Thursday, February 29, 2024
Regulatory Capture and Covid-19
The agency in the UK tasked with protecting the people turns out to have been bought and paid for by the foreign interests they are supposed to regulate to the point where they just don't care if the people are harmed anymore. Sound familiar?
Biden Admin Deployed Air Force Team to Israel to Assist With Targets, Document Suggests
from The Intercept
The information used to conduct airstrikes and fire long-range artillery weapons — has played a central role in Israel’s siege of Gaza. A document obtained through the Freedom of Information Act suggests that the U.S. Air Force sent officers specializing in this exact form of intelligence to Israel in late November.
Since the start of Israel’s bombardment in retaliation for Hamas’s strike on October 7, Israel has dropped more than 29,000 bombs on the tiny Gaza Strip, according to a U.S. intelligence report last month. And for the first time in U.S. history, the Biden administration has been flying surveillance drone missions over Gaza since at least early November, ostensibly for hostage recovery by special forces. At the time the drones were revealed, U.S. Gen. Pat Ryder insisted that the special operations forces deployed to Israel to advise on hostage rescue were “not participating in [Israel Defense Forces] target development.”
“I’ve directed my team to share intelligence and deploy additional experts from across the United States government to consult with and advise the Israeli counterparts on hostage recovery efforts,” said President Joe Biden three days after the Hamas attack.
But several weeks later, on November 21, the U.S. Air Force issued deployment guidelines for officers, including intelligence engagement officers, headed to Israel. Experts say that a team of targeting officers like this would be used to provide satellite intelligence to the Israelis for the purpose of offensive targeting...read more here
U.S. Military Has Been Aiding Genocide Since the Beginning
'Sources revealed that the U.S. advisors stationed in Israel emphasize the importance of avoiding large-scale ground assaults similar to those seen in the Iraq War. Instead, they advocate for precision air strikes and targeted special operations raids. These strategies, developed during the Battle of Fallujah in 2004, aim to minimize civilian casualties and prevent hostage situations, thereby reducing the risk of escalating tensions in the region.
The advisors draw from lessons learned during the Iraq War, focusing on urban warfare tactics that prioritize the safety of military personnel and civilians. The aim is to assist Israeli forces in confronting Hamas effectively while minimizing collateral damage.' Shafaq
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'Lt. Gen. James Glynn, who previously headed the Marines' special operations and was involved in the operations against ISIS in Iraq, has been dispatched to Israel to help plan for the challenges of urban warfare.
Glynn is not directing operations, but giving advice, according to Axios.' Daily Mail
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' The US sent a three-star Marine general and other officers to Israel to help build the battle plans for Israel’s expected ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, The New York Times and Walla reported on Monday.
The three-star officer – the second highest rank in the Marines – was identified in both reports as Lt.-Gen. James Glynn, who has helped lead special operations forces against ISIS and served in Fallujah, Iraq. Glynn currently serves as the deputy commander for manpower and reserve affairs of the Marine Corps.' Jerusalem Post
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US sends butcher of Iraq to help Israel
The United States is sending Israel military advisers who led massacres in Iraq. The intention is to pass on Western imperialism’s experience of urban warfare and how to destroy opponents.
One of the officers leading the assistance is Marine Corps Lt Gen James Glynn. He played a top role in the battles in the city of Fallujah.
In November 2004 the US dropped massive quantities of white phosphorus on the city killing Iraqi fighters and civilians with the appalling burns that are the signature of this weapon.
The US government at first formally denied reports of its war crime. But a year later indisputable evidence emerged.' Socialist Worker
Israeli attack on Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid kills 150, injures hundreds
from Press TV
At least (150) Palestinians have been killed and hundreds more injured in an attack by Israeli military forces on the northern Gaza Strip, on people waiting for humanitarian aid.
According to Palestinian media reports, Israeli troops attacked civilians who were waiting for humanitarian aid to arrive in Gaza City on Thursday, resulting in the killing of at least 150 people and injuring of more than 1,000 others.
Scores of wounded individuals were transferred to al-Shifa Hospital amid the Israeli regime's continued bombardment and shelling on Gaza City...
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More than 100,000 people vote ‘uncommitted’ in Michigan primary over Biden Gaza policy
from Mondoweiss
President Joe Biden predictably won Michigan Democratic primary, but more than 100,000 people voted “uncommitted” over the administration’s policy in Gaza.
The campaign to vote uncommitted was organized by Listen to Michigan, a group primarily comprised of local Arab and Muslim activists.
“Our movement emerged victorious tonight and massively surpassed our expectations. Tens of thousands of Michigan Democrats, many of whom who voted for Biden in 2020, are uncommitted to his re-election due to the war in Gaza,” tweeted the group Tuesday night. “President Biden has funded the bombs falling on the family members of people who live right here in Michigan. People who voted for him, who now feel completely betrayed. President Biden, listen to Michigan. Count us out, Joe.”...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Divide and Conquer Tactics are Getting Worse
It's starting to look like Goebbels and Bernays are running the show around here. Might a sign it's about to pop off.
UK Medicines Regulator a "Serious Risk" to Patient Safety
from Medscape UK
The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on pandemic response and recovery has raised "serious patient safety concerns" about the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), along with other aspects of a system that, "far from protecting patients, continues to put them at serious risk".
In a letter to Health Secretary Steve Brine, APPG co-chairs Esther McVey and Graham Stringer, with 26 cosignatories, highlighted the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety (IMMDS) investigation of Primodos, sodium valproate, and pelvic mesh scandals, which found the response of the healthcare system was not sufficiently robust, speedy, or appropriate, causing some patients to suffer life-changing or fatal, avoidable harm.
Subsequent evidence "leads us to believe that serious patient safety concerns persist beyond even the findings of the IMMDS review", the APPG signatories wrote. "The MHRA is at the heart of these far wider endemic failings," and "those cited in this letter merely represent the tip of a sizeable iceberg of failure."
Medscape News UK has reported increasing concern worldwide about the degree to which medicines regulators are captured by the drug industry. A 2022 BMJ investigation found serious conflicts of interest potentially influencing health policy and approval decisions. Regulatory agency members and expert advisers had financial interests in products being licensed, including several experts on COVID-19 vaccine advisory committees with financial ties to vaccine manufacturers that regulators did not always disclose...read more here
Medicines regulator failed to flag Covid vaccine side effects and must be investigated, say MPs
from The Telegraph via Wayback Machine
All-party group believe MHRA were aware of heart and clotting issues in February 2021 but did not highlight the problems for several months
The medical regulator failed to sound the alarm over Covid vaccine side effects and should be investigated, MPs have said.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is responsible for approving drugs and devices and monitors side effects caused by treatments.
But the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on pandemic response and recovery, an influential group of MPs, has raised “serious patient safety concerns”. It has claimed that “far from protecting patients” the regulator operates in a way that “puts them at serious risk”.
