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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Richard Pollack: Biden's Attempt to Oust Netanyahu After October 7

2025-05-06

President Biden has always claimed he had Israel’s back. An explosive new report confirmed by nine of his top national security officials refutes that claim.

The most disturbing revelation is that only months after the October 7 attack, Biden and his aides secretly sought to interfere in Israel’s politics and dethrone Israel’s democratically elected prime minister.

One former Biden official says there were discussions to "scramble Israeli politics, and see if you can trigger elections, or Gd knows what."

The revelation is based on extensive interviews with former top Biden administration officials that aired on Israeli Channel 13 on April 27.

The new report was delivered by Raviv Drucker, the host of Israel’s Channel 13 "Hamakor" investigative program.

Unfortunately, the show and its deeply troubling revelations have received scant attention in the United States.

But Drucker’s wide-ranging investigative report showcases the Biden administration’s deep antagonism towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even as Israelis were reeling from the brutal October 7 attack.

Drucker is a nationally known Israeli journalist who has broadcast many investigative reports. He also has published many brutally critical accounts of Netanyahu and his family. He’s not a fan of the current Prime Minister. And Channel 13 has aired many other anti-Netanyahu programs.

Sure, it’s true that President Biden’s hostility towards the Israeli head of state was never quite a secret. But former Biden officials decided to publicly admit this truth.

It’s interesting that they did so on Israeli national television, not on American TV. Did they do so to advance their own previous animas against Netanyahu?

It is vital to understand their comments came as anti-Netanyahu organizers are escalating their political attacks on the prime minister.

Last Saturday, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak called for a "civil insurrection" to topple the Netanyahu government, according to the Jewish News Service. His call came even as Israel is calling up reserves and the country is facing active wars in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, Leb
Leb

...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade....
, Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
and possibly a war with Iran.

"We need to get to a civil insurrection," he proclaimed also on Channel 13. Barak is calling for hundreds of thousands to take to the streets for "the shutdown of the country until the government falls."

The sense that Biden wasn’t fully in Israel’s corner have certainly rumbled below the surface since October 7, including charges that Washington withheld key weapons from Israel during the war.

But it’s his administration’s anti-democratic maneuvering against a major ally that’s most alarming.

Tablet, the highly regarded Jewish investigative publication reported in August 2024 about President Biden’s anti-democratic ploys against Netanyahu. "The Biden administration has assembled an interagency team of targeteers...to weaken if not. Topple the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu," they reported.

Here's a little bit of information people should know about Netanyahu and democracy. In 1996 at the age of 47, he became Israel’s youngest prime minister. Netanyahu also became the first Israeli prime minister elected directly by popular vote.

He was re-elected to the country’s highest post in 2009, 2013, 2015, 2020 and in 2022.

The former Biden officials on Channel 13 described their efforts to remove him from office. Hamakor reports that internally, Biden administration openly discussed the idea of forcing out Netanyahu.

One of the nine former Biden officials on his show was Ilan Goldenberg, who served in national security positions for Presidents Obama and Biden and in 2023 became Vice President Harris’ Middle East advisor. Goldenberg also served as Harris’ Jewish liaison during her 2024 Presidential run.

I reached out to Goldenberg, who now is a senior executive at J Street, an organization that for years has been highly antagonistic towards the Israeli prime minister. He did not return my call.

Not well known is that Goldenberger was born in Jerusalem as an Israeli citizen. He renounced his Israeli citizenship to work for President Obama in his first term. The Jewish critic originally focused on advancing the administration’s controversial Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
policy.

In the Channel 13 interview, Goldenberg was quite candid about Biden. He suggested the administration was considering measures to trigger new elections and force Netanyahu out even as the October 7 atrocities were still fresh in Israeli minds.

Goldenberger explained the former President’s strategy, saying, "The idea would be to either force Netanyahu to come on board (with the Biden policy), or scramble Israeli politics, and see if you can trigger elections, or Gd knows what."

The idea that Biden would "scramble Israeli politics," supposedly a staunch American ally, shows its deep disrespect for Israeli democracy. And it deeply tarnishes Biden’s image in Israel.

In the Channel 13 program, Tom Nides, Biden’s former U.S. Ambassador to Israel continued the narrative of the former President’s antagonism toward Netanyahu saying the former President regularly demonized Netanyahu. He said Biden considered the Israeli leader to be "a manipulator, a magician."

Biden, who in public tried to appear softspoken, frequently used coarse and ugly language behind the scenes. And his antipathy towards Netanyahu often was on full display to his aides.

In a commentary, Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution posted comments about these ugly revelations. "This startling disclosure...raises critical concerns about the Biden administration’s respect for Israeli democracy, particularly during one of the darkest periods in the nation’s modern history, when Israel was reeling from an unprecedented terrorist onslaught that claimed over 1,200 lives and left hundreds kidnapped into Gaza.

Hansen added, "At a time when Israel was battling for its very survival against genocidal terrorism, the Biden administration, according to Goldenberg’s account, was actively seeking to leverage the crisis for political ends, rather than offering unconditional support to an ally under siege."

I suspect we can expect more details to emerge of how the former president — and his fellow Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
— aggressively tried to subvert America’s biggest democratic ally in the Middle East.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Educators, reservists, ex-diplomats are latest to urge hostage deal, even by ending war

2025-04-16

“Pay attention to MEEEEE!!!!!” It is interesting though, that while the list of letters gets longer, only a tiny percentage of each category is signing on, or of the approximately 575,000 of those total currently wearing the uniform.

[IsraelTimes] Petitions signed by thousands pan ongoing fighting for allegedly serving political interests, straying from war goals; warn operation endangers lives of hostages, Gaza civilians

A wave of public petitions calling for the return of hostages from Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
even if it means an immediate end to the war continued on Monday, representing several more sectors of Israeli society, with thousands signing on to back the call originally made by Israeli Air Force reservists last week.

Separate letters were published Monday in the name of some 3,500 higher education academics, 3,000 education officials, 1,500 armored corps soldiers, 1,000 parents, dozens of former Foreign Ministry officials, and IDF Spokesperson’s Unit reservists.

