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Trump Fights Israel’s War On Iran
By Brother Nathanael Kapner
Copyright 2017
How many Jews does it take to tell 6 lies in just a few seconds?
Only one.
[Clip: “Iran seeks to annihilate Israel.
It says so openly.
It seeks to conquer the Middle East.
It threatens Europe.
It threatens the West.
It threatens the world.”]
How about ‘Iran threatens Mars’ even though its missiles can barely reach Milan?
Tell me. If Europe’s ramping up trade with Iran ever since the Nuke Deal, where’s the threat?
It’s good business that Trump’s rejecting. So much for ‘America First.’
And how many Jews does it take to tout the lie of the century?
Again, only one.
[Clip: “I plan to speak soon with President Trump about how to counter the threat of the Iranian regime which calls for Israel’s destruction.”
Never did.
[Clip: “This idea that Iran wants to wipe Israel out, now that’s a common trope that is put about by a lot of people in Israel, a lot of people in the United States.” “They didn’t say, ‘we will wipe it out,’ you’re right.”]
When Ahmadinejad said, “The regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time,” he was anticipating Israel’s evident demise. In other words, “this too shall pass.”
Yet in Israel’s quest to survive—an unnatural creature amidst long-established Muslim countries—it pursues perpetual war for perpetual…pandemonium.
Iran is now Israel’s main target.
With growing influence in Iraq, its alliance with Assad, and support of Hezbollah, Iran brings Israeli hegemony in the Middle East to a screeching halt.
It’s an “Axis of Resistance” that Jews fear, with Iran its main player.
And Israel wants to wipe this resistor ‘off the face of the earth.’
Enter Michael Flynn, Trump’s national security commando with his finger on the trigger.
[Clip: “Iran continues to threaten US friends and allies in the region. The Obama administration failed to respond adequately to Tehran’s malign actions including weapons transfers, support for terrorism, and other violations of international norms.”]
Sounds like America. But warmongers like Flynn can’t see the forest for the Jewish trees.
[Clip: “As of today we are officially putting Iran on notice.”]
That’s Israel’s line and those are fighting words.
But who’s going to fight? Israel? Saudi Arabia?
They’ll fly a few bombers, hit Iran’s nuclear power plants (that Russia built) and fly safely back to Haifa and Jeddah.
But US troops will do the dirty work. Only the goys die young when waging wars for the Jews.
Now, when told that Rouhani warned those who “threaten” Iran would live to “regret” it, Trump shot back, “he better be careful.”
Au contraire. Trump better be careful before he turns the Middle East into a blazing inferno. Iran is not going to take it lying down.
Trump’s playing with fire that will spread all the way to gas pumps on Main Street USA.
With $15 a gallon at the pump, no matter how many jobs Trump brings back, America will be driving on empty.
But that’s okay with Jared Kushner, Trump’s Jewish son-in-law and senior advisor.
He’s a billionaire—and once he gets his war for Israel against Iran and lots of ‘goys dying young’—he’ll be eating breakfast in bed in Manhattan.
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Hey Bro,
You should post some of your POV’s over at beforeitsnews.com.
It’s a very open minded crowd and the site is very free speech oriented. I think it could bring more hits to your site too.
Thanks for all your efforts.
-Jack
Hey Brother Nate, great video.
I wanted to ask you, what are your thoughts on the recent departure and resignation of Mike Flynn from the Trump administration?
God bless you Brother Nate!
Scottie
It appears that the Occidental Observer has been put off limits by the owners of the internet.
Any information on this would be appreciated.
Oh, Dear Brother, surely you are mistaken. So would say the thousands if not millions of False Prophets around the U.S.A.
Surely they are victims of hell itself. The Church is at the gates of Hell being bombarded by these prophets. And by Judaism itself.
U.S.A. will be great again. israel will be the ‘head and not the tail’.
That was for the Israel of the Old Testament, a natural, worldly, earthly kingdom under the God she despised, who blessed but cursed her nevertheless.
The curses laid out are there now more than ever. This Israel about which they prophesy is the fruit of the Protocols of Zion, of the Chabad, of the Rabbis, of Judaism going right back to the Middle Ages and before. Right back to when Judah and Benjamin were in captivity in Babylon.
It is not the Judaism of Moses and this Israel will never be blessed by God, The I Am That I Am, The Lord.
Oh, the heart rending knowledge that this prophesying all around those church attendees of millions is swallowed by a crowd in a stupor of ridiculous hopes spumed out of hell itself through these false prophets.
U.S.A. will never be ‘great again’. Trump is not placed there by God to enable this Satanic dream to be fulfilled. He is in partnership with the most evil of forces that are encroaching on the liberty of Americans.
These Americans rushing to hear the latest prophecy, even though many they hear have not eventuated, are hastening the doom that will surely engulf their nation, churches, themselves and their families.
I am not a prophet as theirs are. Surely their idea of a New Testament prophet is not based on the Scripture that says: ‘Prophecy is for edification, exhortation and comfort’.
Will there be war against Iran in 2017? Or are they planning a great economic fall for the country and thus for the rest of the world?
Brother Nathanael paints a very dark future that could overtake the inhabitants like a tornado.
Iran is prepared sufficiently not to be a walk-over. The fair young men whose lot it could be to suffer in such a scene! Our Air Force pilots could be involved and mothers and grandmothers hearts pierced by sorrow.
The vipers of Satan are murderers, liars and robbers of this world’s wealth. Lusts consume them.
Whoever associates himself with them becomes as they and also hell-bound.
You deluded churches and leaders, specially the prophets, get ready for the grandest of disillusions.
It now seems clear to me that you were right all along about Trump, dear Brother Nathanael. He was always going to put the interests of the wicked Jews before his own people and his own Homeland.
Naively most of us believed that he was going to save the US and the West. How wrong we were.
Maybe he was threatened by the Jews once he came into office and realized that he had to choose between toeing the line or facing the concequences?
He loves his family and his Jewish grand children too much, I guess, to risk everything on trying to finish the job that JFK started all those years ago.
This topic was discussed by Jeff Rense and Gerald Celente the other day.
Celente actually believes that Trump was playing us all along. He fooled us all … well, except for you and a few others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l906ezuIXps
Pray to God and ask him to open the eyes of Mr. Trump and give him the wisdom he needs to lead America.
Let him see the role the so called “Jews” play in the Globalist’s Agenda for a one world government, the very thing that Mr. Trump said he was going to stop.
Pray to God that Trump will bring all our troops home and have peace for a change, i.e. after he helps Russia liberate Syria and annihilate ISIS; which is what I thought he also promised.
Irene Falkes – what hell are you talking about?
“Trump is not placed there by God to enable this Satanic dream to be fulfilled”
It seems you have something to say that resembles passion. But you need to use better words to describe it.
@BN: Do you see a distinction between globalism and Zionism? If so, I would enjoy your differentiations.
If all we read is true then the deepest pits of an eternal hell must await Jews.
Their only way out is repentance and accepting Christ as their savior and Lord but I think its impossible for them to do that.
In fact it may be God who forbids this repentance and keeps their hearts hardened as due punishment for all their evil deeds
“The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished” (2 Peter 2:9)
What a curse to be born under
@JM
It seems you are most correct, the “Occidental Observer” has (for the time being!) not just been pulled from the internet, on one particular internet page humanities vilest have superimposed A D L (The Altogether Defecate League) propaganda.
I am angry.
I am sick to my stomach, ere in the U.K. a whiff of criticism towards Jewry in the press or television guarantees banishment.
You could argue well it’s working & Satanists are on the run, don’t buy into that.
The truth is what these bastards fear most.
If they get away with this any & LL TRUTH SITES will become their targets.
@mrbuttermaker
Bravo!
The excellent video below does need updating with a new set of Treasonous felons.
http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com/2016/10/excellent-video-from-snordster-clinton.html
A Russian lawmaker suggests that if the United States really wants to punish those responsible for the continuing crisis in Ukraine, it should slap sanctions on billionaire George Soros,
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and a number of US officials.
They should slap sanctions on Nuland, Soros and Biden.
Another JEW World Order illegal coup d’état.
Spring’s Serpent Eggs Hatching
Israhell’s Satanyahoo Drumpf Puppet
Ready To Give Persia’s Haman A Thrashing
By Now We All Know The Black Faux Flag Routine
Activate The Usual Intel Cells
Hell-No One Not One Will Stop It
Wave The Wand, Stir The Cauldron
Create The Playbook PsyOp Diversion…
Perhaps A New Holy’s Wood Perversion
Holograms More Convincing Than Buzz Aldrin?
For Your Zio-World Government Needs To Keep You Buzy
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A New Crises On The New iPhoneDroneHome Tizzy
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Trump Touts Jew-Lie On Crimea
Latest Trump TWIT:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
“Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?”
Will the ‘real’ Donald Trump please sit down on Kushner’s toilet?
+Brother Nathanael
PS Russia says to Trump: NYET!
“”As for Crimea’s return, this issue will not be discussed as it cannot be discussed. Russia does not discuss its territorial issues with foreign partners,” Peskov said, commenting on the White House statement that US President Donald Trump made it clear he expects Russia to return Crimea to Ukraine.” @
http://tass.com/politics/930984
“We don’t return our territories. Crimea is a territory of the Russian Federation.” @
https://www.rt.com/news/377387-russia-crimea-ukraine-trump/
PPS Tweety Boy Trump is a REAL ‘tough guy,’ isn’t he? Well, we’ll see just how tough Kushner’s daddy-in-law really is. Compared to Putin, Trump’s a marshmallow.
The ideological division (polarization) in seemingly every body and echelon of the U.S. government is troubling.
It appears that latent Anti-Trump (Pro Globalists NWO + ?) forces are doing everything they can to bring Trump’s presidency down (impeachment or worse).
Iran and the Bomb:
Iran holding one or two nuclear bombs poses zero threat to Israel. Persian’s are not war mongers and have no death wish. Should one or two nuclear tipped missiles be fired against Israel and actually find their target all of Iran would be annihilated in a devastating nuclear firestorm.
What’s the real deal?
Israel and Wahabi Saudi Arabia are determined not to give Iran any leadership role (Saudi Arabia’s role) in the Arab world. A nuclear bomb would provide Iran with the required admiration and veneration of leadership in the eyes and minds of the smaller/lesser Arab nations.
Crimea:
You only need to look at the history of Crimea in the last several hundred years or less to know that Russia will never abandon it. Rivers of Russian blood have been spilled there.
Has me thinking about the failed British cavalry charge known as the “Charge of the Light Brigade” during the first Crimean War.
@one_love
The poison in thought remains prevalent. The web of delusion still engulfs the millions of Christians.
Jesus said He would build His Church. Yes, He Himself is the Builder of the true Ecclesia. ‘The gates of hell will not prevail against it’.
The Ecclesia can only be resident at the gates for there to be any attempt at prevailing against it.
Paul confirms this, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, when he says: ‘We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the world rulers of darkness, against the evil spiritual forces of the supernatural realms’, Eastern-Greek Orthodox New Testament.
Surely we are at the gates of hell, particularly when many millions are so deluded that they follow the false prophets who prophesy that Trump is placed there by God, as President, so that the U.S.A. and Israel will be the greatest nations on earth, with Israel at the very head.
These prophecies are given from Satanic power and deceit to deceive the unwary.
Trump is not placed there as they say for that Satanic delusion of a leading U.S.A. and Israel in the world, so ‘Trump is not placed there by God for the Satanic dream to be fulfilled’.
It is impossible that an Israel at the head would allow the U.S.A. ever to be great, in competition to itself. That the die is cast could be very veritable.
Love weeps, prays and tells out the Truth as against the Judaism that now is even as Jesus Himself did, followed by Paul, Peter, John and Jude. We are to be followers of Paul, he did adjoin.
Is there a problem about that?
Br. Nat,
It’s great to read your article on Israel’s War. Satanyahu’s scheduled to visit the White House next week and most likely than not, give Trump his marching orders.
That isn’t good news for the rest of us. We refuse to fight the cowardly Zionist Entity’s wars.
Guess that the IDF–cowards that they are — received an arse-whipping back in 2006 by Lebanon’s paramilitary force, Hezbollah, after having crossed into Lebanon and killed nearly 2,000 civilians.
Now, except for Gaza, Israel’s too cowardly to strike Iran, and Trump’s not going to do so either. There’ll be NO ground troops anywhere near the Islamic Republic, no aircraft either.
His main target is ISIS, Israel’s creation. He’s already entered that conflict by helping both Turkey and Russia fight that monstrous entity.
I’m most likely to agree with you, Jason. Trump’s real danger comes from Obongo and his Bolshevik minions.
Why else would he buy a mansion nearby and plan to build a wall around it?
Except to make a fortress out of it, that’s all. He’s desperate to wage a civil war and overthrow Trump and/or kill him. He’s a Jew who hates America and intends to destroy her.
@one_love
Perhaps I should have had inverted commas as follows, but it did seem clear enough:
“U.S.A. will be great again. Israel will be the ‘head and not the tail’.”
Trump is pretty good on U.S. domestic policy but a know-nothing on U.S. foreign policy.
People like me who supported him (with reservations) knew this when he ran for President with hope that he would work on getting his foreign policy issues in order.
There’s still time but he’s off to a rough start. I suggest he talk to Putin soon and start getting advice with regards to the geopolitical world. No world leader knows how to handle these Jews better than Putin.
Trump also needs to keep the neocon Zionist Jews as far away from his Administration as possible. His son in law Kushner was not elected to anything and Trump would be a complete fool to rely on him on any political matters.
The Jews tried to get Obama to bomb Iran, but even he had enough sense to resist them and let Putin take charge on the world stage.
How WWIII starts by the JEWS.
The World splits in two. One side of the NWO hidden hand in the shadows with even Trump not realizing he is just being a puppet.
The other side is Putin and the Eastern Asian Block.
One attack on Iran is a going to Anger the Bear. Anger the Bear and you wake the Dragon.
One Eagle cannot fight both the Bear and the Dragon.
Right now it looked like there was a left and right in Washington but the strings all go to the same hand even when both sides don’t realize it.
That’s the power of the Jews that statement “By Deception we shall do War”
Why Michael Flynn Resigned
By Brother Nathanael @
http://www.realjewnews.com/
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C’mon people, isn’t it obvious that Trump’s dumping of Flynn was an ‘inside job?’
No ‘deep state’ here, but an ‘in state’ leak of a phone conversation between Flynn and the Russian ambassador—known by all the Intel agencies since December, of which, the FBI found no wrong doing.
It was standard FBI protocol to review intercepts of communications after ‘listening-in’ on the Russian ambassador obtained from routine electronic surveillance of Russian officials (The Russian ambassador would have known that he, like his predecessors, was under surveillance.)
Flynn was a loose cannon inside the White House, volatile and uncurbed. He was his own worst enemy.
Spicer didn’t like Flynn barging in on his press conference; Mattis, who probably didn’t care for Flynn given their differing personalities, has a whole different approach to warmongering, that is, lacing mass murder with quietly-stated lies.
And Pence didn’t appreciate being embarrassed by Flynn’s dissembling after sticking up for him. Why else did Trump keep saying: “This was a trust issue?”
And my guess is that Flynn called the Russian ambassador on his own while Trump was out doing his victory laps during the transition period in December.
Flynn had to go and an ‘inside leak’ prepared the way. Perhaps a Pence-faction leaked it to the press…
My observations on Flynn during Trump’s long campaign is that he saw anti-Iran Trump as a potential winner to hook his own anti-Iran wagon to.
Flynn was a man with an agenda who believed his Islamophobic bombast would launch the right bombs in all the wrong places.
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For More See:
Trump Fights Israel’s War On Iran @ http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=1190
Trump’s ‘Mad Dog’ Military Policy @ http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=1170
Trump is a traitor to America, and I believe he will soon be involved in a war with Iran.
But in the war, Israhell will be destroyed and Russia will come to the help of Iran!
God bless you, Brother!!
Russia is the real target here for globalists – not Iran.
What better way to get into war with Russia than to attack another ally?
Globalists want the control the ME for the vast natural resources found there that we depend on in our daily lives, but Russia, Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah have been major deterrents to globalist plans to do so.
When the lying government demonizes someone or a country, people should try to find out the real reasons why!
Given below is a research project idea related to the goals of this RJN website for anyone who is interested in a needed research topic idea for making a new book or video.
I believe that there is a need for a book or a video that verifies and proves with documentation the statements that were made by Benjamin H. Freedman about Zionism. Freedman claims in his 1961 speech that he has all the proof that he needs to prove that his statements are true. But I could not find a compilation of the proofs and verifications.
Besides the Youtube videos of Freedman’s speeches, Freedman supposedly wrote many articles that he published himself and that he distributed himself. But, I could only find one of his articles that was titled “Facts are Facts”.
Freedman makes a claim in his speech that there was a letter to the British War Cabinet in 1915 or 1916 from the Zionists to offer their suggestion of how to win WW1 for the British ( by entering USA ). Maybe someone could produce a copy of this letter.
There are a number of websites resulting from a web search that state that there is no proof at all of what Freedman claims against Zionism, and that all that Freedman states against Zionism are all clearly anti-Semitism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8wr2ZVWBVo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx1Rj6fHCNE
Thank you for that Brother Nathanael.
All I can say is the joint news conference today in D.C. with Trump and Netanyahu was very painful to watch.
Wasn’t sure whether to laugh or to cry. Needed wine afterwards. . .barukh attah Adonai Eloheinu melekh ha’olam, borei peri ha’gafen. Ended up laughing after all, will cry later.
@Kimm
This is the key statement of the Press Conference that everybody missed:
Netanyahu: “I believe that the great opportunity for peace comes from a regional approach from involving our newfound Arab partners.”
This ‘regional approach’ is a US (Mattis) proposed Nato-like coalition of anti-Iran countries in the Middle East like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Jordan (possibly) etc with IsraHell.
A few bones out of the soup bowl of this alliance will be thrown to the Palestinians to keep them arguing and distracted from the REAL issue:
TOTAL DOMINANCE of IsraHell throughout the Middle East reaching from Mauritauna to India.
Once Iran is neutralized next comes the destruction of Pakistan. Muslims Take Warning…IsraHell Wants You Dead, if Alive, Totally enfeebled. +BN
Dear +BN
God bless you for another wonderfully-made Video. The special effects are incredible, and the topic is very timely, despite the fact that Flynn has now been booted from the White House.
I entirely agree with your assessment of the circumstances of his departure.
He is gone, but the White House anti-Iran fear-mongering agenda is not, especially not with Bolton haunting DC corridors and think tanks, and Bannon, White House chief strategist, who seemingly regrets that he was born 1000 years too late to lead the Crusades. I’m sure he especially regrets missing the Fourth Crusade.
I tried to listen to Bibsy and Donald today at their joint press conference.
I couldn’t get much in the way of some kind of logical coherency from Dumpf and Bibsy’s joint press conference, even after reading the transcript, but the “regional alliance” says all — Bibsy, the Arab monarchies, and the Saudis have been working on it for a very long time.