Some 25 MPs across four parties have written to the health select committee asking for an urgent investigation. In reply, Steve Brine, the health committee chairman, has said an inquiry into patient safety is “very likely”.
Canada’s Liberal Government Advances “Online Harms” Censorship Bill
from Reclaim the Net
Canada’s Justice Minister Arif Virani has advanced a highly controversial bill, named Bill C-63, proposing comprehensive new legislation aimed at addressing online “hate” speech.
We obtained a copy of the bill for you here.
The bill covers seven types of harmful material, from content sexually exploiting or re-victimizing children and survivors, to content promoting violence and extremism.
But it also outlaws online “hatred,” so-called “hate speech,” and forms of deepfakes.
In an attempt to decrease the prevalence of harmful content, this legislation puts the onus on online platforms to be accountable and transparent about how they handle such content.
Platforms like social media and live-streaming services are included under the legislation’s “online services” umbrella.
The bill would also create a new “standalone hate crime offense that would apply to every offence in the Criminal Code and in any other Act of Parliament, allowing penalties up to life imprisonment to denounce and deter this hateful conduct as a crime in itself,” – the briefing explained...
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Israel Is Losing Its Greatest Asset: Acceptance
by Thomas Friedman from the New York Times
I’ve spent the past few days traveling from New Delhi to Dubai and Amman, and I have an urgent message to deliver to President Biden and the Israeli people: I am seeing the increasingly rapid erosion of Israel’s standing among friendly nations — a level of acceptance and legitimacy that was painstakingly built up over decades. And if Biden is not careful, America’s global standing will plummet right along with Israel’s.
I don’t think Israelis or the Biden administration fully appreciate the rage that is bubbling up around the world, fueled by social media and TV footage, over the deaths of so many thousands of Palestinian civilians, particularly children, with U.S.-supplied weapons in Israel’s war in Gaza. Hamas has much to answer for in triggering this human tragedy, but Israel and the U.S. are seen as driving events now and getting most of the blame.
That such anger is boiling over in the Arab world is obvious, but I heard it over and over again in conversations in India during the past week — from friends, business leaders, an official and journalists both young and old. That is even more telling because the Hindu-dominated government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the only major power in the global south that has supported Israel and consistently blamed Hamas for inviting the massive Israeli retaliation and the deaths of an estimated 30,000 people, according to Gazan health officials, the majority of them civilians.
That many civilian deaths in a relatively short war would be problematic in any context. But when so many civilians die in a retaliatory invasion that was launched by an Israeli government without any political horizon for the morning after — and then, when the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, finally offers a morning-after plan that essentially says to the world that Israel now intends to occupy both the West Bank and Gaza indefinitely — it is no surprise that Israel’s friends will edge away and the Biden team will start to look hapless...
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‘Time is Running Out’ - Big Four Leave Oval Office Without Plan to Avert Shutdown
from Sputnik News
According
to one report, those meeting in the Oval Office with the US president
“ganged up” on the house speaker to allow more money for Ukraine, with
Biden telling him that history would “judge him harshly” if he did not
act on the issue. Meanwhile, Johnson said his first priority is securing
the US-Mexico border.
US
President Joe Biden summoned four congressional leaders on Tuesday in
an effort to avoid a government shutdown that is predicted to occur on
March 8, including: Vice President Kamala Harris, House Minority Leader
Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Speaker Mike Johnson. US
legislators must come up with a spending plan that both sides of the
aisle can agree on, in order to avoid the shutdown.
At
the beginning of the year, the short-term continuing resolution (CR)
established a phased, two-step deadline to fund the government, which
extended funding through March 1 for about 20% of the federal government
that is responsible for military construction, as well as the
departments of veterans affairs, agriculture, housing and urban
development, transportation and energy. The remaining 80% of the
government is funded until March 8...
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Thousands (58k) vote ‘uncommitted’ in Michigan primary to protest Biden’s support for Israel
from Press TV
The chorus of calls in the US against Israel’s war on Gaza has gathered more voices, with thousands of Democratic voters in Michigan marking their primary ballots as "uncommitted” to protest President Joe Biden’s unwavering support for Tel Aviv’s war.
Edison Research announced on Tuesday that with almost half of Democratic votes counted, the number of "uncommitted" ones was more than 58,000 in Michigan, home to a large Arab- American community who are outraged at Biden’s unwavering support for Israel.
The Listen to Michigan campaign, which urged people to vote uncommitted, hailed the results as a huge victory, saying the votes far exceeded the target of 10,000 that protest organizers had hoped for.
"Our movement emerged victorious tonight and massively surpassed our expectations. Tens of thousands of Michigan Democrats, many of whom who voted for Biden in 2020, are uncommitted to his re-election due to the war in Gaza," it said in a statement...
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Biden claims Israel agreed on Gaza cease-fire during Ramadan
from Daily Sabah
U.S. President Joe Biden has claimed that Israel would halt its activities in Gaza during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as part of a deal being negotiated.
Hamas officials, however, said the U.S. president's remarks were premature as it studies a truce offer.
Biden's comments, recorded Monday and broadcast after midnight on Tuesday, come as negotiators try to hammer out the first extended truce deal in a war that has obliterated the Gaza Strip since October last year.
"Ramadan is coming up, and there's been an agreement by the Israelis that they would not engage in activities during Ramadan, as well, in order to give us time to get all the hostages out," Biden said on NBC's "Late Night with Seth Meyers."
Earlier Monday, Biden said he hoped a cease-fire agreement would be hammered out by Monday, March 4. Ramadan is expected to begin on March 10.
"My national security adviser tells me that they're close. They're close. They're not done yet. My hope is by next Monday we'll have a cease-fire," Biden said...
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Hundreds mourn in Washington as US airman in Gaza protest dies
from Daily Sabah
Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. on Monday to mourn the US airman who died after setting himself on fire in protest of Israel's ongoing war in Gaza.
Many hoped that the death of Aaron Bushnell, 25, an active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force, would spark change in U.S. President Joe Biden's hitherto unwavering support for the war.
Leah, a Palestinian American who declined to provide her last name, told Anadolu Agency that she believed it was important for her to attend the vigil "to show solidarity and support with those who are taking extreme acts of resistance that shows their solidarity and support with Palestine and our people."
Asked if she believed Bushnell's death would change the course of the war, she said, "That's the hope."...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Final Thoughts on Aaron Bushnell: Palestine Doesn't Need More Martyrs
Aaron Bushnell made a decision that he thought was the best one for himself. I don't think we live in a world where making a statement like that can garner enough attention or empathy to make the kind of difference he must have hoped it would make. Just ask the man who did the same thing in early Dec of 2023. Palestine doesn't need martyrs. She needs toilers. She needs protesters. She needs us.
