American Forces in Syria attacked local militia in “Self Defense” – What? And that is being said with a straight face by all pundits in the US and it’s vassals.
Such abominable claim is never challenged by the prestitute media in the mainstream and most of the alternative media. Only rare voices of sanity bring this false claim to the public scrutiny.
via Mehr News
TEHRAN, Nov. 15 (MNA) – Forty days into the Al-Aqsa Storm operation, new details have emerged about a significant blow dealt by Hamas to the Zionist regime, specifically targeting the Iron Dome defense system.
The details underscore the scale of the Palestinian resistance movement’s assault from the beginning, shedding light on the impact on the Iron Dome defense system.
Israel’s vital short-range air defense system, the Iron Dome, designed to counter rockets and drones from resistance groups, has vulnerabilities that were effectively exploited by the resistance on October 7 during rocket operations.
Despite its distinctive qualities, this pricey defense system does have some vulnerabilities, and these were effectively capitalized on by resistance groups, particularly on October 7, during their rocket operations.
The Israeli regime possesses 10 Iron Dome batteries, each equipped with 3 launchers. Firing 20 ground-to-air missiles per launcher, totaling 600 missiles, the system faces challenges tracking simultaneous rocket launches due to the time needed for reloading.
In the initial 20 minutes of the Al-Aqsa Storm operation on October 7, Palestinian groups launched over 5,000 rockets into occupied territories, successfully bypassing the Iron Dome’s defensive shield.
Contrastingly, the radar system in the Iron Dome automatically identifies, tracks, and detects the characteristics of incoming hostile rockets (although the decision to fire is ultimately made by human operators). Since day one, and even prior to that, resistance groups have been involved in hacking into some of these systems. Even after several days of the conflict, certain Iron Dome systems continue to experience issues with missile launches.
Lately, there have been multiple releases of images showing significant deviations of Tamir missiles and the resulting ground impact causing damage. This problem stems from recent cyberattacks by resistance forces against the system.
Adding to these incidents, there’s another event from October 7 that, now more than a month later, new information has come to light about – the killing of certain operators within the Iron Dome system.
Each Iron Dome system is equipped with a protection unit to ensure the safety of operators and the system itself. During the October 7 attack, some teams from resistance groups specifically targeted these systems. In another operation, they encountered personnel within the systems, resulting in casualties and the capture of others.
Sohr Saoodiyan, the unit commander, Benjamin Gabriel Yuna, and Nati Kutsero, the launcher operator, all three from the 947th Battalion, are confirmed casualties of this attack.
Interestingly, moments after the start of the resistance groups’ attacks, there were no warnings indicating readiness given by the Israeli army to any of the Iron Dome units. The operating forces were taken by surprise by the attacks by the Palestinian fighters.
Three officers, reloading missiles after completing launches, were killed around 10:30 in the morning, confirmed three days later.
Information about the Iron Dome, including news and related details, is classified in the Israeli army. It is likely that casualties from Iron Dome units are higher than officially reported.
MNA/TSN
– Excuse me, would you like to buy a little bit of bonds from us? We’re just funding two wars right now and we need a little liquidity. You don’t have to worry about them getting cheaper, we’re turning everything back and forth with the help of our military.
Janet Julius is faced with a situation where she has $8 trillion in debt with a 12 month maturity that needs to be rolled over and refinanced at new, higher rates.
Ah, yes…. And another thing. The new deficit is between $2 trillion and $3 trillion. And so all of this needs new buyers.
It’s just where are you going to physically get that amount of money? No one has that kind of free money.
ISRAEL DOES NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF – UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese explains why in video above.
Albanese clarifies Article 51 of UN Charter (right to wage war) that Israel invoked (00:18) and shows that it does not apply to the occupier so that Israel has no legitimate claim to “self-defense” when waging war against an occupied population.
