Category: Israel

Why is the Israeli Gov’t Rooting for a 2nd Term for Trump and his White Nationalist, anti-Semitic Allies?

“I know you Jews your only here to protect your money” Donald Trump

The JVP is right: “Israel is a state and does not represent communities in the diaspora… It is what it is.” However, if the Israeli government takes a stand in the fight against anti-Semitism, it should stop looking for anti-Semites where they do not exist, which is not amongst defenders of human rights and universal rules of refuge and return. If Netanyahu and his sidekick Benny Gantz are really serious about tackling anti-Semitism, they should tackle the support base of their main ally in the White House. This has never happened, of course, and it never will.

Why is the Israeli Gov’t Rooting for a 2nd Term for Trump and his White Nationalist, anti-Semitic Allies?

Israel lies after soldiers choke and kill Palestinian boy | The Electronic Intifada

Israel regularly plays the “Fake News Card” to hide what they criminally do. They aren’t even shy about it when caught. (ODT)

The Israeli military claims that it is not responsible for the death of Amer Snobar, 16, in the central West Bank on Saturday night, claiming that the teen fell. Doctors say he died after being beaten and asphyxiated by soldiers.

Israel lies after soldiers choke and kill Palestinian boy | The Electronic Intifada

Not a new dawn: Why the Israel-Sudan deal was a long time coming

Anya-Nya recruits in southern Sudan learning how to use Bren guns provided by Israel, 1970. (Photographer unknown, Archivo Comboniani Roma)

The normalization of relations between Israel and Sudan, publicly announced on Oct. 23, has been on the horizon for several years now. News reports from the past weeks have consistently portrayed the normalization deal as a story about a staunch enemy of Israel abandoning its old ways and turning into a friend. The Khartoum Summit of 1967, in which Arab leaders called for “no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, and no negotiation with Israel,” has been repeatedly invoked by commentators to support this narrative.

Not a new dawn: Why the Israel-Sudan deal was a long time coming

Israeli Right raises $400K for Israeli Settler convicted of Burning up Palestinian Family, Toddler

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In America the Right raises funds for the Kenosha shootings accused and Israel does the same for the convicted settler (ODT)

Deep-rooted anti-Palestinian racism is endemic across large segments of Israeli society. This was demonstrated yet again when an Israeli crowdfunding campaign raised over 1.38 million NIS (equivalent to £310,000) in just five days last week for the legal appeal fund of Amiram Ben Uliel, the Israeli terrorist who received three life sentences for killing three members of the Palestinian Dawabsheh family five years ago. Ben Uliel’s arson attack on 31 July 2015, killed 18-month-old toddler Ali Dawabsheh and his parents Saad and Riham. Ahmed Dawabsheh, the sole survivor of the attack and only five years old at the time, was left with second- and third-degree burns on over 60 per cent of his body.

Israeli Right raises $400K for Israeli Settler convicted of Burning up Palestinian Family, Toddler

Israel’s Iron Wall Still Stands After Nearly a Century

Earlier this year, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled that he was close to a decision to unilaterally annex the Palestinian West Bank, an aggressive and illegal move long championed by the Israeli right. Though Netanyahu ultimately abandoned the plan for temporary and tactical reasons, it illustrated a major theme of Shlaim’s historical work: the central role of unfettered military coercion in Israel’s conception of security vis-à-vis the Palestinians. In light of these developments, Douglas Gerrard spoke to Shlaim about the history of the two-state solution, the promise and reality of the Oslo Accords, the future of Gaza, and the prospect of a binational state in Israel-Palestine.

Israel’s Iron Wall Still Stands After Nearly a Century

A fever dream of dictators

 

A fever dream of dictators
U.S. Chief of Protocol Cam Henderson assists President Donald Trump, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Foreign Affairs for the United Arab Emirates Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the documents during the signing of the Abraham Accords Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, on the South Lawn of the White House. (Official White House photo by Andrea Hanks)

For the signatories of the Abraham Accords, peace means squashing people’s freedoms in order to unlock unfettered exchanges of technology and weapons.