As quoted by the Haaretz daily, academics signed on to a demand for the return of hostages without delay, "even at the cost of ending the war immediately."

"The war serves mainly personal political interests," the petition charged. "Continuing the war will bring death upon hostages, IDF soldiers, and innocent civilians and will wear out reservists. As has been proved in the past, only an agreement can bring hostages back to Israel safely."

In a separate letter, education officials emphasized their belief that "only a diplomatic agreement can save lives, and that every passing moment without one" endangers the hostages.

It asserted that "this is not a call for refusal" to show up for military duties, but "a call to save lives."

However, when war erupted in Gaza with the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks and massacres, nearly 300,000 reservists showed up for duty, marking the largest-ever call-up of reservists in Israel’s history.

Critics of the petitions signed by military reservists, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of the government, have characterized them as calls to refuse to serve, although the letters have not issued a threat to ignore calls to duty over the hostage talks impasse.

Around 1,000 parents also published a letter in which they said they refused to agree to an "eternal war" and refused to "shut our eyes at the killing of children," as quoted by Haaretz.

"We will not cooperate with this dangerous concept that there are no innocents in Gaza. We will not allow the hostages to be abandoned, and we will not accept dehumanization."

Armored Corps reservists and retirees, including former prime minister and IDF chief of staff Ehud Barak, signed on to a petition charging the fighting "no longer serves the war goals defined by the IDF," demanding the immediate return of the hostages.

Additionally, dozens of former Foreign Ministry employees, including former director generals and ambassadors, signed onto a letter backing previous petitions, calling for the immediate return of hostages.

"The recent return to hostilities has not resulted in the release of a single hostage. We therefore demand immediate action to release the hostages, in one phase, even at the cost of ending the war," they wrote.

IDF Spokesperson’s Unit reservists and retirees signed onto a letter similarly demanding the return of hostages at the price of ending the war, charging that the war no longer served security interests. It was not immediately clear how many signed onto that petition.

"As proved in the past, only a deal will return the hostages safely, while military pressure leads mainly to the killing of hostages and endangering their lives," they said.

The latest petitions came after some 1,000 veterans of the Israeli Air Force published a letter last week demanding the return of the hostages in Gaza, even if it comes at the cost of ending the war against Hamas
Hamas

..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
entirely. The military has moved to dismiss every active duty reservist who signed it, saying soldiers cannot use the "Israeli Air Force brand" to protest political matters.

"The continuation of the war doesn’t advance any of the declared goals of the war, and will bring about the deaths of the hostages, of IDF soldiers and innocent civilians," read the original air force letter, which was published as an ad in several Israeli newspapers.

"As has been proven in the past, only an agreement [with the Hamas terror group] can return hostages safely, while military pressure mainly leads to the killing of hostages and the endangerment of our soldiers," it added. "We call on all citizens of Israel to mobilize for action."

After the IDF moved to dismiss all active Air Force reservists who signed the letter last week, Netanyahu expressed support for the decision in a statement, in which he argued that even if it wasn’t explicit, they had in practice threatened to refuse to serve.

"Refusal to serve is refusal to serve, even if it’s only hinted at in whitewashed language," he said. "Statements that weaken the IDF and strengthen our enemies in a time of war are unforgivable."

The military said that only 60 of those who signed that letter were active reservists. Among those, only a handful were competent pilots, while the rest have been serving in headquarters roles, according to an IDF examination of the signatories.

The military recently dismissed at least two reservist officers for refusing to serve, including Air Force combat navigator Alon Gur, who said he told his superiors that "a line was crossed" and the government was "again abandoning its citizens in broad daylight."

According to reports, those incidents were seen by the IDF as isolated cases, but a number of senior IDF officials were reportedly concerned that refusal to serve could become a larger phenomenon among reservists.

At the height of the 2023 protests against the judicial overhaul, hundreds of IDF reservists signed declarations saying they would no longer show up for reserve duty to protest the government advancing its plans to curtail the judiciary.

However,
there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened...
when war erupted in Gaza with the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks and massacres, nearly 300,000 reservists showed up for duty, marking the largest-ever call-up of reservists in Israel’s history.

The only vote that counts — all the rest is empty wind.

Artists, architects and others sign petitions demanding return of hostages

More attention-seeking by goldfish swallowing faddists.

[IsraelTimes] One thousand seven hundred artists and cultural figures have signed a statement calling for an immediate end to the war in Gaza and the return of the hostages. The signatories included Keren Mor, Rivka Michaeli, Rona Kenan, Achinoam Nini, Dana Berger, Assaf Amdursky and others.

The petition states that the war serves a political interest and is not contributing to any of its stated goals, while and endangering soldiers and the hostages, with ongoing daily loss of human life, thousands of victims, months of upheaval and human suffering on both sides of the border.

“We, as creators who act, study, and explore the human soul, look on with pain and concern at the severe erosion of people and values, and cry out, for the sake of Israeli society and in the name of the human spirit, to break the cycle of horror, to immediately return the hostages, and to stop the war.”

In addition, 600 architects, engineers and urban planners signed another petition, demanding the return of the hostages without delay, even at the cost of an immediate cessation of hostilities.

More: 350 authors call on Netanyahu to end war
Dozens of Shayetet 13 commandos publish letter, joining wave of calls for hostage deal
Some 200 relatives of hostages, 23 freed hostages urge ending war for hostage deal

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Iranian hackers broadcast rocket sirens, odes to terrorism in 20 Israeli kindergartens

2025-01-27

[IsraelTimes] Handala group also reportedly sends intimidating text messages to tens of thousands of Israelis, claims to infiltrate National Security Ministry, which says it sees no breach

Iranian hacker group Handala infiltrated panic buttons in some 20 kindergartens Sunday morning, using the systems’ loudspeakers to broadcast rocket sirens and Arabic songs supportive of terrorism.

The systems, run by electronics firm Maagar-Tec, were disconnected, and the company said it was looking into the incident. The matter was also referred to the National Cyber Directorate.

Using another of the same company’s systems, Handala also sent intimidating text messages to tens of thousands of people, the Directorate said, adding that the messages posed no danger and that recipients should simply block the sender.

