++ Information appointment in the evening, October 4th, 2024: Iran threatens retaliation ++

In the Middle East, the situation is tense where there is no shooting anyway. People still expect Israel to respond to Iran’s attacks on Tuesday. It is also not clear when and how this will happen. A series of military strikes and counter-strikes emerged. A spiral of military violence that no one seems to be able to break. That’s how it looks now. Israel has not yet begun to retaliate for the Iranian attacks; Iran is already announcing retaliation for these attacks that have not yet taken place.

Scolding for free voters in RLP

This week, politics in Rhineland-Palatinate was heavily influenced by the Free Voters. What initially sounded like a successful coup is actually a little different. The party chairman Stephan Wefelscheid announced his resignation at the end of the year after the two state parliament members Herbert Drum and Bernhard Alscher announced their resignation – one immediately, the other on Sunday. What is special about this is not just the resignations themselves, but also the fact that the Free Voters will lose their parliamentary group status in the state parliament – and with it their parliamentary rights and money. Today there was scolding from high places for this behavior.