A fever dream of dictators

Gullible Trump was manipulated by Netanyahu’s Deep Fake Video of Mahmoud Abbas to Cut off Palestinians

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Trump is Netanyahu’s Muppet (ODT)

Trump appears to have made the decision to cut $5.5 billion in US AID funds to the Palestinians in part on the basis of his rage about Abbas allegedly being a baby-killer, which was a Netanyahu lie. It seems likely that Netanyahu and Trump are responsible for the deaths of Palestinian children through this deprivation.

Gullible Trump was manipulated by Netanyahu’s Deep Fake Video of Mahmoud Abbas to Cut off Palestinians

Israeli neglect fuels virus spread among Palestinian prisoners | The Electronic Intifada

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Human rights groups are sounding the alarm over the spread of coronavirus among Palestinians in Israeli jails. At least five Palestinian prisoners have tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19 recently, including a child. They were being held at Ofer military prison near Ramallah, where Israeli occupation forces also detain Palestinian children. Infected prisoners were transferred from Ofer to Hadarim prison, in central Israel.

Israeli neglect fuels virus spread among Palestinian prisoners | The Electronic Intifada

Israel Is an Army With a Country Attached

 

Israel Is an Army With a Country Attached

A new book by an Israeli scholar dissects the extraordinary hold that the country’s military — and militaristic ways of thinking — have on Israeli society, and the ideological myths that keep the project afloat.

Israel Is an Army With a Country Attached

In Further War Crime, Israelis cut Electricity to Gaza, Idling 50,000 Factory Workers

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So all but a tiny number of Palestinians in Gaza do not take direct part in hostilities toward Israel. Half of the residents of Gaza are children. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz estimates Hamas to have 30,000 activists in its military wing. The smaller Islamic Jihad, which is not affiliated with Hamas and often defies it, is thought to have 6,000 fighters. So there are like 36,000 combatants in Gaza and nearly 2 million noncombatants, i.e. persons who do not take direct part in hostilities.

In Further War Crime, Israelis cut Electricity to Gaza, Idling 50,000 Factory Workers

Don’t be Hoodwinked by Trump’s UAE-Israel “Peace Deal”

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via Don’t be Hoodwinked by Trump’s UAE-Israel “Peace Deal”

The Israel lobby and media independence

The decade of News Corp’s demise

The media skews towards affording pro-Israel voices a substantial amount of exposure, largely excluding Palestinian perspectives, Dr Evan Jones contends.

Nine Entertainment is not merely cowardly with respect to the pro-Israel lobby, it (with the Murdoch media) is an integral part of that lobby, debasing its privileged and crucial medium and sacrificing its integrity — this in tolerating the systematic attempted buying off of its journalists and in opening its pages readily to racist apologists. In short, it’s an ongoing obscenity.

via The Israel lobby and media independence

‘North Korea TV can learn from them’: Netanyahu lashes out at Israeli media over ‘one-sided’ coverage of protests — RT World News

‘North Korea TV can learn from them’: Netanyahu lashes out at Israeli media over ‘one-sided’ coverage of protests

When you have nothing left blame the MEDIA, avoid the truth at all costs Do the Trump (ODT)

via ‘North Korea TV can learn from them’: Netanyahu lashes out at Israeli media over ‘one-sided’ coverage of protests — RT World News

Netanyahu’s authoritarian rule is turning Israelis against the state – +972 Magazine

Demonstrators protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside Prime Minister official residence in Jerusalem, July 18, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

via Netanyahu’s authoritarian rule is turning Israelis against the state – +972 Magazine

Can the Israel Lobbies succeed in unseating Ilhan Omar?

America’s biggest danger of foreign interference comes from Israel. It’s spending American Aid to boot. (ODT)

via Can the Israel Lobbies succeed in unseating Ilhan Omar?

War Crimes and War Criminals: Who Will Be Held Accountable?, by Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review

via War Crimes and War Criminals: Who Will Be Held Accountable?, by Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review

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Jewish Federation monitors Chicago solidarity groups | The Electronic Intifada

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“The reason why JUF and other Zionist organizations in the US are spending so much money and time attacking Palestinians and our supporters is because the exact opposite is true.”