Monday, February 26, 2024
News Du Jour: Aaron Bushnell, Maui Land Grab and Gaza
See my website listed below for links to today's news.
Controversy erupts at Berlinale over criticism of Israel's atrocities in Gaza
from Daily Sabah
Criticism of Israel's bombing of Gaza and the killing of around 30,000 people so far during Berlin's annual film festival ignited condemnation from German politicians over the weekend.
In an awards ceremony concluding the Berlinale, Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra accepted an award for his documentary about the West Bank and called on Germany to stop sending weapons to Israel, in remarks that were met with applause and cheers from the audience.
"It is very hard for me to celebrate when there are tens of thousands of my people being slaughtered and massacred by Israel in Gaza," said Adra, whose film "No Other Land" depicts the Israeli settler displacement of Palestinians in villages in the West Bank.
During the awards ceremony on Saturday evening, several other filmmakers criticized Israel over the bombing of Gaza, which has seen more than 29,600 people killed, mostly women and children, according to authorities...
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Netanyahu says no deal yet on Gaza cease-fire, remains bullish on Rafah operation
from Politico
There’s no deal yet on a potential Gaza cease-fire and hostage swap, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday.
“I’m not sure of the exact duration [of a cease-fire], but I can tell you we’re all working on it, he said on CBS’ “Face The Nation” of ongoing talks between the U.S., Israel, Egypt and Qatar.
“We want it. I want it. We want to liberate the remaining hostages. We’ve already brought half of them back and I appreciate the combined effort of Israel and the United States to bring back the remaining hostages. I can’t tell you if we’ll have it,” he added.
The draft deal includes the release of up to 40 women and older hostages held in Gaza in return for up to 300 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, mostly women, minors and older people, according to a senior Egyptian official, the Associated Press reported.
The proposed six-week pause in fighting would allow hundreds of aid trucks to enter Gaza every day, including the northern half of the besieged territory, the AP reported. Negotiators face an unofficial deadline of the start of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan around March 10...
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US soldier (Aaron Bushnell) sets himself on fire outside Israeli Embassy in Washington to protest war on Gaza
from Middle East Eye
image of man burning blocked out by MEE
“I will no longer be complicit in genocide.” An active-duty member of the US Air Force, Aaron Bushnell, set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC on Sunday in protest against the war on Gaza. In a video of the act, which Bushnell filmed himself and live-streamed on Twitch, the 25-year-old said he was going to “engage in an extreme act of protest but” but went on to say that his actions were minimal compared to the suffering of Palestinians. Bushnell poured a liquid over himself and ignited it while yelling “Free Palestine” repeatedly. Police officers rushed to douse the flames with fire extinguishers as Bushnell collapsed. He was transported to a local hospital and was last reported to be in critical condition.
Maui Land Grab PROOF! Brush Junkie
The Ways and Means Committee is attempting to advance the Maui land grab agenda tomorrow, at 9:30 am in Conference Room 211 at the State Capitol on 415 South Beretania Street. The vote on Senate Bill 3381 appears to be a formality following an hour-long joint hearing of the Senate Energy, Economic Development and Tourism and Water and Land committees, where opposing testimonies were only given 1 minute each to voice their concerns.
Saturday, February 24, 2024
News Du Jour: Steve Kirsch, Excess Death Numbers Retconned and Israel Votes the Wrong Way
A good interview with Steve Kirsch by Tucker Carlson. Dr. Campbell shows how UK officials have retconned the excess mortality numbers. And lastly, the Knesset in Israel voted unanimously that Palestine will NEVER be recognized as a state by them. That pretty much makes them a pariah state in the eyes of the rest of the world... even in the U.S. and E.U.
White House reverses West Bank policy, calling Israeli settlements illegal
from the Washington Post
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced a reversal of the Trump administration’s position on Israeli settlements in the West Bank on Friday, saying they are “inconsistent with international law.”
“Our administration maintains firm opposition to settlement expansion,” Blinken told reporters at a news conference in Argentina. “In our judgment, this only weakens — it doesn’t strengthen — Israel’s security.”
The decision — which was also announced at the White House — was in immediate response to reports that the far-right government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was planning further settlement expansion, according to a U.S. official, one of several who discussed the decision on the condition of anonymity under administration rules.
Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced plans late Thursday for approval of 3,000 new settlement homes after Israeli police said Palestinian gunmen opened fire near the existing Maale Adumim settlement, killing one Israeli and wounding five. The expansion plans, he said, were part of “deepening our eternal grip on the entire Land of Israel.”..
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Palestinian Authority rejects Netanyahu's post-war plan as attempt to 'prolong genocide'
from I24 News
The Palestinian Authority's Foreign Ministry has issued a scathing condemnation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's post-war plans in Gaza, denouncing them as tantamount to a "formal reoccupation of the Gaza Strip" and an imposition of Israeli control.
In a strongly worded statement posted online, the PA's Foreign Ministry criticized the position paper presented to the security cabinet by Netanyahu, outlining the proposed management of Gaza following the recent conflict.
The plans include the installation of "local officials" who are not affiliated with terrorism to administer services in the Strip, effectively replacing Hamas. Additionally, the document advocates for the indefinite freedom of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to operate throughout Gaza...
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US aircraft aiding Israeli war of genocide: Hamas
from Press TV
A senior official with the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says the United States carries out reconnaissance missions over the Gaza Strip to help out the Israeli regime’s ongoing genocidal war against the territory.
American aircraft conduct flying operations over the coastal sliver to provide the regime with intelligence that would assist it in continuing to wage the military onslaught, Osama Hamdan, Hamas’ senior representative in Lebanon, said during a press briefing in Beirut on Friday.
The official did not specify the type of the aircraft, but the US is known for flying unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones, around the world in the service of its intelligence gathering operations.
The US has been contributing ample political and military support to the Israeli military onslaught that the regime began against Gaza on October 7, 2023 following al-Aqsa Storm, a surprise operation staged by the coastal sliver’s resistance movements.
The American administration has so far vetoed three United Nations Security Council resolutions that have called for immediate cessation of the Israeli aggression...
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US 'disappointed' by Israel's plans to build new homes in W. Bank
from Daily Sabah
The top U.S. diplomat said he was "disappointed" by Israel's announcement to build 3,000 new homes in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Blinken said during a news conference in Buenos Aires that it was long-standing U.S. policy that new settlements are counterproductive to reaching an enduring peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
"They're also inconsistent with international law. Our administration maintains a firm opposition to settlement expansion, and in our judgment, this only weakens, doesn't strengthen Israel's security," Blinken said.
In November 2019, Trump's Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that Washington no longer viewed Israel's settlements on West Bank land it captured in the 1967 Middle East war as "inconsistent with international law," a reversal of four decades of U.S. policy.
Months later in January 2020, the Trump administration announced a peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which was embraced by Israel and rejected by the Palestinians, partly because it awarded Israel most of what it has sought during decades of conflict, including nearly all the occupied land on which it has built settlements...
