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Israel Refuses UN Entry to North Gaza to Rescue People From Under Rubble

David Ben Gurion in a letter to his 16 year old son Amos, 5 October 1937.

“Not one village must be left, not one tribe. And only after this transfer will the country be able to absorb millions of our brothers and the Jewish problem will cease to exist. There is no other solution.”

 Joseph Weitz, Head of Jewish National Fund, from his diary, December 1940.

“We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village.” 

Moshe Dyan, March 19, 1969, speech at the Technion in Haifa, quoted in Israeli National Daily, Ha’aretz, April 4, 1969.

“We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.”

David Ben Gurion, Founder of Israel and First Prime Minister; May 1948 to the General Staff, from ‘Ben Gurion’, a biography by Michael Ben Zohar. Published NY 1978.

“We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimetre of Eretz Israel… Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours.” 

Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces – New York Times 14 April 1983.

“Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever.

Menachem Begin from Iron Wall, by Z’ev Japotinsky p. 25 & Simha Flapan, p. 32

“There were no such thing as Palestinians, It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.”

Golda Meir, quoted in The Sunday Times, London and The Washington Post. June 1967. 

“The way to deal with Palestinians is to beat them up. Not once, but repeatedly. Beat them up so it hurts so badly, until it’s unbearable”. 

Benjamin Netanyahu, caught on video speaking to Israeli settlers 2001.

Israel Refuses UN Entry to North Gaza to Rescue People From Under Rubble

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The Promise: controversy rages, understanding lost-2011

This television series was released in 2011 and resulted in an extreme reaction by Zionist Jews in Australia, almost as extreme as today. Dare anyone reveal the historical truths about Zionist Terror in the takeover of Palestine by the Ashkenazi Jews and show the reality of the birth of Israel it needs to be censored. We stand witness in 23/24 to the continuance of that historical context & truth. Israel & their Lobby continue today to deny that truth and don’t want it told or in any way examined.

Australia’s Jewery as far back as 2011 were able to threaten the ABC & SBS’s funding at government levels for showing this film then reveals attitudes and influences that are even more amplified today. While their objections echoed here have been reduced to little more than trope the true story of Israel’s birth and development remains untold. That the Ashkenazis were only defending themselves in 1945 and the Israelis are still defending themselves today amounts to what has always been Zionist propaganda

How seriously should the ECAJ’s complaint – or feeling in the Jewish community that the series is anti-Semitic and grossly insulting to Holocaust survivors – be taken?

They also object that SBS marketed a fictional account as a historical truth.

The principal objection from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry to the series – as explained in a strongly worded and detailed complaint to SBS – is that the “insidious” series involves a collective group libel that:

“Unrelentingly portrays the entire Jewish presence throughout the country, including modern-day Israel, as an act of usurpation by Jews who, without exception, are aliens, predators and thieves and who enforce their usurpation by brutal, racist policies akin to those inflicted by the Nazis upon the Jewish people.”

This is an extraordinary charge. In addition the ECAJ’s concerns are going to be raised via political allies at Senate Estimates hearings in mid-February, to which SBS director Michael Ebeid has been summoned. There is an implied threat to SBS funding.

The Promise: controversy rages, understanding lost

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Jordanians hail as hero man who killed settlers at Allenby crossing

“Everyone came to congratulate us,” said his cousin Sheikh Habis al-Jazi at the funeral of the Jordanian truck driver who fatally shot three Israelis at the Allenby Bridge crossing between Jordan and the occupied West Bank on 8 September, and was himself killed by Israeli guards.

Shooting at Allenby

Maher Thiab Hussein al-Jazi arrived by truck at the goods inspection area on the occupied West Bank side of the Allenby Bridge on Sunday morning and opened fire with a handgun at Israelis operating the crossing.

Yohanan Schuri, Yuri Birenbaum and Adrian Marcelo Podzamczer died of their wounds. All three lived in illegal Jewish-only settlements in the occupied West Bank.

The three settlers were employed as forklift operators by the Israel Airports Authority, a department under the Israeli ministry of transport that manages land crossings.

Israel considers them to be civilians, although they were part and parcel of a military occupation that the International Court of Justice recently declared to be inherently illegal.