(01:37) Israel CAN’T claim the right of self-defense against a threat emanating from territory it occupies, kept under belligerent occupation – Albanese.
by Thierry Meyssan via Voltairenet
For the first time, the world is witnessing a crime against humanity live on television. The United States and Israel, who have long since joined forces, will both be held responsible for the mass massacres in Gaza. Everywhere except Europe, Washington’s allies are withdrawing their ambassadors from Tel Aviv. Tomorrow, they will do the same in Washington. Everything is happening as it did when the USSR broke up, and it will end the same way: the American Empire’s very existence is threatened. The process that has just begun cannot be stopped.
The United States and Israel are perceived as a single entity. They will have to answer for their crimes together.
While our eyes are riveted on the massacres of civilians in Israel and Gaza, we fail to perceive the internal divisions in Israel and the USA, or the considerable change this drama is provoking in the world. For the first time in history, civilians are being massacred live on television.
Everywhere – except in Europe – Jews and Arabs unite to cry out their grief and call for peace.
People everywhere realize that this genocide would not be possible if the United States did not supply bombs to the Israeli army in real time.
States everywhere are recalling their ambassadors to Tel Aviv and wondering whether they should recall those they sent to Washington.
It goes without saying that the United States only reluctantly agreed to this spectacle, but they didn’t just allow it, they made it possible with subsidies and weapons. They are afraid of losing their Power after their defeat in Syria, their defeat in Ukraine and perhaps soon their defeat in Palestine. Indeed, if the Empire’s armies are no longer frightening, who will continue to transact in dollars instead of their own currency? And in that eventuality, how will Washington make others pay for what it spends, how will the U.S. maintain its standard of living?
But what happens at the end of this story? That the Middle East revolts, or that Israel crushes Hamas at the cost of thousands of lives?
We’ll remember that President Joe Biden first warned Israel to abandon its plan to move the Palestinian people to Egypt or, failing that, to eradicate them from the face of the earth, and Tel Aviv didn’t obey him.
The “Jewish supremacists” are behaving today as they did in 1948.
When the United Nations voted to create two federated states in Palestine, one Hebrew and one Arab, the armed forces self-proclaimed the Hebrew state before its borders had been fixed. The “Jewish supremacists” immediately expelled millions of Palestinians from their homes (the “Nakhba”) and assassinated the UN special representative who had come to create a Palestinian state. The seven Arab armies (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and North Yemen) that tried to oppose them were quickly swept aside.
Today, they are no more obedient to their protectors and massacre again, without realizing that this time the world is watching and no one will come to their rescue. At a time when the Shiites accept the principle of a Hebrew state, their madness is jeopardizing the very existence of that state.
We remember how the Soviet Union collapsed. The state was unable to protect its own population during a catastrophic accident. 4,000 Soviets died at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (1986), saving their fellow citizens. The survivors wondered why, 69 years after the October Revolution, they continued to accept an authoritarian regime. Mikhail Gorbachev, First Secretary of the CPSU, wrote that it was only when he saw this disaster that he realized his regime was under threat.
Then came the December riots in Kazakhstan, independence demonstrations in the Baltic states and Armenia. Gorbachev amended the Constitution to remove the Party’s old guard. But his reforms were not enough to stop the fire spreading to Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldavia, Ukraine and Belarus. The uprising of the East German Young Communists against the Brezhnev doctrine led to the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989). The crumbling of power in Moscow led to the cessation of aid to allies, including Cuba (1990). Finally came the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the break-up of the Union (1991). In just over 5 years, an Empire that everyone thought would last forever has collapsed in on itself.
This inevitable process has just begun for the “American Empire”. The question is not how far Benjamin Netanyahu’s “revisionist Zionists” will go, but how far the US imperialists will support them. At what point will Washington decide it has more to lose by allowing Palestinian civilians to be massacred than by correcting Israel’s leaders?
The same problem faces him in Ukraine. The military counter-offensive by Volodymyr Zelensky’s government has failed. Russia is no longer seeking to destroy Ukrainian weapons, which are immediately replaced by weapons donated by Washington, but to kill those who wield them. The Russian armies are behaving like a gigantic crushing machine, slowly and inexorably killing all Ukrainian soldiers who approach the Russian defense lines. Kiev can no longer mobilize fighters, and its soldiers refuse to obey orders that condemn them to certain death. Its officers have no choice but to shoot the pacifists.
