ISRAEL

[skitzorat]

Israel gets $1B for its IronDome and the Fed runs out of money on the 18th of Oct.

 

 

[EnigmaticWorld]

 

[Velma]

IDF plumbs new depths of cowardice in it's war against children with tools for remote-murder.

 

https://time.com/6097401/armed-robot-israeli-border-patrol/

 

LOD, Israel (AP) — An Israeli defense contractor on Monday unveiled a remote-controlled armed robot it says can patrol battle zones, track infiltrators and open fire. The unmanned vehicle is the latest addition to the world of drone technology, which is rapidly reshaping the modern battlefield.

 

According to the Israeli army’s website, the semi-autonomous Jaguar is equipped with a machine gun and was designed to reduce soldiers’ exposure to the dangers of patrolling the volatile Gaza-Israel border. It is one of many tools, including drones armed with guided missiles, that have given the Israeli military vast technological superiority over Hamas.

 

“Machines cannot understand the value of human life, which in essence undermines human dignity and violates human rights laws,” said Bonnie Docherty, a lecturer at Harvard Law School. Neither can Israeli settlers!

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The Jewish space laser is an anti-Semitic trope which borders on a full-on canard.

 

from June.

They only made a space laser because anti-Semites accused them of making a space laser.

They didn’t have any choice.

 

Todays news

Israel Introduces Flying Beam Weapons

 

 

 

 

Israel to target enemies with beams instead of missiles

12 Nov, 2021 

 

Israel has unveiled what it says is the world’s first family of electronic warfare systems, capable of detecting and disrupting multiple targets at the same time with the use of special beams.

 

Its brand-new Scorpius systems are equipped to deal with drones, ships, radar installations and other aerial, ground and naval threats, state-run defense contractor Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced on Thursday.

Israel has unveiled what it says is the world’s first family of electronic warfare systems, capable of detecting and disrupting multiple targets at the same time with the use of special beams.

Its brand-new Scorpius systems are equipped to deal with drones, ships, radar installations and other aerial, ground and naval threats, state-run defense contractor Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced on Thursday.

 

 

 

The units work not by firing missiles or bullets, but by sending out narrowly focused beams that jam various enemy systems, including radars, sensors, navigation equipment, and data communications.

https://www.rt.com/news/540111-israel-electronic-warfare-beams/

 

Didn’t Marjorie Taylor Greene get attacked for talking about a Zionist space beam?

Yes, they tried to destroy her career and widely mocked her over it.

So what they're saying is: “It’s an anti-Semitic canard to claim we have a space laser – the only thing we actually have is a low-altitude death beam.

 

 

They even made these memes over it

Instead of mocking MTG, they should have said: “Maybe she’s thinking of the death beam. It’s not in space, we just fly it around the region and beam our enemies” (went we're not using the Zioblimp)

[Golden Retriever]

Empty words from Keir Starmer because he knows full well he and nobody else will do anything

about the continued theft of Palestinian land, with Jewish settlements.

 

David and Gareth Icke used to support BDS totally a few years ago (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions),

but have been very quiet of late. Why is that Gareth? genune question.

 

@GarethIcke

 

 

 

[Golden Retriever]

Karma.

 

"Board of Jewish Deputies President ‘deeply saddened’ by death of Senior Past President Lionel Kopelowitz"

 

Who said Jeremy Corbyn should be killed!

 

https://www.bod.org.uk/bod-news/board-of-deputies-president-deeply-saddened-by-death-of-senior-past-president-lionel-kopelowitz/

 

[skitzorat]

lol

Israel Tells U.S. to 'Immediately Halt' Iran Negotiations, U.S. Halts Iran Negotiations

2/12 & 3/12

 

Simple as...

From Antiwar.com, "Israel Tells US to 'Immediately Halt' Iran Nuclear Deal Negotiations":

Israel stepped up its opposition to the Iran nuclear deal talks on Thursday and demanded that the US and other world powers put an immediate end to the negotiations.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett delivered the message in a call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. "Iran is carrying out nuclear blackmail as a negotiating tactic, and this should be answered by the immediate halt to negotiations and the implementation of tough steps by the world powers," Bennett said, according to a statement released by his office.

Israel claims that Iran has no intention of reducing its nuclear activity back to JCPOA levels and is only trying to buy time to develop a nuclear bomb. But there's no evidence to support the claim, and Iran has only taken steps to advance its nuclear program in the face of pressure from the US and Israel, and a JCPOA revival would reverse those steps.

Iran has said Israel is spreading lies about Iran to "poison" the negotiations. When the talks first resumed Monday, Israeli media reported that Israel warned the US Tehran is about to enrich uranium to the 90 percent level needed for weapons-grade. But again, there was no evidence to back up the claim.

With the demands from Israeli officials to halt negotiations come threats. Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Thursday that attacking Iran must always be an option for Israel, even if the country has to act alone.

Israel has taken extreme measures to sabotage diplomacy between the US and Iran in the past. In April, when the first rounds of negotiations began, Israel carried out an attack on Iran's Natanz Nuclear Facility. Tehran responded to the incident by starting to enrich some uranium at 60 percent, which Israel now claims is evidence the Iranians are racing towards a bomb.

From The Times of Israel, "Blinken says nuclear talks halted because Iran 'doesn't seem serious'":

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that this week's round of negotiations between world powers and Iran in Vienna was halted because Tehran does not seem to be serious about reaching an agreement with the US that would see a joint return to compliance with the nuclear agreement.

"What we've seen in the last couple of days is that Iran right now does not seem to be serious about doing what's necessary to return to compliance, which is why we ended this round of talks in Vienna," Blinken told Reuters.

The secretary of state said the US would now consult with its allies, including Israel, on how best to move forward.

U.S. foreign policy in a nutshell.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62720

[Golden Retriever]

I was reminded of Sean Hannity (Fox News) by someone posting a comment on the Ukraine thread saying

Putin should be assassinated. This comment of mine is neither an endorsement of Putin, nor Hamas but Hannity

is a paid up Zionist who has instructions what to say regarding Palestine from the Hasbara manual.

 

 

The Israel Project’s 2009
GLOBAL LANGUAGE
DICTIONARY

 

https://www.transcend.org/tms/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/sf-israel-projects-2009-global-language-dictionary.pdf

 

A  couple of examples of many

 

10) Draw direct parallels between Israel and America—including the need to defend
against terrorism. From history to culture to values, the more you focus on the
similarities between Israel and America, the more likely you are to win the support
of those who are neutral.