Handala also claimed to have broken into the National Security Ministry’s command and control system, and stolen from the ministry’s servers four terabytes of internal communications, video recordings, confidential documents and personal records of all coppers and firefighters.

The hacker group posted pictures that appeared to show a control panel for bomb shelters in central Israel, registrars of local police forces’ vehicles, coppers with their weapons, and civilians’ private gun licenses.

However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese...
the Cyber Directorate and National Security Ministry said it had found nothing unusual on the ministry’s servers, Kan reported.

Last week, on a designated Telegram channel created on December 7, Handala had begun what it called a "countdown" to the alleged breach. On Thursday, the group posted an Arabic Koranic verse in which the Prophet Muhammad pledges to wipe out peoples, including Jews, who don’t accept Islam. On Friday and Saturday, the group posted threatening messages aimed at the National Security Ministry,

Iranian-backed hacker groups, some of which are thought to have ties to the government in Tehran, have repeatedly targeted Israeli infrastructure, companies and individuals in recent years. There has been a marked uptick since October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
-led gunnies stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
. Israeli-linked groups have also claimed attacks on Iranian servers.

Iran’s leaders, who are sworn to destroy Israel, operate an "Axis of Resistance®" network of regional proxies to further that aim, including Hamas, Leb
...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade....
’s Hezbollah and Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s.

It is unclear if Handala is linked to the Iranian leadership, though the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s state-owned outlet PressTV has positively covered the "hacktivist" group.

Handala, whose name and logo derive from a Paleostinian cartoon character, has announced several attacks on Israeli security forces during the Gaza War.

It has posted what it said was personal data of former defense minister Benny Gantz, former foreign minister Gabi Ashkenazi and former prime minister Ehud Barak, though the pictures Handala posted had already been published.

The group also said it had stolen troves of data from the Soreq nuclear research center in September, and from the Shin Bet internal security agency in October. Neither alleged infiltration was confirmed.

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US private equity firm said to bid for Israeli spyware maker Paragon

2024-12-18

[IsraelTimes] Paragon’s Graphite phone-hacking software targets data backed up to the cloud; is deployed by government bodies in the US and Israel; firm is backed by former premier Ehud Barak

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Behind the scenes of the Hezbollah War

2024-11-03

[IsraelNationalNews] Founded essentially as a Christian homeland in the 1920s, intricate power-sharing arrangements among the various communities in Lebanon’s religiously pluralistic state offered a formula to forge unity from diversity.
And we all know how this works.
Led and dominated by the Christian Maronite elites, Lebanon was vibrant and liberal, projecting a civic polity, a rich cultural tapestry, sophisticated banking institutions. Lebanon enjoyed a unique status among the Arab-Muslim regimes and societies in the surrounding Middle East.

Lebanon lost its way decades ago. This was not primarily due to inter-sectarian rivalries, despite the conventional opinion that the Lebanese are not a people but a composite of conflicting confessions. There was exceedingly more integration and cooperation between Christian and Muslim (Sunni and Shi’a) political classes than generally acknowledged. The so-called Civil War erupted in 1975, and pitted initially and predominantly the alien and armed Palestinian Arabs against the historic native Lebanese Christians of the land.

Over the years, external forces promoting aggressive and expansionist ideologies shook the balance among the communities and crushed Lebanon’s independence. Countries sapping and sabotaging the soul and sovereignty of Lebanon included Egypt in the ’50s, Palestinian Arabs from the ’60s, Syria from the ’70s, and Iran from the ’80s. Lebanon was overwhelmed and enfeebled, as Damascus imposed presidents and policies on Beirut and the "Switzerland of the Middle East" became a vassal of Tehran.

The war Hezbollah started against Israel on October 8, 2023, brought all the ambiguity and fragility of Lebanon to a head. After a lengthy political impasse and the extensive effects of the war on the country, Lebanon may finally turn the crisis into an opportunity.

HEZBOLLAH AND GUNS
Charismatic Shiite religious personalities subject to Iran’s ideological leadership enabled Hezbollah to grab the reins of power in Lebanon. The radicalized Shiite sect entered into a revolutionary mode, vehemently anti-American and abundantly armed, fighting jihad against Israel and challenging the Christians in Lebanon’s political hierarchy.

Hezbollah carried out assassinations of its political rivals with impunity — the murder of Sunni Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005, orchestrated by Syria, was the most notorious case. Syrian hegemony over Lebanon assured that Hezbollah would retain its weaponry according to the 1989 Ta’if Agreement. Serving as a submissive Iranian proxy, Hezbollah assumed the proportions of a ’state within a state’, with all the paraphernalia of social, financial, and health services, and grew to becoming a far more formidable military organization than the national Lebanese Armed Forces. Hezbollah proved the validity of the motto that "power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

In May 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak decided to end the IDF’s military presence in south Lebanon, which began with the First Lebanese War in 1982. A foolhardy precipitate Israeli withdrawal facilitated the so-called Shiite "resistance" (al-muqawama), a senior partner with the Lebanese state, to seize total control of events in the Lebanese-Israeli military theatre and prepare for war.

UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTIONS
Hezbollah consistently refused to disarm and allow the state, in Max Weber’s definition, "to possess a monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force." Christians, Sunnis, and Druze, were helpless in the face of Hezbollah’s categorical assertion: "We will never disarm." Hezbollah was likewise adamant through its political machinations for the last two years to prevent the choosing of a president for the woeful republic.

The United Nations entered into the Lebanese quagmire at various turns to extricate the country from stagnation and paralysis. Neutralizing Hezbollah, rolling back its virtual seizure of south Lebanon, was to be the essential goal. Three examples illuminate this point:

*UNSC Res. 520 from Sept. 17, 1982, after the assassination of president-elect Bashir Gemayel, aimed to assist Lebanon to function "under the sole and exclusive authority of the Government of Lebanon through the Lebanese Army throughout Lebanon." The UNIFIL Observer Force was to play a role in this effort. Hezbollah simply defied the UN.

*UNSC Res. 1559, Sept. 2, 2004, while Syrian forces still remained on Lebanese soil, called for "the disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias." The following year the Syrian army withdrew from Lebanon. Hezbollah ignored the UN with impunity.

