‘The Palestinian prisoners must be killed by shooting them in the head…

Until passing this law of execution of Palestinian prisoners, we will give them little to live on.’

No words to describe the lack of capacity for humanity. 

by Germán Gorraiz López – Political analyst

Summary: The cruel casualties in Gaza have provoked a split in the Democratic Party. Meanwhile, there are signs of a possible Israeli invasion of Lebanon, which could benefit Netanyahu. If Biden loses and thus Trump wins, the Israeli Prime-Minister will be granted exoneration for all current and forthcoming crimes in Gaza and Lebanon (maybe).

The asymmetry of the punishment carried out by Israel in Gaza has provoked disaffection towards Biden in the left wing of the Democratic Party. And at the same time a proverbial black swan has popped up during Biden’s reelection campaign: the protests by university students at Columbia University and UCLA against the invasion of Gaza and the violent eviction of them by the police. This protest movement extended to the rest of US universities (recalling the 1968 protests against the Vietnam War) provoking a schism within the Democratic Party and weakening the solidity of Biden’s nomination as presidential candidate at the Democratic National Convention to be held in Chicago from August 19 to 22.

Such a set back for the Biden campaign could facilitate the triumphant return of Donald Trump in the November presidential elections. So the Biden Administration is desperately trying to get Netanyahu to declare “an indefinite truce” which would allow the exchange of Israeli hostages still held by Hamas as well as restore the circulation of humanitarian aid trucks for more than 1 million Palestinians confined in Rafah.

Thus, Biden would distinguish himself as a successful diplomat and clean up his image as a collaborator of Israel in the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, thus enabling him to present himself to left-wing Democrats as the winner of the truce in Gaza. This would bring him back up in the polls.

In this context, a recent telephone call between Biden and Netanyahu laid the foundations for an agreement that benefits both leaders. It consists of the total withdrawal of the Israeli army from Gaza, which will remain as a demilitarized zone under the control of the UN Blue Helmets. This also allows Israel to refocus its military campaign and target Lebanon.

For his part, after ending the Gaza campaign, Netanyahu reportedly decided to invade southern Lebanon and displace the 400,000 inhabitants across the Litani River, in the hope of gaining time until the foreseeable victory in November of Donald Trump. Netanyahu is probably certain that he can count on Trump’s blessings and have Trump exonerate him of all guilt before the International Criminal Court.

via Jerusalem Post

The Energy Ministry said in response that the state of Israel’s energy is “robust and ready to deal with all possible scenarios.”

CEO of Noga – Israel Independent System Operator Ltd., Shaul Goldstein, said there is no guarantee that there will be electricity in Israel in the event of a future war with Hezbollah on Thursday at the Institute for National Security Studies conference in Sderot.

“After 72 hours without electricity in Israel, living here will be impossible. We are not in a good state and unprepared for a real war,” Goldstein said. He added that Hezbollah could easily take down Israel’s power grid.

“If Nasrallah wants to take down Israel’s power grid, he only needs to make a phone call to the person in charge of Beirut’s power system, which looks exactly like Israel’s. He doesn’t even need a drone; he can call a second-year electrical engineering student and ask where the most critical points in Israel are – everything is on the internet. I won’t say it here, but anyone who goes on the internet can find it,” Goldstein said.

“Israel is an energy island, and we need to supply ourselves – this is also our advantage; we are trained to work in isolation. When I took the position and began researching what the real threat to the electricity sector is, I asked – let’s say a missile hits the electricity sector, and there’s a power outage for one hour, three hours, 24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours, and beyond. What happens to Israel in such a situation? The bottom line is that after 72 hours – it is impossible to live in Israel,” Goldstein warned at the beginning of his remarks.

He added, “People do not understand how much our lives here depend on electricity.”

Hassan Nasrallah (credit: HO / AL-MANAR TV / AFP)

“You check all our infrastructures – optical fibers and ports- and I won’t get into sensitive issues, but we are not in a good state,” Goldstein warned. “We are not ready for a real war. We live in a fantasy world, in my opinion.”

He then added that Israel has invested a lot in protection in a joint effort with the electric company.

Goldstein concluded his statements, “If the war is postponed by a year, five, ten – our situation will be better.”