Many US, Ukrainian and Israeli leaders are already talking about replacing the Ukrainian “integral nationalist” coalition with the “Jewish supremacist” coalition, but the wartime period does not lend itself to this. But it will have to be done.
President Joe Biden has to replace his Ukrainian puppet and his barbaric Israeli allies, just as First Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev had to replace his insensitive representative in Khazakhstan, paving the way for widespread challenges to corrupt leaders. Once Zelensky and Netanyahu have been dismissed, everyone will know that it is possible to get the head of a Washington representative, and everyone will know that they must flee before they are sacrificed.
This process is not only inevitable, it’s inexorable. President Joe Biden can only do what he can to slow it down, to make it last, not to stop it.
The peoples and leaders of the West must now take the initiative to get out of this predicament, without waiting to be abandoned, as Cuba did at the cost of the privations of its “special period”. This is a matter of urgency: the last to react will have to foot the bill for everyone else. Many states from the “rest of the world” are already fleeing. They are queuing up to join the BRICS or the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Even more than Russia, which had to break away from the Baltic States, the United States must prepare for domestic uprisings. When the US is no longer able to impose the dollar on international trade, and its standard of living collapses, the poorer regions will refuse to obey, while the richer ones will become independent, starting with the republics of Texas and California (the only ones legally able to do so, according to the Treaties) [1]. The break-up of the USA is likely to result in civil war.
The disappearance of the USA will lead to the disappearance of NATO and the European Union. Germany, France and the U.K. will find themselves faced with their old rivalries, having failed to respond when the time was right.
Within a few years, Israel and the “American Empire” will disappear. Those who fight against the direction of history will provoke wars and unnecessary deaths in their numbers.
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Roger Lagassé
Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky made this prediction in 1999:
“If Russia unites with Iran & the Arabs – it will be the end of America!”
via Press TV
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (R) meets with Martin Griffiths, head of UN humanitarian operations, in the Swiss city of Geneva on Wednesday.
Iran’s foreign minister has called for an immediate halt to Israel’s bloody aggression against the Gaza Strip, stressing that the occupying regime has “no chance” to win the war.
In a meeting with Martin Griffiths, head of UN humanitarian operations, in the Swiss city of Geneva on Wednesday, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that the Israeli assaults on the Palestinian people in Gaza only increase the costs for Washington as Tel Aviv’s ally.
“Unfortunately, the scope of the Zionist regime’s attacks on Gaza is expanding, and it is necessary to take immediate and effective measures to stop them,” he said.
“There is no chance for the Zionist regime to win the war and it will only increase the costs for the US government as the biggest supporter of the Zionist regime that is responsible for the continuation of the aggression. As a result, it is necessary to focus efforts on a ceasefire and an immediate halt to the war.”
Iran foreign minister also said, “Unfortunately, the US sends all kinds of weapons, including phosphorous and prohibited weapons, to Tel Aviv on a daily basis from Cyprus or directly through its bases throughout the region, and these bombs are dropped on the oppressed Palestinians in Gaza.”
The top Iranian diplomat added that the amount of humanitarian aid sent to Gaza is very small, contrary to what the Americans claim.
He called for strong and urgent management on the part of the United Nations to open the Rafah border crossing for the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
The UN, he added, can count on the Islamic Republic’s capacity to achieve peace and security in the region.
Referring to his meetings in Doha with Qatari and Hamas officials, Amir-Abdollahian said that the Palestinian resistance movement is ready to act regarding the captives being held by Hamas since the October 7 operation.
“If the Israeli regime stops the genocide in Gaza, resistance groups will also stop counterattacks,” he noted.
The UN humanitarian chief, for his part, expressed his satisfaction with the meeting and expounded on the UN humanitarian efforts in Gaza.
