“Heinous, Barbaric Crime”

via RT

Gaza’s ancient Omari Mosque has been bombarded by Israeli warplanes with the landmark site sustaining widespread destruction.

Images being shared on social media and identified by RT reporters in Gaza as being of the Omari Mosque showed massive damage to the building, with only its ancient stone minaret standing. The Great Omari Mosque is considered one of the most important and oldest mosques in Palestine and the first one to be constructed in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas reacted to the incident by calling it a “heinous, barbaric crime” as cited by Reuters, and urged the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to protect historic buildings in Gaza.

It would not be the first time civilian infrastructure, including cultural and heritage sites, have been targeted by Israeli Defense Forces as they carry out retaliatory strikes.

The fighting began on October 7 when Hamas attacked Israel, killing about 1,200 people. Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of using civilian infrastructure, including mosques and schools, to hide its fighters.

Another place of worship, the Othman bin Qashqar Mosque in Gaza City, was hit by air raids on Thursday, Hamas said. The group also condemned the destruction of the Hammam al-Samara, a 1,000-year old Turkish-style bath in the territory.

The Palestine Ministry of Culture said Israeli warplanes had bombed eight museums since the beginning of the conflict, including the Rafah Museum, Al-Qarara Museum and the Khan Yunis Museum, in addition to destroying most parts of Gaza’s Old City, including dozens of historic buildings.

Israel has also reduced nine publishing houses and libraries to rubble and destroyed or partially damaged at least 21 cultural centers. In its latest report, the NGO Heritage for Peace found that 104 out of 195 architectural heritage sites in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. More than 15,000 Palestinians have been killed during the conflict, according to figures from Gaza health officials considered reliable by the United Nations, and much civilian infrastructure has been destroyed.

Western Banking Dominance Is Ending


The Western financial system is becoming outdated because of new technologies and could lose its dominant global position in the near future, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.

Addressing the VTB Investment Forum in Moscow, Putin pointed out that modern tech solutions, such as blockchain, are increasingly being used in international payments.

“According to experts, in the coming years this will lead to a real revolution that will finally undermine the monopoly of large Western banks,” Putin said, noting that some of those financial institutions are currently “not in the best condition.”

The Russian president added that the interbank messaging system SWIFT has been discredited because it cut off Russian banks and is being replaced by payments in national currencies.

Global economic relations are changing, and the previous model of globalization is being replaced by a multipolar model, according to Putin.

The Secret Pipeline Behind Israel- Hamas War

 

10 Questions About Gaza

This is from Off-Guardian report Part I.

by Simon Elmer

Excerpt:

In May 2021, the Israel Defense Forces, which included 160 fighter jets, bombed the Gaza Strip with high-explosive weapons dropped on heavily populated areas for 11 days. The planes dropped their loads from high altitude, which facilitated them gaining the velocity required to penetrate the surface of the ground. A delayed fuse meant their one tonne payload of explosives detonated underground, destroying the cellars, bunkers and tunnels in which not only Hamas militants but also Gazan civilians took cover from the bombardment.

In one half-hour period, the IDF dropped 450 such bombs, the largest in their arsenal, at a rate of one every five seconds into the subsoil of Gaza, sending shockwaves through the earth.
The result was 259 Palestinians killed, including 66 children and 41 women, and 2,211 injured. In addition, 6 hospitals and 11 medical clinics were destroyed, 53 schools, a bookshop that held an estimated 100,000 books, as well as 1,042 homes and commercial units in 258 buildings, including 4 residential tower blocks.

The Israeli Government claimed these towers were being used by Hamas for military purposes. However, Human Rights Watch has challenged the truth of this claim, declaring that the air strikes ‘violated the laws of war and may amount to war crimes’. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated that, as a result of these strikes, 72,000 Palestinians in Gaza were displaced.

Gaza and Muslim Immigration to Europe

by Israel Shamir via Unz Review

We are trying our best to figure out – why is Jewry so keen to import as many Muslims to Europe and USA as possible, and at the same time prepare the Gaza genocide? Do they do it out of sheer idealism? Out of compassion (hard to believe)? Or out of silliness? Could it be that this calculating people didn’t take into account that Muslims might react to genocide against Palestinians? Granted, Europeans and Americans did their fair share of protesting, but Jews knew they could shut down the Goyim any time they wanted simply by uttering the magic Jewish spell “Holocaust – Auschwitz”.