CEO of Bituach Leumi calls Goldstein’s comments ‘irresponsible’

Bituach Leumi’s CEO, Meir Spiegler, called Shaul Goldstein’s statements regarding the “fragility” of the power grid “irresponsible” and “disconnected from reality.” He added that it “creates panic among the public” and that “It would be better if he focused on managing Noga, which has regressed since he took office.”

The Energy Ministry said in response that the state of Israel’s energy is “robust and ready to deal with all possible scenarios.”

“Since the beginning of the war, the ministry has been tirelessly working to ensure the energy supply for all citizens of the country, preparing meticulously for extreme scenarios and possible supply disruptions. These efforts are being carried out in close cooperation with security agencies to manage electricity demand, energy redundancy, and fuel reserves,” the ministry’s statement read.

“There are several scenarios, including the ‘blackout’ scenario in which over 60% of households may be left without electricity for up to 72 hours, which is an extreme scenario with low probability. However, the ministry continuously works to reduce the likelihood of this scenario and to prepare for a swift recovery from a blackout, should it occur,” the statement continued.

The Energy Ministry called upon Israeli citizens to prepare for any situation in accordance with Home Front Command directives, including carrying batteries, water, and portable chargers.

Energy and Infrastructure Minister Eli Cohen commented, “The State of Israel will not be left alone. We are preparing for every scenario, holding discussions and assessing the situation, and spending billions of shekels to ensure a regular supply of energy to all Israeli citizens.”

He continued, “In recent months, we have increased our inventory and purchased a lot of equipment in order to have backups. The State of Israel has the ability to generate electricity from a large variety of sources – we have gas rigs, we have huge reserves of coal, and we also generate electricity from renewable energy. Many actions, which cannot be specified, have been taken to ensure a regular energy supply. The chance of a power outage for many days is very low.”

He then added, “It is important for me to make it clear to our enemies: If there is a power outage lasting for hours [in Israel], in Lebanon, there will be a power outage for months.”

Cameron spoke at a press conference in London as British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government announced new sanctions against Russia. His remarks were published on Friday, by the Italian daily Corriere della Sera.

“We will show [Russian President Vladimir] Putin that we are completely behind Ukraine: we will chase the money and the oil, we will stop the gas, we will stop the ships, we will do everything we can to stop the Russian war machine and show Putin the folly of his actions,” Cameron told the Italian outlet.

The UK is “hunting” companies that do business with Russia “all over the world,”he said. “We will sanction companies in China, in Türkiye, in Kyrgyzstan, even in Israel, that we believe are supplying dual-use material” to Russia, he added.

Of special concern to Cameron was the so-called shadow fleet of tankers delivering Russian oil in defiance of the G7 “price cap” and the Western embargo. The UK has used its dominance in the global shipping insurance industry to blacklist all Russian vessels, hindering the deliveries of everything from oil to food – but blaming Moscow for it.

Faced with Ukrainian setbacks on the battlefield, the US and the UK launched another wave of sanctions against Russia this week, expanding their definition of Moscow’s war effort to target individuals and companies around the world allegedly helping it.

The US Treasury Department openly stated that its objective was to raise “the risk of secondary sanctions for foreign financial institutions” that deal with Russia, threatening to deprive them of access to Western finance.

Don’t miss this: Why do Brits Hate Russians

by Israel Shamir via Unz Review

Britain is the world leader in anti-Russian politics. The Brits hate Putin and zealously encourage the Ukies to fight their Russian cousins to the last drop of blood. The Russians and the Ukies were ready to sign a deal in February 2022, until British PM Johnson arrived in Kiev to convince the Ukies to drop it. And so they did. Ever since then, the Brits have been the leading force pushing the Ukies to fight, and convincing NATO members to help them fight. The Brits are leading the global anti-Russian campaign. These are the facts. However, the explanation of these facts evaded me until now.

Recently a promising young reporter called Dood (or maybe Doodj), spoke to a leader of the Russian pro-Western opposition, the runaway ex-oligarch Michael Chodorkovsky [Mikhail Khodorkovsky]. Mr Ch has been relegated to the shadows and margins of history, though once upon a time he was the richest tycoon in Russia, and one of the wealthiest men in the world. Now he is worth just below one billion dollars, peanuts as oligarchs count.