Israeli security guards shot and killed al-Jazi on the scene.

Footage circulated on social media, taken by someone from a nearby vehicle behind a fence, shows the lifeless body of al-Jazi. A man with a pistol then approaches the body and shoots al-Jazi in the head at point-blank range, even though he is already incapacitated.

Jordanians hail as hero man who killed settlers at Allenby crossing

Israel

Patrick Lawrence: Israel Runs the U.S. No, the U.S. Runs Israel. No, Wait


This brings us to the question Netanyahu’s speech forces upon us. Does the U.S. control Israel or does Israel control the U.S.? Is the apartheid state another of Washington’s client regimes, albeit — let’s borrow a little from the Chinese — a client with Zionist characteristics? Or is Israel a case — rare, if not unique — of a distant outpost that dictates to the imperial center? The periphery exercises power over the metropole, this to say: This would have to be something new under the sun, surely. 

The immediate answer, perhaps obvious, is the terrorist at the podium. It cannot be lost on anyone paying attention that more or less every member of Congress in attendance — and good on the 100 or so members who boycotted — has in the past taken and continues to take money from the Israel lobby, notably but not only the profoundly antidemocratic American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the infamous AIPAC.

Netanyahu knew this. He spoke to some people who genuinely believe in the Zionist cause and some people concerned with the imperium’s geopolitical position in the Middle East. Some and some, O.K. But everybody he addressed, allowing for exceptions, was on the take from AIPAC. Thomas Massie, the libertarian Republican from Kentucky and one of the exceptions, told us just how AIPAC works — a combination of bribes, threats, and coercion — in quite unbelievable detail when Tucker Carlson interviewed him on these subjects a couple of months ago.  

Patrick Lawrence: Israel Runs the U.S. No, the U.S. Runs Israel. No, Wait

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The U.S. Has Dozens of Secret Bases Across the Middle East. They Keep Getting Attacked.

Israel has been known to carry out FALSE FLAG operations to pursue their goals. The US Liberty springs to mind with 214 dead and injured American sailors and Israel blaming Egypt. They want the US to engage in a wider war. How would they go about that? They have proved to be unreliable allies

An Intercept investigation found 63 U.S. bases, garrisons, and shared facilities in the region. U.S. troops are “sitting ducks,” according to one expert.

The U.S. Has Dozens of Secret Bases Across the Middle East. They Keep Getting Attacked.

Israel

Australia must recognise Palestine to promote peace – Pearls and Irritations

22nd October 2023, Melbourne, Victoria, Australian. The Palestinian Flag and the blurred faces of Supporters of the Pro Palestine Rally, Credit: Contributor: P.j.Hickox / Alamy Stock Photo

If we don’t recognize Palestine we don’t recognize that Israel has killed and wounded over 120,000 people and has continued to illegally occupy seize and settle land disposed of the people living there. Basically, we are washing our hands of the matter like Pontius Pilate. Pilate washed his hands in front of the crowd before announcing, “I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves.” The Jewish people shouted in response, “His blood be on us and our children.” It’s a passage that would be used for millennia to persecute the Jewish people.

In opposition, our prime minister and the Labor Party were fierce champions of Palestine and passionate voices for justice. I ask that we summon that spirit of old and do the same in power. Let historians write of us that we were on the right side of history, that we boldly reinforced international law, and that we were a shining beacon and voice for freedom.

It is time to recognise Palestine.

Source: Australia must recognise Palestine to promote peace – Pearls and Irritations

Israel

Why the fight for Palestine is the fight against U.S. imperialism in the region – Mondoweiss

A Palestinian boy looks out at U.S. Navy ships anchoring off the coast of Gaza to operate the U.S.-built floating pier, May 16, 2024. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)

Israel’s ability to maintain a permanent state of war, occupation, and oppression would be deeply imperiled without continuous American backing.

U.S. strategy in the Middle East came to rest upon two core pillars: Israel and the Gulf monarchies. These two pillars remain the crux of American power in the region today.