*UNSC Res. 1701 from Aug. 11, 2006, after the Second Lebanese War, called for a cease-fire with a comprehensive solution based, besides prohibiting Hezbollah’s presence south of the Litani River, on "the disarmament of all armed groups in Lebanon." Hassan Nasrallah responded that Hezbollah will not disarm, offering the disingenuous reason that the militia was necessary and capable to defend Lebanon from Israeli threats. Iran rearmed Hezbollah in defiance of 1701, and UNIFIL stood by and did nothing.
IMO: not because UN is anti-semitic, because it's anti-Civilization.
TWO RESOLUTIONS: 1559 and 1701
While the mechanics of diplomacy sluggishly turned their wheels, the war between Israel and Iran’s proxies — Hamas and Hezbollah — entered its second year. From a distant political planet, Washington and Paris continued to press for a cease-fire in the Lebanese theatre. They proposed, as did Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati, the implementation of Resolution 1701, whereby Hezbollah would withdraw to north of the Litani and an invigorated UNIFIL would patrol in the south. This seemed like turning the clock back under the illusion of going forward.

Prime Minister Netanyahu reportedly rejected 1701 and advocated for 1559. The difference between the two was ostensibly the demand by 1559, not only to disarm but also to disband armed militias. Hezbollah, the sole active militia in Lebanon, would continue to function as a political party — already represented in the Lebanese legislature and government — but no longer as a bellicose belligerent in the Levant. Its dissolution as a fighting force is the sine qua non for peace to prevail between Israel and Lebanon.

WHITHER LEBANON?
We now come full circle back to the people and politics of Lebanon with which we began.

The war in the south (of Lebanon) led to the displacement of approximately one million Lebanese going northward to Beirut and beyond. An estimated one hundred thousand Lebanese crossed into Syria, while an unknown number sought refuge and perhaps a future life in Iraq and Iran. Many Syrians who had earlier come to Lebanon seeking work, or fleeing the Civil War from 2011, returned to their country.

A dynamic of population movement is under way that can enfeeble the Shiite community’s political dominance in Lebanon. Israel decapitated Hezbollah’s leadership cadre from Hassan Nasrallah down to his senior associates, and this tarnishes the image of the party and illustrates the price paid for joining its ranks.

The Shiite balance sheet records thousands dead, thousands injured, villages partly destroyed, tens of thousands impoverished, the Beirut Dahyieh headquarters in ruin. The cell phone and walkie-talkie explosions in September sowed horror in Shiite circles, and Israel bombing Hezbollah banks created havoc and financial distress in their community.

More and more Lebanese, including anti-Hezbollah Shiites, are raising their voices condemning Hezbollah for the damage and suffering that Israel has inflicted upon the common people. Hezbollah’s bravado, attacking and provoking Israel, has led to the human disaster that hit Lebanon. The wretched displaced refugees are huddling in churches and parks, sleeping in the streets. Suffering has always been a supra-existential spiritual experience for Shiites since the martyrdom of Imam ’Ali in 680. Today suffering is an existential way of life, yet with which other communities feel little solidarity.

The present infirmity and tragedy of the Shiites strengthen the other communities. Any demographic shift, even if minor, signals a realignment among the groups to the benefit of Christians and Sunnis, the traditional political aristocracy of Lebanon’s political class.
It's guns, not politics, that'll solve the problem.
In the past, the demographic decline of the Christians was a talking point to alter the constitutional order and electoral system. The combined Sunni — Shiite Muslim majority population resented parity of Christians and Muslims — 64 each — in parliamentary representation. Members of different communities were also offended that the office of president was allocated as an exclusive Maronite preserve. This appeared archaic and anti-democratic, though consider what a Maronite bishop once said to me: "We carry Lebanon on our shoulders...We are the mother of the baby." This is historically true and still resonates until today.

The objective of Hezbollah, a surrogate of the Iranian axis, was to conquer and destroy the Jewish state. Islam, as a supersessionary religion, is commanded by the Koran to be triumphant over all other religions. Inasmuch as this faith continues to catalyze Hezbollah in its jihad against the Jewish state, Israel has no alternative but to fight on until victory. If not, the whole war is for naught.
And that "the whole war is for naught" is what US negotiators trying to achieve.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Stop Israel. Netanyahu rejected Biden's plan and made him look like a liar

2024-06-04

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Gevorg Mirzayan

[REGNUM] On the first day of summer, US President Joe Biden announced details of a plan to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The head of the White House emphasized that the document was proposed by the Israeli authorities, and they have already transferred it to the Hamas movement through representatives of Qatar.

The plan involves three stages. In the first, within six weeks, all Israeli forces must be withdrawn from the populated areas of Gaza, and 600 trucks with humanitarian aid will enter the Strip itself daily. In addition, Hamas must "release a number of hostages, including women, the elderly and the wounded, in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners."

At the second stage, after negotiations held against the backdrop of a ceasefire, no matter how long they last, it is planned to “exchange all living hostages, including male soldiers.” And if Hamas fulfills its obligations, the document states, the temporary truce will turn into a permanent ceasefire.

In the third stage, a plan for the reconstruction of Gaza will be adopted and the bodies of the dead hostages will be returned.

The proposals voiced are not new, explains IA Regnum international political scientist, RIAC expert Elena Suponina. The points that have been discussed for several months under the leadership of CIA Director William Burns together with his colleagues from Egypt, Israel and Palestine are practically repeated, the expert adds.

“What is new is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has finally begun to understand that his goals in the Gaza Strip, including the complete destruction of radical groups, cannot be completely achieved, as opposition representatives, former prime ministers Ehud Barak and Ehud initially said Olmert,” says Suponina.

At the same time, Biden is positioning the plan as a victory for Israel, since, in his opinion, Tel Aviv has already achieved “realistic goals” during the military operation.

“At the moment, Hamas is no longer capable of organizing another October 7th, and depriving it of such opportunities was one of Israel’s main goals in this war. Fair goals, in general,” said the American president.

The Palestinians, however, do not think so - but agreed with the plan.

“The Biden plan is generally beneficial to Hamas: the movement proposed approximately the same scheme,” international political scientist Abbas Juma told IA Regnum in a commentary.