11) Don’t talk about religion. Americans who see the bible as their sourcebook on foreign affairs are already supporters of Israel. Religious fundamentalists are Israel’s “Amen Choir” and they make up approximately one-fourth of the American public and Israel’s strongest friends in the world. However, some of those who are most likely to believe that Israel is a religious state are most hostile towards Israel (“they’re just as extreme as those religious Arab countries they criticize”). Unfortunately, virtually any discussion of religion will only reinforce this perception.

Therefore, even the mention of the word “Jew” is many Israel contexts is going to elicit a negative reaction—and the defense of Israel as a “Jewish State” or “Zionist State” will be received quite poorly. This may be hard for the Jewish community to accept but this is how most Americans and Europeans feel.

 

Edited March 8, 2022 by Golden Retriever

[skitzorat]

On 3/9/2022 at 1:47 AM, Golden Retriever said:

I was reminded of Sean Hannity (Fox News) by someone posting a comment on the Ukraine thread saying

Putin should be assassinated. This comment of mine is neither an endorsement of Putin, nor Hamas but Hannity

is a paid up Zionist who has instructions what to say regarding Palestine from the Hasbara manual.

Yeah it was me who made that post.

 

I watch *some* msm news to get a gist of what (((The Enemy))) is saying is happening [in the world,] or more rightly, what the enemy wants the Lemmings to think is happening.

I just cannot cope with CNN or MSNBC but I can cope with a *bit* of BBC - before it went mega woke, perhaps BBC World, RT, WION but I do actually enjoy a *bit* of Fox and SkynewsAU (not UK) - mostly just Tucker (yes, I understand his grift etc) but I give him (and fox) credit for at least being honest with the partisanship! Unlike ALL THE OTHERS who actually still pretend to be non-partisan!  And I like how Tucker has a mix of liberals/DemonRats/Conserves/Libertarians as guests. I mostly watch him because he gives an honest reporting about how America is being destroyed from within. (on purpose of course. I love America and it breaks my heart - but I'm please he doesn't sugar coat it)

 

He also doesn't seem to shrill for Israel or the jews that much either, or at least I haven't notice him going out of his way to.

 

He also does not seem to tell flat out lies, bold face LIES! - obviously he has his bent, but as I said he's honest about it, so you know he's not trying to wear some mask or trying to deceive the audience (in that way.)

Interestingly new polling came out end of last year and in the key demographic more *demonRat* voters were actually tunning in to Tucker Carlson Tonight than tunning into CNN or MSNC.

 

Surprise! Tucker Carlson Draws the Most Democratic Viewers in Key Demo, Even Topping Rachel Maddow

Nielsen Fusion data for October shows the Fox News host’s audience isn’t entirely conservative

https://www.thewrap.com/tucker-carlson-liberal-viewership-fox-news/

 

And many times is straight out hilarious!

(On the filthy scum Kyle Rittenhouse save the world from)

"Joseph Rosenbaum died as he had lived, trying to touch an unwilling minor"

*mic drop*

 

But that Hannity! 

There's something about him that makes my skin crawl.

And that's without bearing the thought of his hard-on over Israel. 

 

From 2009 when some Congressman at the time spat some truthbombs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Traficant

 

 

 

HANNITY AND TRAFICANT GET INTO SHOUTING MATCH OVER ISRAEL LOBBY AND U.S. POLICY

 

5mins

https://www.bitchute.com/video/gpupdlCMHKj6/

Edited March 16, 2022 by skitzorat

[Morpheus]

https://nypost.com/2022/04/15/israeli-security-forces-enter-al-aqsa-mosque-in-jerusalem-cause-violent-clash/

 

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This American Memorial weekend remember the 34 killed and 171 wounded when in 1967 American-born jews in the Israeli military knowingly attacked the USS Liberty.

https://nationalvanguard.org/2016/09/jews-who-attacked-the-uss-liberty-were-american-born/

 

The Attack on the U.S.S. Liberty

JUNE 8, 1967, is a day which will live in infamy. On this day an American Navy vessel, the U.S.S. Liberty, was deliberately attacked in international waters by the armed forces of Israel in a treacherous attempt to sink the ship and kill everyone aboard it. The Liberty was an electronic intelligence gathering vessel, and it had been sent to the eastern Mediterranean to monitor radio communications. Israel had launched its latest land-grabbing war against its neighbors just four days earlier, and the U.S. government was curious as to what its Jewish “ally” was up to.

 

The Jews, on the other hand, were quite determined that the United States not learn what they were doing. The Jewish plan was to grab as much Arab land as possible before the United States could figure out what was going on and begin insisting that Israel halt its latest aggression. The Jews did not want the United States, their principal source of military, economic, and diplomatic support to tell them to “cool it” until they had achieved all of their objectives, and so it was important to the Jewish warlords to keep the American military in the dark for a few more days.

 

Early on the morning of June 8, 1967, the Liberty was just over 12 miles off the Egyptian coast in international waters and in sight of the Egyptian town of El Arish, monitoring radio signals and flying a large American flag. Jewish forces had occupied El Arish two days earlier, and the Israeli Army was involved in killing a large number of Egyptian prisoners of war that very morning. Groups of Egyptian prisoners were marched into the desert, made to dig their graves, and then were shot by their Jewish captors. American personnel on the Liberty would not have been able to see these atrocities from more than 12 miles away, but they were intercepting Israeli radio communications discussing local operations.

 

Of much more serious concern to the Jews was the interception by the Liberty of radio communications concerning their strategic military intentions: specifically their planned invasion of Syria.

 

Just after dawn, a twin-engine, propeller-driven Israeli reconnaissance plane flew out from the coast and slowly circled the Liberty three times. A little before 9:00 AM an Israeli jet fighter flew out and circled the Liberty. Throughout the morning and early afternoon, the Jews sent one aircraft after another out to circle the Liberty. Some of these aircraft flew so low that the crew members aboard the Liberty could see the faces of the pilots. The Jews were keeping the Liberty under very close observation and seemed to be concerned about the presence of the eavesdropper.

