The Israeli Spies Writing America’s News

from Mint Press News

One year after Oct. 7 attacks, Netanyahu is on a winning streak.” So reads the title of a recent Axios article describing the Israeli prime minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs. These stunning military “successes,” its author Barak Ravid notes, include the bombing of Yemen, the assassinations of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and the pager attack against Lebanon.

The same author recently went viral for an article that claimed that Israeli attacks against Hezbollah are “not intended to lead to war but are an attempt to reach ‘de-escalation through escalation.'” Users on social media mocked Ravid for this bizarre, Orwellian reasoning. But what almost everybody missed is that Barak Ravid is an Israeli spy – or at least he was until recently. Ravid is a former analyst with Israeli spying agency Unit 8200, and as recently as last year, was still a reservist with the Israeli Defense Forces group.

Unit 8200 is Israel’s largest and perhaps most controversial spying organization. It has been responsible for many high-profile espionage and terror operations, including the recent pager attack that injured thousands of Lebanese civilians. As this investigation will reveal, Ravid is far from the only Israeli ex-spook working at top U.S. media outlets, working hard to manufacture Western support for his country’s actions...

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by Scott Creighton

Uncle Milton the windbag left me with a nice case of bronchitis to remember him by. I guess it's the hot/cold cycle plus rain and humidity. So I am doing hot soup, pistachios, random naps, BronkAid and TheraFlu to get over it. Will be fine. Talk to you all tomorrow. Take care.

Judge Blocks Hand-Counting of Election Ballots in Georgia

 (AuntBB has an election coming this week and they have new scanner machines. I wonder if hand counting for verification will be allowed there. But it's a 'conspiracy theory' to claim elections are rigged in America with these things, right?)

from the NYT

A county judge in Georgia on Tuesday blocked a new rule mandating a hand count of election ballots across the state. Enacting such a sweeping change for the November election, he said, was “too much, too late.”

Judge Robert C.I. McBurney did not, however, knock down the rule outright; his decision was confined to the current election, halting the rule from taking effect for 2024 while he further weighs its merits.

The rule, passed last month by the State Election Board, would have required poll workers across Georgia to break open sealed containers of ballots and count them by hand to ensure that the total number of ballots matched the total counted by tabulating machines. (It would not have required officials to tally for whom the ballots were cast.)...

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(That's right. It's against the law in YET ANOTHER STATE to try to verify the electronic voting results)

Iranian foreign minister due in Türkiye for outreach to end Gaza war

from Daily Sabah

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi will be visiting Türkiye, as well as Jordan and Egypt, this week to discuss ways to stop Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip.

The visit is part of Tehran’s reach-out to regional countries “to end genocide, atrocity, and aggression,” Iranian foreign ministry's spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said on Wednesday in a post on X.

Over the past week, Araqchi has visited Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq and Oman to ease tensions.

The developments come against the backdrop of Israel’s brutal war on Gaza against the Palestinian resistance group Hamas, which has been raging for more than a year and has expanded to include Lebanon in recent weeks...

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‘A leg fell to the floor’: The horrific Israeli bombing of Al-Aqsa Hospital

(The brave glorious Israelis attacked at 1am so as to ensure the beds would be full when they bombed em)

from al Jazeera

Amani Madi still can’t believe she and her family survived the bombing that hit Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the middle of the night.

In the open space where the attack on displaced people’s tents took place early on Monday, the smell of smoke prevails, and burned cans and food are scattered on the ground among charred blankets and clothes.

People wander back and forth. Most of them used to live in the tents, and they are trying to find anything left behind by the blaze that destroyed their flimsy homes.

The attack tore through the makeshift camp set up by displaced people in the hospital’s courtyard, killing at least four people and injuring at least 40.

“It was 1:10am when a massive explosion shook everything,” Madi, a 37-year-old mother of six, recalls as she sits in the remains of her burned tent.

“I looked out and saw flames devouring the tents next to ours,” Madi says. “My husband and I carried the kids and ran towards the emergency building...

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Bold Journalists Confront US State Dept Official's Hypocrisy on Isráel's Attácks in Gaza & Lebanon

from Africa News Network

“Stop Profiting Off Genocide”: 200 Arrested at Jewish Voice for Peace Protest at NY Stock Exchange

from Democracy Now!

Sky News Causes OUTRAGE Over Gaza Coverage - They're Not Even Pretending

from Owen Jones

Pro-Palestine Jewish activists occupy Wall Street

from RT

Hundreds of pro-Palestine Jewish activists have taken to Wall Street in New York to protest against US support for what they call Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza. Scores of demonstrators have been arrested, police say.

A group of protesters wearing red shirts and holding banners reading “Jews say stop arming Israel” and “Gaza bombed, Wall Street Booms” gathered outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. Other slogans included “Fund FEMA not genocide,” in reference to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has been grappling with the aftermath of two recent hurricanes that struck the southeastern US.

The demonstration, organized by Jewish Voices for Peace, drew an estimated 500 people. The New York Police Department said it took 206 people into custody after protesters breached a security fence. Clips from social media show activists conducting a sit-down protest, with officers dragging some of them away, and with no signs of clashes or active resistance...

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Nicaraguan president compares Netanyahu to Hitler

from RT

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, comparing both politicians to Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler.

Ortega made the remarks on Monday at an event to mark the 45th anniversary of the Nicaraguan police. In his speech, the president blasted Netanyahu, comparing his policies to those of the Nazis.

“At the head of the Israeli government there is a prime minister who is the son of the devil. Why? Because he practices a policy of terror and is Hitler,” Ortega said.

He also lashed out at Israel’s Western backers, saying the actions of the EU nations and the US are bound to either “lead the planet to a total war” or result in their complete defeat...

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