"ISRAEL DOESN'T WANT TO STOP, BUT IT CAN BE STOPPED"
Hamas officials said the movement is "ready to work constructively with any proposal that is based on a permanent truce, complete withdrawal of troops from Gaza, reconstruction of the strip and the return of temporarily displaced persons." Hamas is also ready to “complete a serious prisoner exchange” if Israel agrees to it.

At the same time, in Israel itself, despite Netanyahu’s supposed consent, fermentation began. At first, the prime minister's aides said that the plan was creaky, but they accepted it. Then the Prime Minister actually rejected him.

“The war will not end until we achieve all our goals, including the return of all our hostages, as well as the destruction of Hamas’s military and administrative capabilities,” the prime minister said, casting doubt on Biden’s words that Israel proposed the plan.

Because of this, Biden is being called a liar.

“ Biden is already accustomed to Netanyahu’s humiliation. In early May, he warned that if the IDF entered Rafah, it would not supply weapons to the Israelis.

Three weeks later, Israeli tanks entered central and western Rafah. After this, Biden administration officials decided to define what it means to “enter Rafah,” writes the British publication The Guardian.

There are also opinions that Netanyahu may pay for what he said.

“Israel has already said it has accepted the deal. If he abandons it now, it will be a death sentence for the hostages and will cause a crisis of confidence in relations with the Americans and intermediary countries,” says Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid.

At the same time, stopping now for Israel is tantamount to defeat and shame, followed by irreversible political processes, Abbas Juma believes.

“Israel is not capable of stopping, but it can be stopped. The Americans can do this - by force, by blackmail. But all this will turn out to be meaningless if the United States does not take a number of real steps, letting Israeli politicians understand that tomorrow Washington may no longer help,” says the international political scientist.

Biden, the expert recalled, openly called on the Israelis to disobey Netanyahu.

"I need your help. “Everyone who wants peace must speak out about it now and convince your leaders to accept the deal,” the head of the White House said.

New coalition as Netanyahu's salvation
The Israeli prime minister with his ambitions has long been considered the main obstacle to peace. But by “leaders,” Biden now means not only Netanyahu, but also the far-right members of his cabinet.

“The Israeli prime minister's political career is in the hands of far-right coalition members who say they will quit if Netanyahu agrees to a ceasefire,” writes The Guardian.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have already announced their readiness to leave the cabinet - in their understanding, the war should continue until Hamas is destroyed.

The possible withdrawal of ministers from the coalition is a big problem for Netanyahu.

Smotrich’s party has 7 seats in the Knesset, Ben Gvir’s has 6. In general, the government coalition has 64 seats out of 120. Yes, Yair Lapid (who has 17 seats in the Knesset) has already made it clear that he is theoretically ready to compensate for the 13 who drop out of the coalition far-right mandates. But first, it will make Netanyahu dependent on his political rival. Secondly, Lapid may change his mind.

“Netanyahu is now discussing with other Israeli politicians the possibility of creating a new coalition. However, the negotiations are not easy: many Israeli politicians have previously worked with Netanyahu, and some do not want to repeat this experience. They just don't trust him. But Netanyahu will not implement the plan alone,” Elena Suponina is convinced.

BIDEN IS NOT A DECREE
Thus, the fate of the “Biden peace plan” depends not only on American pressure, but also on the outcome of internal political negotiations in Israel. Netanyahu cannot remain without a coalition majority under any circumstances—his resignation will inevitably entail criminal prosecution. Therefore, it is possible that if negotiations with Lapid and other opposition leaders do not succeed, Netanyahu will continue the war.

And he will even try to enlist the support of pro-Israeli forces in the United States (Netanyahu is due to speak before Congress in the near future). That is, says Abbas Juma, he will hope for a favorable outcome of the elections in the United States and that he will be able to finish off the Palestinians.

Simply because he has no other choice.

“Yes, the Netanyahu government in Gaza has driven itself into a strategic impasse, and the Americans are offering at least some way out. However, it is very difficult for Netanyahu to exit through this door. This is largely due to his personal ambitions and the future of his government,” summarizes Elena Suponina.

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The political ideology that denies reality

2024-06-03

[IsraelNationalNews] While Oct. 7th has woken up many Israelis to understand how the progressive left's ideology is responsible for creating the reality that allowed the Oct. 7th massacre to happen, public discourse in Israel, especially by the establishment media and from IDF senior command, still ignores this reality, even though they are today a minority in Israel.

Here is a fascinating list of questions that I saw posted that really sharpens the issue for people to think about:

-Which political ideology is behind former IDF Chief of Staff (and today leader of the Blue & White party) Benny Gantz's statement at a conference years ago on how proud he was that he decided to risk the lives of IDF soldiers in Sajaiya, Gaza in not attacking terrorists who were hiding in the local Gaza hospital?

-Which political ideology is behind the 1993 decision by then Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin and his partner Shimon Peres to sign the Oslo "peace" Accords that armed a known terrorist organization, giving them control of Jewish land, which, over the years, brought about more than 1,500 dead Israelis (not including the Oct. 7th massacre)?

-Which political ideology is behind the 2000 decision by former Prime Minister Ehud Barak to withdraw all IDF troops from South Lebanon thinking that Israel will be safe and that if Hezbollah tries anything against Israel that we would be able to stop it with international recognition to do what we have to do to defend ourselves?

-Which political ideology is behind the 2005 decision by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to destroy 21 Jewish communities in Gaza, while expelling close to 10,000 Jews from their homes, thinking that allowing the Palestinian Authority to self-govern an area without Jews would bring peace to Israel? And that, based on promises by former US President Bush, that if any terror would emanate from Gaza, that we would have full US backing to do what is necessary to end it?

-Which political ideology caused the High Command of the Israel Defense Forces to go back to sleep at 4:30am on the morning of Oct. 7th, without informing Netanyhau and the government about the warnings of an imminent attack from Gaza, and without calling up emergency forces to protect the border?

-Which political ideology is behind the statement of former Chief of Staff Eisenkot (and today #2 leader of the Blue and White party with Gantz) saying that Gaza is a civilian humanitarian problem, more than a security problem for Israel?

