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Israel

Former NATO Analyst Jacques Baud on Operation Al-Aqsa Flood: The Defeat of the Vanquisher – ScheerPost

How is it NATO supplies a report significantly different to the one Israel produced and the this report is independent of IDF influence.

Clearly, the aim was not to kill civilians, but rather to obtain a bargaining chip for the release of some 5,300 prisoners held by Israel. Eyewitness accounts in the Israeli press suggest that the original idea was to take only military prisoners (who are “more valuable” than civilians for an exchange). These same accounts show that the Palestinians were surprised to find so few military personnel on site, which can be explained by the fact that part of the garrisons had been redeployed to the West Bank a few weeks earlier. Yasmin Porat’s testimony, mentioned above, shows that Hamas fighters stayed with civilians in their homes, waiting for the security forces to intervene. The testimonies indicate that the Palestinian fighters left with civilian prisoners only after the Israeli military had intervened, firing indiscriminately into the houses with their tanks. It therefore appears that the capture of civilians was more the result of a combination of circumstances than a decision taken in advance.

The death of civilians was therefore not an objective, and the fact that the freed hostages declared that they had been treated with respect, and even in a friendly manner, tends to confirm that this was not a “pogrom” against the Israeli population.

Source: Former NATO Analyst Jacques Baud on Operation Al-Aqsa Flood: The Defeat of the Vanquisher – ScheerPost

Alan Jones

How alleged paedophile Alan Jones has been protected by the old media for decadesKangaroo Court of Australia

Alan Jones

He’s been walking free in Dutton’s and Cash’s world for years. They never said a word

Former radio host Alan Jones has been accused by The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH), in an article written by journalist Kate McClymont titled “‘He’d go the grope’: Alan Jones accused of indecently assaulting young men”, of sexual assaulting 4 males which includes staff at radio station 2gb and other men.

Source: How alleged paedophile Alan Jones has been protected by the old media for decadesKangaroo Court of Australia

America's Shame

Better than Bulgaria but not as nice as Cuba: how did the US become such an awful place to live? | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

Tattered US flag flying on a building on Main Street.

What do you call a country where nearly one in 10 adults have medical debts and a broken bone can boot you into bankruptcy? A country where a city of more than 160,000 residents recently had no safe drinking water for weeks? A country where life expectancy has dropped for the second year in a row and poor people sell their blood plasma in order to make ends meet? A country where the maternal mortality rate of black women in the capital is nearly twice as high as for women in Syria?

You call it one of the richest countries in the world.

Source: Better than Bulgaria but not as nice as Cuba: how did the US become such an awful place to live? | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian