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		<title>Yemen Surges, Saudi Commits Economic Suicide &#8211; Henningsen speaks to Dialogue Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<strong>Dialogue Works</strong> &#124; Is the Kingdom being pushed into a corner by the Trump regime?]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Experts are baffled by Saudi Arabia&#8217;s decision to attack Yemen last month, which has set off a devastating chain of events which has led to a halt in Saudi oil exports. What were they thinking? Is the Kingdom being pushed into a corner by the Trump regime? Based on the evidence now emerging, it seems that the US and Israel have other plans for the region. All this and more. </strong></p>
<p><em>Dialogue Works</em> host <strong>Nima Alkhorshid</strong> talks with 21st Century Wire’s <strong>Patrick Henningsen</strong>. <em>Watch:</em></p>
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		<title>Trump Threatens Final Act &#8211; Nuclear Annihilation of Iran? &#8211; Henningsen talks to Jim Webb</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<strong>Jim Webb Podcast</strong> &#124; History shows that normalizing military threats opens the door for escalation as policy. ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>“Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic?” That line doesn’t land like ordinary campaign bluster when it’s delivered from the UN podium. History shows that normalizing threats is how escalation becomes policy, and policy becomes catastrophe. Many now believe that Trump’s rhetoric signals the dismantling of international law, and the weakening of the post World War II order. We then look at Saudi Arabia’s bind, Yemen’s battlefield ascendancy, and why Ansar Allah aka &#8220;the Houthis&#8221; are often misunderstood as a simple proxy force when the military prowess and current trend lines show something more serious. We also dig into Israel’s expanding footprint in Latin America via the <em>Trojan Horse</em> known as the “<a href="https://21stcenturywire.com/2026/09/24/the-isaac-accords-side-door/">Isaac Accords</a>.&#8221; All this and more. </strong></p>
<p>Host <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@JimWebbPodcast"><strong>Jim Webb</strong></a> talks with 21st Century Wire&#8217;s <strong>Patrick Henningsen</strong>. <em>Watch: </em></p>
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		<title>Saudi Arabia and Israel’s Secret Working Relationship</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<strong>Freddie Ponton</strong> &#124; The alliance that does not need a treaty.]]></description>
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<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top"><strong>Saudi Arabia has never signed the <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/abraham-accords-peace-agreement-treaty-of-peace-diplomatic-relations-and-full-normalization-between-the-united-arab-emirates-and-the-state-of-israel/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Abraham Accords</span></a>, which means its relationship with Israel can still be discussed as a deal waiting to happen. But long before anyone agrees on what a public deal should contain, Israeli-made spyware has reached a Saudi dissident, Saudi sovereign wealth has backed investments in Israeli companies, and the two countries have been drawn into discussions about intelligence cooperation against Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement.</strong></p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">In a new <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqKjaNsAV7w" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Double Down News investigation</span></a>, Lowkey traces a shadow network linking senior Israeli intelligence figures, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Israeli cyber-warfare technology exported to Saudi Arabia with state approval. Jeffrey Epstein appears in that story seeking a place close to the Saudi leadership. In correspondence examined by <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.newarab.com/news/epstein-strongly-advised-saudi-against-2018-aramco-wall-st-ipo" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">The New Arab</span></a>, he offered advice on the planned sale of Saudi oil company Aramco and helped draft a letter addressed to the crown prince. The question becomes more urgent in Yemen, where reports describe <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/diplomacy/artc-israel-aided-saudi-arabia-against-houthi-threats-in-us-mediated-talks-report" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">talks mediated by US Central Command, or CENTCOM</span></a>, over Israeli intelligence assistance to Riyadh against Ansar Allah.</p>
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Omar Abdulaziz was living in Canada in 2018 and working with journalist Jamal Khashoggi when a message about a package arrived on his phone. The link inside led to Pegasus, spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group. <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://citizenlab.ca/research/the-kingdom-came-to-canada-how-saudi-linked-digital-espionage-reached-canadian-soil/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Citizen Lab found</span></a> that Abdulaziz’s phone had been infected by a Saudi-linked operator. Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi agents later that year inside the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">Khashoggi was also the subject of conflicting accounts inside <a href="https://www.wikistrat.com/">Wikistrat</a>, a private intelligence firm founded in Israel whose founder, <a href="https://www.wikistrat.com/joel-zamel">Joel Zamel</a>, met senior Saudi officials. Before the murder, a Wikistrat executive told a colleague that the company had recruited  Saudi journalist <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/09/saudi-arabia-still-no-justice-for-state-sanctioned-murder-of-jamal-khashoggi-five-years-on/">Jamal Khashoggi</a> for a Saudi-focused project. Afterwards, he said Khashoggi had only been considered, although the firm later told <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://forensicnews.net/israeli-private-intelligence-firm-claimed-recruitment-of-khashoggi-prior-to-murder/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Forensic News</span></a> that he had been part of its analyst community for some time. One of the Saudi officials Zamel met was Ahmed al-Asiri, the former deputy head of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s General Intelligence Presidency and a former close adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), who was later accused of overseeing the operation against Khashoggi.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">By the time Jared Kushner left the White House, Saudi Arabia still had not recognised Israel, though Kushner had helped other Arab governments do so through the Abraham Accords. His new firm, <a href="https://affinitypartners.com/">Affinity Partners</a>, received a <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/chairman_wyden_to_affinity_partnerspdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">$2 billion commitment</span></a> from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and went on to buy <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-kushners-affinity-partners-buys-15-shlomo-group-stake-1001469198" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">15% of an Israeli vehicle and credit business</span></a>, while also becoming the <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-jared-kushner-firm-sells-25-of-phoenix-financial-stake-1001550617" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">largest single shareholder</span></a> in Israeli insurer <a href="https://phoenixfinancial.co.il/">Phoenix Financial</a>. <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://investigate.afsc.org/company/phoenix-financial" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Research by AFSC Investigate</span></a> documents Phoenix’s insurance services to West Bank settlement councils and its investment in Israeli arms manufacturer <a href="https://www.elbitsystems.com/">Elbit Systems</a>. Saudi money could reach those businesses through the fund Kushner controlled, even as recognition remained off the table.