Trump “My friend Netanyahu. Unbreakable bond with Israel. Whatever Israel and Palestine decide in negotiations.”
Netanyahu, trying valiantly to wipe the smirk off of his face after the red carpet treatment Dumpf gave him: “Iran, Iran, Iran” and “Iran, Iran, Iran” and “Terror, Iran, terror, terror, Iran, Iran.”
Trump has never had a problem with pushing eminent domain for his own properties.
No doubt he’ll see a parallel in the decades of murder, mayhem, displacement and land thefts by the Jews. That’s what business is all about, right?
Besides, he’s a possession is 9/10ths of the law kind of guy, to the victors the spoils and all that.
If we should have kept the oil after invading hapless Iraq and destroying that country, then Israel should be able to keep the land they stole by bloodshed, extortion, and terrorism from Palestinians and Syria.
I believe as far as Trump, the real estate developer, is concerned, the complete annexation of the West Bank and everything else the Jews have been stealing from the Palestinians for the past 70 years, as well as from Syria in the Golan Heights with Jewish squatters in the Syrian Occupied Territory, is just another form of eminent domain.
Haaretz: Netanyahu: I Asked Trump to Recognize Israeli Sovereignty in Golan Heights
I can say that there was no surprise by my request,’ Netanyahu tells reporters after White House meeting.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters at a press briefing on Wednesday that he asked U.S. President Donald Trump in their meeting to have the U.S. recognize the Golan Heights as part of Israel. “I can say that there was no surprise by my request,” Netanyahu said.
The U.S. and the international community don’t recognize the Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights, announced in 1981.
The U.S. treats the area as occupied Syrian territory, and has attempted several times to push for a peace deal between Israel and Syria that would include an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan.
Netanyahu also said that he and Trump see eye to eye on Iran, and that they have discussed Iranian activity in Syria.
“He voiced a commitment to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, and he is highly aware of Iranian aggression in the area in other matters,” Netanyahu said. “We agreed to cooperate in order to buffet this aggression.”
Netanyahu raised the issue of American recognition of the annexation of the Golan Heights at his meeting with former President Barack Obama in November 2015.
The Obama administration rejected the request and refused to further discuss the matter.
A senior official at the [Obama] White House said at the time that the U.S. stance, which is against the annexation, hasn’t changed, and added that the Israeli request could even harm the Syrian opposition factions supported by the U.S.
“I think that it was clear the U.S. is not going to change its position about the future of the Golan. … We [have] always said it has to be negotiated in line with [UN Security Council resolutions] 242 and 338. This has been and remains our position and it will not change,” he said.
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.772025
Which means, Trump will do the complete opposite just to spite Obama.
In the meantime, Jewmerica gave Syria a gift which will keep on giving — Depleted Uranium.
Foreign Policy Mag:
INVESTIGATION
The United States Used Depleted Uranium in Syria
The airstrikes on oil trucks in Islamic State-controlled areas employed the toxic material, which has been accused of causing cancer and birth defects.
Officials have confirmed that the U.S. military, despite vowing not to use depleted uranium weapons on the battlefield in Iraq and Syria, fired thousands of rounds of the munitions during two high-profile raids on oil trucks in Islamic State-controlled Syria in late 2015.
The air assaults mark the first confirmed use of this armament since the 2003 Iraq invasion, when it was used hundreds of thousands of times, setting off outrage among local communities, which alleged that its toxic material caused cancer and birth defects.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) spokesman Maj. Josh Jacques told Airwars and Foreign Policy that 5,265 armor-piercing 30 mm rounds containing depleted uranium (DU) were shot from Air Force A-10 fixed-wing aircraft on Nov. 16 and Nov. 22, 2015, destroying about 350 vehicles* in the country’s eastern desert.
Earlier in the campaign, both coalition and U.S. officials said the ammunition had not and would not be used in anti-Islamic State operations.
In March 2015, coalition spokesman John Moore said, “U.S. and coalition aircraft have not been and will not be using depleted uranium munitions in Iraq or Syria during Operation Inherent Resolve.”
Later that month, a Pentagon representative told War is Boring that A-10s deployed in the region would not have access to armor-piercing ammunition containing DU because the Islamic State didn’t possess the tanks it is designed to penetrate.
It remains unclear if the November 2015 strikes occurred near populated areas. In 2003, hundreds of thousands of rounds were shot in densely settled areas during the American invasion, leading to deep resentment and fear among Iraqi civilians and anger at the highest levels of government in Baghdad.
In 2014, in a U.N. report on DU, the Iraqi government expressed “its deep concern over the harmful effects” of the material.
DU weapons, it said, “constitute a danger to human beings and the environment” and urged the United Nations to conduct in-depth studies on their effects. Such studies of DU have not yet been completed, and scientists and doctors say as a result there is still very limited credible “direct epidemiological evidence” connecting DU to negative health effects.
The potential popular blowback from using DU, however, is very real. While the United States insists it has the right to use the weapon, experts call the decision to use the weapon in such quantities against targets it wasn’t designed for — such as tanks — peculiar at best.
The U.S. raids were part of “Tidal Wave II” — an operation aimed at crippling infrastructure that the Islamic State relied on to sell millions of dollars’ worth of oil.
The Pentagon said the Nov. 16 attacks happened in the early morning near Al-Bukamal, a city in the governorate of Deir Ezzor near the border with Iraq, and destroyed 116 tanker trucks.
Though the coalition said that the strikes occurred entirely in Syrian territory, both sides of the frontier were completely under the control of the militant group at the time.
Any firing of DU in Iraqi territory would have far greater political repercussions, given the anger over its previous use there.
The Nov. 16 video below shows tankers hit first by larger ordnances, before others are engulfed in sparks and ripped apart by fire from 30 mm cannons.
Video of the second DU run on Nov. 22 destroyed what is described as 283 “Daesh Oil trucks” in the desert between Al-Hasakeh and Deir Ezzor — both capitals of governorates of the same names.
The use of DU in Syria was first reported by this author in IRIN News last October. CENTCOM and the U.S. Air Force at first denied it was fired, then offered differing accounts of what happened, including an admission in October that the weapon had been used.
However, the dates confirmed by CENTCOM at that point were off by several days. It is now clear that the munitions were used in the most publicized of the Tidal Wave II attacks.
Depleted uranium is left over from the enrichment of uranium 235. It is exceptionally hard, and has been employed by militaries both to penetrate armored targets and to reinforce their potential targets like tanks against enemy fire.
Though less radioactive than the original uranium, DU is toxic and is considered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to be a “radiation health hazard when inside the body.”
The most likely way for such intake to occur is through the inhalation of small particles near where a weapon is used. But doctors and anti-nuclear activists alike say there hasn’t been enough research done to prove the precise health effects and exposure thresholds for humans.
Most important, the lack of comprehensive research on illnesses and health outcomes in post-conflict areas where DU was used has led to a proliferation of assumptions and theories about DU’s potential to cause birth defects and cancer.
Firing rounds near civilian populations has a powerful psychological effect, causing distress and severe anxiety, as the International Atomic Energy Agency noted in 2014.
Internationally, DU exists in a legal gray area. It is not explicitly banned by U.N. conventions like those that restrict land mines or chemical weapons.
And although the United States applies restrictions on the weapon’s handling domestically, it does not regulate its use overseas in civilian areas with nearly the same caution.
“I think this is an area of international humanitarian law that needs a lot more attention,” said Cymie Payne, a legal scholar and professor of ecology at Rutgers University who has researched DU.
“As we’ve been focusing more in recent years on the post-conflict period and thinking about peace building …we need a clean environment so people can use the environment.”
Jacques, the CENTCOM spokesman, says the ammunition was fired that November because of a “higher probability of destruction for targets.”
More: http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/02/14/the-united-states-used-depleted-uranium-in-syria/
Liars in the White House, Liars in the Oval Office, Liars in Congress, Liars in the Pentagon.
A pox on all their houses, may hyenas feast on their innards.
The Jews think their ownership and control of the mass media gives them a license to lie.
We know where your al katsas are. We know what you think.
“We will live by the sword” –B. Netanyahu. You shoul read the rest of that book, fool.
Pakistan has between 90 and 120 nukes according to Wiki – no matter the number, and 10 in the hands of Iran would also deter Israel.
This is what Pakistan should do, and never mind the NNPT, as Israel has nukes.
And as long as Israel has nukes so should every one else threatened by Israel, the only bandit state on the planet for that reason alone.
Flynn’s a good man. What he said about Iran was just obligatory rhetoric.
The Obama admin, as represented by the assorted welded on intel agencies regardless of who is nominally president – until now, de facto continues, and would be looking for two more strikes, to make Trump look like a clown, effectively nullifying his future authority as expressed via executive orders.
There will be no more resignations of Trump cabinet appointees as he has admitted that he was misled by sources within the intel establishment, but can’t now reverse – having accepted, Flynn’s resignation.
As for Iran, Trump isn’t going to war against Iran on Israel’s behalf. He’s nobody’s goyisher kopf, all of this verbal belligerence about Iran is just to get all of his picks for cabinet confirmed by the Senate.
It’s not yet a calendar month, and I continue to have full confidence in Mr Trump, because he has a deep integrity, currently obscured by him having been deceived by these hold outs from the ‘l’ancien regime’.
May the clean out begin, and with a righteous resolve of which he is fully capable!
@Mazur
I was told by an Israeli that they have nukes hidden in the USA and elsewhere to use if they need to force that country to do what they want.
The Samson Option. Wouldn’t surprise me at all.
OY VEY!
I have the uneasy feeling that America’s military leaders have watched too many John Wayne, Hollywood and Pinecrest studios movies about WW2 (Wayne was never in a war), and underestimate European armies, and that they are also delusionally dependant on gadgets and in particular air power.
Its not a good idea to provoke the sleeping Russian bear to start another Color Revolution on behalf of the Jewish organized crime state called Israel.
In WW2 the American army did not win a single battle against the German army when both sides were evenly matched.
Panzer Willy destroyed more than 100 American tanks at the Battle of the Bulge, and a great many of them after he ran out of ammunition. He rammed them.
More than 100 German pilots shot down more than 100 allied planes. Eric Hartman got 350. No allied Pilot shot down 50.
Despite all the gadgetry and Rambo movies, the American military got beat in Viet Nam by highly motivated people armed with obsolete WW2 equipment.
Take away air power and there is no American military.
The German submarine corp had a 60% casualty rate and was flooded by volunteers until the end of the war. The Canadian army had to kill 22,000 German child soldiers (Hitler Youth) to get them to quit at the end of the war.
In Viet nam more than half the American officers killed were shot by their own men.
The problem is that war itself is a crime. You kill innocent people and the very best young men simply to make a handful of heavily inbred, feeble mined and degenerate Jewish bankers richer.
So easy to find peace now but America and NATO won’t have it. Their Jewish Banking masters won’t let them.
The Jews Media, AIPAC, ACLU, the Jewdicial system, and the many other legions of anti-christ Jews (ACJ) are attacking Trump more viciously than any president before.
Even Nixon and Carter were not hated by the ACJ to this extent. It is bizarre that a politician like Trump who has been in bed with the Jews so many times, for so long, is now being attacked so savagely by the ACJ.
Even Foxjews jumped on the Bash-Trump Bandwagon yesterday. Shepherd Smith spent his air time destroying Trump. Next Neil Cavuto spent his hour putting down Trump. It appears that Satan is determined to destroy Trump.
The Kushner Brothers took a quarter million dollar loan from Soros.
Trump got a $160 million loan from Soros that was forgiven.This whole thing is a sham!
Racist Jews allow no refugees from their wars into the gulag death camp, terrorist state of Israhell.
Trump’s on board with that. The Jews have turned him into a bigger stooge than his puppet predecessor.
@Ted Gorsline
The American military did not get beat in Nam by a superior military.
The problem was that until Nixon did what should have been done from the beginning, and that is bombing Hanoi and chasing them into Laos and Cambodia, we fought the war with one hand tied behind our backs.
Tet was a complete military failure as we beat them mercilessly back but rather a political victory so Cronkite could say the war is now unwinnable.
You have evidently drunk the cool-aid re Nam, which was really just a footnote, along with Watergate to the career of Joe Kennedy who stole the election in 1960 from Nixon. God bless Tricky Dick who hung in their to rescue our nation from the incompetent Democrat Party and possible nuclear war.
Israel has had informal backdoor diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia for years.
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Middle East Eye:
Thursday 16 February 2017
The Trump administration is in discussions about the formation of a regional Arab security alliance with Israel as a counterbalance to Iran’s influence in the Middle East, according to Arab officials.
The alliance would include Egypt and Jordan, both of whom recognise and have peace treaties with Israel, as well as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, neither of whom recognise Israel but are known to have covertly shared intelligence in the past.
“They’ve been asking diplomatic missions in Washington if we’d be willing to join this force that has an Israeli component,” one Arab diplomat said, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“Israel’s role would likely be intelligence sharing, not training or boots on the ground. They’d provide intelligence and targets. That’s what the Israelis are good at.”
Speaking during a Wednesday joint news conference with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said the plan would potentially have an enormous impact on the balance of power in the Middle East, which is currently seeing a regional rivalry and proxy wars between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
“It is something that is very different, hasn’t been discussed before,” said Trump.
“And it’s actually a much bigger deal – much more important deal in a sense. It would take in many, many countries and would cover a very large territory.”
Netanyahu, who has previously boasted of the cooperation between Israel and the Gulf states, also praised the idea.
“I believe that the great opportunity for peace comes from a regional approach from involving our newfound Arab partners,” he said.
The effect of the agreement would be similar to the NATO alliance’s mutual defence policy, where there is a collective responsibility to respond if one member is attacked.
Such an alliance would prove controversial as, aside from the Gulf states not officially recognising Israel, the populations of those countries are resolutely pro-Palestinian.
However, another Arab official told the WSJ that the Trump administration could use the designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation – which the Egyptian government has already implemented – as an incentive for Egypt to join the alliance.
The officials added that the Trump administration had approached Egypt to host a combined force, but that Saudi Arabia was also keen to join.
Any alliance would effectively expand upon the Saudi-led coalition that is currently waging a campaign of air strikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Though Trump has repeatedly said his government would be the most pro-Israel ever, he has recently stepped back from a promise to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a move which would be illegal under international law.
According to the officials, this may be another concession to the Arab states in order to incentivise the creation of the regional alliance.
Major General Ahmed Asiri, a military adviser to Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry, refused to comment on the proposal to the WSJ.
“With Israel, we don’t have official relations,” he said.
However, he added that the “the Israelis are facing the same Iranian threat, exactly like us”.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/arab-israel-regional-alliance-being-considered-officials-1852465439
@Steve
The American military did not get beaten by a superior military. They got beaten by an inferior, and by comparison, very poorly armed military.
Fifty thousand dead Americans is some foot note.
By comparison, the British did not get beaten in Malaya by a Communist army. They won but they fought man to man and did not rely on air power.
I realize the USA won Tet.
By co-indidence I recently spent several days with an American Colonel who ran a fire base in Viet Nam.
He said it would have been very easy to have won in Viet Nam when the NVA finally moved south in force but he said the US could not win because Nixon froze the supplies of munitions to the air force. Nixon really bothered him.
He spoke very highly of General Westmoreland but lets face it. Giap won and Westmoreland lost.
Some others like Chip Tatum do not speak as highly of Richard Nixon as yourself but you are right about the main concern being getting into a nuclear war with China because America could not win a land war with China.
Colonel Merle Prebble, whom I was told was Creighton Abram’s executve assistant (not sure its true) told me the same thing.
The Russians won’t be a pushover. The Turks have the best army in NATO and the Russians have defeated Turkey in 17 wars. Real dumb for the USA and NATO to wind things up when there is no need.
@Ted Gorsline
Civilian casualties aside, we could wipe any military in a no-holds-barred fight.
The game changer is that Russia has equal our nukes and so after our advanced weaponry and we have 20+ times more of it then they do, wins the day. They resort to nukes which their land mass and civilian preparedness gives them the edge.
The problem with post-Nam warfare is that the press has too much input, but when push comes to shove, we cream ALL the competition. Sorry if that disappoints you but it’s what I believe. Have a nice day.
@Ted et al
Amerika’s Generals in talking `tough` to the Russians re. Ukraine & M.E.need to take a reality check.
A lot of water has gone under the bridge & transformations to the armed service personnel of USA & UK since Iwo Jima, & Chindits in Burma & Malaya.
Special forces alone will not win wars. The large numbers of accepted queers & obese in Western battalions will be no match for the Fit, Fanatical, Patriotic Russian volunteer armies.
Why even Russian football hooligans are more feared than the Spetsnaz.
Yes dumb indeed, without even considering Russia’s new chum China.
David Friedman’s Israel Connections – as Revealed in His Financial Disclosure Report
Considerable attention has focused on David Friedman’s links to the West Bank settlement of Beit El.
A review of his records submitted to the U.S. State Dept. ahead of his confirmation hearing show the ties go much deeper. Read the full documents here.
David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador-designate to Israel whose confirmation hearings begin Thursday, is certainly no stranger to the country where he hopes to take up official residence very soon.
A frequent visitor to Israel, he owns a penthouse apartment in an affluent Jerusalem neighborhood where he makes a practice of spending the Jewish holidays with his family.
In recent months, considerable attention has focused on one facet of his connection to Israel: his leadership position in an organization that fundraises for institutions and projects in the West Bank settlement of Beit El.
Friedman has served as president of American Friends of Beit El Yeshiva Center since December 2011 and has pledged to resign as soon as his nomination is confirmed.
But a review of the financial disclosure report he submitted to the U.S. State Department ahead of his confirmation hearings indicates that Friedman’s ties to the country and its people span far beyond Beit El.
Among the positions he currently holds, Friedman is a member of the board of American Friends of United Hatzalah, an Israeli volunteer-run emergency medical treatment organization.
The ambassador-designate has holdings in the Montefiore Winery, which has offices in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, as well as in TowerSec, an Israeli-founded company, based in Detroit, that specializes in automotive cyber security.
He also owns shares in Maverick Ventures, a California-based investment firm owned and managed by Israelis that focuses on Israeli high-tech.
Friedman is a partner in Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, a New York-based firm where he specializes in bankruptcy law.
Among his big clients is one of Israel’s wealthiest tycoons, Yossi Maiman, chairman of the Herzliya-based Merhav Group. Friedman has represented him in at least five bankruptcy cases since 2012.
Friedman, David Ethics Undertakings:
https://www.docdroid.net/8OF2r0m/friedman-david-final-ea.pdf.html
Executive Branch Personnel – Friedman’s Financial Disclosure Report
https://www.docdroid.net/jXYOQqt/david-friedman-ambassador-israel-oge278-disclosure.pdf.html
http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.772117
Haaretz:
Former U.S. Ambassadors Urge Senate Not to Confirm Friedman as Trump’s Israel Envoy
David Friedman’s ‘extreme positions’ make him ‘unqualified for the position,’ former American envoys to Israel Pickering, Kurtzer, Walker, Cunningham and Harrop write Senate.
Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.772048
Brother Nathanael, your website is one of the greatest and I have it bookmarked.
However, respectfully, I would like to say something on Trump’s behalf and a question for you. Trump has/had a really fantastic life as a successful businessman. He has beautiful children, wife, excellent business and is denied nothing in the way of comfort.
With that said, Trump gave all that up and overcame overwhelming obstacles and criticisms to even secure the Republican nomination, then not only does he have Republican Cucks like Ryan, McCain, Lindsey, Rubio, Bush Romney arrayed against him, even now these cucks will pile on Trump if they sense weakness on Trumps part.
Then of course you have the Commie-Crats like Clinton, Schumer, Soros, all Media outlets including Fox Jews and countless others who look for the slightest chink in Trumps armor. All of these entities I mention that attack Trump are the people we consider enemies.
I am sure you watched Trump’s news conference today.
You could sense the hate they have for Trump. For now, given that Trump has only been president a few weeks, maybe we should give him a chance and see.
Trump had to get through many an obstacles and barbs to get where he is at now.
I suppose what I want you (and others) to understand where I am coming from is if Trump is a ‘plant’ or some sinister plot by Zionist elements to install Trump, why would they not have just went for some Cuck like Cruz, Rubio, or even Hillary Clinton? Any of those hacks would have been ‘more perfect’ for them than Trump?
Plus, even after the election, the Cucks (like Bush) lost many millions and democrats lost many millions of dollars going after this guy. Even now, they seem to be throwing everything they have at him. Thanks for educational website.
This one’s for you, dear Ted G.
21st Century Wire
Fake News Fail: Venezuelan Government Finally Orders Shutdown of CNN for Bogus and Misleading Reports
Deep State TV network and master of fake news, CNN, now being kicked out of countries for spreading twisted propaganda and trying to destabilize societies and governments.
Among the fake news stories being broadcast on CNN in Venezuela have been bogus reports of the President Maduro’s Venezuelan government selling illegal passports to Middle East terrorists and other drug traffickers.
It is believed that CNN was intentionally trying to discredit and damage the government of Venezuela at a time of serious economic instability and heightened political tensions in the country.
The government’s patience for CNN’s fake news finally ran out this week – prompting the provisional shutdown of the US network in Venezuela. Foreign Minister Delcy Rodríguez went so far as to accused CNN of a “war operation”.
More from RT International…
Venezuela’s media watchdog has ordered CNN’s Spanish-language channel off the air across the country, accusing it of engaging in a propaganda war. Nicolas Maduro said earlier the channel is “sticking its nose” in the country’s internal affairs and “manipulating” information.
The Venezuelan National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) has opened an “administrative sanctioning proceeding” against the CNN Español news channel for allegedly attempting to violate the “peace and democratic stability” of the country.
The sanctions were imposed “due to the content” that has been disseminated by the international news outlet in a “systematic and repeated way” in the channel’s daily programming, said a statement released by Conatel.
#COMUNICADO OFICIAL>> #CONATEL abre procedimiento administrativo sancionatorio a @CNNEE —————- @andreseloypsuv pic.twitter.com/GE3MIzTb5E
— Conatel Venezuela (@Conatel) February 15, 2017
Conatel has ruled that CNN’s reporting often “lacks proof” and fuels a “climate of intolerance” by distorting the truth in an “inadequate manner” – in contradiction to the provisions of article 58 of the Venezuelan constitution, which states that everyone has the right to timely and impartial information.
The move comes after a joint investigation by CNN and CNN Español claimed to have uncovered serious irregularities in the issuing of Venezuelan passports and visas inside the embassy in Baghdad. On February 6, CNN Español broadcast a report fingering Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami as one of those allegedly responsible for the scheme.
The Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Delcy Rodriguez, accused CNN of launching a “propaganda war” against her country, after the channel reported about alleged passports sales to people linked to terrorism and drug trafficking. She accused the channel of spreading “an absolute lie” calling such an approach “a pity.”
“CNN en Español launched a psychological warfare operation, a war propaganda operation, mounted absolutely on falsehoods,” she said. Rodriguez also demanded action from the broadcast authorities and the legal team.
Prior to Conatel’s announcement, President Nicolas Maduro indicated that he wants the channel “out” of the country for its “manipulation” of news.
“CNN, do not get into the affairs of Venezuelans. I want CNN well away from here. Outside of Venezuela.
“Do not put your nose in Venezuela,” Maduro said, as cited by El Nacional. “Some media like CNN tried to manipulate. They cannot manipulate! That is our business, of the Venezuelans.”
http://21stcenturywire.com/2017/02/16/fake-news-fail-venezuelan-government-finally-orders-shutdown-of-cnn-for-bogus-and-misleading-reports/
Why are the Jews in the press relentlessly crucifying Trump?
They fear Donald T as if they were vampires and he was Van Helsing with a stake and cross around his neck.
Trump is no Jew stooge and the media hysterical hatred of Trump is your proof.
Trump is playing nice now but what will happen when these Jews push too far?
“Will the ‘real’ Donald Trump please sit down on Kushner’s toilet?”
Bro Nate…heh, heh, heh. Good one…and if the Donald did, it would be impossible to wipe his arse clean, being so full of horse huey!
Yup, the Donald of Orange!
America organized a tank competition for NATO, but failed to place.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a20917/us-crews-fail-to-place-in-nato-tank-competition/
The US army sucks, read About Face, by Hackworth.
It takes over 200,000 rounds of ammo to kill one enemy soldier. (Scared???)
I don’t even know where to begin.
Iran can sink every aircraft carrier that gets close in no time.
So, Trump and his most anti-Iran White House ever, is going to help the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Israel’s new best friend, murder more Yemenis, particularly those ‘threats’ to Saudi security such as large wedding parties and and large funerals which the brave Saudis then target for airstrikes.
And, are these weapon packages that Trump released a part of gearing up for Israel’s proposed alliance with the Wahabi Sunni Saudis and other Gulf monarchies itching for more direct war on Lebanon, Syria, and Iran since their paid proxy terrorists in Syria are foundering?
Netanyahu stated that Israel would likely share (control) its intelligence with this NATO-like regional Arab alliance against Iran and the Axis of Resistance?
In the meantime, the private War Industry sector hears the sound of cash registers ringing and with whoops of joy, cries out: “We hear money!”
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Washington Times:
Trump to approve weapons packages to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain blocked by Obama
The Trump administration is poised to move quickly to approve major weapons packages for Saudi Arabia and Bahrain that President Obama blocked during his final months in office over human rights concerns in both nations, U.S. officials and congressional sources say.
While the White House declined to discuss its plans, one U.S. official directly involved in the transfers told The Washington Times that a roughly $300 million precision-guided missile technology package for Riyadh and a multibillion-dollar F-16 deal for Bahrain are now in the pipeline ready for clearance from the new administration.
The deals, if approved, would send a significant signal about the priorities of the new administration, where the security challenge posed by forces such as Islamist jihadi groups and Iran is taking a much greater precedence in setting foreign policy.
“These are significant sales for key allies in the Gulf who are facing the threat from Iran and who can contribute to the fight against the Islamic State,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
“Whereas the Obama administration held back on these, they’re now in the new administration’s court for a decision — and I would anticipate the decision will be to move forward.”
The Pentagon also declined to comment. But congressional sources said they anticipate the Trump administration will easily overcome resistance on Capitol Hill, where Democrats and some Republicans have called for restrictions on sales to Riyadh amid an outcry from human rights groups over large-scale civilian casualties of the Saudi-led military campaign in neighboring Yemen.
Amnesty International has charged that the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition waging war against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen “appear[s] to have deliberately targeted civilians and civilian objects such as hospitals, schools, markets and mosques, which may amount to war crimes.”
Congressional resistance
More than 60 members of the House signed a bipartisan letter calling on former President Obama to delay a $1.15 billion sale of battle tanks to Saudi Arabia last Summer.
In September Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky co-sponsored a bill with Democratic Sens. Christopher Murphy of Connecticut and Al Franken of Minnesota to try to block the sale.
While the bill was tabled by a 71-27 procedural vote, the senators made headlines arguing that Riyadh’s indiscriminate bombing in Yemen was feeding extremist narratives and strengthening al Qaeda and Islamic State in the war-torn nation.
The Obama administration ultimately approved the Saudi tank deal — a move many saw as part of a pattern to ease security fears of the Saudis and other Arab Gulf states in the wake of the nuclear deal Mr. Obama strongly backed with Iran.
But during his final days in office, Mr. Obama suddenly shifted on weapons sales to the Saudis, specifically with regard to the now-pending package of precision-guided weapons technology.
An Obama administration official told Reuters in December that “systemic” and “endemic” problems in Saudi Arabia’s targeting in Yemen had led to the decision to spike the sale of the so-called smart bomb technology from Raytheon.
The U.S. official who spoke with The Times this week questioned that logic and suggested the Trump White House is now poised to embrace the deal, which would include enough of the Waltham, Massachusetts-based company’s “Paveway” guidance systems to “convert thousands of dumb bombs into smart bombs.”
The U.S. has sold precision-guided bombs and technology to the Saudis as far back as 2008, but the kingdom has reportedly been badly in need of a resupply since its campaign in Yemen kicked off two years ago.
“While we’re very concerned about Saudi actions in Yemen in terms of the civilian casualties, we believe a more accurate partner is a more effective partner and results in fewer casualties,” the official said. “If they’re going to drop stuff, it should be precision-guided rather than dumb.”
Bahrain concerns
On a separate track, the Obama administration in October blocked the proposed $3 billion sale of 19 Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets to Bahrain until the tiny Sunni Arab monarchy demonstrated measurable progress on human rights.
The government in Bahrain, which hosts the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, has aggressively cracked down on its restive Shiite Muslim majority since the pro-democracy Arab Spring uprisings of 2011.
It’s not clear whether the Bahrain and Saudi deals will face the same level of opposition on Capitol Hill as was seen last fall. Once the Trump administration signs off on the deals, Congress will have 30 days to block them.
Mr. Paul and Mr. Murphy declined to comment for this article.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker suggested the Bahrain deal may be imminent, but declined to comment on the Saudi deal.
“I’m hoping the Bahrain deal is going to roll out without the restrictions,” the Tennessee Republican told Defense News last week. “I think it could happen soon.”
A senior aide to Mr. Corker told The Times that the senator stands by the assertion.
The Saudi embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment.
Sources close to the government in Riyadh, however, said that Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir is “very, very up” on the Trump administration and believes it will pursue a significantly different policy from the Obama administration, particularly toward Iran.
Other U.S. officials, speaking on background this week, noted that the Trump administration already moved during its first days in office to approve roughly $1 billion in sales for America’s Gulf Arab allies, including some $400 million in air-to-air missiles and helicopter parts for Kuwait and a $500 million-plus package that included Aerostat observation balloons for Saudi Arabia.
The Saudis in particular are likely to see billions of dollars in more defense sales in the coming years.
William Hartung of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for International Policy noted in an analysis published in December that the Obama administration offered more than $115 billion worth of weapons to Riyadh in 42 separate deals between 2009 and 2016 — more than any U.S. administration in history.
“The majority of this equipment is still in the pipeline, and could tie the United States to the Saudi military for years to come,” wrote Mr. Hartung, who said in an interview this week that the Trump administration should proceed with caution on both Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
“In the case of Bahrain, whatever purported benefits they would get from more F-16s are counterweighted by the fact that they suppress democracy,” he said.
“The Obama administration’s sudden resistance in December had also sent “a concrete message” to the Saudis that “we’re not going to tolerate their indiscriminate bombing of civilians in Yemen,” he added.
“To lift that now, without some indication from the Saudis that they’re going to stop doing it, makes no sense,” Mr. Hartung said.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/7/trump-ready-to-approve-weapons-packages-to-saudi-a/
@Steve C.
“I was told by an Israeli that they have nukes hidden in the USA and elsewhere to use if they need to force that country to do what they want. The Samson Option. Wouldn’t surprise me at all.”
The “Samson Option” has nothing to do with nukes planted in the U.S. That’s to blackmail the politicians.
What the wicked Jews mean by the “Samson Option” is to destroy all nations while being destroyed.
The Biblical Samson took down the temple of the Philistines by crushing it’s pillars and by killing all of them he also killed himself. If they start to feel like cornered rats with no exit they will destroy the Earth including themselves by launching all their nuclear missiles.
Jesus, of course, will prevent this from happening and then the wicked unrepentant Jews will get to taste hell like their father the Devil.
In reference to Frank’s post about Soros:
Such a deal!
http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2017/01/31/george-soros-backed-jared-kushner-venture-cadre-250-million/
@ Ted Gorsline
Your remark about Malaya is very interesting.
I knew a retired Malayan Police Superintendent (a Chinese) and his wife. He had fought the Communists with the British in the Jungles of Malaya.
He showed me three medals he was given for his duties there – two from monarchies, of Britain and Perak and one from the Police of Malaya.
It was rather well known that the British success was due in a large degree to the fact that a London Superintendent of Police presented them with a brilliant strategy of containment and in conjunction with Rubber Planters.
The fight was in the jungles and it seemingly was the planning and skills that induced a victory in the end, although Communist groups still existed until the 1980s when an Amnesty was declared for those who would leave the jungles in surrender. This did occur.
The enemy fighting for their ideology, often did have victories. However, there were no missiles, robots, drones or other modern modes of warfare so it was almost hand to hand in the depths of the forests and the clearings in which they would set up camp.
On and off, I’ve been browsing through these same online Declassified Memos in the CIA’s historical collections release on their CREST 25 year program archive, but, with some 13 million pages worth, hadn’t reached this one which Brad Hoff comments on, and is particularly relevant to Syria today.
The archives cover events from the 1940s the 1990s, including UFOs, psychic research, Air America, Clinton & Bosnia, Presidential Briefings, etc . It can be accessed at this link:
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/crest-25-year-program-archive
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Libertarian Institute: New Declassified CIA Memo Presents Blueprint for Syrian Regime Collapse
Brad Hoff
A newly declassified CIA document explored multiple scenarios of Syrian regime collapse at a time when Hafez al-Assad’s government was embroiled in a covert “dirty war” with Israel and the West, and in the midst of a diplomatic crisis which marked an unprecedented level of isolation for Syria.
The 24-page formerly classified memo entitled Syria: Scenarios of Dramatic Political Change was produced in July 1986, and had high level distribution within the Reagan administration and to agency directors, including presidential advisers, the National Security Council, and the US ambassador to Syria.
The memo appears in the CIA’s latest CREST release (CIA Records Search Tool) of over 900,000 recently declassified documents.
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP86T01017R000100770001-5.pdf
A “severely restricted” report
The memo’s cover letter, drafted by the CIA’s Director of Global Issues (the report itself was prepared by the division’s Foreign Subversion and Instability Center), introduces the purpose of presenting “a number of possible scenarios that could lead to the ouster of President Assad or other dramatic change in Syria.”
It further curiously warns that, “Because the analysis out of context is susceptible to misunderstanding, external distribution has been severely restricted.”
The report’s narrowed distribution list (sent to specific named national security heads, not entire agencies) indicates that it was considered at the highest levels of the Reagan administration.
The coming sectarian war for Syria
The intelligence report’s contents contain some striking passages which seem remarkably consistent with events as they unfolded decades later at the start of the Syrian war in 2011:
“Although we judge that fear of reprisals and organizational problems make a second Sunni challenge unlikely, an excessive government reaction to minor outbreaks of Sunni dissidence might trigger large-scale unrest.
“In most instances the regime would have the resources to crush a Sunni opposition movement, but we believe widespread violence among the populace could stimulate large numbers of Sunni officers and conscripts to desert or munity, setting the stage for civil war.” [pg.2]
The “second Sunni challenge” is a reference to the Syrian government’s prior long running war against a Muslim Brotherhood insurgency which culminated in the 1982 Hama Massacre.
While downplaying the nationalist and pluralistic composition of the ruling Ba’ath party, the report envisions a renewal and exploitation of sectarian fault lines pitting Syria’s Sunni population against its Alawite leadership:
“Sunnis make up 60 percent of the Syrian officer corps but are concentrated in junior officer ranks; enlisted men are predominantly Sunni conscripts.
“We believe that a renewal of communal violence between Alawis and Sunnis could inspire Sunnis in the military to turn against the regime.” [pg.12]
Regime change and the Muslim Brotherhood
The possibility of the Muslim Brotherhood spearheading another future armed insurgency leading to regime change is given extensive focus.
While the document’s tone suggests this as a long term future scenario (especially considering the Brotherhood suffered overwhelming defeat and went completely underground in Syria by the mid-1980’s), it is considered one of the top three “most likely” drivers of regime change (the other scenarios include “Succession Power Struggle” and “Military Reverses Spark a Coup”).
The potential for revival of the Muslim Brotherhood’s “militant faction” is introduced in the following:
“Although the Muslim Brotherhood’s suppression drastically reduced armed dissidence, we judge a significant potential still exists for another Sunni opposition movement.
“In part the Brotherhood’s role was to exploit and orchestrate opposition activity by other organized groups… These groups still exist, and under proper leadership they could coalesce into a large movement… …young professionals who formed the base of support for the militant faction of the Muslim Brotherhood; and remnants of the Brotherhood itself who could become leaders in a new Sunni opposition movement…” [pp.13-14]
The Brotherhood’s role is seen as escalating the potential for initially small Sunni protest movements to morph into violent sectarian civil war:
“Sunni dissidence has been minimal since Assad crushed the Muslim Brotherhood in the early 1980s, but deep-seated tensions remain–keeping alive the potential for minor incidents to grow into major flareups of communal violence…
“Excessive government force in quelling such disturbances might be seen by Sunnis as evidence of a government vendetta against all Sunnis, precipitating even larger protests by other Sunni groups…
“Mistaking the new protests as a resurgence of the Muslim Brotherhood, the government would step up its use of force and launch violent attacks on a broad spectrum of Sunni community leaders as well as on those engaged in protests. Regime efforts to restore order would founder if government violence against protestors inspired broad-based communal violence between Alawis and Sunnis.” [pp.19-20]
The CIA report describes the final phase of an evolving sectarian war which witnesses the influx of fighters and weapons from neighboring countries.
Consistent with a 1983 secret report that called for a US covert operation to utilize then US-allied Iraq as a base of attack on Syria, the 1986 analysis says, “Iraq might supply them with sufficient weapons to launch a civil war”:
A general campaign of Alawi violence against Sunnis might push even moderate Sunnis to join the opposition.
“Remnants of the Muslim Brotherhood–some returning from exile in Iraq–could provide a core of leadership for the movement.
“Although the regime has the resources to crush such a venture, we believe brutal attacks on Sunni civilians might prompt large numbers of Sunni officers and conscripts to desert or stage mutinies in support of dissidents, and Iraq might supply them with sufficient weapons to launch a civil war. [pp.20-21]
A Sunni regime serving Western economic interests
While the document is primarily a theoretical exploration projecting scenarios of Syrian regime weakening and collapse (its purpose is analysis and not necessarily policy), the authors admit of its “purposefully provocative” nature (see PREFACE) and closes with a list desired outcomes.
