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Executive Summary

Rasmussen Reports has just released yet another devastating survey about the COVID vaccine.

Their latest survey, released at 10:30am EST on November 2, confirms (yet again) that the COVID vaccine is a train wreck, the biggest healthcare disaster in our lifetime.

The key conclusions:

1. 47% personally know someone who was killed by the COVID virus
2. 24% personally know someone who was killed by the COVID vaccine.

3. 42% said it was somewhat likely or very likely they would join a major class-action lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies for vaccine side effects. That would make it the largest class action in US history by a long shot.

The implications are stunning:

1. 56% of people who got vaccinated are or were vaccine injured in some way. This is because 42% want to sue but only 75% were vaccinated. So 42/75=56%. That is is unprecedented; a complete train wreck for a vaccine that was touted as “safe and effective.”
2. If you believe 1M people died from COVID, then this poll suggests that 500K people died from the COVID vaccine (computed as 24/47×1.1M killed from COVID virus using the two numbers above from the survey).

When the 911 terrorist attacks killed almost 3,000 people, it was major news. When the US government kills 500,000 Americans, there are no headlines and no investigations. This is the biggest story in America today.

Bottom line: Heads should roll. Now. Let the finger-pointing begin!

Introduction 

Earlier this year, I suggested to Rasmussen that it might be interesting to take a second look at COVID vaccine injuries.

They did.

Why? Because they are one of the few honest polling firms in the US. Nobody else wants to know about vaccine injuries and deaths. Fact check that one.

And the results are stunning as you’ll see below.

Survey Result Data 

The full results (Excel spreadsheet which includes cross-tabs)

Note how the answers are very consistent regardless of demographic (scroll horizontally).

Charts

Nearly half the people surveyed knew someone who died from the COVID virus

24% knew someone who died from the vaccine. Vax deaths are more often reported by unvaccinated people (only about 30% of vaccinated people are able to recognize a “vaccine death”). So if everyone was equally aware of these deaths, the numbers would be over 50% which is comparable to the number of deaths from COVID.

This is stunning. 42% were likely to join a class action lawsuit. This is a train wreck. This would be the biggest class action in US history. How can this happen with a vaccine that people were brainwashed into believing was safe and effective?

Implication to Pfizer and Moderna Stock 

I think this is more likely than not to eventually cause Moderna stock to crater.

The #1 reason: 42% want to sue the drug companies if they could. It would be the largest class action in US history. But Congress, whose job it is to protect the drug companies, forbids it. But Aaron Siri believes he can unravel the protection and has filed a lawsuit to make that happen. Siri doesn’t waste his time on cases he cannot win.

Here’s is a summary of the reasons:

Class action lawsuit is a stronger influencer than trust

This is likely much closer to the truth

36% of people who got a shot were injured! This aligns closely with the 42% who would join an injury lawsuit in the Rasmussen poll.

And apparently I am not alone in thinking that Moderna stock is headed downward:

X follower opinion on where Moderna is heading

Therefore, I have established a large short position on Moderna stock because I believe in putting my money where my mouth is, i.e., where I lose if I got it wrong.

And I dare anyone to invest a large sum in Moderna now. Who would with 42% of your customers livid about the product.

Financial markets have a way of exposing the truth, don’t they? All you have to do is look at Moderna’s stock price to determine whether the Rasmussen poll is reflecting the truth or not.

The very sad reality is much worse than Rasmussen’s poll indicates because around half the respondents couldn’t see a vaccine injury even if it hit them in their own family just like it did to Congressman Sean Casten whose 17 year old daughter Gwen tragically died unexpectedly in a manner 100% consistent with a vaccine death. See this article and this article. Did they ever rule out the COVID vaccine in Gwen’s death. No. They didn’t even test for it. They didn’t want to know. Why don’t they want to know? They urged their daughter to take the vaccine that killed her. They wouldn’t be able to live with themselves if they learned the truth. So they didn’t look.

Even worse, I called Sean Casten’s office to find out the date Gwen was last vaccinated in order to expose the truth so the speculation would be over.

They said it was “Confidential.” Really? Why is that??? If she wanted to go to a restaurant, she’d have to show her vaccine card.

Why is it suddenly confidential now after her death??

The Last Survey 

This is from Rasmussen’s earlier survey which was nearly 1 year ago. Do you see how the results match up?

A good scientific study produces repeatable results. And that’s exactly what we have here. A repeatable result.

The inescapable conclusion is of course that the vaccine killed at least half as many people as COVID did.

Which means the COVID vaccines have killed at least 500,000 Americans if you accept the 1M dead from COVID. Meanwhile the CDC still thinks only 9 people or so have been killed by the mRNA vaccines.

But the alternate math is that over half actually know someone who died from the vaccine, but only around half know how to spot a vaccine death (and it is near 0 if you are a member of the press writing about a death). So that means that vaccine deaths are at least comparable to COVID deaths. But COVID deaths were inflated by at least 2X (because hospitals got paid when they reported a COVID death because the government was trying to encourage hospitals to kill people so they labeled everything they could a COVID death to maximize revenue). So we’re realistically looking at around 500,000 deaths caused by the vaccine if we put on our red pill glasses.

If that is true, how can these results be so consistent one year later with a completely different population sample?

Someone is lying to you. But the mainstream media and medical community do not care to know who is telling the truth. They basically follow whatever the CDC says, even though it is disconnected from reality and even though the CDC refuses to allow anyone to challenge them. When I tried, I got ghosted very quickly.

This is from almost a year ago. Compare with the current results. They are very close. It means that around 500,000 people were killed by the vaccine.

Limitations of the Survey 

75% of the public is vaccinated. Vaccinated people are relatively poor in assessing vaccine deaths. The 25% figure is thus under-reported and it is more likely that the vaccines have killed at least as many people as COVID if not more.

How Credible Is the Study?

Very. The 25% matches the 28% polled nearly 1 year ago. So the results are repeatable.

The poll is subject to the ability of people to assess a vaccine injury or death which means it undercounts vaccine injury.

Click here to read the full article.

Here is the link to the Rasmussen Report.

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Introduction 

Friends, look around you: The World is in a state of economic and social chaos. Censorship and the suppression of fundamental human rights is ongoing at the level of the entire planet. 

That is why Beethoven’s call: “Friends, get Rid of all those Ugly Sounds” is of utmost significance. It constitutes an Act of Resistance, without which the “Ode to Freedom”, namely “Real Democracy” is an impossibility. 

As long as “totalitarian rule” prevails, whether it is in the 19th Century under The Austrian Empire or Today (2020-2030) under US-NATO and the World Economic Forum, the “Ode to Freedom” cannot under any circumstances become a reality.

Not surprisingly, the 21st Century Globalists and their intelligence apparatus are emulating the Austrian Empire, with “a spy network” far more sophisticated than that cooked up by Prince Klemens von Metternich.

In the present context, Beethoven’s “Friends, Get Rid of all those Ugly Sounds” should be understood as An Act of Resistance and Worldwide Solidarity against the prevailing structures of corruption, fraud, social divisiveness and political abuse. As well as a stance to the conduct of genocide against the People of Palestine. 

Friends: What this indelibly requires is the creation of an articulate and cohesive mass movement at the level of the entire planet (nationally and worldwide) which confronts the Deep State Globalist architects of this insidious project: Big Money, Big Pharma, the Information Technology Conglomerates, the Security Apparatus, Intelligence, the Military Industrial Complex, Big Oil an Big Energy, and the Corporate Media.  

While this is no easy task, Let us join hands and restore Schiller and Beethoven‘s “Ode to Freedom”. 

Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, October 7, 2023, November 4, 2023

 

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Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony’s first performance was in Vienna in May 1824 at the Kaiserliches Hoftheater am Kärntnertor

The Ninth Symphony is considered as a powerful symbol of solidarity, social equality, peace and human values. 

But there is something else, which has been ignored by musicologists and historians of music:

Beethoven added three extra verses –coupled with corresponding musical pitches– which were not contained in Friedrich von Schiller’s original “Ode to Joy”: 

Oh friends, not these sounds!
O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!

But let us sing more pleasantly
Sondern lasst uns angenehmere anstimmen

And more joyful ones!
Und freudenvollere!

These three verses were sung right at the beginning, they were followed by

Freude!

Freude!

Freude schoener Goetterfunken

Tochter aus Elysium

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Schiller first composed the Ode in 1785, six years after the French Revolution of 1789. The text of Schiller’s Ode was revised several times. Originally Schiller composed an “Ode to Freedom” that he subsequently changed to “Ode to Joy”. This change “did not appear in print until 1849“.

“[It was the revised version of 1803] which Beethoven used to erect the impressive musical-textual monument of the fourth movement of his last symphony.

He also modified Schiller’s text quite drastically in places, adding, by way of an introduction, a whole strophe of his own. 

In Beethoven’s eyes, adding a few lines of his own did not mean interfering with the text  but establishing a transition between worldly desire – leading to chaos, as expressed in the introductory [three verses] of the fourth movement – and the will of Man to free himself, as evoked by the poet. (Maximiano Cobra, emphasis added)

Were these “three verses” at the beginning of the Ode to Joy inserted by Beethoven intent upon downplaying both the religious overtones as well as the “idealism” pertaining to peace, brotherhood and solidarity as contained in Schiller’s poem. I should mention that the Ode also contained “masonic elements”.

“we must bear in mind that the message conveyed by the Ode echoed and reflected its whole historical environment. Around 1810, in the streets of Bonn,  vitalized by revolutionary echoes from across the Rhine, students sang the Ode to the music of the Marseillaise” (Maximiano Cobra).

The poem was alive with the French revolution’s ethos. “All humans become brethren where joy touches the heart,” wrote Schiller.”

Dear Friends, Listen carefully to the 4th movement.

Three verses were inserted (in musical phrases) at the outset of the 4th movement (O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!). What was Beethoven’s message to humanity??

O Freunde, nicht diese Töne! Oh friends, not these sounds! Sondern lasst uns angenehmere anstimmen, But let us  sing more pleasantly.

which in substance means:  Friends, get Rid of all those “Ugly Sounds” 

Was Beethoven expressing in the lyrics and melodies of the 4th Movement, the true nature of the “ugly sounds” which in Vienna in the year 1824 characterized the derogation of peace, brotherhood and fundamental human rights at the height of the Austrian Empire under Kaiser Franz I (1804-1834)

Kaiser Franz I, Emperor of Austria  (image left)

 

This was during the “Metternich Period”, which was marked by social repression and “empire building”. Metternich forcibly crushed public demonstrations, coupled with media censorship and the suppression of freedom of speech.  

Was this a call by Beethoven “to tone down the revolutionary spirit”? 

Or was it a subtle message within Beethoven’s musical brilliance to the socially repressive regime of the Austrian Empire which at the time was under the helm of State Chancellor (Prince) Klemens von Metternich?

Klemens von Metternich (image right)

While Friedrich Schiller’s Ode to Joy is today considered Worldwide as a message to all mankind: “living in peace and harmony together”: 

–these three verses added by Beethoven should be remembered as a “Symbol of Resistance” to totalitarian rule. 

O Freunde, nicht diese Töne! 

Metternich was firmly opposed to Liberalism: “He used a wide-ranging spy network to dampen down unrest”.(Alan Sked, “Decline and Fall of the Hapsburg Empire 1815-1918″

As long as “totalitarian rule” which is predicated on the suppression of “real democracy” prevails, in the 19th Century under Metternich or Today (2020-2025) under the World Economic Forum, the “Ode to Joy” or the “Ode to Freedom” cannot under any circumstances become a reality.

Not surprisingly, the 21st Century Globalists and their intelligence apparatus are emulating the Austrian Empire, with “a spy network” far more sophisticated to that cooked up by Prince Klemens von Metternich. 

There are (unconfirmed) reports that Metternich and Beethoven had met. Metternich was present at Beethoven’s funeral three years later in 1827. I should mention that Beethoven was not overtly against the aristocracy. He dedicated the Ninth Symphony to Koenig Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia. 

The Choral starts at about 6.00 with the first three verses (which are indicated in German on the screen of the first video).

The second video featuring the 9th Symphony was recorded in Berlin

The full lyrics in German and English are indicated below at the foot of the article   

Video

Beautiful and Creative Production of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (1.11) (Ode to Joy, Chorale at about 45’00)

Flash Forward to the 21st Century

Today, at the outset of the 21st Century, Europe’s “Classe politique” is once again committed to sustaining the “ugly sounds” of a social order marked by corruption, fraud and social divisiveness.

The music of Beethoven’s 4th Movement was embedded in the EU-Anthem. The poem by Friedrich von Schiller was not used.

Beethoven’s first three verses of the Ode to Joy. A Symbol of Resistance

Let us recognize Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony as a symbol of resistance, which in the contemporary context should be used to address the numerous “ugly sounds” of the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset, coupled with “Shock Treatment” and the Neoliberal agenda, which is endorsed by corrupt politicians, leading to the impoverishment of millions of people Worldwide.  

 

 

 

Michel Chossudovsky, September 21, 2023

 

 

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Author’s Introductory Note 

Early Saturday October 7, 2023, Hamas launched “Operation Al-Aqsa Storm.” On that same day, Netanyahu confirmed a so-called “State of Readiness For War.” A complete blockade on the Gaza Strip was initiated on October 9, 2023 consisting in blocking and obstructing the importation of food, water, fuel, and essential commodities to 2.3 million Palestinians. It’s an outright crime against humanity. It’s genocide. 

Was “Operation Al-Aqsa Storm” a “surprise attack”?

Was it a “False Flag” Attack by a faction within Hamas (supported by Mossad and US intelligence) which was intent upon justifying Netanyahu’s all out war against Palestine? That Hamas faction was co-opted and bribed by Mossad.

In the words of Netanyahu: 

“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas, …this is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”

(Benjamin Netanyahu, statement to his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “quoted by Haaretz, October 9, 2023, emphasis added)

At this stage we have scanty evidence regarding who was behind the Hamas attack. False flag agendas are carefully planned intelligence operations. 

The following article, which is of relevance to the Hamas Al Aqsa Storm attack, examines the logic of a “false flag agenda” formulated in 1962 by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff as a means to justify an invasion and all-out war against Cuba. 

The fundamental premise of Operation Northwoods was to trigger civilian deaths in the U.S. as a justification for military intervention (“on humanitarian grounds”). That same diabolical “false flag” premise largely characterizes Netanyahu’s all-out war against Palestine. 

Operation Northwoods was prepared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff with the support of US intelligence. The logic of this false flag plan was

“to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba”. 

“Casualty Lists Would Cause a Helpful Wave of Indignation”.

President John F. Kennedy refused to carry out “Operation Northwoods.” That happened a year before his assassination in November 1963.

The secret documents pertaining to Operation Northwoods were declassified more than 15 years ago.

Read them carefully. Netanyahu’s war on the People of Palestine is a “copy and paste” of “Operation Northwoods.”

While the implementation of Operation Northwoods was shelved, its fundamental (diabolical) premise of using civilian deaths (described by the Pentagon as a “massive casualty producing event”) as a justification for military intervention (“on humanitarian grounds”) remains of utmost relevance.

This article was first published in 2016.

We are solidarity with the People of Palestine. Our thoughts are with the people of Palestine and Israel who are the innocent victims of the Netanyahu government’s treasonous and criminal agenda. 

Michel Chossudovsky, October 11, 2023 

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Under a secret 1962 US Joint Chiefs of Staff entitled Operation Northwoods, civilians in the Cuban community in Miami were to be killed as part of a covert operation. The objective was to trigger a “helpful wave of indignation in US newspapers”.

The killings and “acts of terrorism” were then to be blamed on the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.

The objective of this sinister plan –which Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and  President J. F. Kennedy– refused to carry out, was to drum up public support for a  war against Cuba.

“In the early 1960s, America’s top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba. 

Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.

The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba’s then new leader, communist Fidel Castro.

America’s top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: “We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba,” and,“casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation.” 

…. The documents show “the Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and approved plans for what may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government,” writes Bamford. (U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba – ABC News emphasis added. This Secret Pentagon document was declassified and can be readily consulted (See Operation Northwoods, See also National Security Archive, 30 April 2001)

It was a false flag operation: kill civilians in US cities and blame it on the communist government of Fidel Castro with a view to providing a pretext to invade Cuba on humanitarian grounds.

Do the terror attacks in Brussels and Paris have a similar logic?  Civilian death used to buttress support for the implementation of police state measures against ISIS, an illusive enemy based in Raqqa, northern Syria?

 

The Northwoods 1962 document was titled “Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba”. 

“The Top Secret memorandum describes U.S. plans to covertly engineer various pretexts that would justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba.

These proposals – part of a secret anti-Castro program known as Operation Mongoose – included staging the assassinations of Cubans living in the United States, 

developing a fake “Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington,” including “sink[ing] a boatload of Cuban refugees (real or simulated),”

faking a Cuban airforce attack on a civilian jetliner, and concocting a “Remember the Maine” incident by blowing up a U.S. ship in Cuban waters and then blaming the incident on Cuban sabotage.” (National Security Archives, pdf, emphasis added)

(http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/doc1.pdf, To access all the declassified documents of Operation Northwoods click here

The underlying premise still prevails under the US sponsored war on terrorism.

While the implementation of Operation Northwoods was shelved, its fundamental (diabolical) premise of using civilian deaths (described by the Pentagon as a “massive casualty producing event”) as a justification for military intervention (“on humanitarian grounds”) or the implementation of far-reaching police state measures is still of utmost relevance.

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Beneath the “shock and awe” geopolitics of the Bush- Blair “humanitarian crusade”, Felicity Arbuthnot reflects on the indescribable barbarity of the 2004 Fallujah massacre, resulting in countless deaths and destruction.

And it has happened ever since. They are killing our children. Ask Madeleine Albright. It’s called “Responsibility to Protect”:

“We’re the good guys. We are Americans. We are fighting a gentleman’s war here …”

This article was published almost 12 years ago on September 27, 2011

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“When words fail us, we need to look in to the silence in order to find the answers.” May Ayres.

Sometimes a poem is a soul on a page, sometimes a scream. May Ayres sculptures are also both.

“God’s Wars”, her first solo exhibition since 1985, in a historic East London church: “presents meditations on war and peace, selected from her ‘War of Aggression’ series, which has been created out of anger over the last seven years.”

Only the obtuse would ask where the title came from for these searing “ceramic pictures”, displaying towering compassion for the battered, broken, degraded victims – the face of indescribable barbarity generated by the “we pray together” Bush and Blair’s “Crusade.”

“Demonic Principles”, is the tooled up US soldier, standing over a piles of small, naked forms, buttocks facing the viewer, feet twisted, each body seemingly foetal curved, utterly vulnerable, perhaps attempting helpless self-protecting. The soldier is two headed, one a fanged demon. Abu Ghraib brought to account – in a house of God.

“A Gentleman’s War”, is a quote taken from US Lieutenant Colonel Willy Buhl, Commander of a Marine battalion, in Fallujah’s 2004 massacre, which destroyed seventy percent of homes in the ancient, western Iraq city: “We’re the good guys. We are Americans. We are fighting a gentleman’s war here …”

The bombing of Fallujah

Ayres’ response is a woman (46 cm) her grief palpable, touchable, one hand over her face – the other holding a tiny severed hand in the palm.

An infant form, with little hands of exquisite perfection, seemingly huddled in a damaged pot, urn, or maybe even returned to the womb – the latter, a theme of protection depicted by another of sculptures greats, Iraq’s Mohammad Ghani Hickmet, during the bombings and embargo – is entitled: “Even the Children.”

An eloquent riposte to then US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, who said of Fallujah:

“Innocent civilians have all the guidance they need as to how they can avoid getting in to trouble.”

The assault on Fallujah has been compared to Guernica, Dresden, even Hiroshima, given the horror of the weapons used and their lasting genetic and cancer causing legacy. What is certain, is that there was no place to hide.

“Indifference”, is a casual, slouched group: Condoleezza Rice, possibly General Mark “it is not productive to count Iraqi lives” Kimmit, and including one not unlike Hillary Clinton.

An army boot is in danger of, un-noticingly, stepping on an infant’s face. Ms Rice, seems to have grown a gargoyle-like witness, from her shoulder. The title is inspired by George Bernard Shaw’s quotation: “The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.”

“We think the Price is Worth it”, is entitled for the then Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, who opined that the lives of half a million Iraqi children, were just that, on “60 Minutes” (12th May 1996.) The response is a figure beyond despair, her face in her hands (46 cm high) a figure visitors to Iraq over the years, know so well – so helplessly.

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, QC., has a special place. He is kneeling, hands clasped, in immaculate black dress dinner suit, white shirt and bow tie. Appropriately, two faced, one pious, smug, the other manic, demonic. He kneels on a wasteland of bodies, faces, despairing, reposed, bewildered, entombed, enwombed – dead.

Behind him, from an ancient iron stairwell, fixed to the hewn stones, silent witness to near two centuries, hangs a noose.

The title is: “ … and by the way. God Bless you all …”

The young man, stripped to the waist on a near Mesapotamian plinth, doubled over, has his arm twisted behind him, by a vast American soldier, speaking not his language, without knowledge of his culture. The viewer has to stand underneath and look up, to see his youthful, bewildered face.

Amal’s damaged, beautiful, vulnerable, face, slender body, has crept in from Palestine and December 2008-January 2009’s assault on the Gaza Strip’s population, walled in and massacred by a people who were donated by Arthur Balfour: “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people … ”

Not permission for destruction of the Palestinians, their homes, rights, brains, lives..

“Operation Cast Lead”, left her, as diagnosed by an Israeli doctor, having to:”… learn to live with the shrapnel in her head.” Amal means Hope.

 

The sinister figure of John Negroponte, allegedly having been responsible for unspeakable atrocities as US Ambassador to Honduras in the 1980’s and whose arrival as Ambassador in Iraq in 2003 coincided with them there, slumps, pointy faced and dead eyed in the foyer, as the worn, ancients steps are mounted to the exhibition.

Just one plinth is temporarily empty. It is of: “Barbarity”, a tiny figure to touch any heart, unless stone. A broken headed baby, shrouded, each shred of which has a carefully written scream of wars’ crimes, illegalities and inhumanities.

It is being displayed in a tribute to Mohammad Ghani Hikmet, who died, exiled by liberation, the day after the 11th September commemorations this month.

“Confrontational, eloquent and devastatingly human, the finely crafted depictions of barbaric acts of oppression in her hybrids of sculpture, drawing, portraiture and caricature express her attempts to address some of the costs of war cut adrift by conventional news narratives.”

These remarkable works are from the hand of humanity, to humanity itself. Departed, dispatched, or struggling to survive under imposed “freedom.” From Earlier duplicities in Central America, to Palestine and Blair’s deviant Christianity. A searing compassion and anger shines from these figures. A wake up call which should be the conscience of nations.

For those in, or visiting London, until 7th October, Saint John on Bethnal Green ( moments from Bethnal Green Undergound.)

Veteran War Correspondent Felicity Arbuthnot is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization and Associate Editor of Global Research

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http://www.stjohnonbethnalgreen.org/arts/belfry.html  

http://www.mayayres.com/  

Barbarity : http://www.mayayres.com/aggression2-barbarity.html

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The BBC’s Lucy Williamson was taken once again this week to view the terrible destruction at a kibbutz community just outside Gaza attacked on October 7. As we have been shown so many times before, the Israeli homes were riddled with automatic fire, both inside and out. Sections of concrete wall had holes in them, or had collapsed entirely. And parts of the buildings that were still standing were deeply charred. It looked like a small snapshot of the current horrors in Gaza.

There is a possible reason for those similarities – one that the BBC is studiously failing to report, despite mounting evidence from a variety of sources, including the Israeli media. Instead the BBC is sticking resolutely to a narrative crafted for them, and the rest of the western media, by the Israeli military: that Hamas alone caused all this destruction.

Simply repeating that narrative without any caveats has by now reached the level of journalistic malpractice. And yet that is precisely what the BBC does night after night.

Just a cursory look at the wreckage in the various kibbutz communities that were attacked that day should raise questions in the mind of any good reporter. Were Palestinian militants in a position to actually inflict physical damage to that degree and extent with the kind of light weapons they carried?

And if not, who else was in a position to wreak such havoc other than Israel?

A separate question that good journalists ought to be asking is this: What was the purpose of such damage? What did the Palestinian militants hope to achieve by it?

The implicit answer the media is supplying is also the answer the Israeli military wants western publics to hear: that Hamas engaged in an orgy of gratuitious killing and savagery because … well, let’s say the quiet part out loud: because Palestinians are inherently savage.

With that as the implicit narrative, western politicians have been handed a licence to cheerlead Israel as it murders a Palestinian child in Gaza every few minutes.

Savages only understand the language of savagery, after all.

Brutal Tango

For this reason alone, any journalist who wishes to avoid colluding in the genocide unfolding in Gaza ought to be increasingly wary of simply repeating the Israeli military’s claims about what happened on October 7. Certainly, they should not credulously regurgitate the latest agitprop from the IDF press office, as the BBC is so evidently doing.

What we know from a growing body of evidence gleaned from the Israeli media and Israeli eyewitnesses – carefully laid out, for example, in this report from Max Blumenthal – is that the Israeli military was completely blindsided by that day’s events. Heavy artillery, including tanks and attack helicopters, was called in to deal with Hamas. That appears to have been a straightforward decision in regard to the military bases Hamas had overrun.

Israel has a long-standing policy of seeking to prevent Israeli soldiers from being taken captive – chiefly, because of the high price Israeli society insists on paying to ensure soldiers are returned. For decades, the military’s so-called “Hannibal procedure” has directed Israeli troops to kill fellow soldiers rather than allow them to be taken captive. For the same reason, Hamas expends a great deal of energy in trying to find innovative ways to seize soldiers.

The two sides are essentially engaged in a brutal tango in which each understands the other’s dance moves.

Given Hamas’ situation, effectively managing the Israeli-controlled concentration camp of Gaza, it has limited resistance strategies available to it. Capturing Israeli soldiers maximises its leverage. They can be traded for the release of many of the thousands of Palestinian political prisoners held in jails inside Israel, in breach of international law. In addition, in the negotiations, Hamas usually hopes to win an easing of Israel’s 16-year siege of Gaza.

To avert this scenario, Israeli commanders reportedly called in the attack helicopters on the military bases overwhelmed by Hamas on October 7. The helicopters appear to have fired indiscriminately, despite the risk posed to the Israeli soldiers in the base who were still alive. Israel’s was a scorched-earth policy to stop Hamas achieving its aims. That may, in part, explain the very large proportion of Israeli soldiers among the 1,300 killed that day.

Charred Bodies

But what about the situation in the kibbutz communities? By the time the army arrived and was in position, Hamas was well dug in. It had taken the inhabitants as hostages inside their own homes. Israeli eyewitness testimony and media reports suggest Hamas was almost certainly trying to negotiate safe passage back into Gaza, using the Israeli civilians as human shields. The civilians were the Hamas fighters’ only ticket out, and they could be converted later into bargaining chips for the release of Palestinian prisoners.

The evidence – from Israeli media reports and eyewitnesses, as well as a host of visual clues from the crime scene itself – tell a far more complex story than the one presented nightly on the BBC.

Did the Israeli military fire into the Hamas-controlled civilian homes in the same fashion as it had fired into its own military bases, and with the same disregard for the safety of Israelis inside?

Was the goal in each case to prevent at all costs Hamas taking hostages whose release would require a very high price from Israel?

Kibbutz Be’eri has been a favoured destination for BBC reporters keen to illustrate Hamas’ barbarity.

It is where Lucy Williamson headed again this week. And yet none of her reporting highlighted comments made to the Israeli Haaretz newspaper by Tuval Escapa, the kibbutz’s security coordinator. He said Israeli military commanders had ordered the “shelling [of] houses on their occupants in order to eliminate the terrorists along with the hostages”.

That echoed the testimony of Yasmin Porat, who sought shelter in Be’eri from the nearby Nova music festival. She told Israeli Radio that once Israeli special forces arrived:

“They eliminated everyone, including the hostages because there was very, very heavy crossfire.”

Are the images of charred bodies presented by Williamson, accompanied by a warning of their graphic, upsetting nature, incontrovertible proof that Hamas behaved like monsters, bent on the most twisted kind of vengeance? Or might those blackened remains be evidence that Israeli civilians and Hamas fighters burned alongside each other, after they were engulfed in flames caused by Israeli shelling of the houses?

Israel will not agree to an independent investigation so a definitive answer will never be forthcoming. But that does not absolve the media of their professional and moral duty to be cautious.

‘Hamas as Savages’

In the case of Al-Ahli, the media were only too ready to cast aside all the evidence that the hospital had been hit by an Israeli strike immediately Israel contested the claim. Instead journalists hurriedly amplified Israel’s counter-allegation that a Palestinian rocket had fallen on the hospital. Most of the media moved on after concluding “The truth may never be clear”, or even less credibly, that Palestinian militants were the most likely culprits.

In telling contrast, the western media have not been willing to raise even a single question about what happened on October 7. They have enthusiastically attributed every horror that day to Hamas. They have ignored the reality of utter chaos that reigned for many hours and the potential for poor, desperate and morally dubious decision-making by the Israeli military.

In fact, the media have gone much further. In advancing the narrative of “Hamas as savages”, they have promoted obvious fictions, such as the story that “Hamas beheaded 40 babies”. That piece of fake news was even taken up briefly by US President Joe Biden, before it was quietly walked back by his officials.

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Craig Mokhiber, a top United Nations human rights official who stepped down at the weekend over the organisation’s response to the war in Gaza, has called on the UN to attach the same standards to Israel as it does when assessing human rights violations in other countries around the world.

Mokhiber, who was the director of the New York office of the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, wrote in his October 28 resignation letter that Israel’s military actions in Gaza were “textbook genocide” and accused the UN of again “failing” to act, referring to previous genocides in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Myanmar.

The UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights disputes Mr. Mokhiber’s characterisation that he resigned. It claims he retired.

Mokhiber, an international human rights lawyer, had been with the UN since 1992 and worked previously as a human rights adviser in Afghanistan and the occupied Palestinian territories.

At least 8,805 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since October 7 after the armed group Hamas launched a surprise assault on Israel, killing at least 1,400 people and taking more than 200 people captive.

“The current wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people, rooted in an ethno-nationalist colonial-settler ideology, in continuation of decades of their systematic persecution and purging, based entirely upon their status as Arabs … leaves no room for doubt,” Mokhiber said in his letter to the UN human rights chief, Volker Turk.

Al Jazeera’s correspondent at the UN, Gabriel Elizondo, sat down with Mokhiber in New York.

He asked him about his assessment of the situation in Gaza and the chances of a two-state solution.

The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Al Jazeera: Why did you come to conclusion that the situation in Gaza amounts to a genocide?

Craig Mokhiber: Usually the most difficult part of proving genocide is intent because there has to be an intention to destroy in whole, or in part, a particular group. In this case, the intent by Israeli leaders has been so explicitly stated and publicly stated – by the prime minister, by the president, by senior cabinet ministers, by military leaders – that that is an easy case to make. It’s on the public record.

It’s important that we start using the language that the law sets out, just as you know, in recent times, every major international human rights organisation, Israeli human rights organisations, Palestinian human rights organisations, United Nations human rights mechanisms, independent mechanisms have found that the situation in Israel Palestine amounts to the crime of apartheid.

The UN needs to get used to addressing these particular violations, just as we have in other situations.

Al Jazeera: When we asked the secretary-general and his office about genocide, he won’t use that term. He says a previous secretary-general said that that is for courts to decide. Do you think that the secretary-general should start using the term ‘genocide’ when it comes to what we’re seeing in Gaza?

Mokhiber: If we can allege that we see war crimes, crimes against humanity, as we have often done, there’s no reason to exclude, where we see very strong evidence, the possibility of genocide being committed, and I think you’re going to be hearing that term more and more in connection with what we’re witnessing in Gaza.