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">The Saudi-led war had already helped push millions in Yemen towards hunger when seven-year-old <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/11/2/yemen-amal-hussain-whose-image-drew-attention-to-famine-dies" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Amal Hussain died</span></a> of malnutrition in October 2018. In November 2025, <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://ansarollah.com.ye/archives/819837" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Sana’a’s Interior Ministry alleged</span></a> that a joint Saudi, American and Israeli operations room in Riyadh had recruited Yemenis to collect coordinates inside the country. It released video confessions from detainees and described equipment supplied to the alleged network. <a href="https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2025/11/houthis-arrest-alleged-members-of-saudi-american-israeli-spy-ring.php">The </a><span class="text-box-trim-both">Long War Journal reported the allegations</span>, but did not independently establish the claimed command structure. Then, this month, <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/diplomacy/artc-israel-aided-saudi-arabia-against-houthi-threats-in-us-mediated-talks-report" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">separate reporting</span></a> described talks through <a href="https://www.centcom.mil/">CENTCOM</a> over potential Israeli intelligence assistance to Riyadh against Ansar Allah.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top"><strong><em>Sana’a says Saudi Arabia recruited spies in Yemen for an operation involving American and Israeli intelligence. Reports of CENTCOM-mediated talks over Israeli assistance to Riyadh give that allegation fresh urgency, raising the possibility that Saudi Arabia is fighting Ansar Allah not only for itself, but as a proxy for Israel and the United States. If that is how the war is being fought, a treaty would not create a Saudi–Israeli partnership. It would merely acknowledge one already at work.</em></strong></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<strong>Freddie Ponton</strong> &#124; Israel’s route into Guatemala runs through the regional parliament PARLACEN.]]></description>
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<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top"><em>Israel’s campaign for observer status in Central America’s regional parliament is advancing in a Guatemala that already has a trade agreement with Israel, diplomatic contact with its municipalities and a record of purchasing from Israeli suppliers.</em></p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top"><strong>In Buenos Aires, the president of Central America’s regional parliament said she could win the two-thirds vote needed to grant Israel observer status. Six weeks later, Israel’s advocates had a caucus inside the chamber, giving the campaign a way in even though Guatemala had not signed the Isaac Accords.</strong></p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">Karla Gutiérrez told legislators in Buenos Aires on <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.jns.org/es/noticias/noticias-del-mundo/israel-a-un-paso-de-obtener-el-estatus-de-observador-en-el-parlamento-centroamericano" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">29 June 2026</span></a> that she was working to make Israel an observer in the Central American Parliament, known as <a href="https://parlacen.int/inicio">PARLACEN</a>, and said she could secure the two-thirds majority required for approval by October. “I can do it,” she said at a conference convened by the <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.genesisprize.org/press-center/2026-06-30-legislators-from-14-latin-american-countries-commit-to-pro-israel-agenda-at-buenos-aires-summit" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Israel Allies Foundation and American Friends of Isaac Accords (AFOIA)</span></a>. The<a href="https://www.genesisprize.org/"> Genesis Prize Foundation</a> helped <span class="text-box-trim-both">establish AFOIA</span> to promote the initiative across Latin America.</p>
<p>Karla Gutiérrez has emerged as the institutional face of Israel’s PARLACEN strategy. As the parliament’s president, she publicly championed Israel’s observer-status bid at a conference linked to the Isaac Accords network, then an Israel Allies caucus opened inside the very body she leads. Gutiérrez called Israel’s observer-status bid an “unprecedented achievement” that could open “a new chapter for Israel in the region.” According to <a href="https://www.jns.org/news/world/israel-poised-to-get-observer-status-in-central-american-parliament">JNS</a>, she made the remarks in Buenos Aires at the Israel Allies Foundation’s Latin America Chairman’s Conference, telling lawmakers she was guided by faith and shared “Judeo-Christian values.”</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em> “Now I know why God allowed me to be president,” she said. “It’s through a commitment to Israel.”</em></strong></p></blockquote>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">On <span class="inline-flex" aria-label="Central American Parliament establishes Israel alliance as ..." data-state="closed"><a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.jns.org/news/world/central-american-parliament-establishes-israel-alliance-as-push-for-observer-status-gathers-steam" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">11 August</span></a></span>, the Israel Allies Foundation launched an Israel Allies Caucus in PARLACEN’s plenary hall in Guatemala City, giving the observer-status campaign a permanent platform inside the chamber. Gutiérrez said she would lobby for a vote as early as the following month, while IAF president Josh Reinstein said the caucus was <span class="inline-flex" aria-label="Central American Parliament establishes Israel alliance as ..." data-state="closed"><a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.jns.org/news/world/central-american-parliament-establishes-israel-alliance-as-push-for-observer-status-gathers-steam" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">actively advancing recognition</span></a></span>. The conference organiser now had a working group inside the parliament where Gutiérrez needed a two-thirds majority.</p>
<p><em><a href="https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Karla-Gutierrez-.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-172013" src="https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Karla-Gutierrez--1024x577.png" alt="" width="610" height="344" srcset="https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Karla-Gutierrez--1024x577.png 1024w, https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Karla-Gutierrez--300x169.png 300w, https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Karla-Gutierrez--768x432.png 768w, https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Karla-Gutierrez--1536x865.png 1536w, https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Karla-Gutierrez-.png 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px" /></a><br />
IMAGE: Karla Gutiérrez, president of the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), at the Israel Allies Caucus launch on 11 August 2026. (Source: <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.jns.org/news/world/central-american-parliament-establishes-israel-alliance-as-push-for-observer-status-gathers-steam" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">JNS</span></a>)</em></p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">Israel and Argentina <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.gov.il/en/pages/israel-and-argentina-announce-launching-of-the-isaac-accords-19-april-2026" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">launched the Isaac Accords in April</span></a>, but Guatemala has not joined. PARLACEN, based in Guatemala City, brings together legislators from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic, and can <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.jns.org/news/world/central-american-parliament-establishes-israel-alliance-as-push-for-observer-status-gathers-steam" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">confer observer status</span></a> without the Guatemalan government signing the Accords. That gave Israel’s advocates a route to a regional foothold while Guatemala remained outside their formal membership.</p>
<p id="the-caucus-and-the-vote" class="font-semibold leading-tight text-pretty mb-2 mt-4 [[data-has-inline-images]_&amp;]:clear-end text-lg first:mt-0 md:text-lg [hr+&amp;]:mt-4"><strong>The caucus and the vote</strong></p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">Gutiérrez was the <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.genesisprize.org/press-center/2026-06-30-legislators-from-14-latin-american-countries-commit-to-pro-israel-agenda-at-buenos-aires-summit" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">only Guatemalan participant identified by name</span></a> in available accounts of the Buenos Aires conference. She attended as PARLACEN president rather than as a representative of Guatemala’s national legislature, framing her support for Israel in terms of <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.jns.org/es/noticias/noticias-del-mundo/israel-a-un-paso-de-obtener-el-estatus-de-observador-en-el-parlamento-centroamericano" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">shared Judeo-Christian values</span></a>. Reinstein gave that appeal a political purpose, saying observer status would show what happens when politicians turn biblical support for Israel into “<a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.jns.org/es/noticias/noticias-del-mundo/israel-a-un-paso-de-obtener-el-estatus-de-observador-en-el-parlamento-centroamericano" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">concrete political action</span></a>.” With a vote anticipated in October, the campaign would need to continue after the delegations left Buenos Aires.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">American Friends of Isaac Accords brought the initiative into the meeting and had made the <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.genesisprize.org/press-center/2025-10-29-the-isaac-accords-building-new-bridges-between-israel-and-latin-america" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Israel Allies Foundation one of its first grant recipients</span></a>. IAF brought its <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.israelallies.eu/our-story" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">network of parliamentary caucuses</span></a> and its model of “faith-based diplomacy,” while conference organisers said delegates committed to <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.genesisprize.org/press-center/2026-06-30-legislators-from-14-latin-american-countries-commit-to-pro-israel-agenda-at-buenos-aires-summit" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">coordinated political action</span></a>. Its Latin America director, Leopoldo Martínez, called the August group a <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.jns.org/news/world/central-american-parliament-establishes-israel-alliance-as-push-for-observer-status-gathers-steam" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">permanent platform</span></a> for cooperation with Israel between plenary sessions. The <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://israelallies.org/member-nations" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">foundation says it works in 65 legislatures</span></a> and described the new PARLACEN group as its <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://israelallies.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">66th caucus</span></a>, extending that model into the chamber where Gutiérrez was seeking votes for Israel.</p>
<p><em><a href="https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Launch-of-the-Parliamentary-Group-Allies-of-Israel-at-PARLECEN-scaled.webp"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-172014" src="https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Launch-of-the-Parliamentary-Group-Allies-of-Israel-at-PARLECEN-1024x598.webp" alt="" width="610" height="356" srcset="https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Launch-of-the-Parliamentary-Group-Allies-of-Israel-at-PARLECEN-1024x598.webp 1024w, https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Launch-of-the-Parliamentary-Group-Allies-of-Israel-at-PARLECEN-300x175.webp 300w, https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Launch-of-the-Parliamentary-Group-Allies-of-Israel-at-PARLECEN-768x448.webp 768w, https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Launch-of-the-Parliamentary-Group-Allies-of-Israel-at-PARLECEN-1536x897.webp 1536w, https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Launch-of-the-Parliamentary-Group-Allies-of-Israel-at-PARLECEN-2048x1196.webp 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px" /></a><br />
IMAGE: Launch of the Parliamentary Group Allies of Israel at PARLACEN &#8211; Guatemala City, 11 August 2026. (Source: <a class="text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://x.com/PARLACEN/status/2087576173802848299/photo/4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">PARLACEN</a>)</em></p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">PARLACEN’s <span class="inline-flex" aria-label="parlamento centroamericano reglamento interno" data-state="closed"><a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://parlacen.int/assets/pdf/Reglamento_Inteno_2022_PARLACEN_MC.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">observer rules</span></a></span> make observer status more than a symbolic gesture. It is governed by a specific incorporation agreement that sets the terms of participation, including representation, contributions and rights inside the parliament. PARLACEN showed the geopolitical value of that access in 2023, when it <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/central-america-parliament-expels-taiwan-makes-china-permanent-observer-2023-08-22/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">removed Taiwan and accepted China</span></a> as a permanent observer. The caucus was therefore not simply an expression of support for Israel, as it gave the campaign a base inside a regional institution alongside Guatemala’s existing trade, technical and procurement ties with the country.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top"><strong>The relationships already in place</strong></p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">Guatemala’s <span class="inline-flex" aria-label="Tratados Israel" data-state="closed"><a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.mineco.gob.gt/tratados-israel" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">free-trade agreement with Israel took effect in March 2024</span></a></span>, creating a bilateral framework for cooperation in sectors including water management, irrigation and renewable energy, according to its <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.mineco.gob.gt/images/viceministerio_integracion_comercio/direccion_administracion_comercio_exterior/acuerdos_comerciales/PERFIL_GUATEMALA_ISRAEL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">official treaty profile</span></a>. The agreement predates the Isaac Accords and does not determine how PARLACEN will vote. But it shows that the sectors now proposed for regional investment, water, agriculture and energy, already have a bilateral framework in Guatemala.</p>