Source: Why the fight for Palestine is the fight against U.S. imperialism in the region – Mondoweiss

USA

Intruder at Large: The United States in the Middle East – CounterPunch.org

American policymakers have regarded command of the Persian Gulf a foreign policy imperative since it emerged as the world’s economic and military power following the Second World War.   Because of its location and rich resources, it is, in the words of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-61), the “most strategically important area in the world.”

The U.S. doctrine of dominance that began in the 1940s and has kept the Middle East divided, chaotic and dependent must come to an end so that transformation can begin. Radical and profound change of the region’s social, political and economic order can only come about if the United States departs, Zionism ends and Palestinians return to a free Palestine. Anything less will fail.

Source: Intruder at Large: The United States in the Middle East – CounterPunch.org

Israel

Racism and discrimination in Israeli school texts by an Israeli expert on education

Nurit Peled-Elhanan maintains that these same books instill racist attitudes and enhance ignorance of “. . . the real social and geopolitical situations and of geographical and historical discourse.” Upon graduation from secondary school, young Israelis are drafted into military service to implement Israeli policies against Palestinians “. . . whose life-world is unknown to them and whose very existence they have been taught to resent and fear” (p. 232). How does Peled-Elhanan arrive at such conclusions?

Peled-Elhanan demonstrates that all Israeli schoolbooks hold some common assumptions about Palestinians and history. They emphasize Jewish historical rights to the land. Arabs are hateful and a threat to the state. Also, the Arabs have twenty-one states and the Jews have only one. Palestinian citizens are seen as a demographic problem (or threat). The Palestinians in the occupied territories must be controlled, otherwise they will kill Israelis. Therefore the only solution resides in: “A Jewish state, Jewish majority, Israeli control” (p. 21)

What is a soldier to do? Does he obey or disobey? The schoolbooks that taught him/her imbued them with fear of a dehumanized “other.” Indeed, school texts can be seen as a weapon whose use is justified precisely because the “other” is actually an imposter and an intruder. The soldier is the true “indigene.” With such logic, how can an Israeli soldier ever consider the “other” as an equal? Israeli education, as currently constructed, disallows education for peace and coexistence from its curricula (p. 232).

Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and …Amazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Palestine-Israeli-School-Boo…

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Opinion | Israel Seems to Be the Only Country Looking for a Wider Middle East War | Common Dreams

Iranian drone

The prime objective of Arab governments during the whole Israeli-Iranian crisis of the past two weeks has been to avoid escalation into the sort of regional war that could significantly harm their own economic and security interests.

Source: Opinion | Israel Seems to Be the Only Country Looking for a Wider Middle East War | Common Dreams

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No access to north for 322 aid trucks entering southern Gaza

reporting from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip

About 322 humanitarian trucks have been allowed to get into the Gaza Strip from both the Karem Abu Salem (known as Kerem Shalom to Israelis) crossing and the Rafah crossing here in Rafah.

These humanitarian convoys are loaded with water, sugar, flour and all kinds of basic necessities that Palestinians very desperately need.

But none of these humanitarian convoys has been given access to reach the northern part of the Gaza Strip, despite the Israeli military decision to reopen again the Erez crossing (Beit Hanoon) and to guarantee further flow of humanitarian supplies to people in the north.

Generally in times before the war, between 400 and up to 500 humanitarian trucks were reaching the Gaza Strip on a daily basis. This means these new deliveries are still incomparable to the massive needs of populations here, specifically those who are trapped in the northern parts of Gaza and facing high rates of malnutrition.

Israel, Israel Crimes

The United States and the Middle East: the Politics of Miscalculation – CounterPunch.org

The U.S. experience in the Middle East is a classic study of political and military miscalculation leading to strategic failure.  President Joe Biden’s political support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which is being sorely tested, and his military support for Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), which is making the United States complicit in Israel’s genocidal campaign, is the latest and worst example of U.S. miscalculation.  Overall, the exercise of U.S. military power in the Middle East, designed to gain strategic advantage, has backfired.  It has led to disarray in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, and has opened diplomatic opportunities for Russia and China.

Source: The United States and the Middle East: the Politics of Miscalculation – CounterPunch.org

Israel, Israel Crimes

The Israeli public is dispirited. So why is the right euphoric?