But institutions, of course, have to go through the necessary steps before they can make that pronouncement. As of today, I am an independent citizen, not carrying the institution on my shoulders. And I feel quite confident as a human rights lawyer in saying that what I see unfolding in Gaza and beyond is genocide.

Al Jazeera:  [US President] Joe Biden has recently said that after this conflict is over, we need to get back to a two-state solution. In your letter, you say the mantra of a two-state solution has become, and I quote, an open joke in the corridors of the United Nations where we are sitting right now. Is it really an open joke in the corridors of the United Nations?

Mokhiber: Yes, and it has been for quite a long time, if you ask somebody in their official capacity about the two states, and they will repeat that phrase over and over again as the official position of the United Nations. Indeed, that is the official position of the United States. But nobody who follows these circumstances either from the political side or from the human rights side believes that a two-state solution is possible anymore.

There’s nothing left for a Palestinian state that would be sustainable or just or were possible in any respect, and everyone knows that.

And secondly, that solution never dealt with the problem of the fundamental human rights of Palestinians. So for example, it would leave them as second-class citizens without full human rights inside what is now Israel proper.

And so when people are not talking from official talking points, you hear increasingly about a one-state solution.

And what that means is beginning to advocate for the principle of equality of human rights instead of these old political taglines, that would mean a state in which we’ll have equal rights for Christians, Muslims and Jews, based upon human rights and based upon the rule of law. It is what we call for in every other circumstance around the world. And the question is, why is the United Nations not going for that in Israel and Palestine?

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Fears are mounting that Gaza’s hospitals, many already on the brink of collapse, may come under intensified attack as the Israeli military moves deeper into the enclave.

In recent days, Israeli warplanes have been circling closer to two hospitals in Gaza City – al-Shifa and al-Quds – bombing areas in their immediate vicinity. Both hospitals have received orders by the Israeli military to evacuate, a demand that doctors and independent experts say is impossible to fulfil, given the large numbers of patients in their wards, including patients on life support.

The looming threat comes as hospitals across the besieged enclave, deprived of essential fuel and medicine, are collapsing. Sixteen out of 35 are no longer functioning. Hospitals that are still running warn that once generators shut down, they will be unable to keep ventilators, incubators and dialysis machines working and will effectively turn into morgues.

What is happening to Gaza’s hospitals? To what extent are they protected by international law?

Which Hospitals Are Under Threat in Gaza?

In recent days, al-Quds and al-Shifa hospitals in Gaza City and the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza have seen attacks in their immediate vicinity. They are just three of 13 hospitals across the strip that have been repeatedly ordered to evacuate despite treating thousands of patients.

Speaking after the attacks near al-Quds, Nebal Farsakh, spokesperson for the Palestinian Red Crescent, told Al Jazeera:

“Evacuating them means killing them.”

The World Health Organization said striking the hospital, which is treating hundreds of patients and houses 14,000 displaced Palestinians, would be illegal.

Al-Shifa, which means “house of healing” in Arabic, is the largest hospital in the strip, currently treating thousands of patients. The Israeli military has alleged Hamas has built several military complexes under it. Hamas has rejected the allegation.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said “there is nowhere safe for these patients to go”. Any evacuation would, it said, “be a death sentence”. Hospitals are also sheltering about 117,000 displaced people whose houses have been bombed.

Last week, Israeli bombs damaged part of the cancer ward at the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital. On Wednesday, the hospital announced it had been forced to close.

“We tell the world: ‘Don’t leave cancer patients to a certain death due to the hospital being out of service,’” hospital director Subhi Sukeyk said.

Has Israel Said It Will Attack Hospitals?

“What we see is they are preparing the public for [the] bombing of hospitals,” Neve Gordon, professor of international law and human rights at Queen Mary University of London, told Al Jazeera on Thursday.

On Monday, in what appeared to be a preemptive deflection of anticipated criticism, the Israeli military released a video alleging that al-Shifa was a Hamas command and control centre, acting as “one of the headquarters” of the group’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades. Last week, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari presented a 3D map of alleged Hamas centres and tunnels beneath the hospital.

The latest onslaught on Gaza’s hospitals follows last month’s explosion at al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, which has yet to be independently investigated. Palestinian authorities said the blast killed nearly 500 people, and they pointed the finger at Israel.

Israel blamed Palestinian Islamic Jihad, but its evidence, including footage of a missile filmed 40 minutes after the blast and a verifiably doctored recording of a purported conversation between Hamas operatives that linguists found to be syntactically unusual, has cast doubt on its claims.

Al-Ahli had also received multiple warnings to evacuate before the blast.

To What Extent Are Hospitals Protected by International Law?

International humanitarian law is based on the 1949 Geneva Conventions, signed after the horrors of the Second World War. Under the conventions, hospitals are considered “civilian objects” and receive de facto protection, said Srinivas Burra, associate professor in international humanitarian law at South Asian University in New Delhi.

The 1977 Additional Protocols to the conventions set out specific provisions for hospitals. Article 12 clearly states: “Medical units shall be respected and protected at all times and shall not be the object of attack.”

However, Article 13 then goes on to outline exceptions, stating that medical units shall cease to be protected if “used to commit, outside their humanitarian function, acts harmful to the enemy”. In such cases, it says, warnings and “a reasonable time limit” should be given.

“The law avows the protection and then disavows it,” Gordon said. He said hospitals could lose their entitlement to protection in cases in which they are used to shield fighters or store arms or if they are located close to legitimate military targets.

There are also questions of proportionality, whether the military aim justifies the harm caused.

As Gordon put it, “the higher the value of the military target, the more people you’re allowed to kill.” Hamas’s headquarters would, in his view, be considered a high-value target.

“You can inflate a military target and you can deflate the damage you create,” he said.

“The protection of hospitals is not absolute. It can be compromised if it is being used for military purposes,” Burra said.

However, he pointed out that it is it not sufficient for an enemy to warn an entire hospital treating the sick and wounded to evacuate.

Warnings would have to be issued directly to combatants, allowing sufficient time to comply and proving they were still present before attacking.

“In the current situation, it looks like no such warning has been given,” he said.

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A GP with an unblemished career has been suspended for six months over ‘vitriolic’ comments she made about Covid and vaccines. 

Londonderry-based Dr Mary McCloskey claimed the pandemic was a ‘figment’ of the media and the Government and that jabs don’t work and were killing people. 

She also claimed tests and face masks were being used as a psychological weapons to spread fear and experts were ‘laughing’ at the public via how they named variants of the virus. 

In one of her most inflammatory statements on Covid vaccines, she claimed parents were being ‘told to line up our children to get something that might kill them, to protect them from something that can’t kill them’.

Dr McCloskey, who also goes by her middle name Anne, made the comments in a series of videos uploaded online between August and November 2021.

A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing held late last month heard how, in a video on August 21, she claimed the dangers of the pandemic had been invented and promoted to the public. 

‘This whole hype has largely been a figment of the media and the government and their lying scientific advisers’ deceptions,’ she said. 

In another she claimed Covid vaccines weren’t being used to protect people’s health but instead harm them. 

‘Let people see that these injections are killing people; they are harming people; they are not preventing sickness and they are not about health,’ she said.

The 66-year-old also claimed people who received Covid jabs had done so under duress being ‘coerced, bribed or bullied’ to have the injection. 

Click here to read the full article on Daily Mail Online.

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Settlements in the region of Gaza date back to the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC, noted a Jordanian archaeologist, highlighting that the Early to Middle Bronze occupation was documented at Tell es-Sakan and Tell el-‘Ajul.  

“During the 14th century BC, Gaza was Egypt’s administrative capital in the Levant. Later on, during the Iron Age [2nd-1st Millenium BC], Gaza had become one of the five Philistine cities known as Pentapolis,” noted Mohammad Najar, who received a PhD degree in History and Archaeology at Moscow Institute of Archaeology.

The region continued to be important during the Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, Persian, Nabataean, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic periods. 

Furthermore, Gaza was an important trade hub between the Mediterranean Sea and the Arabian Peninsula, and during the Roman/Byzantine period, Gaza became a Christian bishopric.

“The region had become part of the Muslim Empire in AD638,” Najjar said, adding that the most of the known sites are located to the north of Wadi Gaza, the area that has been exposed to severe and systematic destruction by Israeli occupying forces. 

The significant sites include a necropolis dated to the Roman period, Tell Umm-‘Amer (St Hilarion monastery), a local saint who lived between AD291 and AD371.

“St Hilarion and St Porphyrius were credited for the conversion of the southern Palestine into Christianity. Three churches, among them St. Porphyrius had been already targeted along with 47 mosques, hospitals and thousands of homes and civilian targets,” Najjar underlined. 

The relentless bombardment had already destroyed countless homes and displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, putting many archaeological and cultural sites of Gaza at a severe risk and threatening them with the total destruction, Najjar said.

Because of the continuing Israeli aggression on Gaza, Najjar thinks that the world should step up and voice its discontent.

“Heritage communities in the Arab World and the world at large should speak up against the destruction of these heritage sites, and above all, unspeakable atrocities against Palestinians, the custodians of this heritage,” Najjar underscored.

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Israel has started a ground operation, albeit limited, in the north of Gaza.

This was a red line for pro-Iran resistance groups, and the results are starting to come.

Pro-Iran Hezbollah in Lebanon began hitting Israeli troops on the border, pro-Iran Houthis in Yemen started launching missiles, and pro-Iran resistance groups in Iraq and Syria started hitting US bases from the air.

In fact, Yemen, under the rule of the Houthis, became the first Arab country to declare war on Israel since the Yom Kippur war in 1973.

Sheikh Ekrem Al Kaabi, Secretary General of the pro-Iran Al Najaba Movement in Iraq:

“Iraqi Islamic resistance decided to liberate Iraq militarily, this issue has been resolved, thank God for the mujahideen. He declared war against the USA, saying, “There will be no stopping, no ceasefire, no withdrawal.”

The speech of Hasan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, which is Israel’s biggest nightmare after the heavy slap it received in 2006, will be made at 3 o’clock on Friday, is eagerly awaited.

The first bits of information are that Hezbollah will officially enter the war.

See what Mideast Spectator says:

“Anyone who has been following the war since October 7 knows that all parties are anxiously awaiting the next move of the resistance axis groups, especially Hezbollah.

Hezbollah, which pushed Israel out of Lebanon in the 1980s and defended the South against another invasion attempt in 2006, is a much stronger and more capable enemy for the Israeli army than Hamas or Islamic Jihad.

Since the beginning of the war, unofficial statements and media reports have been circulating claiming that Israel’s ground intervention in Gaza would be considered Hezbollah’s red line.

Although these statements are not official, many of you wondered when Hezbollah would actually step in.

Hezbollah has been attacking IDF positions on the Lebanese border every day without exception since October 8. Nearly 50 martyrs have been announced, and we are curious about the number of Israeli casualties (IDF announced that 11 of its soldiers died only yesterday). In addition to the deaths, many Israeli army vehicles and tanks were also destroyed.

But there are hints that something else is brewing.

Something bigger.

It’s unprecedented.

Every day for the past 24 days, Hezbollah has consistently and successfully targeted Israeli surveillance and surveillance equipment along the Lebanese border.

Dozens of radar stations, night vision cameras, infrared sensors, long-range communication towers, telescopes and antennas have been destroyed by the Lebanese group in the past few weeks.

By disabling most of the IDF’s observation network, these operations effectively blinded the Israelis in the north, especially in Metula and surrounding settlements.

We may begin to wonder why Hezbollah places such emphasis on this modus operandi, rather than simply killing soldiers or destroying tanks.

Now that the IDF has dedicated the majority of its forces to urban combat operations in Gaza, a unique opportunity arises in the north.

A project that can shape the future of the region. Hezbollah knows this and has been waiting for this moment for 17 years.

The North is now a complete blind spot and, based on current information, it is very likely that the real event is yet to come.

The only thing we can do is wait for Nasrallah’s speech on Friday (at 15.00), but there may be some surprises waiting for us. “All the signs are there.”

Yes, a big event is coming, its name is a regional war.

So what does the one-man regime in Turkey do?

Apart from rallies and demonstrations, that is!

The radar base in Kürecik, Malatya, which is responsible for monitoring Iran for Israel’s defense, is fully operational.

Just yesterday, two US B-1B bombers from Germany landed in Incirlik.

These giant planes are used for massive bombing raids.

The reason for the planes’ arrival was announced as refueling.

The real reason is the war against Lebanon and Syria.

And for now…

Then maybe Iran is the target, we will get there soon.

As you know, the USA has a huge naval fleet stationed in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The one-man regime in Turkey continues its membership in NATO, amid slogans of Mehmetçik (epithet of Turksh soldier) to Gaza.

This could be the only reason for not making peace with Assad in Syria.

Especially in a period like this, when a major war is approaching again on our borders.

But the real danger lies in a possible war with Iran.

How? Let me explain.

In his statement on October 28, Iranian Revolutionary Guards Spokesperson Ramazan Sharif warned that the war started by Israel in Gaza could include US forces and said,

“All US bases and flights in the region are under observation and control. The military support operations provided by the US to the Zionists “We are watching and following,” he said.

This was perceived as a veiled threat.

Although later, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, called for economic sanctions instead of war and asked all Muslim countries to sanction the Tel Aviv regime and stop oil and goods exports to the occupied regions.

Iran softens initial harsh statements.

He says that he will not go to war for other nations.

However, things are very complicated in the field and it is not clear what will happen.

For example, the spokesman for the pro-Iran Ansarallah movement in Yemen claimed that United Arab Emirates warplanes carried out attacks on Gaza.

China and Russia support Palestine and declare that they will stand by Syria and Iran.

Russia certainly has a score to settle with Israel, which supported Kiev in the war in Ukraine.

China, on the other hand, is happy that the war has moved to West Asia instead of Taiwan and the South China Sea.

It has already started the negotiation process with the USA, which is in a difficult situation and cannot wage a war on three fronts.

But he is making statements assuring that he will support Iran and that its territorial integrity will not be damaged. These are different from previous middle-of-the-road diplomatic discourses.

The danger lies here: What will be the consequences, even if there is a small possibility, if a war breaks out and the US and NATO start using bases in Turkey and Iran is also targeted?

Suppose Iran hit Incirlik.

Russia and China also stepped into the field against the USA or provided the necessary weapons to pro-Iran supporters.

US pressure on Türkiye increased and the opportunity was seized to break Montreux agreement which protects Blacksea from NATO invasion.

Moreover, the Caucasus is already tense; Azerbaijan-Israel relations are known, Iran also supports Armenia.

What happens if Turkey and Iran eventually come face to face and Turkey is assigned the role of Iraq in 1980 and Erdoğan is assigned the role of Saddam in 1980?

The consequences of this would be catastrophic.

Nearly 2 million people died in the Iran-Iraq war in 8 years, the borders did not change, but Iraq was completely doomed to the USA.

As a result, the weak Iraqi carrion crow became a victim of US imperialism and breakaway puppet state Kurdistan was established.

Shouldn’t we look at history and learn from it?

However, the 1998 Adana Agreement and the 2017 Astana Process were always carried out in cooperation between Iran and Turkey against terrorism, and very important results were obtained.

The most important thing for Turkey to do is to prevent the use of imperialist bases on its territory against its neighbors and regional countries and to make immediate peace with Damascus.

This is the only way to support Palestine.

Unless he does this, what happens will be nothing but empty words.

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NAFLD is characterized by excess fat buildup in your liver. Without proper treatment, it can lead to serious liver problems including nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), which causes inflammation and fibrosis, or scarring of the liver. NAFLD also increases the risk of other health conditions, including cardiovascular disease

The first documented cases of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) didn’t come about until 1980. Today, NAFLD affects 32.4% of people globally, and it’s the most common cause of liver transplant in adults under the age of 50

NAFLD also affects up to 9.6% of American children aged 2 to 19, making it as common as asthma. In 15- to 19-year-olds, prevalence is as high as 17.3%. Prevalence among children 0 to 17 has risen 168.3% since 2017, with a particularly precipitous rise starting in 2020

The dramatic rise in NAFLD in early 2020 may in part be due to the COVID lockdowns, which had the effect of raising childhood obesity rates by 8.3% to 13.4%, depending on the age group

Maternal obesity and high consumption of diet soda and/or junk food during pregnancy have both been linked to NAFLD in offspring, and one theory is that artificial sweeteners may be programming the metabolism of the fetus to favor fat storage over energy production

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Fatty liver disease used to be a disease seen almost exclusively in the elderly, primarily heavy drinkers. The first documented cases of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) didn’t come until I was in medical school in 1980.¹ At the time, the researchers described it as a “hitherto unnamed liver disease of unknown cause.”

In June 2023, scientists proposed rebranding NAFLD to “metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease,” to highlight its relation to other metabolic conditions such as diabetes. What connects all metabolic conditions is that your body is not converting food to energy in an efficient manner.

In the video above, independent health researcher Jay Feldman investigates the true causes of NAFLD. This is Part 2 of an eight-part series. It’s like a master’s course on NAFLD, as he goes over virtually everything you could possibly want or need to know about it. If you or someone you know is currently struggling with NAFLD, I strongly encourage you to view all eight episodes.

In the featured episode, he explains why fructose is NOT the main culprit as commonly thought, how your liver produces fat from both fructose and dietary fats, and how impaired energy production in your mitochondria results in NAFLD.

What Is NAFLD?

NAFLD is characterized by excess fat buildup in your liver. Without proper treatment, it can lead to serious liver problems including nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), which causes inflammation and fibrosis, or scarring of the liver.

NASH may lead to cirrhosis, which increases the risk of liver cancer, and end-stage liver disease. NAFLD also increases the risk of other health conditions, including cardiovascular disease, which is the No. 1 cause of death in people with NAFLD. NAFLD often has no symptoms, although it may cause fatigue, jaundice, swelling in the legs and abdomen, mental confusion and more. 

Your liver carries out more than 500 functions that are essential for health. This includes the production of bile (which breaks down dietary fats and carries away waste), converting excess glucose into glycogen, and regulating amino acids in the blood. It’s also important for detoxification, helping to clear your blood of toxins.

The good news is that your liver, more than almost any other tissue in your body, has phenomenal regeneration capabilities. Even if 90% of it has been removed, it can regrow to its normal size. NAFLD can also be successfully reversed in its early stages via lifestyle changes, like healthy eating and exercising.

NAFLD Prevalence Has Skyrocketed

Today, NAFLD affects 32.4% of people globally,² and it’s the most common cause of liver transplant in adults under the age of 50.³ NAFLD also affects up to 9.6% of American children aged 2 to 19,⁴making it as common as asthma.⁵ In 15- to 19-year-olds, prevalence is as high as 17.3%.⁶

What’s particularly strange is that the skyrocketing prevalence in children and teens is quite new. As illustrated in the graph below from Trilliant Health,⁷ prevalence of NAFLD has risen 168.3% since 2017, with a particularly precipitous rise starting in 2020.

Obesity Is a Primary Risk Factor for NAFLD

As reported in a March 2021 paper on pediatric NAFLD:⁸

“The largest risk factor for NAFLD is obesity. Obesity and NAFLD in children are often associated; however, they are not concomitant.

In a 2019 study in 408 children with obesity using whole liver magnetic resonance imaging–proton density fat fraction, the prevalence rate of NAFLD was 26.0%, or roughly one in every four children. In the Teen LABS study of adolescents with obesity severe enough to warrant weight loss surgery, the prevalence rate of NAFLD was higher at 59%.”

The dramatic rise in NAFLD in early 2020 may in part be due to the COVID lockdowns, which had the effect of raising childhood obesity rates by 8.3% to 13.4%, depending on the age group.⁹

Artificial Sweeteners May Impair Metabolism

That said, NAFLD also occurs in an estimated 8% of normal weight children.¹⁰ Inherited predisposition may be part of the problem. But the environment in utero can also influence a child’s risk of NAFLD,¹¹ and this is a far more likely explanation for the recent explosion in prevalence among children.

Maternal obesity and high consumption of diet soda and/or junk food during pregnancy have both been linked to NAFLD in offspring, and one theory is that artificial sweeteners may be programming the metabolism of the fetus to favor fat storage over energy production.¹²

Babies are also routinely fed unnaturally high amounts of sweeteners in infant formula and baby food. In recent years, the baby formula industry has started marketing formula made with corn syrup solids instead of lactose from cow’s milk. It’s said to be better for babies with sensitivity to lactose.

However, recent research¹³ suggests formula made with corn syrup solids significantly increases your child’s risk of obesity by age 4, and by extension NAFLD, and those who consume the highest amounts of formula have the highest risk.

So-called “transition formula” and “toddler milk” also contain higher amounts of sugar than regular cow’s milk. Both products are pure marketing inventions that have no nutritional basis. Meanwhile, research¹⁴ has shown that consumption of unsweetened cow’s milk is associated with a lower risk of NAFLD.

The Role of Diet

Indeed, our modern diet is probably the most important driver of this condition. As reported by The Washington Post:¹⁵

“… many doctors believe that our modern lifestyle — diet, the increase in sedentary activities related to technology and environmental exposures — is to blame. One of the liver’s jobs is to filter toxins, and when something in the body is out of balance, the organ can become damaged and fail …

A little fat in the liver is normal, but when more than 5% of its cells contain fat, the organ’s ability to do its job is impeded, and pediatric specialists say some children they treat have livers with 30 to 40% or even as high as 60% fat …

Some pediatric experts theorize there’s a mismatch between our genetics and the highly processed and sugary foods that have come to dominate childhood diets.

Nutritional surveys show that meals eaten by kids changed radically in a generation, going from very little ultra-processed foods in the early 1980s … to more than 67%¹⁶ in recent years. Such diets lead to hormonal changes and other stresses on our bodies.

‘It creates a time bomb, and it is killing our kids,’ said Barry M. Popkin, a professor of nutrition at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.”

The Washington Post goes on to cite a January 2022 systematic review¹⁷ that found “a parallel but delayed rise” in noncommunicable diseases with rising prevalence of ultraprocessed foods.

Between 1800 and 2019, processed and ultraprocessed foods rose from less than 5% to more than 60%. This radically altered the macronutrient content of our diets. Sugar and seed oil (or “vegetable oil”) consumption rose dramatically, while saturated fat from animals dropped.

Ditch the Fast Food to Protect Your Child’s Health

Of these, I believe the transition from saturated animal fats to seed oils has played the biggest role. As detailed in “Linoleic Acid — The Most Destructive Ingredient in Your Diet,” seed oil is the primary source of linoleic acid (LA), which destroys your mitochondrial function.

I’m convinced excessive LA consumption is the biggest contributor to chronic disease in the Western world, including NAFLD. To understand how LA undermines your health, and that of your children, please read through that article and watch the video included in it. Both provide a comprehensive overview of how LA drives chronic disease of all kinds.

To avoid LA, you’ll need to avoid processed foods, fast foods and most restaurant foods, and focus on real, whole, organically grown foods instead. Processed foods are also routinely contaminated with glyphosate, which can contribute to liver problems. Disturbingly, recent testing revealed 95% of school lunch items had detectable levels of glyphosate,¹⁸ so, if at all possible, provide your child with homemade lunches.

A shocking 100% of meals also contained heavy metals at levels up to 6,293 times higher than the maximum levels allowed in drinking water. Meanwhile, most of the meals were “abysmally low” in essential nutrients.

Fast food also contains extremely low amounts of essential nutrients, especially B vitamins. In fact, zero amounts of vitamin B9 or B12 were detected in the top 10 fast foods sampled.¹⁹

That’s rather remarkable, considering B12-rich foods include beef and chicken, both of which are staples in fast food, yet fast food beef and chicken provide no B12 at all! If that doesn’t convince you that fast food meat is nowhere near the same as grass fed organic meat, I don’t know what will.

Fatty liver can also be driven by excess sugar when, in addition to seed oils, you are consuming more than 35% or so of your calories as fat. This is likely why this condition is now found even in young children.

Nutrients That Help Combat NAFLD

Upping your intake of specific nutrients can also be helpful if you have NAFLD. Examples include:

Choline — Choline is important for normal liver function and liver health by moving fat out of your liver. It also helps maintain membrane integrity and manages cholesterol metabolism, including low density lipoproteins (LDL) and very low-density lipoproteins (VLDL). Choline deficiency has been shown to enhance abnormal fat deposits in your liver, causing NAFLD.²⁰

In fact, some experts believe NAFLD is largely the result of shunning choline-rich foods like liver and egg yolks,²¹ which is then worsened by consuming too much LA. You can increase your intake by consuming more choline-rich foods, such as organic pastured egg yolks, grass fed beef liver, wild-caught Alaskan salmon and krill oil. Arugula is also an excellent source.

Vitamin B12 and folic acid may also be protective and have been found to decrease the progression of NASH.²²

Niacinamide, also known as nicotinamide (NAM) — Niacinamide is a precursor to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+), a vital signaling molecule that’s believed to play an important role in longevity. Supplementation has also been found to decrease oxidative stress and prevent fatty liver.²³

N-acetylcysteine (NAC) — NAC is a precursor needed for glutathione biosynthesis. It’s used as an antidote for acetaminophen toxicity, which causes liver damage by depleting glutathione. Research published in Hepatitis Monthly has shown NAC supplementation helps improve liver function in patients with NAFLD.²⁴

Milk thistle — This herb contains silymarin and silybin, antioxidants that are known to help protect your liver from toxins and even help regenerate liver cells.²⁵

CoQ10 — CoQ10 keeps your mitochondria healthy and plays a crucial role in the production of ATP, the cellular energy required to keep you alive. Supplementing with CoQ10, or the natural form called ubiquinol, has been shown to improve NAFLD by reducing oxidative stress and inflammation.²⁶

Remember that supplements should always be used in combination with a healthy lifestyle, including eating right and exercising. If you’re overweight, losing 7% to 10% of your body weight can improve NAFLD, including lowering liver fat content, liver inflammation and fibrosis.²⁷

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Notes

^{1, 5, 7, 12, 15} Washington Post October 3, 2023 (Archived)

² The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology September 2022; 7(9): 851-861

^{3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11} Clinical Liver Disease March 2021; 17(3): 196–199

⁹ JAMA 2021;326(14):1434-1436

¹³ American Journal of Clinical Nutrition October 2022; 116(4): 1002–1009

¹⁴ Frontiers in Nutrition 2023; 10: 1119118

¹⁶ JAMA 2021;326(6):519-530

¹⁷ Frontiers of Nutrition January 13, 2022

¹⁸ Moms Across America September 28, 2022

¹⁹ Moms Across America October 18, 2023

²⁰ Oregon State University Linus Pauling Institute

²¹ chrismasterjohnphd.com November 23, 2010

²² Journal of Hepatology, 2022; doi: 10.1016/j.hep.2022.06.033

²³ The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry May 21, 2022

²⁴ Hepatitis Monthly, 2010; 10(1):12

²⁵ Indian J Biochem Biophys. 2006 Oct;43(5):306-11

²⁶ Journal of Prescribing Practice. 2020;2(4)

²⁷ Curr Obes Rep. 2019 Sep; 8(3): 220–228

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Going in the opposite direction to the wishes of US President Joe Biden, the House of Representatives will vote this week on a financial and military aid bill for Israel, said Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Mike Johnson.

His statement was said a day before Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu revealed that the Ukrainian military have suffered more than 90,000 casualties since the counteroffensive began.

“We are going to move a stand-alone Israeli funding bill,” Johnson said on October 29 in an interview with the Fox News network.

“There are lots of things going on around the world that we have to address, and we will, but right now what’s happening in Israel takes the immediate attention, and I think we’ve got to separate that to get it through. I believe there will be bipartisan support for that, and I’m going to push very hard for it.”

Since returning from the Middle East, Biden has been trying to approve a bill for $106 billion in aid for Ukraine, Israel, and national defence projects. In the president’s document, around $61 billion would go to Ukraine, while $14 billion would be allocated to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

So far, the US Congress has approved $113 billion in resources for Ukraine, but opposition from the Republican Party has grown stronger since then, and many no longer want anything to do with financing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the conflict in Ukraine. Johnson believes the Israel-only funding bill will gain strong bipartisan support in both the House and Senate. 

In the same light as Johnson, it is recalled that Republican Senator Ted Cruz said Senate Democrats and Biden are “playing games with Israel funding” during an interview on October 22 with FNC’s Maria Bartiromo.

“I think it’s a big mistake. I don’t know if it’ll pass,” Cruz said about the Israel/Ukraine aid package. “The hostages are not just being held by Hamas. The hostages are also being held by the Biden White House, because he’s taking Israel and saying, you can have Israel military aid if you pass everything I want on Ukraine, if you pass Biden’s funding.”

Evidently, a week later, greater pressure is mounting for Biden to back down from linking aid to Israel with Ukraine. There is a humbling realisation in Washington that Ukraine has no chance of winning the war against Russia, but there remains a stubbornness in the Biden administration from deviating from its failed policy.

Shoigu said at the 10th Xiangshan Security Forum on October 30 that since Kiev launched its counteroffensive in June this year, the Ukrainian Armed Forces suffered more than 90,000 casualties (dead and wounded) without achieving any significant success on the battlefield. 

“Just since June 4 — that is, since the start of the widely publicised and generously Western-sponsored Ukrainian counteroffensive — Kiev has lost more than 90,000 soldiers killed and wounded, around 600 tanks and almost 1,900 armoured vehicles of various types,” Shoigu said.

News of the catastrophic loss in the Ukrainian military will only further fuel calls to end financing Kiev’s hopeless efforts against Russia.

To put the 90,000 figure in perspective, the British Army has 76,220 active personnel, demonstrating how Ukraine has lost more soldiers in a few months than the size of an entire army of a supposed superpower.

At the same time, Shoigu expressed confidence that the Russian Armed Forces will continue to “methodically and confidently perform the tasks assigned to them and ensure the safety of civilians.”

Previously, Russian President Vladimir Putin had already stated that the Ukrainian counteroffensive had no results. At the time, the Russian leader emphasised that Russia was moving forward calmly to complete its objectives in the special military operation.

This is the grim reality of the war in Eastern Europe – Russia has destroyed the Ukrainian military without even going on the offensive yet. It is for this precise reason that Johnson wants the US to shift focus away from Ukraine and onto the Middle East as a priority since Washington’s interests have a chance of being preserved or advanced, unlike in Eastern Europe, where Moscow has successfully countered NATO’s plans.

“My intention is not to use this for any partisan political gamesmanship. This is a very serious matter,” the US House speaker said, adding: “We have got to address this now. We should not waste any more time. And I think we will get it through the House this week.”

Once the bill is passed, it will officially confirm that Ukraine is no longer the top foreign issue for Washington to deal with, marking the beginning of the end of blind Western support for a lost cause.

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In the latest publicity stunt of its kind, with rapidly diminishing returns, the representatives of the Israeli state at the United Nations have taken to appearing with the gold star on their lapels reminiscent of those used during the Nazi persecution of European Jews in the 1930s.

“Never Again” was inscribed in the center.

The accompanying explanatory speech given by the ambassador ran along those central talking points, referencing the Holocaust over and over and likening it to the Hamas attack on October 7^th.

The rhetorical implication is clear: political opposition to Israel is antisemitic. Subtlety is apparently not a priority of Israeli diplomats.

In a similar vein, the ADL, while it’s running its censorious political operations in the United States, routinely conflates legitimate political speech with antisemitism and all other manner of verboten -isms.

It’s time we stopped playing these semantical games. Antisemitism and anti-Zionism are two distinct concepts:

• “Antisemitism” is defined as “hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group”
• “Anti-Zionism” is defined as “opposition to the establishment or support of the state of Israel”

The former is a millennia-old religious/ethnic prejudice; the latter is a political ideology in opposition to a political entity called Israel.