One provocative outcome describes a pliant “Sunni regime” serving US economic interests:
“In our view, US interests would be best served by a Sunni regime controlled by business-oriented moderates.
“Business moderates would see a strong need for Western aid and investment to build Syria’s private economy, thus opening the way for stronger ties to Western governments.” [pg. 24]
Ironically, the Syrian government would accuse the United States and its allies of covert subversion within Syria after a string of domestic bombings created diplomatic tensions during the mid-1980’s.
Dirty tricks and diplomacy in the 1980’s
According to Patrick Seale’s landmark book, Asad of Syria: The Struggle for the Middle East, 1986 was a year that marked Syria’s greatest isolation among world powers as multiple diplomatic crises and terror events put Syria more and more out in the cold.
The year included “the Hindawi affair”—a Syrian intelligence sponsored attempt to hijack and bomb an El Al flight to Tel Aviv—and may or may not have involved Nezar Hindawi working as a double agent on behalf of Israel.
The foiled plot brought down international condemnation on Syria and lives on as one of the more famous and bizarre terror conspiracies in history.
Not only were Syria and Israel once again generally on the brink of war in 1986, but a string of “dirty tricks” tactics were being utilized by Syria and its regional enemies to shape diplomatic outcomes primarily in Lebanon and Jordan.
In March and April of 1986 (months prior to the distribution of the CIA memo), a string of still largely unexplained car bombs rocked Damascus and at least 5 towns throughout Syria, leaving over 200 civilians dead in the most significant wave of attacks since the earlier ’79-’82 war with the Muslim Brotherhood (also see BBC News recount the attacks).
Patrick Seale’s book speculates of the bombings that, “It may not have been unconnected that in late 1985 the NSC’s Colonel Oliver North and Amiram Nir, Peres’s counter-terrorism expert, set up a dirty tricks outfit to strike back at the alleged sponsors of Middle East terrorism.”*
Consistency with future WikiLeaks files
The casual reader of Syria: Scenarios of Dramatic Political Change will immediately recognize a strategic thinking on Syria that looks much the same as what is revealed in national security memos produced decades later in the run up to the current war in Syria.
When US cables or intelligence papers talk regime change in Syria they usually strategize in terms of exploiting sectarian fault lines.
In a sense, this is the US national security bureaucracy’s fall-back approach to Syria.
One well-known example is contained in a December 2006 State Dept. cable sent from the US embassy in Syria (subsequently released by WikiLeaks).
The cable’s stated purpose is to explore Syrian regime vulnerabilities and weaknesses to exploit (in similar fashion to the 1986 CIA memo):
PLAY ON SUNNI FEARS OF IRANIAN INFLUENCE: There are fears in Syria that the Iranians are active in both Shia proselytizing and conversion of, mostly poor, Sunnis.
Though often exaggerated, such fears reflect an element of the Sunni community in Syria that is increasingly upset by and focused on the spread of Iranian influence in their country through activities ranging from mosque construction to business.
Another section of the 2006 cable explains precisely the same scenario laid out in the 1986 memo in describing the increased “possibility of a self-defeating over-reaction” on the part of the regime.:
“ENCOURAGE RUMORS AND SIGNALS OF EXTERNAL PLOTTING: The regime is intensely sensitive to rumors about coup-plotting and restlessness in the security services and military.
“Regional allies like Egypt and Saudi Arabia should be encouraged to meet with figures like [former Vice President Abdul Halim] Khaddam and [younger brother of Hafez] Rif’at Asad as a way of sending such signals, with appropriate leaking of the meetings afterwards.
“This again touches on this insular regime’s paranoia and increases the possibility of a self-defeating over-reaction.”
And ironically, Rif’at Asad and Khaddam are both mentioned extensively in the 1986 memo as key players during a speculative future “Succession Power Struggle.” [p.15]
An Islamic State in Damascus?
While the 1986 CIA report makes a case in its concluding paragraph for “a Sunni regime controlled by business-oriented moderates” in Syria, the authors acknowledge that the collapse of the Ba’ath state could actually usher in the worst of all possible outcomes for Washington and the region: “religious zealots” might seek to establish “an Islamic Republic”.
The words take on a new and special importance now, after the rise of ISIS:
“Although Syria’s secular traditions would make it extremely difficult for religious zealots to establish an Islamic Republic, should they succeed they would likely deepen hostilities with Israel and provide support and sanctuary to terrorists groups.”[pg.24]
What continues to unfold in Syria has apparently surpassed even the worst case scenarios of intelligence planners in the 1980’s.
Tinkering with regime change has proven itself to be the most dangerous of all games.
*Seale, Patrick. Asad of Syria : the struggle for the Middle East (Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 1989) p.474.
https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/2017/02/cia-memo-scenarios-of-syrian-regime-collapse/
Kremlin.ru: Meeting of Federal Security Service Board (FSB):
Vladimir Putin took part in an annual expanded meeting of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Board to discuss the FSB’s results for 2016 and the priority tasks for ensuring Russia’s national security. (Excerpt):
I would like to thank both the executives and staff for their conscientious attitude towards their work and their timely and efficient performance of their duties.
At the same time, demands on the quality and results of your work grow constantly.
The global situation has not become any more stable or better over the past year. On the contrary, many existing threats and challenges have only become more acute.
Military-political and economic rivalry between global and regional policy makers and between individual countries has increased.
We see bloody conflicts continue in a number of countries in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.
International terrorist groups, essentially terrorist armies, receiving tacit and sometimes even open support from some countries, take active part in these conflicts.
At the NATO summit last July in Warsaw, Russia was declared the main threat to the alliance for the first time since 1989, and NATO officially proclaimed containing Russia its new mission.
It is with this aim that NATO continues its expansion. This expansion was already underway earlier, but now they believe they have more serious reasons for doing so.
They have stepped up the deployment of strategic and conventional arms beyond the national borders of the principal NATO member states.
They are provoking us constantly and are trying to draw us into confrontation.
We see continued attempts to interfere in our internal affairs in a bid to destabilise the social and political situation in Russia itself.
We also see the recent serious flare-up in southeast Ukraine. This escalation pursues the clear aim of preventing the Minsk Agreements from going ahead.
The current Ukrainian authorities are obviously not seeking a peaceful solution to this very complex problem and have decided to opt for the use of force instead.
What is more, they speak openly about organising sabotage and terrorism, particularly in Russia. Obviously, this is a matter of great concern.
…
It is in our common interests to restore dialogue with the US intelligence services and with other NATO member countries.
It is not our fault that these ties were broken off and are not developing.
It is very clear that all responsible countries and international groups should work together on counterterrorism, because even simply exchanging information on terrorists’ financing channels and sources and on people involved in or suspected of links with terrorism can substantially improve the results of our common efforts.
Our priorities include firmly suppressing extremism. Security methods must go hand-in-hand with constant prevention work.
It is essential to prevent extremism from drawing young people into its criminal networks, and to form an overall firm rejection of nationalism, xenophobia, and aggressive radicalism.
In this context, of great importance is open dialogue with civil society institutions and representatives of Russia’s traditional religions.
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/53883
Dear Irene Bonnie Faulks,
The only war America ever won against a communist army was in the Congo and that is because the fighting was led by non-Americans although black American Marines wearing Congolese uniforms were involved.
Mad Mike Hoare, an Irishman who fought with the British army in Malaysia and was put in charge of the South African mercenary army which was nothing but a collection of hooligans.
I knew John Valk, who just died, very well and spent weeks with him talking about the war in the Congo, and John told me he was the CIA’s man in Isiro during the war. John was Dutch and very smart and very cool. He talked his way out of many hopeless situations where the others with him lost their lives.
The CIA had been using Cuban pilots from Miami to bomb the jungle but they did not know where the Simbas (North Korean trained) were.
If the pilots stayed out more than 5 hours they got paid overtime so they spent their days bombing chimpanzees and gorillas and the war was going nowhere.
This bugger up was noticed by a man, with a Prussian Military upbringing, who was the son of one of Hitler’s generals. He knew how the Communist armies were organized. He knew they had very centralized command and would have one base where they kept all their plans.
He trained 500 African plantation workers to be soldiers and sent them into the jungle to find that one particular base. They found it and this one German with the 500 men he trained captured it. They found maps showing the locations of the 16 Simba Training camps and then and only then the German went to the CIA.
They gave him the Cuban pilots and the bombs and he sat in the co-pilot’s seat and guided the bombers to all 16 camps which were all destroyed. That was the end of the war in the Congo and it was largely won by a British mercenary soldier with experience in Malaysia and the son of one of Hitler’s generals.
The role of the American military in the Congo was largely to spend the American taxpayers’ money dropping bombs on empty jungle, a la Viet Nam.
I have met this old German soldier and asked him about the war. He is not the Steven Spileberg/Hollywood Jew stereotype of the German soldier.
He has a black wife and children and mostly spends his time trying to raise money for schools in the Congo, a Nation that has been destroyed by International Jewish organized crime.
The myth has been planted that King Leopold destroyed the Congo. This is not true. He never ever visited the Congo.He was broke. He handed the Congo over to Jewish concessionaires who turned the Congo into a slave state just like they have with Palestine.
Jewish values on display. They will do the same to every country in the world if they have the power.
The Congo is the richest country in Africa but the people are the poorest. This is justified by the Talmud where each Jew is supposed to get 3,000 slaves.
@Kathjuliane,
CNN is an Israeli-owned Fifth columnist Israeli propaganda network that works constantly on behalf of Israel not only to undermine Venezuela, but also to undermine America. CNN is News for Jews, less than 2% of the population, and is of no value whatsoever to anyone else.
A few notes on John Valk,
John may have been the world’s first Special Forces soldier in that he was a graduate of Holland’s army, airforce and navy Schools. He was multi disciplinary.
During the Congo war he was captured with a few hundred missionaries by the Simbas. He spoke Lingala and overheard the commanding officer order his troop to kill everyone except Greek Traders because the army needed the supplies the traders had stashed away.
Jewish-birthed communists don’t like Christians. They killed them in Russia and they killed them in the Congo, too. Communism is at war with Christianity because communism has Jewish roots, its an extension of Judaism.
John threw away his passport, and when asked who he was he said he was a Greek trader.
All the Christian missionaries with him were shot and then he told his captors that his storehouse was at a village a long ways away.
John directed his captors through a section of very thick jungle and in the thickest place he leaped out of the back of the Jeep and escaped.
He then hid in the jungle for three months. He had previously stashed away a rifle accurately predicting that what did happen might happen. He ate baboons.
One time he got shot down in an aircraft over the Congo River. He was the Pilot. He kept the retractable wheels retracted and landed the plane on the river like the pilot in New York did recently. He then grabbed his briefcase and walked to the back of the plane and opened the door.
The plane was sinking but just before it did John saw a dugout canoe coming and flagged it down. Then he stepped into the canoe with his briefcase non the worse for wear. These stories are just the tip of the ice berg. John was a remarkable man who led a remarkable life.
He told me he “used” to work for the CIA but he may have worked for them until the end of his life. I don’t know. I do know he kept tracks of the movements of Joseph Coney and he always knew exactly where the Lord’s Resistance Army was located, when they moved through the Congo.
John’s wife and 11 children were Azande, the major tribe in that area, and the LRA could not pass through the eastern Congo without someone knowing about it and telling John.
He died last year as a result of a motorcycle accident he had on a foot path 300 miles into the Congo jungle. He was in his 80s and ran a school in Isiro.
Brother, as always, thank you for your great work.
I stumbled across this item on Veterans Today.
Duff plays last and loose with the truth sometimes, so I don’t know how real this is. But if it’s even 50% real, then heaven help us all!
( veteranstoday.com/2017/02/15/exclusive-trump-netanyahu-used-flynn-to-catfish-putin/ )
@Steven C
So you think Nixon saved us in Nam? Wrong…he said he had a secret plan to end the war during the 1968 campaign. Sorry, Steve C, no plan.
The war went on for 4 more years. We lost another 20,000 US lives not to mention the tens of thousands of Vietnamese and the further pumping of Agent Orange. As a draftee I was there in 1968.
Hoped Bobby Kennedy would be president to stop the damn war. The War mongers ended that.
LBJ has a peace process ready to succeed in Oct 1968. Nixon blew it up by promising NV a better deal. Logan Act treason.
Nixon’s humiliating resignation should have come earlier.
Most esteemed Brother, thank you for exposing the Jews.
My sister loves to read your website, and now, so do I.
Much safety to you in your Street Evangelism.
American Conservative: The U.S. Should Have Nothing to Do with an Arab Anti-Iran Coalition
[Make that an Israeli-Arab Anti-Iran Coalition]
By DANIEL LARISON • February 15, 2017
The Trump administration is trying to create an Arab military coalition against Iran:
The new alliance would expand upon the existing Saudi-led coalition of Sunni countries fighting in Yemen, the officials said.
The new alliance’s first test would be in Yemen. The U.S. would step up military aid to the Yemen campaign [bold mine-DL] and secure the Red Sea, a vital global shipping route threatened by the war, according to two officials.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-middle-east-allies-explore-arab-military-coalition-1487154600
It seems that the Trump administration is not just preparing to increase its support for the indefensible war on Yemen, but wants to create a formal organization so that regional clients can do the same sort of thing elsewhere in the name of “countering” Iran.
If Yemen is the model for what this coalition is going to be doing, it will be a menace to its neighbors and will likely produce more instability.
The chief problem with the idea of this coalition is that it relies on exaggerating the threat from Iran to make it seem necessary.
There is no need for a coalition to counter Iran in this way, because Iran is not as powerful as they are often made out to be.
A mutual defense pact among these Arab states would at best be superfluous, and at worst the coalition would enhance its members’ ability to interfere in their neighbors’ affairs when it suits them.
It is likely that this coalition would become a vehicle for launching attacks on neighbors in the name of “opposing” Iranian influence where it is already negligible (as in Yemen) or non-existent.
The U.S. should never have supported the Saudi-led war on Yemen, and it shouldn’t have anything to do with this proposed coalition.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/the-u-s-should-have-nothing-to-do-with-an-arab-anti-iran-coalition/
Wall Street Journal: Trump: Kellogg Among Four People ‘In Play’ for NSC Post (Video)
2/17/2017 12:42PM
President Donald Trump says he is considering four people for National Security Adviser after retired Vice Admiral Bob Harward turned down the job and Michael Flynn was removed this week.
http://www.wsj.com/video/trump-kellogg-among-four-people-in-play-for-nsc-post/6A3FA67F-8015-4442-9076-0B7B1CDC4887.html
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Keith Kellogg, currently acting National Security Advisor
Two of the other unnamed three according to WSJ are speculated to be David Petreus, Keith Alexander (used to run NSA).
@B
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Facts Are Facts
Benjamin H. Freedman
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http://www.rense.com/general47/facys.htm
Thank you Brother Nathanael, heard Bibi.
Thanks for expanded clarification, very interesting.
At the end of the day, Trump, whose words in the moment, seemed vapid, is way in over his head geo-politically and is vulnerable to be taken totally advantage of.
It’s clear he’s NOT really in power.
You forewarned us early on as one who knows. Trump is just another pawn in their game. . .
It was fascinating to watch Trump blast CNN out of the water during his news conference Thursday – while watching it on CNN. Either Trump has cut his puppet strings or else his Jewish puppet masters want it to look that way.
The great majority of Christians are becoming believers in Trump due to how Trump is portrayed by the Jews media. At the same time; queers, minorities, and non-Foxjews followers are being trained to hate Trump by CNN and the rest of the Jews media.
Even some of the relatively few Christians who know about the Jew World Order are beginning to believe in Trump. It’s very compelling to hear Trump openly tell the world how CNN and the media are fake news.
Maybe we are being set up to support Trump even if he imposes martial law. Maybe the Zionist goal is support for Trump even if he subordinates the USA under the UN. Maybe the goal is support for Trump during a break-up of the US if states secede from the US.
It’s not obvious whether the Zionist objective is one of the goals above or something else. Riots and destruction of the USA in recent years are characteristic of balkanization – the Zionist undermining of nations to collapse old governments and stand up new governments.
Although the Bible warns about the great delusion of the end time, most people, even many of the elect, are still deceived by it.
New information.
The reason all computers and phone devices are made in China is because Americans would never go along with all of the alleged spy technology contained in them. Nor would they be spies on their own people. But China, a hungry foreign power eager for more power have done the Jews bidding.
They will play a most major part in the bringdown of the USA to make it a part of the ” New World Order.” The Chinese spies have completely infiltrated California and reign freely. And Americans need to know without question, they are being freely and completely monitored by this emerging New world Order, which is ready to act and engage it’s gears VERY soon now.
The Jewish anti-Christ left as well as the Zionist controlled “Judeo-Christian” right is all encompassing so that there is no physical address to escape to.
Alex Jones speaks of how the intelligence community set up Mao and Communist China in the time before China’s Communist (Jewish) revolution. And this tree they planted is bearing much fruit that is almost completely ripened.
Alex Jones has spread alot of truth and good information, that very few people would have know or been aware of otherwise. He truly is trying to expose this thing. And not all Jews support this evil New world Order. There is a remnant that will be saved.
The changes I have seen in California in The last few months are monumental and devastational. It is all coming out of the closet so to speak.
My report …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf6LAd7DdiY&feature=youtu.be
Assad tells Belgian reporter Belgium & EU merely obey ‘US Master’ on Syria – English (with Arabic & English subtitles; transcript)
Reporter:
The Belgian government is contributing in the fight against Daesh. There are six F-16 fighter planes in the fight against Daesh. Are you grateful to the Belgian government for that contribution?
President Assad:
Let me be frank with you: when you talk about contribution in the operation against ISIS – actually there was no operation against ISIS. It was (a) cosmetic operation.
If you want to talk about (the) American alliance against ISIS, it was only an elusive alliance, because ISIS was expanding during that operation.
At the same time that operation is (an) illegal operation, because it happened without consulting with or taking the permission of the Syrian government, which is a legitimate government. And it’s a breaching of our sovereignty.
Third, they didn’t prevent any Syrian citizen from being killed by ISIS. So what are we grateful for? To be frank: no.
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Reporter:
Do you think the European Union or even NATO can play a role in like rebuilding the country, in rebuilding Syria?
President Assad:
You cannot play that role while you are destroying Syria because the EU is supporting the terrorists in Syria from the very beginning under different titles: ‘humanitarian’, ‘moderate’, and so on, actually they were supporting al-Nusra and ISIS from the very beginning, they were extremists from the very beginning. So they cannot destroy and build at the same time.
First of all they have to take (a) very clear position regarding the sovereignty of Syria, stopping supporting the terrorists, this is where the Syrian would – I say would – accept those countries to play a role in that regard.
But in the meantime if you ask any Syrian the same question they would say they don’t accept those countries that supported the people who destroyed our country, we don’t want them to be here. That’s what I think.