Ministers and MKs dance during the 'Victory Conference' for the resettlement of Gaza at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, January 28, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Zionists the “revisionist muscle-minded Jews” have always fomented chaos, division and threat while waiting for a distracted world. Until the formation of Israel in 1948 they were terrorists. They guerillas conducting a war against both  Britain and indigenous Palestinians. They knew the British Empire was decolonising and that the Palestinians would resist their invasion. But India, China and Korea were a bigger distraction. 1967 saw America busy with Vietnam so using their own “Bethlehem Directive” as an excuse they yelled “invasion” and attacked Egypt, Syria and Jordan conducting the 6-day war netting and illegally occupying and settling even more land.

Today it’s Ukraine and Russia that have enabled another perfect storm and an effort to complete more of what was always their intended plan Eretz Israel= The Greater Israel and Final Nakba. All they needed was 7/10 which Israeli intel knew was coming and did nothing about.

The collective despondency derives from various factors, including the lingering trauma of October 7, the soldiers who continue to be killed in Gaza, the hundreds of thousands of Israelis evacuated from the southern and northern regions, the precarious economic situation, and the hostages still held in captivity.

However, it also reflects a deep understanding among significant portions of the Jewish public of several things: that the war in Gaza is not going anywhere; that the total defeat of Hamas is not a realistic goal; that the belief that military force will release the hostages is hollow; and that mass population transfer of Palestinians is not possible, both because Palestinians will refuse to leave and because no one wants to take them in.

Source: The Israeli public is dispirited. So why is the right euphoric?

Israel

The Debate Over Israel as ‘US Aircraft Carrier’

It is obvious that in the United States, where this debate is most significant, there are Zionists who are not Jewish, while a very large proportion of the Jewish population is highly critical of Israel and has nothing to do with the Lobby.

The government in Jerusalem proclaiming itself “the Jewish State” as it slaughters native Palestinians is responsible for any current rise in misguided anti-Jewish feelings, which that government blatantly exploits to attract Jewish immigrants from France and New Jersey, in particular.

Source: The Debate Over Israel as ‘US Aircraft Carrier’

Israel, Israel Crimes

Time to occupy Israel – Pearls and Irritations

Hourglass on Israel and Palestine flags close up.

This century has seen a shift in the term Antisemitism. Away from Jews, as the victims of Germans, to Palestinians. They are the victims of Israel’s adoption of more aggressive policies since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin the Nobel Peace Prize-winning moderate PM who was assassinated by the avaricious extreme right coalition of minority parties currently holding power united in exchange for driving their extreme policies. The policies a Jewish Apartheid State in control of the Judiciary Education and Army to realign control over all of Palestine from the “river to the sea”

To have the appearance of a Democracy the fully formed Fascist State must ensure of an Institutional Jewish voting majority. This means the priority to the ethnic cleansing of the current number of Palestinians, the creation of an even more regulated Apartheid State, or as their final solution the one the Germans had. If not gas chambers in the short term then a guaranteed form of birth reduction in the long term.

Proposals for an occupation of Israel would require sovereignty to be redefined. Current definitions foster violence. Borders must be protected by force of arms. Within those borders, states such as Israel claim entitlement to defend themselves even by attacking people in lands they occupy.

Source: Time to occupy Israel – Pearls and Irritations

Biden

If Biden is to Keep From Losing the Election He Needs to Stop the Middle East War – CounterPunch.org

Biden belatedly took a small step by sanctioning non-American West Bank Israeli settlers from terrorizing their Palestinian neighbors. However, it was a gesture lost in the massive media coverage of thousands of innocent children killed by Israel bombing their homes in search of Hamas.

Source: If Biden is to Keep From Losing the Election He Needs to Stop the Middle East War – CounterPunch.org

Israel

‘America is the mother of terrorism’: why the Houthis’ new slogan is important for understanding the Middle East

The West’s reflexive support for authoritarian leaders who claim to be targeting terrorism is widely seen in Yemen (and throughout the Middle East) as fuelling a symbiotic relationship between oppressive regimes, terrorist groups and Western-led military interventions.