 

The Israelis finally decided to get rid of this threat to the secrecy of their military operations. At 2:00 PM several Israeli jet fighters streaked out from the coast and without warning began raking the Liberty from stem to stern with rockets, 30-mm cannon fire, and napalm. A number of Americans on the bridge and deck of the Liberty were killed immediately. The Jewish aircraft made pass after pass over the ship, pouring their fire into the helpless, slow-moving American target, riddling it from stem to stern with explosive ordnance and leaving it looking like a floating piece of Swiss cheese. The hull and superstructure of the Liberty had 821 holes larger than a man’s fist from the rocket and cannon fire. Among other things the Jewish air attacks had shot away the Liberty’s radio antennas and wrecked the radio room.

 

As soon as the Israeli jets had exhausted their munitions and flown off, the crew immediately ran up another American flag to replace the one the Jews had shot away. The new flag was an oversize one, seven feet high and 13 feet long. Then, while the crew was fighting fires started by the aerial napalm attacks and attempting to tend to the wounded and dying men on the deck, three Israeli torpedo boats appeared and began raking the decks of the Liberty with 20-mm and 40-mm automatic cannon fire. The Liberty’s life rafts in the water were machine-gunned by the Israelis. Then a torpedo from one of the torpedo boats struck the ship, tearing a large hole in its side below the waterline and killing 22 more crew members.

 

Just before the torpedo struck, the Liberty’s radiomen had managed to rig an emergency antenna and get an auxiliary transmitter working. Throughout the attack the Jews were using radio jamming equipment in an attempt to drown out any radio message from the Liberty. Nevertheless, the Liberty managed to get off one radio message to the U.S. Sixth Fleet reporting the attack and calling for help. The Sixth Fleet, to the west in the Mediterranean, responded with a message that help was being sent. The U.S. aircraft carriers America and Saratoga launched jets which sped toward the Liberty.

 

As soon as the Jews realized that the Sixth Fleet had received the Liberty’s signal, the attacks were halted. The clear intention of the Jews had been to disable the ship’s radio communications and then sink it before a radio message could be sent. Any survivors in the water then would have been killed by the Jews. No one would be able to prove the Jews had done it, and it could be blamed on the Egyptians.

 

As soon as the Jews understood that their scheme had failed, they shifted from the military to the diplomatic mode. The murderous assault on the U.S.S. Liberty had been a “mistake,” the Jews claimed. They had thought the ship was Egyptian, they told their media friends and their bought politicians in Washington.

 

President Lyndon Johnson didn’t even wait for this excuse from the Jews. As soon as he was given word that an American Navy vessel had been attacked by the Israelis and that the U.S. Sixth Fleet was sending help, he ordered that the help be recalled. He was terrified that the U.S. aircraft would inflict casualties on the Jews attacking the Liberty, and the Jews would blame him. If the Jewish attack on the Liberty became a public “incident” involving conflict between the United States and Israel, Johnson would be forced to take the American side and might be regarded as “anti-Israel,” which would turn America’s Jews against him. So he sent an emergency message to the Sixth Fleet, ordering that the American jets flying to the relief of the Liberty be recalled and that no further assistance be given. Perhaps the stricken ship would sink, and the whole matter could be hushed up.

 

But the U.S.S. Liberty did not sink, much to the embarrassment of the Jews and their collaborators. The survivors among the crew even managed to get the ship’s engines running again, and the Liberty limped out to sea, eventually rendezvousing the next day with an American destroyer, the U.S.S. Davis. The wounded crewmen — 171 of them — were airlifted off the ship. Many of the dead — 34 of them — could not be recovered from the interior of the ship until it had reached port in Malta.

 

Even while the wounded crewmen were in a Naval hospital, they were given strict orders not to tell anyone, not even members of their families, about the Jewish attack on their ship. The U.S. Navy went through the formalities of holding a court of inquiry, but it was a complete sham. No Israelis were even questioned during the inquiry, and the U.S. government meekly accepted the Jews’ explanation that the attack on the Liberty had been a “mistake.” The news media were indecently silent about the whole affair. The obvious concern of the Jews and their sympathizers in the United States was not that an American ship had been attacked treacherously and 34 Americans killed; their concern was only to keep Israel from being blamed for the attack. And the politicians were all too eager to go along with the Jews.

 

The members of the Liberty’s crew who had been wounded during the Israeli attack asked for damages from the Israeli government. The Israelis refused to pay, and it was necessary for the wounded crewmen to hire attorneys and file suit. When the Israelis did eventually pay, nearly two years later, attorneys’ fees ate up most of the payment.

 

The commanding officer of the Liberty during the Israeli attack was Captain William McGonagle. Though severely wounded during the attack he remained at his post throughout and behaved in a heroic manner. A year after the attack Captain McGonagle was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroism, but so desperate was President Lyndon Johnson to avoid offending the Jews that he refused to present the medal himself, as always has been customary. Instead of receiving his Medal of Honor from the President in the customary White House ceremony, McGonagle was quietly given the medal by the secretary of the Navy at the Washington Navy Yard, so as to attract the least possible public attention. The citation accompanying the medal, which customarily describes in detail the action for which the medal is being awarded, carefully omitted any mention of Israel. The Washington Post did not even report the award.

 

One of the Liberty’s officers, Lieutenant James Ennes, wrote a detailed account of the Jewish attack on his ship and its aftermath, and his account was published in 1979 as a book under the title Assault on the Liberty. The Jews immediately began a campaign to keep the book out of bookstores and to keep reviews of the book out of newspapers. This campaign was much like the one the Jews have been conducting against one of my books, The Turner Diaries. Ennes reports that whenever a bookstore would stock his book, the local Jews would begin complaining to the store owner that the book is “anti-Israel” and is “offensive to Jewish people everywhere.” The Jews have been fairly successful in keeping the book out of the hands of the public, and it is now out of print and generally unavailable.

 

I have been able to obtain a number of copies of the original hardback edition of Assault on the Liberty directly from Lieutenant Ennes, so this book is available from National Vanguard Books, the publisher of Free Speech. If you would like a copy see the National Vanguard Books Catalog section of this web page. The button for the catalog is on our home page.

 

To his credit Lieutenant Ennes has kept the truth about the Jewish attempt to sink the Liberty alive for 30 years, in the face of a concerted effort by the controlled media, the Jewish establishment, and the U.S. government, including the U.S. Navy, to kill this truth. In return for his efforts, the Jews and their collaborators have been calling Ennes an “anti-Semite,” a “neo-Nazi,” a “professional Jew-hater,” and lots of things that are too crude for me to write. Among these collaborators of the Jews attacking Ennes are individuals claiming to be veterans and patriots, but it is clear where their allegiance really lies.