Reporter:
Do you think Belgian can play a role in Syria?
President Assad:
Let me talk about the European political position in general.
Many in this region believe that the European do not exist politically. They only follow their master the American.
So the question should be about the American, and the European will follow and will implement what the American want. They don’t exist as (an) independent state, and Belgian is part of the EU.
http://middleeastobserver.net/video-assad-tells-belgian-reporter-belgium-eu-merely-obey-us-master-on-syria-english-subs/
@+BN
Your Israel remark about new found partners is well known in Islamic eschatology. Also the great evil and destruction of the Arabs (not muslims)
This is written in the Quran
You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers [to be] the Jews and those who associate others with God ; and you will find the nearest of them in affection to the believers those who say, “We are Christians.” That is because among them are priests and monks and because they are not arrogant.
https://quran.com/5/82
O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you – then indeed, he is [one] of them. Indeed, God guides not the wrongdoing people.
https://quran.com/5/51
This is a revelation/narration from the prophet himself .
Narrated Ibn ‘Umar: (Muhammad) said, “O Allah! Bless our Sham and our yemen.” People said, “Our Najd as well.” [Muhammad ] again said, “O Allah! Bless our Sham and yemen.”
They said again, “Our Najd as well.” On that [Muhammad] said, “There will appear earthquakes and afflictions, and from there will come out the side of the age/era/head of Satan.” (Book #17, Hadith #147, Bukhari)
ANALYSIS : Al NAJD is the home and region of the godless Wahhabi Al Saud–the Saudi royal dynasty.
From the above hadith it is clear that these killers of Muslims will be from the Region of Najd, from the tribe of Bani Tamim ( Muhammad made both the prophecies) and they would recite Quran, but will not go below their throat, it means they will SHOW OFF in their ibadah (worship) and would consider Muslims as inferior to them.
If one does a simple analysis of history you will find that there was only one such man upon whom all this fits with no doubt. This man was IBN ABDUL WAHAB NAJDI AL TAMIMI.
Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab belonged to the Bani Tamim tribe. He was born in Uyayna village near the town of Huraimila in the Najd Desert in 1111 A.H. (1699) and died in 1206 (1792).
It can be deduced from the above Hadith that Najd is neither blessed nor a good place, but one of Fitna and Evil (Fitna (or fitnah, pl. fitan; Arabic: “temptation, trial; sedition, civil strife”) is an Arabic word with extensive connotations of trial, affliction, or distress. A word loaded with warnings for pure evil) .
Najd has been deprived of the prayers of [Muhammad] (Sallal Laahu Alaihi Wasallam) and therefore Najd has the seal of misery and misfortune and hoping for any good from there is going against the Will of God.
The Arabic word used in the above Hadith is Qarnush Shaitaan, which normally means the horn of Shaitaan. But the ‘Misbahul Lughaat’, a dictionary printed in Deoband has the following meaning: “One who follows the advice of Shaitaan.” (Misbahul Lughaat, pp/663).
Thus we learn that a Najdi/Wahhabi group will emerge, as pointed out by [Muhammad] and this group will follow the advice of Satan.
Satan refuses to respect Prophets and Saints, remember his refusal to bow for Adam and is mentioned in the Quran. It will create havoc in the Muslim world.
We are now witnessing the emergence of the Wahhabis who, with the assistance of the US petrodollars, are sweeping the Muslim world with terror and are bribing them also into accepting Wahhabism as the official version of Islam.
Wahhabism is a disease but so many are misled into believing that it is curing the Ummah (unity the whole human kind). It is being portrayed as a revivalist movement.
This is against the Ahadith. Looking at the geographical position of Najd, it lies to the East of Medina. The Prophet pointed towards the East and said: “Behold, turmoil would appear from this direction, from where the horns/age/era of Satan would appear.”
This narration warns muslims about revolts
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 176:
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
The Prophet said, “Whoever disapproves of something done by his ruler then he should be patient, for whoever disobeys the ruler even a little (little = a span) will die as those who died in the Pre-lslamic Period of Ignorance. (i.e. as rebellious sinners).
God warns the Muslims if they do not follow their true peaceful faith, God will punish them by taken away his guidance and protection.
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 180:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
I heard the truthful and trusted by God (i.e., Muhammad) saying, “The destruction of my followers will be through the hands of young men from Quraish.”
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 181:
Narrated Zainab bint Jahsh:
[Muhammad] got up from his sleep with a flushed red face and said, “None has the right to be worshiped but God. Woe to the ARABS, from the Great evil that is nearly approaching them. Today a gap has been made in the wall of Gog and Magog .”
It was asked, “Shall we be destroyed though there are righteous people among us?” The Prophet said, “Yes, if evil increased.”
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 182:
Narrated Usama bin Zaid:
Once [Muhammad] stood over one of the high buildings of Medina and then said (to the people), “Do you see what I see?” They said, “No.” He said, “I see afflictions falling among your houses as rain drops fall.”
Even if Trump is Naïve about geo politics it still does not prove he is a ‘plant’ by the Zogs to calm us white folk down?
If Trump were a plant it makes no sense. Why would Zog’s allow a Trump in when they could have had a Cuck like Cruz, Rubio, or even Clinton?
One oft repeated Jew World Order trick is to advertise that a JWO puppet is doing something everyone wants while the puppet actually does just the opposite.
In the case of Obama, the JWO puppet masters awarded the Nobel PEACE Prize to Obama just before they directed Obama into WAR against Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Syria, to overthrow their governments.
The Jews advertised Obama as bringing great peace. In reality, Obama brought war, misery, murder — not peace but the opposite of peace.
In the case of Trump, his JWO puppet masters have been advertising the slogan “America First.” This appears to be a piece of double speak which translates as: Israel First, America last.
Was the true actual reason for the USA bombing of Nagasaki in 1945 to kill Christians in Japan, as the bomb targeted the Christian headquarters in Japan?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceFJ6I5awms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=natsE_cSySI ( Beginning at 29:45 in video )
As president, Trump Warbles a Different Tune on ‘Transparency’
Mint Press News: Donald Trump’s Vengeful Pledge To Pursue ‘Low-Life’ Leakers
In his first year as president, Trump may follow in Obama’s footsteps in an even harsher and more unforgiving manner to make sure no one defies his authority by bringing openness to his administration.
During a screwball press conference, President Donald Trump indicated he contacted the Justice Department to look into “criminal leaks.”
He said his administration has got to stop the leaks and suggested there would be penalties for those who disclosed classified information without authorization.
The remarks were in response to disclosures officials made to the press about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and they suggest Trump’s administration may be more vindictive on leaks than his predecessor, President Barack Obama.
“The kind of vengeful tone is really scary, especially given the precedent that Obama made with going after the so-called leakers—who more often than not were whistleblowers—with the Espionage Act,” declared Jesselyn Radack, a whistleblower attorney at Expose Facts who has represented multiple national security whistleblowers, including Edward Snowden and Thomas Drake. “It’s scary to think what Trump might mean by that.”
John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer who blew the whistle on President George W. Bush’s policy of waterboarding terrorism detainees, maintained criticizing “leaks” when “they’re actually whistleblowing revelations” is a “disservice to the American people.
“Donald Trump should be embracing those who bring to light this evidence, not threatening them.”
Prior to the press conference, Trump took to Twitter and exclaimed, “Leaking, and even illegal classified leaking, has been a big problem in Washington for years.”
He suggested the New York Times and other media organizations must apologize for, in effect, committing acts of journalism.
“The spotlight has finally been put on the low-life leakers! They will be caught!” Trump added.
While the presidential bombast is a new development, President Obama’s administration waged an unprecedented war on leaks. In fact, it is possible Obama empathizes with Trump’s frustration over contents of phone calls with world leaders leaking to the press.
According to Jonathan Alter’s book, “The Promise: President Obama, Year One,” Obama had “one pet peeve that could make him lose his cool”:
It was a common source of anger for presidents: leaks. Complaints about loose lips became a constant theme of Obama’s early presidency.
At his first Cabinet meeting he made a point of saying that he didn’t want to see his Cabinet “litigating” policy through the New York Times and the Washington Post.
At a Blair House retreat for the Cabinet and senior staff at the end of July, he devoted about a quarter of his comments to urging his people to keeping their disagreements within the family: “We should be having these debates on the inside, not the outside.”
And during his twenty hours of deliberations over Afghanistan in the fall, he returned repeatedly to the theme. Naturally, in Washington, nearly every time he got upset about leaks it leaked.
For all his claims that he didn’t want yes-men around him, no one on his staff was brave enough to tell the president that obsessing over leaks was a colossal waste of time. (Aides should have recognized that the age-old problem in Washington isn’t managing leaks, but managing the president’s fury over them.)
But it wouldn’t have mattered: leaks offended Obama’s sense of discipline and reminded him of everything he disliked about the capital. He was fearsome on the subject, which seemed to bring out his controlling nature to an even greater degree than usual…
One senior Justice Department official told the Washingtonian while Obama was president, “We’re out for scalps,” when referring to leak prosecutions.
The official even went so far as to suggest reporters, who talk to sources about classified information, were “putting themselves at risk of prosecution.”
So it is that the Obama administration turned over to the Trump administration a system of secrecy that not only has the great capacity to conceal military and national security programs and policies, which abuse power, but also is capable of destroying the lives of anyone within government who goes against official policy and makes unauthorized disclosures.
The Obama administration prosecuted more leakers—or whistleblowers—under the Espionage Act than all previous presidential administrations combined. The administration also infringed upon the press freedom of journalists involved in publishing stories based upon leaks.
To respond to U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning’s disclosures to WikiLeaks, the Obama administration adopted an “insider threat” program that Marisa Taylor and Jonathan Landay of McClatchy Newspapers detailed as an “unprecedented initiative” that extended “beyond the U.S. national security bureaucracies to most federal departments and agencies nationwide, including the Peace Corps, the Social Security Administration, and the Education and Agriculture departments.
It emphasizes leaks of classified material but catchall definitions of ‘insider threat’ give agencies latitude to pursue and penalize a range of other conduct.”
“Millions of federal employees and contractors,” Taylor and Landay reported, “must watch for ‘high-risk persons or behaviors’ among co-workers and could face penalties, including criminal charges, for failing to report them.”
And, “Leaks to the media are equated with espionage.” One Defense Department strategy document from June 1, 2012, declared, “Leaking is tantamount to aiding the enemies of the United States.”
“Experts and current and former officials” that Taylor and Landay spoke to for the story suggested this program would likely “make it easier for the government to stifle the flow of unclassified and potentially vital information to the public, while creating toxic work environments poisoned by unfounded suspicions and spurious investigations of loyal Americans.”
Work environments under Trump have already been reportedly toxic as a result of gag orders that run afoul of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act imposed on employees at agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The potential for a vengeful crackdown on alleged leakers is even more likely given the fact that Senator Jeff Sessions is now the country’s Attorney General and heads the Justice Department, which holds much of the power to aggressively pursue leak investigations.
Back in 2012, there was hysteria around leaks from the Obama administration on the kill list, the Stuxnet virus, which was deployed in a cyber attack on Iran, and a CIA underwear bomb plot sting operation in Yemen. Congress held hearings and questioned Attorney General Eric Holder about the national security leaks.
Sessions was livid and named all the current and former Obama administration officials quoted in the New York Times.
“These were all talking to the New York Times. Somebody provided information that shouldn’t have been provided. These are some of the closest people you have in government to the president of the United States so this is a dangerous thing,” Sessions added.
He was aghast that there were senior officials at the Justice Department talking to the Times, and he told Holder that individuals responsible needed to “be interviewed in an aggressive independent way, not as a friendly fellow Department of Justice employee but as someone that could be subject to a criminal charge.”
“I take this as a very serious matter, the question of the leaks, how important they are. I believe lives have been placed at risk,” Sessions added. “I’ve raised in the Armed Services private or closed hearings dealt with these matters in months past. It’s been a pattern now.”
Sessions contended the government had not seen a “greater series of leaks,” perhaps, referring to leaks from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and Manning. “I believe it’s time to bring it to a conclusion.”
“I believe an aggressive investigation is required, and I believe from now on members of this administration, previous administrations, subsequent administrations, should fully understand they will be held accountable if they violate their oath to protect the legitimate secrets of the United States,” Sessions concluded.
What are “legitimate secrets” to President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions?
“General Flynn very clearly violated the Logan Act of 1799, which forbids private American citizens from conducting foreign policy. That’s a felony,” Kiriakou said.
“So, what we should have seen was Donald Trump apologizing to the American people and firing Flynn very publicly. Instead, we saw two weeks of hemming and hawing, and although Flynn resigned, Trump came out with a statement threatening the whistleblowers.”
“The fault is not of the intelligence services leaking information. The fault is of General Flynn violating the law and Donald Trump not running a tight enough ship, where his people think twice about committing felonies,” Kiriakou added.
Much has been made about whether the leakers are “Obama people” or security officials, who want to possibly bring down Trump. Speculation aside, none of that really matters when officials make disclosures.
Kathleen McClellan, a whistleblower advocate and national security & human rights lawyer at Expose Facts, said the substance of disclosures on Flynn had public interest value regardless of the motivation.
“The idea that the intelligence community can leak to somehow influence the White House—it’s a new dynamic,” McClellan admitted. “They’re usually on the same side. It’s the executive branch.”
Yet, this is what happens “when you allow the intelligence community to gain so much power and do so much pervasive surveillance, and they have surveillance on everybody, including Congress.”
Nevertheless, the key question is always, is the disclosure in the public interest?
As Kiriakou suggested, Trump has “surrounded himself with people, who don’t know how to govern.” They were caught trying to conceal questionable, if not illegal, acts from the public.
“There’s a legal definition of whistleblowing,” Kiriakou said. “It’s bringing to light any evidence of waste, fraud, abuse, illegality, or threats to the public health or public safety.
“And, if the Trump administration is protecting the public health and public safety and is working against waste, fraud, and abuse, then they ought to be on the side of the whistleblower, something that the Obama administration was not.”
Republican chairs of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and House Judiciary Committee, Jason Chaffetz and Bob Goodlatte, demanded the Justice Department’s inspector general office investigate whether classified information was “mishandled.”
There will be a round of hearings that will bear similarity to the hearings that occurred under Obama in 2012. Anti-leaks proposals for legislation will likely be offered by senators and representatives too.
Back when Obama leaks roiled Capitol Hill, a bipartisan group of senators pushed the idea that employees should surrender pension benefits for “unauthorized disclosures” and prohibitions against former employees, who want to become “consultants” or enter into contracts with media organizations.
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon was one of the few senators to stand up and put a hold on these anti-leaks proposals that forced reconsideration.
Obama had a policy, as former director of national intelligence Dennis Blair said, to make an example out of someone from the outset. “We were hoping to get somebody and make people realize that there are consequences to this and it needed to stop.”
In his first year as president, Trump may follow in Obama’s footsteps in an even harsher and more unforgiving manner to make sure no one defies his authority by bringing openness to his administration.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/donald-trumps-vengeful-pledge-pursue-low-life-leakers/225033/
From Shadow Proof (Feb 1 2017): A House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing called attention to gag orders issued by President Donald Trump’s administration against federal government employees, which run afoul of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) and other laws.
The hearing was convened around the fifth anniversary of the WPEA in order to consider progress made on whistleblower protection and reforms that are sorely needed. The WPEA was an expansion of the Whistleblower Protection Act passed in 1989.
Democratic Representative Gerald E. Connolly raised the issue of gag orders noting the acting secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services sent a memo on the very first day in office that read, “No correspondence to public officials, that is members of Congress, governors and the like, unless specifically authorized by me or my designee, shall be sent between now and February 3.” [Starting at 41:35 in video at House Oversight link below]
“That language, which ostensibly prevents an employee from speaking with members of Congress on his own, appears to violate” a “number of federal laws,” including the WPEA itself,” Connolly stated. “And it certainly sends a chilling message to our federal employees.”
Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings said the HHS memo violated the WPEA because it did not include “mandatory language” Congress required to “protect whistleblowers, who want to report waste, fraud, or abuse. ”
“We required ‘any disclosure policy, form, or agreement’ to include a mandatory statement that it does not supersede the rights of employees, including specifically to “members of Congress.” And we passed this unanimously,” Cummings added.
According to Cummings, “The Trump administration first tried to deny that memo was sent to employees.
“Then they sent out some kind of clarification. My understanding is even the clarifying statement still failed to include the mandatory statement we required in the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act.”
Cummings requested the committee seek and obtain all emails and other communications in the possession of anyone at HHS related to the directive, its drafting, circulation, and the clarification that was later issued. He also sought records of any other communications prohibiting federal employees from Congress.
Republican Mark Meadows, the subcommittee chairman, was hesitant but agreed to requesting “clarifications” from agencies.
Robert P. Storch, deputy inspector general and whistleblower ombudsman for the Office of Inspector General at the Justice Department, Eric Bachman, deputy special counsel for litigation and legal affairs at the Office of Special Counsel, Thomas Devine, legal director for the Government Accountability Project, and Elizabeth Hempowicz, policy counsel for the Project on Government Oversight, each testified at the hearing.
Connolly asked each of them how the memos from agencies like HHS comported with the anti-gag rule.
Devine said they “cancel the rule of law,” and argued they violated three provisions in the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, two appropriations riders, the Lloyd LaFollette Act of 1912, and the First Amendment.
While Storch and Bachman refused to cosign that exact statement, they both agreed it was crucial to ensure employees were not deterred from speaking to members of Congress because that would violate the law.
“Even if these guidance documents are reissued with the disclaimer they are required to have [under the WPEA], they’ve already had a chilling effect,” Hempowicz asserted.
She also said, “If you don’t have whistleblowers feeling like they can come forward through protected channels, you’ll see more and more increased leaks to the media, to the press.”
Employees will not “go through those channels if they don’t find that they’re meaningful channels, if they don’t see that the complaints that they’re making through those proper channels are being taken seriously and addressed within the agency.”
( shadowproof.com/2017/02/01/house-hearing-on-whistleblower-protection-highlights-trump-gag-orders-which-violate-the-law/ )
House Hearing on Whistleblower Protection Highlights Trump’s Illegal Gag Orders
https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/five-years-later-review-whistleblower-protection-enhancement-act/
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Does anyone remember when our 45th president — who refuses to release his tax returns despite his many public promises, fully disclose his extended and intricate business ties all over the world, and now calls for media “blackouts” at executive agencies–was recently one of America’s loudest and noisiest government transparency advocates?
In the video from November 2012 “Donald Trump’s Response To President Obama’s Lack Of Transparency”—the future president said, “All the president had to do is give simple documentation—simple paper, a few pages—and a charity would have gotten five million [dollars].”
Lamenting the “total lack of transparency” from the executive branch, he concluded by saying, “This is a very, very sad day for the United States of America.”
http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYgW3_w3TS8
Reuters: Aoun : Israeli Threats to Lebanese Sovereignty Will Meet ‘Appropriate Response’
Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Saturday that any Israeli attempt to violate Lebanon’s sovereignty would be met with the “appropriate response”, in a statement released by his office.