For many in the region, groups like al-Qaeda and Islamic State function, in part, as “tools” that Western-backed authoritarian leaders use to maintain their power. They provide plausible deniability for the violence these leaders use against civilians, or support their pitch that “if I’m gone, terrorists will take over the country”.

Indeed, the complexities that underpin the Houthis’ new slogan help explain why Western policy across the region will continue to backfire.

Put bluntly, people in the region see Western policymakers as blind to their historical record of strengthening the enemies they come to fight. The fact that Western airstrikes are giving the Houthis a legitimacy that was previously unimaginable is ominous.

Source: ‘America is the mother of terrorism’: why the Houthis’ new slogan is important for understanding the Middle East

Colonialism

Explaining the Gaza genocide: Settler colonialism in Palestine – Pearls and Irritations

Palestinian Loss of Land 1947 to Present. israel vs Palestinian war. israel-Palestinian map

In a settler colonial state, the indigenous population has to be physically erased because they are an ongoing reminder of the violence and injustice that occurred at the foundation of the political community. Their continuing existence constitutes a legal and political challenge to the state’s legitimacy.

Noam Chomsky argues,

The movement that developed (ie the Jewish settlement of Israel) … is a settler-colonial society. Like the USA, Australia, the Anglosphere. Israel is one of them. It’s not a small point. If you take a look at the international support for Israel’s policies, it’s of course primarily the USA, but secondarily it’s the Anglosphere. Australia, Canada … I suspect there is a kind of intuitive feeling on the part of the population. Look, we did it, it must be right. So they are doing it, so it must be right. The settler-colonial societies have a different kind of mentality. We did exterminate or expel the indigenous population so there has to be something justified about it – superior civilisation or other ideas…. Israel has had the problem that it’s a twentieth-century version of a seventeenth – through nineteenth-century colonialism. That’s the problem.

 

Source: Explaining the Gaza genocide: Settler colonialism in Palestine – Pearls and Irritations

Israel

Middle East: No end in sight to cruel war many years in the making

The recent escalation of conflict in the Middle East is a reminder that after decades of aggression, peace in the region is difficult to achieve.

Source: Middle East: No end in sight to cruel war many years in the making

Informed Comment

Informed Comment – China the Peace Makers
China

At Arab Summit, China’s Xi calls for End to Israeli Settlements and Quick Establishment of Palestinian State With East Jerusalem as Capital

Again, China is taking positions here that have been never been pushed by the U.S. or from which Washington has retreated before the Israel lobbies. That East Jerusalem should be the capital of a Palestinian state that will be quickly brought into being, that Israel should cease sending in squatters to steal private Palestinian land for their squatter-settlements and should cease ruling the West Bank in a unilateral fashion — all of these are principles that the U.S. State Department has acknowledged in the past but on which the U.S. has proved fickle.

Symbolically speaking, nothing could underline the growing closeness of China to the Arab countries more than these frank and straightforward endorsements of the Palestinian cause by Beijing.

Source: At Arab Summit, China’s Xi calls for End to Israeli Settlements and Quick Establishment of Palestinian State With East Jerusalem as Capital

Trump

Saudi-Iran Rapprochement Was Unthinkable Under Trump

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 14: U.S. President Donald Trump (L) walks into the State Dinning Room to have lunch with Mohammed bin Salman (C), Deputy Crown Prince and Minister of Defense of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, at the White House, March 14, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Trump’s gift of a free hand to America’s foreign partners enabled, among other things, accelerating Israeli colonization of the West Bank and Jerusalem; a Turkish-backed war between Azerbaijan and Armenia; and an escalated Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen that killed thousands of civilians. Feeling little need to compromise, regimes on good terms with Trump pressed their advantages to the fullest.

Source: Saudi-Iran Rapprochement Was Unthinkable Under Trump

Syria

Syria’s war is now a decade old. But the conflict is about more than numbers – ABC News

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A decade lost

Syria’s war is now a decade old. But the conflict is about more than numbers – ABC News
Biden

Biden Ends U.S. Support for Saudi “Offensive” in Yemen
Yemeni girls hold pictures of civilian victims during a demonstration to commemorate the first anniversary of the Saudi-led airstrike in which 140 civilians were killed and more than 500 were injured, in Sanaa, Yemen, on Oct. 8, 2017.