Opposing the activities of the Israeli state is not tantamount to hating Jews any more than opposition to the Kremlin is to anti-Christianity. Indeed, a large contingent of Orthodox Jews — although they do not receive much corporate state media coverage due to the obvious narrative difficulty they present — oppose the state of Israel on religious grounds.

Again, the point must be emphasized: these anti-Zionists are not just Jews, but among the most hardline, dogmatic, fundamentalist Jews on the planet. No one in their right mind, even if they think their political views on Israel are misguided, could honestly conceive of them as antisemitic.

This is basic stuff, such that a child could easily understand.

Of course, it’s not that the purveyors of this conflation don’t understand it; they cynically weaponize the memory of the Holocaust to use as political cover for the activities of the state of Israel.

There are many relevant ironies.

First of all, the conflation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism places Jews who live outside of Israel and have no political affiliation to Israel in a disadvantageous position. Why should an American Jew be necessarily, by virtue of their ethnic or religious identity, tied to a state thousands of miles away in an entirely different region of the world, which they may or may not support?

The second notable irony is that the “anti-colonial” so-called progressive ideology that has gripped the Social Justice™ left was very much fostered by the likes of the Anti-Defamation League — which has, by the way, also consistently smeared any critics of its social engineering programs as literal Nazis.

As frequently occurs, the Social Justice™ beast loosed on the West has turned on the group that fostered it, and the ADL’s tired retort of “shut up, Nazi” to any deviation from neoliberal state orthodoxy has failed to produce the desired neutralizing results.

This was the central lesson of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” – one that, again, a child could grasp.

Further, the pro-Israel talking points employed by groups like the ADL and AIPAC to maintain American and European political support for Israel are themselves confused and convoluted.

Is Israel a modern, secular liberal Democracy™ in the mold of the West (“the only democracy in the Middle East,” as Americans are constantly reminded, in intended juxtaposition to the unwashed hordes of Islamics surrounding it) or is it a theocratic ethnostate as the “home of the Jews”?

The answer depends on which narrative is most advantageous to Israeli interests at any given time.

If it’s attempting to justify its military exercises using the Holocaust as political cover — “Never Again” – then Israel is a theocratic ethnostate. If it’s trying to appeal to secular people and institutions in the West – including secular Jews – then Israel suddenly becomes a vibrant oasis of Democracy™ in the otherwise autocratic Middle East.

These are, again, childish semantics games with transparent political and social engineering applications that all of us should be able to see through and discard if we’re ever going to have a serious conversation about the devastating state of affairs in the Middle East for all parties involved.

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Shahid Bolsen puts out the challenge to the people of Israel to move away from the culture of an ill-conceived American exceptionalism and try something different.

Bolsen’s proposal is worthy of serious consideration. (Prof. Anthony Hall) 

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Israeli ground operations in the Gaza Strip have begun. The Financial Times says Israel will not reveal much about these military operations in order to avoid Hezbollah and Iran entering the war.

The Americans are now orchestrating Israel’s military campaign against the Gaza Strip. Washington believes this will maximize the potential of achieving both US and Israeli goals, without the conflict leading to a major regional conflagration –  but it cannot guarantee that. The Israeli war on Gaza – managed, funded, and armed by the US – has a high possibility of turning into a regional war. 

Impossible Goals

Since 7 October, after Israel awoke to a nightmare called “Al-Aqsa Flood,” Tel Aviv has set itself goals so high that they are impossible to implement:

Israel’s first stated goal is the total elimination of Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, as announced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and other military and civilian officials in Tel Aviv. 

They know that achieving this is next to impossible. Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak – also a former defense minister and army chief of staff – has said that eliminating Hamas is impossible because it (resistance) is an ideology that exists in people’s minds and hearts.

The only way this goal can be achieved practically is by getting rid of the entire population of the Gaza Strip. This matter was put on the table in Tel Aviv – and first came to our attention when Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi announced he was rejecting an Israeli proposal to allow Gaza residents to flood into the Sinai Peninsula. 

The Kingdom of Jordan – adjacent to the occupied West Bank, which has no physical connection to Gaza – also rejected a similar Israeli proposal to allow Palestinians to flood into Jordan, via its Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi. 

These Israeli proposals to uproot and displace millions of Palestinians were not just an idea flitted about casually. Hebrew media outlet Mekovit has leaked an official Israeli Ministry of Intelligence document that proposed the displacement of more than 2.4 million Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt.

Just these two Israeli goals – in addition to being nigh impossible to achieve – could ignite all of West Asia and beyond. The region’s Axis of Resistance has sent several clear messages expressing its readiness to enter the war if Israel and its allies either threaten the existence and capabilities of the Palestinian resistance, and/or implement the project to displace Palestinians.  

Resistance factions in Lebanon – including Hezbollah and allies such as Al-Fajr Forces, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) – have been carrying out operations against Israeli army positions along the Lebanese-Palestinian border, on a daily basis, since 8 October. 

US occupation military bases in Iraq and Syria have been subjected to more than 20 attacks by missiles and drones to date. From Syria, missiles are launched from time to time towards Israeli army positions in the occupied Golan Heights.

From Yemen, the Ansarallah resistance movement has launched three batches of missiles and drones, which have reportedly been intercepted by US and Israeli air defense systems.

On the Iraqi-Jordanian border, thousands of resistance supporters have gathered, hinting at the possibility of crossing the border to head toward occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank. In general, the Axis has loudly proclaimed that it is not afraid to enter the war if the Palestinian resistance forces need that help.

Washington, Leading Israel’s Gaza War

On the other side of this conflict, Washington has weighed in to offer full support to the occupation army in its military campaign against Palestinians. To date, the US has deployed two aircraft carriers and dozens of naval vessels in the Mediterranean Sea. Its air defenses (Patriot and THAAD systems) have been strengthened in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Jordan, and the occupied Palestinian territories. In addition, the Americans have deployed 2,000 special forces soldiers in Palestine, strengthened their forces and increased the number of combat aircraft in all their military bases in West Asia, and added military advisors to “assist” the Israeli army in its war on Gaza.

Both in practice, and publicly, the US government and military are running this Israeli war.

Washington has convinced Israel to dial down its objectives, firstly, by reversing plans for a large-scale ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, and replacing those with smaller, targeted operations with specific objectives.

These goals notably include: controlling uninhabited areas on the northern and central edges of the Gaza Strip; carrying out raids to kill the largest possible number of resistance fighters and destroy as much of the resistance’s infrastructure as possible; and launching operations to find or rescue Israeli captives held by the resistance.

Moreover, Washington is working hard to whitewash its right-wing Israeli ally’s genocidal assault on Gaza by introducing humanitarian aid in small quantities. At the same time, the US seeks to get rid, even if only partially, of the burden of Israeli captives, via Qatari-mediated negotiations to release a number of Israeli and foreign prisoners held by the Palestinian resistance since 7 October. 

Although Tel Aviv prefers to wrap up the prisoner file in one go, the resistance refuses to do so: it seeks to maintain this power card, whether for the purpose of negotiating the release of more than 7,000 Palestinian captives held in Israeli detention centers, to negotiate Gaza’s reconstruction after the war – or to lift Israel’s siege over the beleaguered territory.

What Can the Ground War Achieve?

On the night of 27-28 October, the Israeli army began to occupy agricultural lands in northern Gaza, and penetrated – from its eastern borders – into a sparsely built-up area in the center of the Strip.

Tel Aviv’s goal was to cut off the northern part of Gaza – which includes the heavily populated Gaza City – from the south, and to continue to apply fierce pressure on the city and its surroundings in a protracted battle to wear down its inhabitants. This operation was flanked with air and ground bombardment, the likes of which Palestine has never, ever witnessed before.

In the past two days, Palestinian resistance forces have managed to confront the enemy with anti-armor missiles, carried out an operation behind enemy lines near the Erez crossing, continued to fire missiles toward Israeli cities and military sites, and confronted an infiltration by Israeli armored vehicles into Wadi Gaza, an area in the middle of the Strip.  

In the meantime, the US is working overtime to ensure that Israel’s enemies do not interfere in the war by threatening them with diplomatic messages, fleets, planes, and soldiers – which has de facto transformed this armed conflict from a broad and rapid operation into a low-boil, long-term war. 

Washington has thrown everything but the kitchen sink at Israel: military cover, weapons, operations management, and even engineering the theater of operations to bolster the restoration of Israel’s image of deterrence. The US is betting that the military pressure on Hamas, in addition to the humanitarian burden it has placed on it, will eventually lead to political concessions by the Palestinian resistance. So far, Israel has killed nearly 10,000 civilians in Gaza, and has either damaged or partially or completely destroyed most civilian buildings In the Gaza Strip.

‘Israel Lost the War’

Despite the oversized US assistance, Israel’s military position is more fragile than it has been in decades. As former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces General Yair Golan strikingly tweeted on October 27:

“We lost the war. No step, no matter how strong or successful, is able to erase the defeat of October 7. However, from this failure, there must be a political victory that will ultimately lead to the disarmament of the Gaza Strip.”

את המערכה הצבאית כבר הפסדנו. שום מהלך, יהא נועז ומוצלח ככל שיהיה לא ימחוק את תבוסת ה 7.10. אבל, מתוך הכישלון הזה חובה ליילד הישג מדיני שיביא בסופו של דבר לפירוז רצועת עזה. שום דבר לא יחזיר את השנים המבוזבזות בזירה הפלסטינית, אבל מתוך הקיפאון הזה חובה לבנות

— Yair Golan – יאיר גולן (@YairGolan1) October 27, 2023

This is Washington’s ultimate political goal too. But to reach this end, the US must juggle an infinite number of variables, any of which could set the region afire. Without even offering a light at the end of the tunnel – i.e., a political solution to the Palestinian plight – the US, and its unconditional, early war support for Israel, has attracted an improbable number of regional armies and militias to the conflict in Gaza: the Israeli army, US fleets, marines, and special forces in the eastern Mediterranean and West Asia, 50,000 resistance fighters in Gaza, tens of thousands of resistance fighters in Lebanon, tens of thousands of resistance fighters in Iraq, hundreds of thousands of fighters in Yemen, naval vessels from Britain and other western nations deployed to ensure Israel security.

This, without even considering the game-changing arrival of Iran’s armed forces and missile batteries into the war.

Amidst this huge number of troops exchanging fire, any one error could lead to the outbreak of a regional war that would, in reality, be a global war, since the US is the conflict’s main actor. This is akin to bringing a herd of elephants into a china shop, and remaining convinced all the while that there is a force capable of keeping them calm.

The bottom line? The US is presenting itself as a guarantor that Israel’s assault on Gaza will remain territorially limited, but is, in reality, adding every possible ingredient to this conflict that could transform it into a regional war.

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The Greek philosopher Aristotle in his treatise “Politica”, defined man as ” political animal” (zoon politikon), to indicate that “man is a social and rational being who lives in societies organized politically and in whose public affairs participates to a greater or lesser extent, with the aim of achieving the common good pursued by politics: the happiness of citizens.”

Historically, the party idea was inherent in the conception of shared power (antagonistic to the monarchy’s idea of monopoly power) and responsible to the various parts of society that over time was consolidated as a means of expression of the citizen’s will and government action.

Initially, the primary role of the parties was to promote the participation of citizens in democratic life and to contribute to the integration of national representation; But the bleeding cases of corruption of the majority of the parliamentary parties combined with the transformation of these parties into entities totally refractory to the basic needs of the citizenry, would have provoked the disaffection of broad layers of citizens.

Thus, the political ruling caste would have been transformed into a power clique (equivalent to a mini-state within the state), which would use nepotism to perpetuate itself in the party for life and in turn, would be choked by the pressure lobbies of the establishment.

Likewise, the political parties would be afflicted, according to Ortega and Gasset, by the “aristophobia or fear of the best” because “the sentimental rebellion of the masses, the hatred of the best and the scarcity of them in politics would be the real reason for the great Hispanic failure”. As a solution, at the end of the essay “Invertebrate Spain”, Ortega points to the “imperative of selection that should govern the spirits and orient the wills and using it as a chisel, get to forge a new type of Spanish man”.

The Need to Regenerate Political Life

The German philosopher Hannah Arendt in her book “On Revolution”, 1963 states that

“the party system has prevailed in Western societies, imposing representation as the only form of government. They also present defined political programs, which prevent citizens from exercising their abilities to form and express their own opinion”.

For Arendt, “the representative government has become oligarchic: public freedom and happiness have become the privilege of a few”. The political parties would therefore be part of an obsolete and fossilized system, so it advises the council system as “the only form of organization of a large political community that ensures the right to participation of all its members in the public sphere as they constitute real political spaces, suitable to serve as scenarios of action”.

In conclusion, it is urgent to renew the internal structures of political parties to ensure a transversality that allows the implementation of channels of dialogue with citizens and facilitates the creation of spaces available for free interaction. This would facilitate their participation in the preparation of the electoral programs of the parties as well as the lists of candidates for the various elections, combining representation with action to avoid that the citizenry is condemned in eternis to be only “political animal” in his private life.

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The obscene abomination sparked on October 7 in Israel, Gaza, Western Asia and the world demands that some explicit attention be directed at the dangerous role of global Zionism. As presently constituted, Zionism is gaining traction as a catastrophic menace to the people, peoples, governments as well as all the living creatures of the world. Beginning in the late 1800s, Zionism became the driving force pushing the violent founding, expansion, and global interactions of the Jewish state of Israel.

Clearly the likes of BiBi Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, and Itamar Ben-Gvir must bear much of the political and criminal responsibility for engineering the permitted terror unleashed on the Israeli population outside the Gaza prison walls. No doubt the events set in motion by these three lead officials and the Knesset members that back them, occurred in tandem with the actions of other major players in the intertwined activities of the Israeli and US Deep States.

Following the blanket reporting throughout the West on the topic of Hamas savagery, a large-scale bombing campaign was initiated targeting 2.3 million Gazan Palestinians. The propaganda campaign accompanying the bombing included the fictional spectacle of the 40 beheaded Israeli babies.

By now it is clear that the object of this false flag merger of theatre, authentic deaths and extravagant exaggeration, was meant to produce the basis for public outrage inside and outside of Israel.

This murderous means of manufacturing shock and disgust was meant to arouse responses of indignation to be exploited by the Netanyahu government. The nature of this exploitation was to “justify” wholesale violations of international laws entailed in the assaults on the stateless “refugees” of Palestine.

The public was clearly informed that the intention of the Israeli attacks was to depopulate and displace those dubbed by Israeli officialdom as the “human animals” presently inhabiting Gaza. These “human animals” are largely the third generation of stateless Palestinian “refugees.” They are largely children whose grandparents were uprooted from their ancestral lands in 1948. The 1948 conflict is remembered in Jewish Israel as the “War of independence” and as the “Nakba”— the “catastrophe”— by the indigenous Arab population.

See this.

For some of the Israeli conspirators, but especially Benjamin Netanyahu, the goals of the Oct. 7 psychological operation extended to drawing the US Armed Forces into a war with Iran. Ironically the growing demands of the Orthodox Jewish sects demanding Israeli enforcement of Jewish religious law, is pushing the country towards a theocratic mirror image of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Netanyahu is well known to be a major protagonist in the lies and crimes of 9/11.

Ever since the Netanyahu family hosted in 1979 the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism, Israel’s most well-known politician became a maestro expert at exploiting public fears derived from the deployment of Muslim patsies, assets and mercenaries. In this fashion Netanyahu became the Zionist Napoleon of the Global War on Terror. He was an innovator in the development of public platforms for the merger of fact and fiction…. platforms of deception where most of our public policy hoaxes are formulated these days.

The magnitude of the current manufactured crisis through which we the people of the world are presently living, indicates the dire necessity of looking beyond the character flaws and criminal actions of specific individuals who preplanned the permitted terror events of Oct. 7.

The events of Oct. 7 are, of course, in one sense a part of a broad array of systemic malfunctions contributing to deep and pervasive breakdowns of humanity’s means of surviving, let alone thriving, on planet Earth.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a map showing the occupied West Bank and Gaza as part of Israel during his speech at the UN General Assembly, 22 September 2023 (Reuters)

For a number of reasons, however, the explosion of the events of 7 Oct. onto the world scene stands as a telling example of Zionism as a unique genre of harm-creating ideology. An indicator and driver of Zionism’s malevolent power is the imposition of many obstructions put in the way of honest and open discussion of its impact on humanity. Zionism is not generally a subject that is open for public exercises in intellectual or philosophical discourse. Zionism, therefore, is an ideology unlike humanity’s many other isms.

The evidence is strong that humanity is being set up for another World War as the truly definitive point of entry into what was introduced in 2020 as the “Great Reset.” Who is playing Russian roulette with humanity’s destiny?

Agents at the highest echelons of Zionism’s elaborate pyramids of power think nothing of trying to steer the course of world history to better serve their lust for omnipotence and top-dog control.

This pattern is well illustrated by the role of Rothschild-related bankers in founding both Israel as well the architecture of the banking system adopted in 1913 by the future US superpower. To this day the Wall Street financial system remains a subordinate extension of the Rothschild-related financial institutions based largely in the City of London and its worldwide network of tax havens.

This same pattern of Zionist power is well illustrated by the outcomes of World Wars One and Two. Both world wars created the basis for major forward steps along the way to creating the Jewish States of Israel in 1947-48. Concerning these and other developments, many will be aware of the thick web of censorious institutions and individuals devoted to blocking easy public access to such basic features in our shared history. Typically, any analysis that touches on the magnitude and effect of Zionist power is smeared and pushed to the margins as the stuff of anti-Semitic “tropes” and “conspiracy theories.”

God’s Chosen People? God’s Chosen Country? 

A large and growing body of evidence, including from Egyptian sources, is making it increasingly clear that the events of 7 Oct. are, in retrospect, very different from what was originally reported. Israeli officials with the complicity of a few Hamas insiders decided to roll the dice on humanity’s future by allowing and even helping the showcased violence unfold as it did.

Are the manufactured contortions of 7 Oct. indicative of an attempt to vie with God in the quest for omnipotence? Do Zionist principles extend beyond the conception of God’s Chosen People to a vision of God’s Chosen Country?

Notions of the collective superiority of Jews over other peoples and nations are derived from both the Torah and the Old Testament. Some observers take this notion further. They accuse Zionism and Zionists of drawing heavily on certain Talmudic sources calling for harsh discriminatory subjugation of non-Jews, sometimes referred to pejoratively as Goys.

Zionism is related to Judaism but the two are not the same. Indeed, since the Zionist idea was introduced by Theodor Herzl in 1897, many Jews have at various times been hostile to the creation of a Jewish state. The Jewish critics of Zionism feared that the creation of a country specifically for Jews, would place in jeopardy their own acceptance in countries like, for instance, France, Germany, Britain and the United States.

Many Jewish critics of Zionism feared that the quality of their loyalty to the countries of their birth and adoption might become suspect if a Jewish state was created. They feared that, with the consolidation of a Jewish state they might risk being tainted in the eyes of their non-Jewish countrymen. Some of these non-Jews might feel provoked to look for conflicts in the loyalties of their Jewish associates.

These doubts within the Jewish world have never been totally resolved. Moreover some religious Jews, including a number of vocal rabbis, assert that Judaism is at its very foundation a religion. Judaism, they assert, is demeaned by making it the constitutional basis for the making and operation of a distinct country.

Nevertheless, the Zionist agenda in the creation and building up of Israel has apparently been widely embraced in varying degrees by the majority of Jews in the Diaspora. This Jewish embrace of Israel, however, tends to favour voting with financial contributions rather than with full-fledged Jewish immigration into Israel as citizens and permanent residents. Indeed, the current troubles in Israel are resulting in increased rates of Jewish emigration away from that troubled and increasingly divided country.

Zionism and Censorship

It is important to emphasize that not all Jews are Zionists. Moreover, most Zionists are Christians rather than Jews. In fact Christian Zionists outnumber all of the Jews, Zionist or not, in the world. There are 50 million or so Christian Zionists belonging to evangelical churches mostly throughout North America.

This Christian Zionist contingent is fast becoming a major factor in the geopolitics of the war on Palestinians declared by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the hours following the heavily contested events of 7 October.

The ironies are becoming abundant in that Israeli citizens, unlike most Christian Zionists, are fast becoming aware of the copious evidence pointing to sabotage and duplicity of the Israeli government against its own people. This paradoxical development is becoming a significant factor in the Gaza debacle.

Without going into specifics, George Galloway made passing reference to this phenomenon in hosting his big television hit, The Mother of All Talk Shows (MOAT).

See this.

The London-based Internet telecast is developing an international audience of many millions of engaged participants mostly united in support of justice for Palestinians. This objective that has been front and centre in Galloway’s parliamentary and media career for about half a century. Some see George Galloway as one of the most skilled rhetoricians presently conversant in the English-speaking world.

Galloway referred in one broadcast to Israel, the United States and Canada as the three most hostile polities when comes to withholding support for the Palestinian cause. He mentioned that the US and Canada lacked any secure legislative platform for support by citizens seeking justice for the stateless Palestinians under the ruthless control of the Israeli government.

One way to view this legislative deficit in North America is to see it as a reflection of the dominant place of Christian Zionism whose adherents look to Greater Israel as the site of the climatic End Times predicted in the Book of Revelations.

The Zionist lobby in Canada, the USA and in many other countries exercises enormous influence over not only governing parties, but over the leadership of opposition parties as well. This pattern of Zionist control over legislative debate, combined with the notorious Zionist influence over the content of many media venues plus Internet search engines, is definitely gutting severely the vitality of democratic discourse. The power of Zionist agencies such as the AntiDefamation League in limiting free speech in the name of fighting hate speech is becoming increasingly infuriating, revolting and draconian.

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Looking out at the World from Canada.

The Israel-Gaza Conflict as Discussed in the Alberta Media

On 8 October I viewed with dismay the radical pro-Israel messages of Christian Zionism echoing throughout a group of alternative publications in my home Canadian province of Alberta. In the recent past these media venues were essential resources for the political community that brought Premier Daniel Smith to the job of Premier in the face of the strident opposition she faced from mainstream media venues.

As in many locations, these alternative media venues became essential resources in building a political base to oppose mandatory masking, lockdowns, injections, vaccine passports, digital IDS, Central Bank Digital Currency, and Climate Change extremism. This list is far from complete.

When Premier Smith took over the top job in Alberta, an oil and gas powerhouse, she famously identified with our movement by asserting that the so-called “unvaxxed” had experienced discrimination the likes of which was more pronounced than anything she had witnessed throughout her lifetime. On 8 October and in the days that followed I saw all the unity developed in our political contingent swept away by editorial diatribes in, for instance, Western Standard and True North. These diatribes seemed very consistent with unqualified reverence for Israel, a country that can do can no wrong in the eyes of many Christian Zionists.

Their editorialists of the venues in question piled all the blame on the stateless Palestinians of Gaza. Alternatively, the pundits saw only virtue in the Israeli claims of victimhood at the hands of a monstrous foe. The editorialists went further, declaring that anything other than unrestrained condemnation of the Palestinians was nothing short of anti-Semitic blaspheme.

This position was echoed by Rebel News, Ezra Levant’s Zionist web site that opposed for the last three years some aspects of Covidian tyranny. Rebel News, a fellow traveller in the Ben Shapiro school of “Conservative” broadcasting, sent Avi Yemini from Australia to Israel. His goal was to outdo the mainstream media in stoking up anti-Palestinian biases.

Christian Zionism in History and in Contemporary Times 

Sometimes the term Christian Zionism is used to describe those Christian officials such as Lord Balfour or British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who played significant roles in helping to apply Zionist ideology to the process of creating in stages the Jewish state of Israel.

The development of Jewish Zionism together with the popularization of Christian Zionism emerged from a current of thought stimulated by the historic Dreyfus Affair in France. This case unfolded between 1894 and 1906. The controversy was sparked by the widespread reaction to the conviction for espionage of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a wrongfully persecuted and prosecuted Jew.

The event stimulated the thinking of many public figures including Theodor Herzl and John Nelson Darby. A student in the mid-1800s of Biblical texts, Darby decided to oppose the dominant view of Christianity that emerged from the fulfilment of the Old Testament in the teaching, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Darby refused to accept the understanding that Christianity formed, in and of itself, the basis for universal salvation and peace in the kingdom of God.

See this.

Darby pushed back on the then-prevailing interpretation to argue that the Jews continued in their role as the sole descendants of Abraham who remained God’s Chosen People. He proclaimed that Jews should take possession of the historic land of Israel where they would become instruments of the Biblical prophesies that Darby interpreted as the rapture of the Church at the End of Times.

Darby’s seminal version of Zionism influenced the Christian Zionism of the very popular preacher Dwight L. Moody and Cyrus I. Scofield. First published in 1909, Scofield’s Reference Bible became the primary literary source for the emergence of the form of Christian Zionism that presently dominates North American evangelism.

Scofield’s role in this narrative is surprising for a man of his background. He was a lawyer forced to quit his elected post under serious allegations of financial fraud and forgery. A self-confessed alcoholic, Scofield abandoned his wife and two daughters. Near the end of his life he created false credentials advertising himself as “Rev. C.I. Scofield, Doctor of Divinity.”

In his “Reference Bible”, Scofield adopted the “dispensationalist” position of Darby. Darby’s interpretation highlighted a series of distinct stages, or dispensations, in the movement of his version of God’s Chosen people through history. Scofield’s methodology was to write explanatory notes throughout the text of the King James Bible. Included among his notes were guides providing suggested routes through various Biblical passages and Books. The Scofield Reference Bible was published by Oxford University Press, then and now one of the most prestigious literary venues in the English language.

The Scofield Bible project was updated in 1917, the date of the British imperial designation of Palestine as a “national home” for the Jewish people. The Oxford imprimatur on the Scofield Bible indicates that the project had powerful sponsors, possibly including Zionism’s primary initial backers, the Rothschilds. Baron Edmond de Rothschild, for instance, was a prominent member of the Paris branch of the legendary banking family. In the 1880s he started financing early Jewish settlements, agricultural initiatives, and manufacturing enterprises in Palestine.

As its current role in the Israel-Gaza conflagration illustrates, Christian Zionism is an important appendage in the campaign to expand Israel and to continue the process of the repressing, eliminating and displacing the land’s Arab inhabitants. The main message of the Scofield Bible is that those who criticize Jews “inevitable fare ill” and those that protect them fare well.” Pastor John Hagee, one of the pioneers of the modern-day Christian Zionist movement in America, translated Scofield’s words to mean “The man or nation that lifts a voice or hand against Israel invites the wrath of God.”

See this.

In Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon? Church of England Reverend, Stephen Sizer asserts,

“Sustained by a dubious exegesis of selective biblical texts, Christian Zionism’s particular reading of history and contemporary events…sets Israel and the Jewish people apart from other peoples in the Middle East…it justifies the endemic racism intrinsic to Zionism, exacerbates tensions between Jews and Palestinians and undermines attempts to find a peaceful resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, all because ‘the Bible tells them so.’”

Quotations cited in Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

Pastor John Hagee is the founder of the Christian Zionist group, Christians United for Israel. With 7 million members, this single organization has more members than all the Jews of the United States put together. Like many similar organizations, Hagee’s group helps promote the objectives of Zionism in pushing the expansion of Jewish settlements into Occupied Territory. Hagee’s group promotes the view that the Jewish ethnostate in Palestine fulfills a requirement to hasten the arrival of end-of-times prophecy necessary for Jesus Christ’s return to Earth — an event Christians often refer to as “the Second Coming.”

See this.

Pastor Hagee’s organization became an important agency thoroughly engaged in the highest level of government and politics in both the United States and Israel. The organization acts like a magnet for ambitious politicians seeking backing especially from rich Jewish donors like Sheldon Adelson.

Before he died, Casino billionaire Adelson was big contributor to the campaign and against the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign. The BDS operation was meant to enable justice-seeking individuals and corporation to vote with their dollars. Israel and those that sanction its activities would be penalized financially on account of the dismal treatment meted out to the stateless Palestinians under its control especially in Gaza. On receiving an award from the founder of Christians United for Isreal, Adelson exclaimed, “I’ve never had a greater warm feeling than being honored by Pastor Hagee.”

See this.

Christian Zionism amounts to a many-faceted enterprise with individuals like TV evangelist Hal Lindsay predicting that the Apocalypse is becoming more and more imminent because current events are so quickly fulfilling Biblical prophecy. This cycle of publicity and promotion is fed when Christian Zionists regularly visit Israel where they are subjected to intensive indoctrination on the interpretation that Israel is simply engaged in self-defence against violent Palestinian aggressors.

All goes well as long as the evangelization points from Israel promoters towards Christian visitors. Trouble breaks out, however, when the roles are reversed. In fact the current Netanyahu government in Israel has passed a law that outlaws missionary work directed by Christian evangelists at Jews in Israel. Attempts to persuade Jews to convert to Christianity are not allowed.

Negotiate Rather Than Obliterate

The events of 7 Oct. have mushroomed in the global community so that the Chinese government, whose allies are Russia and Iran, now has six war ships in the Mediterranean preparing to intervene if and when a signal is given. China’s military intervention signals the mounting danger animating this crisis. This development also presents opportunity to negotiate rather than obliterate.

Can the people of Israel take the lead in holding their own government to account for what it did on 7 October by purposely putting their own constituents in harm’s way. All over the world we the citizens need to hold accountable our illegitimate enemy governments that one by one took part in global biowarfare campaign conceived to maim and kill us. Perhaps Netanyahu became so comfortable with this lethal process that he sacrificed a few more of his own people on 7 October as a pretext for removing the Palestinians from the site of their oil and gas rights just off the shore of the Gaza Strip.

Video: Message to the People of Israel. “Move away from American Exceptionalism”. Shahid Bolsen

Can the people of Israel move beyond the imperial heritage and character of Zionism to embrace another vision of their country. That vision would involve greater integration into the Arab culture that dominates their geographic setting. Shahid Bolsen puts out the challenge to the people of Israel to move away from the culture of an ill-conceived American exceptionalism and try something different. Bolsen’s proposal is worthy of serious consideration.

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Pfizer Appendix 2.2 Cumulative and Interval Summary Tabulation of Serious and Non-Serious Adverse Events from Post Marketing Data Sources BNT162-B2 

Date Compiled over period: December 19, 2021 to June 18, 2022.

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These were not provided to me by Pfizer but through a source at the EMA (European Medicines Agency). I have no reason to doubt this document. Treat it as you wish. Assuming this source through the EMA is providing an accurate document and it sure appears as such, a lot of horrific conclusions should follow.

Spend time looking at it.

Let the weight of the conclusions sink in.

Why are they sitting on disastrous data that shows their product is lethal and dangerous to health?

Why are they even a publicly traded company?

Can you trade in death and disease on this level and be on the stock exchange as a legitimate institution of capitalism?

It’s like having a publicly traded company that allows you to hire their hit men for a fee.

 

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I do not know how to estimate the under-reporting factor with this data. This data is reflective of December 19, 2021 to June 18, 2022.

Did Regulatory bodies have this and line people up like cans at a shooting range?

If Blood disorders doesn’t get you, how about cardiac events? There are pages and pages of Congenital defects, genetic and familial disorders.

Come to your own conclusion.

If you are not a physician you probably won’t be able to pronounce most of these adverse events. Perhaps your physician should be looking at this. 

What are governments doing with mandates and the funding and announcement of building more of these facilities?

Are governments even our friends, I mean do they like us, I mean do they like us alive?

Do they think they are accountable?

Was there money changing hands?

How does so gross a fraud take place on the people?

If Pfizer indicates this is not a true copy of their summary Tabulation of Serious and Non-Serious Adverse Events from Post Marketing Data Sources BNT162-B2 and they would like to comment with more current data we would all appreciate it.

Adverse Events

Total Number of Adverse Events 1,591,026 (Interval) and 4,964,106 (Cumulative)! 

