

“The continuing existence of IS serves a strategic purpose,” wrote Efraim Inbar in “The Destruction of Islamic State Is a Strategic Mistake,” a paper published on Aug. 2....
http://www.salon.com/2016/08/23/israeli-think-tank-dont-destroy-isis-its-a-useful-tool-against-iran-hezbollah-syria/