He also underlined the need to find a solution to the issue of Israeli captives and provide basic needs, especially fuel, to the Gazans.
Griffiths further voiced concerns about the terrible condition inside Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, which is a tragedy amid Israel’s military raid.
Raid on al-Shifa: Israeli forces fire at civilians inside hospital as Hamas calls US complicit
He appreciated Iran’s efforts to prevent the spread of the war and stressed the need for more efforts to stop the war and end the current alarming situation in Gaza.
Israel waged the brutal war on Gaza on October 7 after Hamas’s Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the usurping entity.
Since the start of the war, the Tel Aviv regime has killed at least 11,500 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured over 29,000 others.
It has also imposed a “complete siege” on the coastal sliver, cutting off fuel, electricity, food and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.
By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory
The censure of congresswoman Rashida Tlaib over her statement on the conflict in the Middle East exposes a dangerous and dishonest rhetoric
On November 7, the US House of Representatives voted to censure one of its members, Rashida Tlaib, a Congresswoman from Michigan, first elected to her seat in 2018. The official reason for this rebuke was the allegation that Tlaib had been “promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel” and been “calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.”
It is easy to establish that Tlaib did neither. Her censure is an injustice built on a lie. That raises the question of what it was really about.
But first things first: Let’s look into the two accusations advanced against her. Regarding “promoting false narratives” about the Hamas attack, the relevant House Resolution 845 claims that Tlaib “defended” as “justified ‘resistance’” to “the ‘apartheid state’” the “the brutal rapes, murders, be-headings, and kidnapping[s] … by Hamas.”
Yet, in reality, the Congresswoman did no such thing or anything a fair observer could mistake for such a thing. What Tlaib stated was that she “grieve[d] the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday, today, and every day” and that the path to a better future “must include lifting the blockade” on Gaza and “ending the occupation.” She called for “dismantling the [Israeli] apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance.”And she argued that as long as the US “provides billions in unconditional funding to support the apartheid government, this heartbreaking cycle of violence will continue.”
None of the above is or implies a “call for the destruction of Israel.” What Tlaib did attack was the state of apartheid, as recognized by the UN human rights rapporteur, that Israel imposes on the Palestinians. As the eminent scholar John Mearsheimer has stressed, that Israeli apartheid is a fact has been confirmed by, among others, the international organizations Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, as well as the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem. Hence three conclusions: Tlaib is factually correct. Secondly, she has attacked real crimes of Israel and not its right to exist. Finally, those who insist on misrepresenting her as doing the latter thereby imply that they can imagine Israel’s existence only as a highly abusive apartheid state.
It does not make sense to go through all six accusations leveled against Tlaib in House Resolution 845, because they are all equally dishonest. But one more is worth attention. Tlaib, according to her accusers, “published on social media”and then “doubled down on” the “phrase ‘from the river to the sea,’ which is widely recognized as a genocidal call to violence to destroy the state of Israel and its people to replace it with a Palestinian state extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.”
The bad faith here lies in the fact that the slogan “from the river to the sea” is not “widely recognized” to represent a call for the destruction of Israel, as the censure resolution falsely claims. In reality, objective experts recognize that the slogan “means different things to different people,” as Dov Waxman, a professor of Israel studies at the University of California in Los Angeles, has explained in the New York Times. In its full version – “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” – the phrase goes back to the early days of the Palestinian resistance against the Israeli ethnic cleansing that began in 1948. As even the relentlessly pro-Israel New York Times acknowledges, for “many Palestinians, the phrase now has a dual meaning, representing their desire for a right of return to the towns and villages from which their families were expelled in 1948, as well as their hope for an independent Palestinian state, incorporating the West Bank, which abuts the Jordan River, and the Gaza Strip, which hugs the coastline of the Mediterranean.”
The reason for ascribing a different, much more aggressive meaning to the slogan is mainly that it has also been used by Hamas. And Hamas, in turn, is accused of wanting the destruction of Israel. This guilt-by-flawed-association argument is convenient for those who seek to vilify legitimate Palestinian resistance, marginalize its supporters, and suppress – instead of having to answer – criticism of Israeli injustice.