<p>Israel’s development agency, MASHAV, also has an established presence in Guatemala. The Israeli embassy says its <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://new.embassies.gov.il/guatemala/en/mashav/https-wwwgovil-en-departments-mashav-office-govil-landing-page" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">agricultural modernisation centre</span></a> opened at the ENCA agricultural school in 2022, where Israeli experts have trained more than 1,500 farmers, extension workers and technicians in irrigation, water management and related fields. That work predates the Isaac Accords, but it has already put Israeli expertise and local institutions together in the agricultural and water sectors where future projects would be developed.</p>
<p><em><a href="https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/La-Escuela-Nacional-Central-de-Agricultura-ENCA.webp"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-172015" src="https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/La-Escuela-Nacional-Central-de-Agricultura-ENCA-1024x512.webp" alt="" width="610" height="305" srcset="https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/La-Escuela-Nacional-Central-de-Agricultura-ENCA-1024x512.webp 1024w, https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/La-Escuela-Nacional-Central-de-Agricultura-ENCA-300x150.webp 300w, https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/La-Escuela-Nacional-Central-de-Agricultura-ENCA-768x384.webp 768w, https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/La-Escuela-Nacional-Central-de-Agricultura-ENCA.webp 1140w" sizes="(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px" /></a><br />
IMAGE: Israeli ambassador Mattanya Cohen joined Guatemalan officials to open the MASHAV-backed agricultural modernisation centre at ENCA on 22 June 2022. (Source: <span class="inline-flex" aria-label="Habilitan primer centro de modernización agrícola de Latinoamérica" data-state="open"><a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://agn.gt/habilitan-primer-centro-de-modernizacion-agricola-de-latinoamerica/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">MAGA photograph via Agencia Guatemalteca de Noticias</span></a>)</span></em></p>
<p>Sebastián Siero, president of Guatemala’s National Association of Municipalities, <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://anam.org.gt/anam-impulsa-cooperacion-con-israel-para-fortalecer-el-desarrollo-local/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">met Israeli ambassador Alon Lavi in July 2025</span></a> to discuss cooperation and strategic projects across the country’s 340 municipalities. The association reported no resulting contract, but the meeting placed Israeli officials in contact with the municipal leaders who decide which water systems and public works move forward.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">Guatemala’s army has used another bilateral channel to buy from Israeli suppliers. Under a 2023 defence memorandum with Israel, it completed <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://epinvestiga.com/investigacion/el-ejercito-adquiere-municiones-y-equipo-militar-sin-licitacion/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">four direct purchases worth Q79.3 million</span></a> in May 2024 from Elbit entities and Marom-Dolphin, according to eP Investiga’s reporting from Guatecompras records and implementation agreements. The purchases show how an existing bilateral framework can deliver contracts to Israeli suppliers. Guatemala had already bought Israeli surveillance tools, with consequences for privacy and public oversight.</p>
<p>Guatemala’s earlier purchases of Israeli surveillance tools put a harder edge on the proposed digital-technology agenda. A <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20180806/451240586549/red-espionaje-en-guatemala-se-creo-con-fondos-publicos-en-2012-segun-reportaje.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">2018 investigation</span></a> reported more than Q90 million in public spending on surveillance systems that included Pegasus and Circles, while <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://citizenlab.ca/research/running-in-circles-uncovering-the-clients-of-cyberespionage-firm-circles/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Citizen Lab later identified</span></a> a Circles system apparently operated by Guatemala’s civilian intelligence agency, DIGICI. Guatemala’s record on Israeli surveillance tools is part of a broader pattern that also includes a corruption case involving an Israeli water technology.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">In 2014, the state <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.contraloria.gob.gt/imagenes/i_docs/i_inf_DAG_CENTRAL014/archivos/Central/TOMO_V.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">contracted M. Tarcic Engineering</span></a> to supply a product for Lake Amatitlán, a deal <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.cicig.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/XI_Informe_Anual_CICIG_2018.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">CICIG described</span></a> as a Q22.83 million purchase of 23,000 litres alongside a proposed Q115 million contract to apply it. The arrangement later became a corruption case, leaving a local precedent for the proposed investment facilities and raising questions about who sets the terms, tests the technology and scrutinises contracts before public money is committed.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top"><strong>The finance still out of view</strong></p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">Israel and the Inter-American Development Bank announced a <span class="inline-flex" aria-label="Israel signs letter of intent with Inter-American Development Bank to create new investment funds" data-state="closed"><a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/israel-signs-letter-of-intent-with-inter-american-development-bank-to-create-new-investment-funds/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">letter of intent on 1 June 2026</span></a></span>, before Gutiérrez took her observer-status campaign to Buenos Aires. The proposed facilities would combine <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://israel.com/diplomacy/isaac-accords-fund-established-for-strategic-economic-ties-with-latin-america/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Israeli expertise and capital</span></a> with lower-cost financing for agriculture, water, energy and digital technologies, extending the Isaac Accords agenda from political organising into investment. No document obtained for this investigation shows that the PARLACEN caucus has directed an IDB-backed project to Guatemala.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top"><a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.resumenlatinoamericano.org/2026/09/20/guatemala-como-israel-el-bid-y-la-red-de-tratados-de-libre-comercio-reconfiguran-el-control-del-agua-la-energia-y-los-minerales-criticos-en-el-sur-global-y-este-pais-como-eslabon-del-plan-estrateg/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Luz Itzá Cocom Apaza</span></a> places those existing relationships alongside the new caucus and calls the political cover potentially supplied by bank-backed finance the <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.resumenlatinoamericano.org/2026/08/16/ecologia-social-plan-geoestrategico-y-el-escudo-triple-a/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">“Triple-A Shield of Plunder”</span></a>. Her warning is that a development bank’s standing can lend credibility to commercial expansion while states and communities carry the debt, environmental costs and loss of control over essential services. Those unanswered terms take on particular weight in Guatemala, where access to water remains deeply unequal.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">Today, <span class="inline-flex" aria-label="“Without Water, We Are Nothing”" data-state="closed"><a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/07/02/without-water-we-are-nothing/the-urgent-need-for-a-water-law-in-guatemala" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">more than seven million Guatemalans</span></a></span> lack an indoor water connection. Half of Indigenous Guatemalans live without running water at home, compared with one-third of non-Indigenous people. The IDB’s accountability mechanism has already investigated complaints linked to two hydroelectric projects in Guatemala and issued its review in <span class="inline-flex" aria-label="MICI publishes Compliance Review of two hydroelectric projects in ..." data-state="closed"><a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://mici.iadb.org/en/news/mici-publishes-compliance-review-two-hydroelectric-projects-guatemala-mayan-languages" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Mayan Chuj and Q’anjob’al</span></a></span>. The investigation left a record of what can happen when Indigenous communities enter the process only after a project has taken shape.</p>
<p><em>VIDEO: Guatemalans describe the struggle to access water. This Human Rights Watch film documents conditions that predate the proposed Isaac Accords investment facilities &#8211; 2 July 2025. (Source: <span class="inline-flex" aria-label="Without Water, We are Nothing. | Human Rights Watch" data-state="open"><a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/video/2025/07/02/without-water-we-are-nothing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Human Rights Watch</span></a>)</span></em></p>
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If <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/israel-signs-letter-of-intent-with-inter-american-development-bank-to-create-new-investment-funds/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Isaac Accords-linked finance</span></a> reaches water, energy or agriculture, the question is who decides before money is committed and contracts are set. Indigenous authorities and community water systems have too often entered after those terms are fixed. Israel’s advocates had already gained a <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.jns.org/news/world/central-american-parliament-establishes-israel-alliance-as-push-for-observer-status-gathers-steam" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">caucus inside PARLACEN</span></a> ahead of the observer-status vote Gutiérrez expected. The project pipeline remains undisclosed, but the political campaign has already gained a place inside PARLACEN without a public account of the very projects it may help advance.</em></strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<strong>Deep Dive</strong> &#124; Unpacking the complete failure of Trump &#038; Co. to find a path for negotiated settlements in Ukraine and Iran. ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>The insanity and warmongering has reached another level this week, as US President Donald Trump used his UN General Assembly speech on Tuesday to ​threaten the population of Iran if they did not submit to his diktats. The delusional US leader still repeats the trope that he has &#8216;prevented Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon&#8217;, and warning that he could &#8220;annihilate the Islamic Republic&#8221; if they refuse to accept his &#8220;deal&#8221;. Add this, the complete failure of Trump and the European quislings to find a path for a negotiated settlement between NATO, Russia and Ukraine. Also, the situation in Yemen has revealed the precarious state of the Gulf monarchies, as Israel continues its destructive agenda in West Asia. All this and more. </strong></p>
<p><em>Deep Dive</em> host <strong>Lt Col Daniel Davis</strong> speaks with <strong>Patrick Henningsen </strong>about the conflicts in West Asia<em>. Watch</em><em>:</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<strong>Syriana Analysis</strong> &#124; What does Trump's rhetoric from the UN podium tell us about the fate of the postwar international order?]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span class="ytAttributedStringLinkInheritColor" dir="auto">Donald Trump stood before the United Nations and said he faces a choice: reach a deal with Iran or “annihilate the Islamic Republic,” leaving it with “no chance of survival” and &#8216;no hope&#8217; of future greatness for generations. We</span><span class="ytAttributedStringLinkInheritColor" dir="auto"> examine what those words actually mean. Is Trump threatening another conventional war, regime change, or deliberately introducing nuclear ambiguity? Meanwhile, the US are making no progress to calm down NATO&#8217;s escalating proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. And what does such rhetoric from the UN podium tell us about the future of the postwar international order? All this and much more. </span></strong></p>
<p>Host of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClvD6c1VI75QZWJjA_yiWhg">Syriana Analysis</a>, <strong>Kevork Almassian</strong>, talks with 21st Century Wire editor <strong>Patrick Henningsen</strong> about the West&#8217;s incessant march towards World War III, and why this signals a failure of Western civilization. Watch:</p>
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<p><em>NOTE OF CLARIFICATION: At 27.00 minute mark, Patrick mentions legendary political activist and author Michael Parenti, some viewers may have  misunderstood Patrick&#8217;s mention of Parenti &#8211; he meant to say &#8216;without sounding exactly like classic anti imperialist left discourse&#8217;, ie. too cliche. Perhaps too much of a nuanced or casual quip for some, but in reality those who follow Patrick for years know he has been referencing and reposting Parenti for years—and is a fan of Parenti. Apologies for any misunderstanding &#8211; but at end of the day, sometimes casual throwaway comments amid a long interview does not always land well for everyone.</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<strong>CrossTalk</strong> &#124; Will the US and Israel survive the disaster they have unleashed?]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="media-description media-description--first"><strong>The US-Israel war on Iran was supposed to be quick and easy. Instead, seven months later the war is far from over and expanding. Not long ago, the Axis of Resistance was written off as defeated. That was premature. This war of choice has inflamed the entire region, and now threatens to reorder the entire regional power structure. Will the US and Israel survive the disaster they have </strong><b>unleashed? All this and more. </b></p>
<p class="media-description media-description--more">CrossTalking with host Peter Lavelle are guests, 21WIRE editor<strong> Patrick Henningsen</strong>, and American academic <strong>Joshua Landis</strong>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<strong>Freddie Ponton</strong> &#124; The Southern Storm Gathering Beneath the House of Saud.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top"><strong><b><a href="https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/The-Two-Souths-Main.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-172001" src="https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/The-Two-Souths-Main-1024x696.png" alt="" width="610" height="415" srcset="https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/The-Two-Souths-Main-1024x696.png 1024w, https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/The-Two-Souths-Main-300x204.png 300w, https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/The-Two-Souths-Main-768x522.png 768w, https://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/The-Two-Souths-Main.png 1521w" sizes="(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px" /></a><br />