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Friday, February 23, 2024
How Haaretz has aided Israel’s genocide in Gaza
from Mondoweiss
A week ago, Haaretz published a piece (in Hebrew thread with translations here) by Eitan Leshem, titled “In every house in Gaza we found olives, olive oil and loads of spices. We cook there with mixed feelings”.
The article tells the story of soldiers who have taken over Palestinian homes and stolen food from the homeless, now starving Gazans who were made to flee, perhaps even by those very soldiers. It is really hard to imagine a more crass and wretched piece.
The article was shocking to many, not only because of its content but also because of where it appeared. Haaretz is widely cited internationally, particularly by liberals, as a trustworthy left-leaning Israeli news outlet. Journalists like Gideon Levy and Amira Hass, who often cover the horrors of Israeli apartheid in more detail and with more teeth than any other mainstream Israeli journalist, are considered, for many, the brave truth-telling face of the outlet.
But the paper also has a much darker side, and this has no doubt to
do with the fact that, after all, it’s a Zionist paper, as Gideon Levy
once clearly stated....
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‘Day After Hamas’ plan unveiled by Netanyahu
from RT
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has formally unveiled his plan for Gaza’s future after the conflict with Hamas ends, placing a strong emphasis on the “deradicalization” of the Palestinian enclave.
The one-page document titled ‘The Day After Hamas” was submitted to the Israeli government for discussion on Thursday, setting out proposed actions for the immediate, medium, and long term...
Netanyahu’s plan also stresses that Israel “will continue to oppose the unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state.”
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has pushed back against Netanyahu’s plan, claiming that it essentially means “reoccupying” Gaza and obstructing efforts to establish a Palestinian state. “Netanyahu’s plan serves his interest in prolonging the war to stay in power,” it added...
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US intelligence casts doubt on Israel’s accusations against UNRWA
from Press TV
A US intelligence assessment has cast doubt on Israel’s accusations against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), citing the regime’s bias against the UN agency.
A National Intelligence Council (NIC) report released last week assessed with “low confidence” that a handful of UNRWA staffers had taken part in the October 7 operation launched by Hamas resistance movement against the occupying entity.
The four-page intelligence report indicated that the NIC could not independently confirm the allegations.
Earlier this year, the Israeli regime claimed that 12 employees of the UNRWA were involved in the attack.
Tel Aviv also alleged that 10% of all UNRWA’s 12,000 workers have links to Hamas.
Noting that UNRWA does coordinate with Hamas, which governs Gaza, in order to deliver aid and operate in the besieged strip, the NIC said there was a lack of evidence to suggest that the UN agency was collaborating with the resistance movement in a wider way.
The NIC report added that Israel has not “shared the raw intelligence behind its assessments with the US.”..
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Ayatollah Khamenei criticizes Muslim states for failing to cut ties with Israel
from Press TV
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei slams Muslim heads of state for failing to cut their relations with the Israeli occupation regime.
During a meeting with the participants at the 40th International Qur'an Competition in Tehran on Thursday, the Leader called on Muslim countries to openly express their opposition to Israel, sever ties with the regime and cut off support for it.
The Leader emphasized that the resistance forces in Gaza are acting in accordance with the Holy Qur'an and are standing against the enemy, but wondered whether Muslim countries and their leaders were implementing the Qur'anic teachings regarding the Gaza situation.
"Are the heads of state and officials of Muslim countries following the Qur'an commandments that say 'Do not establish contact with the enemies of God and enemies of Muslims'?" the Leader said.
"And why don't the leaders of Muslim countries take action to openly cut off their relationship with the murderous Zionist regime and stop helping this regime?," Ayatollah Khamenei asked, calling on people in Muslim countries to press their governments to take stronger action on Gaza...
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Israeli minister rejects existence of Palestinian people
from Daily Sabah
Israel's settlement and national missions rejected the existence of the Palestinian people, who have been living in Palestine for millennia.
"There is no such thing as a Palestinian people,” Minister Orit Strook said in a video on her X account of her speech during a Knesset session on Thursday.
"There will never be a Palestinian state in the land of Israel,” she said. "Every cultured person in the world knows that this land is ours, for the Israeli people and only for us.”
The Israeli minister, who lives in an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank, claimed that a Palestinian state would be an "existential threat” to Israel and the "peace and order of the whole world."
"The large majority of the people of Israel oppose the establishment of the Palestinian state,” said the far-right minister, a member of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism Party.
On Wednesday, Israel's parliament unanimously voted in support of a government decision to reject unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state...
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Thursday, February 22, 2024
I-Soon, Volt Typhoon and the WEF's Pending Cyber Pandemic to Cancel Election in November
Reports are out that I-Soon, a Chinese company specializing in protecting nations and businesses from cyber attacks, is contracting with the Chinese government to attack businesses and other nation states. Turns out, there is no real evidence of that and if you look at the people involved in the story, it's more unbelievable than the Cozy Bear story was back in 2016. Seems like WEF and the Deep State are laying the groundwork for the next pandemic.
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
NCRI Exposed: Israel Lobby-Linked Group Tied to Illegal Settlements and Campus Censorship
from Mint Press News
Even as Israel pounds Gaza into rubble, carrying out what has been described as a genocide in the process, many of its supporters are attempting to change the subject, instead decrying a supposedly new wave of dangerous antisemitism across American universities.
Their evidence for this is a new report from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI). Entitled “The Corruption of the American Mind,” the study alleges that Middle Eastern funding of U.S. universities has helped unleash a torrent of anti-Jewish hatred. Yet, as we shall see, not only does the report contain numerous methodological issues, but the NCRI itself is deeply connected to the Israel lobby, as well as the U.S. national security state, and regularly publishes thinly sourced reports in service of Israeli interests and U.S. imperialism...
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My medical colleagues in Gaza are exhausted, and terrified of what is to come
from Mondoweiss
When I left Gaza two weeks ago, my colleagues at the European Hospital in Khan Younis were already overwhelmed and burned out. Now, they are terrified that what took place at nearby Nasser Hospital, which Israeli troops invaded last Thursday, leading to the deaths of at least four patients, will happen there.
I shudder at the thought of what that would mean for the patients and medical staff I grew close to during my two weeks working there. I shudder more at the prospect of a looming “massive” invasion of the city of Rafah, where 1.5 million people fled to for safety from Israel’s devastating military assault, knowing the carnage this would cause to the people crowded into Rafah with nowhere to flee. UN officials and humanitarian groups have issued dire warnings that an Israeli invasion of Rafah would result in a “bloodbath.” Indeed, over 100 people were killed in Rafah on February 11 alone as Israel ramped up its bombardment. I was able to reach some of my colleagues and patients from my time in Gaza who have sought refuge in Rafah. They are terrified of what is to come, but until now, they are still alive...