Yet Jews understand better than anyone that their “fellow Semites” from the Middle East have not accepted the yoke of Holocaust Guilt. Jews are more aware than anyone that Muslims still chafe over the fact that their Palestinian brothers have been kept in an “open air concentration camp” for the last 50 years. So how can we explain the apparent tactical error when the ADL and other Jewish organizations twisted the arms of European and American leaders to accept hordes of fighting age Muslims just before an Israeli incursion into Gaza? Surely no! They do not make such mistakes!

When on Friday in Dublin a Muslim émigré from Algeria stabbed an Irish family and incited an anti-Muslim pogrom, we finally got the missing piece of this puzzle. I was waiting for “the rest of the story”, and it was unveiled at a crucial point in the drama – just as Dublin demonstrated en masse against the brutal murder of Gaza children, just when the Irish parliament threatened to expel the Israel ambassador, just as reports of anti-Semitism reached new highs. Just then it seemed that the Jews were beset from all sides, and that the whole world was against them. Of course, in every good story the darkest tidings come just before the dawn.

Jews are professional victims. They are good at it. They are willing to play the bad guy, but only in stories where Jewry is eventually vindicated and expendable Jews martyred. Jewish leaders believe that revenge is best served cold. This answers the question of why they brought Muslim refugees to Europe and America in the first place. Unneeded, unwanted, unrequested (so much for democracy), at a time of growing poverty and debt, the economies bankrupt and populations largely jobless, this is the precise moment that the Jews ostentatiously dumped armies of Muslims into the West.

“I think there is a resurgence of anti-Semitism because at this point in time Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural. And I think we are going to be part of the throes of that transformation, which must take place. Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies they once were in the last century. Jews are going to be at the centre of that. It’s a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are now going into a multicultural mode and Jews will be resented because of our leading role. But without that leading role and without that transformation, Europe will not survive.” — Barbara Lerner Spectre, a founding director of Paideia, The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden.

Of course the fury of the hapless natives will be focused upon the Muslim immigrants. Of course the hapless Muslims will resent this. This conflict is not only natural, it is eminently predictable. And of course, wherever reality falls short of the predetermined narrative, the media can be counted on to fill in the gaps.

It’s not difficult to find a Muslim refugee of disturbed mind, to hand him a knife and push him out the door to amok attack. If he didn’t exist, then the Jews would have to create him. Muslim Golems do it with panache.

A Palestinian man, Sirhan Sirhan is doing life in a US jail for the alleged assassination of Robert Kennedy (a brother of JFK), even though RFK’s son, Robert Kennedy Jr, is convinced of his innocence. Most people understand that Sirhan was framed by an international cabal of skilled dealers in narratives. Practically no one in the world believes that Sirhan committed the murder, and yet our wiki-histories still maintain the fiction as though no “conspiracy theory” could stand in the face of an official report. For 55 years, they have held the facts in a kind of fog, admitted and yet plausibly denied. Compared with such imperial stratagems, the stabbing in Dublin is amateur night.

In the same time frame as the Dublin riots, in Netherlands, a Dutch neo-Nazi, Muslim-hater and a big lover of Israel won the elections. This was the culmination of a long-term project of international Jewry. Hand in hand with all the leaders of America and Europe, Israel had carefully played up all the historical ties between the Nazis of Europe and the US. The Internet had been buzzing with neo-Nazi activity. Threats against Jews reached all-time highs. Laws forbidding boycotts were passed. Days Of Remembrance were proclaimed. Standing ovations for Israeli leaders became normalized and then expected. The dramatic tension became unbearable as the leadership demonstrated loyalty to Israel and the people grumbled about Jewish privilege. In the midst of all this anxiety and hostility, the Jewish diaspora coordinated a wave of Muslim immigration with the Israeli war machine, creating a wave of perfectly justified anger at the Gaza genocide.

The anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim reaction was timed to bloom with the Israeli invasion of Gaza, not only in Europe and the US, but also in Russia. You probably have heard about the Jewish pogrom in Dagestan, the only pogrom in human history that occurred without a single Jew. Naturally not a single Jew was harmed, but there was a lot of the usual media noise. Jews and their friends placed hundreds of pictures allegedly depicting the brutal anti-Semites of Dagestan hunting Jews on a commercial flight. Clearly the Dagestanis were little more than pawns in a media trap, drawn to the plane by foreign reports and then ambushed by camera-wielding reporters.

It’s good to keep in mind that Jews are afraid neither of nationalists nor of Nazis. The closer the Nazi is to the top, the more he openly shows his love for Israel. Nationalists Donald Trump and Georgia Meloni adore Israel. White racists either defend Israel or they share racial theory with Jewry. Christian Zionists have integrated worship of the state into their religion. If Jews appear to battle the racists and nationalists, it’s only to keep them fresh in the news. First we must pull back the spring, so that when we release it the firing pin will send the bullet on its way. If the bullet does the damage, the Jew is blameless. Russian Jews did not hesitate to support Navalny the nationalist when his Russian Marches shook Moscow.

Jews as a rule are extreme nationalists, the rabbis struggling to keep the people divided from the Goyim and pristine in their ghettos. Hitlerites tolerated Jewish Nazis, and allowed them to have their own flag and anthem. Hungarian Zionists like Rudolf Kasztner collaborated with the Nazis to transport only the “best” Jews to Palestine.

For a long time Jews practice dialectics as the war strategy. In 19 c. they led the labour movement and the capitalist enrichment. G K Chesterton depicted a Jewish revolutionist being in cahoots with a Jewish capitalist. Now a Jewish supporter of Muslim immigration is in cahoots with Zionist who expels Muslims from their ancestral lands and with a Nazi who rabble-rousing crowds against the Muslims.

So here at last is the purpose behind the supposed tactical errors of our busy little friends. Wheels within wheels. As an oil well fire is blown out with TNT, they primed their neo-Nazi brigades and then delivered them a host of unwanted Muslims. As the authorities struggle to extinguish the fire, the people will begin to notice that the case of Gaza is just like the case of Dublin and Amsterdam. At that moment, the moral high ground will be snuffed out and the people will be left in that fog of war with which we are so familiar. The indignation of people will die out, Palestine will be mechanically cleansed of its native folk, and the Gaza beachfront properties may be openly claimed by racially pure, nationalist Jews. Even most progressive Jews like Benny Morris regretted that not all Palestinians were expelled in 1948.

Written with assistance of Mr Paul Bennett

Israeli War Crimes Continue

The first moments after another Israeli strike. Dozens of wounded and killed were reported.

American 2000 lb Bunker Busters Against People

The Americans are sending to Israel their latest missiles to be used in the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Blast Overpressure Injuries – and why children are disproportionately affected by them.

NATO: A Defunct Yalta Relic, Says Ukraininan

Arestovich again stated that the war in Ukraine can only be ended through global negotiations between the West and Russia, which will establish new rules of the game in Europe.

In his opinion, joining NATO will not help Ukraine, since this organization “does not work” and is a “relic” of the defunct Yalta system that emerged after the Second World War.

“We need to sit down for a very serious conversation about what the real interests of the parties are and the causes of conflicts, and build the system anew,” Arestovich said. But he believes that Western leaders are not capable of this, and Henry Kissinger, “the last politician who knew how to think like an adult,” has died.

“Everyone tried to wipe themselves with real Russian interests – they got a war. And they turned out to be unable to wage this war. And Russia, gritting its teeth and losing a huge number of people, is waging this war. Crookedly, but it is waging,” says Arestovich.

Therefore, he believes, we need to start “talking seriously with Russia” and “stop talking about democracy and dictatorship.” But Arestovich does not see such aspiration either in Ukraine or in the West. “This means that the war will continue. And if we conduct it the way we are now, then it will continue in a way that we will not like,” he added.

Source: Ukrainian

US Sponsor of Terrorism?! Are you Kidding?

“There shouldn’t be a single Russian who goes to bed without wondering if his throat will be cut in the middle of the night.”

American General Mark Milley, then chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, made this appeal during a visit to Wiesbaden, Germany, to Ukrainian special forces who were working there with the American Green Berets, “in the hope of inspiring them to conduct operations in enemy-controlled territories.”