-Which political ideology made IDF intelligence head Haliva say, before Oct. 7th, that the most serious danger to Israel is climate change? (No wonder he turned off his mobile phone while on vacation the night of October 7th)

-Which political ideology caused the leaders of IDF intelligence to ignore the actual words, statements and threats of the Arabs in Arabic, year after year?

-Which political ideology caused Israel's Supreme Court to force Israel to allow Hamas demonstrations near the Gaza border fence, endangering Israeli citizens?

-Which political ideology stopped IDF soldiers, tank shooters and airforce/helicopter pilots from firing upon Gazans as they infiltrated into Israel and crossed the border fence on Oct. 7th on their way to massacre innocent Jews?

-Which political ideology caused the opposition to the establishment of standby classes after the massacre in the Gaza Envelope, the Otef?

-Which political ideology is behind the opposition to the distribution of weapons to rapid response civilian teams after the 7.10 massacre?

-Which political ideology caused the IDF High Command years ago to agree to giving away the Jordan Valley and the Golan Heights in "peace" deals? (Not done, thank G-d)

-Which political ideology is behind the decision making in Israel to give medical treatment to terrorists from Gaza, like saving the life of today's Hamas leader, Sinwar, responsible for the Oct. 7th massacre who we are searching for now? A certain political ideology is behind Israel saving his life!

-Which political ideology is behind Israel's Supreme Court making illegal a very important IDF tactic of catching terrorists called "the neighbor procedure", in which a local Arab accompanies soldiers to a house where a terrorist may be holed up, so he doesn't shoot, a tactic that saved our IDF soldier's lives?

-Which political ideology is behind not using the Israeli airforce to bomb terrorist squads from the air in Judea & Samaria before the 7/10 massacre?

-Which political ideology is behind the talk, even today after Oct. 7th, of giving away Judea & Samaria to Arab Muslim terrorists of the Palestinian Authority?

The answer to all these questions:

The "progressive" (really regressive) leftist political ideology is responsible for all of those decisions by the IDF senior command and the justice system.

This "progressive" ideology stems from a basic naivety when facing reality in addition to a lack of understanding of the Arabic/Muslim culture of the Middle East in which we live.

Unfortunately, for some on the progressive left in Israel today, it is even worse.

They are convinced even now, post Oct. 7th, that the real danger to the country is not the genocidal IslamoNazis of Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, Hezbollah, Iran or Qatar, but the Jewish right-wing.

They seriously believe that Netanyahu is a bigger danger to Israel than Sinwar (Hamas leader) and Nasrallah (Hezbollah leader).

It is an extremely sad thing to internalize.

And the progressive left's ideology is so dominant in public discourse in Israel, although it is not the belief of the vast majority of citizens, that even though it fails time and time again causing massive deaths in our society, it is forbidden to say loud and clear:

'Having a progressive left-wing view in a country surrounded by enemies like Israel endangers the lives of its citizens and the existence of our country.'

It was only because this dominant progressive left ideology still exists in the senior command of the Israel Defense Forces that they are able to inform the residents of the Bat Hefer community (near Netanya), which was shot at by terrorists in Palestinian Authority controlled areas in Samaria, that the IDF will be reducing the amount of IDF reserve forces used to help protect their community!

Is that logical?

Is that sane??

This is the mindset that still exists within the senior command of the IDF, the establishment media and the intellectual elite.

Hence, this is why I keep on saying that we will overcome our external enemies and our internal challenges. Step one is waking up to the mindset that this ideology has been the root cause of the security issues we have experienced since the Oslo "peace" accords.

We need people who want victory running the IDF and the Defense Ministry.

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Known pedophiles who visited “Epstein Island” will not face punishment

2024-01-12

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Malek Dudakov

[REGNUM] Three years have passed since the death in an American prison of the scandalous billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. However, the United States continues to be haunted by scandals surrounding his parties with minors.

The release of court documents related to Epstein has once again brought to the fore the Western elite who attended his parties. But they will again try to avoid any serious consequences, escaping with only reputational losses.

The figure of Epstein remains one of the most mysterious among American elites. He is often called the Jay Gatsby of the 21st century - referring to the character in Fitzgerald's famous novel.

Like Gatsby, Epstein was very rich and flaunted it, owning gigantic estates and a private island in the Caribbean. It was there that his debauched parties took place, to which the billionaire invited celebrities, businessmen and influential politicians. And then he collected dirt on them.

Epstein's career began as a math teacher at an elite private school in Manhattan. When he got bored with that, he went to trade options at the investment bank Bear Stearns on Wall Street. And he even managed to take part in the work of the largest financial pyramid in America in the 80s - Tower Financial Capital.

After the collapse of the pyramid, Epstein, like many times in the future, managed to get away with it. He founded his own investment firm, where he offered Wall Street tycoons to manage their assets.

Epstein established profitable contacts with influential people. He managed to make friends with the Clintons. And after Bill Clinton left the presidency of the United States, it was Jeffrey Epstein who became one of the first donors to the Clinton Foundation.

Then, in the early 2000s, the now famous parties began. Epstein invited famous figures to his mansions, who spent time in the company of 14-16 year old girls. The scheme was simple - each of them received $300–500 per night and a bonus for inviting friends. So Epstein formed an entire industry of child prostitution around himself.

In addition, he also traveled extensively. On his private plane, nicknamed the “Lolita Express,” the billionaire organized a “tour” to poor countries in Africa and Southeast Asia, where he conducted the same pedophile orgies. And since 1998, he chose an island in the American Virgin Islands as a permanent place for his debauchery.

Epstein was helped in organizing a den for pedophiles by Leslie Wexner, the founder of the Victoria's Secret lingerie brand, who “supplied” models from his fashion shows. He had a similar accomplice in France - Jean-Luc Brunnel. True, he eventually went to prison and committed suicide in 2020, immediately after Epstein’s death.

In 2005, more than 50 girls filed charges against Epstein. During searches, child pornography was found in his home. But, despite all this, the lover of girls got off with a very light sentence. He was given 13 months in an "elite" cell at Palm Beach Prison. And they even allowed me to return to my home on weekends. Well, after his release, Epstein continued to organize pedophile orgies.