But it does not hold up to scrutiny, even on its own skewed terms, because, again, according to the New York Times, the slogan does not appear in Hamas’s founding covenant from 1988, which pledges “to confront the Zionist invasion and defeat it.” It does appear in the 2017 Hamas platform, where “in the same paragraph, Hamas indicates it could accept a Palestinian state along the borders that were in place before the 1967 war — the same borders considered under the Oslo Accords.”
Let that sink in: Where Hamas has used the phrase, it has, actually, also signaled precisely the opposite of a plan to destroy Israel, namely a will to accept a two-state solution, if only Israel were to finally do what is demanded by international law and called for by UN resolutions: stop unilaterally settling and occupying territories beyond its actual borders.
And let’s be clear: Tlaib’s use of “from the river to the sea” is not a “dog whistle” (the American term for a rhetorical trick allowing a speaker to at the same time imply and deny a sinister meaning) because she has been explicit that for her this is “an aspirational call for freedom, human rights and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction or hate.” And that is a perfectly plausible and common interpretation of the slogan (see above).
The assault on Tlaib is especially important because it is part of a larger campaign. As The Guardian has reported the “pro-Israel lobby in the US is airing attack ads and beginning to back primary opponents to challenge Congress members who are not voting for or supporting Israel’s war on Gaza,”at a cost, the British newspaper estimates, of “tens of millions of dollars.” This is an effort to interfere in American elections on behalf of a foreign government. But in the case of Israel, such meddling has a long history and is considered normal in the US.
Beyond what is possibly the most effective lobbying operation in modern history (at least on behalf of a state), there is a wider context. As the eminent scholar and public intellectual Norman Finkelstein has meticulously detailed in his book ‘Beyond Chutzpah. On the Misuses of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History’, deliberately misrepresenting criticism of Israel’s policies as a new form of Anti-semitism is a strategy in a struggle for ideological hegemony that has been waged for decades.
It is possible that, in a bitter irony of history, Israel’s current aggression will weaken the hold of this strategy. There are signs that large parts of even Western publics – not to speak of the non-West – are shocked by this latest escalation of violence against the Palestinians. That may be the deepest underlying reason for the attack on Tlaib, which would then appear as a frantic attempt to maintain a narrative leverage that is slipping. If more Americans understand that “the idea that criticizing the government of Israel is anti-Semitic … has been used to silence diverse voices speaking up for human rights across our nation,” then this abuse of censure may mark a turning point.
via Sputnik News
The killings by the IDF are a case of mistaken identity which was caused by the prevailing chaos that followed Hamas’ surprise attack, Sam Parker said.
US Republican leader Sam Parker has said that many Israeli soldiers were killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) itself amid chaos and lack of intelligence data on 7 October as they retaliated to the attack on their country by Palestine-based Hamas.
Contrary to the US line on the issue of Israel-Hamas conflict, the US lawmaker also opined that Hamas retaliating to IDF attacks was well within its right to do so.
In a post on the X, Parker makes it clear that Hamas attacked Israel to secure their land from foreign occupation.
“The majority of October 7th Israeli deaths were soldiers. Of the rest, many, if not most, were killed by the IDF itself in crossfire, Hannibal directive actions, and just plain panic & mistaken identity. And then of the remainder after all that: remember, everyone is the IDF – how many “civilians” were armed & shooting back? Hamas is legally & morally entitled to conduct resistance operations against its military occupiers & opponents and it’s increasingly apparently that that is what Hamas did. BTW, no babies have been identified, yet,” he said in his post on the social media platform.
Hundreds of people were killed as Hamas fired a barrage of rockets on Israeli cities in the early morning hours of 7 October which was followed by retaliatory Israeli air raids.