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World leaders no longer working toward peace – Serbian president
from RT
The international community is no longer interested in ending conflicts, and instead views peace as an “unwanted” ideal, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has claimed in an interview with TASS published on Tuesday.
His comments follow last week’s annual Munich Security Conference, which saw senior officials and heads of state from all over the world gather in the German city to debate international security issues, including the Ukraine conflict.
Vucic noted that he has participated in the forum numerous times, using the opportunity to gauge “how the Western world thinks” and its willingness to listen to varying opinions, including from smaller nations.
This
year, however, Vucic said he did not hear any innovative suggestions
toward resolving conflicts, describing the conference participants as
behaving like “football fans.” The Serbian leader said he had concluded that the word “peace” appears to have become “unloved and unwanted throughout the world.”...
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Kiev has right to demand return of draft dodgers – UN
from RT
Ukraine has the right to demand the return of male refugees who are
evading the draft, UN official Philippe Leclerc has argued. He added
that military mobilization in Ukraine does not constitute persecution,
meaning legal protection for draftees can theoretically be reviewed.
Kiev
declared general mobilization in February 2022, barring eligible men
aged between 18 and 60 from leaving the country. Nevertheless, thousands
have managed to flee illegally since then, with that number allegedly
on the rise in recent months.
In December, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky claimed that the military leadership had proposed calling up an additional 450,000-500,000 people. The country’s parliament is currently deliberating on a new mobilization law.
Appearing
at a press conference via video link on Tuesday, Leclerc, who serves as
the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) regional
director for Europe, said Ukraine “has every right to mobilize its population,” including “refugees of fighting age residing abroad.”..
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Israel hindering rescue missions to Gaza's Nasser hospital: WHO
from Press TV
The World Health Organization (WHO) says Israel’s military forces are hindering medical rescue missions to the besieged Nasser Hospital, whose condition is “indescribable.”
The UN health agency issued a statement on social media on Tuesday morning, saying its staff managed to transfer 32 critical patients, including two children, out of the hospital on Sunday and Monday.
The transferred patients were moved to other hospitals and to field hospitals in the territory.
The regime’s forces had denied access to the facility since they took control of the hospital last week.
There are still an estimated 130 sick and injured patients and at least 15 doctors and nurses inside the facility, WHO said, warning that the conditions inside are ripe for the spread of disease.
“WHO fears for the safety and well-being of the patients and health workers remaining in the hospital and warns that further disruption to life-saving care for the sick and injured would lead to more deaths.”...
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Gaza faces child deaths 'explosion' due to malnutrition, diseases
from Daily Sabah
The Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip is facing an explosion in child deaths over an alarming lack of food, surging malnutrition and the rampant spread of disease, multiple UN agencies warned Monday.
Nearly 20 weeks into Israel's war on the Palestinian territory, U.N. agencies warned that food and safe water had become "incredibly scarce," adding that virtually all young children had infectious illnesses.
"The Gaza Strip is poised to witness an explosion in preventable child deaths which would compound the already unbearable level of child deaths in Gaza," said Ted Chaiban, deputy head of humanitarian action at the U.N. children's agency UNICEF.
At least 90% of children under 5 in Gaza are affected by one or more infectious diseases, according to a joint assessment by the U.N. agencies for children, food and health...
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US vetoes ceasefire as north Gaza starves
from al Jazeera
- US envoy to UN uses third veto in Security Council to kill Algeria’s ceasefire resolution, saying it would harm truce negotiations between Israel and Hamas.
- World Food Programme has paused aid delivery in north Gaza, citing chaos caused by starvation and the “breakdown of social order”.
- Dozens of European countries call for an “immediate” pause in the Gaza war and renew warnings against Israel’s threatened ground assault on Rafah.
- The US has proposed a UN Security Council measure that would call for a “temporary” ceasefire in a rival measure to the Algerian proposal that would urge ending Israel’s war on Gaza.
- At least 29,092 Palestinians have been killed and 69,028 injured in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7, the Health Ministry says.
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Qatar criticises Israel’s Netanyahu over Hamas comments
from al Jazeera
Qatar has criticised comments from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which he said the Gulf state should do more to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and claimed that the Palestinian group is financially dependent on Doha.
In a speech before American Jewish leaders on Sunday, Netanyahu said pressure should be applied on Qatar, which played a key role in mediating November’s truce and hostage-prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas.
“Qatar can press Hamas as no one else can. They host Hamas leaders. Hamas is dependent on them financially,” Netanyahu said. “I urge you to press Qatar to press Hamas because we want our hostages released.”
Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Majed Al-Ansari said Doha “categorically rejects the empty accusations”.
“The Israeli Prime Minister’s recent statements in which he calls on Qatar to pressure Hamas into releasing the [Israeli] hostages are nothing but a new attempt by him to delay and prolong the war for reasons that have become clear to everyone,” he wrote on X on Monday...
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mRNA Ghouls are Still Looking for the Fountain of Youth
And they don't care how many of us useless eaters die along the way.
Epigenetic Reprogramming Safe, Effective in Skin Using eTurna™ Delivery System: SEASON Conference Presentation
from PR Newswire June 2023
Turn Biotechnologies, a cell rejuvenation company developing novel mRNA medicines for untreatable, age-related conditions, announced that its co-founder Vittorio Sebastiano discussed the benefits of using epigenetic reprogramming delivered via Turn Bio's eTurna™ carrier system to rejuvenate skin with an audience of regenerative aesthetics experts...
"Epigenetic reprogramming promises to be a powerful tool that may transform how patients are treated," Sebastiano said. "However, this therapy must be safe, delivered precisely, and without side effects. This is why Turn Bio developed a unique RNA-based ERA™ reprogramming solution, and eTurna, a novel lipid nanoparticle delivery system to deliver the RNAs precisely and effectively to target cells and tissues and avoid side effects common with commercially available LNPs."..
Sebastiano and his team have successfully delivered Turn Bio's ERA technology using eTurna to reprogram cells...
The company's proprietary mRNA-based ERA™ technology restores optimal
gene expression by combatting the effects of aging in the epigenome...
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Rejuvenation Technologies Raises $10.6M Seed Financing Led by Khosla Ventures to Develop mRNA Therapeutics to Reverse Aging
from Pharmiweb Sept 2023
Rejuvenation Technologies, a biotechnology company developing mRNA-based therapeutics to address mechanisms of aging, today announced a $10.6M seed financing round led by Khosla Ventures. Shanda Ventures, Asymmetry Ventures, Merchant Adventures, Longevity Tech Fund, and Y Combinator also participated in the round. The company has also raised $4.6M in grant funding, bringing the total amount raised to $15.2M.