 

Ennes always has declined to respond in kind to these attacks and has been unfailingly polite. We might fault him for failing to draw some general conclusions about the Jews and for continuing to maintain that he is not anti-Jewish, but let us instead credit him for standing up for the truth in his own way against the almost unbelievably intense barrage of hatred that has been directed against him.

 

What should be shocking and disgusting to every American, what should outrage us all, is not the lies of the Jews or their attacks on Lieutenant Ennes — we expect that sort of behavior from the Jews — but rather we should be outraged by the collaboration of the U.S. government with the Jews. During the attack on the Liberty,when it was calling for help and was in danger of being sunk, President Lyndon Johnson recalled the U.S. aircraft that were rushing to assist the Liberty. He was more concerned about not offending the Jews in the United States than he was about his responsibility as commander-in-chief of America’s armed forces.

 

And Johnson’s recall of these American jets cannot be explained away as a mix-up or a misunderstanding in the heat of the moment. This action of Johnson’s was deliberate. It was consistent with his behavior in every instance involving the Liberty. Johnson even checked with the Israeli ambassador a year after the attack to see if the government of Israel had any objection to Captain McGonagle’s receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor, and then he refused to present the medal himself. That sort of behavior goes beyond outrageous, even for a Democratic politician. It is nothing but the basest treason.

Now do you understand why we have a piece of filth like Bill Clinton in the White House? We had a piece of filth in the White House 30 years ago. It is the system itself which is filthy, and so it should be no surprise when filthy individuals rise to the top of it.

 

One of these days we have to change the system itself radically, but that will take a full-scale revolution. What we must do until then is make ourselves heard. What we must do is raise our voices. The reason that Israel is able to lead America around by the nose is that the Jews, through their control of the news and entertainment media in America, have the only effective voice, the only voice that the damnable politicians respond to. Lyndon Johnson didn’t betray the men of the Liberty because he loved Jews. Nobody loves Jews. They are the most unlovable race on this earth. Johnson behaved as he did because he feared the Jews. And he feared them because he knew that they control the political process in this country through their control of the media.

 

That is the key fact, the salient fact, the most important fact in the life of our people today: Jewish control of the media.

 

Why do you think the Jews did such a rash thing as attack the Liberty in the first place? That, after all, was a very rash thing to do. If the United States were a nation led by honorable men, a nation in control of its own destiny, such an attack would have meant the end of Israel’s existence right then and there. Why did the Jews do it? Are they stupid?

 

I think not. They did it because they knew they could get away with it. They did it because it might have worked, and they had nothing to lose if it didn’t work. They knew they could get away with it. And they knew they could get away with it because they control our news and entertainment media.

 

And so here we are, 30 years into this shameful episode, 30 years after the treacherous and arrogant attack by Israel on the U.S.S. Liberty which killed 34 Americans and wounded 171 of them — an attack which was intended to kill everyone aboard our ship. And for 30 years the media have maintained their blanket of silence, and the politicians have maintained their sickening pretense about our “gallant, little Jewish ally” in the Middle East. This is the Jewish ally which continues to moan to the world about how it is “persecuted” by everyone else and continues to make demands on the world for money which it claims the world owes it.

 

Our politicians make pious speeches about China’s abuse of human rights — and I have no doubt that the charges against China are true — but then these same politicians vote for more of our money to be given to Israel, a country which murders prisoners of war wholesale and which routinely tortures Palestinians suspected of wanting freedom for their people. These are the same politicians who vote for laws requiring that our children be brainwashed with Jewish propaganda about the so-called “Holocaust” in their schools and who express their abhorrence of “anti -Semitism” whenever any American, such as Lieutenant Ennes, tells the nasty truth about our “gallant, little Jewish ally.”

 

 Let us remind all of our fellow citizens about the U.S.S. Liberty. And let us resolve now that we will put an end to the shame that has been brought on us by our government and by the controlled media!

* * *

From Free Speech Magazine, July 1997

https://nationalvanguard.org/2015/06/day-of-infamy-the-attack-on-the-u-s-s-liberty/

Broadcast 20mins

https://www.bitchute.com/video/PfNiIOpz41or/

 

 

Lady Gaga Applause parody (really good 4min)

 

MOSSAD JOB BY SHIKSA GODDESS

https://www.bitchute.com/video/gshD4fdI1Pmy/

[Golden Retriever]

Good film to watch from an Israeli Jewish film producer.

 

 

[Golden Retriever]

Most Israelis purposefully suffer cognitive dissonance.

 

 

 

Edited June 21, 2022 by Golden Retriever

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US Asks Israel To Pause Mistreatment of Palestinians Until After Biden Visit

 

(ZH) Apparently wary of bad “optics” during President Biden’s upcoming July visit, the U.S. State Department has asked Israel to take a break from provocative actions in Jerusalem and the West Bank until after his trip.

The request came from Barbara Leaf, U.S. assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs. It was submitted to Israeli officials that included foreign minister Yair Lapid, defense minister Benny Gantz and national security adviser Eyal Hulata. As first reported by Axios:

Leaf asked Israel to halt actions like home demolitions, evictions of Palestinians and decisions on settlement building, as well as decrease Israeli military operations in the West Bank until after Biden’s visit, the officials said.

Axios reports that Gantz, Lapid and Hulata said they would “do their best,” but that domestic political complexities would make halting such actions problematic.

 

“Unfortunately, even this humiliating plea may fall on deaf ears,” Osama Abuirshaid, executive director of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), tells Middle East Eye. “The Israeli government is fully aware of the magnitude of this administration’s weakness and can care less about the US president’s embarrassment or loss of political capital despite unfettered U.S. support to Israel.”

[The U.S. request] is illustrative of the United States’ real policy toward Israel,” says Palestinian-American activist and novelist Susan Abulhawa. “They generally don’t care what Israel does, Israel can do whatever they want. But Biden’s going on a trip there and he has a certain purpose and he wants to fulfill that purpose. It’s kind of a wink and a nod to their partner, Israel, to lay low for a little bit.”

 

During Biden’s tenure, Israel has demolished over 1,200 Palestinian structures in the West Bank, leaving more than 1,600 Palestinians homeless. Israel targets buildings that have no permits—yet requests for such permits are seldom granted. One study found that, over a two-year period, Israel rejected 97% of permit applications in the largest part of the West Bank.

Israel doesn’t always destroy the homes of Palestinians—sometimes, it evicts Palestinian families so Israelis can move in.