“You have to go back there and create a campaign on the home front,” The Washington Post source quoted him as saying.

The Royal Bastard on Climate Warming for Thee but Not for Me

Authored by Chris Morrison via The Daily Sceptic,

It could have been worse. King Charles could have ascended to his desert dais and pronounced that we had just 96 months to avert “irretrievable climate and ecosystem collapse”. But that was the Right Charlie back in 2009, giving us the benefit of his sandwich-board scientific wisdom. These days it is all fashionable bad weather and undefined “tipping points”. The man is now King, and at COP28 he threw away his irksome politically-neutral constitutional role, wrapped himself in Guardianista pseudoscience, and punched down hard on the poor who will be forced to pay for the collectivist madness that is the Net Zero project.

King Charles is no friend of general humanity. Speaking at COP28, he said: “The Earth does not belong to us, we belong to the Earth.” As with many know-your-place elitists, he appears to abhor the impacts that humans have on the planet. He exhibits, sadly on a world stage, a snobbish distain for capitalism – what used to be dismissed in British aristocratic circles as ‘trade’. This capitalist trend over the last 200 years has harnessed the power of natural hydrocarbons to raise billions to a standard of living and health unimaginable to previous generations. In 2009, Charles said we can no longer afford consumerism and the “age of convenience” was over.

Not for the new British King, it need hardly be observed. He lives a life of pampered indulgence where no expense is spared to ensure his every comfort. On his accession to the throne, he added considerably to his Palace Portfolio. To spread his malevolent Net Zero fantasies, he has a fleet of cars, private planes and even a personal train at his command. He uses these to call for “transformational action” to be taken to save the planet. In his COP28 speech, he called for the restoration of nature, the need for sustainable agriculture, and co-operation between the public and private sectors.

Few calls could be more political in tone. The restoration of nature and sustainable agriculture is shorthand for largely meat-free diets and massive reductions in nitrogen fertiliser. The latter, in particular, will lead to worldwide famine. COP28 seems set to announce new food and agriculture restrictions using the tactic of demonising methane, a gas emitted by animals and humans that is barely measurable in the atmosphere due to a very short lifecycle. Whenever the subject of ‘co-operation’ between public and private sectors is raised, there is an immediate dash to count the spoons, since it can only signal a large transfer of cash from productive industries to unproductive and inferior green operations.

At one point in his COP speech, King Charles veered into sandwich-board territory claiming that “we are seeing alarming tipping points being reached”. There was no evidence presented to justify this claim, often made by climate extremists using modelled data. In fact, he didn’t even refer to any actual ‘tipping’ event that has been reached. Many scientists have concluded that bad, or extreme, weather events are no worse than in the immediate past. Many categories of natural disasters such as floods, droughts and ecosystem productivity “show no clear positive trend of extreme events”, note a group of four Italian scientists. They argue that the data shows there is no “climate emergency”.

None of these facts seem to matter to a political King, who, like a stuck Guardian record, keeps on pressing on with made-up emotional stories of impending climate Armageddon. At one point he referred to repeated cyclones battering vulnerable islands, something that cyclones have always done.

The King can always cherry-pick individual storms but there is plenty of evidence to show that hurricane and cyclone frequency, along with intensity, has changed little over the recent historical record, as the above graph shows.

Wildfires are a bit of a dud when it comes to whipping up climate hysteria, not least because the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change notes that most conflagrations are started by humans. “Human activities have become the dominant driver,” it observes. But when there is political Net Zero work to be done, the King is only too happy to overlook the evidence. In common with many other countries this year, Canada experienced its worst wildfires for a century, he said.

Despite all the human involvement, the above graph shows the gradual decline of global emissions from wildfires over recent decades. In fact, wildfires are almost impossible to pin on any changes on climate since so many other factors, such as arson and land management, are in play.

Net Zero is rapidly becoming the dominant political issue of the age. Its obvious collectivist nature gathers support from mostly sectional interests in society. It has no significant grassroots support, since it aims to restrict human lifestyles and wealth on a scale never attempted before in history. It is awash with junk science, fake statistics and computer models.

The late Queen, in her infinite wisdom, never went anywhere near it.

Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.

Stop Press: David Cameron at COP28 has said the U.K. will pay £60 million in climate reparations to developing countries.