The funding will be used to advance its programs to IND approval in fibrotic disease, such as pulmonary fibrosis and liver cirrhosis, as well as early research targeting the immune system. Rejuvenation’s lead candidate targets a key aging mechanism, telomere shortening. The company’s products include optimized telomerase mRNA encapsulated in custom tissue-targeted lipid nanoparticles (LNP). The company plans to expand its operations and bring on additional team members to oversee scale-up manufacturing, clinical operations, and R&D efforts to expand mRNA delivery capabilities to additional organ systems...
“The convergence of these technologies, along with immense public
interest in aging and in mRNA due to mRNA-based COVID vaccines, has
helped Rejuvenation attract top talent and grant funding, to support
their rapid progress,” said Alex Morgan, Partner, Khosla Ventures
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Monday, February 19, 2024
Israel’s economy shrinks by a fifth – data
from RT
Israel’s economy faced one of the biggest contractions in the country’s history in the fourth quarter of last year due to the ongoing war with Hamas, a report from the country’s Central Bureau of Statistics revealed on Monday.
The country’s GDP slumped by a seasonally adjusted 19.4% in the final three months of 2023, which was the first quarterly drop in Israel’s economy in two years.
The contraction was significantly worse than both the Bloomberg and Reuters consensus forecast of a 10% decline. The hostilities paralyzed businesses, prompted evacuations and a record call-up of reservists, which removed roughly 8% of the country’s workforce, according to economists.
The war caused a severe disruption to Israel’s $520 billion economy, leading to “restrictions comparable to shutdowns imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic, causing a sudden crash in manufacturing, jolting consumption and briefly emptying schools, offices and construction sites,” Bloomberg wrote.
Investment in Israel took the biggest blow, plunging by 70%, while private consumption, a major driver of economic growth, dropped by 27% in the fourth quarter. Public consumption plummeted by almost 90%, data showed.
Meanwhile, government spending skyrocketed by 88.1%, according to the statistics. Increased military spending played a large role in the surge...read more here
‘We feed the nation’: Indian farmers hit the streets on election eve. What do they want?
from RT
At 8am at the Shambhu border, a crossing between the northern Indian states of Punjab and Haryana, Daya Singh, 35, fixed his blue headgear and prepared for a day-long sit-in to join hundreds of farmers protesting at the site to demand guaranteed minimum price for crops. Like hundreds of other farmers, he has been sleeping in his tractor trolley for the last five days after volunteering for different tasks at the protest.
“We are forced to hit the streets. we want protection for our crops,” Singh told RT.
This comes at a crucial juncture in India, as the general election, in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party is expected to win a third term, is approaching in a few months.
The farmers’ vote will have an impact. Agriculture employs around 58% of the country’s population and accounts for about 18.3% of India’s GDP at current prices. Its market size is estimated at $372.94 billion in 2024, and is expected to reach $473.72 billion by 2029. India is the world’s second largest producer of wheat, rice, and sugar...
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Palestine accuses Israel of apartheid at ICJ, calls to end occupation
from Daily Sabah
Palestine has accused Israel of apartheid and demanded an end to its occupation of Palestinian territories in a hearing at the World Court on Monday.
Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki told the U.N.'s top court that his people were suffering "colonialism and apartheid" under the Israeli occupation, as judges weighed on the legal consequences of the Israeli occupation.
"The Palestinians have endured colonialism and apartheid ... There are those who are enraged by these words. They should be enraged by the reality we are suffering," al-Malki said.
The ICJ is holding hearings all week on the legal implications of Israel's occupation since 1967, with an unprecedented 52 countries expected to give evidence.
Nations including the United States, Russia and China will address judges at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)...
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26 EU states urge Gaza cease-fire, tell Israel to halt Rafah attacks
from Daily Sabah
All countries of the European Union, except for Hungary, called for an "immediate humanitarian pause" in Gaza, as Israel continues to carry out attacks, which killed almost 30,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
The bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said foreign ministers from 26 states had agreed on a statement calling for "an immediate humanitarian pause that would lead to a sustainable cease-fire."
The European Union has struggled for a united response to Israel's ruthless attacks on Gaza following the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.
The EU countries also reiterated their calls for Israel not to launch an assault on the Gaza city of Rafah, which has become the main shelter zone in the blockaded enclave, which is currently undergoing a humanitarian catastrophe without food, water, shelter and health services.
Borrell said it would be impossible to prevent civilian deaths in Rafah...
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Sunday, February 18, 2024
Former Mossad official: Children in Gaza over the age of 4 deserve to be starved
by Jonathan Ofir from Mondoweiss
In an interview on Israeli television, former Mossad official Rami Igra said all Palestinians in Gaza over the age of 4 are "involved" and deserve to face Israel's collective punishment policy of withholding food and humanitarian aid.
Israel’s genocidal moral depravity keeps plunging into new depths.
On Tuesday, Israel’s Kan public broadcaster ran a news program for “the 130th day of the war” hosted by the veteran Ayala Hasson. During the program, she interviewed former Mossad official Rami Igra, who had been head of the spy and assassination agency’s “Captive & Missing Division.”
Igra echoed President Isaac Herzog’s claim
that there are “no uninvolved [civilians] in Gaza.” Igra emphasizes the
point by saying “There is no such thing,” as Hasson disrupts him in
agreement with an affirming “You’re right, you’re right.”
Igra then goes on to specify this genocidal axiom in a bizarre manner, exempting children below age four:
“In Gaza, everyone is involved. Everyone voted Hamas. Anyone over the age of four is a Hamas supporter. And our goal at the moment, and this is in continuation of what you said, is to turn them from Hamas supporters to Hamas dislikers.”
This unhinged, delusional message is coupled with a supposedly “humanitarian” approach:
“And the way is supplying the humanitarian aid, through us.”
So, this enlightened colonialist is saying that if Israel, rather than UNRWA (which Israel is harassing, tarnishing, and lobbying to defund), will be the supplier, then the Palestinians will learn to love Israel!...read more here
Israel to nix ICJ hearing on occupation
from Ynet
15-judge panel to hear Palestinian claim over anticipated 2-months of hearing ending with a non-binding ruling that could still hurt Israel's international standing
Israel will not send a representative to the International Court of Justice in the Hague for a hearing on the legality of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, because it does not recognize the authority of the court. The decision was made late last week in a meeting held by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Israel Katz, Justice Minister Yariv Levin and head of the National Security Council Tzachi Hanegbi, with the attorney Malcolm Shaw, who represented Israel in the court over accusations of genocide.
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ICJ Hearings to Examine 57 Years of Israeli Occupation of Palestine
from Common Dreams
More than 50 countries are set to participate in next week's hearings at the International Court of Justice focusing on Israel's illegal 57-year occupation of Palestine, a forum that follows the Hague tribunal's finding last month that Israel is "plausibly" committing genocide in occupied Gaza.