In his first major foreign policy address, President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he would end American support for Saudi and United Arab Emirates-led “offensive operations” in Yemen, echoing a promise he made on the campaign trail in 2019.

Biden Ends U.S. Support for Saudi “Offensive” in Yemen
Biden

‘Good’: Anti-War Democrats Applaud Biden for Freeze on US Arms Sales to Saudis and UAE | Common Dreams News
A float at the 2019 Dusseldorf Carnival in Germany depicting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and his "guardian angel," President Donald Trump. (Photo: Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images)

This is an important first step in ending our material support for war globally, and the genocide in Yemen in particular,” said Rep. Ilhan Omar.

‘Good’: Anti-War Democrats Applaud Biden for Freeze on US Arms Sales to Saudis and UAE | Common Dreams News
Fossil Fuel Industry

Importance of Middle East Plummets as Britain, Ireland, Denmark announce 2030 Funeral for New Gasoline Cars

The Middle East is likely to plummet in significance for the United States over the next two decades. Let’s face it, the main reason we hear so much about Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait (as opposed to Senegal and Uruguay) is that they produce petroleum, and the world transportation system depends on that commodity. The US, despite what Trump keeps saying, isn’t energy independent, and still imports on the order of six or seven million barrels of petroleum a day.

Importance of Middle East Plummets as Britain, Ireland, Denmark announce 2030 Funeral for New Gasoline Cars
Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thoughts- If it wasn’t real it should be a musical. Remember the song Spring Time for Hitler

Fighting Fake News with REAL; 16/9/20; Australian Economy, The Shovel, Morrison’s gas; Who took the Shrooms and wrote a script for Trump?

Trump

Lindsey Graham: Soleimani hit “Over the Top”– As all Trump’s Iran Goals Foiled

Israel’ grand plan was always to keep the Middle East religiously divided their biggest danger a secular and united pan Arabic military union Libya, Syria Iraq made it urgent to get rid of Qaddafi, Assad and Saddam.

Peace hasn’t arrived in the Middle East only a light shone on what was always the goal keep Shia and Sunni divided with Israel and the US on the side of Israel Sunni States and Oil. ISIS is not their enemy anymore. Fuck the Kurds.

The Iraqi government says that Soleimani came to Baghdad on a commercial flight with a diplomatic passport to engage in behind the scenes talks Saudi Arabia that the Iraqi government was mediating. There is no evidence that he was, as Trump alleged, coming to kill Americans, and the Pentagon has refused to make that charge. The furious Iraqi parliament voted to constrain the prime minister to find a way to move US troops out of Iraq in the aftermath, since Trump whacked Soleimani on Iraqi soil without bothering to tell that government. The prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, has complied, arranging for the US gradually to leave. This month 2,000 of the some 5,000 US troops in Iraq will depart.


Lindsey Graham: Soleimani hit “Over the Top”– As all Tru
mp’s Iran Goals Foiled
Israel, Uncategorized

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

Coal, Uncategorized

Lowest Solar bid in World History for new Abu Dhabi Facility, as expensive Coal, backed by Trump, declines further

via Lowest Solar bid in World History for new Abu Dhabi Facility, as expensive Coal, backed by Trump, declines further

Coronavirus, Uncategorized

Coronavirus threatens to upend a delicate balance of power in the Middle East – Analysis & Opinion – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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via Coronavirus threatens to upend a delicate balance of power in the Middle East – Analysis & Opinion – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Trump, Uncategorized

Clouds of War: Russia sends Warships as Turkey kills 45 Syrian Troops and blackmails Europe with Migration

Trump dumped the Kurds for a Judas Deal with Turkey for and Syrian oil. He flipped and supported the biggest friend of Al Qaeda and ISIS in the area for money. Yes, a Judas deal that has now brought on the threat of a global conflict. (ODT)

Clouds of War: Russia sends Warships as Turkey kills 45 Syrian Troops and blackmails Europe with Migration

Syria, Syria/iraq, Uncategorized

Explaining Syria, by Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review

Virtually every bit of “evidence” that Jeffrey cites is either false or inflated, to include the claim of use of chemical weapons and the responsibility for the refugees. As for who actually created the terrorists, that honor goes to the United States, which accomplished that when it invaded Iraq and destroyed its government before following up by undermining Syria. And, by the way, someone should point out to Jeffrey that Russia and Iran are in Syria as allies of its legitimate government.