 

The East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah has become a prominent flashpoint of that phenomenon. Israel annexed East Jerusalem, but Palestinians still consider it occupied Palestinian territory; many aspire for it to be the capital of an independent Palestine.

In May, thousands of nationalist Israelis marched through the Muslim Old City quarter of Jerusalem on Sunday. Along the way, the mostly young, orthodox Jewish throng chanted racist, genocidal slogans and attacked Palestinians and their property. The Biden administration was silent.

 

Leaf, who asked Israel to pause its provocative actions, was previously a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a pro-Israel think tank launched with the blessings of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the money of many AIPAC donors. Founding Washington Institute director Martin Indyk himself worked at AIPAC and later twice served as U.S. ambassador to Israel.

 

On his July 13-16 Middle East trip, Biden will visit Israel and then Saudi Arabia. When campaigning for president, Biden pledged to make Saudi Arabia a “pariah.” Now, with the U.S.-European trade war on Russia pushing gas and oil prices ever higher—and crushing Biden’s approval rating—he’s ready to take his turn bowing to Saudi royalty.

On Sunday, Biden awkwardly attempted to discount suggestions that his trip to the kingdom was about oil. “It has to do with national security for them—for Israelis,” he told reporters.

Human rights activists have condemned Biden’s planned Saudi Arabia visit, reminding Biden that U.S. intelligence concluded Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder and dismemberment of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

 

Though you won’t hear much about this in the coming weeks, Israel has its own murdered journalist to account for—and this one was a U.S. citizen. In May, star Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was “shot dead in a targeted attack by Israeli forces,” according to a painstaking forensic investigation by CNN, a network that rarely casts a critical eye at Israel.

And so, while Americans are forced to endure the devastation of the U.S. economy in the name of punishing Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, Biden is primed to pander to two governments with their own dense resumés of war crimes and human rights violations.

 

[legion]

Pre-Emptive Murder
 

The lives of the latest fifteen Palestinian children to be murdered by Israel in Gaza, lives ripped from their small, terrified bodies with devastating violence, do not seem of much concern to the powerful in the West, or indeed anywhere.
 

The BBC repeated without question Israel’s claim that its latest launch of high explosive at the Gaza concentration camp was to prevent a terrorist attack on Israeli civilians – of which prospective attack no evidence has been produced. No western media has asked for any. Nor has it been explained why the attack would be stopped by Israel obliterating the alleged leader in Gaza of Islamic Jihad, and many innocents who chanced to be in his vicinity.
 

The scenarios in which the assassination of a leader prevent an attack which is in train are Hollywood.
 

The brave Daniel Hale sits in solitary confinement (euphemistically called a “Communications Management Unit) for blowing the whistle on the US drone assassination programme in Afghanistan. Hale, a drone operative, revealed that 90% of people killed by the drone assassination programme in Afghanistan were not the designated target, but that by default everybody killed by a drone strike was labeled an enemy combatant unless positive proof to the contrary were provided (which of course no effort was made to collect).

The extra-judicial execution of “Bad guys” with no legal process is not only carried out by Israel. The USA and the UK do it all the time, across the conflicts created by their own neo-imperial adventures and lust for hydrocarbons.
 

Nobody can tell you how many children have been killed by drone strikes or “targeted” missiles and bombings in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, Yemen or Libya.
 

The total across those countries is undoubtedly tens of thousands of dead children. We, however, are apparently the good guys. All those children have been killed in our self-defence, just like Israel killed those children in Gaza. I do hope that helps you sleep more soundly. 

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2022/08/pre-emptive-murder/ 
 

 

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Israel admits killing American journalist ‘accidentally’

The IDF says there is a “high possibility” Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by mistake and won’t charge soldiers

 

Tributes are paid to murdered Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh at a protest and vigil at BBC Broadcasting House on May 12, 2022 in London, England. © Getty Images / Guy Smallman
 

Israel will not be opening criminal investigations into any of its soldiers over the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) admitted on Monday that there is a “high possibility” that the journalist was “accidentally hit” by Israeli army fire.
 

An investigation into the incident launched by the Israeli military found that 51-year-old Abu Akleh was likely shot by an Israeli soldier who was under “wild and indiscriminate” gunfire and misidentified her as a Palestinian combatant. 
 

The IDF added that it does not rule out the possibility that the journalist was killed by Palestinian gunfire.

Chief of Staff for the Israeli Army Aviv Kohavi stated that Abu Akleh’s death was “a devastating incident” which occurred “during operational activity to prevent Palestinian terror” and that the journalist was killed amid an “exchange of fire that lasted for almost an hour.” 
 

The IDF said it will not be pursuing criminal charges or prosecution against any of the soldiers involved in the incident as there “was no suspicion of a criminal offense that warrants the opening of an MPCID investigation.”

The IDF’s conclusion however, seems to contradict the findings of investigations carried out by the UN and The Palestinian Authority, as well as several media outlets including CNN and Associated Press. 
 

Video footage as well as eyewitness testimony unearthed by these investigations suggests that there was no active combat or any Palestinian militants near Abu Akleh in the moments leading up to her death, which sparked international outrage.
 

 

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 US wants ‘accountability’ for death of Palestinian journalist

Abu Akleh can also be seen wearing a protective vest and helmet that were clearly labeled “PRESS” on both the front and the back as she was standing next to other journalists who were also in their press gear. The IDF, however, insists that the Israeli soldiers did not know who they were shooting at.

CNN’s investigation back in May suggested that Abu Akleh, who was a veteran Al Jazeera Arabic TV correspondent and a household name in the Arab world, may have been intentionally targeted by Israeli forces.

Al Jazeera described the killing in a statement as “blatant murder” and said that Abu Akleh was “assassinated in cold blood” and has called for Israeli authorities to be held responsible for the incident.

Abu Akleh’s family rejected the results of the Israeli investigation, saying in a statement that it aims to “obscure the truth” of what happened. “Our family is not surprised by this outcome since it’s obvious to anyone the Israeli war criminals cannot investigate their own crimes,” the family’s statement reads.

https://www.rt.com/news/562246-israel-killed-journalist-accident/ 

 

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Iran slams Israeli airstrikes on Syria’s civilian infrastructure as ‘war crime’

Thursday, 15 September 2022 8:23 AM  [ Last Update: Thursday, 15 September 2022 8:26 AM ]

 

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations Amir Saeed Iravani (Photo by IRNA news agency)

 

Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations has called Israel’s air strikes on Syria’s civilian infrastructure “a war crime,” urging the world body to hold the Tel Aviv regime accountable for its ongoing atrocities.