The ICJ—also known as the World Court—will hold a week of hearings on the legal consequences of Israel's occupation of Palestine, which dates to the Israeli conquest of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, Syrian Golan Heights, and Egyptian Sinai Peninsula during the 1967 Six-Day War.
"The International Court of Justice is set for the first time to broadly consider the legal consequences of Israel's nearly six-decades-long occupation and mistreatment of the Palestinian people," Human Rights Watch senior legal adviser Clive Baldwin said in a statement. "Governments that are presenting their arguments to the court should seize these landmark hearings to highlight the grave abuses Israeli authorities are committing against Palestinians, including the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution."
The West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Golan Heights remain under Israeli
military occupation six decades after their conquest. The United
Nations—to which the ICJ belongs—and many international NGOs contend
that, despite removing its troops and settlers from Gaza two decades
ago, Israel continues to occupy Gaza by controlling the besieged
enclave's airspace, territorial waters, and the entry and exit of people
and goods...
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Twelve arrested as more than 200,000 pro-Palestine marchers walk through London to Israel embassy
from The Standard
The arrests were for a string of alleged offences, including inciting racial hatred, suspicion of support for a proscribed organisation in relation to a placard, and assaulting emergency workers.
But the Metropolitan Police said the "overwhelming majority" of people who took part were peaceful and acted lawfully.
Between 200,000 and 250,000 people were expected at the demonstration,
according to a spokesman for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign...
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Large Antigovernment Protest Returns to Tel Aviv, as Criticism of Netanyahu Mounts
from the New York Times
Thousands of antigovernment protesters on Saturday filled a central Tel Aviv thoroughfare, the same street where demonstrations riled the nation before the start of the Israel-Hamas war, in the largest show of anger toward Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in months.
In the immediate aftermath of the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, in which some 1,200 people were killed, according to Israeli officials, the nation was in shock and the antigovernment protests were put on pause. The protesters said at the time that they felt a need to be unified as a nation, and many demonstrators were called up to the military reserves or volunteered to help the war effort.
But as the war has passed the four-month mark, protests against the government have been strengthening. On Saturday, calls for an immediate election were heard above a deafening din of air horns. A red flare was lit in the middle of a drum circle that beat out marching tunes. Flag-wielding demonstrators stared down half a dozen police officers on horseback.
“The people need to rise up, and the government needs to go,” said Yuval Lerner, 57, referring to Mr. Netanyahu’s right-wing governing coalition. He said that even before the war, he had lost confidence that the government had the nation’s best interest at heart...
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Top UN court rejects South African request for urgent measures to safeguard Rafah
from al Jazeera
The top UN court on Friday rejected a South African request to impose urgent measures to safeguard Rafah in the Gaza Strip, but also stressed that Israel must respect earlier measures imposed late last month at a preliminary stage in a landmark genocide case.
The International Court of Justice said in a statement that the “perilous situation” in Rafah “demands immediate and effective implementation of the provisional measures” that it ordered Jan. 26.
It said no new order was necessary because the existing measures “are applicable throughout the Gaza Strip, including in Rafah.”..
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Netanyahu Says He Won’t Bow to Pressure to Call Off Rafah Invasion
from the New York Times
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel insisted on Saturday that Israel would not bow to international pressure to call off its plan for a ground invasion of Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza that is now packed with more than a million Palestinians.
Many of the people now in Rafah are displaced and living in schools, tents or the homes of friends and relatives, part of a desperate search for any safe refuge from Israel’s military campaign, which has dragged on for more than four months. Their lives are a daily struggle to find enough food and water to survive.
“Those who want to prevent us from operating in Rafah are basically telling us: Lose the war,” Mr. Netanyahu said at a news conference in Jerusalem on Saturday evening. “It’s true that there’s a lot of opposition abroad, but this is exactly the moment that we need to say that we won’t be doing a half or a third of the job.”
About the same time as Mr. Netanyahu addressed the news conference, thousands of anti-government protesters filled a central thoroughfare in Tel Aviv — the largest protest against the prime minister in months. They filled the same street where mass protests against Mr. Netanyahu’s efforts to weaken the country’s judiciary riled the nation before the start of the Israel-Hamas war...
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Netanyahu dismisses election calls as thousands protest in Tel Aviv
from Reuters
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday dismissed the idea of holding early elections, while thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv for an anti-government protest.
Netanyahu has seen his popularity plummet in opinion polls since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack that sparked the devastating war in Gaza.
Anti-government protests that shook the country
for much of 2023 have largely subsided during the war. Still,
demonstrators again took to the streets of Tel Aviv Saturday night
calling for new elections, which are not scheduled until 2026.
The crowd was much smaller than last years' mass protests, numbering a few thousand, according to local media.
"I'd
like to say to the government that you've had your time, you ruined
everything that you can ruin. Now is the time for the people to correct
all the things, all the bad things that you've done," said one
protestor, his head wrapped in an Israeli flag.
Netanyahu
was asked at a press briefing about calls within his own ruling Likud
party to hold early elections right when the Gaza war ends.
"The
last thing we need right now are elections and dealing with elections,
since it will immediately divide us," he said. "We need unity right
now."
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Israel’s Netanyahu dismisses calls for early election as thousands protest
from al Jazeera
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected calls for an early election as thousands of protesters take to the streets in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, demanding he step down.
Netanyahu has seen his popularity plummet in opinion polls since the October 7 attack that sparked the devastating war on Gaza.
Calls for an early vote have been mounting since October when the Palestinian group Hamas launched a rare attack inside Israeli territory, killing some 1,100 people and taking more than 200 others captive, nearly half of whom were released during a brief truce in November.
In response, the Israeli military launched unprecedented air and ground strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, killing nearly 29,000 Palestinians so far and displacing more than 1.4 million people in a campaign many governments have termed a genocide.
Antigovernment protests that shook Israel for much of 2023 had largely subsided during the war. Still, demonstrators again took to the streets on Saturday night, calling for new polls, which are not scheduled until 2026.
Thousands defied a police ban on large rallies in Tel Aviv as they hit the streets, according to local media, though the crowd was much smaller than last year’s mass protests...
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Thursday, February 15, 2024
Globalists are Framing China for Pending Western Economic Crash
They always need a fall guy. The WEF and the Global Warming cult are set to bring about another economic collapse in order to create the crisis they need to justify the Great Reset but they can't do it without blaming someone with a different economic system so they seem to have chosen China to take the fall.
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Zionists and Neocons Pushing for Their Puppet Dictator to Rule Palestine Mohammed Dahlan
Mohammed Dahlen is a traitor to Palestine living in exile. He is widely suspected of killing Yasser Arafat and it's well known he tried to violently overthrow the newly elected Hamas government on behalf of Israel and the U.S. And now, laughingly, he is being touted as the 'Arab Nations Choice' to rule Palestine post Hamas. It is ridiculous.