“Any attempt to hurt Lebanese sovereignty or expose the Lebanese to danger will find the appropriate response,” the statement said.
It said Aoun was reacting to recent remarks in a letter at the United Nations by Israel’s U.N. ambassador, which amounted to a “masked attempt to threaten security and stability” in southern Lebanon, but did not say what the remarks were.
Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz said on Thursday that all of Lebanon would be a target if Hezbollah fired on Israel.
Aoun’s comments also followed warnings this week by the leader of the armed Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah, a political ally of the president, against any Israeli aggression.
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the group’s rockets had the ability to strike Israel’s nuclear reactor at Dimona and its military infrastructure – an apparent warning against any Israeli military action that he said might be approved by the new U.S. president, Donald Trump.
In 2006 Israel fought a month-long war against Hezbollah in south Lebanon.
Since then, hostilities between them have been limited to occasional firing across the border and air strikes by Israel against Hezbollah leaders and military equipment in Syria, where the group is fighting in support of President Bashar al-Assad.
Trump’s administration has been vocal in its criticism of Hezbollah’s patron Iran and in its support for Israel.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-secretservice-idUSKBN15T2J0
Strategic Culture: New Military Alliance to Be Formed in Middle East
Combining available information to get the whole picture, one can see the situation in the Middle East changing drastically, especially as the US strategy is reviewed and new alliances are formed.
The Trump administration is in talks with Middle East allies about forming a military alliance that would share intelligence with Israel to help counter Iran, according to several Middle Eastern officials.
The planned coalition would include countries such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain.
Egypt and Jordan have longstanding peace treaties with Israel.
For the Arab countries involved, the alliance would have a NATO-style mutual-defense component under which an attack on one member would be treated as an attack on all, though details are still being worked out.
The US and Israel will cooperate without full-fledged membership.
According to the Wall Street Journal, «one Arab diplomat suggested that the notion that the Trump administration might designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group was being floated as an incentive for Egypt to join the alliance».
US President Donald Trump has assured visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Tehran would never be able to build a nuclear weapon.
«The security challenges faced by Israel are enormous, including the threat of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, which I’ve talked a lot about. One of the worst deals I’ve ever seen is the Iran deal», Trump told reporters at a joint news conference with Netanyahu at the White House.
Reading the statement between the lines, it becomes evident that the US is ready to go much further than warnings and sanctions to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear capability.
Russian Izvestia daily reported the US plans to substantially increase its military presence in Iraq. The newspaper cited its own sources in the U.S. Republican Party.
The plans include a few thousand troops to arrive in Iraq in the coming months.
The reinforcement will continue the policy of the Obama administration, which was gradually expanding the military presence in that country.
It was reported on February 16 that the Pentagon was developing proposals for sending an unspecified number of American military personnel into Syria, conventional ground forces which would augment the 500 combat advisers already there coordinating efforts to destroy the Islamic State (IS).
Military Times reports that multiple US Army sources indicated that about two thousand soldiers with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team may soon bolster other Army elements already in the region. Currently, about 1,800 paratroopers from the 2nd BCT are in Iraq participating in the US military’s train-and-advise mission.
The 82nd Airborne Division is based at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Citing an unidentified U.S. defense official, CNN indicated additional deployments could happen within weeks.
Today, there are about 5,000 US troops deployed to Iraq and another 500 in Syria.
The White House indicated in January that it could task the military with establishing «safe zones» on Syrian soil.
A large number of troops would be needed to defend havens, pitting them against pro-government forces as well as rival rebel groups.
Without approval by UN Security Council, few nations will contribute leaving the US alone to shoulder the main burden. Hundreds of aircraft will have to be deployed to carry out the mission.
Deploying substantial forces in the Middle East risks putting the US on a slippery slope to further involvement in the war.
Safe zones should not become no-fly zones to impede the operations of Russian and Syrian air forces.
If the US decides to continue with the idea, it should it become an issue on the agenda for talks with Russia before any practical steps are taken to implement it.
It’s not Arab states only. Army Gen. John Nicholson, the top US commander in Afghanistan, told lawmakers on February 9 that thousands more American or NATO troops are needed to break the «stalemate» between Afghan forces and the Taliban insurgent group while the IS also remains active in the nation.
The general did not specify how many additional troops were needed, but did not rule out the potential for up to 30,000.
The strategy, which relied on special forces teams and intensive operations conducted by drones, may become a thing of the past, with the U.S. returning to large-scale presence.
The terrorist activities of the IS go beyond the scope of a regional problem.
There are a few options here for cooperation of the military agencies and special services of Russia and the US ranging from intelligence exchange on IS to exercising influence on the countries affected by the war with the terrorist threat.
Whatever are the plans of Trump’s administration aimed at changing the Middle East strategy, the US cannot go it alone there.
It needs allies, partners, and friendly pertinent actors to coordinate activities with. This shows how important it is to speed up bilateral and multilateral discussions.
It all goes to show that Russia and the US should speed up launching regular contacts to exchange opinions on the situation in the Middle East.
On February 16, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford met face to face with their Russian counterparts Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Chief of General Staff General Valeriy Gerasimov in Bonn and Baku respectively.
Hopefully, the first contacts will spur the process and the parties will be engaged in dialogue concerning major security issues.
The volatile situation in the Middle East should be addressed without delay as part of preparations for a possible summit in Slovenia.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/02/17/new-military-alliance-formed-middle-east.html
South Front: Syrian War Report: February 16, 2017: Pentagon to Deploy Conventional Ground Forces to Syria?
https://southfront.org/syrian-war-report-february-16-2017-pentagon-to-deploy-ground-forces-to-syria/
I get the feeling that Trump would like to do the right thing but I think that would for certain involve him losing his financial empire and I don’t think he is willing to do that.
He is too much of a narcissist. He thrives on center stage.
He is too fond of the superficial trappings of power – the buildings and aircraft with his name on them, and the pretty Girls that he surrounds himself with.
He will lose all that if he does the right thing and end up a homeless man because the jew boys will call in their loans.
The swamp he wants to drain is overflowing with snakes and as the water Level drops they are getting very angry and lashing out in every direction.
He is obviously getting lots of worthless advice from every direction and he doesn’t seem to know who to turn to.
If he wants to do the right thing he should call in Ron Paul right now. That would send a chill through the Jewmerican Evil Empire.
If he wants to enhance his branding and later on start a TV Network he should carry on as he is. He can get all the hookers he wants in Haifa.
I must say I like that fact that his unpredictability, his loose cannon behavior, is drawing all the scum bags out of the closet. To paraphrase Ernest Hemingway, “The scum also rises”.
Trump is using Mainstream Media to destroy the credibilty of Mainsteram Media. He knows it and its about time.
They have tried to smear him with the “Fake News” label and he throws it right back in their faces, keeps bringing it up and by repetition makes it stick.
Nice to see and funny to watch. America’s first cartoon president.
I understand about Trumps immoralities, bankruptcy, and others. But it still does not tell us exactly in what way Trump ‘is a plant to keep white people calm’.
Cruz the Cuck would have been a lot less work, much cheaper and compliant Zog Shill to install than Trump.
We know Trump has a Jew in the family and yes, he worked with them in NYC, but that does not exactly mean he liked it.
I have had to work with people I did not like nor care for, but sometimes you just had to do it just the same.
Now that Christianity has been shattered and governments of white people have been subjugated by the Jew World Order, the anti-christ Jews (ACJ) are facing the prospect of a world without a strong USA to protect Israel.
The ACJ need a strong USA to fight wars for Israel against Syria, Iran, and the Arab nations like how the US military fought wars against Iraq, Egypt, Libya, and Sudan among others. The ACJ knew that if they continued down the Obama road with a president Hillary, then the USA would be too weak to fight Israel’s wars.
That looks like the main reason why the ACJ preferred Trump to Hillary. The ACJ views Trump as a booster shot for the ailing US. But if Syria, Iran, etc, get beaten down like Iraq, Libya, et al, then the ACJ may have no more use for the USA. At that point Satan’s ACJ would likely flush the USA down the toilet.
By destroying the mid-east nations, the USA and its allies are setting themselves up for their own destruction because the ACJ wants to destroy them also after they have served the ACJ purpose.
JWO planners seem to have expected the overthrows of Syria and Iran to be accomplished during the Obama administration. If that had been accomplished, then the ACJ would probably have put Hillary in office instead of Trump in order to hasten the destruction of the USA.
Whup – The cats outta the bag!
TRUMP has called the EVIL Jew owned/controlled news media for what it is — LIES/DECEIT!
They’re terrified & they’re desperate to continue their B.S., but the more they try to place blame/distract they look more and more guilty to the whole world – those shameless Jew WORMS!
Every time Trump blasts the cable Mainstream News Media on his White House Reality Show, their ratings go up, and stockholders are happy.
Trump himself said that he is “very good” for MSM ratings.
Evil Lying News Media(TM) is the new blood sport in Trump’s patronage politics.
Fox News owned by Trump’s new BFF, Rupert Murdoch (who also owns NY Post and Wall Street Journal), who supported Trump personally and through Fox News in the presidential race during and after the primaries, is still in #1 spot as it has been for years.
Even “Very Fake News” pro-Clinton CNN expected to lose 25% of its audience after the 2016 presidential election year only to see the ratings go up in January.
Good Cable TV Channel Ratings = Profitable Big Media Money from Advertisements, Subscriptions, Sponsorships, and Royalties
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Jew York Times: Trump’s First Days in White House Keep Cable News Ratings Strong
Donald J. Trump propelled cable news to record ratings through a year-and-a-half campaign cycle, and now he is doing the same from the White House.
Though television executives were bracing for a ratings collapse after an election year of extraordinary viewership — CNN’s chief executive, Jeff Zucker said he expected to lose a quarter of his audience — ratings are going only one direction in President Trump’s first 11 days on the job: up.
The greatest beneficiary of the Trump era so far has been — no surprise — Fox News, which continues to have a stranglehold on the No. 1 spot among cable news networks for the 15th consecutive year.
Fox averaged 2.8 million viewers in prime time in January, up 17 percent compared with its audience in 2016.
Though the network recently lost the anchor Megyn Kelly to NBC, her successor at 9 p.m., Tucker Carlson, has seen a huge ratings surge.
Mr. Carlson, who started on Jan. 9, finished the month with an average of 784,000 viewers in the 25-to-54-year-old demographic, making him No. 1 in cable news with the group most important to advertisers.
Bill O’Reilly, once again, had the No. 1 show in total viewers for the month, averaging nearly 4 million viewers a night.
The absence of debates, primaries and town halls will make this year a long slog for cable news channels hoping to maintain the highs of 2016.
But Mr. Trump’s frenetic first week and a half as president has given the networks some momentum. In total day audience, Fox News, MSNBC and CNN have seen jumps of 30 percent, 7 percent and 5 percent in January versus their averages last year, according to Nielsen.
MSNBC nearly tied CNN in total viewers in prime time, with an average of about 1.2 million viewers.
Though Fox and MSNBC both had gains in prime time for the month versus last year, CNN slipped 7 percent in viewers compared with its 2016 averages.
CNN did outpace MSNBC among the coveted 25-to-54 demographic, and likewise had a strong lead throughout the day, averaging 794,000 viewers compared to MSNBC’s 647,000.
Fox News averaged 1.8 million for the day in January.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/business/media/trumps-first-days-in-white-house-keep-cable-news-ratings-strong.html
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Russia Today: ‘Good times, money following’: CNN President Praises Trump-bashing Agenda
CNN’s Jeff Zucker has gone on the offensive defending against President Donald Trump’s attacks of being “very fake news,” saying the aggressive anti-Trump agenda only serves to boost his employees’ morale and they wear it as “a badge of honor.”
Zucker’s remarks to Politico came just as Trump had wrapped up a heated press conference Thursday, during which he sparred with the network’s Jim Acosta.
Acosta’s bout with Trump related to the freshly-elected president having branded CNN as “fake news.” Trump actually only ended up telling the CNN host: “I’m changing it from ‘fake news’ to ‘very fake news’.”
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
While on FAKE NEWS @CNN, Bernie Sanders was cut off for using the term fake news to describe the network. They said technical difficulties!
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Zucker, the channel’s head, however, did not look too dissatisfied with such a poor endorsement.
“They wear those insults as a badge of honor, because it means they are doing their jobs,” Zucker told Politico.
“I would say that morale is incredibly high … They are not being intimidated, they are not backing down, they know they have my full support and it is a very exciting time, frankly, to be a journalist at CNN.”
Zucker went on to say that the only downside to working for CNN at the moment is sheer worker exhaustion from all the overtime journalists and reporters have been putting in to hold the president of their country to account.
“The pace has been nonstop, and it has not let up.”
Zucker says he was concerned that CNN’s popularity may have taken a nosedive, especially as, according to Medialife Magazine, its ratings were worse five months ago than even MSNBC, or sworn enemy Fox News.
The CNN head ordered a brand review in January to assess how attacks on it have impacted on its reputation.
He tells Politico the network is as strong as ever, and “incredibly trusted. We have seen no impact whatsoever in all those attacks on the CNN brand.”
He noted that this year, the 25-54 age demographic put both CNN and Fox up by 50 percent over what ratings were last year in the same period.
According to Zucker, the back-and-forth between Trump and the network actually is one of the main factors generating views and revenue.
Revenue was up as well, with advertising last year making record dollars, according to Turner network President David Levy, as cited by Politico.
“These are very good times for us, and the money is following,” Zucker concluded.
https://www.rt.com/usa/377688-fake-cnn-trump-ratings/
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-cnn-morale-jeff-zucker-235116
Ok, I disagree with a lot of people posting messages here.
I think that Donald Trump is a force for good, and that he will change our country for the better.
I don’t know what all the pessimism is about, but I don’t think a billionaire at the top of his game would fall into a Jewish trap.
There’s 1000 other things he could be doing, besides running our country, and nobody owns him, so he doesn’t need to lie, and the only people he “owes” are his constituency, to which he’s kept his promises.
The CIA and Israel are responsible for the creation of Isis.
Isis was created specifically to weaken Iran and destabilize Syria.
Israeli intelligence is furious with Trump, and will do anything to keep Trump from working with Putin….
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-17/dhs-insider-warns-its-spy-versus-spy
http://yournewswire.com/george-soros-china-new-world-order/
No – I agree – Trump has shown promise, albeit the children of the devil will always scoff, be-little, shame/blame, lie/cry reel/squeal.
But I LOVE how he handled that Yidiot during his press hearing!
Fig Trees & Vineyards: We Are Living in a ‘Post-Truth’ Era
By Richard Edmondson
Recently Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made an interesting comment. He described the time we are living in as a “post-truth” era. It’s a very apt, on-target description.
Lavrov made the comment at the Munich Security Conference, held February 17-19 in Munich, Germany.
In his remarks at the gathering he spoke of the need for nations to seek harmony by advancing justice and also by practicing “modesty,” as he termed it. It’s hard to find fault with such a proposal.
“If everyone adopts that approach,” said Lavrov, “we could overcome the period of post-truth fast and resist information wars imposed on the international community.”
“Information wars” in a “post-truth” era–this of course is what we are experiencing now.
Lavrov also said that the expansion of NATO “has led to an unprecedented level of tension over the last 30 years in Europe,” and yet Russia now nonetheless seeks a relationship with the US based upon “pragmatism, mutual respect, and an understanding of special responsibility for global stability.”
Compare Lavrov’s remarks to those of Vice President Mike Pence, who represented America at the conference. Pence alluded to President Trump’s desire for better relations with Russia, but at the same time he also adopted a belligerent tone, calling for Russia to be held “accountable” for events in Ukraine.
“In regard to Ukraine we must hold Russia accountable and demand that they honor the Minsk agreements, beginning by deescalating the violence in eastern Ukraine,” Pence said. He also spoke of “Russia’s efforts to redraw international borders by force,” an apparent reference to the alleged “forced annexation” of Crimea.
Despite claims perpetually made by the media in this post-truth era, Crimea was not annexed by force. A referendum was held there on March 16, 2014 in which more than 96 percent of the people voted to join Russia.
The referendum took place after the US had sponsored a coup in Kiev, overthrowing the legitimate, democratically-elected government.
One wonders: does Pence believe the US should be held “accountable” for organizing the coup which triggered the Ukrainian conflict in the first place? Apparently he does not.
Another US speaker at the conference in Munich was Sen. John McCain, who discussed what he views as the indispensable role that America and the rest of the West have played in advancing “truth,” and in advancing the current global order as well as the “prosperity” that the West now supposedly enjoys.
“We must take our own side in this fight,” said McCain. “We must be vigilant. We must persevere. And through it all, we must never, never cease to believe in the moral superiority of our own values—that we stand for truth against falsehood, freedom against tyranny, right against injustice, hope against despair.”
McCain made no mention of America’s shameful support for terrorists in Syria, and it defies logic of course to describe the US, whose mainstream media are widely recognized as the number one purveyors of fake news, as standing “for truth against falsehood” in today’s world.
The Arizona senator also described the West as having ushered in an “unprecedented period of security and prosperity that we have enjoyed for the past seven decades”–and of course for the wealthiest one percent, we are, no doubt about it, in an “unprecedented” period of prosperity.
But the unemployment rolls and the numbers of homeless people on the streets of America would suggest that the “prosperity” has not been enjoyed by all.
McCain may not be “certified,” as such, but he does appear to be a fully-fledged lunatic.
“The unprecedented period of security and prosperity that we have enjoyed for the past seven decades did not happen by accident. It happened not only because of the appeal of our values, but because we backed them with our power and persevered in their defense.
Our predecessors did not believe in the end of history—or that it bends, inevitably, toward justice. That is up to us. That requires our persistent, painstaking effort. And that is why we come to Munich, year after year after year.”
McCain objectified his laudatory comments in terms of “the West,” for of course he was speaking at a conference held in the EU. But in his use of the words “we” and “us,” what he really meant was America.
America is the “indispensable” and “exceptional” nation–this is the ideology relentlessly, one might even say fanatically, adhered to by US leaders and the mainstream media. So it seems that while we get truth out of a Russian official like Lavrov, we get delusions, reverie, fantasy, and outright lies from our own leaders.
Americans, I would say for the most part, are good, decent people. How did we end up in this fix?
Perhaps worth recalling are the words of Jesus: “The last will be first, and the first will be last.” If that principle applies to nations as well as to individuals, then the implications for America are not good.
By the way, those words–about the last becoming first and the first becoming last–appear in one form or another in Matthew 19:30 and again in 20:16, as well as in Mark 10:31 and Luke 13:30.
Additionally, in Luke 9:48 we have Jesus telling his disciples that, “the one who is least among all of you is the one who is the greatest,” this after overhearing them arguing about which one was to become the “greatest.”
And let us not forget also the episode related in the Gospel of John of Jesus washing his disciple’s feet. What we can conclude, then, is that the practicing of humility was a central tenet of Jesus’ teachings.