 

Amir Saeed Iravani made the remarks during a speech at the United Nations Security Council meeting on “The situation in the Middle East: (Syria)” on Wednesday.

He said the ongoing Israeli airstrikes on Syria, particularly the systematic and deliberate targeting of civilians and critical infrastructure in the Arab country, are “flagrant violation” of international law and “constitute an act of aggression and a war crime.”

 

The ambassador strongly condemned the repeated aerial military aggression and violations of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Syria by the Israeli regime, including the recent airstrikes on the Aleppo International Airport, calling on the Security Council to hold the Tel Aviv regime accountable for such violations and atrocities.

 

On September 6, a missile strike damaged the international airport's runway and rendered it out of service for the second time in less than a week.

 

Syria’s official news agency SANA said that Israeli jets launched a number of missiles from across the Mediterranean Sea at Aleppo Airport.

 

The news agency added that Syrian air defenses managed to intercept several Israeli missiles. There were no immediate reports of injuries in the latest attack.

Israeli airstrikes on Aleppo airport amount to 'war crime', says Syria

Syria decries recent Israeli airstrikes on Aleppo International Airport, saying it amounts to a “war crime.”

Iravani further noted that the illegal presence of some foreign forces in parts of Syria has “provided favorable conditions for terrorist activities” in the Arab country, which must be ended.

 

He went on to say that the free movement of terrorist organizations within Syrian territory, where foreign forces are illegally present, endangers regional and international peace and security.

 

Iravani further emphasized that there is no military solution to the Syrian crisis, adding that it should be resolved peacefully, in accordance with the UN Charter and international law.

 

“Ending the occupation and ongoing violations of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria is essential for such a solution and political process,” he said.

“The fight against terrorism must not be used to undermine the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria,” he added.

Israeli strikes knock Aleppo airport out of service

The Israeli regime attacks the Aleppo airport in northwestern Syria for a second time in less than a week.

Syria has been in the grip of foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. The Syrian government says the Israeli regime and its Western and regional allies aid Takfiri terrorist groups that continue to wreak havoc in the country.

 

Israel frequently targets military positions inside Syria, especially those of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah which has played a key role in helping the Syrian army in its fight against foreign-backed terrorists.

 

The Tel Aviv regime rarely comments on its cowardly attacks on Syrian territories, which many see as a knee-jerk reaction to the Syrian government’s success in confronting and decimating terrorism.

 

Israel has been one of the main supporters of terrorist groups that oppose the democratically-elected government of President Bashar al-Assad since the foreign-backed militancy erupted in Syria.

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On 9/6/2022 at 5:07 PM, legion said:

Israel admits killing American journalist ‘accidentally’

The IDF says there is a “high possibility” Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by mistake and won’t charge soldiers

 

Tributes are paid to murdered Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh at a protest and vigil at BBC Broadcasting House on May 12, 2022 in London, England. © Getty Images / Guy Smallman
 

Israel will not be opening criminal investigations into any of its soldiers over the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) admitted on Monday that there is a “high possibility” that the journalist was “accidentally hit” by Israeli army fire.
 

An investigation into the incident launched by the Israeli military found that 51-year-old Abu Akleh was likely shot by an Israeli soldier who was under “wild and indiscriminate” gunfire and misidentified her as a Palestinian combatant. 
 

The IDF added that it does not rule out the possibility that the journalist was killed by Palestinian gunfire.

Chief of Staff for the Israeli Army Aviv Kohavi stated that Abu Akleh’s death was “a devastating incident” which occurred “during operational activity to prevent Palestinian terror” and that the journalist was killed amid an “exchange of fire that lasted for almost an hour.” 
 

The IDF said it will not be pursuing criminal charges or prosecution against any of the soldiers involved in the incident as there “was no suspicion of a criminal offense that warrants the opening of an MPCID investigation.”

The IDF’s conclusion however, seems to contradict the findings of investigations carried out by the UN and The Palestinian Authority, as well as several media outlets including CNN and Associated Press. 
 

Video footage as well as eyewitness testimony unearthed by these investigations suggests that there was no active combat or any Palestinian militants near Abu Akleh in the moments leading up to her death, which sparked international outrage.
 

 

Read more
 

 US wants ‘accountability’ for death of Palestinian journalist

Abu Akleh can also be seen wearing a protective vest and helmet that were clearly labeled “PRESS” on both the front and the back as she was standing next to other journalists who were also in their press gear. The IDF, however, insists that the Israeli soldiers did not know who they were shooting at.

CNN’s investigation back in May suggested that Abu Akleh, who was a veteran Al Jazeera Arabic TV correspondent and a household name in the Arab world, may have been intentionally targeted by Israeli forces.

Al Jazeera described the killing in a statement as “blatant murder” and said that Abu Akleh was “assassinated in cold blood” and has called for Israeli authorities to be held responsible for the incident.

Abu Akleh’s family rejected the results of the Israeli investigation, saying in a statement that it aims to “obscure the truth” of what happened. “Our family is not surprised by this outcome since it’s obvious to anyone the Israeli war criminals cannot investigate their own crimes,” the family’s statement reads.

https://www.rt.com/news/562246-israel-killed-journalist-accident/ 

 

 

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MARVEL COMICS HEADS REVEALED TO BE CLOSELY CONNECTED TO ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE

Published: September 23, 2022

Source: Mint Press

Earlier this month, activists and comic book fans alike were in uproar over Marvel Studios’ announcement that Israeli actress Shira Haas will play Zionist superhero Sabra in the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Captain America: New World Order. Many Palestine advocates accused Marvel’s decision to add Sabra to the MCU as exalting Israeli abuse and war crimes.

“By glorifying the Israeli army & police, Marvel is promoting Israel’s violence against Palestinians & enabling the continued oppression of millions of Palestinians living under Israel’s authoritarian military rule,” the Institute for Middle East Understanding wrote in a tweet.

Following the backlash, Marvel said in a statement to Variety that it will take a “new approach” to the character, in a perceived attempt to placate criticisms.

Yet vows to reimagine the Sabra character, a former spy for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, may come across as disingenuous, especially when, upon closer examination, Marvel appears closely connected to the Israeli government and its main intelligence agency Mossad.