Gaza: The curse of Mohammed Dahlan
(Neocons come in all flavors. Red and Blue. Here we see neocon influenced Bush admin trying to pick the same Dictator for Palestine as the Biden admin just did. The more things change...)
' In the frequent calls with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Joe Biden dedicated much of the conversation to the post-war political solutions..
Cabinet ministers have come up with various ideas... regarding who will control Gaza after Hamas... One proposal was to have former Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan rule Gaza...' JNS Oct 2023
from al Jazeera 2017
Hand-picked by the neocons to overthrow Hamas
It was Gaza-based Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan who was selected to lead the mission of overthrowing Hamas. The choice was made by W Bush’s own National Security Council Middle East adviser, Elliot Abrams.
Then, the neocons were leading a campaign to construct a “New Middle East“, which was the culmination of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s aggressive “diplomacy” in the region.
The US government was eager to show that its violent military adventures in the Middle East would eventually lead to political stability through a US-sponsored democracy initiative...
The man to thwart Palestinian democracy was Dahlan. It was the obvious choice, since Dahlan, a warlord by any standards, had good ties with Israel, a strong position within Fatah and was deeply connected to various Arab intelligence agencies. He also commanded 10 security branches in Gaza, dedicated mostly to cracking down on dissent. Many of those imprisoned and tortured by Dahlan’s forces, funded and trained under a programme managed by US Lieutenant General Keith Dayton, targeted Hamas fighters, political leaders and supporters.
The plan was a massive failure. In the matter of a few days in the summer of 2007, Hamas routed Dahlan’s forces, and, until this day, single-handedly controlled Gaza...
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Exiled Palestinian strongman Dahlan touts Gazan future without Hamas or Abbas
from Times of Israel
An independent Palestinian leader backed by Arab peacekeepers could oversee the reconstruction of Gaza after the war between Israel and Hamas, a prominent Palestinian exile says.
Mohammed Dahlan, the former Palestinian Authority Gaza security chief, tells The New York Times that in his vision, “the leaders of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates are open to supporting processes that are part of efforts leading to a Palestinian state.”
The new Palestinian leader would push PA President Mahmoud Abbas aside to a ceremonial role, and could invite countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia to send in troops and pay for a reconstruction of the Strip, says Dahlan, who many think may be eyeing the job for himself...
Dahlan’s security force operated in Gaza with an iron fist after the
Oslo Accords. A Gaza native, he was abroad when Hamas took over by force
in 2007, and after moving to the West Bank he was expelled from Fatah
in 2011 over accusations that he murdered Yasser Arafat...
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Could exiled former Palestinian leader Mohammed Dahlan lead Gaza after the Israel-Hamas war?
(The Zionists' leading candidate for Dictator of Palestine)
from France 24 Dec 2023
Gaza’s former strongman Mohammed Dahlan has now spent more than a decade in exile in the UAE but rather than fade from the spotlight, he has amassed a new kind of power as a businessman and adviser to President Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan.
Despite his long absence from the Palestinian Territories, Dahlan is still thought of as a potential leader in Gaza – if Hamas were removed from power.
“Mohammed Dahlan is from Gaza and is one of the heroes of the first intifada [the Palestinian uprising aimed at ending Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank in 1987 to 1993],” said FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Israel, Stéphane Amar.
“He has support from Israel and support from the United States – but the question is whether he will be able to impose his power. There are multiple options on the table if Israel were to succeed in ousting Hamas from the Gaza Strip.” ...
Dahlan also spent a large part of the 1980s in Israeli prisons, being
arrested 11 times for his leading role in a Palestinian political party,
Fatah. While in prison in Israel, he learned to speak fluent Hebrew,
according to The Economist, which ran an interview with the former leader in October...
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This is Mohammed Dahlan
from JVL
... Dahlan was arrested eleven times by the Israelis.. between the years 1981 - 1986. ... In 1988, he was deported to Jordan ...and won Yasser Arafat’s confidence. Dahlan returned to Gaza in 1994. Upon his return to Gaza in 1994, he enjoyed a wave of popular support...
... In March 2007, despite objections from Hamas, (Mohammed) Dahlan was appointed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to lead the newly re-established Palestinian National Security Council, overseeing all security forces in the Palestinian territories. Dahlan organized paramilitary units of several thousand fighters trained with American assistance, and lobbied Israel to allow Fatah forces in Gaza to receive large shipments of arms and ammunition to fight Hamas.
In the April 2008 edition of Vanity Fair, it was revealed that after the 2006 elections Dahlan had been central in a U.S. plot to remove the democratically elected Hamas-led government from power. The Americans provided money and arms to Dahlan, trained his men and ordered him to carry out a military coup against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. However, the elected Hamas government forestalled the move and carried out an armed counter-coup...
In October 2007, the Bush administration reportedly exerted heavy pressure on Abbas to appoint Dahlan as his deputy. Some Fatah officials said that the U.S. and some EU countries had made it clear they would like to see Dahlan succeed Abbas as head of the PA...
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A Palestinian Exile Champions an Arab Vision for Gaza (an 'Arab' vision?)
(This man's 'vision' isn't commented on by Arab nations (as mentioned way down in this article) but clearly it involves him becoming the dictator of the new Palestine. He was thought to be an Israeli agent before being run out of Gaza 2007. He was backed by the Americans and Turkey wants him for financially backing the terrorist Gulenists.)
'Dahlan was the target of a bounty offered by the Turkish government...accuses Dahlan of being an agent of Israeli intelligence and a financial backer of the Gülen movement.'
'everybody knew Dahlan was an Israeli agent'
'Dahlan is alleged to have enriched himself through corruption; his personal wealth has been estimated at well over $120 million'
'he maintained a private army in the Gaza Strip in 2003 and 2004, which was trained and equipped by American services,'
'In June 2011 Dahlan was expelled from Fatah because of repeated claims by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas that he had murdered Arafat...after a 9-month investigation launched by Al Jazeera, traces of the radioactive poison polonium were found on Arafat's belongings, strongly increasing suspicions that he was poisoned.' Wikipedia
from NYT
As the Gaza war rages, with civilian deaths soaring, few Arab leaders have publicly voiced their visions for the future of the battered enclave, fearing they will be accused of endorsing Israel’s actions.
But one influential Palestinian exile, in an interview with The New York Times, has provided public insight into the types of postwar plans that Arab leaders are privately discussing...
Under the plan outlined by Mr. Dahlan and echoed privately by Arab nations, a new Palestinian leader would assume responsibility for Gaza and the parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank... “No Abbas, no Hamas,” said Mr. Dahlan...
Mr. Dahlan still has critics who say that he used heavy-handed tactics in Gaza, and that he had a tendency for self-promotion...
Saudi Arabia and Egypt declined to comment on the plan described by Mr. Dahlan. A U.A.E. statement did not directly address the plan...
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