From Los Angeles and Chicago, this is Democracy Now.

Even now, it can be said with certainty.

This is no longer the same Iran.

This is no longer the same Middle East.

And this is also not the same Israel.

We are not waiting.

We are initiating.

We are attacking.

And we are doing so with a force, the like of which has not been seen before.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaims a new Middle East,

as the Israeli-U.S. war on Iran continues to destabilize the region, disrupt global energy markets,

expand environmental fallout and clean lives.

Israel's expanded its assault on Lebanon beyond the south, striking central Beirut.

We'll go to Beirut for the latest, and then to Tel Aviv.

To speak with Ha Araf's journalist, Gidun Levy, He writes, quote, everyone in this country has gone insane,

calling attention to the lack of anti-war voices in Israeli politics and media.

Meanwhile, the United Nations Security Councils voted to condemn Iran for military aggression while failing to adopt a second resolution calling for hostilities by all

parties to end, which would include the U.S. and Israel. Russia sponsored that resolution.

They have just rejected the possibility of the council sending an unequivocal demand to

immediately stop hostilities and settle all disputes

peacefully. And this shows very clearly, yet again, that all of the loud statements on the part of

those countries about how committed they are to international law, the UN Charter, and Peace

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