Blood and Lymphatic System Disorders Spontaneous Adverse Events: 100,970

Cardiac Disorders Spontaneous Adverse Events: 126,193

Congenital Familial and Genetic Disorders: 1143 

(on these numbers, you have to consider how many women might have been pregnant of child bearing age)

Ear and Labyrinth Disorders: 47,038 

Endocrine Disorders: 4,115 

Eye Disorders: 61,518

GastroIntestinal Orders: 317,811

General Disorders and Administration Site Conditions: 1,605,985

• (there was more pericarditis than site pain)
• Death was reported in this category as 2,995
• if you show this to your physician, you know what will floor them. the under-reporting factor: BECAUSE anytime someone said something to them they fobbed it off with anti-vaxxer, or it’s perfectly safe don’t be ridiculous. So they do the mental calculation. they reported zero of the events people reported to them. they figure also people kept things to themselves, suffered in silence and YOU WOULD WOULDNT YOU. AFTER ALL WHEN YOU INTERACT WITH THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT THEY MIGHT SHOOT YOU UP AGAIN. SO YOU STAY AWAY. like oh ya that dog bites at that house. I’m not going there anywhere near that bad dog.
• define safe and effective for me. I’m waiting for a definition that fits this data.

Hepatobiliary Disorders: 4,380

Immune System Disorders: 31,895

• This category also has Anaphylactic shock, and transplant rejection. But in Canada you need the vaccine to get a transplant. Gotta love health that is neither healthy or caring. We are officially in rules for rules sake.

Infections and Infestations: 167,382 

• this category has dengue hemorrhagic fever. what protein pieces are in this thing?
• epstein barr
• fungal infections
• genital and groin and pelvic infection stuff;
• herpes, hepatitis
• kidney infection
• mastitis
• pneumonia
• sepsis!
• septic shock
• tuberculosis
• there’s pages and pages of lists you can literally get an abscess anywhere.

Injury, Poisoning, Procedural, Complication: 241,342

• In this category I found Exposure via Breastmilk: 5796 adverse events;
• Inappropriate schedule administration (??): 57,181;
• Incorrect dose
• Incorrect route;
• INTENTIONAL OVERDOSE!!
• JOINT injury dislocation (I have family with significant joint issues following administration);
• maternal exposure during pregnancy (there seems to be categories that reference shedding); 5956
• off label use!: 54,370 you go in for a knee surgery and vax you.
• overdose: 5144
• Poor quality product administered: 30 828;
• product administered to patient inappropriate age: 8718
• Product administration error;: 7586
• road traffic accident: 171 (bad reaction and then you pilot your plane, train, or automobile?)

Investigations: 24,038 

tons and tons of tests and investigations;

Musculoskeletal and Connective Tissue Disorders: 539,299 

Neoplasms Benign, Malignant, and unspecified Cyst: 1,391 

These are the cancers reported in the small time period since administration. Think on that. This would only presumably extend in effect over time.

Nervous System Disorders: 696,508 

You need to get into this document and go through the lists. Nothing like it. You will know what jumps out at you tremors, bells palsy, Aphasia and on and on.

Pregnancy, Puerperium, Perinatal: 4056

Well here’s your feotal deaths, abortions, and stillbirth section.

Includes your post-partum hemorrhaging etc.

Product Issues: 15,910

Psychiatric Issues: 77148 includes suicide

Renal and Urinary Disorders: 13,647 

Reproductive System and Breast Disorders: 178,353 

If romaine lettuce recalls included this kind of instance of vaginal hemorrhage (5034) no one would have Caesar salad again.

Respiratory, Thoracic & mediastinal Disorders: 190,720

Every category is filled with tragedies. This one is no different. Please review the document.

Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue Disorders: 224 633 

Social Circumstances: 9414 

bedridden and loss of personal independence in this category 

Surgical and medical procedures: 87073 

Gotta love the therapeutic that “peutics’ all this. The amount of medicalization, pain, suffering and death the shot has produced is unfathomable.

Vascular Disorders: 73,542 

You can’t run with horrific data and just say, we want to keep our secrets and our immunity and also one other thing, we want to keep injecting YOU, and ANOTHER THING, we want the government and corporations to mandate these to create economic and social apartheid such that you walk into taking these. And another thing, also our big brother the WHO, mandates and will mandate that you get whatever we make, and have your government pay for it.

AND ALSO THE WHO IS RIGHT NOW GIVING ITSELF THAT POWER. Right? Wait, what, you think the WHO also knew this shit was poison? So then are they A LEGITIMATE ORGANIZATION OR AN NGO HIT MAN ASSOCIATION?

The sheer number of terrible or ADVERSE EVENTS, it’s horrendous and mind boggling. Do you know what silence on data like this is? I can’t find the words. Maniacal genocide in increments through time. Have a more accurate way to describe it? Feel free to discuss.

You know what to do with this substack. Or you should.

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A ineficiência da ONU na prevenção de crimes contra a humanidade está a esgotar a paciência dos seus próprios funcionários. Recentemente, o diretor da Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) demitiu-se do seu cargo, alegando estar insatisfeito com o atual papel da ONU no conflito Israel-Palestina. Isto mostra muito claramente como a organização precisa urgentemente de se adaptar a uma realidade multipolar se quiser sobreviver às atuais mudanças geopolíticas.

Craig Mokhiber anunciou sua decisão de renunciar em 31 de outubro. Ele escreveu uma carta de demissão expressando a sua indignação com a situação atual da ONU, que ele acredita ter “se rendido” aos EUA. Segundo ele, o “lobby” sionista conseguiu controlar institucionalmente tanto a política interna dos EUA como a própria ONU, impedindo que fossem tomadas medidas contra o genocídio levado a cabo por Israel na Palestina.

“Mais uma vez, estamos a assistir a um genocídio a desenrolar-se diante dos nossos olhos, e a Organização que servimos parece impotente para o impedir (…) Nas últimas décadas, partes fundamentais da ONU renderam-se ao poder dos EUA e ao medo do lobby de Israel,  ao abandonar estes princípios e afastar-se do próprio direito internacional. Perdemos muito neste abandono, nomeadamente a nossa própria credibilidade global. Mas o povo palestino sofreu as maiores perdas como resultado dos nossos fracassos”, disse ele.

Mokhiber considera o sionismo uma ideologia colonialista, racista e expansionista, que expressa a continuidade do imperialismo europeu. Ele vê a política de criação de colônias ilegais como um projeto colonial para massacrar os povos nativos e dar a Israel o controle territorial da região. Mokhiber também denuncia veementemente o papel dos EUA, do Reino Unido e dos países europeus nesta política israelita e sublinha como os meios de comunicação ocidentais estão a agir com cumplicidade neste processo de genocídio e limpeza étnica.

“Mas o atual massacre em massa do povo palestino, enraizado numa ideologia colonial étnico-nacionalista dos colonos… não deixa espaço para dúvidas ou debate (…) Este é um caso clássico de genocídio. O projeto colonial europeu, etno-nacionalista, de colonização na Palestina entrou na sua fase final, rumo à destruição acelerada dos últimos remanescentes da vida indígena na Palestina (…) [Os EUA, o Reino Unido e] grande parte da Europa são totalmente cúmplices no terrível ataque [ao] armar ativamente o ataque, fornecendo apoio econômico e de inteligência, e dando cobertura política e diplomática às atrocidades de Israel (…) A mídia corporativa ocidental, cada vez mais capturada e adjacente ao estado israelense, [tem] continuamente desumanizado os palestinos para facilitar o genocídio e difundindo propaganda de guerra e defesa do ódio nacional, racial ou religioso”, acrescentou.

É curioso notar como as críticas de Mokhiber corroboram o que há muito vem sendo relatado por autoridades de países considerados inimigos do Ocidente. A ONU está, de facto, a tornar-se incapaz de resolver os problemas globais contemporâneos. Ao permanecer associada a uma realidade unipolar ocidental, a organização é incapaz de lidar adequadamente com as novas questões globais, o que a coloca em sério perigo existencial.

Um exemplo recente da incapacidade da ONU foi a forma como a organização lidou com a crise na Ucrânia. Mesmo com tantas provas de genocídio e limpeza étnica contra o povo de Donbass, não foram implementadas medidas para dissuadir o regime neonazista em Kiev, deixando à Rússia a única opção para lançar uma operação militar especial. No mesmo sentido, após o início da operação, a ONU não conseguiu chegar a um consenso sobre a necessidade de evitar o prolongamento do conflito, permanecendo inerte enquanto a OTAN enviava armas ao regime, transformando as hostilidades locais numa guerra em grande escala.

Agora ocorre o mesmo problema: um processo de genocídio e conflito militar se expande de forma devastadora e a ONU não consegue evitar o agravamento da situação. As resoluções propostas que poderiam evitar a carnificina e criar um diálogo diplomático, como a proposta pela Rússia apelando a um cessar-fogo, foram prontamente rejeitadas pelas potências ocidentais no Conselho de Segurança. Isto impediu qualquer forma de resolução diplomática e deu carta branca a Tel Aviv para continuar a cometer crimes contra o povo palestino sob a desculpa de “combater o Hamas”.

A ONU realmente parece ser refém dos interesses ocidentais. Na prática, para “agradar” às elites ocidentais e sionistas, a ONU permanece passiva face a um massacre e a um conflito que pode rapidamente escalar para um nível global – uma vez que os EUA e o Irã podem envolver-se abertamente a qualquer momento, o que tornaria as tensões ficam fora de controle. Com isto, a ONU parece caminhar para o mesmo fim que a sua antecessora, a Liga das Nações, que foi criada após a primeira guerra mundial com o objetivo de evitar um novo conflito semelhante, tendo falhado em evitar a Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Para evitar este trágico destino, só há um caminho para a ONU: uma reforma profunda, que a adapte à realidade geopolítica multipolar e crie mecanismos eficientes para prevenir conflitos e crimes contra a humanidade.

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida

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Incident: Jet2 B738 near Budapest on Oct 30th 2023, first officer incapacitated

By Simon Hradecky, created Tuesday, Oct 31st 2023 10:56Z

A Jet2.com Boeing 737-800, registration G-GDFP performing flight LS-1711 from Manchester,EN (UK) to Dalaman (Turkey) with 161 passengers and 6 crew, was enroute at FL370 about 80nm southsouthwest of Budapest (Hungary) when the captain decided to divert the aircraft to Budapest after the first officer became incapacitated.

The aircraft turned north towards Budapest, entered a hold while the captain was setting the aircraft up for the approach and subsequently landed safely on Budapest’s runway 13R about 30 minutes after leaving FL370 and taxied to the gate where medical services were awaiting the aircraft.

A replacement Boeing 757-200 registration G-LSAI positioned to Budapest and continued the flight delivering the passengers to Dalaman with a delay of about 5.5 hours.

The Boeing 737-800 resumed service about 5.5 hours after landing in Budapest.

Pilot Incapacitations and Deaths in Aug-Sep 2023 

Sep. 24, 2023 – Austrian Airlines Flight OS-188 (STR-VIE) Stuttgart to Vienna The captain became incapacitated, first officer took control of aircraft

Sep. 23, 2023 – Alaska Airlines Pilot – 37 year old Captain Eric McRae died suddenly in his hotel room during layover, was to fly that morning

Sep. 22, 2023 – Delta Flight DL-291 (CDG-LAX) Paris to Los Angeles – Pilot became incapacitated, was taken to cabin for care, plane diverted to Minneapolis, pilot taken to hospital

Aug. 27, 2023 – Air Canada Flight AC348 (YVR-YOW) Vancouver to Ottawa, one of the pilots felt ill and became incapacitated 50 min before landing in Ottawa.

Aug. 17, 2023 – IndiGo Flight (NAG-PNQ) Nagpur to Pune, India, 40 year old Pilot Manoj Subramanium died after collapsing at the boarding gate, about to board.

Aug. 16, 2023 – Qatar Airways Flight QR579 (DEL-DOH) Delhi to Doha, Qatar, 51 year old pilot collapsed as a passenger inflight and died, plane diverted to Dubai.

Aug. 14, 2023 – LATAM Flight LA505 (MIA-SCL) Miami to Santiago, Chile – 2 hours into 8hr flight, 56 year old Captain Ivan Andaur collapsed and died in the lavatory – plane diverted to Panama City!

Aug. 9, 2023 – United Airlines UAL1309 (SRQ-EWR) Sarasota to Newark, pilot had a heart attack and lost consciousness in flight

Aug. 7, 2023 – TigerAIR Flight IT237 (CTS-TPE) Sapporo to Taipei, copilot had a medical emergency after landing plane in Taipei

Pilot Incapacitations and Deaths (on Duty) Jan-July 2023: 

July 19, 2023 – Eurowings Discover Flight 4Y-1205 (HER-FRA) Heraklion to Frankfurt, pilot incapacitated, first officer took control, landed safely

July 16, 2023 – Small plane – 2006 Piper Meridian, flying from Westchester NY, crashed at Martha’s Vineyard Airport after pilot had medical emergency upon final approach and passenger took control of the plane and attempted a landing. Pilot, 79 year old Randolph Bonnist, died later in hospital.

June 7, 2023 – Air Canada Flight ACA692 (YYZ-YYT) Toronto to St.John’s, First Officer became incapacitated, deadheading Captain assumed duties

June 4, 2023 – Small plane – Cessna Citation N611VG flying Tennessee to Long Island, fighter jets spotted pilot slumped over in cockpit unconscious, plane crashed and all onboard died

May 11, 2023 – HiSKy Flight H4474 (DUB-KIV) Dublin to Chisinau (Moldova), 20 min after liftoff pilot became “unable to act”, plane diverted to Manchester

May 4, 2023 – British Charter TUI Airways Flight BY-1424 (NCL-LPA) Newcastle to Las Palmas Spain pilot became ill, plane diverted back to NCL.

May 3, 2023 – Air Transat and Air Canada Pilot Eddy Vorperian, age 48, died suddenly during layover in Croatia

April 21, 2023 – Easyjet Flight U2-6469 (LGW-AGA) London Gatwick to Agadir, Morocco, first offer became incapacitated, diverted to Faro, Portugal.

April 4, 2023 – United Airlines Flight 2102 (BOI-SFO) – captain was incapacitated, first officer was only one in control of the aircraft.

March 25, 2023 – TAROM Flight RO-7673 TSR-HRG diverted to Bucharest as 30 yo pilot had chest pain, then collapsed

March 22, 2023 – Southwest Flight WN6013 LAS-CMH diverted as pilot collapsed shortly after take-off, replaced by non-Southwest pilot

March 18, 2023 – Air Transat Flight TS739 FDF-YUL first officer was incapacitated about 200NM south of Montreal

March 13, 2023 – Emirates Flight EK205 MXP-JFK diverted due to pilot illness hour and a half after take-off

March 11, 2023 – United Airlines Flight UA2007 GUA-ORD diverted due to “incapacitated pilot” who had chest pains

March 11, 2023 – British Airways (CAI-LHR) pilot died of heart attack in crew hotel in Cairo before a Cairo to London flight (name & age not released)

March, 3, 2023 – Virgin Australia Flight VA-717 ADL-PER Adelaide to Perth flight was forced to make an emergency landing after First Officer suffered heart attack 30 min after departure.

Military Pilot Incapacitations 

Aug. 18, 2023 – US Army Aviation Center (Alabama) student pilot went into cardiac arrest behind the controls midflight (Aug.18, 2023), Instructor landed plane – pilot was dead for 18 minutes!

Recent Pilot Deaths (Not on Duty):

Pilot death – May 2023 – 4 Singapore Airlines pilots died suddenly in May 2023

Pilot death – May 9, 2023 – United Airlines and US Air Force Pilot Lt. Col. Michael Fugett, age 46, died unexpectedly at his home

Pilot death – April 13, 2023 – Phil Thomas, graduate of Flight Training Pilot academy in Cadiz, Spain (FTEJerez) died suddenly.

Pilot death – March 17, 2023 – 39 year old Westjet Pilot Benjamin Paul Vige died suddenly in Calgary

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At the United Nations this week, the world community has overwhelmingly spoken out against the relentless U.S. embargo on Cuba. Yet President Biden remains unmoved, stubbornly clinging to the anachronic policies that are deliberately and systematically causing harm to the well-being of more than 11 million Cubans. Despite the world’s condemnation of the blockade every year since 1992, the U.S. government continues to act in complete isolation from the international community.

In this solitary corner, the United States was joined only by Israel, a country that relies on the United States for billions of dollars, money that is now set to increase by an additional $14.5 billion to intensify the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

But President Biden is not only turning a deaf ear to the international community, he is also ignoring the democratic voice of his own people. Over a hundred resolutions condemning the blockade have been passed across the U.S., representing about 55 million Americans calling for an end to the inhumane unilateral siege on Cuba that has persisted for over 60 years.

The U.S. embargo has a negative impact on all sectors of Cuba’s economy and has unquestionably worsened the quality of life of Cubans by limiting their access to basic necessities, including medicines, food, and fuel. According to the Cuban government, from March 2022 to February 2023, the blockade caused an estimated $4.8 billion in losses to Cuba, representing more than $555,000 for each hour of the blockade. The inclusion of Cuba in the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism on January 12, 2021 exacerbates the impact of the economic embargo. This has led to an massive increase in the number of Cubans migrating to the United States in search of economic opportunities. 

The embargo is unjust and hinders Cuba’s inalienable right to development. It is also illegal and violates the United Nations charter and the principles of international law. The embargo’s extraterritorial provisions have not only prevented humanitarian aid from reaching Cuba through third-party countries, but have also prevented foreign companies from doing legitimate and lawful business in Cuba. 

While Cuba prioritizes healthcare and solidarity, the U.S. persists in causing harm and inflicting pain on the Cuban people in its failed, 60-year-old effort at regime change. We, at CODEPINK, will not stand idly by. We pledge to continue advocating for justice and tirelessly demanding that our government change its hostile policy towards Cuba by lifting the economic, commercial and financial embargo. We will persist in our call for the immediate removal of Cuba from the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism—a designation that should never have been imposed in the first place. 

U.S. policymakers must abandon their outdated Cold War mentality towards Cuba, and instead listen to the world and start being a good neighbor.

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US Vice President Kamala Harris stated, in an interview with CBS, that American troops shall not be sent to Gaza or Israel and that Washington is merely providing Tel Aviv with diplomatic support, equipment, and some advice. She added that the “US is not telling Israel what to do.”

However, it’s been reported that both the Jewish state and the United States are discussing a multinational force to “govern Gaza” if Tel Aviv succeeds in ousting Hamas. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday a “revitalized” Palestinian Authority (PA) should retake control of Gaza in this scenario, but a peacekeeping force including American soldiers could play an “interim role”. There are at least two problems with this plan: Israel has been bombing not just Gaza, but also the PA-controlled West Bank, where Hamas has no presence, and the deployment of US troops to Palestine would only dramatically escalate frictions in the Middle East.

On 31 October, FBI director Christopher Wray, during a Congressional hearing, said that the escalation of tensions there is to inspire the greatest terror threat to the US since the rise of the so-called Islamic State (Daesh) terrorist group a decade ago. The turmoil in that part of the world has certainly raised the question of how many wars the US can fight and how many wars it can support.

Lawmakers in Washington seeking a ceasefire are increasingly concerned about US President Joe Biden’s full support for Israel’s military campaign and blockage there. They are not the only ones: American diplomats are reportedly preparing a “dissent cable”, in a situation that some have described as a “mutiny” brewing within the State Department “at all levels”. Amid such a context, Jack Lew has been approved as the next American envoy to Israel, his confirmation certainly having been fast-tracked by the current crisis. Having been nominated in September, it was then believed he could play a major role in US-brokered Israeli-Saudi talks about normalizing ties between the two Middle Eastern countries – a scenario that has been put in the freezer after the ongoing quagmire broke out. Lew’s mission now will focus on cooperating with Tel Aviv to neutralize Hamas, and securing the release of hostages, while suffering pressures to occasionally criticize some Israeli actions – the Jewish state’s campaign after all is being globally denounced over its indiscriminate targeting of civilian facilities and villages.

UN chief Antonio Guterres has recently voiced his dismay by the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, and organizations such as Amnesty International have described Israel’s actions as war crimes. Tel Aviv already faces increased hostility in Armenia due to its role in the Turkey-backed Azerbaijan ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), and is now itself being accused of conducting a genocide by a UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory, among others. Chile, and Colombia have recalled ambassadors to Israel, with Bolivia cutting ties entirely, and massive demonstrations against Tel Aviv are taking place in many capital cities worldwide.

Last year, I wrote on the possibility of an Iran-Israel war coming into being, a scenario that now seems much closer, bringing with it the specter of a wider Middle Eastern war. It has been speculated Iran could have assisted Hamas in planning its attack against the Jewish state on October 7 (the event which prompted Tel Aviv’s retaliatory campaign), even though both American and Israeli officials have stated that thus far there is no evidence whatsoever to that. In any case, there is much talk about an escalation of the ongoing crisis in Palestine spreading into the wider Middle East area. Unrelatedly, the Pentagon confirmed on Monday that Washington struck two facilities in Syria supposedly linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. On October 31, US defense officials said that American military bases in both Iraq and Syria have been attacked no less than 23 times over the past couple of weeks by Iran-backed groups.

Matthew Kroenig, a Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security vice president, has stated Washington needs “a two-major-theater planning construct”, possibly also covering Iran. He and his colleagues on the bipartisan Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States recommended just that to Congress earlier this month. Kroenig says the US needs to “deter and, if necessary, defeat major conflicts in the three most important geostrategic regions of the Indo-Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East.” The question is: how many wars can the US fight? Andrew A. Michta, a Scowcroft Strategy Initiative director (at the Atlantic Council of the US) writes that Washington, with its “all-volunteer” force model is simply not ready for a war against great powers, “permanent stationing” in both Asia and Europe being needed.

A largely overburdened United States had been shifting its strategic interest away from the Middle East towards Eastern Europe (plus Central Asia) and the Indo-Pacific, even while its naval supremacy seems to be coming to an end. However, as I wrote, in June, the US cannot simply “leave” the Middle East, it being a center of petrodollars and oil, not to mention its cultural significance. This is the dilemma an ever overstretched supower now faces. Some analysts, such as Kroenig and Michta, seem to want it all, with American politicians talking about deploying Special Forces to neighboring Mexico too over a national drug calamity, even as the superpower, short of recruits, faces a military crisis.

Washington’s eager support to Tel Aviv’s current administration (facing heavy criticism globally), for one thing, highlights the hypocrisy about the US most vocal condemnation plus an unprecedented sanctioning campaign of the Russian military campaign in Ukraine which started on 24 February 2022. Notwithstanding any criticism one might make of Moscow in this case, not even the most vocal critics have ever come close to describing it as a genocide of ethnic Ukranians; in fact, on February 22, two days before today’s confrontation broke out, an El Pais piece detailed the humanitarian catastrophe in Donbass, brought about about by Kiev, not Moscow.

On February 24, CNN reported that Ukrainian forces had “destroyed” a vast part of the region, with schools and orphanages evacuated under Ukrainian shelling, causing lots of Donbass residents to seek refuge in the Rostov Oblast (Russian Federation). The Ukrainian military campaign against the Donbass region started in April 2014, amid chauvinistic policies against Russian-speaking populations. This (plus years of US-led NATO expansion and the rise of the far-right in Ukraine) provided the context for today’s conflict.

Be it as it may, American hopes for a victory in its proxy attrition war in Ukraine are now low, and Israel is now in the spotlight. The Jewish State is increasingly isolated internationally, though, and the costs of American full support of it shall keep rising.

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Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) warns that Trudeau’s more “sympathetic” tone toward the death of Palestinian civilians in Gaza will do nothing to avert mass atrocities and Israel’s genocidal violence. On November 1, Prime Minister Trudeau claims to have met with Palestinian families and made three separate comments expressing the idea that the price of justice cannot be the continued suffering of Palestinian civilians. However, CJPME strenuously emphasizes that Trudeau still refuses to join the international community in calling for an immediate stop to Israel’s bombardment, making his words ring hollow. And even if Canada calls for an end to the bombing, it will have done nothing materially – like embargoing arms to Israel – to prevent it from continuing.

“Prime Minister Trudeau’s words of concern for the suffering of Palestinian civilians are the typical performative expressions, lacking real action, that we have come to expect from this Government. It just feels like an attempt to diffuse popular opposition to their failed policies,” said Thomas Woodley, President of CJPME. “Until Trudeau calls for a ceasefire and bans military trade with Israel, Canada will continue to be complicit in the indiscriminate bombing of Gaza and the slaughter of thousands of Palestinian children,” added Woodley.

Dozens of Members of Parliament, over 150 Canadian civil society organizations, and every single recipient of Canada’s humanitarian aid to Gaza have urged Trudeau to demand an immediate cessation of hostilities. A recent letter to Trudeau from the entire NDP caucus claims to have received emails from over 100,000 Canadians urging a ceasefire. Despite this, Trudeau has continued to call for “humanitarian pauses,” a demand which is deeply inadequate.

Trudeau also says that he spoke with Palestinian families about the importance of “their right to advocate, without fear of reprisal, for Palestinians to live in peace and security.” However, CJPME notes that Trudeau has recently condemned pro-Palestine rallies which he falsely portrayed as pro-Hamas. While in power, his government has opposed all efforts by Palestinians to access justice through non-violent means, whether through the movement to boycott Israel, the United Nations General Assembly, the International Court of Justice, or the International Criminal Court.

“The Prime Minister’s reputation proceeds him. In the face of over 10,000 deaths in this conflict we are exhausted by Trudeau’s empty words of concern,” said Woodley. “Palestinian children are being slaughtered and Israel is trying to expel all Gazans to Egypt. Trudeau needs to take responsibility to protect them and stop ethnic cleansing.”

More than 9,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza since October 7, including 3,760 children. Israel’s “total siege” has restricted access to food, water, electricity, fuel, and medicine in the territory, bringing the healthcare system to the point of collapse. The combination of Israel’s mass killing of civilians, the denial of basic essentials for life, and dehumanizing statements from officials, increasingly raises the alarming prospect of “genocide” according to UN human rights experts, Palestinian NGOs, a former ICC prosecutor, and more than 800 scholars in international law and genocide studies.

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Oleksii Arestovych, Volodymyr Zelensky’s former chief of staff, described the Ukrainian president as a “dictator” who has become “divorced from reality” in relation to the way he has reacted to the Russian special military operation since it began in February 2022.

“First, someone behaves like a dictator and, instead of following the normal path of accelerated development, chooses stagnation. Then someone breeds massive corruption. Then someone breeds hatred for any opinion different from their own. And then – a year and a half later – autumn comes, both in relations with the West and with our own people. And no matter how much you deny reality, it doesn’t go away,” said the former advisor on X (formerly Twitter).

– Сначала кто-то ведет себя, как диктатор и вместо того, чтобы пойти нормальным путем ускоренного развития, выбирает стагнацию.

Потом кто-то плодит массовую коррупцию.

Потом кто-то плодит ненависть к любому мнению, отличному от своего.

А потом – спустя полтора года -… pic.twitter.com/LJifhRtF6Q

— Arestovych (@arestovych) October 31, 2023

Arestovych made his post in response to an article in Time magazine, written by correspondent Simon Shuster, which addresses the isolation of the Ukrainian leader and is entitled, “Nobody believes in our victory like I do. Nobody.” For him, the article reveals an “unpleasant and vaguely familiar image – a dictator abandoned by everyone, wandering through the back streets of the bunker, unwilling to face reality and hysterically exclaiming about a quick victory, which he is unable to achieve.”

“An authoritarian leader to whom those around him are afraid to tell the truth,” he continued. “All dictators who are divorced (in the name of their fantasy) from reality end up the same way.”

According to the Times article published on October 30, Zelensky “feels betrayed” by his Western allies because “they have left him without the means to win the war, only the means to survive it.”

“The scariest thing is that part of the world got used to the war in Ukraine,” Zelensky told Shuster. “Exhaustion with the war rolls along like a wave. You see it in the United States, in Europe. And we see that as soon as they start to get a little tired, it becomes like a show to them: ‘I can’t watch this rerun for the 10th time.’”

He also stated that Kiev is firmly opposed to any ceasefire. This position has been criticised even by Ukrainian military leaders, who admit failure in the much-touted summer counteroffensive. The situation is so desperate for Ukraine that the country can no longer assemble the same well-prepared army it had assembled before launching the counteroffensive at the beginning of the European summer, let alone what it had before the start of the Russian military operation.

Concluding his tweet, Arestovych said that the Times article “condemns Zelensky to loneliness and the judgment of history – to loneliness, for which he has no one to blame but himself.”

Although much attention following the publication of the Times article has been given to the fact that Ukraine is becoming increasingly isolated, especially since the start of the Middle East crisis, overlooked was the revelation that the average age of a soldier in Ukraine is around 43 years, demonstrating just how crippled the Ukrainian Armed Forced are.

According to Shuster, the Russian special military operation has “eroded the ranks of Ukraine’s armed forces so badly that draft offices have been forced to call up ever older personnel, raising the average age of a soldier in Ukraine to around 43 years.”

“They’re grown men now, and they aren’t that healthy to begin with,” Shuster cited a close aide to Zelensky as saying. “This is Ukraine. Not Scandinavia.”

According to the article, Ukraine’s Territorial Defence Forces reportedly accepted 100,000 new recruits in the first ten days of the all-out war, showing how confident people were, which was partly fuelled by senior officials audaciously making optimistic predictions that the war would be won in only a few months.

“Many people thought they could sign up for a quick tour and take part in a heroic victory,” said a second member of Zelensky’s team to the Times correspondent.

However, with revelations that Ukraine is suffering catastrophic losses, with more than 90,000 casualties since the spring offensive, according to Moscow, recruitment is way down. This has intensified conscription efforts, so much so that Zelensky’s dictatorial tendencies are seen with draft officers illegally pulling men off trains and buses and sending them to the front.

Arestovych’s latest outburst against Zelensky has only fuelled rumours about his own political aspirations despite his frequent assurances that he would not run for president if Zelensky does.

It is recalled that Arestovych was forced to resign as senior adviser to the president in January 2023 after his statement on a YouTube programme that Ukraine’s air defence forces shot down the missile that destroyed part of a house in Dnipro, then fell on a high-rise building and exploded, something which countered the official narrative of the Kiev regime. Since then, he has been in political battles with the ruling elite of Kiev, as demonstrated by his pointing out that Zelensky is a dictator.

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We are witnessing by any and all accounts a massive massacre of Palestinian civilians who for the past 16 years have been imprisoned on the Gaza Strip – blockaded and controlled by Israel. This massacre is being carried out as if ordained in the Old Testament. This stems from the conviction on the part of the very influential, fundamentalist part of Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition in some God-given right to occupy and control “Greater Israel,” which includes all of Palestine.   

Netanyahu was recently recorded citing 1 Samuel 15:3 in a clip that has gone viral.

“Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.”

Victims of this massacre are the direct descendants of the Palestinians forcibly expelled from their homes upon the creation of Israel in 1948, the deadly expulsion known as the Nakba. The next stage is described in Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid published in 2007. From Amazon’s book review:  

“Pulling no punches, Carter prescribes steps that must be taken for the two states to share the Holy Land without a system of apartheid or the constant fear of terrorism. 

“The general parameters of a long-term, two-state agreement are well known, the president writes. There will be no substantive and permanent peace for any peoples in this troubled region as long as Israel is violating key UN resolutions, official American policy, and the international ‘road map’ for peace by occupying Arab lands and oppressing the Palestinians. Except for mutually agreeable negotiated modifications, Israel’s official pre-1967 borders must be honored.” 

There have been more than 80 resolutions passed by the U.N. Security Council or the U.N. General Assembly against Israeli policy, most of them close to unanimous, many of them condemning Israel’s disregard of the pre-1967 borders by encroachments in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.  