Marvel and Israel’s deepening relationship

Many individuals who have held or still maintain roles at Marvel are associated with the Israeli military, Israeli intelligence and Zionist institutions that uphold apartheid. For instance, Isaac Perlmutter, the current chairman of Marvel Entertainment who served on Marvel Comics’ board of directors until 1995, grew up in 1948-occupied Palestine (or modern-day Israel) and served in the Israeli military during the 1967 Six-Day War. Avi Arad, the CEO of Marvel Entertainment, also grew up in modern-day Israel and served in the Israeli army during the Six-Day War.

Along with his wife, Laura, Perlmutter oversees a foundation that contributes to several pro-Israel causes such as the Anti-Defamation League, Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, the America-Israel Friendship League, the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County in Florida, and the Jewish Agency for Israel. The Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Foundation has also supported the Hebrew University and Israel’s Technion Institute of Technology.

The Perlmutters are also heavily linked to the Trump family. In 2016, their organization donated $25,000 to the Eric Trump Foundation. According to Open Secrets, a campaign finance tracker, in 2016, Laura Perlmutter donated $5,400 to former President Donald Trump’s campaign and nearly $450,000 to the Trump Victory Committee, a joint fundraising initiative by the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee. The couple then gave more than $1 million to the Trump Victory Committee in 2019 and 2020 and contributed another $11,200 to Trump’s reelection campaign in 2019.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/83541/marvel-comics-heads-revealed-to-be-closely-connected-to-israeli.html

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New Declassified Documents Reveal Israel’s Role in Rohingya Massacre

October 7, 2022

Recently declassified Israeli Foreign Ministry documents reveal deep Israeli military ties with Burma, now known as Myanmar, and its significant role in the brutal massacre of the Rohingya Muslims.

According to a report published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Thursday, the 25,000 pages of documents detail how the Israeli regime armed and trained the Burmese army, from the 1950s until the beginning of the 1980s.

Since the end of British rule in Myanmar in 1948, different parts of the country have been rocked by relentless civil war.

Declassified docs show Israel saw Myanmar military atrocity crimes as fertile ground for cooperation. Over decades, it helped arm, train & support the military. Eitay Mack & others are trying to halt this & demand a criminal investigation@IsraelinMyanmar https://t.co/PGMWmlsWYA

— Justice For Myanmar (@JusticeMyanmar) October 7, 2022

 

Despite Israeli authorities being well aware of the situation, Israel perceived the deadly civil war in Burma as a “golden opportunity” for increasing its arms sales to Burma.

The documents reveal that one of the main aims of Israel was to win Burmese support in international forums, in exchange for its arms support, reported Haaretz.

The agreement between the two regimes consisted of 30 fighter aircraft, hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition, 1,500 napalm bombs, 30,000 rifle barrels, thousands of mortar shells, and much more military equipment, from scouts’ tents to parachuting gear.

Ramzy Baroud – Rohingya Population Control: The Onslaught in Burma Continues | Palestine Chronicle http://t.co/Ko0Wxsrfne

— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) June 6, 2013

 

In addition, dozens of Israeli experts were dispatched to Burma on training missions, and Burmese army officers came to Israel for comprehensive instruction on Israeli army bases. In cooperation with the Burmese army, Israel also established shipping, agricultural, tourism, and construction companies there.

Since August 25, 2017, nearly 24,000 Rohingya Muslims have been killed by Myanmar’s State forces, while over 114,000 others beaten; as many as 18,000 women and girls were raped, and above 115,000 homes burned down, according to a report by the Ontario International Development Agency (OIDA).

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/new-declassifieddocuments-reveal-israels-role-in-rohingya-massacre/?utm_content=bufferc702e

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A third Palestinian intifada: With political leaders becoming increasingly unpopular, a new armed uprising takes hold

A look at what caused the recent clashes with Israel and what can be expected to happen next

Robert Inlakesh is a political analyst, journalist and documentary filmmaker currently based in London, UK. He has reported from and lived in the Palestinian territories and currently works with Quds News. Director of ‘Steal of the Century: Trump's Palestine-Israel Catastrophe’. 

13 Oct, 2022 13:07

A slew of armed attacks against Israeli soldiers inside the West Bank has sent shock waves throughout the military and intelligence establishment in Tel Aviv. On the Palestinian side, the territory has witnessed a level of violence not seen since the early 2000s and is encouraging a popular armed struggle.

Last Saturday, a lone Palestinian gunman exited a vehicle at a checkpoint in East Jerusalem, opening fire and killing an Israeli soldier and injuring two others. The attack took place at the Shuafat refugee camp checkpoint, a segment of East Jerusalem that, despite being annexed by Israel in 1980, has been enclosed by a separation wall that cuts the refugee population off from the rest of Jerusalem. So far this year, around 120 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank alone, a higher death toll than in Gaza.

https://www.rt.com/news/564555-third-palestinian-intifada/

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Israeli Company signs deal to bring “meat from heaven” to the European market

by Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz | Oct 20, 2022 |

An Israeli company is expanding operations, selling plant-based meat alternatives to gourmet outlets in Europe. Some opinions maintain that vegetarianism is a Biblical idea while others compare high-tech proteins to “meat from Heaven” described in a Talmudic parable.

Redefine Meat, an Israeli company, announced this week that they have partnered with the prestigious meat importer, Monaco-based Giraudi Meats. The start-up, located in Rehovot south of Tel Aviv, raised $170 million in a series A financing round this year and opened a new factory in the Netherlands which will help the company achieve its production goal of 15 tons a day.  Its 3-D printed “New Meat” is made from ingredients including soy and pea proteins, chickpeas, beetroot, nutritional yeasts, and coconut fat. 

Plant-based meat alternatives are considered to be better for animals and the environment but the partnership with the gourmet meat purveyor emphasizes the company’s claim that its product is not a compromise or a meat substitute intended for vegans. Its product list includes tenderloin, striploin, lamb flank, premium burger, and lamb kebab. New Meat is currently available in Israel, Britain, the Netherlands, and Germany in almost 1,000 restaurants that are currently paying about $40 per kilo for Redefine Meat’s steak cuts.  