Perhaps little wonder that Jesus was not terribly popular with his fellow Jews. Jewish “exceptionalism” (or more specifically “chosenness”) was, and still is, a central component of Judaic belief.
And yes, what we have in America are leaders who, rather than practice humility, spout boastful words like McCain’s. Thus it should come as no surprise we now find ourselves in a “post-truth” era. After all, boasting and lying are two human traits which go very much hand in hand.
I often wonder when, if ever, we will have a leader who will make Americans proud to be Americans again. Sadly it has been a very long time since we had one.
https://richardedmondson.net/2017/02/19/we-are-living-in-a-post-truth-era/
CNN’s Jeff Zucker is confusing hatchets jobs with journalism. His net work is nothing more than the hard core propaganda arm of the greater Israel Project. It has nothing to do with America.
Its already responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths on behalf of Israel.
Cristianne Anampour deserves the Iron Cross. Her Propaganda work has led to the death of more people than Eric von Runsted but with less honor.
Most of them have been women and children.
CNN carries nothing of value for America and lives to promotes the death of poor people in the Middle East.
CNN’ commentators act more like Kim Kardashian than Peter Arnett.
The other day one was making snide remarks on prime time about how Donald Trump’s hand writing looked like that of an 8-year-old. Talk about catty.
The Network may be making money but then so is reality TV. The key is to hire dumb people and then have them do dumb things on camera and both reality TV and CNN do that.
The only smart Thing CNN seems to do is send their less attractive women to war zones because they are disposable, and keep their more bankable good lookers out of the middle east.
Addenda,
In regards to CNN’s poorly aging female staff. By now the network must be losing its male viewers in droves.
Talk about a makeup artists greatest challenge.
The last good looker they had, Michele Kosinski, now looks like a washer woman.
The well larded rest could find work in B grade movies as Rosie O’Donnel look-alikes.
Is Barbara Star still alive or has she simply been stuffed and is now being moved around the studio on a skateboard, with voice overs to make the commentary.
CNN can photo shop off the pounds in their promotional still photos, like the ones where they photo shopped a smile onto the face of humourless Wolf Blitzer but live camera takes a toll that even extreme close ups cannot hide.
Every day I watch the knobbly end of Cristian Anampour’s nose to see if has yet split into three parts like that of Gerard Depardieu. It won’t be long.
Due to space, I’ve reprinted only Jim Dean’s preceding editorial comments to Gordon Duff’s story link:”Has Trump Been Secretly Stripped of His Presidency? By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor on February 19, 2017
( veteranstoday.com/2017/02/19/neo-has-trump-been-secretly-stripped-of-his-presidency/ )
“[ Editor’s Note: This is a very important story, published in Russia of all places, because they of all people understand the real threat. This is time for big boys to pay attention.
Washington is at war and Trump is in the process of risking everything to save himself and take down anyone in his way, breaking all the rules and perhaps killing all of us in the process. This is not hyperbole, it is fact.
Trump has named Stephen Feinberg, not a harmless hedge fund manager at all but the guy that runs DynCorp, the huge [military contractor] a dozen times the size of Blackwater, to take control of everything, giving him the power to run all US intelligence and security functions.
Feinberg will be able to edit or fabricate any intelligence, order any arrests, suspend rights for any group, censor the press, declare any domestic group or political party “illegal” or even “terrorist.” He is a violent fanatic, a dangerous person the like of which we may well never have seen in this country before.
Trump is appointing a Czar to end all Czars, placing all American power under corporate, or may we say “Israeli” control. Is anyone surprised? Feinberg plans to create “controllers” over all military and intelligence functions with full command authority but answerable only to him.
Feinberg’s real role is to protect Trump, on behalf of the Deep State faction he represents, from impeachment or coup and to dismantle all opposition, inside Congress, the press and, in particular, the public.
Plans are underway to criminalize any anti-Trump activities as “hate crimes” under broadened police powers already in front of legislatures in state after state with a federal law in the works as well.
If those fail, Trump will issue an executive order and, if needed, arrest any judge who tries to block it. John McCain was told about this plan, leading to his weak response:
“This is how dictator’s get started.” McCain and other congressional leaders are terrified with go-bags and open end plane tickets from Canada and Mexico to places unknown a hot commodity in the nations capital. We believe that congress will simply turn over and wipe the constitution out of the history books. Let’s see if we are right.
Republicans now know the only way they can undo what they have caused through getting in bed with the globalists and the fanatics in Tel Aviv, a Congress made up of “know-nothings” and slackers, of bumpkins and petty demagogues, is to either impeach Trump or convince the military to murder him.
This is not fake, not a word of it. Trump knows this, his handlers from Israeli intelligence spy on the Pentagon, on Congress, and he is given regular dossiers on their private conversations.
This is what led him to ordering a 10,000 man combat group to take up station on the Russian border with 1000 to be airlifted immediately. He is staging a military confrontation with Russia to save his own ass. Similarly he just ordered a carrier battle group to the South China Sea to challenge “navigation rights” around China’s new “created” island military bases.
It was either this or work with Israel and Saudi cash, like Bush did, to stage a massive terror attack on the United States, but Bush had positive poll numbers from day one, and Trump is already drowning.
Not only is he way negative in poll numbers but he already faces impeachment on a number of charges, this is why he has ordered the Attorney General and White House counsel to block a special prosecutor and grand jury to investigate Flynn.
Normally, Flynn would have been offered immunity to get up the ladder, to see who had really been working with Russia and, let’s face it, Israel, illegally. We know Trump is at the head of the list and can easily be taken down for very real crimes.
The Ship of State is adrift, with the new Trump administration attacking the media and the Intel agencies, when he might already have sown the seeds of a new Watergate-type investigation. We are now seeing a delicate tightrope act by both sides, where one small miscalculation could trigger a quick and painful fall from grace.
If this were not a sad enough thing to watch, making it worse is observing those in the bleachers, who are watching this as if it were some form of entertainment, or heaven forbid, a reality TV show.
We have never had a new President take himself down into the swamp so quickly and recklessly before. During his first 30 days, Obama forged ahead on executive orders, with the difference being that they mainly dealt with administrative directives, whereas Trump kicked off a jihad of Obama deconstruction.
Was this mistaken overkill on his part, or did he want the controversy of heading an embattled administration, fighting valiantly to deliver on what he had promised during his campaign?
While Obama was on a fast track for his Affirmative Action Nobel Peace Prize, Trump has been turning decades of American foreign relationships on their ear, except for a choice few like Britain and Israel.
Steve Feinberg of DynCorp – Could a foreign Intelligence agency end up in charge of reorganizing U.S. Intel?
The nation’s shrinks are burning up the email traffic among them on whether we actually have a mentally imbalanced president at the helm. This is not partisan sniping stuff, but professional concerns, as they have not gone public.
While Trump has claimed to be draining the swamp and made some token efforts to do so, seasoned observers have watched him bring in a “new swamp”, quickly and with little concern over putting much window dressing on it.
The Trump people have not seemed to grasp that the Intel agencies know everything there is to know about these people, including his son-in-law’s “more than close contacts” with Israel. Flynn was just the tip of the iceberg, receiving the heat first.
As to who Mr. Feinberg is, I will let him tell you. Feinberg has been described as “secretive” in The New York Times.[12] In 2007, Feinberg told Cerberus shareholders, “If anyone at Cerberus has his picture in the paper and a picture of his apartment, we will do more than fire that person. We will kill him. The jail sentence will be worth it.”
If Feinberg did not want this on his Wikipedia, it would not be there. So go figure. [Wikipedia]
But as Gordon covers below, what no media had dared to touch, is that we may have a Watergate-style coverup scenario already threatening the Trump presidency, which will put Congress in a most awkward position. We will be watching this very carefully, as the ripple effect could have numerous consequences for many… Jim W. Dean]”
Bolshevik communist Jew Joseph Stalin explained election rigging like this – Those who vote control nothing. Those who count the vote control everything.
Elsewhere, Repub senators Insane McCain and Lesbie Gayham are opposing Trump more than some Demonrats are. RINOs like Insane McCain and Lesbie Gayham are used in Jewish Divide and Conquer tactics.
It’s easy to spot treacherous publicans like Insane McCain and Lesbie Gayham by how the Jews media fawns over them, has them on TV a lot, and portrays them favorably. Conversely, it’s easy to spot real Christians like David Duke by how the Jews’ Media tries to destroy them.
“Muslims Take Warning…IsraHell Wants You Dead, if Alive, Totally enfeebled. +BN”
If that’s the case why so many pro-Muslim immigration issues?
I know some how it all ties into the big picture of the future, but right now it seems like the Jews are pro Muslim and want a Muslim immigration to the USA.
Dear Greg,
You are right that the antiChrist Jews (AJ) want a Muslim immigration into the USA. Every day the Jews’ media lobbies for Christian European nations to accept the non-European immigrants (invaders).
Germany, Sweden, and other white nations are being flooded with anti-Christian immigrants. The AJs are trying to weaken and destroy Christian culture by diluting it with non-Christian religions and cultures. It’s another way Satan fights Christ.
The AJ directed their puppet politicians such as Obama and Bush to weaken and destroy the Arab nations in the Mid-East so Israel will be left as the dominant power there.
The US bombing, killing, and destroying of the Arab residents created hordes of migrants trying to flee to the US and other nations that bombed and destroyed their countries.
One of the Protocols of Zion is to give bad advice to the goyim. In subtle ways, the Jews’ media advises the white nations to be receptive, welcoming, and sympathetic to these invaders who hate them.
It’s absurd that leaders of white nations such as Angela Merkel of Germany helps the AJ destroy us by bringing in these invaders who hate us. It’s like cutting your own throat.
The Bible explains that following God gives people a sound mind. If the USA still followed Jesus such foolishness as the immigrant madness could never happen.
@Greg
The thing about Jews towards Muslims is that they want them in USA and EU, but not in Israel where they kill, take their homes, leave them without jobs, discriminate etc, etc.
Secondly, Israel loves Sunni/Wahhabis and third world because they fight against Palestine which is connected to Iran, Syria, part of Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen rebels. Wars against them are made by neoconservative Jews.
Thirdly, Jews want diversification in Europe and USA because that’s the only way people won’t question why they are on top of almost every sector in USA or Europe.
Fourthly, jews use illiterate, ignorant, backwards Muslims, or very poor Muslims in countries such as Africa as their pawns all the time because they won’t question, and they will give back to Jews treating them all the time.
Third world Muslims are pawns of Saudis.
In fact, the more backward and fundamentalist the Muslims the more Jews like to get them in Europe and USA.
This kind of Muslims won’t bite the hand that feeds and are useful tools against Europeans and Americans.
They will never do that with Shia Muslims, educated people since Shia Muslims know what the Jews’ double talk is, and sooner or later will go against them.
In Israel, they have double-standards for any kind of Muslims (besides Saudis who are their pals) especially idiot Muslims from their world who face persecution, they face joblessness, no education, no medical help, no financial aid and plain deportation many times .
Against Shia you know they kill them and do all above. But just to show how they treat them in double standards, should tell you why.
If you notice who are Muslims in America are mostly third world from Africa and Pakistan, Bangladesh and other countries around, and they don’t take many with education, and who drive taxis.
Very few have college, and few from the Middle East.
Alahed News (Lebanon): «Israel», Saudi Arabia Close Ranks against Iran
Local Editor
The “Israeli” entity and Saudi Arabia presented a united front on Sunday, issuing almost identical warnings of caution against Iran Sunday as the two countries urged the international community to punish Tehran for a myriad of activities they alleged undermined regional stability.
Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif, Saudi FM Adel al-Jubeir and
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, the “Israeli” entity’s War Minister Avigdor Lieberman and the Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir closed ranks, despite their respective countries having no official diplomatic relations, as they rebuffed statements made by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif calling on Sunni Muslim Gulf states to help reduce violence in the area.
Among the accusations levelled against Iran by “Israel” and Saudi Arabia, who were subsequently joined by Turkey, were its involvement in the Syrian war on behalf of the country’s President Bashar al-Assad, its development of ballistic missiles, its funding of Yemen’s Ansarullah and its efforts to undermine various regimes in the region.
Al-Jubeir called Tehran “the main sponsor of global terrorism and a destabilizing force in the Middle East”.
He sidestepped a question about the entity’s call for concerted action with Sunni Arab states amid growing speculation that the two countries could normalize relations and join forces to oppose Tehran, much as Turkey had done.
The six Arab members of the Gulf Cooperation Council [GCC], especially Saudi Arabia, accuse Iran of using sectarianism to interfere in Arab countries and build its own sphere of influence in the Middle East. Iran denies the accusations.
“Iran remains the single main sponsor of terrorism in the world,” Adel al-Jubeir told delegates at the conference. “It’s determined to upend the order in the Middle East … [and] until and unless Iran changes its behavior it would be very difficult to deal with a country like this.”
The international community needed to set clear “red lines” to halt Iran’s actions, he said, calling for banking, travel and trade restrictions aimed at changing Tehran’s behavior.
Lieberman said Iran’s ultimate objective was to undermine Riyadh, and called for a dialogue with Sunni Arab countries to defeat “radical” elements in the region. “The real division is not Jews, Muslims … but moderate people versus radical people,” Lieberman told delegates.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu also criticized what he called an Iranian “sectarian policy” aimed at undermining Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. “Turkey is very much against any kind of division, religious or sectarian,” he said. “It’s good that we are now normalizing our relations with ‘Israel’.”
Zarif opened Sunday’s session with the call for dialogue to address “anxieties” in the region. This followed a visit by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to Oman and Kuwait last week to try to improve ties, his first visit to the Gulf states since taking power in 2013.
Asked if Iran’s envisioned regional dialogue could include the “Israeli” entity, Zarif said Tehran was looking at a more “modest” approach. “I’m focusing on the Persian Gulf. We have enough problems in this region so we want to start a dialogue with countries we call brothers in Islam,” he said.
Zarif dismissed any suggestions his country would ever seek to develop nuclear weapons.
When asked about the new US administration’s tough rhetoric on Iran’s role in the region and calls to review the nuclear deal, he said Tehran did not respond well to threats or sanctions.
US Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said he and other senators were preparing legislation to further sanction Iran for violating UN Security Council resolutions with its missile development program and other actions.
“It is now time for the Congress to take Iran on directly in terms of what they’ve done outside the nuclear program,” he said.
Senator Christopher Murphy, a Democrat and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Washington needed to decide whether to take a broader role in the regional conflict.
http://www.english.alahednews.com.lb/essaydetails.php?eid=37393&cid=391#.WKvG8m8rKM-
Reuters: Saudi Arabia, Israel Present De Facto United Front Against Iran
Saudi Arabia and Israel both called on Sunday for a new push against Iran, signalling a growing alignment in their interests, while U.S. lawmakers promised to seek new sanctions on the Shi’ite Muslim power.
Turkey also joined the de facto united front against Tehran as Saudi and Israeli ministers rejected an appeal from Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for Sunni Gulf Arab states to work with Tehran to reduce violence across the region.
While Saudi Arabia remains historically at odds with Israel, their ministers demanded at the Munich Security Conference that Tehran be punished for propping up the Syrian government, developing ballistic missiles and funding separatists in Yemen.
http://in.reuters.com/article/mideast-crisis-iran-idINKBN15Y0LA
+BN
Is it true you run several miles/day at your age?
What’s your advice to obese people like myself on how to lose the weight gained from Jewish corporate American junk food and be trim and healthy like you?
The Antichrist is taking all the people out of countryside to the cities in the whole world because the Antichrist does not want anyone to be self sufficient, so this devil helper can rule humankind.
He provides people with his corrupted food, he provides people with his usury loans, he will provide people with work.
That is, if you bow down and bend your knees for him and forsake God for (his) temporary wealth of this earth.
@MM
Interesting article, but if Trump is that big of a lightweight, I really am at a loss why the ZOG’s fought him so hard to become president?
I am not a TrumpBot, but what I want is Truth. The ZOG’s lost insane amounts of money within the Republican Party with Trump being against 16 candidates and they could not stop him.
They could have a saved a lot of money by simply installing a Star Cuck like Cruz or whoever. But Trump won anyway.
Then he faced off Clinton whose ZOG supporters lost insane amounts of money to stop Trump, yet Trump still won. It was apparent even to the most casual observer that Trump had both sides of the same coin against him and he still won.
I still say that the Jews (Koch Brothers also) could have saved an incredible amount of money and less drama if they would taken on Star Cuck Cruz, who most likely would have lost and gave the ZOGs their beloved Clinton.
The Jews media and Demonrats are obsessed with pushing the story that there is no voter fraud, no election fraud; therefore no need for photo ID to vote.
The Jewdicial system struck down various state laws requiring voters to show photo ID to vote. The Jews are okay with requiring the ID to buy a can of beer at a bar or a six-pack at a store. But the Jews want us to think that showing the ID to vote is racist.
The definition of the big lie as used in propaganda – Repeat the story long enough, loud enough, often enough and eventually people will believe it.
The Jews media obsession with the story that there is no voter fraud, therefore no need for photo ID to vote; is a classic example of the big lie.
The real reason the anti-Christ Jews are obsessed with destroying voter photo ID laws is because photo ID law makes elections harder to rig.
Funny to watch the Jew Boy TV Network, and especially CNN getting their knickers in a knot about anti-Semitism today.
The cling to the word “anti-Semitism” as tenaciously as a leech clings to a jackass.
There are far more Semitic people amongst the Palestinians living as second class citizens in Israel than there are amongst Israel’s Jews, and the Jews have killed them by the thousands and stolen their land. You can’t get more anti-Semitic than that.
And look at all the deaths among Semitic Arab people in places like Libya because of the many color revolutions on behalf of Israel.
There isn’t the slightest bit of doubt that the Jews are, and have always been, by far the most anti-Semitic people on the face of the earth.
The protests against Israel are protests against Jews, and not against Semitic people, but even the Jews feel uncomfortable saying the J word.
They want to stay right off the radar and using the word “anti-Semitic” instead of “Jew” helps them to keep the j word right off the radar.
Send all Jews and non-Whites to Israel. One way ticket.
Israel needs the richness, vibrancy and diversity of multiculturalism.
Dear All –
I’m now in DC for Street Evangelism. NYC went well except for a nightmarish encounter with a crazed black man who grabbed my Holy Cross and smashed it violently into pieces.
But I’m okay, got a brand new Cross quickly, went back to Columbus Circle the next day, and all went well.
Headed to Street now in DC! Hope to post a NEW Video soooooon. +bn
The Federalist: Poll Finds DC Is Out Of Touch With Americans On Foreign Policy
By Jeremy Lott, 2/17/17
The foreign policy consensus in Washington DC is so stubbornly pro-intervention that our most recent president—who dragged the country into several foreign entanglements and whose military dropped 26,171 bombs last year alone—is seen as, at best, a ditherer.
The World Politics Review summed up his legacy by saying, “The problem with Obama’s foreign policy has been inaction, not weakness.”