For example, on Dec. 14, 2022, the General Assembly passed 159 to 8 a resolution directed against “the widespread destruction caused by Israel, the occupying Power, to vital infrastructure, including water pipelines, sewage networks and electricity networks, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in particular in the Gaza Strip …” and calls upon Israel “to cease its demolition and confiscation of Palestinian homes, agricultural lands and water wells … particularly Israeli settlement activities …” The current settler movement with the support of the Israeli government continues to forcibly expel Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank (they have lived there for generations) over the objection even of President Biden.  

Israel’s current alternative to the two-state solution amounts to a Final Solution – all Palestinians either expelled or murdered. 

I deplore terrorism. I do not know the extent of the terrorism perpetrated by Hamas on Oct. 7. Practically the first thing we heard was the hoax that Hamas had decapitated 40 babies. This was claimed by the Israeli government and rapidly adopted by President Biden who lied when he said he had seen an authenticated photo of this.

Surfaced now in Israeli media are accounts of Israeli survivors of the Oct. 7 attacks in which they testify that they were treated “humanely” by Hamas and that many of the Israeli victims were killed in Israeli crossfire.  An Israeli survivor named Yasmin Porat, referring to Israeli special forces: “They eliminated everyone, including the hostages.” 

Tuval Escapa, a member of the security team for Kibbutz Be’eri, told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz:

“The commanders in the field made difficult decisions – including shelling houses on their occupants in order to eliminate the terrorists along with the hostages.”

A separate report published in Haaretz noted that the Israeli military on Oct. 7 was

“compelled to request an aerial strike” against its own facility filled with Israeli Civil Administration officers and soldiers inside the Erez Crossing to Gaza “in order to repulse the terrorists.”    

The Israeli government claims 1400 Israelis died on Oct. 7, the figure repeated by the Associated Press on a daily basis. This number has yet to be substantiated. No matter how accurate this number, and no matter how many of these deaths were caused by Hamas or Israeli crossfire, this cannot possibly justify or excuse genocide. 

The Associated Press daily refers to the attack of Oct. 7 as “brutal,” but never thus describes the ongoing relentless bombardment of Gaza. 

More on terrorism: Is dropping one-ton bombs on a civilian population literally trapped in the Gaza Strip, half of them children, on hospitals, mosques, schools, United Nations refugee shelters, residential blocks — is that also terrorism? “Terrorist” is a slur that the big army uses to describe the little army.  

More on terrorism: Israel’s founding fathers, its national heroes, many later elected to the position of Prime Minister, were terrorists.  

Image: Shimon Peres

Shimon Peres joined the Haganah in 1947, the militia primarily responsible for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian villages in 1947-49, during the Nakba. From Time Magazine on Peres: “His whole history was devoted to establishing and then developing a state founded on dispossession and the ethnic cleansing of [the Palestinians].” Peres was elected Prime Minister from 1984 to 1986 and from 1995 to 1996, as well as President from 2007 to 2014.   

Image: Menachem Begin  

Menachem Begin was the leader of the Irgun, a para-military force that carried out the 1946 terrorist attack on The King David Hotel in which 91 were killed as well as the 1948 Deir Yassin Massacre that wiped out an Arab-populated town, killing over 100 people including women and children. The British put Begin on top of their most-wanted list of terrorists. Begin was elected Prime Minister from 1977 to 1983. 

Image: Yitzhak Shamir

Yitzhak Shamir was the leader of Lehi, a terrorist group also known as the “Stern Gang,” which joined with Begin’s Irgun to perpetrate the Deir Yassin Massacre. Shamir was elected Prime Minister from 1986 to 1992. 

Image: Ariel Sharon

Ariel Sharon orchestrated the 1953 massacre of 69 Palestinian civilians in Qibya, mostly women and children, while leading “Unit 101,” an infamous Israeli army unit. In 1982, Sharon led the invasion of Lebanon, shelling and besieging Beirut. It was during this campaign that Sharon invited the Lebanese Phalange militia into the refugee camps known as Sabra and Shatila on the outskirts of Beirut, resulting in the massacre of approximately 3,000 Palestinian and Lebanese men, women and children. In 2000, Sharon led a phalanx of more than 1000 troops in a desecration of the al-Aqsa mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, Islam’s third holiest site, thus provoking the Second Intifada. According to the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, this led into ten years of conflict in which “Israeli security forces killed 6371 Palestinians, of whom 1317 were minors,” while “Palestinians killed 1083 Israelis … of whom 124 were minors.” Sharon was elected Prime Minister from 2001 to 2006. 

It was the 2023 Israeli desecration of this same al-Aqsa mosque which precipitated the Hamas attack of Oct. 7 named Operation Al-Aqsa Storm.

Image: Ehud Barak

In 1998, Ehud Barak, former Israeli special forces commando, Israeli Defense Force Chief of Staff, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, stated: “If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I would join, at some point, one of the terrorist groups.” Barak was elected Prime Minister from 1999 to 2001.  

In the above-mentioned votes on U.N. resolutions condemning Israeli policy, the United States generally is one of very few countries that votes with Israel. (Similarly, in votes condemning the U.S. blockade of Cuba, Israel joins with the U.S. in opposition. For example, in November, 2022, when the U.N. for the thirtieth time passed a resolution condemning this embargo, 185 countries voted in favor, with only the U.S. and Israel opposed.) 

On Oct. 27, 2023, 120 countries passed a U.N. resolution calling for “an immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities” and the demand for “the immediate, continuous, sufficient and unhindered provision of essential goods and services to civilians throughout the Gaza Strip, including but not limited to water, food, medical supplies, fuel and electricity,” and “stresses the need to urgently establish a mechanism to ensure the protection of the Palestinian civilian population” and “reaffirms that a just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can only be achieved … on the basis of the two-State solution.”   

Meanwhile, the U.S. with a massive deployment of military force in the Mediterranean is now serving to protect Israel from any interference in its ongoing perpetration of genocide, daring anyone to intervene. 

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Cratered ground and destroyed lives: piecing together the Jabalia camp airstrike

Excerpts from The Guardian article

On Tuesday afternoon, rescuers combed with their hands through surface layers of a tangled mass of concrete and steel, which hours earlier had been homes in the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza.

They were searching for survivors, or the bodies of victims, which the immense force of an Israeli airstrike had left near the surface. Those trapped deeper may be entombed for months.

After more than three weeks of intense bombardment of Gaza, heavy machinery can no longer reach bomb sites down damaged roads, and people on the ground say fuel to operate machines is running out.

Even so, body bags piled up with horrific speed at the morgue of the nearby Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahia, and then outside the building. The wounded filled its beds or were raced to Dar al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, where medics from the Médicins Sans Frontiers aid group struggled to find space even for badly injured children.

“Young children arrived at the hospital with deep wounds and severe burns. They came without their families,” said Mohammed Hawajreh, an MSF nurse who was quoted by the organisation in a statement condemning the attack.

“Many were screaming and asking for their parents. I stayed with them until we could find a place, as the hospital was full with patients.”

On Wednesday night, a Hamas-run government media office said at least 195 Palestinians had been killed in two rounds of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Earlier, the surgical director of the Indonesian hospital, Mohamed el-Ron, told the BBC it received 400 casualties, including 120 dead, and the majority were women and children. Several of the most severely wounded were transferred to the Al-Shifa hospital “under fire”, he added.

The pulverising attack on Jabalia came as Israeli ground troops pushed into Gaza from at least three directions. A spokesman for the Israeli military said the attack had been authorised to assassinate a senior Hamas commander and destroy his base.

IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari named the target as Ibrahim Biari, commander of Central Jabaliya Battalion, who he said had been leading fighting in northern Gaza from a network of tunnels under the camp.

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Criag Mokhiber, a top official from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in his resignation letter dated 28 October asserts:

“As a human rights lawyer with more than three decades of experience in the field, I know well that the concept of genocide has often been subject to political abuse. But the current wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people, rooted in an ethno-nationalist settler colonial ideology, in continuation of decades of their systematic persecution and purging, based entirely upon their status as Arabs, and coupled with explicit statements of intent by leaders in the Israeli government and military, leaves no room for doubt or debate. In Gaza, civilian homes, schools, churches, mosques, and medical institutions are wantonly attacked as thousands of civilians are massacred. In the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, homes are seized and reassigned based entirely on race, and violent settler pogroms are accompanied by Israeli military units. Across the land, Apartheid rules.

This is a text-book case of genocide. The European, ethno-nationalist, settler colonial project in Palestine has entered its final phase, toward the expedited destruction of the last remnants of indigenous Palestinian life in Palestine. What’s more, the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, and much of Europe, are wholly complicit in the horrific assault.”

Let us read the roots of this text-book chapter of atrocities which goes far before the 7^th of October. Israel has successfully killed more than 10,000 innocent people in Gaza including around 3,500 children. Targeting houses and big buildings including hospitals and schools has been key to achieve this impressive number of loss of lives in three weeks.

You know Israel is fighting to defend itself against the terror of Hamas who has not approved the almighty potent Israel will to take over all the Palestinian land and transfer the remaining of the Palestinian people whom Ben Gurion had somehow failed to expel in the 1948 independence war or the Nakba of Palestine which witnessed a smart ethnic cleansing of the peaceful people of Palestine with Israel grabbing around 80 percent of mandate Palestine.

Palestine was cleansed in 1948, Israeli neo-historians were among the first to assert this very simple fact: massacres, force, and intimidation were the means to achieve that historic accomplishment. After two decades Israel captured the rest of Palestine, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip which stands for barely the fifth of the land of Palestine. Gradually the Palestinian national liberation movement, the PLO, was convinced that “realistic” solution of giving up the 1948 land and establishing a state on the 1967 borders is a viable solution. However, Israel has never been on the same page. After the Oslo agreement, the Israelis became more decided to carry out a new cunning and patient ethnic cleansing in the West Bank if not in Gaza as well.

The Israelis were convinced that peace and love were going to prevail giving them all necessary time needed to accomplish their cleansing plan. That has been the scenario in the wishful thinking of Israel and the U.S. Unfortunately history has proved that it’s more cunning than that and the story would produce another plot of its own and then, only then, Americans as well as Israelis probably would remember that they would produce another smart and revolutionary Hezbollah in Palestine. Their arms and financial support to the PA in Ramallah have been only undermining the little credibility that it had in the beginning, changing it into completely traitor gangsters in the eyes of the Palestinian people. But let us forget about all this and try to read some history.

American mainstream politics does not like talking about the past. They prefer always to start from the “here and now”, but who can blame them?

When everybody knows that this would entail starting that entire boring story about how they conducted a fabulous genocide war against the native people then imported a few millions from Africa to be enslaved at the temple of American unbelievable heavens of democracy. How could any reasonable man expect America’s politics to fall in love with historical studies?

However, there is no choice. When you face Arabs – a stupid Semitic people – there is no way to avoid history. They would permanently ask for some historical evidence to support your argument or claim…etc. That’s why –perhaps- Moshe Dayan made use of his leisure time to develop his talents as an archeologist. With Arabs you need some narration. And here the narration goes back to some 700 years before Christ when there were some small cities all over greater Syria which were inhabited by the Canaanite people. Some of the Canaanite people would go to Iraq through the Assyrian wars and there they would stay for almost two centuries. When the Persian Empire conquered Iraq, those Canaanites would be converted into monotheism, and they would be sent back to Palestine as a different people. They are the proxy of the Persian Empire’s interest in the area. There had been empires long ago before Columbus arrived in what is now known as the Americas.

In general the Canaanites of Syria had to become gradually Arabs. It’s only those who went to Iraq who developed a new identity as Jews. And that sect had never had any problems with its native brothers.

However, it suffered with foreigners like the Romans and the Crusades. When the Arabs were defeated in Spain in the late decades of the fifteen century, the Spanish started their bloody party with the Arabs and the (Arab) Jews before turning towards the new world to practice the worst genocide and holocaust in history. In less than a century they reduced the population of the “Americas” by more than 90%, almost a hundred million had been killed.

One need not be smart to tell how “different” peoples were treated by the Europeans in the medieval and modern times. The Jews suffered through that history as or even worse than anybody taken to be a heretic or a Muslim or a latin Averroesist. There was no chance for assimilation. Despite the fact that they were citizens of modern Europe, this sadly could make no difference. Just look at these heavens of democracy and see how “others” have been treated, even long before 9/11. They were saved there for the justification of bad luck with nature or God or economy. Human beings in their mythological eras need some “magical” and “supernatural” interpretation of their suffering and the Jews were very appropriate for that ideological/psychological job.

Napoleon had the merit of finding some “business” for the Jews. Why not use them in the war against Britain? He brought the idea of the Jews establishing their state in their promised land Palestine. But Napoleon fell sooner than he thought. And that idea had to wait till India became so important for the British imperialist activities in the 19th century. The British capitalism is indebted to India more than anything else in the “hegemonic” position that it achieved in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

In the context of the invasion of Egypt and later Palestine itself at the end of the First World War (1917), Great Britain adopted Napoleon’s idea. And then the application of the idea did not take more than thirty years. By 1949 Palestine was almost cleansed –to use the term used nowadays by most historians including prominent Israeli historians like Ilan Pappe- and Israel was established on 80% percent of the land of Palestine. And in 1967 Israel in a lightening and fascinating war defeated Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, and so captured a lot of the Arab land including the remaining 20% of Palestine.

Israel did its best since that time to create a situation where there would be nothing called Palestine for Palestinians to claim. When it ran short of Jewish immigration in the last two decades it started to “import” all sorts of “white” people including Russian Orthodox Christian. Some researchers think that a million of them had immigrated to Israel in the 1990s.

Now the Palestinian Arabs- unluckily- are still wandering in the neighborhood. They have not disappeared, which make the story a little bit more complicated than that of the Native American people –the red Indians.

And despite many similarities, history does not look like repeating itself. At the moment the Palestinians are asking for only 22% of their land which was left in 1948. Personally, I think that the best thing for both sides is a one state for Palestinians and white European Israelis. However, Israel is still thinking that there is some hope for some ways –massacres, cleansing, transference, etc. to get rid of the Palestinians completely. This is of course possible, but there is also another possibility that the U.S. loses its powerful hegemonic position or losing its interest in the Middle East after oil withers away and then Israel would not be in the same situation of dominating Arabs and Palestinians so easily.

That’s why I think it’s even in the interest of Israel to give up its racist identity and practices, and to try to be assimilated in the area as part of the Arab world. Being a European white man’s colony is not in favor of the interests of Israel if it hopes to be a normal part of that region of the world. The problem is that the elites in Tel Aviv are now more than any time in the past seeing themselves as superior white people. I do not think this identification with European supremacy is going to be particularly helpful in the common life in this little land. However, this is another story that needs some independent treatment.

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Is the mass slaughter of civilians self-defence?

Every person has the right to life and to self-defence, but Israel’s “right to self-defence” is constantly being used to obfuscate the non-defensive nature of its military violence in Palestinian territory.

Israel’s self-defence is a lie, not just because their actions are not defensive but because Israel cannot legally use its military in self-defence against Palestinians.

Let me repeat that, Israel cannot legally use its military against Palestinians in self-defence. That is the big lie at the heart of the current horrors.

There are four reasons why Israel cannot cite a legal right to self-defence in response to Palestinian violence.

First and foremost is that the ability of a very strong military power to achieve anything defensive by the attrition of a much weaker military power is spurious and leads into the genocidal logic of attempting to deprive a people of all capacity for violence.

The second reason is that Israel is actively contravening UN Security Council resolutions and the UN Charter is very clear on the fact that the right to self-defence exists “until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.” A state that works to thwart UNSC measures to maintain peace and security cannot logically be extended the unimpaired right to self defence.

On the third count Israel is an occupying power and the occupied have a legal right to armed resistance. It would be nonsensical to accord a legal right to use arms to defend against another’s legal resistance.

Fourthly, it would be equally paradoxical to allow each party to act in self-defence against each other’s acts of self defence. Thus one of the parties must be the aggressor. On several counts, not least its defiance of UNSC resolutions, Israel must be considered the aggressor.

File photo of illegal Israeli settlements

Israel’s only legitimate way of defending itself begins with ending its occupation. Israelis have a right to life and they deserve peace and security as we all do, but they have no right to kill Palestinians and claim that they are pursuing those things.

Before tackling the specifics we should question the general validity of military violence as a form of self-defence.

At this time hundreds of people are killed by Israel everyday under the pretext of seeking to render Hamas 100% ineffective. This is a tacit claim of self-defence linked to the notion that Hamas is an ongoing source of potential violence to Israelis. However it is hard to reconcile this rationale with the actualities when one sees a parade of children’s corpses.

One body after another with the increasingly familiar pall of concrete dust on their lifeless faces. Thinking of all of that pain, fear and suffering should make it impossible to somehow see killing those children as an act of self-defence.

The human instinct to reject this monstrosity is not mere sentimentality. It would be impossible to make a sound detailed argument to show how the killing of any one of these children contributed materially to the increased security of Israelis. In truth it is far easier to argue that each dead Palestinian child makes Israeli people less secure.

Israel relies on broad and vague notions of “self-defence” to enact mass violence that does nothing to make any person safer and, in fact, is certain to cost the lives of many Israel personnel and any number of hostages.

Military violence can only achieve so much as no amount of attrition will deprive a people of all ability to commit violence in return short of extermination. Beyond a point violence becomes waged “not merely against states and their armies but against peoples.” These were the words that Raphäel Lemkin when he first described the concept of genocide. Military violence can be used in ways that can only be called “self-defence” through the logic of genocide that situates the threat within the people and their intrinsic capacity for violence (also known as resistance). This is not legitimate self-defence, yet it is clearly part of the racist thinking of some Israelis and their apologists elsewhere.

It is actually normal that the logic of genocide presents itself as self-defence. Consider this quote by Arnon Soffer, the pre-eminent alarmist in Israel over the “demographic” threat of Palestinians:

“When 2.5 million people live in a closed-off Gaza, it’s going to be a human catastrophe. Those people will become even bigger animals than they are today … The pressure at the border will be awful. It’s going to be a terrible war. So, if we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day … the only thing that concerns me is how to ensure the boys and men who are going to have to do the killing will be able to return home to their families and be normal human beings.”

This is the reasoning of someone who has no concern for military power, who will never accept Israel’s overwhelming military might and nuclear deterrent as a sufficient lever ensure that Israel can be secure in a time of peace. These words are shockingly Himmleresque in labelling a people animals; in stating that mass killing is neither choice nor desire, but necessity; and in the sickening concern that mass killing might cause psychological harm to Israeli personnel.

Adolf Eichmann and others at the Wannsee Conference shared Himmler’s fear of the effect of killing on the murderers and it was a major consideration in their adoption of the “Final Solution” which industrialised the mass-murder of Jews.

Soffer later explained:

“I didn’t recommend that we kill Palestinians. I said we’ll have to kill them. I was right about mounting demographic pressures. I am also entitled to defend myself and my country.”

It is difficult to imagine any Israeli getting closer to Nazi rhetoric than this, but it says something that his ideas were not immediately denounced by everyone in Israel for what they are. This is the essence of genocide. Though referencing the circumstances in Gaza, he is openly saying that Palestinians must be killed because they are Palestinians.

In contrast to genocidal notions, the theory behind using military power in self-defence draws on the idea that warfare is a contestation of belligerents using violence in a manner, as Clausewitz suggested, of wrestlers: “Each strives by physical force to compel the other to submit to his will….” This begins from the presupposition that each belligerent has diametrically opposed aims, which might have sufficed in the 19^th century, but does not suit our more complex polities today.

In reality, war is not a chess game and killing babies is not in any way the same as taking a pawn from the board, yet the use of aerial and ground artillery on populated areas implies that this brutal madness makes sense. We are tricked by the notion that the “self-defence” of nations is truly analogous to the self-defence of an individual using a weapon to counter an assailant. That analogy breaks down in an era of high-tech weaponry and in circumstances of asymmetry where the strong are killing the weak. Leaders and pundits often twist the notion of asymmetry itself to suggest that the strong are more vulnerable to the weak and are thus the real victims, but this is just one of those lies that are repeated so constantly that it becomes a commonplace.

Despite the clear disproportionate asymmetry of violence and the ever-growing numbers of people killed by Israel the media discourse enforces a framework that decontextualises Israeli violence, presenting it as a reaction to the violence of Hamas.

Pro-Palestinian and pro-peace interviewees on Western media cannot speak without first making pronouncements affirming that they condemn Hamas’ “terrorist” violence and affirming Israel’s “right to defend itself”. These statements function as “thought-terminating clichés”, though in such instances they might be more aptly called “thought-terminating pieties”. Pieties go beyond mere clichés to invoke moralistic religious, patriotic, or other emotive ideological beliefs that create both a dominant sentiment as well as a constrictive framework of discourse. They close off certain avenues of speech, so that those who speak for Palestinians must begin by stating that Israel has a legal and moral right to kill Palestinians, and then take the stance of a supplicant begging for moderation, clemency, or mercy.

Of late Palestinians and others have pushed back against the pressure to commence their testimony and commentary with a condemnation of Hamas. They are trying to evade a narrative in which events commence with a condemnable act by Hamas and thus Israel’s massive surge of killing and destruction is framed as a reaction to Palestinian violence. This framework decontextualises events from the occupation and oppression including the ongoing acts of killing and destruction which Israeli personnel enact every single day in Palestine.

The “self-defence” argument is even more insidious than the attempt to frame all Israeli military violence as being in reaction to “terrorism”. It relies on a persistent but unrecognised one-sidedness. One cannot deny the right for Israelis to defend their lives, but nor can one deny the right of Palestinians to defend their lives. If Israel can kill Palestinian civilians in “self-defence” and present its own reasons to explain why such killings are necessary, then logic dictates that Hamas can do the exactly the same. Thus it may seem that if applied even-handedly “self-defence” becomes totally meaningless.

It may surprise people to know that in legal terms the problem of self-defence is not tricky nor intractable. Israel very clearly does not have the right to use military violence and claim self-defence on several grounds. Firstly, an occupied people has the right to resistance, including armed resistance, “in or outside their own territory”. Obviously it would be illogical to accord a legal right to armed resistance and then accord a legal right to collective self-defence against that legal resistance.

Thankfully the United Nations Charter has a way out of the paradoxes of allowing two belligerents the right to self-defence against each other’s self-defence and that of allowing self-defence against legal acts of resistance. Chapter VII of Article 51 states

“Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.”

Clearly “peace and security” has not been established but the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has passed many resolutions on Palestine. Israel is currently violating a very large number of these resolutions ranging at least as far back as UNSCR 242 in 1967 through to UNSCR 2334 in 2016. These violations are occurring despite the fact that the US constantly vetoes UNSC resolutions that it deems detrimental to Israel. Logically cannot claim a legal right to self-defence if it violates the UNSC resolutions designed to bring “peace and security” thus its real path to legitimate self-defence lies first and foremost in complying with all relevant resolutions. In simple terms Israel must end its occupation as the very first of any acts of self-defence. Thus it does have the right to self defence but it must cease its own belligerency first.

I want to complicate this further here, but in a way that will lead to greater elegance and certainty, by explaining the onus on the aggressor. In 1946 the International Military Tribunal described waging a war of aggression as “the supreme international crime” that “contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” Placing the onus on the aggressor (which is the government of the state not its people) in this way does not exonerate those who commit crimes in self-defence, but it means that the aggressor is also guilty. It is only thus that we can preserve the principle that all people have the right to life. Without the aggressor being morally and legally culpable it would mean not only that the military personnel of the aggressor belligerent have no right to life, but also that civilians of that state have no right to life if they should become legitimate collateral damage in legal military operations by the defending belligerent. This emphasis on the culpability of the aggressor is very satisfying because it closes these loopholes and also satisfies our moral instinct that a sovereign that wages aggressive war, knowingly sacrificing the lives of their own people, is guilty of the murder of those killed.

Gaza, 2023 (Source: Trong Khiem Nguyen Flickr)

We need to pause here to reflect on our habitual callousness towards death in times of conflict. Death in wartime is so inevitable that we become inured to to its nature. Deaths caused by armed conflict tend to be terrifying, agonising, lonely, and brutally untimely. The grief of needless loss over those who usually have health and life to spare is not lessened because death becomes so statistical when the machinery of killing is unleashed. War is an abomination and every person who is currently working to prevent a ceasefire in Gaza is a criminal.

As things currently stand Israel has such a grip on the framing of the Western media coverage that it can get away with claiming its murders in Gaza are all part of a campaign to eradicate Hamas and that this is a legitimate act of self-defence.

Of course, anyone who goes beyond the Western media (Al Jazeera being the easiest outlet to escape the censored narrative) will know that Israel is targeting civilians, hospitals, churches, ambulances, and so forth.

For those who see only the Western media they must deal with the cognitive dissonance of seeing the death, destruction, and suffering and being told that it is arguably some form of self-defence. The trick with the Western media is not to state outright that Israel’s self-defence claims are true, but to avoid all facts or basic reasoning that gives lie to that claim.

Once those who support peace and humanity learn to counter Israel’s claims to the right to use violence in “self-defence” it will be another foundation of the propaganda narrative removed. Brave individuals are challenging the demand to begin all media interviews by condemning Hamas and refusing to accept timelines that always assert that cycles of violence begin with Palestinian actions. They need to add to that by rejecting Israel’s right to use arms in self-defence.

The way to counter the distortions of the Western media is to attack the borders of the narrative where they are thinnest and most strained. Some ideas are the sledgehammers that break through walls of cognitive dissonance, forcing people to unite what their eyes see and what their emotional and moral senses tell them with their intellectual framework – the story that they force facts and feelings into. When people see bombing, missiles and siege warfare against a powerless people the imagery does not naturally lend itself to a conclusion of violence waged for defensive purposes. To break the argument we need to attack the very validity of Israel’s claims.

An occupier cannot use arms in self-defence until they cease being the occupier.

The aggressor cannot be the defender.

Genocide is never justified. The violence of those who see others as a threat because of their membership in a “national, ethnical, racial or religious group” is the defining character of genocide. It is always framed as self-defence.

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Since November 1, western-based media outlets have spent considerable time focusing on the events surrounding the limited openings of the Rafah Crossing on the border between the southern Gaza Strip and Egypt.

Since the beginning of Operation Al-Aqsa Storm on October 7, the State of Israel has pledged to eliminate the Hamas resistance movement from Gaza which has been designated as the most densely populated area in the world.

In addition to the characterization of high density, Gaza has been labelled as the largest open-air prison in the world. These circumstances are not the result of decisions made by the Palestinian people or of neighboring Egypt. These draconian conditions emanate from the domestic and foreign policies imposed on the Palestinians by Tel Aviv along with their backers in the United States and their allies. 

The blanket bombing of Gaza over the last three-and-one-half weeks has been accompanied by the demands of the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Palestinians to leave the northern region of the Strip and head towards the South. Such utterances have coincided with the aerial strikes on residential neighbors, refugee camps, hospitals, mosques, civilian convoys and churches which have killed nearly 9,000 people and injured tens of thousands more.

These attacks on the people of Gaza would be designated as war crimes by the United Nations if the U.S. and other imperialist states did not maintain veto power over the administrative conduct of the Security Council. The U.S. has consistently voted against all resolutions aimed at declaring an immediate ceasefire and the resumption of aid to meet the needs of the Palestinians in Gaza. Instead, the position of Washington is that Israel, a settler-colonial state, has the right to defend itself against the liberation movements among the Palestinians seeking to end the occupation and create an independent state. 

Obviously, the orders to evacuate and the targeted bombing of civilians, are designed to force the Palestinians out of Gaza and into Egypt. Many have described the current policy of the Israeli state and the U.S. as an attempt to initiate another Al Nakba (the catastrophe), where in 1948 after the recognition by the then United Nations of the State of Israel, at least 750, 000 Palestinians were forced from their homes.

Prior to the advent of the Camp David Accords of 1979, brokered by the U.S. administration of President Jimmy Carter, and signed by the then Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, the North African state had played a leading role in supporting the liberation of Palestine and the halting of the expansionist imperatives of Tel Aviv. Although limited concessions were granted by Israel and its imperialist financiers such as the removal of Israeli troops out of the Sinai, the Zionists soon renewed the building of settlements for the Jewish population confiscating even more land than what had been taken during the wars of 1948 and 1967.

During the recent crisis, the Egyptian government has expressed reluctance to allow more than two million Palestinian refugees to cross over into its territory. There are sound reasons for this view on the part of Cairo. The removal of the Palestinian population from Gaza into Egypt would in essence liquidate the Camp David Accord. Even if the Palestinians were forced into Egypt they would continue to organize for the reclaiming of their historic homeland. Consequently, the Israeli Defense Forces would inevitably launch bombing operations and possibly ground incursions inside of Egypt against the Palestinians and their organizations.

African Union and Arab League Issues Joint Statement on Gaza Siege

In the aftermath of the wars cited above and the acquisition of independence by the majority of African states, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the predecessor of the African Union (AU), took a clear position in support of Palestine and other states which fell victim to the imperialist-instigated seizure of land by Israel. The African liberation movements formed solid alliances with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) which was formed during the 1960s. 

A controversial decision in early 2022 which was soon suspended, where the AU Commission Chair, Moussa Faki Mahamat, granted the State of Israel observer status within continental organization, drew the ire of numerous governments. A debate over the decision at the next AU Summit threatened to split the continental body. Strong objections to Mahamat’s decision by Algeria and South Africa resulted in the maintenance of the existing status-quo where the State of Palestine would continue to enjoy its observer designation within the AU.

The Abraham Accords initiative fostered by the U.S. has also impacted AU member-states. The former U.S. President Donald Trump pressured then interim-Prime Minister of the Republic of Sudan, Abdalla Hamdok, to illegally recognize Tel Aviv in blatant violation of its own Israel Boycott Act of 1958. The Abraham Accords are designed to undermine international solidarity for the Palestinian movement by the signing of documents that purportedly give legitimacy to the settler-colonial project in Palestine. 

However, as a result of the offensive by the Palestinian resistance forces on October 7, the AU has issued two statements which condemn the actions of the State of Israel. The first AU statement was issued on October 7 saying:

“The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union, Moussa Faki Mahamat, expresses his utmost concern at the outbreak of the current Israeli-Palestinian hostilities, causing grave consequences for the lives of Israeli and Palestinian civilians in particular, and for peace in the region, in general. The Chairperson wishes to recall that denial of the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people, particularly that of an independent and sovereign State, is the main cause of the permanent Israeli-Palestinian tension. The Chairperson urgently appeals to both parties to put an end to military hostilities and to return, without conditions, to the negotiating table to implement the principle of two States living side by side, to safeguard the interests of the Palestinian people and the Israeli people. The Chairperson further calls on the international community, and the major world powers in particular, to assume their responsibilities to impose peace and guarantee the rights of the two peoples.” 

Despite the mentioning of a “two-state solution”, the AU Commission Chair placed the onus of the conflict on the refusal of Israel and the U.S. to move towards a genuine political settlement to the Palestinian question.

The failure of the Oslo Accords of 1993 revealed clearly the unwillingness on the part of the Israeli state and successive U.S. administrations to allow an independent Palestinian state. 

The only real prospects for peace in Palestine center around the creation of a unitary state where full equality and self-determination for the Arab population would serve as its cornerstone. Under such a dispensation, all Palestinians and their descendants forced from the homeland since 1948 would be granted the “right of return” to fully participate in the internal politics of an independent and sovereign state. 

