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  One event, three authors: the naming war over Sanaa

  The single most instructive information object of this window is a set of craters at Sanaa International Airport that three ecosystems attribute to three different actors. The Saudi-backed Aden govern...

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• Pawns or Power Brokers? Gulf States Again Seek to Sway U.S.-Iran War
  Haaretz
  reframes the Gulf monarchies as agents rather than victims of the crisis, a lens the wire coverage flattens into 'condemnations.'
• Why the Houthis and Saudi Arabia may come to blows
  Jerusalem Post
  was almost alone in Western coverage in treating the Sanaa-Abha exchange as the reopening of a dormant war rather than a sidebar to Hormuz.
• In a first, US employs one-way sea drones to attack Iran port
  TRT World
  foregrounds the Corsair USV strike on Bandar Abbas, an under-covered inversion of the very Black Sea playbook Russian channels usually narrate.
• Israeli Officials See Widening Gap With U.S. Over Iran Priorities
  Haaretz
  surfaces the hawkish ecosystem's own strategic disappointment, a rare on-record admission that the Hormuz-centered fight is not the war Israel's officials say they wanted.
• Strait of Hormuz traffic slows as US-Iran conflict raises new safety risks
  Jerusalem Post
  leans on Kpler's vessel count rather than any belligerent's claim, a reminder that shipping data is the one metric neither side can spin.
• US and Iran vie for Strait of Hormuz, waterway key to global energy supplies
  Naharnet
  frames the whole conflict as a contest over a waterway rather than over Iran's nuclear program, quietly confirming the reframing that alarms Israeli sources.