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<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top"><strong>Ansar Allah, the armed northern movement known as the Houthis that holds Sana’a, entered the <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/saudi-says-no-danger-after-khamis-mushait-alert-amid-clashes-with-houthis-2026-09-10/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Red Sea port of Mokha</span></a> on 10 September after the Saudi-backed National Resistance, which had held the western shore, withdrew before dawn. The offensive continued along the coast, reached <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-says-iran-war-end-after-us-midterm-elections-threatens-attack-pickaxe-2026-09-10/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">islands in Bab al-Mandab</span></a>, the strait at the entrance to the Red Sea, and climbed into the <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/houthis-push-control-yemen-highlands-trump-reported-have-called-off-airstrikes-2026-09-21/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Kahboub mountains of Taiz and Lahj</span></a>, the high ground separating the captured shoreline from Aden, southern Yemen’s main city. <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5320320-yemeni-army-grinds-down-houthis-west-taiz-east-bab-al-mandab" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Saudi-backed units and local tribes</span></a> have since driven the assault from the ridgeline, but they have not retaken the port. Aden is no longer a distant name in a frozen war but a destination on a road now visible from the hills.</strong></p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">What some call the revolution of the two souths has already reached that ridge. The first south is southern Yemen, where Saudi power is being tested and Aden must decide whether it still possesses a politics of its own as Houthi fighters on the Kahboub heights look towards the road into the city. The second lies across the border in Jizan, Najran and Asir, the three Saudi provinces adjoining Yemen whose incorporation into the kingdom was consolidated through the <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/saudi-arabias-war-houthis-old-borders-new-lines" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">conflicts and settlements culminating in 1934</span></a>. There, Riyadh’s failure to hold the coast may give old grievances a political life of their own, turning resentment over displacement, discrimination and rule from Riyadh into a public challenge to the Saudi state.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">This is the southern storm gathering beneath the House of Saud. The fall of Mokha has forced both souths to confront the political project carried by Ansar Allah’s advance. Saudi and Emirati-backed forces kept the movement out of Aden for nine years, but it may now return with the aim of unifying Yemen under Sana’a. Yet military victory would not settle what governing the South would require from Sana’a, since grievances over land, power and political standing will survive the foreign systems of patronage that have shaped its politics.</p>
<p id="the-coast-moved-and-the-coalition-did-not" class="font-semibold leading-tight text-pretty mb-2 mt-4 [[data-has-inline-images]_&amp;]:clear-end text-base first:mt-0"><strong>The coast moved, and the coalition did not</strong></p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">Mokha had stood as proof that the west remained under control. In 2017, a <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://sanaacenter.org/publications/the-yemen-review/5256" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Saudi and Emirati-backed campaign</span></a> pushed Houthi forces off that shore, and for nine years the port kept Bab al-Mandab beyond Sana’a’s reach. That position collapsed overnight as units withdrew towards <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-backed-houthis-reach-yemens-dhubab-bab-el-mandeb-strait-sources-say-2026-09-11/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Dhubab</span></a>, the next district south, followed by families fleeing the retreat while Houthi fighters entered the abandoned line. Fighting was also intensifying around <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-yemens-houthis-went-small-mountain-militia-big-regional-threat-2026-09-17/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Marib, the government’s last major oil city</span></a>, leaving Riyadh’s Yemeni allies to defend two fronts without the Saudi and Emirati partnership that had built and held the coastal order.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">After the port fell, Saudi Arabia <span class="text-box-trim-both">asked the United States for strikes and <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-declines-saudi-crown-princes-call-us-strikes-houthis-axios-reports-2026-09-11/">received intelligence instead</a></span>. Only a month earlier, it had signed the <a href="https://www.spa.gov.sa/en/N2649227">Mecca agreement</a> with Türkiye and Pakistan, <span class="text-box-trim-both">a defence pact that treats an attack on one as an attack on all</span>, yet neither ally joined the battle when Riyadh appealed for military help. The United Arab Emirates, which built much of the South’s <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publications/giga-focus/the-future-of-south-yemen-and-the-southern-transitional-council" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">separatist order</span></a>, no longer fights this war as Riyadh’s second command. Saudi aircraft can still operate from their bases, but Saudi power could neither hold nor retake the port that was supposed to prove the coalition still existed as a military force. Southern commanders in Lahj can now see what that failure has brought to their doorstep.</p>
<p id="southern-yemen-has-to-say-what-it-is-defending" class="font-semibold leading-tight text-pretty mb-2 mt-4 [[data-has-inline-images]_&amp;]:clear-end text-base first:mt-0"><strong>Southern Yemen has to say what it is defending</strong></p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">In Aden, the collapse of the coastal line has brought the prospect of Ansar Allah’s return closer to the centre of southern political life. The city is the South’s main port, the seat of its remaining ministries and the place where memories of the 2015 fighting survive street by street. When Ansar Allah entered Aden that year, many southerners saw its fighters as another northern army. <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://en.ypagency.net/93747" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Fadi Baoum</span></a> of the Hirak, the older southern movement that opposes both Gulf patronage and rule from Sana’a, later called the decision to fight for Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, Yemen’s president at the time, a grave mistake. His judgement drew on an older history, since the <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/133795/114%20Breaking%20Point%20-%20Yemens%20Southern%20Question.