Later, on October 15, the AU and the League of Arab States issued a joint statement on the situation in Gaza. The statement read in part that:

“The General Secretariate of the League of Arab States (LAS) and the African Union Commission (AUC) call for the immediate cessation of hostilities in Gaza, and a concerted international effort to provide basic assistance and urgent humanitarian aid to 2.2 million Palestinians. Both organizations express grave concern over the Israeli order for more than one million Palestinians to leave their homes, contrary to international law. Therefore, they call on the United Nations and the international community to stop a catastrophe from unfolding in front of us, before it is too late. They both stressed the pressing need to avoid escalation, underscoring that an Israeli invasion would undoubtedly entail a huge number of civilian casualties, including women and children, which could lead to a genocide of unprecedented proportions. Calling on the international community to live up to the shared principles of humanity and justice, both LAS and AUC underscored the imperative of collective action to immediately prevent a protracted aggression against the Palestinians.” 

With specific reference to the Republic of South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa proposed the deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping force to Occupied Palestine as a measure to potentially calm the current crisis. However, such a force would not be effective particularly considering the disproportionate influence of the U.S. within the framework of the UN. 

On a mass level, there is overwhelming support for the Palestinian cause among the peoples of Africa, Asia and throughout the world. The political implications of this solidarity even inside the imperialist states carries the potential for upending the unconditional support for Tel Aviv among its staunchest allies.   

During each week since the siege of Gaza began, millions continue to demonstrate in the streets for an immediate ceasefire and the liberation of Palestine. The increasing isolation of the U.S., its allies and the State of Israel related to the Palestinian question is a welcome development within the broader movement to end imperialist war throughout the globe.

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Spain – Sep. 22, 2023 (Translated) – Three parents denounce Ministry of Health for the sudden death of their children after taking the Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine.

Juan José, Marvellous and Daniel were 12, 13 and 14 years old, respectively, when they died suddenly playing sports.

Their names are Juan José Quirós López (12), Marvellous Ounanefe Johnson Andrews (13) and Daniel Herce Rodríguez (14). They were 12, 13, and 14 years old, respectively. No previous history of pathologies. They died suddenly from hypertrophic heart disease – the first two – and cardiac arrhythmia. Their parents, who assure THE OBJECTIVE they were “perfectly healthy” before vaccination, blame it on the Covid-19 vaccine, and this Thursday (Sep.21) they have filed a complaint with the State Attorney General’s Office for homicide due to serious recklessness, genetic manipulation, threats, coercion, public health, prevarication, against moral integrity with damage to life and abuse of authority.

This means has accompanied the parents to file the complaint, which has been drafted by the Liberum Association, and that is directed against the former Ministers of Health Salvador Illa and Carolina Darias. A posteriori, they have addressed the Ministry that is located in Madrid’s Paseo del Prado to deliver it with the intention of investigating their cases. They have been asking for it for a year, but it has been in vain.

“We want justice to be done, and more parents to join our complaint” they sob before this journalist. Daniel died suddenly while lying on the sofa at home. “I thought he had fallen asleep, but then he didn’t get up”, remembers Diana, his mother. Her son had been vaccinated with (Pfizer) lot FG7898, that registered adverse effects. Marvellous and Juan José, on the other hand, the same batch of Pfizer vaccine had been injected, FG9428. Both died suddenly, one playing soccer and the other in the schoolyard.

The complaint, to which you have had access THE OBJECTIVE in its entirety, regrets that “from the administrations and health authorities pretend that [the parents] believe that these deaths should be classified as natural death, and that the possibility of the recognized adverse effect of the vaccines against COVID-19 has not even been raised, so that, in addition one of the minors [Juan] will become infected with SARS-CoV-2, after two inoculations, giving positive to the PCR post mortem”.

Parents report that their children were “perfectly healthy”, and that they only began to experience respiratory complications after inoculation. “My child began to suffocate when he ran, had never happened to him”, says Soledad, representing the parents of the young man from Malaga, who are still very “affected” to have been able to appear in the Prosecutor’s Office. He still cries when reviewing the text of the complaint, he sees the image of the body of his nephew.

A “Natural Death”? 

Parents report that the only explanation they received is that their minor children had died “naturally”, and that it was probably due to a “hereditary” issue. “How will it be natural for a 12-year-old athlete to die suddenly?”, clamor Soledad, Juan José’s aunt. To Felix, Marvellous’s father, has already undergone numerous cardiac tests.

“It seems that the Institute of Legal Medicine is desperately looking for one of the parents to have a heart condition”, complains Alexis Aneas, Liberum’s lawyer representing the complainants. He recalls that Felix’s son “had federal recognition in September and declared him fit to play”. He died in December. The complaint states that the heart of the deceased was “increased in size”: 480 grams when it was to oscillate around 344.

“Pfizer recognized early that tens of thousands of effects of myocarditis in young people”, recalls Aneas, who is also an expert in health issues, who abounds: “It makes sense because the age group where pathologies appear is 12 to 15 years old, who received the adult dose. From 5 to 11, the vaccine has a third of the dose. The ailment can occur because the Spike protein that is replicated by the vaccine lodges in the receptors of the heart tissue and generates an autoimmune disease, which causes thickening of the myocardium, what is known as pericarditis or arrhythmia”.

Effects of COVID-19 Vaccines

Alexis Aneas also wonders “how it will be natural for an athlete child to die of an arrhythmia”. Liberum’s spokesman says they are “fed up with administrations telling us that people die by chance”, and points to Daniel’s case. “He had neuronal damage that could be due to the fact that the substance generates prions that cross the brain barrier, as demonstrated by a study that we attached in the complaint”, a suspicion, since “what we want is for it to be investigated”.

The complaint is also directed against the president of the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS), Silvia Calzón, and the director, Maria Jesus Lamas, as well as “any other authority that, from the investigative actions, derives criminal liability for the events reported”.

In this one, it charges against Pfizer and Moderna, noting that “according to the clinical trial, eight cases of COVID-19 were recorded in the vaccinated group out of a total of 18,198 participants 7 days after receiving the second dose; while in the placebo group 162 cases were recorded out of 18,325 participants”.

With these data, the laboratory advertised an efficacy of 95% of the vaccine compared to the non-inoculated ones. But from Liberum they denounce that “this form of expression of efficacy of a medicine is biased and misleading”: “In absolute terms, the reality was that the incidence of PCR+ had been 0.8% in the placebo group (162 / 18,325), compared to 0.04% in the vaccinated group (8 / 18,198), a difference of 0.76%”. Based on this data they ask, “why did children have to be vaccinated, when the best interests of the minor should prevail, if they are not a reservoir of this disease?”

Call to More Parents 

This is the first complaint in which parents hold the authorities to account for the death of their children after vaccination against COVID-19. The Diario de Sevilla newspaper reported last June on how at least seven people had reported serious injuries to Health after receiving any of the doses of the coronavirus remedy. One of them, represented by the law firm of Fernando Osuna, claimed more than one million euros for having lost “97% of his vision”, in addition to having limitations in his legs.

The intention of the complaint is also to call other parents who find themselves in a similar situation to action. “These three deaths of young athletes, performing physical activity, are not the only ones in our country”, reads the complaint, which exposes dozens of cases, with screenshots from journalistic publications, of deaths of other minors doing sports.

From the Liberum Association they ask the health authorities a question: “How many more deceased children do they need, to start investigating?”.

Sep. 25, 2023 – Spain: Parents sue ex-Ministers of Health for the death of their children after vaccination.

Ontario man files $35.6 million lawsuit against Pfizer over son’s vaccine death.

New Tecumseth, ON, resident Dan Hartman has initiated a wrongful death lawsuit against Pfizer because his son Sean died from the COVID-19 vaccine. 

“On the morning of September 27, 2021, 33 days after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination, Sean Hartman was found deceased in his bedroom by his mother,” said Sheikh Law lawyer Umar Sheikh in a court filing. 

“The Plaintiff pleads that Sean Hartman died as a result of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination.” 

Dan was denied money from the Vaccine Injury Support Program in March despite Sean dying after getting the COVID-19 vaccine. 

“My son died 33 days after his first Pfizer vaccine and he was a perfectly healthy boy with no underlying conditions,” he said. 

He took a COVID-19 vaccine to be allowed to play hockey. Dan said he took him to the emergency room four days after his first dose because he had brown circles around his eyes, a rash on his face and pain in his right shoulder. 

American pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole determined in July Sean died from the COVID-19 vaccine.  

Cole examined his tissues, finding spike protein in his adrenal glands.

“The adrenal glands control your blood pressure, so if Sean’s blood pressure dropped, he would have died,” said Dan. 

Dan is seeking $35.6 million in damages; specialized damages to be determined prior to the trial; prejudgment and post-judgment interest; the costs of the proceeding, including all applicable taxes; and further relief the court considers just. 

Sheikh said Pfizer “owed a duty of care to Sean Hartman to accurately inform him of all risks associated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination.” He added it owed him a duty to warn him of the risks associated with the safety and efficacy of these vaccines. 

When it comes to the standard of care, Dan pleaded Pfizer breached it for the manufacturing, testing, sale, reporting and administration of its vaccines. 

With the standard of care, Sheikh alleged it was breached when it disregarded and misrepresented the results of the safety trials by providing an incorrect characterization of the efficacy data; discounting results of adverse events on vaccinated people in the study; not highlighting all results and adverse events revealed in the studies conducted; and not stopping their administration on Canadians due to known safety concerns. 

Dan pleaded Pfizer negligently misrepresented the safety of the vaccine and did not disclose the risks associated with it, which include but are not limited to myocarditis and pericarditis. 

The particulars include failing to disclose people under 40 years old had an increased risk of myocarditis after taking the vaccine, rates of myocarditis were higher in adolescent males, inadequate testing was performed to ensure their safety and efficacy, failing to complete post-market surveillance and inform the Canadian government and the public of the results, failing to disclose the issues with the vaccine, and failing to identify, implement, and verify procedures to address post-market surveillance risks. 

He accused Pfizer of improper product distribution when it was being sold. This is because the foreseeable risks exceeded the benefits associated with the product, it was more dangerous than ordinary consumers would expect, it did not have adequate, effective warnings and instructions over these dangers, inadequate testing and it was unfit for the purpose for which it was intended. 

Sheikh concluded by saying Pfizer “concealed the fact the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination had severe possible risks and outcomes when administered, including but not limited to myocarditis, pericarditis and death, to the public, healthcare providers, and regulatory authorities, including Health Canada.” 

“The Plaintiff pleads that the wrongful death of his son Sean Hartman was caused by the negligence of the Defendant,” he said.

My Take…

The criminal complaints and lawsuits have begun.

It is crucial for parents of children killed by COVID-19 Vaccines to join forces, and support each other in battling large corrupt pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna and in holding Health Officials and politicians personally liable for the injuries and deaths they caused.

I believe in time we will discover that many politicians and Healthcare Leaders received bribes or some form of “compensation” to push toxic experimental COVID-19 vaccines they knew would injure or kill many of the recipients, including pregnant women and children.

The battle for justice is only beginning.

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The Gaza Strip’s only hospital for cancer treatment was damaged after it was struck by Israeli war jets, the hospital’s director said Monday.

The Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza was attacked for a second time since Israel’s relentless bombing campaign on the besieged Gaza Strip began on 7 October.

The hospital’s cancer patients were left in a “state of panic”, the hospital’s director general, Dr. Subhi Skaik, said on Facebook.

“A state of panic afflicts cancer patients and medical staff as a result of the heavy Israeli bombardment of the only Turkish Friendship Hospital for cancer patients in the Gaza Strip and the infliction of severe damage to it as a result of the Israeli occupation repeatedly targeting its surroundings,” Dr Skaik said.

“The [Israeli forces] not only increased the suffering and pain of cancer patients and deprived them of medicines and travel for treatment abroad, but it now endangered their lives by targeting the hospital surroundings,” he added. 

In separate comments to the Turkish news agency Anadolu, Dr. Skaik said that the Israeli air strikes hit the third floor of the hospital building causing “extensive damage, as a fire broke out in the floor before being contained”.

The Israeli bombing damaged some of the electromechanical systems, as well as exposed medical staff and patients alike to danger, he added.

"لحظة قصف الاحتلال مستشفى الصداقة التركي الفلسطيني الوحيد لمرضى السرطان في قطاع غزة" pic.twitter.com/n7phaA6AVQ

— وكالة شهاب للأنباء (@ShehabAgency) October 30, 2023

Israeli forces had repeatedly bombed the vicinity of the hospital in recent days, according to local media reports.

Turkey condemned Israel’s attack “in the strongest terms” and emphasised that the targeting of hospitals such as Turkish-Palestinian Friendship and the blockade on Gaza were violations of international law.  

“It is inexplicable for such an attack to take place given all the necessary information, including the coordinates of the institution in question, which is the only cancer hospital in Gaza, was shared with Israeli authorities in advance,” Turkey’s foreign ministry said in a statement on X. 

“The siege in Gaza, aimed at depriving the Palestinian people of their most basic rights, and these inhumane attacks, clearly violate international law,” the statement added. 

Press Release Regarding Israel’s Attack on the Gaza Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital https://t.co/aVlSoNoIye pic.twitter.com/BVpRpzqkCn

— Turkish MFA (@MFATurkiye) October 30, 2023

A second hospital, Indonesian Hospital, was also hit by Israel in its immediate surroundings on Monday. 

According to the Gaza Health Ministry, the attack led to serious damage and hospitals such as the Indonesian Hospital, as well as houses and places of worship, were repeatedly targeted since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza on October 7.  

“The Israeli attack endangered the lives of hundreds of injured people, patients, medical personnel, journalists and thousands of displaced people,” Gaza Health Ministry spokesman, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said. 

“Under the Geneva Conventions, attacks on hospitals are strictly prohibited,” he added. 

The Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital was built by the Turkish government in 2017 and is considered one of the largest hospitals in the Gaza Strip.

The hospital also operates as a full-fledged training centre for doctors, nurses and paramedic staff. 

The Turkish government-funded hospital also works as a research hospital, where the faculty of medicine of the Islamic University of Gaza are based. 

Israeli forces extended their air and ground attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip – which has been under heavy bombardment since Hamas’ surprise offensive on Israel on 7 October. 

The Palestinian death toll has surpassed 8,525, according to Gaza’s health ministry – including at least 3,500 children.

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Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Organisation for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said 70 per cent of the Palestinian martyrs who have been killed by the ongoing Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip since 7 October are children and women, warning that there is no safe place in Gaza.

He pointed out that churches, mosques, hospitals and civilian facilities housing displaced people have been targeted, describing the Israeli attacks as collective punishment for Palestinians living under siege.

For her part, Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Catherine Russell, explained that the Israeli aggression resulted in the killing of more than 3,400 children and the injury of at least 6,300.

She added that this toll indicates that 420 children were killed or injured every day, stressing “these numbers should shock us to the core.”

She indicated that the Israeli raids resulted in the complete or partial destruction of at least 221 schools and more than 177,000 homes.

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The Israeli military bombed Gaza’s largest refugee camp for the second consecutive day on Wednesday as humanitarian groups and lawmakers called the series of attacks a blatant war crime and slammed the U.S. government for enabling such atrocities.

Wednesday’s attack reportedly killed and wounded “a number of” people at the densely populated Jabalia refugee camp, where hundreds were killed or injured roughly 24 hours earlier in bombings by the Israeli military.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) asserted that Tuesday’s strikes were aimed at a “tunnel complex” where a senior Hamas commander, Ibrahim Biari, was purportedly hiding. The IDF said the airstrikes killed Biari but denied intentionally bombing the camp’s buildings, more than a dozen of which were leveled in the attack.

“I was waiting in line to buy bread when suddenly and without any prior warning seven to eight missiles fell,” said one eyewitness. “There were seven to eight huge holes in the ground, full of killed people, body parts all over the place. It felt like the end of the world.”

A Doctors Without Borders nurse in Gaza said that after Tuesday’s strikes, “young children arrived at the hospital with deep wounds and severe burns.”

“They came without their families,” the nurse added. “Many were screaming and asking for their parents. I stayed with them until we could find a place, as the hospital was full with patients.”

Asked about the civilians who were killed in the Tuesday strikes, an IDF spokesperson told CNN that “this is the tragedy of war” and that the Israeli military instructed people in the area to “move south.”

Hamas denied the claim that one of its commanders was in the area targeted by the Israeli military.

CNN's Wolf Blitzer: You knew that there were innocent civilians in that refugee camp, right?

IDF spox: This is the tragedy of war. We told them to move south.

Blitzer: So you decided to drop the bomb anyway.

IDF spox: We’re doing everything we can to minimize civilian deaths. pic.twitter.com/oAtW7jV0pc

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) October 31, 2023

Jeremy Konyndyk, the president of Refugees International, argued Tuesday that Israel’s assault on Gaza’s largest refugee camp “is a clear-cut war crime.”

“It shows wanton disregard for the legal obligation to minimize civilian harm in targeting military objectives. It is the latest of many such attacks by the IDF,” Konyndyk wrote. “This in turn underscores that Netanyahu is making a mockery of Biden’s repeated pleas to follow the laws of war—without any acknowledgment of that reality by the U.S. This leaves a cease-fire as the only viable path to civilian protection.”

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), who is leading a congressional resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, also denounced the refugee camp bombing as a war crime and said that “this unspeakable violence must end.”

“The U.S. government cannot keep funding these atrocities,” Bush added. “There must be a cease-fire now.”

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) similarly criticized the Biden administration and Congress for backing Israel as it carries out massive crimes against humanity.

“Make no mistake: these human rights abuses are being carried out with U.S. weapons, U.S. funding, and with ‘no red lines,'” Omar wrote on social media. “And now we are set to vote on an additional $14 billion with no restrictions or conditions. The United States Congress should not fund violations of U.S. and international law.”

⭕ LIVE: Israel hits Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza for the second time, a day after deadly Israeli air attack ⤵ https://t.co/O4JybCLIWo

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) November 1, 2023

Israeli forces have killed at least 8,800 people in Gaza since October 7, when Hamas launched a deadly attack on Israel.

The nation’s relentless bombing campaign and siege have fueled a massive humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, displacing more than a million people, imperiling the enclave’s healthcare system, and decimating much of the territory’s civilian infrastructure—including communication and internet services.

The United Nations and human rights organizations have accused Israeli forces of committing grave war crimes in Gaza, including collective punishment, forcible transfer, and genocide.

The wave of airstrikes that hit Jabalia on Wednesday marked at least the sixth time Israel has bombed the camp since October 7, according to Al Jazeera.

“This is just the latest atrocity to befall the people of Gaza where the fighting has entered an even more terrifying phase, with increasingly dreadful humanitarian consequences,” United Nations emergency relief coordinator Martin Griffiths said of the Jabalia attack on Wednesday. “Meanwhile, the world seems unable, or unwilling, to act. This cannot go on.”

Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights, a United Kingdom-based legal charity, said in a statement Wednesday that the Jabalia strikes “should overwhelmingly signal to the U.K. Government and Labour Party that they must now call for an immediate cease-fire.”

“We urge the U.K. Government and Labour Party to urgently revise their position in light of the Jabalia mass killing, and clearly place the future preservation of civilian life as its highest objective,” the group added.

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We, the undersigned, call on President Biden to demand and facilitate an immediate ceasefire. The Biden administration must also refrain from sending any more weapons to the Israeli government. 

We mourn for the Palestinian and Israeli civilians killed, and we continue to fight with everything we have for the living. 

There is no justification in international law for the targeting of civilians or the holding of civilian hostages. That was true when Hamas attacked Israeli civilians. We must apply that same standard to the Israeli military, as it subjects a captive population in Gaza to a massive aerial bombardment: targeting hospitals, using white phosphorus, and forcing 1.1 million people to flee south, while bombing both the designated evacuation routes and the southern Gaza strip. 

The Israeli government is threatening to commit genocide against Palestinians and denying their humanity. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu asserted: “What we will do to our enemies will reverberate for generations.” The Israeli minister of defense called Palestinians “human animals” announced that the 16-year-long draconian siege on Gaza will now become a total closure, vowing, “No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed.” There are over two million Palestinians in Gaza, half of whom are children. Without intervention, this catastrophe threatens to become unimaginably more devastating.

The unthinkable becomes acceptable when we deny people their humanity. We must fight to bring this devastating violence to an immediate end. 

President Biden: Stop sending the Israeli military more weapons. Facilitate an immediate ceasefire. Millions of lives depend on it.

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Since the Russia-Ukraine war began over 20 months ago, Western media has constructed and dutifully hewn to a series of narratives: Volodymyr Zelensky is a war hero and resistance leader akin to Winston Churchill. Ukrainians are eager to volunteer for the war effort while Russians flee conscription. More money and weapons are all the Ukrainians need to retake the territory Russia has annexed. The West’s interests lie in helping them achieve that grand victory rather than in pushing for a ceasefire and negotiated settlement.

Facts at odds with these narratives — such as that Ukraine has been taking unsustainable losses in combat, that we don’t have enough artillery shells to adequately supply them, that the billions we’ve been sending to Ukraine are falling prey to corruption — have been dismissed as “Putin talking points.” The critics who point them out are attacked as Kremlin apologists.

All of which is why it was so extraordinary to read this week’s cover story in TIME magazine.

Written by Simon Shuster, who previously wrote the article naming Zelensky TIME’s“Person of the Year” at the end of 2022, the piece is ostensibly another hagiography of Zelensky as the heroic figure forced to go it alone as times get tough and Western allies start to “abandon” him. But rather than shoring up Zelensky’s standing in the West, it validates many of the criticisms made by those supposed Putin apologists. Only now those criticisms are being voiced by Zelensky’s own aides and advisers inside the presidential palace.

The narrative dam our media has built around the reality in Ukraine is apparently breaking wide open, and the truth is finally spilling out:

• Ukraine’s war aims are unrealistic. Kyiv has long maintained that its definition of victory, namely the retaking of all Ukrainian territory including Crimea, is achievable with Western arms and money. Now a disastrous summer counteroffensive, which has resulted in horrific Ukrainian casualties while reclaiming negligible amounts of territory, has Zelensky’s advisers reconsidering whether those aims are realistic. Yet Zelensky’s belief in ultimate victory over Russia has only “hardened into a form that worries some of his advisors,” according to Shuster, who describes Zelensky’s faith as “immovable, verging on the messianic.” One of Zelensky’s closest aides tells Shuster that, “He is delusional. We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that.” This of course runs counter to all the propaganda pumped out by Ukraine and repeated by Western media sources. But increasingly it’s only Zelensky who still believes his own press clippings.

• Staggering casualties have decimated the Ukrainian army. Ukraine has refused to disclose casualty counts throughout the war, dismissing the increasingly-credible reports of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian casualties as Russian propaganda. But another close aide to Zelensky tells Shuster that casualties are so horrific that “even if the U.S. and its allies come through with all the weapons they have pledged, ‘we don’t have the men to use them.’” Shuster reports that, “In some branches of the military, the shortage of personnel has become even more dire than the deficit in arms and ammunition.” According to the article, the average age of a currently-serving Ukrainian soldier is 43 and getting older all the time. It appears the youth have already been sacrificed.

• Conscription policies are draconian. Another fact dismissed as a “Putin talking point” is that Ukrainians have had to resort to ever-more draconian conscription policies to replenish their military’s ranks. Shuster lays out the unpleasant reality: “New recruitment is way down. As conscription efforts have intensified across the country, stories are spreading on social media of draft officers pulling men off trains and buses and sending them to the front. Those with means sometimes bribe their way out of service, often by paying for a medical exemption.” The corruption became so widespread that Zelensky fired the heads of all the regional draft offices in August, but the move backfired as lack of leadership brought new recruitment nearly to a halt.

• Morale is collapsing. Even patriots don’t want to die serving as canon fodder for a doomed military strategy. Within the officer ranks, there is growing dissension bordering on mutiny. One close Zelensky aide complained to Shuster that some front-line commanders have begun refusing orders to advance even when they come directly from the office of the president. When Shuster asked a senior military officer about those complaints, the officer said that some officers have no choice but to refuse orders that are simply impossible. He told a story about an order in early October to “retake” the city of Horlivka, a “strategic outpost” in Eastern Ukraine that’s been under Russian control for almost a decade. “The answer came in the form of a question,” writes Shuster. “With what?” With no recruits and no artillery, Zelensky’s dreams of driving the Russians from every inch of Ukrainian territory cannot be achieved. He can only fight futilely to the last Ukrainian, and there is a diminishing number of Ukrainians willing to die in service of that strategy.

• Corruption is uncontrollable. It has long been a “Putin talking point” that Ukraine’s government was shot through with corruption. And yet Zelensky has been getting an earful about exactly that from its U.S. and NATO allies, who don’t want to see their billions of dollars in aid disappear into the pockets of corrupt officials. Zelensky has taken some actions, like the sacking of his Minister of Defense Oleksiy Reznikov for corrupt procurement practices. But to really root out corruption, Zelensky will have to fire most of his government. A top presidential adviser admitted as much to Shuster once his audio recorder had been shut off: “People are stealing like there is no tomorrow.”

“Nobody believes in our victory like I do,” Zelensky told TIMEin what became the pull quote for this cover story. He may have to read Shuster’s piece to see just how right he is, as he seems surrounded by aides who no longer believe in Ukraine’s war strategy or Zelensky’s leadership of it.

Zelensky no doubt intended the quote as a Churchillian “never surrender” exhortation to courage and resolve in the face of Ukraine’s “darkest hour” rather than as an admission of delusional optimism. Yet his dogmatic insistence on total victory and refusal to consider peace negotiations belie a loss of touch with reality that ought to worry both his countrymen and allies.

To be sure, Zelensky is not alone in his refusal to face reality. The Biden administration has proposed another $61 billion for Ukraine’s war effort without explaining how this will produce a different result than the $100+ billion already appropriated. Undoubtedly Zelensky’s optimism was fueled by Biden’s repeated promises of total support for “as long as it takes.” But it’s becoming increasingly clear that the U.S. is in no position to deliver on that promise indefinitely. It has too many other global commitments, including to Israel, which compete for limited resources.

Alone among his team, Zelensky seems not to understand how circumstances have changed. Shuster and TIME try their best to portray him as the last stalwart of the Ukrainian cause, but the fact that his own inner circle is the source of the torrent of revelations and complaints suggests that his immovability owes not to Churchillian resolve but rather to an impervious bunker mentality.

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Some 13 of the 31 members of Labour’s shadow cabinet have received donations from a prominent pro-Israel lobby group or individual funder, it can be revealed. 

The list of recipients includes party leader Keir Starmer, his deputy Angela Rayner, shadow foreign secretary David Lammy, and even the former vice-chair of Labour Friends of Palestine, Lisa Nandy, who is now shadow international development minister.

These donations were provided by Labour Friends of Israel (LFI), a pro-Israel lobby group which takes MPs on “fact-finding” missions to the region, and Sir Trevor Chinn, a multi-millionaire business tycoon and long-time pro-Israel lobbyist.

More than half of Starmer’s shadow cabinet are listed as parliamentary supporters or officers of LFI.

The group was established in 1957 to “act as a bridge linking [Israeli prime minister David Ben Gurion’s party] Mapai… with the Labour Movement in Great Britain”.

It has since described itself as “a Westminster based lobby group working within the British Labour Party to promote the State of Israel”.

Labour Friends of Israel

LFI does not disclose its funders, but was revealed during an undercover Al Jazeera documentary in 2017 to have close relations with the Israeli embassy in London.

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The organisation’s parliamentary officer, for instance, admitted on camera that LFI and the Israeli embassy “work really closely together, but a lot of it is behind the scenes”.

One of LFI’s main activities is to fund Labour MPs to go on “fact-finding” missions to Israel. 

Declassified has found that since 2002, LFI has contributed over £150,000 towards such activities. Between 2001 and 2009, LFI took more Labour MPs on trips abroad than any other lobby group. 

Eight members of Starmer’s shadow cabinet have received money from LFI to travel to Israel since being elected MPs. This includes David Lammy, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting, shadow business, energy, and industrial strategy secretary Jonathan Reynolds, and shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry. 

A further recipient of travel funds is shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, who is currently a parliamentary vice-chair of LFI.

The value of the trips for the members of the shadow cabinet amounts to over £17,000, with additional expenses in Israel frequently covered by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

LFI has also donated to Wayne David, the shadow foreign minister for the Middle East and North Africa.

‘Essential Strategic Partner’

“We are proud of Labour’s record in government to strengthen the ties between Britain and Israel”, LFI’s website states. “We view Israel as an essential strategic partner in the Middle East”.

In July 2022, David Lammy made an unpublicised three-day trip to Israel which was organised by LFI. It is unclear who funded the visit; it does not appear in Lammy’s register of interests.

Lammy’s visit came after a number of human rights organisations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and B’tselem, had criticised Israel’s practice of apartheid against Palestinians.

Michael Rubin, LFI’s director, noted that Lammy’s “first visit to Israel as Shadow Foreign Secretary is an important moment in the restoration of Labour’s deep and historic ties of friendship with the Jewish state”.

Keir Starmer has addressed a number of LFI events. In a keynote speech to its annual lunch in November 2021, he repeated the racist and colonial adage that Israel was founded by “social democrats who made the desert flower”.

Last month, Starmer addressed the LFI reception at the Labour party conference in Liverpool, describing the lobby group as “an invaluable source of energy and ideas for me and my team”.

As of 31 October, just four of the 79 MPs and MSPs listed as LFI supporters or officers have signed a parliamentary Early Day Motion which calls for “an immediate de-escalation and cessation of hostilities”. 

It also calls for “the end of the total siege of Gaza” in order “to guarantee international humanitarian law is upheld and that civilians are protected”. No members of the shadow cabinet have signed the motion.

Pro-Israel Lobbying

Sir Trevor Chinn is a British multi-millionaire who has spent decades working in the motor industry, chairing such organisations as the AA, the RAC, and Kwikfit.

Chinn is also a longstanding pro-Israel lobbyist. Since the 1980s, he has funded LFI and Conservative Friends of Israel and played a leading role in groups such as Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) and the Jewish Leadership Council.

The Guardian described BICOM in 2009 as “Britain’s most active pro-Israeli lobbying organisation – which flies journalists to Israel on fact-finding trips and organises access to senior government figures”. 

It added that the organisation had “received nearly £1.4m in two years from a billionaire donor whose father made a fortune manufacturing arms in Israel”, referring to Poju Zabludowicz, a London-based business tycoon.

Starmer received a £50,000 donation from Chinn during his campaign for the Labour leadership in 2020 – and failed to declare this until after he’d won the election.

Declassified has found that Chinn has donated to eight other members of the shadow cabinet, including Rayner, Lammy, Reeves, Streeting, shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson, shadow work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall, and shadow environment secretary Steve Reed.

Remarkably, Lisa Nandy, a former vice-chair of Labour Friends of Palestine, has also accepted money from Chinn. 

The value of Chinn’s donations to Starmer and members of his shadow cabinet amounts to almost £200,000. In a speech to LFI’s annual lunch in 2022, Reeves thanked Chinn for “your friendship and your invaluable support to Keir and our party”.

Chinn is also one of the key bankrollers of Labour Together, recently described in Politico as a “highly influential think tank quietly shaping the direction of the party”. Chinn has furnished the group with over £360,000 over recent years.

Annexation

While Chinn supports a number of pro-Israel initiatives in Britain, he is not reflexively supportive of Israeli government policy. In 2020, he signed an open letter warning that Israel’s annexation of the West Bank “poses an existential threat to the traditions of Zionism in Britain, and to Israel as we know it”.

The letter continued that:

“Annexation would be a shot in the arm for the BDS [Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment] movement and the delegitimisation of Israel. It will take calls for sanctions against Israel away from the fringes of the far-left and catapult them into the mainstream of the political discourse”.

Other forms of lobbying don’t make it onto the register of interests. As Electronic Intifada revealed, Steve Reed recently met with Chinn and others to discuss Labour policy on the BDS movement.

“Steve will never accept attempts to exceptionalize and delegitimize Israel”, leaked minutes from the meeting noted. “Steve committed to discuss with the Whips and the Leader’s Office about legislation on BDS”.