Till date, over 10 thousand people in Gaza and around 1500 in Israel have been killed even as UN and other world bodies and leaders seek end to the conflict that has rendered millions of people homeless.
via Exposé
On 13 September, a Costa Rican Appellate judge ordered an oral hearing in the case of Interest of Justice vs State of Costa Rica. In a case originally filed a year ago, Interest of Justice is seeking an injunction to have the covid-19 injections removed from the market in Costa Rica and then through a series of steps, globally.
Unfortunately, the oral hearing, which was held on 9 November, did not go Interest of Justice’s way and the judge did not grant the precautionary measure or temporary injunction to stop the covid injections. However, Interest of Justice doesn’t see this as the end but rather the beginning of the legal action they plan to take.
Interest of Justice (“IoJ”) is a private international law and civics institute headquartered in Costa Rica. Through a series of dedicated and strategic actions including Freedom of Information Act requests and court filings, IoJ intends to reform or abolish “The Health Monopoly” as well as hold them all responsible for cessation and reparations for the many, many covid-19 international wrongdoings. “The Health Monopoly” is the UN, WHO, FDA, CDC, EMA, and strict regulatory bodies that corruptly defraud member states and humanity in public health guidance and procurement international investment agreements.
The oral hearing was set for 9 November and, in the words of IoJ, was to determine whether “Costa Rica and their superiors in WHO and FDA lied about safe and effective publicly, whilst knowing it is experimental, known to be harmful and death is common, which maliciously denies the entire international community its right to informed consent and is a Nuremberg Violation which the court must prohibit in the public interest.”
Before the hearing took place, IoJ noted that the hearing would address the following:
The vaccine as applied with no informed consent constitutes the crime of serious undue experimentation in violation of Nuremberg Code Articles 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, Article 10 of the medical morality code and Articles 78, 79 of the Biomedical research law
The WHO definition of vaccine is illegally applied, allowing for the import of a WHO EUL listing product which authorizes the covid-19 non-vaccine experimental biological agent, omitting the legislative intent and definition, to illegally allow authorization and import of the covid-19 non-vaccine toxic biological agent known to cause harm and administered by alleged “vaccine” delivery system
The DOD is withholding the reports they admit to having on the “experimental biological agent covid-19 vaccine” and asking IoJ for more time to delay and deny the info.
A biological agent is a bioweapon by definition and the definition of a biological agent which is intended to cause harm is incompatible with legislative intent for a vaccine which is to prevent a disease by stopping transmission, not prevent serious illness and death from the disease after it is transmitted. This is illegal.
Judge Orders Nuremberg Public Hearing 9 November 2023 For Illegality Of Covid-19 Vaccines, Interest of Justice, 14 September 2023
Although IoJ had lined up Dr. Mike Yeadon and Dr. Ana Maria Mihalcea as expert witnesses, they were not called to testify.
At the end of the hearing, the judge did not grant the precautionary measure, a temporary injunction to remove the covid injections from the market as hoped. IoJ reported that their request was denied due to technicalities. This unsuccessful action is far from the end of the story according to IoJ, in fact, it is merely the beginning:
The court was very clear that’s not that we don’t have a case, we do, it’s just that the court believes we need to file the main case to actually prove the experimental non-vaccine harmful nature of these products.
In the main case, we can start over with a more precise and current request for a precautionary measure to stop the shots. It’s certainly not over and just beginning.
The Judge Was Extremely Concerned, But the Court Denied the Precautionary Measure, Interest of Justice, 9 November 2023
After the oral hearing, the IoJ team members Dustin and Xylie spoke with Dr. Joseph Sansone to explain how they got to where they are now and what happens next.
The biggest technical problem with the oral hearing, Xylie told Sansone, was that the original paperwork filed in October 2022 focused on mandating covid “vaccines” for children. At the time this was relevant. However, by the time of the oral hearing, the mandates for children had been dropped. IoJ had adjusted its paperwork to include everybody and thought the judge would expand IoJ’s original filings to apply to all ages, however, the judge did not.
IoJ hopes to file their “main case” in the next few months with the Appellate Court.
Featured image: Costa Rica receives first batch of covid-19 vaccines through COVAX Mechanism, UNICEF, 7 April 2021