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">1990 merger</span></a> promised one country while the <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/publications/research/2018-03-27-yemen-southern-powder-keg-salisbury-final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">1994 war</span></a> ended with northern forces taking control of southern land and state institutions. The fighting at Kahboub has put that history back on the road to Aden as the military and political order built to keep Ansar Allah out begins to break apart.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">The Southern Transitional Council built its political and military power with Emirati support, although it also operated for years inside the wider Saudi-led coalition. Alongside its <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publications/giga-focus/the-future-of-south-yemen-and-the-southern-transitional-council" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Security Belt forces</span></a>, the Council once controlled large parts of the South and could pursue independence with an armed force and a powerful foreign patron behind it. Hani bin Brik, a senior Council leader and former commander of the Security Belt forces, can still rally fighters against an Ansar Allah advance, and some will answer because their memories of the 2015 battle for Aden carry more weight than any statement from Abu Dhabi. Yet the Council can draw fewer fighters from areas it once governed after its confrontation with Saudi-backed forces weakened its administration and exposed the limits of Emirati support just as the fighting returned to the mountains.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">The Presidential Leadership Council, the internationally recognised authority based in the South, still presents a unified Yemen under Riyadh’s protection as the alternative to Ansar Allah, even though the Saudi funded forces aligned with it belong to the camp that lost Mokha. The Hirak rejects both Saudi and Emirati patronage but lacks the military strength to hold the ridge. The demand for southern independence rested on Emirati military support, while the defence of a unified Yemen depended on Saudi-backed forces. Both projects have lost the power needed to sustain their claims as Ansar Allah has advanced within sight of the road to Aden.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">Factions moving towards Lahj must now do so without Emirati military support, either under a Saudi command they have less reason to trust or in defence of a statehood claim that Abu Dhabi is no longer willing to support. Ansar Allah offers none of them a separate southern country, since its project begins with a unified Yemen governed from Sana’a. Yet that project would still need terms capable of governing a South whose <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.merip.org/2010/09/the-snake-with-a-thousand-heads/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">grievances predate Abu Dhabi</span></a> and will survive its departure. The political pressure created by Ansar Allah’s advance does not end at Yemen’s southern front, since it is also testing Riyadh’s authority across the border.</p>
<p id="jizan-najran-and-asir-have-to-say-how-far-their-gr" class="font-semibold leading-tight text-pretty mb-2 mt-4 [[data-has-inline-images]_&amp;]:clear-end text-base first:mt-0"><strong>Jizan, Najran and Asir have to say how far their grievance goes</strong></p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">The same week that put Houthi fighters on the hills above Aden brought <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-hopes-iran-war-nearing-end-houthi-saudi-fighting-escalates-2026-09-17/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">missile strikes and damage</span></a> to southern Saudi Arabia, where families had already been displaced from the frontier during earlier fighting. This is the other south, not a hidden Yemeni army but the three Saudi provinces bordering Yemen, Jizan, Najran and Asir, whose incorporation into the Saudi state was consolidated through the <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/18852" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">conflicts and settlements culminating in 1934</span></a>. Ansar Allah invokes that history and presents Jizan, Najran and Asir as occupied Yemeni territories placed under Saudi rule through the war of 1934 and the treaties that followed.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top"><strong>Jizan</strong> is the easiest to see. It is the coastal plain where the Red Sea lowlands of Saudi Arabia meet those of Yemen. For a long time, the border there existed more clearly on paper than in daily life. Families married across the border, farmed land on both sides and maintained ties that the boundary never fully severed. When the war came, the state <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2021/06/yemeni-border-markets-from-economic-incubator-to-military-frontline" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">cleared parts of that belt</span></a>, leaving households without fields, access and, in many cases, a <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://observers.france24.com/en/20160815-saudi-tribes-refusing-evacuate-yemen-border" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">settlement they still dispute</span></a>. Ansar Allah’s advance does not make those communities supporters of Sana’a, but it weakens the bargain imposed on them by Riyadh. They lost homes, fields and cross-border access in the name of securing a frontier that the kingdom has again failed to protect from war.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top"><strong>Najran</strong> lies inland, across the border from Yemen’s far north, where Saudi Civil Defence issued emergency alerts on 21 September and instructed residents to remain indoors because of a potential danger. <span class="inline-flex" aria-label="Sirens, explosions sound in Saudi Arabia’s Najran along border with Yemen" data-state="closed"><a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/09/22/776793/Sirens,-explosions-sound-in-Saudi-Arabia%E2%80%99s-Najran-along-border-with-Yemen" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Press TV</span></a></span> reported that air-raid sirens and explosions followed the purported launch of ballistic missiles by the Yemeni armed forces, although the cause of the explosions remained unclear. The city and province have a large <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.hrw.org/report/2008/09/22/ismailis-najran/second-class-saudi-citizens" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Sulaymani Ismaili population</span></a>, a Shia community distinct from the Zaydi tradition from which Ansar Allah emerged, while the Yam is the province’s dominant tribe.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">Grievances in Najran have centred less on territory than on the treatment of Ismailis, who report discrimination in <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.hrw.org/reports/2008/saudiarabia0908/saudiarabia0908.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">employment, education, worship and the courts</span></a>. Families still remember the <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.hrw.org/reports/2008/saudiarabia0908/4.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">2000 confrontation with Saudi security forces</span></a>, and Houthi media has drawn on that history by presenting visits from Yam members as evidence of wider support in Najran. Prominent Yam leaders have rejected that claim, showing that the <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2021/06/yemeni-border-markets-from-economic-incubator-to-military-frontline" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">cross-border ties</span></a> that remain give Sana’a a route into Najran but not the authority to speak for it. Ansar Allah’s advance may give that appeal greater weight, but Najran’s grievances remain rooted in the province’s own relationship with the Saudi state.