Ambassador James Jeffrey maintains that “Russia needs to change its policies.” That is not correct. It is the United States that must change its policies by getting out of Syria and Iraq for starters while also stopping the deference to feckless “allies” Israel and Saudi Arabia that has produced a debilitating cold war against both Iran and Russia. Another good first step to make the U.S. a “normal, decent country” would be to get rid of the advice of people like James Jeffrey.

via Explaining Syria, by Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review

Trump, Trumpland, Trumpland Revealed, Uncategorized

Soleimani could have ‘easily’ killed American commanders ANYWHERE in Middle East…but chose stability – Rouhani — RT World News

Soleimani could have ‘easily’ killed American commanders ANYWHERE in Middle East...but chose stability – Rouhani

via Soleimani could have ‘easily’ killed American commanders ANYWHERE in Middle East…but chose stability – Rouhani — RT World News

Uncategorized, USA

America’s Arms Sales Addiction: The 50-Year History of U.S. Dominance of the Middle Eastern Arms Trade | The Smirking Chimp

via America’s Arms Sales Addiction: The 50-Year History of U.S. Dominance of the Middle Eastern Arms Trade | The Smirking Chimp

Right Wing, Uncategorized

After al-Baghdadi, What Future for far-right Mideast Radicalism?

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via After al-Baghdadi, What Future for far-right Mideast Radicalism?

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News, Uncategorized

Old Dog Thoughts -Israel’s Colonisation the 3-way Plan

Israel Gets all the Goodies, Palestinians Screwed: First-ever Reveal of ‘Deal of the Century’ Details

Andrew Bolt’s Blog 9/5/19; America and Israel plan for WAR ; 1)To prevent any Pan Arabic Union of armed state resistence. 2)To control oil and its wealth creation for that purpose 3) Israel’s politicians are pursuing their expansionist colonisation of Palestinian territories as if John Bolton’s plan was in order.4)The Bolton Plan rid the ME of any Palestinian State.

Informed Comment

In a nut shell – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The headlines are shocking beyond belief: There are four warring factions, in Yemen, fighting over 4 billion barrels of oil representing 90% of the countries exports. For the war machine, arms manufacturers and arms dealers to prosper, you need something to fight over. In the Middle East it’s oil and natural gas. They don’t care about the 85,000 innocent children who have starved to death already, in Yemen. It’s all about money, power and control at any cost to humanity.

via In a nut shell – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Israel

Israeli general sees possible threat from Iraq as Iran’s clout grows

Iran could use its growing clout in Iraq to turn it into a springboard for attacks against Israel, the chief of Israeli military intelligence said on Monday, reports Reuters.

Israel sees the spread of Tehran’s influence in the region as a growing threat and has carried out scores of air strikes in civil war-torn Syria against suspected military deployments and arms deliveries by Iranian forces supporting Damascus.

Iraq, which does not share a border with Israel, is technically its enemy but was last an open threat in the 1991 Gulf War. Since a US-led invasion in 2003 toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, a Sunni Muslim, Israel has worried that Iraq’s Shi’ite majority could tilt towards Iran.

“Iraq is under the growing influence of the Qods Force (covert Iranian foreign operations unit) and Iran,” military intelligence chief Major-General Tamir Hayman told a conference in Tel Aviv.

via Israeli general sees possible threat from Iraq as Iran’s clout grows

Israel

‘Head of state terror’ v ‘anti-Semitic dictator’: Netanyahu and Erdogan trade insults — RT World News

‘Head of state terror’ v ‘anti-Semitic dictator’: Netanyahu and Erdogan trade insults

‘Head of state terror’ v ‘anti-Semitic dictator’: Netanyahu and Erdogan trade insults — RT World News

Australia

Australia hates accepting refugees, but appears to love creating them — RT Op-ed

Australia hates accepting refugees, but appears to love creating them

Australia has for years employed a deterrence policy to disincentivize refugees from reaching its shores. However, a new report has found Canberra has played a major hand in creating the very asylum-seekers it despises.

