What isn’t in doubt is that what happened in Shatila and the neighbouring Sabra district over the three days was a genocide — the United Nations general assembly confirmed it as such in December 1982.

There were no Palestinian fighters in the camp at the time of the massacre — the Phalange and the Israeli forces who ushered them in knew this, since the PLO militia had left for Tunisia two weeks earlier under a UN-brokered truce.

But the real story of how these weapons were developed is quite different. In fact, both weapons systems were developed and financed by the United States before being handed off to Israel by acts of Congress, according to government documents and interviews with key personnel involved in their development—despite warnings from U.S. intelligence agencies that transferring the tech to Israel effectively hands it over to U.S. adversaries such as China and Russia.

by Tyler Durden

After the US was essentially forced to conduct a major and rapid draw down of forces from the Gulf and Mideast region in the wake of Iran's 'unexpectedly' large retaliation for Operation Epic Fury, it seems all that Washington is left to do is arm regional allies to the teeth and wish them the best.

By Phoenix Capital Research

On September 10 and 11, drones launched from Maysan province in southern Iraq hit pumping stations on Saudi Arabia’s East-West crude oil pipeline near Riyadh and Medina. Saudi Arabia shut the pipeline on Friday. Riyadh called it a precaution. Satellite imagery of the station near Al Melba ’ah tells a different story.

Brent spiked to $110, settled at $105, and closed the week up more than 8%. First settle above $100 since May.

Here is what most investors missed.

Fun Facts About Our "Greatest Ally", Israel:

- in 1947 militant Zionist group once mailed a letter bomb to President Truman

- in 1948 Israeli forces poisoned wells in Gaza and Palestinian villages

- in 1954 Israel recruited agents to bomb cinemas, libraries, and Western sites… pic.twitter.com/ngay6miHuN

— Wayne Waldrop (@WayneWaldropW) September 16, 2026

When you listen to the speech that caused all of this, you see just how pathetic Ed Sheeran is in accepting this as offensive pic.twitter.com/bWgJ2FvVLZ

— Tiberius (@tiberiusfiles) September 16, 2026

Decades later, Ernst Zündel, a German-Canadian, was put on trial in Canada over his publications questioning the Holocaust. Yes, if you can believe it, the holocaust is so true that they had to make it illegal to question in 21 different countries.

Throughout Zündel’s trial, he forced the Red Cross to produce their WWII records and they showed approximately 270,000 total dead for all the camps.

The U.S. military is straining under the pressures of the Iran war, according to two U.S. officials familiar with operations in the Middle East. One cautioned that this stress could lead to a “breakdown” in the military’s ability to effectively continue a war that President Donald Trump said would end in early April.

Four supporting acts, including all scheduled opening acts, quit Ed Sheeran's tour on Tuesday after the rapper Macklemore was removed for pro-Palestinian comments onstage during a recent show.

Hours after Sheeran posted on social media about Macklemore's ouster and attributed the decision to the tour's promoters, Irish acts Aaron Rowe and Beoga, the Danish band Lukas Graham, and Finneas posted on Instagram that they would withdraw from Sheeran's tour.