He was one of the Dirty Seven [semiboyarshina] oligarchs who seized control of Russia during Yeltsin’s feeble rule. They all were more or less Jewish, and their solidarity and destructiveness could only compete with their ruthlessness and greed. Many of my friends consider Zionists to be apex predators, while Jews are cute and furry prey. They are mistaken – these seven Russian oligarchs were not Zionists, they were just Jews out to destroy everything in their way. These seven men practically destroyed millennium-old Russia. They pauperised its people, reduced its industry to ashes, they sold the factories for scrap; they stole all private bank holdings. They even ruined Russian democracy when they shelled Parliament in 1993 using Yeltsin’s tanks, and then, with the assistance of American advisors, by faking the re-election of President Yeltsin in 1996.

Like locusts attacking a tree, each Jewish oligarch took over a different branch: Mr Berezovsky went after the auto industry, and Russia stopped producing cars; Mr Gusinsky seized television, and turned it into offensive propaganda; Mr Chubais managed the world’s largest transfer of wealth since 1917. Mr Chodorkovsky took over all of Russia’s oil and gas. Everywhere they stole all they could steal, built yachts and palaces, mocking ordinary Russians by their conspicuous consumption. Their official rule ended sometime after 2005 when Mr Berezovsky convinced Yeltsin to pass his reign over to young Mr Putin, and then Mr Putin told the oligarchs to stay away from the state or else. Mr Ch laughed and said he will get rid of Putin. Putin put him into jail and nationalised the oligarch’s mammoth Lukoil oil company. Ten years later, Mr Ch was allowed to leave and so he did. Russian oil is still in the hands of the Russian state, and it still remains the basis of Russian prosperity.

Now, in a recent interview, Mr Ch revealed to a young reporter that the real owner of Lukoil was the late Lord Rothschild, who just (Feb 24) passed away at the ripe old age of 89. It was quite a surprise, to find out that the old Jew was still quick enough to pocket all of Russia’s oil as he was kicking out the godless communists. We Russians actually did hear such a rumour as it was happening, but we did not take it seriously at the time. Blaming “Rothschild” is like blaming “Lizard People”; an antisemitic trope. There is no such person in real life, I thought. But after the publication of Doodj’s video, I looked back in the Times archives and found that it was not a fiction:

So it was known even then, but I (and others) could not believe it at the time. Even now, we tend to discount antisemitic facts along with the antisemitic tropes that flood the Internet.

But this is the key to why the Brits are so keen to undermine Russia. Lord Rothschild is as British as 5 o’clock tea. The Brits can have an Indian PM, a Paki Lord Mayor of London, and Ghurkhas as their elite troops, but the Bank of England belongs to the Jews. Englishmen are just miners to keep Lord Rothschild’s global bank running tickety-boo. And Jews are famous for keeping control of whatever has passed through their clutches. Even the Royal Family became quasi-Jewish: they circumcise their boys and believe they are descendants of King David.

The fact is, losing all that fabulous Russian wealth did irritate the oligarchs. This is why they call Vladimir Putin “the bloody tyrant”, because he took away the Russian oil and gas, gold and wheat that they felt they deserved. Yet history shows that Putin was a soft ruler: he did not seize the oligarchs’ wealth, as he well could have; they retained their yachts and palaces and their billions. But it didn’t comfort them; they still covet the whole hog.

Like most of us, Putin was under the illusion that England and the US were against the USSR for ideological reasons. He thought, “Sure, they dislike communism, like any good capitalist would.” He believed they would be happy now that Russians are enjoying the fruits of private ownership. But it turns out that the Brits and Yanks were never interested in theory. They hated the communists because they kept Russian commodities out of Lord Rothschild’s greedy hands. Now that it is Putin who is standing in the breach, the global banking system has declared him to be the man of evil. Perhaps the Russians destroyed their Soviet Union for no good reason, after all.

Anything, whether it be communist or capitalist, that stood between Lord Rothschild and what he wanted was naturally vilified by the global press. Yet it is significant that Rothschild’s death has not affected the global stream of invective against Putin and Russia. There is no pause in the war. The oligarchic pressure continues to oppress. It may be that Lord Rothschild’s extensive holdings have passed to his legal heirs, but such wealth is subject to the long term plans of globalist powerbrokers, not the whims of privileged family scions. Yet such rumours are merely antisemitic tropes and are not to be believed.