“Israel is finally being seen – even in the US – as the criminal, racist, apartheid state that it is, and that is because our organizing and activism is paying dividends,” Abudayyeh added.

via Jewish Federation monitors Chicago solidarity groups | The Electronic Intifada

Thousands of Israelis Protest, furious at Netanyahu’s having Provoked 2nd Wave of Covid by Opening Schools, Businesses in May

via Thousands of Israelis Protest, furious at Netanyahu’s having Provoked 2nd Wave of Covid by Opening Schools, Businesses in May

Israeli Proxies Profit from U.S. Coronavirus Funding, by Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review

Be clear Israel is a political entity and isn’t to be conflated with Judaism in this context. Israel wishes a Muslim holocaust and Israeli Jews are only guilty in their silence. However that silence is not universally Jewish and the anti-Israel trotests are getting louder. (ODT)

And it all starts with the presumption that Israel is some kind of friend, which it is not. Fake charities and various schemes to otherwise defraud and impoverish the U.S. taxpayer is the name of the game and Israel goes on from there to become a “business arrangement” and “health initiative partner” plus “national security asset.” When will it ever end? Ask your congressman. He or she will not reply. Or write a letter to the Washington Post or New York Times. They will not print it.

via Israeli Proxies Profit from U.S. Coronavirus Funding, by Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review

Amid Pandemic Spike, Israel cuts Electricity to Palestinian Hamlets in Apparent Pressure to accept Annexation

via Amid Pandemic Spike, Israel cuts Electricity to Palestinian Hamlets in Apparent Pressure to accept Annexation

With the World Focused on the Pandemic, Israel Prepares to Annex Large Swaths of the West Bank

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via With the World Focused on the Pandemic, Israel Prepares to Annex Large Swaths of the West Bank

PM Netanyahu’s son Calls for Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian-Israelis from Tel Aviv

via PM Netanyahu’s son Calls for Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian-Israelis from Tel Aviv

Washington Struggles to Manage the Crisis, But Israel Continues to Benefit, by Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review

Who is leading who by the nose? (ODT)

So, what is the average American citizen to do confronted by an avalanche of Congressional action benefitting Israel while the United States is going through its most trying time since the Great Depression? Israeli lobbying groups like AIPAC, Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) and Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) have large budgets, hundreds of staff and full and immediate access to Congressional offices. They even write the legislation that is then rubber stamped by the House and Senate, and although they are clearly agents of Israel, they are never required to register as such under Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

There is no defense treaty with Israel and the Jewish state is no ally, much less a “greatest ally.” It is, in fact, a major strategic liability, involving Americans in regional wars that need not be fought and demonstrating to all the world the risible reality of a military and economic superpower that is being led to perdition during a time of crisis by a ruthless and irresponsible client state.

via Washington Struggles to Manage the Crisis, But Israel Continues to Benefit, by Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review

What would Israeli identity look like without Zionism? – +972 Magazine

Israelis look on at an Independence Day military parade at the Hebrew University Stadium, Jerusalem, April 24, 1958. (GPO)

via What would Israeli identity look like without Zionism? – +972 Magazine

European Court upholds right to boycott Israel | The Electronic Intifada

Man addresses crowd of demonstrators

via European Court upholds right to boycott Israel | The Electronic Intifada

In Major Blow to Far Right Netanyahu Gov’t, Int’l Court of Human Rights Upholds right to Boycott Israel

 

via In Major Blow to Far Right Netanyahu Gov’t, Int’l Court of Human Rights Upholds right to Boycott Israel

Militarized Police a Gift from Israel?, by Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review

Israel taught us occupation forget policing (ODT)

That all means that Officer Derek Chauvin used a technique taught to American police by Israeli trainers even if his judgement can be seriously faulted in terms of how he did it and how long her sustained it. He may have received the training with the full cooperation and financial support of both the Federal government, the government of the state of Minnesota and the city of Minneapolis. His lawyers will be able to argue, which they surely will, that he used a technique that was endorsed by the city of Minneapolis’s police manual and was also part of officer training with Israel. This makes for an interesting back story and an unbiased judge and jury, if that can be found anywhere on the planet, just might find Chauvin and his three colleagues innocent, which would be a travesty but inevitable in a system where police have effectively been trained and licensed to kill.

via Militarized Police a Gift from Israel?, by Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review

Operating Outside the Rule of Law: Washington Pressures International Criminal Court, by Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review

