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REUTERS / Peter Nicholls The UK and its allies continue to push “The Russians did it” version in the Skripal poisoning story. On March 4, former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia suffered the effects of an alleged nerve agent in Salisbury, the UK. Claiming that the substance used in the attack had been a Novichok-class nerve agent developed in the Soviet Union, London and its allies rushed to accuse Russia of being involved in the incident. Moscow rejected the accusations, describing the allegations as a provocation against Russia. However, the UK seems to be totally silent over the Novichok’s origin and Russia’s alleged involvement in the Salisbury case last days. As the “case does not exist in the media space”  stated the sposekwoman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova  on April 29. “British journalists lapsed into silence in a day as if, let’s speak openly, there had come an order for everyone t...

ILLUSTRATIVE IMAGE: Israeli battle tanks On March 30, the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, voted in favor of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request to grant him the authority to declare war with only the defense minister’s approval in “extreme circumstance”. The prime minister made the request in the morning of the same day during a debate on a bill aimed at transferring responsibility for declaring war from the full cabinet to the smaller security cabinet. According to the Israeli media, the passed bill states that the security cabinet will be authorized to make a decision on launching war or significant military operations without specifying the makeup of the panel that makes the decision. Earlier on the same day, Netanyahu made a public adress on the Iran deal accusing Teheran of having a secret program to produce nuclear weapons.  MORE ABOUT THIS HERE The Iranian Foreign Ministry denounced Netanyahu’s “ridiculous” and “shameful” show adding that the Israe...