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top"><strong>Asir,</strong> the highland province between Jizan and Najran, has a strong regional identity and longstanding disputes over development policies set in Riyadh, but there is less evidence of political engagement with Sana’a. No public leadership linked to Ansar Allah has emerged from the province.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">Yemen’s defeat in 1934 led to the <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/taif-treaty-al" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Treaty of Taif</span></a>, while the <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.un.org/depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES/TREATIES/YEM-SAU2000IBT.PDF" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Treaty of Jeddah</span></a> formally established the border between Yemen and Saudi Arabia in 2000. What remains unsettled is the relationship between Riyadh and the communities living along that border. Ansar Allah did not create the loss of land and cross-border access in Jizan or the memory of discrimination and confrontation in Najran, but its advance makes both harder for the Saudi state to contain as local grievances. Sana’a has already created a place where those grievances can be recast as opposition to the kingdom.</p>
<p id="sanaa-has-built-a-shelter" class="font-semibold leading-tight text-pretty mb-2 mt-4 [[data-has-inline-images]_&amp;]:clear-end text-base first:mt-0"><strong>Sana’a has built a shelter</strong></p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">Saudi opponents have been given a public platform and a place to organise in Houthi-held territory. In 2024, <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.watanserb.com/en/2024/03/27/saudi-dissident-defects-to-houthis-in-yemen-ali-hashem-al-hajjis-defection-and-its-implications/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">Ali Hashim Salman al-Hajji</span></a>, a Saudi dissident, reached Sana’a, pledged himself to Abdul-Malik al-Houthi and began speaking publicly against the monarchy. Later reports of <a class="reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super-primary hover:underline" href="https://www.alestiklal.net/en/article/challenging-mbs-inside-the-military-council-formed-by-saudi-dissidents-in-sana-a" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span class="text-box-trim-both">meetings in Haddah</span></a>, a district of the capital, described exiles discussing a military council and assigning tasks across different regions. No charter has appeared, no membership has been verified and no attack inside the kingdom has been linked to those meetings. The reporting establishes Sana’a as an external base for Saudi dissent, not the existence of an organised army.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">Whatever the status of the reported council, Sana’a’s broader method is visible. Houthi media keeps the territorial settlement of 1934 in public debate, tribal contacts maintain a route into Najran and sanctuary in the capital gives Saudi defectors a platform outside the kingdom. The fall of Mokha and the failure of Riyadh’s allies to intervene have given that platform greater political weight, allowing Ansar Allah to present the grievances of both souths as consequences of the regional order it seeks to replace.</p>
<p id="both-souths-are-being-asked-to-answer-the-same-adv" class="font-semibold leading-tight text-pretty mb-2 mt-4 [[data-has-inline-images]_&amp;]:clear-end text-base first:mt-0"><strong>Both souths are being asked to answer the same advance</strong></p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">Ansar Allah did not advance towards Aden to grant the South a separate country or adopt every grievance from Najran as its own. Its objective is a unified Yemen governed from Sana’a and an end to the foreign-backed order that divided the country. Defeating Gulf-backed forces, raising the cost for Riyadh and speaking across the border established in 1934 all serve that objective, but military victory would not by itself produce stable rule.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">A southern movement seeking independence would confront a movement committed to one sovereign Yemen, leaving Sana’a to show whether unity could accommodate southern claims over <a href="https://stabilityjournal.org/articles/10.5334/sta.444">land, resources, political standing and local authority</a> without reproducing the centralisation and political exclusion that strengthened the demand for secession. Communities in Jizan and Najran may seek redress from Riyadh without looking to Sana’a, but Ansar Allah can use their grievances to revive the wider Yemeni argument that the treaties settled the border without resolving the dispossession, discrimination and divided ties left along it.</p>
<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top"><strong><em>Ansar Allah’s advance is more than a movement of men and weapons towards Lahj. It is forcing both souths to revisit histories that Saudi power had kept politically separate. Southern Yemen must decide whether its future lies with the foreign-backed order now retreating before Sana’a, with separation, or with a new settlement inside a reunited Yemen. Jizan and Najran must decide whether their grievances remain contained within the kingdom or acquire a political life across the border, while Asir has so far shown less evidence of such a turn. The 2000 settlement remains the legal basis of the border, but Mokha has changed the balance of power around it. The two souths are not one movement, yet both must now answer questions that Riyadh’s military order had allowed them to postpone.</em></strong></p>
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<p>This week on the SUNDAY WIRE, host <strong>Patrick Henningsen</strong> returns this week with a shorter than usual show program, but with a very important message to deliver this week to our viewers and listeners at 21st Century Wire. The &#8216;elite&#8217; and bureaucratic classes and their media minions to telling us the a world war is now inevitable and the prepare accordingly. This includes the threat of a nuclear war. Hence, we reject this premise, and are now calling on people to engage with this issue more seriously than ever. All this and more&#8230;</p>
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		<title>SUNDAY SCREENING &#8211; Neturei Karta: Opposing Zionism (2026)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<strong>SUNDAY SCREENING</strong> &#124; The Jews who say Israel weaponises their faith to dispossess Palestinians.]]></description>
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<p class="my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top">Neturei Karta’s ultra-Orthodox Jews march under the Palestinian flag, rejecting Zionism and the State of Israel while supporting Palestinians resisting occupation. This new documentary follows the movement from early Jewish opposition to Zionism to protests in Jerusalem and New York. Through its members and critical historians, the film explores the Balfour Declaration, the assassination of Jacob Israel de Haan, the movement’s Holocaust-era origins and its defiant stance after Israel’s creation in 1948. Despite police crackdowns, death threats and isolation from mainstream Jewry, Neturei Karta has forged ties with Palestinians, from Yasser Arafat’s inner circle to solidarity with Gaza, challenging assumptions about Judaism, Zionism and resistance. <em>Watch:</em></p>
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Run time:</strong> 46 minutes<br />
<strong>Produced by:</strong> Media Town<br />
<strong>Production: </strong>Media Town <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">for<em> Al</em></span><em> Jazeera World Documentary</em></p>
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