There is apparently no limit to what the United States and Israel can get away with without any consequences. The United States has been waging devastating economic warfare against Iran and Venezuela while also blaming China for a global health crisis that it is unwilling to help address due to its withdrawal from the World Health Organization. Israel meanwhile is planning on illegally annexing significant parts of the Palestinian West Bank in July, with a green light from the Trump Administration, and no one in Europe or elsewhere is even interested in initiating serious sanctions that might lead to the postponing of that decision. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has even stated flatly that the remaining Palestinians who would be annexed will not become Israeli citizens – they will instead be “subjects” of the Jewish state with no guaranteed rights or privileges.

via Operating Outside the Rule of Law: Washington Pressures International Criminal Court, by Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review

Jerusalem Demonstrations against Police Brutality after Autistic Palestinian Youth Shot to Death

Where State-Sponsored Murder happens people react (ODT)

via Jerusalem Demonstrations against Police Brutality after Autistic Palestinian Youth Shot to Death

Lapid warns of “Civil War” as Netanyahu Accuses Courts of Conspiracy and Pledges to Steal 1/3 of Palestine

via Lapid warns of “Civil War” as Netanyahu Accuses Courts of Conspiracy and Pledges to Steal 1/3 of Palestine

As Americans lose their jobs, Senate gears up to give Israel A MINIMUM of $38 billion over 10 years — RT USA News

As Americans lose their jobs, Senate gears up to give Israel A MINIMUM of $38 billion over 10 years

America’s Foreign Aid

As Americans lose their jobs, Senate gears up to give Israel A MINIMUM of $38 billion over 10 years — RT USA News

What does the Empire’s agony mean for the “Jewish state of Israel”?, by The Saker – The Unz Review

Right now the US can still print enough dollars to maintain Israel afloat, but we already know that while throwing cheap money at a problem is often very tempting, this does not constitute a sustainable strategy, especially when the actual military capabilities of both the US and Israelis are rapidly degrading. Right now, nobody knows how much longer the last openly racist regime on the planet will last, but it is exceedingly unlikely that the Zionist entity will be able to survive without the Empire to prop it up. In other words, sooner rather than later, the “Jewish state of Israel” will have no better chances of survival than, say, the “Independent State of Kosovo” or, for that matter, the “Independent Ukraine”: they are all the ugly metastases of the Empire which by themselves are simply not viable.

via What does the Empire’s agony mean for the “Jewish state of Israel”?, by The Saker – The Unz Review

ICC rejects Morrison Gov’t plea for Israeli exemption from war crimes prosecution

1) Why is there even a plea necessary?

2) Is Israel’s exceptionalism such a stand out they just might be as guilty as?

via ICC rejects Morrison Gov’t plea for Israeli exemption from war crimes prosecution

Israel To Annex the United States, by Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review

Commercial Espionage it’s not China (ODT)

And where to go from here? Friedman opines that “the equation of U.S.-Israel relations needs to be flipped. Rather than Americans seeing themselves as helping Israel, they must realize how much Israel can do for the U.S. – for example, by putting groundbreaking Israeli innovations on the market in the U.S. first.” Sure, steal the technology, re-engineer it, and then quietly arrange sweetheart trade deals through one’s co-religionists to sell it back to the suckers in the United States.

via Israel To Annex the United States, by Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review

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Top 5 Ways Netanyahu’s Annexation of 30% of Palestinian West Bank will Devastate Israel

via Top 5 Ways Netanyahu’s Annexation of 30% of Palestinian West Bank will Devastate Israel

Israel’s New Government Is Exploiting Pandemic to Annex 30 Percent of West Bank | The Smirking Chimp

via Israel’s New Government Is Exploiting Pandemic to Annex 30 Percent of West Bank | The Smirking Chimp

Israel Teeters on Brink, as Protests erupt against Indicted Netanyahu forming Gov’t, and Supreme Court prepares to Rule on his Eligibility

via Israel Teeters on Brink, as Protests erupt against Indicted Netanyahu forming Gov’t, and Supreme Court prepares to Rule on his Eligibility

Coronavirus gives Israel the perfect cover to tighten its grip over Palestinians – +972 Magazine

Israeli border police wear face masks as protection from the coronavirus as they stand guard in the Muslim quarters in Jerusalem's Old City. March 15, 2020. (Yossi Zamiri/Flash90)

via Coronavirus gives Israel the perfect cover to tighten its grip over Palestinians – +972 Magazine

The Israel-Palestine Conflict Isn’t a “Clash of Cultures.” It’s About Colonialism.

via The Israel-Palestine Conflict Isn’t a “Clash of Cultures.” It’s About Colonialism.