The next arrest took place only in 2019. Then the circumstances were much more serious, and Epstein faced up to 45 years in prison. But he eventually committed suicide, although he was in a special cell where he was supposed to be monitored around the clock. But the video cameras suddenly broke down at the moment of Epstein’s death, and the guard went out for a smoke break.

A year later, FBI agents managed to arrest Epstein's accomplice Jislaine Maxwell. She handled his finances and looked after underage girls at parties.

Maxwell was widely linked to Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service. Allegedly, she could transfer dirt on pedophiles there. Similar rumors about cooperation with intelligence agencies were spread regarding Epstein - there was talk about his work for the FBI. However, rumors about connections with the Israelis did not help Maswell much: she received a twenty-year prison sentence.

The materials on her case were then classified because the court considered them too “sensational.” Only a few years later they began to gradually become public. But it cannot be said that what has now been published has become some kind of great sensation. Much could have been guessed before, but now these guesses are confirmed by new details.

Let's say Bill Clinton liked "younger girls." He once burst into the editorial office of the gossip magazine Vanity Fair and demanded not to publish material about his connections with Epstein. Clinton rode the Lolita Express for more than 30 years and was more deeply involved in this pedophile scandal than anyone else.

Prince Andrew, the younger brother of the British monarch, also got it. Underage girls were paid $17,000 to spend the night with him. The prince himself denied participation in pedophile parties for a long time, although there was even a photo where he posed with one of Epstein’s girls. As a result, he had to pay $16 million to the victim to cover up the case.

Epstein's parties were attended by many others, from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to physicist Stephen Hawking. They are now trying not to appear in public, hoping that the scandal will fade away on its own. Bill Clinton even fled the United States and temporarily relocated to Mexico and the Dominican Republic.

The British prince was forced to give up some of his duties as a member of the royal family. They even wanted to deprive him of his Windsor residence and move him to a smaller house. But in the end they didn’t, considering it too “severe a punishment.”

None of those who appeared on Epstein’s island were touched in 2019, when these criminal cases were just opened. They will not be touched even now. One of the reasons is due to the fact that many materials on the case of the pedophile pimp mysteriously disappeared.

After his arrest, for some reason the FBI did not immediately conduct searches of the estates, although the feds in the United States are usually not inclined to be so careful with private property.

During the weeks that Epstein's residence remained empty, a safe containing discs was removed. They featured videos of his partygoers, which Epstein then used for blackmail. The publication of such materials could definitely become the basis for lawsuits against Clinton or Prince Andrew. But the safe evaporated in a timely manner.

So now these scandals only damage the reputation of the participants in Epstein’s orgies, but nothing more. And many of them are probably waiting until the dust settles to continue their debauchery, just in new company.

However, such obvious injustice will only mean for America a further decline in the level of trust in the political elite and the law enforcement system, which clearly protects its own.

All American institutions - from the military and police to Congress and the presidency - are now experiencing a crisis of confidence. And it will only worsen against the backdrop of increasing division and political wars tearing apart American society.

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At pro-government protest, Smotrich warns High Court not to strike down overhaul law

2023-09-09

[IsraelTimes] 10,000 rally outside court in Jerusalem ahead of crucial hearings; organizer says there’ll be ’chaos’ if judges nullify legislation; Smotrich: Don’t you dare invalidate Basic Laws

Thousands of government supporters rallied Thursday evening outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, encouraging the coalition to continue its push to weaken the judiciary ahead of crucial High Court of Justice hearings on the divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
judicial overhaul.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and other ministers at the protest warned the High Court against striking down part of the coalition’s legislative package after the hearings, with Smotrich telling Chief Justice Esther Hayut that she had better not "dare" to overturn the law.

There were no official turnout figures, but some 10,000 people were estimated to attend the protest, lower than at previous pro-government demonstrations and far lower than the mass anti-overhaul rallies held in Tel Aviv every week.

Exposing the extreme nature of some the demonstrators, groups of them were seen donning stickers that expressed support for Jewish bully boyz such as Baruch Goldstein, who murdered 29 Paleostinians in Hebron in 1994; Amiram Ben Uliel, who is in prison for the 2015 deadly Molotov cocktailing of a Paleostinian family in the West Bank village of Duma; bad boy rabbi Meir Kahane; and former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin Yigal Amir.

Some being an undefined small number, some of whom will turn out to be far left agitators in mufti, there to make the real protesters look bad. The Times of Israel does like to dwell on the degeneracy of Israel’s deplorables, completely missing that Antifa is the core of the anti-judicial overhaul. And of course not to mention that the Biden administration and international Progressive billionaires are funding the anti-overhaul protests — the latest iteration of the rabid effort to drive Bibi Netanyahu and the right out of public life.

Many of the demonstrators carried signs with pictures of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, Hayut and former prime minister Ehud Barak, with a caption saying “the ruling elite.”

More at the link, but this is the useful information, dear Reader.
Update from The Times of Israel at 12:50 p.m. ET: Organizers claim stickers praising extremists at rally handed out by ‘provocateurs’

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Continuation of Epstein's list

2023-08-30

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from a news article which appeared in secreta.com. Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.

The American press published a continuation of the list of people associated with the owner of the "island of pedophiles" billionaire Epstein, who was strangled in an American prison and called it "suicide" to ensure the silence of this character.

Continuation of Epstein's list

Some of the most important people in the world are panicking after the news that Epstein's real list of elite pedophiles has been leaked to the Internet, reports Peoples voice.

The document penetrated the network, bypassing the obstacles of the US Department of Justice. It is alleged that employees of the ministry themselves were involved in its publication.

New York magazine presented readers with a list of VIP pedophiles who are known to have dated Epstein but who do not appear in his infamous little black book.