Get outside of DC and the estimation of what we ought to be doing is much different.
Americans who are actually stretched to pay for those wars and whose children may be serving in the military are not as gung-ho about going there.
That is my takeaway from the latest Charles Koch Institute/Center for the National Interest poll of American attitudes toward foreign policy.
A majority of those surveyed in late January turned out to be deeply skeptical that what America has been doing has been working. It’s hard to argue they don’t have a point.
For instance, when asked if America’s foreign policy since 9/11 has made us more or less safe, a non-dangling-chad majority (51 percent) said “less safe.”
Only 11 percent thought we were safer after two costly large-scale wars involving nation-building and countless smaller interventions across the Middle East and Africa.
Intervention Hasn’t Gone So Well
They thought that what was true for America was probably true for the larger world as well.
A huge plurality (47 percent) said we had made the world “less safe” versus only a tiny minority (9 percent) who said we’d made things any better.
Our country’s national interest is what ought to drive our foreign policy going forward, a supermajority (69 percent) in the poll believe.
They don’t necessarily like the ring of “America first” (only 30 percent signed on to more exclusive language), but they’re not okay with most of the things our country is doing that fall outside of a national interest framework.
Democracy promotion through military power? A plurality of 41 percent thought we should knock it off versus 24 percent who said full speed ahead.
Only 11 percent thought the country ought to deploy more troops to Europe, and 27 percent said even our current garrison levels are too high.
We’re Not Getting What We Want
Although they are not typically aware of just how much America is spending on defense, Americans by and large do not want more spending for more wars.
Fully 79 percent said that any additional tax dollars that come in should go toward domestic spending, not a military buildup.
They think the amount of money we budget for military now is enough for a truly national defense.
In sharp contrast with DC, they’re also not wild about poking Russia or China. Only 12 percent said Russia was America’s greatest security challenge, and only 17 percent said that Russia should mainly be viewed only as a rival.
Large numbers thought Russia should be viewed either mainly as a partner (29 percent) or as a realistic mix of partner and rival (35 percent). And only 5 percent signaled that they wanted confrontation with China.
These numbers are not flukes. They’re mostly consistent with two polls the same two groups commissioned in October and December of last year.
If they persist, and if American foreign policy under President Trump does not significantly change, we may have a long-term democracy problem on our hands.
What the people want is not what we are getting. Our leaders need to know this, and either change course or tell us in convincing words why they are right and we are wrong.
Jeremy Lott is a senior fellow at Defense Priorities.
http://thefederalist.com/2016/09/15/donald-trump-apologists-dont-get-national-interest/
The Jews media is turning up the volume on anti-Semitism propaganda yet again. A lot of the propaganda accuses Trump of being anti-Semitic.
The Jews cranked out fake news about Obama being a Muslim to hide how it was really Jews who controlled Obama.
Like Obama, Trump is also backed and financed by super rich Jews. Obama was financed by the George Soros Jews. Trump is backed by the Kushner and Adelson Jews. Both Obama and Trump were backed by powerful Jewish political machines.
Just as the Jews media hid Obama’s Jewish puppet masters with propaganda about Obama being Muslim, the Jews media is now accusing Trump of being anti-Semitic to hide Trump’s Jewish puppet masters.
Dear Brother Nathanael,
Thanks for the update.
There are alot of those lately. . .
The Cross is eternal whether or not it’s “broken”.
Stay safe and may God’s protective hand be upon you.
Why is it easier to pray for some more than those others. . .but I digress. I really struggle with love your enemies. . .
Say hello to the Trumpster and Stephen Miller. 🙂
Bro Nat,
The Mossad always uses four tactics. 1) Bribery 2) Sex – girls or children 3) Murder or 4) Winding up a Psycho and setting him on a target.
It sounds like they tried number 4 on you with that black psycho.
Funny watching Christian Anampour pretending to be sympathetic with the refugees in Jordan.
As Israeli owned CNN’s main propagandist for the Greater Israel Project, she is one of the main reasons they are in the refugee camps.
As Steven Rowlandson says above, Israel should accept all these refugees as the Greater Israel Project is the reason they had to flee their homelands.
The Jews would enjoy the ethnic diversity that comes with the multi-culturalism that they have created with their wars — a few honors killing here and a little female circumcision there. Mayb a stoning or two.
The rich Jews driving these “color” wars from Ukraine to Syria, like George Soros and the Jews behind the Federal Reserve and Goldman Sachs, ought to have their assets liquidated and be be forced to pay the upkeep for all the refugees until the end of time.
Trump does almost everything Bibi wants, and yet they still go after him for not saying the exact things they want to hear about recent events. (Maybe it’s because he said something about the settlements?)
Donald Trump’s Jewish Problem
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/02/donald_trump_s_disturbing_dalliance_with_anti_semitic_rhetoric.html
I would call his disturbing Jewish problem the fact that he has not stopped aid and he promised the moon at AIPAC. And that’s just for starters.
Liberals, particularly those running the universities now, are very, very rude. They each get paid over 100,000/yr. to do nothing but keep seats warm and play head games.
Liberals are vicious, filthy animals!
I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you!
Is anyone surprised?
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i24NEWS (Israel): Israeli defense chief says ISIS in Sinai ‘annoying’, but not real threat
02/21/2017
Liberman says ISIS’s Sinai affiliate ‘random amateurs’ compared to Hamas, Hezbollah.
Israel’s defense minister Avigdor Liberman on Monday downplayed the threat posed by the Islamic State jihadist group’s affiliate in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, saying that while they are “annoying” and “hindersome” they are not a serious concern for Israel’s security.
“If you are talking about Hamas and Hezbollah then [the Islamic State’s Sinai affiliate] is not even a terror group,” Lieberman told Army Radio, describing the group as “random [amateurs] who decided to build themselves an army.”
“We need to see everything in proportion,” he said.
Liberman’s comments came after two projectiles were fired from the Egyptian enclave, landing without incident in open areas in southern Israel.
While no group claimed the rocket fire, the Islamic State claimed hours earlier that an alleged Israeli drone strike in northern Sinai had killed five of its militants.
Asked whether Israel had carried out the strike, Liberman said sarcastically that the terrorists were likely taken out by “the special forces of Lichtenstein,” before adding: “We do not let anything go without a response.”
The jihadist group’s Egyptian affiliate Wilayat Sayna (formerly known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis) has been behind periodic rocket fire toward Israel, most recently claiming a salvo of rockets fired at the nearby Red Sea resort of city of Eilat.
The group said the attack was launched “in order to teach the Jews and the crusaders a proxy war will not avail them of anything.”
The Islamic State group claims to be active on Israel’s northern border as well, announcing though its affiliated Amaq news website that it had expanded its reach in southwestern Syria near in the Golan Heights, which borders Israel.
Syrian rebels and witnesses said ISIS militants launched a surprise attack on towns situated along the Yarmouk River between Syria and Israel.
“In a surprise attack Islamic State made an attack on positions held by the Free Syrian Army FSA groups which no one expected to happen so fast,” Newsweek quotes Colonel Ismail Ayoub, a Syrian opposition army defector, as saying.
Israel has so far largely avoided major ISIS-inspired attacks in the country, though it estimates that around 50 of its citizens have traveled to Syria to fight with Sunni rebels.
http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/diplomacy-defense/138214-170221-israeli-defense-chief-says-isis-in-sinai-annoying-but-not-real-threat
Vineyards & Fig Trees
Richard Edmondson
[Clueless Nimrata] Haley Calls Apartheid Israel ‘the one true democracy in the Middle East’
Out of all of Trump’s appointees, Nikkie Haley is probably one of the worst.
Formerly a governor of South Carolina, Haley is the current US ambassador to the United Nations. That’s her in the video above giving a presentation at the UN last Thursday.
I’m not sure how much Haley knows about international law. According to Wikipedia, she graduated from Clemson University with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting.
How she ended up as UN ambassador, after criticizing Trump in the general election, is unclear. *
At any rate, Haley seems fully unaware that Israeli settlements are illegal under international law.
Nor does she seem to comprehend why other UN-member states might press for resolutions seeking to call Israel to account, both for its settlements as well as its 50-year occupation of the West Bank–land universally recognized as necessary for a Palestinian state.
So perhaps she is simply uninformed and does not understand the nature of Israel’s occupation or its devastating impact upon the lives of those forced to live under it. Or at least that’s one possibility.
The other possibility, of course, is that Haley does understand these things…and that she simply believes Israel is exceptional and should not have to follow the same laws and international standards that apply to other states.
If so, apparently in Israel are those who would agree with her.
Less than a week after her talk at the UN–in which she accused the body of a “prejudiced approach to Israeli-Palestinian issues”–an Israeli military court handed down an 18-month sentence to an Israeli soldier who carried out an execution-style slaying of a wounded Palestinian in March of last year.
There was no doubt the soldier was the one who pulled the trigger. The shooting was captured live on video.
The sentence of 18 months he received for killing a Palestinian is lighter than what Palestinian children are often given for throwing stones.
* Incredibly, Haley also voiced criticism of Trump–over his stance on Russia–during her congressional confirmation hearings back in January.
At that time she accused Russia of “war crimes,” and said, “They (the Russians) have done some terrible atrocities.”
https://richardedmondson.net/2017/02/21/nikki-haley-calls-apartheid-israel-the-one-true-democracy-in-the-middle-east/#more-12668
Trump UN ambassador trashes the UN for its anti Israel obsession
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8gqedUofcs
The double-minded, lying, hypocrisy which Nimrata vomits out is stunning.
The Palestine Chronicle
The Trump-Netanyahu Circus: Now, No One Can Save Israel from Itself
Feb 22 2017
By Dr. Ramzy Baroud
The President of the United States can hardly be taken seriously, saying much but doing little. His words, often offensive, carry no substance, and it is impossible to summarize his complex political outlook about important issues.
This is precisely the type of American presidency that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prefers. However, Donald Trump is not just a raving man, but a dangerous one as well.
His unpredictability must worry Israel, which expects from its American benefactors complete clarity and consistency in terms of its political support. At the age of 70, Trump is incapable of being the stalwart, pro-Zionist ideologue in a way that suits Israeli interests well.
Take, for example, the White House press conference following the much anticipated visit by Netanyahu to Washington on 15 February.
The visit was scheduled immediately after Trump’s inauguration on 20 January and is considered the Trump Presidency’s answer to what Israel wrongly perceives as a hostile US administration under former President Barack Obama.
However, Obama granted Israel $38 billion over the course of ten years, estimated to be the most generous aid package in US history.
He supported all the Israeli wars against Palestinians during his presidency, and unfailingly defended Israel before the international community, at the United Nations and every global forum in which Israel was justifiably criticised.
But Israel expects blind support.
It needs a US administration that is as loyal as the US Congress, always praising Israel, degrading Palestinians, dismissing international law, calling to stop funding the UN for daring to demand accountability from Israel, feeding Israeli “security” phobias with monetary and absolute political backing, demonising Iran, undermining the Arabs and repeating all Israeli talking points fed to them by Tel Aviv and by the fifth column lobbyists in Washington.
Trump is striving to be that person, the messiah that Israel’s army of right-wing, ultranationalists and religious zealots have been calling for. But this appears beyond the man’s control, no matter how hard he tries.
“Looking at two-state or one-state, I like the one that both parties like. I’m very happy with the one both parties like. I can live with either one,” Trump said in answer to a journalist’s question, implying to Israel that the US will no longer impose solutions; instead, Trump pushed the “one-state solution” idea to the very top of the discussion.
It is not what Israel wanted – or expected.
In Washington, Netanyahu, with unmistakable pomposity, stood before the media and simply lied. He painted Israel as vulnerable, a prey for dark “radical Islam” forces, ready to strike from every corner.
He presented Iran’s nuclear capabilities as if it is lined up to incinerate Israel, itself built atop the graves and villages of dispossessed Palestinians. No journalist had the courage to quiz the Israeli leader about his own country’s massive nuclear arsenal and other weapons of mass destruction.
Listening to him preach fabricated history to the incurious American media, one would think that militarily powerful Israel is occupied by hostile Palestinian foreigners, and not vice versa.
Netanyahu claimed his people belonged to Palestine as the French belonged to France and the Chinese to China. But if European Jewish immigrants are the natives of Palestine, then what is one to make of Palestinians?
How is one to explain their existence on land that has carried their collective name for millennia?
This is inconsequential to the US government and mainstream media. US media is as uninformed about the realities of the Middle East as Trump, who seems to have only two main talking points about the whole issue, both embarrassingly bizarre:
Israel has been treated “very, very badly” by the US, and he has a “really great peace deal” in store.On the contrary, Palestinians have been treated “very, very badly” by the US, the most generous supporter of Israel.
Israel has used mostly American weapons in its wars against Palestinians and other Arab nations, with thousands of Palestinians losing their lives because of this blind American patronage.
As for his “really great peace deal”, Trump has nothing. “Really great” seems to be his answer to everything, to the point that his words are becoming ineffectual clichés, suitable for twitter jokes and comedy.
Furthermore, Netanyahu, urged on by – to quote former Secretary of State, John Kerry – the “most right-wing coalition in Israeli history” – wants the US to unconditionally support Israel as the latter is finalizing its future “vision”.
Now, it seems that Israel is concluding that territorial quest. The “Regularization Law” passed recently in Israel’s parliament – the Knesset – will retroactively validate all Israeli illegal settlers’ claims over Palestinian land.
Top Israel officials now openly speak of annexation of the West Bank, using language that was formerly reserved for Jewish extremists.
Israel’s president believes annexation is the answer. “I, Rubi Rivlin, believe that Zion is entirely ours. I believe the sovereignty of the State of Israel must be in all the blocs,” Rivlin said, emphasizing that he was referring to the entire West Bank, as quoted by the Times of Israel.
The consensus among Israel’s ruling class is that a Palestinian state should never be established. Trump, although incoherent, granted them just that.
So what does Netanyahu want? We know he does not want a Palestinian state and plans to annex all Jewish colonies, while continuing to expand over stolen Palestinian land.
He wants Palestinians to exist, but without political will of their own, without sovereignty, forced to accept that Israel is a Jewish state (thus signing off on their historic right to their own land); to remain subdued, passive, disarmed, dehumanized [& give up the right of return to their own land from the Palestinian diaspora – Kj].
Netanyahu’s end game is Apartheid, racist segregation where one party, Israeli Jews, dominates and exploits the other – Palestinian Arabs: Muslims and Christians. But human dignity is not open for negotiation, no matter how a “good negotiator” Netanyahu is – according to Trump’s assertion.
Palestinians have resisted Israel for nearly 70 years because they challenge their servitude. They will continue to resist. Israel has the military means to punish Palestinians for their resistance, to push them behind military checkpoints and trap them behind walls.
Yet, it is not a matter of firepower, and no wall can be high enough to stymie the echoes of oppressed people striving for freedom, human rights, equality and solidarity.
Netanyahu must feel triumphant because of Trump’s assuring words. The Israeli leader wants any victory, however illusive, to buy time and the allegiance of his camp of extremists, especially now that he is being investigated for fraud and is likely to be indicted.
He may even initiate a war against Gaza to create further distraction, and will readily spin facts so that his country is presented as a victim, to test American support and to “downgrade” Hamas’ and other Palestinian groups’ defenses.
However, none of this will change the reality that Netanyahu has unwisely constructed. His vision for Israel is the perpetual subjugation of Palestinians through a system of racial discrimination that will continue until the world unravels the lies and the propaganda.
Having Trump by his side, Netanyahu will work diligently to perfect the Palestinian prison in the name of Israel’s security.
Palestinians must now respond, without the irrelevant rhetoric of a “two-state solution,” but with a unified universal message to the rest of the world: expecting – in fact, demanding – freedom, equality, full rights in a society that is not predicated on racial order, but on equal citizenship.
Israel has laid out its dark vision. Palestinians must present the antithesis to that destructive vision: a road map towards justice, equality and peace for all.
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/the-trump-netanyahu-circus-now-no-one-can-save-israel-from-itself/
Israeli warplane attacks Syrian Army in west Damascus
BEIRUT, LEBANON (3:45 A.M.) – [In the early A.M. today] an Israeli warplane conducted an airstrike over the western countryside of Damascus, targeting the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) positions in the Qalamoun Mountains near the Lebanese border.
A Syrian Army source told Al-Masdar this morning that the Israeli warplane had crossed into Syria after flying over Lebanon’s ‘Arsal Barrens, where both Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS) are headquartered in the eastern Beqa’a Governorate.
The Syrian Army source added that the specific location of the attack was in the Al-Quteifah area of the Qalamoun Mountains.
No casualties have been reported to Al-Masdar at this time.
This morning’s airstrike comes just one month after Israeli warplanes targeted the Syrian Arab Army’s positions inside the Golan Heights region of the Al-Quneitra Governorate.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-israeli-warplane-attacks-syrian-army-west-damascus/
@Kath Nikki Haley is a known neocon shill and an Indian Sikh, known to kiss & praise Jews in America and there in Israel, due to her interests aligned most of the time.
She, in other words, is Jewcuck. She rose to her position she is now through many scandals and favoritism.
Many East Indians in America are pro-Jewish, pro globalist/ neoliberal neocons, unlike India, which favors neoliberalism for America due to Silicon Valley contracts, but is leaning toward pro-BRICS in global politics rather than neoconservatism, and is on its own economically.
I truly despise Nikki Haley and hope Trump will dump her.
We will know soon enough if Trump sells out to the Cucks.
Remember Trump did play with Romney’s poor head, inviting him to the White House, making him and us think Romney had a place on the Trump team, then out of nowhere, Trump completely dissed him.
We really should give Trump a chance here, after all, with the help of Jeff Sessions today, the Tranny Freaks may be headed back to the basement, where they belong.
No way we would have got that with Clinton or that Cuck Cruz.
The end times Jewish Messiah will return Jerusalem as satanic end times Israel’s Capitol. The previous three anti-Christ rulers of mystery Babylon the great, America, over the previous 24 years prior to Chump were unable to achieve this.
Now we have a King of mystery Babylon, because of his Jewish family, who will achieve this and be accepted as the Jewish messiah by the Jews. Chump has drained the monsters of the swamp directly into his administration.
Chump has revealed that he is 100% behind Rothschild’s satanic end times Israel, the abomination before God.
Chump calls Nutty the Yahoo — mass-murdering, lying satanic fruitcake — a great man. Excuse me for sec while I puke. That’s better. Now where was I? Chump knows that 9/11 was a false flag used to destroy satanic end times Israel’s enemies to enable the creation of greater Israel.
The false prophet, the Pope, now sits in the his ling, Lucifer, and the King of mystery Babylon works for the sons of the devil, the Jews who claim they are Jews but are NOT, but who worship in the SINaGOG of Ratchild.
I watched this video again.
It is funny! Good guy, Brother Nathanael, keep up your good work!
I’d like to join you in DC Saturday.
Keep fighting!
@ +BN
Please explain the ideas behind moving the US embassy to Jerusalem or out of the country as Trump has announced.