Netanyahu confident Trump will Let him Annex vast Swathes of Palestinian Territory

via Netanyahu confident Trump will Let him Annex vast Swathes of Palestinian Territory

US and Israel team up to thwart war crimes probes | The Electronic Intifada

via US and Israel team up to thwart war crimes probes | The Electronic Intifada

Protesters slam ‘Crime Minister” Netanyahu’s Assault on Democracy in Israel, Praise Palestinian-Israeli Medics fighting Coronavirus

via Protesters slam ‘Crime Minister” Netanyahu’s Assault on Democracy in Israel, Praise Palestinian-Israeli Medics fighting Coronavirus

Israeli Lab Claiming To Have COVID-19 Vaccine Is an IDF Biological Warfare Research Facility, by Eric Striker – The Unz Review

While it is not made clear if US taxpayer funds will be going to institutions like IIBR, it’s safe to say that any vaccine developed in Israel is going to provoke well-deserved suspicion. The distinction between private companies and the state are virtually non-existent in Israel, and biotech firms like Dyadic do not hide their relationship to IIBR.

There is no sign that the IIBR, a military outfit founded specifically with the intent of indiscriminately murdering non-Jews with germs, poisons, and viruses, has changed its original Zionist mission. Any Israeli vaccination should be treated as suspiciously as an Arab village’s well within Ben-Gurion’s reach.

via Israeli Lab Claiming To Have COVID-19 Vaccine Is an IDF Biological Warfare Research Facility, by Eric Striker – The Unz Review

Does Israel Have the Right to Cage Two Million People in a Coronavirus-Ravaged Prison Camp?

via Does Israel Have the Right to Cage Two Million People in a Coronavirus-Ravaged Prison Camp?

Israel Is Militarizing and Monetizing the COVID-19 Pandemic

via Israel Is Militarizing and Monetizing the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bio-Terror: Zombie Israeli Squatters with Covid-19 break Quarantine, assault Palestinians at close Quarters

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On Wednesday, a band of 20 Israeli squatters diagnosed with Covid-19, who had been placed in quarantine in their squatter-settlement on Palestinian land in the West Bank’s Ghor Valley, ghoulishly broke out and attacked a nearby Palestinian hamlet. They are members of the violent “Hilltop Youth” extremist group.

The Israeli terrorists, operating in Palestinian territory, burned cars, stoned civilians, and attacked individuals. They beat a young Palestinian woman so badly that she had to be rushed to the emergency room in an Israeli hospital.

Since she has now likely been infected, this injury may be a death sentence, since comorbidity conditions severe enough to require hospitalization would worsen her chance of surviving when she contracts the virus and it attacks her lungs.

via Bio-Terror: Zombie Israeli Squatters with Covid-19 break Quarantine, assault Palestinians at close Quarters

Mossad False Flag Attacks on Jews, by Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review

Weaponizing one point of view inevitably limits the ability of contrary views to be heard. The downside is, of course, that the frenzy that has resulted in the criminalization of free expression relating in any but a positive way to the activity of Jewish groups. It has also included the acceptance of the dishonest definition that any criticism of Israel is ipso facto anti-Semitism, giving that nation a carte blanche in terms of its brutal treatment of its neighbors and even of its non-Jewish citizens.

Mossad False Flag Attacks on Jews, by Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review

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News Ltd issues apology to former Labor MP Melissa Parke

Israel Blocks Coronavirus Respirators, Aid, to Gaza until Remains of 2 Israeli Invaders are Returned

via Israel Blocks Coronavirus Respirators, Aid, to Gaza until Remains of 2 Israeli Invaders are Returned

Netanyahu devastates Israeli Tourism with universal Quarantine to Avoid highlighting Trump Covid-19 Failures

via Netanyahu devastates Israeli Tourism with universal Quarantine to Avoid highlighting Trump Covid-19 Failures

PODCAST: Deciding the fate of Palestinians — without Palestinians

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, in the East Room of the White House to unveil details of the Trump administration’s Middle East plan. (Shealah Craighead/White House)

via PODCAST: Deciding the fate of Palestinians — without Palestinians