Luke Akehurst, a member of Labour’s governing body, the National Executive Committee, is the director of We Believe in Israel, a pro-Zionist lobby group which has confirmed that it works “with a range of stakeholders including the Israeli embassy”.

Keir Starmer: Friend of Israel

It is difficult to measure the overall impact of these lobbying efforts on Labour’s current policy on Israel. 

LFI supports calls for an “humanitarian pause” in the bombing rather than a ceasefire, and frequently shares posts from the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) on Twitter.

The Labour party’s current support for Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza and opposition to a ceasefire is also clearly guided by a reluctance to step out of line with US policy.

As Declassified recently reported, the Labour party is seeking to foster the Atlantic relationship, and has been signalling to Washington that the “brief period when Jeremy Corbyn’s party challenged the establishment consensus on foreign policy” is well and truly over.

However, the pro-Israel campaign remains one of the largest lobbying forces within British politics, and this clearly buys a certain degree of influence.

Since becoming leader of the Labour party, Starmer has been a loyal friend of Israel, refusing to join leading human rights organisations in naming Israel as an apartheid state and abstaining on the BDS bill which prevents public bodies from boycotting Israel.

He even suggested Israel “has the right” to withhold power and water from Gaza, before attempting to backtrack on this.In recent days, Starmer has reemphasised that he does “not believe” that a ceasefire in the Middle East is the “correct position”.

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The study analyzed 19,096 people who received COVID-19 vaccines in Italy in July 2021, out of which 15,368 had taken the Pfizer vaccine, 2,077 had taken the Moderna version, and 1,651 took the AstraZeneca version.

While both Pfizer and Moderna are mRNA vaccines, AstraZeneca, being an adenovirus vaccine, uses a different mechanism to trigger the immune response.

The study found that about 31.2 percent of vaccinated individuals developed post-vaccination neurological complications, particularly among those injected with the AstraZeneca jab. Different vaccines had a different “neurological risk profile.”

The neurological risk profile of the AstraZeneca vaccine included headaches, tremors, muscle spasms, insomnia, and tinnitus, while the risk profile of the Moderna vaccine included sleepiness, vertigo, diplopia (double vision), paresthesia (a feeling of numbness or itching on the skin), taste and smell alterations, and dysphonia (hoarseness or loss of normal voice). None of the subjects were hospitalized or died.

As to Pfizer vaccines, researchers found “an increased risk” of cognitive fog or difficulty in concentration.

AstraZeneca Risks

More than 53 percent of individuals who took an AstraZeneca shot suffered from headaches, which usually lasted for one day. Over 13 percent developed tremors, which typically reverted after a day as well.

Insomnia was reported among 5.8 percent of AstraZeneca recipients. However, the study notes that researchers were unsure whether the individuals actually developed insomnia or had a “misperception of their sleep quality due to vaccination stress.”

Tinnitus was reported by 2.7 percent of the people who took AstraZeneca shots. Tinnitus is a condition in which an individual hears ringing or other noises which are not caused by an external sound.

All these health complications had a higher risk of occurring after taking the first dose of the vaccine.

The study speculated that complications related to the AstraZeneca vaccine are attributable to two factors.

“Firstly, the nature of the vaccine, which is a modified adenovirus vector that results in significant and persistent systemic immune activation; secondly, individual vulnerability related to a predisposing biology.”

The study cited a “fascinating hypothesis” which suggests that influenza vaccines may lead to “the selective immune-mediated destruction of orexin-producing neurons, which is T-cell-mediated neuronal damage, thus triggering narcolepsy.”

Narcolepsy is a condition in which the brain is unable to control the ability to sleep or stay awake.

“Considering that the same can occur for COVID-19 vaccines, future investigations monitoring the new-onset hypersomnia findings in vulnerable individuals are urgently needed.”

Hypersomnia is the inability to stay awake and alert during the daytime, even though the person may have had plenty of sleep during the night.

About 15.9 percent of people who received Moderna shots had vertigo, a sensation which makes the individual feel that they or their surrounding environment is moving or spinning. It typically lasted for a day.

Among the people who received a Moderna jab, 2.7 percent reported diplopia, also known as double vision, which also lasted for about a day.

“Symptomatic people showed an increased risk to develop diplopia after the second dose, as if a reactivation of the immune response was necessary to trigger diplopia.”

Meanwhile, about 6.4 percent of Pfizer vaccine recipients reported suffering from cognitive fog, with the condition usually reversing in a week.

“Brain fog is a type of cognitive impairment that presents as a ‘foggy brain state’, including a lack of intellectual clarity, difficulty with concentration, mental fatigue and anxiety,” the study said.

“Hypotheses including systemic inflammation crossing the blood–brain barrier, neuroinflammation after viral infection leads and microglial activation are emerging as explanations of this phenomenon in COVID-19 patients. An alternative speculation is that symptomatic people may have a subclinical cognitive dysfunction before vaccination, and that vaccination is a trigger.”

Females Highly Affected

The study found that females faced an “increased risk of developing neurological complications” following COVID-19 vaccination.

“Our findings are in line with those of a recent study that revealed that several factors, including the female sex, were associated with greater odds of adverse effects,” it said.

The researchers suggested that greater female susceptibility to the vaccines’ neurological complications may be due to “genetic and hormonal factors.”

Females have two X chromosomes while males have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome. As the X chromosome “contains the most prominent immune-related genes in the human genome,” it can also cause “stronger inflammatory immune responses,” the study said.

Moreover, a primary female sex steroid called estradiol triggers a specific immunity process to produce “antibodies against infections.”

The study also raised concerns about comorbidities. In medical parlance, comorbidity describes the existence of more than one disease or condition in a body at the same time, which may or may not interact with one another.

“The evidence that immune system dysfunctions (allergies/immunodeficiency disorders) are frequently reported in our symptomatic group is more than a chance occurrence,” researchers said.

Comorbidities were present in 47.6 percent of the AstraZeneca vaccine recipients, 38.8 percent of those who took Moderna jabs, and 41.5 percent of individuals who received Pfizer shots, the study said.

In the AstraZeneca group, both allergies and non-neurological diseases were reported.

“A history of antitumoral and anticoagulant drugs was more frequent in this population,” the study said.

Among Moderna and Pfizer recipients, allergies were “more frequently” observed. While some people who took Moderna had a prior history of neurological diseases and transfusions as well as previous COVID-19 infection, those who received Pfizer vaccines had a history of immunodeficiency disorders.

Even though the study detailed neurological complications arising from COVID-19 vaccination, it admitted to certain limitations.

“Firstly, our results should be interpreted with caution because of a possible overestimation of neurological events resulting from the self-reported symptoms,” it said.

“Secondly, we evaluated the risks associated with the first and second doses of the vaccine; however, the data concerning the second dose were limited, thus representing a potential bias in the study.”

While admitting its limitations, the study concluded that

“clinicians should be aware that several neurological complications may commonly occur after COVID-19 vaccines.”

“Caution should be used when administering COVID-19 vaccines to vulnerable people, such as to those who suffer from allergies,” the study stated. “We strongly believe that our findings are relevant for public health regarding the safety of vaccines in a large cohort.”

“A shocking 31.2 percent of respondents to this large dataset sustained neurologic injury after two injections with verified data in health registries,” he wrote. “Most of the risk estimates indicate the safety profile is unacceptable. It is alarming that all neurological societies to date still recommend COVID-19 vaccines and none have issued safety warnings on the products.”

Dr. McCullough explained that an excess risk of 20 percent or greater is considered “clinically important.”

CVST occurs when a blood clot develops in the venous sinuses of the brain. This blocks the blood from draining out of the brain, eventually resulting in the blood leaking into brain tissues and forming a hemorrhage, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.

The study found that CVST was “frequently reported in females of childbearing age,” generally among those who took an adenovector vaccine. Individuals who received mRNA vaccination were reported to have Bell’s palsy, in which facial muscles weaken or enter into paralysis.

A November 2022 study in Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports made similar findings, stating that there is “a greater than expected occurrence of severe neurological adverse events.”

Dr. McCullough cited this study in an article the following month.

“Because the vaccines contain lipid nanoparticles loaded with genetic material that code for the damaging Spike protein, each patient faces a Russian Roulette of whether or not the nervous system will be hemodynamically showered with the damaging vaccine particles,” he wrote.

Despite studies suggesting the risk of medical complications, some experts continue to advise people to get COVID-19 jabs. According to John Hopkins Medicine, both Pfizer and Moderna are “highly effective in preventing serious disease, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19.”

It recommended people to get a COVID-19 shot as “we believe that their benefits outweigh their risks,” Johns Hopkins Medicine said.

According to a position statement from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) issued in 2021, the organization recommended COVID-19 vaccine mandates for health care employees and supported vaccinations for children under the age of 12.

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Oct. 31, 2023 – 50 year old Tyler Christopher, ex-husband of Eva Longoria, star of “General Hospital” and “Days of our Lives”, died suddenly from a cardiac event in his San Diego Apartment.

Oct. 28, 2023 – 54 year old Matthew Perry, star of NBC sitcom FRIENDS died suddenly around 4:10pm on Oct. 28, 2023. “First responders found Perry unconscious in a hot tub at his Los Angeles house and were unable to revive him.” He had played pickleball for one hour, the morning before his death. His pickleball partner said he was fatigued and had been fatigued over past week.

Oct. 29, 2023 – Filipino actor Joey Paras, age 45, died on Oct. 29, 2023 after a battle with an undisclosed illness.

Oct. 17, 2023 – London, UK – 38 year old model and actress Tabby Brown, ex-girlfriend of Mario Balotelli, died suddenly and unexpectedly from a cardiac arrest. She had been absent from social media for 18 months. She appeared in ads for Canon and Virgin Atlantic.

Oct. 5, 2023 – 53 year old Keith Jefferson, actor who played in “Django Unchained”, “the Hateful Eight”, and close friend of Jamie Foxx, died suddenly on Oct. 5, 2023 after being diagnosed with cancer in Aug. 2023. Diagnosis to death: approximately one month.

Sep. 30, 2023 – 35 year old Egyptian actor, director Ahmed Samy El-Adl died suddenly on Sep. 30, 2023 from cardiac arrest due to pulmonary embolism.

Sep. 15, 2023 – Austin, TX – 44 year old Billy Miler, actor in “General Hospital” and “Young and the Restless” died suddenly on Sep. 15, 2023. “He was struggling with manic depression when he died” his manager said. His mother confirmed his death was due to suicide.

Aug. 29, 2023 – 50 year old Ahmo Kathleen Hight, American Fitness Model, Swimsuit Model and Actress. Died suddenly after “falling on the ground and hitting her head” on August 29, 2023. She didn’t die of the fall but of a blood clot.

Aug. 15, 2023 – 40 year old Broadway actor and star Chris Peluso died suddenly on August 15, 2023. Cause of death not released but possible neurological injury as he recently sought treatment for schizoaffective disorder.

Aug. 3, 2023 – 47 year old actor Clifton Oliver died on August 3, 2023. He was battling “an illness” and had spent the last six weeks in a hospital and then hospice. His illness has not been revealed. Probably cancer.

July 28, 2023 – 56 year old actor Marc Gilpin died on July 28, 2023. He was diagnosed with glioblastoma May 5, 2022 with 2 inoperable tumors in his brain.

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Number of Planned Low-orbit Satellites Now Exceeds One Million

By Arthur Firstenberg, November 02, 2023

On Sunday, SpaceX launched 23 satellites from Cape Canaveral in the morning, and 22 more from Vandenberg Air Force Base in the evening. This brought the total number of operating satellites irradiating the Earth to about 8,800.

Kiev’s Neo-Nazi Regime Behind Social Unrest in Dagestan? Staged Anti-Jewish Attacks

By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida, November 01, 2023

Anti-Jewish unrest took place in Russia’s Dagestan, generating concern among authorities. Muslim protesters stormed the local airport and attempted to attack Israeli Jews who had reportedly emigrated to the Russian Federation. Apparently, the case has links with Ukrainian intelligence, but it is also notorious how Israel’s criminal actions are favoring the emergence of reactive antisemitic sentiments around the world.

Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel

By Richard C. Cook and Alison Weir, November 01, 2023

Alison Weir’s book is crucially important in considering ways to gain a broader perspective in order to defuse the situation. It is also of keen interest with respect to the larger potential conflict, where U.S. political leaders are again trotting out the phrase, “Axis of Evil,” this time to describe the nations of Russia, China, and Iran.

NATO Provoked Putin: Stoltenberg “Comes Clean” on the Ukraine War. “The War Started in 2014”

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 01, 2023

For years, John J. Mearsheimer, that seemingly ageless, if somewhat chilly presence at the University of Chicago, has been a thorn of irritation to certain establishment ideas. With his pugnacious sense of realist politics, he has little time for the sentimentality that accompanies what he calls the “liberal delusions” of power. It’s all good to feel anguish and worry at the predations of power, but why encourage them when there is no need to?

Gaza. Don’t Let them Get Away with It. “War Escalation in the Middle East Does Not Stop” …

By Peter Koenig, November 01, 2023

This is democide in plain sight. It was planned and is still being planned. It is part of a Big Project called The Great Reset, alias UN Agenda 2030, reflecting an illegal pact established between Klaus Schwab, CEO, WEF and Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General.

Israel-Palestine War: Mounting Evidence Suggests Israel May be Ready to ‘Cleanse’ Gaza

By Jonathan Cook, November 01, 2023

As Israeli forces began making limited ground incursions into northern Gaza over the weekend, reports proliferated that Israel was readying plans to expel much or all of the enclave’s population into the neighbouring Egyptian territory of Sinai.

“V for Vendetta”: Authoritarians Drunk on Power: It’s Time to Recalibrate the Government

By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead, November 01, 2023

We have arrived at the dystopian future depicted in the 2005 film V for Vendetta, which is no future at all. Set in the year 2020, V for Vendetta (written and produced by the Wachowskis) provides an eerie glimpse into a parallel universe in which a government-engineered virus wreaks havoc on the world.

“Authoritative” Newspaper Touts Unnamed Report and Anonymous “Experts” to Propagate Big Lie of “Safe and Effective” COVID Injections

By Mark Taliano, November 01, 2023

An article appearing in Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper, written by Health Reporter Carly Weeks, titled “Ontario agency touts safety of updated COVID vaccine” relies on un-named “experts” and an un-named “report” to propagate the Big Lie that the COVID experimental mRNA injections are “safe and effective”.

White House and Pentagon Directing IDF Genocidal War in Gaza

By Abayomi Azikiwe, November 01, 2023

An investigative report published by the Intercept, an online journal, recently revealed that the United States was in the process of expanding a “secret military base” in the Negev desert under the control of the State of Israel.

Escalation and Militarization, US-NATO Deployments: Third U.S. Naval Group Arrives in Mideast, Countries Prep to Evacuate Thousands

By Avi Scharf and Anshel Pfeffer, November 01, 2023

2,000 U.S. Marines are deployed on board a flotilla near Egypt, aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower is already west of Crete, fighters and refueling aircraft have been stationed in the Gulf, and dozens of planes and special forces are deployed in Cyprus in case of a flare-up between Israel, Hezbollah and Iran.

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Anti-Jewish unrest took place in Russia’s Dagestan, generating concern among authorities. Muslim protesters stormed the local airport and attempted to attack Israeli Jews who had reportedly emigrated to the Russian Federation. Apparently, the case has links with Ukrainian intelligence, but it is also notorious how Israel’s criminal actions are favoring the emergence of reactive antisemitic sentiments around the world.

The incident happened on October 29th. The Makhachkala international airport in the Republic of Dagestan was taken over by angry protesters screaming “Allahu Akbar!” and “hunting” Israeli refugees who had supposedly arrived there. Many of the protesters carried Palestinian flags. Instead of a peaceful demonstration, the unrest looked like a rebellion by fanatics seeking revenge. However, Russian authorities were effective in neutralizing the threat and preventing damage.

Previously, some other cases of anti-Jewish attacks had been reported in Dagestan and other Muslim-majority Russian regions. For example, the day before, there was an invasion against a hotel where Israeli citizens were supposedly staying. There was also an attempted vandalism against a Jewish cultural center in the Nalchik region. But none of these cases was on the scale of the airport attack.

In fact, Russian authorities firmly condemned the demonstrations. Of particular importance were the pronouncements of Islamic authorities in Russian regions such as Chechnya. Both Muslim and non-Muslim officials spoke quite clearly in their position, affirming support for the Palestinian people, but condemning all anti-Jewish hatred and criminal attacks against Israeli citizens.

It is known that the protests were the result of online rumors spread by the administrators of a Telegram channel called Utro Dagestana (‘Dagestan Morning’). Allegations about the possible arrival of Israelis in Dagestan and encouragement of attacks were occurring openly on the channel. Both Russian authorities and the Killnet hacker group consider the channel an asset of the Ukrainian intelligence service.

Interestingly, Ilya Ponomarev, a prominent expatriate Russian politician based in Kiev, has sometimes stated that Utro Dagestana is a part of his personal network of resources in the information war against Russia. As an opposition leader and working highly against Moscow, Ponomarev obviously has an interest in the destabilization of Russia, which shows the reasons why the violent protests were motivated.

The attempt to foment chaos in Russia through ethnic and religious separatism is not new. Western intelligence has been trying for years to make Russia’s non-Christian majority regions real battlegrounds against Moscow. Russia has been effective at neutralizing threats and maintaining national cohesion, so it appears that foreign agents are changing their strategy. Now, instead of Moscow, the targets of attacks are foreign citizens. With this, Ukrainian intelligence manipulates popular and religious emotions to attack innocent Israeli citizens, damaging the international image of Russia – which could be seen as an “antisemitic” country.

Indeed, there is nothing capable of justifying attacks on civilians and racist attempts to punish ordinary Israeli citizens for crimes committed by the IDF. However, it is clear that Tel Aviv’s anti-humanitarian actions are helping to fuel antisemitic sentiments around the world. The actions of Ukrainian intelligence were only effective because a strong anti-Israel mentality began to grow among Muslims as a consequence of the IDF’s crimes.

The work of intelligence agents consists precisely in transforming these legitimate opinions of indignation into uncontrolled hatred against ordinary people. Therefore, it is possible to say that the successful operation of networks like the Utro Dagestana group is made possible by Israel’s illegal actions. In other words, the Zionist State is helping to spread antisemitism around the world.

Just as Russian officials must remain alert to the role played by Ukrainian intelligence agents in fomenting social instability in the Federation, Israeli officials should pay attention to the negative effects of their actions on the Jewish people abroad. The Israeli government needs to know that its actions have consequences. The more the people of Gaza are massacred, the more there will be a negative reaction – and it is inevitable that some of these reactions will go out of control and take on an extremist aspect. Outside of Israel, this could pose a threat to innocent civilian Jews.

Russia will certainly work in order to ensure that Jews are protected on its territory. As a multi-ethnic country with a large Jewish population, this is a priority for the Federation – and Moscow has the necessary means to achieve this. However, in countries where Jews live in vulnerable circumstances, the situation can be really disturbing. Israel, as a Jewish State, should take these analyzes into consideration before ordering its troops to carry out ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

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As the United States’ imperial hegemony deteriorates around the globe, the ruling elite has stepped up its domestic militarization of police departments while continuing to install U.S. military bases across the Global South. City and state governments are allocating more funding to create police training facilities, while decreasing funds for necessary things like education, housing, healthcare, and public infrastructure. Baltimore, MD, San Pablo, CA, Atlanta, GA, and Nashville, TN are some of the most recent sites where fascism is intensifying. 

These facilities, deemed “Cop Cities” are being created, notably, in proximity to cities with substantive populations of Black people. For example, Baltimore is developing a cop city on the campus of Coppin State, an HBCU. Increased police militarization is a key sign of rising levels of fascism in the United States, but the state also relies on the targeted repression of dissent. The state execution of Tortuguita is a harrowing example of how far the U.S. settler state will go in attacking anyone who dares to oppose its global military expansion. Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, also known as Tortuguita, was an unarmed Stop Cop City activist shot 57 times and killed on January 18, 2023  by Georgia police during a raid of the Stop Cop City encampment.

In Atlanta, several organizers of the Stop Cop City movement have been charged with racketeering, corruption, and money laundering, for opposing domestic militarization. This, along with espionage charges against members of the African People’s Socialist Party, make it clear that we must continue to expose the linkages and oppose the domestic war tactics against African peoples also used to exploit our people abroad. As BAP noted in our statement on Baltimore’s activities, “What was once a fixation on a ‘war on drugs,’ is now being slated as a ‘war on crime’ to justify the approval of bloated budgets for more policing ‘to healing the wounds of the past,’ while ignoring the ongoing plight of the poor, working-class residents of the city that includes a lack of sufficient basic human needs, and any semblance of People(s)-Centered Human Rights.”

This month’s newsletter discusses the various campaigns to end pig cities in Atlanta, Baltimore, and San Pablo and provides updates on efforts to eradicate the 1033 program. 

No Compromise, No Retreat!

Baltimore

• BAP-Baltimore’s Citywide Alliance released a statement strongly opposing “the proposal for a new $330 million joint training facility for Baltimore’s police and fire departments on West Baltimore’s Coppin State University campus.”
• “Routinely half of Baltimore’s discretionary annual budget is allocated to police such that Baltimore spends the most per capita of any major city in the United States on policing.” – BAP Baltimore statement on the ongoing water crisis
• Proposed Baltimore police and fire training facility has hefty price tag: $330 million
• Baltimore PD has maintained a relationship for some years with Coppin State, going so far as to offer “career advancement” opportunities in the form of internships with Coppin State.

San Pablo

• San Pablo is set to build a new police training facility with estimated costs at $43.6 million, while their city annual budget is just $66.4 million.
• Currently, the coalition “Stop Cop Campus” is leading organizing on this issue and has been putting together actions against the development.
• Groundbreaking set for San Pablo police headquarters and training center
• Small East Bay City To Build $43.6M Regional Police Training Center
• The pig city forewent any public announcement of a groundbreaking ceremony for the creation of the facility and still has yet to break ground. BAP plans on meeting with the coalition to continue trying to organize in a way that centers African/Black concerns in this expansion of domestic militarization in the Bay.

Atlanta

• Thanks to the hard work of local Atlanta organizations like Community Movement Builders and other BAP Citywide Alliance members, Atlantans are becoming increasingly aware and opposed to using city funds for the $90 million police training facility. 
• Legal repression is a key tool for Atlanta’s ruling elite against its residents: Despite the fact that the Cop City Vote Coalition successfully gathered over 100,000 votes to put forward a referendum on Cop City, city councilmembers are dragging their feet on putting the issue to a vote.
• Organizers in Atlanta are working to defend the sixty-one people who have been indicted on racketeering and terrorism charges.

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For years, John J. Mearsheimer, that seemingly ageless, if somewhat chilly presence at the University of Chicago, has been a thorn of irritation to certain establishment ideas. With his pugnacious sense of realist politics, he has little time for the sentimentality that accompanies what he calls the “liberal delusions” of power. It’s all good to feel anguish and worry at the predations of power, but why encourage them when there is no need to?

This somewhat crude summation only does some justice to JJM’s thought process.  But it does provide an interesting backdrop to the recent revelations regarding the Ukraine conflict, one that is falling into a horrendous, bleeding stalemate.

In his Foreign Affairs assessment of 2014 on the Ukraine-Russian conflict, Mearsheimer throws in the usual grenades. “US and European leaders blundered in attempting to turn Ukraine into a Western stronghold on Russia’s border.”  He noted the pernicious, meddling roles played by such characters as US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs, Victoria Nuland, who revealed in 2013 how the US had invested more than $5 billion since 1991 to aid Ukraine achieve “the future it deserves.”  This involved the spearheading efforts of the National Endowment for Democracy.

As Russian tanks moved into Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Mearsheimer proved unrelenting: Russia had been needlessly provoked into “a preventive war”.  While not permissible in just war theory, “Russian leaders certainly saw the invasion as ‘just’, because they were convinced that Ukraine joining NATO was an existential threat that had to be eliminated.”  The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was so enthusiastic at the views of the realistic scholar, it endorsed his 2014 Foreign Affairs contribution.

For taking such a stance, dreamy liberal humanitarians and neoconservative provocateurs came to detest Mearsheimer.  The New Statesman would suggest that he became, as a consequence “the world’s most hated thinker.”  Anne Applebaum, in her usual neoconservative biliousness, wondered “if the Russians didn’t actually get their narrative from Mearshimer [sic] et al.  Moscow needed to say West was responsible for Russian invasions (Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, Ukraine), and not their own greed and imperialism.”

Now wondering if the Russians didn't actually get their narrative from Mearshimer et al. Moscow needed to say West was responsible for Russian invasions (Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, Ukraine), and not their own greed and imperialism. American academics provided the narrative.

— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) March 1, 2022

Mearsheimer was already representative of a field filled with foreboding assessments about what an eastern strategic expansion against Russia would do, warmed by the almost throwaway assurances from US Secretary of State James Baker to Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990.  At that point, the still extant Soviet Union had 380,000 troops stationed in East Germany.  Baker’s suggestion: Why not remove those troops if NATO did “not shift one inch eastwards from its position”?

The following day, Baker repeated the formula to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl via letter:

“Would you prefer to see a unified Germany outside of NATO, independent and with no US forces, or would you prefer a unified Germany to be tied to NATO, with assurances that NATO’s jurisdiction would not shift one inch eastwards from its present position?” 

Kohl had preferred to directly inform Gorbachev of his own assurance that no NATO bases would be established in the former East Germany.

In October 1990, the US State Department concluded in an analysis that “it is not in the best interest of NATO or the US that these states be granted full NATO membership” warning against “an anti-Soviet coalition whose frontier is the Soviet border.”

George F. Kennan’s observations seven years later are also prickly with concern.  As the father of Cold War Soviet containment, he could only see trouble brewing on the horizon were a now diminished Russia provoked.  The decision to expand NATO “may be expected to inflame nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion; to have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy; to restore the atmosphere of the cold war to East-West relations, and to impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking.”

That same year, the current US President noted that, irrespective of the merits of the countries keen to participate in the alliance, an enlarged NATO would constitute the “tipping point” for Russia. His reference point then was the various Baltic States.

A number of former US ambassadors to Moscow have also warned, at stages, about the dangers.  In 1997, it was Jack Matlock, testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  At the time, the Clinton administration’s recommendation to enlarge NATO membership was considered “misguided.  If it should be approved by the United States Senate, it may well go down in history as the most profound strategic blunder made since the end of the Cold War.”

Eight years later, William J. Burns, then still ambassador to Russia and currently director of the CIA, shot a number of flares on the issue:

“Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all redlines for the Russian elite (not just Putin).”

In a February 2008 memorandum published by WikiLeaks, the assessment by Burns is stark:

“NATO enlargement, particularly to Ukraine, remains ‘an emotional and neuralgic’ issue for Russia, but strategic policy considerations also underlie strong opposition to NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia.” 

Such strategic policy considerations included, among other things, a fear that the country could be “split in two, leading to violence or even, some claim, civil war, which would force Russia to decide whether to intervene.”  Concerns also abounded regarding the “impact on Russia’s defense industry, Russian-Ukrainian family connections, and bilateral relations generally.”

What then made September 2023 special in this overview was an unusually frank admission from the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in remarks made to the joint meeting of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) and the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE).

That admission concerned Putin’s unequivocal intentions to invade Ukraine were NATO to be further enlarged:

“The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement.  That was what he sent us.  And was a pre-condition to not invade Ukraine.  Of course, we didn’t sign that.”

Stoltenberg went on to pour scorn on this revealing point.  Putin demanded the “removal of our military infrastructure in all Allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe, we should remove NATO from that part of our Alliance, introducing some kind of B, or second class membership. 

We rejected that.”  The conclusion is then indefatigably clear: “So [Putin] went to war to prevent NATO, more NATO, close to his borders.”

In such statements, the lines between explanation, justification and wilful blindness are not always demarcated. But here we have a stunning confession that should be minted in every historical overview of a calamitous conflict that may eventually result, in some form or rather, in the very same de facto arrangements Putin demanded in 2021.  Russia will have to contend with its own problems and nightmares regarding the Ukraine War, but as such, Stoltenberg, NATO and the US imperium deserve a withering stare from history’s muse. 

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Dr. Binoy Kampmark’s Analysis is confirmed by the following 

On September 7, 2023, NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg  in a presentation to the European Parliament, formally acknowledged that:

“the war didn’t start in February last year. It started in 2014.”

This far-reaching declaration confirms his earlier statement in May 2023 to the effect that the Ukraine War

“didn’t start in 2022”, “The war started in 2014”. 

Speaking on behalf of NATO, what this statement implies is that US-NATO was already at war in 2014. It also tacitly acknowledges that Russia did not “initiate the war” on Ukraine in February 2022.

“The purpose of this is to prevent war”

In a twisted irony, in his presentation to the European Parliament, Stoltenberg portrays “the purpose” of the Ukraine war,  which has resulted in more than 300,000 casualties as a means “to prevent war”. 

 

Michel Chossudovsky,  Global Research, November 1, 2023

 

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the invasion of Gaza on October 29, 2023 by citing a commandment from the Old Testament calling on Israelites to

“go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.” 

“You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible,” Netanyahu said.

Netanyahu declaring invasion: "You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible"

1 Samuel 15:3

"Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass" pic.twitter.com/5QF9PkGhjJ

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) October 28, 2023

Netanyahu’s comments are “an explicit expression of genocidal intent,” Max Blumenthal said, “painting the Palestinians of Gaza as the biblical Amalekites whose total eradication was commanded by God as punishment for their sins.”

An explicit expression of genocidal intent by Netanyahu, painting the Palestinians of Gaza as the biblical Amalekites whose total eradication was commanded by God as punishment for their sins https://t.co/5g5Oz5sPlC

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) October 28, 2023

Netanyahu and the Israeli army are getting all hyped up to go and massacre men, women and children and “erase the memory of them.”

“These animals can no longer live.”

Ezra Yachin, a 95-year-old Israeli army reservist, is seen inciting “every Jew with a weapon” to kill Palestinians and “erase the memory of them” pic.twitter.com/LUQs0XoR5U

— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) October 13, 2023

Our army hypes soldiers up for war with stories about sheep dogs protecting the innocentbut Israel’s army hypes their soldiers up by telling them to go and slaughter infants.

Israeli politicians openly say they want “biblical” revenge against the Palestinian Amalekites and are demanding Gaza be destroyed like Dresden and Hiroshima — and Netanyahu is seeing to it!

The lsraeli aggression on #Gaza Strip:

• Death toll hits 7703.
• 3595 children killed.
• 19,734 injured.
• 1800 missing, including 1000 children.
• 825 atrocities committed. pic.twitter.com/NsDeySYyMV

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) October 28, 2023

lsrael steps up its attack on Gaza amidst a total collapse of communication services in the Strip. pic.twitter.com/P11R6hdfpU

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) October 28, 2023

Headphone warning:

Nonstop insane bombing across Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/AOp5NeskvO

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) October 28, 2023

lsraeli warplanes bomb a house in Khan Yunis camp, southern Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/qgvwlGRoxI

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) October 28, 2023

Children aren’t supposed to get killed or buried under the rubble. Children aren’t supposed to become orphaned. Children aren’t supposed to lose their body parts. Children aren’t supposed to be a bank of targets. pic.twitter.com/PxDHaGYdkF

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) October 28, 2023

Warning: Graphic Videos below:

lsrael is committing mass war crimes in Gaza Strip amidst a total collapse of telecommunication services. pic.twitter.com/O56mhEmqYj

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) October 28, 2023

This is what’s happening to the children of Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/Ob2O9vx6fi

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) October 28, 2023

The entire world is witnessing this insanity and they’re all watching how the US is helping facilitate Israel’s war crimes.