The main purpose of the mainstream press seems to be quashing or memory-holing stories that might upset the behind-the-scenes deals between English and Russian oligarchs, many of whom happen to be (coincidentally) Jewish. The entire notion of a Jewish global financial system, although it is at the root of Nathan Rothschild’s historical banking network, has been declared an antisemitic trope by the managed press. The safety of Jews comes first, and the press will fervently misinform the public in pursuit of this goal.

Such a system ensures that the ordinary people of the world, just trying to get to work in the morning, will always be a day late and a dollar short. We are forever kept in the dark concerning the machinations of the global oligarchs, many of whom happen to be (coincidentally) Jewish. The truth of the matter leaks out in dribs and drabs from the oligarchs themselves with the aid of young and enterprising reporters like Dood. But England is not the only refuge for the financiers. Rothschild family has an English and a French wings. The French wing is represented by President Macron.

The French Jewish leadership appointed Emanuel Macron the President of the Republic, says a French Jewish writer blogging under the name Tsarfat (the Hebrew name for France).

In a long and detailed piece Tsarfat tells of a few prominent Jews (Alain Minc, Serge Weinberg, Jacques Attali, and Bernard Mourad) vouching for Macron with David de Rothschild. In 2011, Macron became a junior partner at Rothschild, earning a substantial salary. He was worth every penny – he tricked Le Monde, he cheated President Hollande, he cheated the French state, he did whatever Rothschild demanded and in return, he has got the presidency of the Republic. He was the new king appointed by the new Abravanel. Now he has to deliver the war between Christendom and Islam, for the supreme glory of Israel.

This future war will cover the Gaza disaster. If the English Rothschilds provide the war with Russia, the French Rothschilds will take care of the war with Islam. Thus, financiers are more deadly than Zionists, though they play ball with them. Ron Unz proved that these financiers were prominent in bringing the US into the First and the Second World War. I think they are powerful enough to bring us all into the Third World War.

According to Axios, citing a U.S. administration official, the American hostages unit in Israel assisted in the release of the four Israeli captives in Gaza.

Footage published by an Israeli occupation soldier confirms Israel’s use of the American temporary pier in central Gaza during its offensive operations in the Al-Nuseirat refugee camp.

Reports from Gaza indicate that the unit sneaked into the camp inside a truck carrying humanitarian aid that came from the floating pier.

There is no evidence of any sexual violence on October the 7th.

Excerpts

Israel govt spox ‘has no idea’ how many civilians IDF has killed

Piers Morgan had Israeli government spokesperson Avi Hyman squirming when he pressed for an answer on how many civilian deaths it was responsible for, despite also having exact figures for Hamas ‘terrorists’ it had killed.

Hyman blamed the “fog of war” for not having exact numbers of Palestinian civilians Israel has killed, instead referring Morgan to Hamas figures which he simultaneously rejected.

“That does imply you are putting a bigger premium on killing Hamas terrorists in terms of numbers and accountability than you are on innocent civilians. That can’t be right, surely?” Morgan asked

via Moon of Alabama

This morning the Israeli army ordered hundred thousands of refugees to move from the eastern part of Rafah to the already destroyed and likewise overcrowded area around Khan Younis. Hours later it started to bomb and destroy the place.

bigger

The eastern part of Rafah includes the Rafah crossing to Egypt through which food an other necessities enter Gaza. It also includes the largest still existing healthcare facility.

As the Zionist entity will likely continue in its usual pattern the eastern part of Rafah will be completely destroyed. After that it will do the same with its western part.

There will not be one building left in Gaza that is inhabitable.

I mostly refrain from writing about the crimes of the colonial settler regime. It is simply beyond my emotional capabilities.

This poem, by Caitlin Johnstone, is probably the best way to express my feelings:

I Oppose Israel’s Atrocities In Gaza Because I’m Not A Psychopath

I don’t oppose the butchery in Gaza because I love Hamas or hate Jews or love Islam or hate America. I don’t oppose the butchery in Gaza because I’m a lefty or a commie or an anarchist or an anti-imperialist. I oppose the butchery in Gaza because I’m not a fucking psychopath.

Every one who openly or silently supports the Zionist in this should be in jail.