According to the magazine, these are:

- Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black;

- President of the College of Bards Leon Botshtein;

- Google co-founder Sergey Brin;

- CIA Director William Burns;

- Professor Noam Chomsky, whose meetings with Epstein included a dinner with filmmaker Woody Allen and his wife Soon-Yi Previn;

- Former First Lady of the U.S. Virgin Islands Cecile de Jong, who is accused of helping Epstein obtain visas for his alleged victims;

- Bill Gates, whose ties to Epstein have been well known for years;

- FedEx board member Joshua Cooper Ramo;

- former diplomat Terje Red-Larsen;

- Chairman of the Edmond de Rothschild group Ariane de Rothschild;

- Goldman Sachs General Counsel Katherine Rümmler;

- JPMorgan CEO Jess Staley;

- Former Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers;

- PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.;

The list also includes Prince Andrew and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

However, the names of Andrew and Barack also appear in Epstein's black book.

In April, the Wall Street Journal reported on Epstein's very busy meeting schedule.

For just one day, 9/8/2014, he had meetings scheduled with Gates, Black, Rümmler and Botstein, as well as with Hyatt Hotels chairman Thomas Pritzker, media owner Mortimer Zuckerman and adviser Barnaby Marsh.

Previously unpublished documents reviewed by the journal include thousands of pages of emails and timetables dated from 2013 to 2017.

The Times said it obtained Epstein's lists "through a request for public records to the U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General, who sued Mr. Epstein's estate."

The persons appearing in the "mournful" list, one way or another, deny their connection with the pedophile Epstein.

For example, Barack Obama admitted that he often met with Epstein, but never "with girls or minors, or even adult women in an inappropriate context."

But Professor Noam Chomsky said that his connection with Epstein "is none of your business or anyone else's."

The remote Caribbean island, dubbed "Pedophile Island" by Epstein's efforts, hosted many high-ranking officials, bankers, politicians and other persons of power and influence with vicious inclinations.

No wonder Epstein was a regular visitor to the Clinton-era White House.

Link and the list itself includes representatives of the neoliberal globalist elite associated with the Biden administration, this leak is very likely associated with the upcoming US presidential elections, which is already leading to an aggravation of the internal struggle in the American establishment.

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Palestinian man dies of injuries from May 2021 Temple Mount clash

2023-08-19

[IsraelTimes] Hamza Abu Sneineh, 30, was hit by rubber bullet fired by police, causing him to lose eye and suffer multiple skull fractures; Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,, Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror groups hail ’martyr’

Attacks on Jews visiting the Wailing Wall and the Temple Mount are the pet project of the militant arm of Muslim Brotherhood in Israel, the so-called Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement...

A Paleostinian resident of East Jerusalem died Thursday from wounds sustained during a major clash with police at the flashpoint Temple Mount site in May 2021, days before an 11-day conflict broke out between Israel and Gazook terror groups, Paleostinian media reported.

Hamza Abu Sneineh, 30, a father of two girls, was hit by a rubber-tipped bullet causing him to lose his left eye and leading to multiple skull fractures.

He was treated at Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem and then later released, but was in poor health ever since, reports said.

His condition deteriorated a few weeks ago, and he died Thursday evening. He was buried Friday morning near the Old City’s Lions’ Gate.

The Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups both issued statements calling Abu Sneineh a "martyr."

It backed "the steadfastness of our Jerusalemites in the face of Judaization and sacrilege attempts, which will remain the center of confrontation until freedom and salvation."

Abu Sneineh was injured on the night of May 7, 2021, when police burst into the al-Aqsa Mosque after Paleostinians threw rocks and bottles at officers, amid widespread festivities and spiraling tensions in Jerusalem during the Moslem holy month of Ramadan.

Tensions continued to skyrocket until Hamas fired a barrage of rockets at Israel on the evening of May 10, 2021, prompting the Israel Defense Forces to launch Operation Guardian of the Walls in the enclave.

During the conflict, severe, unprecedented intercommunal violence spread to mixed Jewish-Arab cities across Israel.

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13 Palestinians wounded in clashes during IDF raid in West Bank refugee camp

2023-07-25

[IsraelTimes] Footage shows bombs planted by Paleostinians detonating close to army bulldozers in Nur Shams, near Tulkarem; army detains 17 suspects across West Bank

Clashes between Paleostinians and Israeli security forces broke out in the West Bank refugee camp of Nur Shams, close to Tulkarem, early Monday morning, with Paleostinian health officials reporting at least 13 maimed.

According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, four Paleostinians were hurt by Israeli gunfire, and another nine were hurt by shrapnel. Their conditions were not immediately known.

It was unclear if those maimed by shrapnel were hit by Israeli fire or bombs detonated by Paleostinians.

Footage published by Paleostinian media outlets showed several large IEDs exploding as Israeli military bulldozers made their way through the streets of Nur Shams.

The Israel Defense Forces has used heavily armored D9 bulldozers in West Bank operations to clear streets of hidden explosives, to enable troops to safely enter and carry out arrests.

The IDF said Monday morning that troops had detained 17 wanted Paleostinians, seized weapons, and neutralized bombs during raids across the West Bank overnight.

In a "brigade-level" operation in Nur Shams, the IDF said troops located and destroyed around ten bombs and detained one suspect.

"Exchanges of fire took place in the area and suspects hurled bombs at the forces, who responded with live fire," the IDF said, adding that several suspects were hit.

Fifteen wanted Paleostinians were detained and several firearms were seized in a number of Paleostinian villages in the central and southern West Bank, the IDF said. Another suspect was detained in the Bethlehem area.

Armed festivities also broke out in the Askar refugee camp near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The IDF said troops returned fire at button men and used riot dispersal means.

The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy was cited by Paleostinian media as saying two people were maimed by IDF fire in Askar.

Paleostinian media also reported armed festivities with IDF troops in the Jalazone refugee camp, near Ramallah.

There were no immediate reports of injuries among Israeli forces.

Tensions between Israelis and Paleostinians have been high across the West Bank for the past year and a half, with the military carrying out near-nightly raids, amid a series of deadly Paleostinian terror attacks.

And that is the difference between Bibi Netanyahu and Ehud Barak’s protesting Left — besides the Left rejecting the results of the election that put Bibi in office instead of their boy. When Ehud Barack was PM, he sat with folded hands while the Second Intifada killed Israelis all over the country. Bibi’s policy of arrest raids has been so successful at keeping Israelis safe that even when he was temporarily out of office the leftwing politician who temporarily replaced him continued them at the same pace.

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