Just last week, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) released a bombshell report that showed the Australian government had approved the export of dozens of shipments of military equipment to the Saudi-led coalition, currently wreaking a deadly war of aggression in Yemen, the poorest, most impoverished nation in the

According to the report, Internal Defence Department documents, obtained under Freedom of information (FOI) requests, and from parliamentary hearings, have revealed that the government granted at least 37 export permits for military equipment to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and 20 to Saudi Arabia.

via Australia hates accepting refugees, but appears to love creating them — RT Op-ed

Saudi Arabia, Uncategorized

Trump’s “rogue killers” and the Saudis looking for wriggle room.
‘You Couldn’t Make This Up’: A Bunch of Mops, Cleaners, and Trash Bags Delivered to Saudi Consulate Ahead of Murder Probe
As Khashoggi Case Highlights Saudi Crimes, UN Warns Famine Driven by US-Backed War in Yemen Could Kill 13 Million People
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
yemeni child
While the U.S. faces pressure to stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia, the United Nations estimates that if current conditions continue, Yemen could face “the worst famine in the world in 100 years.”
Israel

Trump, Iran and the ‘I.S.R.A.E.L’ doctrine | USA | Al Jazeera

US President Donald Trump announces his intention to withdraw from the JCPOA agreement during a statement at the White House in Washington, US May 8, 2018 [Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]

“Obama might’ve embraced the so-called offshore balancing between Middle East powers with the US watching from a distance, but the Trump doctrine is leading to offshore blasting that could draw the US into direct confrontation with Iran.”

 The real reasons behind Trump withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and its implications for the greater Middle East.

via Trump, Iran and the ‘I.S.R.A.E.L’ doctrine | USA | Al Jazeera

Meet the Trumps

Pompeo’s rise at State will make Mideast war more likely

Pompeo’s rise at State will make Mideast war more likely

After U.S. president Donald Trump fired his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, many analysts have focused on how this high-level ouster took place: unceremoniously, on Twitter, not in a face-to-face meeting.

via Pompeo’s rise at State will make Mideast war more likely

terrorism

Want to stop terrorism? Get out of the Middle East

The tragic loss of innocent lives to terrorist acts will not stop until we admit to the folly of current policies.

Source: Want to stop terrorism? Get out of the Middle East

Iran

Six down, one to go – Iran named as “world’s biggest sponsor of terrorism” – » The Australian Independent Media Network

This script was written so long ago it’s descended into farce. Put aside the terrifying images from Saudi Arabia of gays being hurled off rooftops and the headless bodies of rape victims dangling from cranes; Iran, according to the US State Department and its corporate media whores, is the new face of evil. Iran which hasn’t waged war against another country in more than 300 years; Iran which while by no means perfect, is still far and away the most democratic state in the Middle East.

Source: Six down, one to go – Iran named as “world’s biggest sponsor of terrorism” – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Climate Change

Will Climate Change make the Mideast Uninhabitable & trigger mass exodus?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Researchers at Germany’s Max Planck Institute and their scientific partners have …

Source: Will Climate Change make the Mideast Uninhabitable & trigger mass exodus?

Syria

Regime-Change Turnaround: Kerry Says Assad Can Stay…For Now | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry emerged from talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday and announced a new stance on the future of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: He can stay—at least, for now. “The United States and our partners are not seeking so-called regime change,” Kerry told reporters in Moscow after the meeting. The statement represented a distinct turnaround from the Obama administration’s previous position that Assad should step—or be forced—aside while the international community proceeded with the bombing of his country.

Source: Regime-Change Turnaround: Kerry Says Assad Can Stay…For Now | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

John Pilger, Uncategorized

Bombs and the West
Bigots

This Short Clip From A Bollywood Movie Explains Muslims, America & Terrorism

Is Islam blindly hated by so many simply because of what the media tells us?

Source: This Short Clip From A Bollywood Movie Explains Muslims, America & Terrorism