A known powerhouse in high-tech, Israel is quickly becoming a leader in alternative meat and is ranked second in the absolute number of alternative protein companies, lagging behind the US. Israel companies pulled in over $114 million in investments in the field in 2020. Good Food Institute’s (GFI) Israel report found that Israeli startups raised over $320 million in the first six months of 2022. This is expected to grow at a rate of over 150 percent each year, reaching $155 billion by 2027.

https://www.israel365news.com/275720/israeli-company-signs-deal-to-bring-meat-from-heaven-to-the-european-market/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign

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Historians reveal Israel’s use of poison against Palestinians

B.M | DOP

October 15, 2022

By Nasim Ahmed
The details of Israel’s secret use of biological weapons and poison against Palestinians during the 1947/48 ethnic cleansing campaign has been revealed in a recent article by historians Benny Morris and Benjamin Kedar. The 84-year-old Kedar is professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the more well-known Morris is famed for his work as one of Israel’s “New Historians”. This group of Israeli scholars, including Professors Ilan Pappe and Avi Shlaim, dismantled the occupation state’s official narrative about its creation in 1948 and the birth of the Palestinian refugee crisis. However, unlike his fellow historians, Morris went on to become a rather controversial figure for adopting morally questionable positions in defense of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

“I find myself as convinced as ever that the Israelis played a major role in ridding the country of tens of thousands of Arabs during the 1948 war,” said Morris in an article in the Los Angeles Times about the controversy surrounding his book, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949. “For unearthing that dark side of 1948,” Morris said that he was vilified by the “Zionist establishment.” He was accused of shattering the founding myths of the Israeli state and lending moral weight to the Palestinian cause. Morris rejected the claim as “untrue” and explained that he “was simply a historian seeking to describe what happened.”

Affirming his commitment to Zionism, however, Morris went on to defend Israel’s ethnic cleansing. “I also believe their [Israeli] actions were inevitable and made sense” said Morris before giving his justification for why Israel had to expel three quarters of the indigenous non-Jewish, Muslim and Christian Palestinians. “Had the belligerent Arab population inhabiting the areas destined for Jewish statehood not been uprooted, no Jewish state would have arisen, or it would have emerged so demographically and politically hobbled that it could not have survived. It was an ugly business. Such is history.”

Morris’s argument is typical of many Israelis who find themselves trapped between the truths about Israel’s creation and remaining committed to the Zionist cause. Some abandon the ideology which preserves a Jewish ethno-nationalist state in historic Palestine because of the moral dilemma it presents. Others continue to insist that the Zionist cause supersedes all moral and ethical considerations, even if that means justifying ethnic cleansing, racism and the crime of apartheid.

In light of his background, Morris’s take on Israel’s use of biological weapons and poison is all the more interesting. His article with Kedar – “‘Cast Thy Bread’: Israeli Biological Warfare during the 1948 War” – was published by Middle Eastern Studies. According to Haaretz, the article is a rarity because it was researched and published against the wishes of the Israeli security establishment, which has tried for years to block any embarrassing historical documents that expose war crimes against Arabs, such as murdering prisoners, ethnic cleansing and destroying villages. Moreover, the article is based on original documents stored in the Israel State Archive as well as other archives.

The article provides details of how scientists from the Scientific Corps, together with battlefield units, were involved in a systematic campaign to poison water wells and spread typhoid bacteria in Arab villages and cities as well as among the invading armies of Egypt and Jordan. The objective was to frighten the Arab-Palestinian population, to force them to leave and to weaken the Arab armies. It is claimed that the use of biological warfare was approved by the founder of the Israeli state and its first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion.

Among the examples of the use of poison discussed in the article is the deployment of typhoid germs sent in bottles to the southern front. Morris and Kedar shed light on the Israeli soldiers sent with the poison to Acre and the Galilee village of Ilabun. According to British, Arab and Red Cross documents, dozens of local residents of Acre were poisoned and became severely ill. An unknown number of them died.

The same method is also said to have been used in Gaza in May 1948, a week after Israel proclaimed its independence. Apparently two Jewish soldiers from a Special Forces unit posed as Arabs and infiltrated Gaza with tubes containing the typhoid germs. Their mission was to poison the local water supply to stop the advance of the Egyptian army. However, they were arrested and tortured, and then sentenced to death by an Egyptian military court in August 1948.

The use of biological weapons has been illegal for nearly a century, since the 1925 Geneva Protocol. This prohibits the use of chemical and biological weapons in international armed conflicts. Although Israel, Egypt, Somalia, Eritrea and Comoros have refused to commit to the protocol, 183 other states have done so.

While Israel has never publicly admitted to the use of chemical weapons it has been caught red-handed on several occasions. One such was the botched attempt to assassinate Palestinian political leader Khaled Meshaal in Amman, on 25 September, 1997. The brazen attempt on the life of the then 41-year-old head of the Hamas Political Bureau sparked a diplomatic row which threatened to wreck the peace deal between Jordan and Israel. The crisis ended with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu making a number of humiliating concessions.

A six-member Mossad team arrived in Amman a week before the assassination using false Canadian passports. The plan was clear: kill the exiled Hamas leader using a lethal toxin without leaving any trace of the killers. The idea was that after the toxin had been administered covertly, Meshaal would go about the rest of his day as normal and then, when tiredness overcame him, he would take a nap, never to wake up again; he was expected to die within 48 hours. Two of the Mossad agents delivered the toxin as planned but were captured by Meshaal’s bodyguard while trying to flee from the scene.

Hours after the arrest of the agents, the Israelis hatched a plan to diffuse the situation. With the diplomatic consequence of his actions dawning on him, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attempted to conceal the botched assassination attempt from the rest of the world. He dispatched Mossad head Danni Yatom to plead with King Hussain of Jordan for the agents’ release. He failed to diffuse the situation and instead sparked a diplomatic crisis with the Hashemite Kingdom, which had normalized relations with the Zionist state three years earlier. The King had gone out on a limb to sign a peace treaty with Israel against the wishes of his people. Following pressure from the US and under the threat to the peace treaty, the Israelis delivered the antidote. Meshaal was saved with just hours to spare.

Nobody should be too surprised, therefore, at the fact that Israel used biological weapons against the Palestinians in 1948. The occupation state also has nuclear weapons, which it has never allowed to be inspected by the International Atomic Energy Agency, or anyone else for that matter. In short, the state is a depository for weapons of mass destruction and has used them against Palestinian civilians.

Has Israel been sanctioned, invaded and occupied by the West as a result? Of course not. Yet again, the West’s hypocrisy on such matters has been exposed, this time by an unlikely duo: Benny Morris and Benjamin Kedar.

https://daysofpalestine.ps/historians-reveal-israels-use-of-poison-against-palestinians/

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