Our “special relationship” is a curse on our nation which has brought us nothing but trouble for over 70 years. America used to act as a neutral arbiter in the Middle East but now Antony Blinken and Victoria Nuland have us working to “blot out the memory of Amalek!”

Secretary of State Antony Blinken: I stand here as a Jew as well. My grandfather fled pogroms in Russia. My stepfather survived Auschwitz, Dachau and Majdanek – I understand the horror of Hamas' actions.

– He continues to attempt to place blame on Russia for everything. pic.twitter.com/fFWXyiWG6R

— Russian Market (@runews) October 12, 2023

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On the night of the October 7, 2023 attack in Southern Israel, I was staying overnight at my nephew’s place in Saint Petersburg, in the apartment I had grown up in, prior to emigrating from the Soviet Union over fifty years ago.

The following morning, as I walked in the neighbourhood located in the very centre of the former imperial capital, I recalled the names of the streets around me. I realized that most had honoured theoreticians and practitioners of political terrorism of the late 19th century [Russian Empire]: Pyotr Lavrov, Ivan Kalyaev, Stepan Khalturin, Andrei Zhelyabov, and Sofia Perovskaya.

They were proud to call themselves terrorists and were involved in several acts of violence.

It dawned on me that these streets are within a few minutes’ walk from the Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood. The multicoloured onion-domed church, so unusual in the austere cityscape of Petersburg, was erected to commemorate Emperor Alexander II near the place of his assassination in 1881 by some of the revolutionaries whose names these streets bore during the Soviet period.

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For these terrorists, assassinations were a means of bringing about social and political change.

They aimed at terrifying the ruling circles in the absence of elections or almost any form of public participation in the country’s administration.

These revolutionaries triumphed in October 1905 when Tsar Nicholas II was forced to bestow limited political rights on the population. His concessions proved unsatisfactory to many convinced revolutionaries, and they continued their campaign of assassinations.

Such terrorist groups attracted disproportionate numbers of minorities: Poles, Jews, Latvians etc.

In the Russian Empire, they experienced double oppression: political and ethno-religious. Jews were particularly targeted after the assassination of Alexander II, which triggered a wave of pogroms, populist anti-Jewish riots and massacres.

Waves of pogroms continued to descend on the Jews in the first years of the 20th century, particularly in what today is known as the Ukraine and Moldova, where anti-Jewish violence was virulent and widespread. A few Jewish self-defence groups were organized to ward off pogroms, but insecurity was endemic. Nearly two million Jews emigrated, mostly to the Americas.

It is in this context that a number of mostly young Jews embraced the novel ideology of Zionism and grafted it on top of their socialist convictions.

A few thousands of these aggrieved revolutionaries arrived in Ottoman Palestine with the intention of edifying a new socialist society and educating new Hebrew Men and Women, physically strong and spiritually freed from religious beliefs.

They were ready to do physical work, started socialist agricultural communes (kibbutz in Hebrew) and acquired arms to defend them. Unlike most Jewish émigrés from Russia heading for America who yearned to fit in the new country, Zionist settlers in Palestine sought to establish their own independent society.

These young Socialist Zionists arrived in Palestine with enthusiasm and a strong desire to break with the past, including the powerlessness they had experienced in the Russian Empire.

They abandoned their native Yiddish and strove to speak the new Zionist tongue of Modern Hebrew.

They cast away religion, building up a new identity as secular Hebrews.

While many had been prohibited from toiling the land in Russia’s Pale of Settlement, the only part of the Russian Empire where Jews had been allowed to reside till 1917, in Palestine they became agriculturists.

They brought along two formative experiences from the old country: political uses of terrorism and the trauma of suffering random violence from non-Jews.

Most of the settlers had lived in Jewish towns and villages and had neither studied nor worked with non-Jews. Few had known the mixed, cosmopolitan society of Saint-Petersburg or Odessa. Their mistrust of non-Jews was later reinforced with the advent of Nazism and by the Nazi genocide of Jews in Europe.

Nor were they familiar with the Russian pattern of integrating conquered territories into the Empire.

Tatar princes, Georgian aristocrats and Central Asian potentates were adopted in the Russian official order, came to enjoy privileges appropriate to their rank and often intermarried with descendants of the old Russian gentry. One of the best-known cases is that of the Russian diplomat, author and composer Alexander Griboyedov who married a Georgian princess in the first third of the 19th century.

Despite their socialist rhetoric, Zionist settlers in Palestine kept apart from the local population whom they often mistrusted and disdained. Their patterns of settlement in Palestine reproduced the discrimination they had experienced in Russia’s Pale of Settlement.

The official Zionist policy promoting segregation was expressed in various edifying slogans: “avoda ‘ivrit” (Hebrew Labour), “livnot u-lehibanot” (To Build and to Be Built), “hafrada” (Separation), etc.

It meant eliminating Arabs from employment in Zionist enterprises, building the exclusive new Hebrew town of Tel Aviv next to the Old Jaffa and establishing Arab-free institutional infrastructures. In the 1920s and 30s, Zionists consistently rejected the idea of a representative assembly that would reflect the ethnic and religious diversity and expose the obvious fact that Zionist settlers constituted a minority in the Holy Land. All this naturally bred resentment of, and hostility against the Zionists.

Imbued with orientalism (avant la lettre), they possessed a sense of European colonial superiority with respect to Palestine’s inhabitants, both Jews and Arabs. This attitude was reinforced when, in the wake of the First World War, Britain took over control of Palestine with the mandate, among other objectives, to enhance the Zionist enterprise in the country.

The British resorted to the usual violence under the guise of “pacification of the locals”, similar to its actions in India and elsewhere while confronting Arab resistance with significantly more lethal force than that deployed against the Zionist paramilitary formations. The British also supported a “divide and conquer” approach, furthering separation and conflict between Jews and Arabs.

Thus, the Russian heritage of political terrorism, the memory of antisemitic hordes descending on Jewish communities in the Russian Empire and the naturally racist British colonial practices merged in shaping up the Zionist political culture in Palestine.

It combined preference for the use of force in dealing with the local population, on top of which existed a sense of entitlement, stemming from references by both the settlers and the British to the Hebrew Bible.

Except for the Communists and some members of the socialist Poale Tsion, the socialist ideal of internationalism succumbed under the weight of Hebrew nationalism.

Russian-born Zionists constituted over 60% of the Israeli parliament in 1952 even though emigration from Russia had ceased three decades earlier. To date, with the exception of Naphtali Bennett, all Israeli prime ministers or their parents were born in the Russian Empire.

Zionist settlers relied on force to subdue Palestinian Arabs and resorted to political assassination to prevent compromise with them.

Thus, the energetic spokesman for the anti-Zionist rabbis, Dutch-born Jacob De Haan, was killed in 1924 on the orders of the Hagana, a militia founded a few years earlier by Zionist settlers from Russia.

Other terrorist groups sprang up in the 1930s, most of them not only organized but also staffed by Russian-born Zionists. These groups initially engaged in violence against the local Arabs but later expanded their range to British military and civilian personnel both in Palestine and neigbouring countries, and even, eventually, to a high-profile UN mediator from Sweden. The Museum of Underground Prisoners in Jerusalem proudly displays this history, including homemade bombs and other terrorist implements.

The unilateral proclamation of the state of Israel in May 1948 was made despite determined opposition of most of the inhabitants of Palestine, including many Jews, and all the bordering countries.

Predictably, this provoked attacks from several Arab states. In the meantime, Zionist militias of different political hues committed acts of terror to terrify Palestinian Arabs and to make them abandon their homes. As part of a now well documented policy of ethnic cleansing, they forcefully expelled most of those committed to stay put.

The new state of Israel placed Palestinian Arabs under military rule, which lasted nearly two decades. Refugees and exiles who tried to return to their homes were killed, expelled, or arrested. More Palestinians became refugees after Israel’s victory in the 1967 war. Military and police measures have been deployed since to pacify the Palestinians surviving in the West Bank and Gaza. In the meantime, Israel’s armed forces earned the reputation of a formidable high-tech war machine.

The murderous attack of October 7, 2023 obviously enraged most Israelis. But instead of taking pause, military and political leaders immediately subjected Gaza to massive bombardment followed by a ground invasion by hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

This caused colossal casualties and a humanitarian crisis. This response to an essentially political problem – finding an arrangement with the Palestinians – is typical of Israel’s approach: to deploy overwhelming force to frighten Palestinians into submission. At the same time, settler vigilantes on the West Bank have, over the years, been harassing and murdering Palestinians, burning their homes in a remake of pogroms of yesteryear while Israeli police has added hundreds of Palestinians to the thousands held in administrative detention.

Vengeful demonization of the Palestinians has become common. Even the soft-spoken president of Israel Itzhak Herzog, who had voiced concerns about the rise of fascism in Israel, now claimed that there were “no innocent civilians” in Gaza.

Meirav Ben-Ari, a parliamentarian from Yesh Atid, which in Israel passes for a liberal centrist party, said, in reference to thousands of Palestinian children killed by Israeli bombardment “the children in Gaza have brought this upon themselves! We are a peace-seeking nation, a life-loving nation”.

The current burst of violence was not unforeseen. In 1948, in the midst of Israel’s War of Independence (the Palestinians remember it as the Nakba, catastrophe), Hannah Arendt, Jewish refugee from Germany who would become a prominent American political philosopher, warned:

And even if the Jews were to win the war…

[t]he “victorious” Jews would live surrounded by an entirely hostile Arab population, secluded inside ever-threatened borders, absorbed with physical self-defense…. And all this would be the fate of a nation that—no matter how many immigrants it could still absorb and how far it extended its boundaries (the whole of Palestine and Transjordan is the insane Revisionist demand)—would still remain a very small people greatly outnumbered by hostile neighbors.

The Israeli war on Gaza is another case supporting her diagnosis. Israel may win this war. But to win peace its leaders need to free themselves from the political culture developed by the intrepid Zionist pioneers fleeing ghettos over a century ago.

According to the Israeli philosopher Joseph Agassi, Israeli governments have behaved like community functionaries still living in a ghetto, sweeping aside the interests of Israel’s non-Jews, and thus stoking the fires of perpetual war. A ghetto equipped with a powerful army constitutes a danger, and not only to the region immediately bordering Israel.

The Biden administration has heightened the danger by embracing Israel’s messianic rhetoric and casting the war on Gaza as part of the Manichean worldwide struggle against Evil. This perpetuates reliance on violence inherited from the Russian revolutionaries eager to effect political change and from the European powers desperate to keep their colonies. Will Israel succeed once again to terrify and “pacify” the Palestinians? Or will it seek a more revolutionary solution to its “Palestinian problem”?

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Yakov M. Rabkin is Professor Emeritus of History at the Université of Montréal. His publications include over 300 articles and a few books: Science between Superpowers, A Threat from Within: a Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism, What is Modern Israel?, Demodernization: A Future in the Past and Judaïsme, islam et modernité. He did consulting work for, inter alia, OECD, NATO, UNESCO and the World Bank. E-mail: [email protected]. Website: www.yakovrabkin.ca

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Western powers are giving Israel a “warrant for genocide” in the Gaza Strip, a prominent Israeli historian has warned.

Avi Shlaim, a prominent Israeli-British historian and emeritus professor of international relations at Oxford University, told an audience in London that US, UK, and European Union support for Israel – including military support – have made them complicit in “mass slaughter” in the Gaza Strip.

“The Western response to the crisis is the usual hypocrisy and ruthless double standards, but this time it’s been taken to a new level. The western love of Israel has always been accompanied, has always depended on the erasing of Palestinian history and humanity,” he said at an event on Monday, hosted by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP).

“Deep concern for Israel’s security is reiterated at all times by western leaders – but not a thought is given to Palestinian security.”

The event, ‘The War on Gaza: What’s Next for Palestine?’, also featured Daniel Levy, a negotiator for the Israeli side during the Oslo Accords; Wadah Khanfar, president of Al Sharq Forum and former director general of Al Jazeera; and Yasmine Ahmed, UK Director of Human Rights Watch; and was chaired by Middle East Eye’s Mohamed Hassan.

Shlaim was born in 1945 in Baghdad, to well-connected parents who were part of Iraq’s millennia-old Jewish minority. But at the age of five, Shlaim was forced to flee with his family, following bombings targeting Jewish people in the Iraqi capital.

As one of the “New Historians” in Israel, he was part of a group that reassessed the history of the country and often shined a light on the repression of the Palestinians.

Speaking on Monday, Shlaim said that Palestinians’ resistance had been “decontextualised and dehistoricised” and that media and political coverage of the ongoing violence in Gaza largely ignored the situation prior to the Hamas operation in southern Israel on 7 October.

“The Israel-Hamas conflict did not begin on 7 October. In June 1967, Israel occupied not just Gaza, but the West Bank and Jerusalem. This is the most protracted and brutal military occupation of modern times,” he said.

“Israeli generals have a phrase – mowing the lawn. It’s a chilling metaphor, what it means is they have no solution to the problem, but every few years the IDF moves in with the most advanced weaponry, they smash up the place, degrade the military capabilities of Hamas…it’s a mechanical action that you do periodically every few years.

“So there’s no end to the bloodshed and the next war is always around the corner.”

At least 8,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli bombardment since 7 October, which came as retaliation for an assault by Hamas that day in which around 1,400 Israelis died and more than 220 were taken captive. Approximately 70 percent of the Palestinians killed are women and children. 

The chief of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa) said at a Security Council meeting on Monday that Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip are facing forced displacement and collective punishment.

In the same meeting on Monday, Unicef’s executive director Catherine Russell said over 420 children are killed or injured in Gaza every day.

Because of the lack of clean water and safe sanitation, Gaza “is on the verge of becoming a catastrophe”, she said, adding that people are at risk of dehydration and water-borne diseases.

She added that there is only one desalination plant in Gaza, which is operating at five percent capacity. All six of Gaza’s water-waste treatment plants are currently non-operational, she said.

Hospitals across Gaza have reached a breaking point and are dangerously overcrowded. Almost 1.4 million people in Gaza are now internally displaced, and thousands have taken shelter in hospitals.

Since Israel cut off all electricity, fuel and water to the besieged enclave on 9 October, hospitals have been overwhelmed with a lack of life-saving resources, a high volume of critically wounded patients, and thousands of people seeking shelter.

The hospitals that are still working are running on generators, which health officials say won’t last long.

US President Joe Biden has, however, repeatedly resisted calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, while calling for aid to be allowed into the besieged enclave.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby also told journalists on Tuesday that “a ceasefire right now really only benefits Hamas”.

At the event on Monday, Khanfar – who was born in Jenin in the occupied West Bank – said he had not been able to return to his homeland in 30 years, but he hoped that at the end of the current violence, there could be new opportunities for a long-term resolution.

“We need a new imagination where people could live in peace, and where people could be equal and could have the right to dignity and the right to be respected as humans in that land,” he said.

“Out of this black moment, we could really start thinking about something new.”

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This is democide in plain sight. It was planned and is still being planned. It is part of a Big Project called The Great Reset, alias UN Agenda 2030, reflecting an illegal pact established between Klaus Schwab, CEO, WEF and Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General.

The project was meant to be of biblical, historical size, of eschatological proportion. The Judo-Christian religion is sacrosanct. It is dominated by Jewish-Zionism, and the whole western world is beholden by and submissive to the Chosen People.

Gaza: Don’t let them get away with it

Latest reports this morning, November 1, 2023, Israel has attacked a refugee camp in northern Gaza. The mainstream talks of dozens of deaths. The reality is probably much worse. How many of them are children?

The war escalation in the Middle East does not stop. The killing increases almost exponentially, to the point of “no return”, meaning that the threshold of “beyond salvation” has been crossed.

Food and water deliveries, partial re-instatement of communication, do not make a difference anymore. The infrastructure to cook, to distribute food and water, to attend to the wounded, to communicate – even to bury the death – has been destroyed.

The Israeli, especially Netanyahu, and of course his western allies, the US and Europe know that very well. Once destruction beyond salvation has been reached, they may allow a ceasefire, negotiations and even permit opening the borders to Egypt and Jordan, so that Palestinians from Gaza, the survivors, broken to the core, but still able to walk, may escape to the Egyptian Sinai desert, and those from the West Bank, to western Jordan.

Under the “Peace Accord” between Egypt and Israel, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, may even agree to build a tent city for Gaza refugees. They will call it temporary. But every clear-thinker knows that from there the Palestinian refugees will never be allowed to return to Gaza, nor to what their true homeland is – to historic Palestine.

That is the first step towards the Greater Israel. First by extermination, then by expulsion by any means. Expulsion of Palestinians from THEIR historic territory. They have nowhere to go. See this by Chris Hedges.

Expulsion by the “Chosen People” the Zionists, who condemn and even ask for punishment of anybody who they consider an antisemite.

There are no antisemites to speak of. The most blatant antisemites are the Zionists themselves – people like Netanyahu, who are about to drive Israel as a nation into the ground, possibly into oblivion.

Jordan’s Queen Rania calls out the world’s glaring double standards, in an extraordinary CNN interview. See below.

See also these interviews and reports by Abby Martin – Genocidal Onslaught on Gaza Shocks Conscience of the World and Palestine 101.

Video: Genocidal Onslaught on Gaza Shocks Conscience of the World, w/ Abby Martin

Video: Palestine 101 with Abby Martin

Some of the world’s defenders of ethics and peace start standing up. They are those who still insist on thinking freely, and whose conscience is clicking. Their numbers are increasing. Of course, not the Washington empire and its spineless slew of European vassals.

But there is at least one EU member country’s Government, with a minister who is no longer keeping quiet. As a first in Europe, Spain’s Minister of Social Justice, Ms. Ione Belarra, implores the Europeans non-action on this mass-murder executed by Israel’s IDF and the almost unilateral support for Israel. She calls the European leaders as not being up to “the gravity of the circumstances,” and thereby being “complicit in this planned and ongoing genocide.”

She wants European countries to break diplomatic relations with Israel and imposing economic sanctions on PM Netanyahu and his entourage. See this.

Latin American countries, Bolivia, Colombia, and Chile, have just severed diplomatic relations with Israel.

Mr. Putin exclaims, the Gaza horror cannot be justified. There is no excuse for Israel’s indiscriminate bombing of Gaza. See this.

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Close to 4,000 Palestinian children killed in just over three weeks by Israel.

In this horrifying democide war, children suffer the most. They are the most vulnerable and most affected, along with women, in any war, but in this aggression against a locked-in people, where targets are hospitals, schools, civilian habitats, roads and other infrastructure, children are being indiscriminately targeted. About 40% of all the deaths, by today close to 9,000, are children.

UNICEF calls on the world: Children in Gaza desperately need lifesaving support.

“Children and families in Gaza are caught in a catastrophic situation.”

“More than two weeks into the war, thousands of children have reportedly been killed and thousands more injured. Children and families in Gaza have been cut off from water, food, medicine, and other essentials, including safe access to hospitals, following escalating hostilities. UNICEF is calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and for unrestricted humanitarian access to allow aid to reach children and families in need, save lives and prevent further suffering.” 

See this.

Instead, Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., the founder of Children’s Health Defense, as of this moment unambiguously supports Israel vs. Palestine. Does his undivided support for Israel make RFK Jr. complicit in the murder of Palestinian children?

Presidential candidate for 2024 US elections, RFK Jr’s stance of “conviction” (his own words) for Israel is a deception for millions of people, not only in the US, but around the world – for all those who trusted his integrity and saw him as a possibility for change in the US of A.

See also this.

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Talking about the Holy Land, Palestine with biblical background, Netanyahu’s crime is, indeed, of biblical proportions and needs to be brought to justice.

Simplicius talks about a world plummeting into eschatological frenzy. Officials worldwide are dropping their masks, and inadvertently revealing the biblical strain of the conflict.

Eschatology is the doctrine of the last things, a western term, referring to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim beliefs about the end of history, the resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment, the messianic era, and the problem of theodicy. See this.

According to Simplicius, many “political figures now soak their proclamations in Biblical reference and allegory. The foremost of which was Netanyahu, who has now invoked an assortment of Biblical prophecies as dog-whistles to stir his people into an eschatological frenzy. He frames the conflict as that of “light” versus “darkness” and good versus evil, painting the Palestinians as the Children of Darkness to be vanquished by the Chosen Ones.” See this.

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Don’t Let Them Get Away with It

The era of NOW – is, as often before, one of peoples lost in a turbulent world of controversies, of Orwell’s 1984 style – where good is bad and bad is good. Confused – wantonly confused, as the Masters of the Universe gain more and more control – marching towards and into well-controlled worldwide killing fields.

This is all planned by long arms and hands – and inhuman brains, some may call them evil brains. Looking at the Big Picture of things – even of relatively recent history, manmade eschatological events were already dotting Mother Earth in the last hundred-some years around the globe.

None of the genocides were mistakes. They were planned.

The Armenian Genocide was not a mistake.

Holodomor (death by hunger, in Ukrainian) was not a mistake.

“The Final Solution” (Holocaust) was not a mistake.

“The Killing Fields” (Cambodia) was not a mistake.

Name any genocide, including the Big Democide of the 2020s, it was not a mistake.

To imply otherwise, would be giving them the OUT, they are seeking.

It was not botched, it was not bungled, it was not a mistake. 

It was not incompetence. It was not lack of knowledge.

It was not spontaneous mass-hysteria.

The planning occurred in plain sight. The planning is still occurring in plain sight.

Don’t let them get away with it.

Don’t let them get away with it.

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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).

Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.

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As Israeli forces began making limited ground incursions into northern Gaza over the weekend, reports proliferated that Israel was readying plans to expel much or all of the enclave’s population into the neighbouring Egyptian territory of Sinai.

In part, those fears were fuelled by a report last week, published in the Israeli outlet Calcalist, of a leaked policy draft from the intelligence ministry outlining just such an ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza.

Further concerns were raised by a report in the Financial Times on Monday that Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had lobbied the European Union on the idea of driving the strip’s Palestinians into Sinai under cover of war.

Some EU members, including the Czech Republic and Austria, were said to have been receptive and floated the idea at a meeting of member states last week. An unnamed European diplomat told the FT:

“Now is the time to put increased pressure on the Egyptians to agree.”

According to the leaked Israeli intelligence ministry document, after their expulsion, Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians would initially be housed in tent cities, before permanent communities could be built in the peninsula’s north.

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“There is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who’s to blame?”— V for Vendetta

We have arrived at the dystopian future depicted in the 2005 film V for Vendetta, which is no future at all.

Set in the year 2020, V for Vendetta (written and produced by the Wachowskis) provides an eerie glimpse into a parallel universe in which a government-engineered virus wreaks havoc on the world.

-Capitalizing on the people’s fear, a totalitarian government comes to power that knows all, sees all, controls everything and promises safety and security above all.

-Concentration camps (jails, private prisons and detention facilities) have been established to house political prisoners and others deemed to be enemies of the state.

-Executions of undesirables (extremists, troublemakers and the like) are common, while other enemies of the state are made to “disappear.” Populist uprisings and protests are met with extreme force.

-The television networks are controlled by the government with the purpose of perpetuating the regime. And most of the population is hooked into an entertainment mode and are clueless.

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With Vendetta, whose imagery borrows heavily from Nazi Germany’s Third Reich and George Orwell’s 1984, we come full circle.

The corporate state in V conducts mass surveillance on its citizens, helped along by closed-circuit televisions. Also, London is under yellow-coded curfew alerts, similar to the American government’s color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System.

Sounds painfully familiar, doesn’t it?

As director James McTeighe observed about the tyrannical regime in V for Vendetta,

“It really showed what can happen when society is ruled by government, rather than the government being run as a voice of the people. I don’t think it’s such a big leap to say things like that can happen when leaders stop listening to the people.”

Clearly, those we appointed to represent our interests have stopped following the Constitution and listening to the American people.

What will it take for the government to start listening to the people again?

In V for Vendetta, as in my novel The Erik Blair Diaries, the subtext is that authoritarian regimes—through a vicious cycle of manipulation, oppression and fear-mongering—foment violence, manufacture crises, and breed terrorists, thereby giving rise to a recurring cycle of blowback and violence.

Only when the government itself becomes synonymous with the terrorism wreaking havoc in their lives do the people to finally mobilize and stand up to the government’s tyranny.

V, a bold, charismatic freedom fighter, urges the British people to rise up and resist the government. In Vendetta, V the film’s masked crusader blows up the seat of government on November 5, Guy Fawkes Day, while in Erik Blair, freedom fighters plot to unmask the Deep State.

Acts of desperation and outright anarchy are what happens when a parasitical government muzzles the citizenry, fences them in, herds them, brands them, whips them into submission, forces them to ante up the sweat of their brows while giving them little in return, and then provides them with little to no outlet for voicing their discontent: people get desperate, citizens lose hope, and lawful, nonviolent resistance gives way to unlawful, violent resistance.

This way lies madness.

Then again, madness may be unavoidable unless we can wrest back control over our runaway government starting at the local level.

It is time to recalibrate the government.

For years now, we have suffered the injustices, cruelties, corruption and abuse of an entrenched government bureaucracy that has no regard for the Constitution or the rights of the citizenry.

By “government,” I’m not referring to the farce that is the highly partisan, two-party, bureaucracy of the Republicans and Democrats. Rather, I’m referring to “government” with a capital “G,” the entrenched Deep State that is unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and has set itself beyond the reach of the law.

We are overdue for a systemic check on the government’s overreaches and power grabs.

We have lingered too long in this strange twilight zone where ego trumps justice, propaganda perverts truth, and imperial presidents—empowered to indulge their authoritarian tendencies by legalistic courts, corrupt legislatures and a disinterested, distracted populace—rule by fiat rather than by the rule of law.

The COVID-19 pandemic provided the government with the perfect excuse to lay claim to a long laundry list of terrifying lockdown powers (at both the federal and state level) that override the Constitution:

-the ability to suspend the Constitution, indefinitely detain American citizens, bypass the courts, quarantine whole communities or segments of the population,

-override the First Amendment by outlawing religious gatherings and assemblies of more than a few people,

-shut down entire industries and manipulate the economy, muzzle dissidents, reshape financial markets, create a digital currency (and thus further restrict the use of cash), determine who should live or die, and impose health mandates on large segments of the population.

Crises tend to bring out the authoritarian tendencies in government.

That’s no surprise: power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Where we find ourselves now is in the unenviable position of needing to rein in all three branches of government—the Executive, the Judicial, and the Legislative—that have exceeded their authority and grown drunk on power.

This is exactly the kind of concentrated, absolute power the founders attempted to guard against by establishing a system of checks of balances that separate and shares power between three co-equal branches: the executive, the legislative and the judiciary.

“The system of checks and balances that the Framers envisioned now lacks effective checks and is no longer in balance,” concludes law professor William P. Marshall. “The implications of this are serious. The Framers designed a system of separation of powers to combat government excess and abuse and to curb incompetence. They also believed that, in the absence of an effective separation-of-powers structure, such ills would inevitably follow. Unfortunately, however, power once taken is not easily surrendered.”

Unadulterated power in any branch of government is a menace to freedom.

There’s no point debating which political party would be more dangerous with these powers.

The fact that any individual—or branch of government—of any political persuasion is empowered to act like a dictator is danger enough.

So, what we can do to wrest back control over a runaway government and an imperial presidency?

It won’t be easy.

We are the unwitting victims of a system so corrupt that those who stand up for the rule of law and aspire to transparency in government are in the minority.

This corruption is so vast it spans all branches of government: from the power-hungry agencies under the executive branch and the corporate puppets within the legislative branch to a judiciary that is, more often than not, elitist and biased towards government entities and corporations.

We are ruled by an elite class of individuals who are completely out of touch with the travails of the average American.

We are viewed as relatively expendable in the eyes of government: faceless numbers of individuals who serve one purpose, which is to keep the government machine running through our labor and our tax dollars. Those in power aren’t losing any sleep over the indignities we are being made to suffer or the possible risks to our health. All they seem to care about are power and control.

We are being made to suffer countless abuses at the government’s hands.

We have little protection against standing armies (domestic and military), invasive surveillance, marauding SWAT teams, an overwhelming government arsenal of assault vehicles and firepower, and a barrage of laws that criminalize everything from vegetable gardens to lemonade stands.

In the name of national security, we’re being subjected to government agencies such as the NSA, FBI and others listening in on our phone calls, reading our mail, monitoring our emails, and carrying out warrantless “black bag” searches of our homes. Adding to the abuse, we have to deal with surveillance cameras mounted on street corners and in traffic lights, weather satellites co-opted for use as spy cameras from space, and thermal sensory imaging devices that can detect heat and movement through the walls of our homes.

That doesn’t even begin to touch on the many ways in which our Fourth Amendment rights are trampled upon by militarized police and SWAT teams empowered to act as laws unto themselves.

In other words, freedom—or what’s left of it—is threatened from every direction.

The predators of the police state are wreaking havoc on our freedoms, our communities, and our lives.

The government doesn’t listen to the citizenry, it refuses to abide by the Constitution, which is our rule of law, and it treats the citizenry as a source of funding and little else.

Police officers are shooting unarmed citizens and their household pets. Government agents—including local police—are being armed to the teeth and encouraged to act like soldiers on a battlefield. Bloated government agencies are fleecing taxpayers.

Government technicians are spying on our emails and phone calls. Government contractors are making a killing by waging endless wars abroad.

In other words, the American police state is alive and well and flourishing.

Nothing has changed, and nothing will change unless we insist on it.

How to do this? It’s not rocket science.

There is no 10-step plan.

If there were a 10-step plan, however, the first step would be as follows: turn off the televisions, tune out the politicians, and do your part to stand up for freedom principles in your own communities.

-Stand up for your own rights, of course, but more importantly, stand up for the rights of those with whom you might disagree.

-Defend freedom at all costs.

-Defend justice at all costs.

-Make no exceptions based on race, religion, creed, politics, immigration status, sexual orientation, etc. Vote like Americans, for a change, not Republicans or Democrats.

-Most of all, use your power—and there is power in our numbers—to nullify anything and everything the government does that undermines the freedom principles on which this nation was founded.

-Don’t play semantics. Don’t justify. Don’t politicize it. If it carries even a whiff of tyranny, oppose it. Demand that your representatives in government cut you a better deal, one that abides by the Constitution and doesn’t just attempt to sidestep it.

That’s their job: make them do it.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, all freedoms hang together. They fall together, as well.

The police state does not discriminate. Eventually, we will all suffer the same fate.

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Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His most recent books are the best-selling Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the award-winning A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, and a debut dystopian fiction novel, The Erik Blair Diaries. Whitehead can be contacted at [email protected].

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UN relief chief Martin Griffiths, who has been visiting Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, spoke to families in Gaza over the phone from east Jerusalem on Tuesday and said that what they have endured since the start of Israel’s retaliation for Hamas’ deadly 7 October attacks is “beyond devastating”.

“When an eight-year-old tells you that she doesn’t want to die, it’s hard not to feel helpless,” he wrote on social platform X.

Hostages’ Families ‘Living in Agony’

On Monday Mr. Griffiths met in Jerusalem with family members of some of the more than 230 hostages held in Gaza since 7 October. Reportedly about 30 of them kidnapped by Hamas terrorists are children.

The UN relief chief said that for the past weeks these families “have been living in agony, not knowing if their loved ones are dead or alive”, and that he couldn’t “begin to imagine” what they are going through.

The UN has repeatedly called for the immediate and unconditional release of the hostages.

‘Unbearable’ Thought of Children Buried Under Rubble

Reportedly more than 3,450 children have been killed in Gaza according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson James Elder told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday.

Another 1,000 children have been reported missing and may be trapped or dead under the rubble, awaiting rescue or recovery, UN humanitarian affairs coordination office OCHA said.

OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke said that it is

“almost unbearable to think about children buried under rubble with very little possibility for getting them out”.

© UNICEF/Mohammad Ajjour | An 11-year-old boy stands at the entrance to his home in Gaza City.