veteranstoday--2020-08-05--The Pentagon’s New UFO Disclosures: 75 Years of MK Ultra Psy Ops

In my last few articles , I found myself writing on the theme of the emerging new system and the battle between two paradigms ( multipolar vs unipolar ) .
Within that theme , the important issue of psy ops , false solutions and epistemological warfare which are a part of everyone ’ s ’ daily life ( whether they know it or not ) arose as well .
Recent events and announcements have caused me to tackle another aspect of psychological warfare in the modern age .
What would you do if the American and British governments both revealed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ material from each nations ’ respective National Archives ?
What if you found out that leading politicians like former House Majority speaker Harry Reid had allocated $ 22 millions of tax payer dollars to UFO research and that Obama ’ s former chief counsellor ( and rampant pedophile ) John Podesta has openly called for UFO disclosure on several public occasions since 2002 or that Hillary Clinton herself called for UFO disclosure during her presidential campaign pledges of 2015 ?
Would you believe these claims or would you remain skeptical ?
How would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the July 23 public statement from the Pentagon that “ off world vehicles not made on this earth ” have been kept secret for decades , this question has become extremely important .
Major opinion-shapers like Joe Rogan , Tucker Carlson , and even Russia Today have promoted the cause of alien disclosure for the past few years and with the most recent Pentagon announcement , fascination in little grey men has spread like wildfire .
For the past several decades , government-sponsored UFO research has largely been driven by the work of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ founded by billionaire real estate speculator Robert Bigelow .
Having recently joined the “ new space movement ” ( ie : an anti-nation state trojan horse designed to promote privatized money driven model of space funding ) alongside other billionaires like Elon Musk , Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson , Bigelow allocated large swaths of his fortunes to the creation of organizations like the National Institute for Discovery Science which have always worked in a private capacity with governments and academia .
One of Bigelow ’ s biggest tools was Sen. Harry @ @ @ @ @ @ @ funds from the billionaire between 1998-2009 but also allocated tens of millions in national defense funds to his company starting in 2007 .
In 2014 , the creative force driving the “ UFO-disclosure cause ” has taken the form of a weird organization called To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science run by high level intelligence operatives and using a cardboard cut-out Tom Delonge ( former lead singer of the punk band Blink 182 ) .
To the Stars has poured millions of dollars into cultural/educational and lobbying projects driven by books @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the cause of “ elevating global consciousness ” in preparation for a new age of UFO disclosure .
As Delonge says in his promotional video : Some of the shadowy figures affiliated with To the Stars and featured on the group ’ s website include a former CIA director of operations , former Deputy Assistant secretary for Defense Intelligence , former Director of Information for White House Technology , and former chief of the CIA ’ s counter-biological weapons program .
Both Podesta and Bigelow ’ s Aerospace have also worked closely with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ past six years .
Bigelow is not the only billionaire who has allocated their vast fortunes to the cause of “ UFO truth ” .
In 1993 , the Disclosure Initiative was created by none other than financier Laurence Rockefeller ( 4th son of Standard Oil Founder John D. Rockefeller ) .
The initiative had a two-fold purpose : • Unite all of the largest UFO research organizations in America under one umbrella organization which was promptly accomplished within one year and • Massively lobby the Clinton Administration to declassify millions of documents @ @ @ @ @ @ @ little more than mountains of anecdotal testimonies and correspondences .
During the heyday of the Rockefeller UFO Disclosure Initiative , the Clintons stayed at the Laurence Rockefeller ranch in Wyoming , during which time an early recruit to the “ disclosure mission ” was Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta .
Podesta started going public with calls for UFO disclosure in 2002 and has continued to work with figures like Bigelow and To the Stars Academy over the next 18 years .
A fuller overview of Laurence Rockefeller ’ s “ other ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seen here .
During the Clinton White House years , Laurence Rockefeller recruited a bodybuilding biologist named Stephen Greer to become the controller of the Disclosure Project which has provided his meal ticket to this very day .
Greer has given thousands of interviews promoting the narrative that NASA ’ s Apollo Lunar projects were stopped in 1972 merely because the aliens who have been stationed on the Moon for eons didn ’ t want the truth to leak out ( but were at least kind enough to let us keep the technology @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 1950s ) .
If you believe in Greer ’ s narrative ( which gets much crazier I promise ) , then human creative thought is actually not as special as “ the shadowy forces controlling the government ” wanted you to believe since space technology only exists because we stole stuff from ETs .
Pretty much any inspired awe in universal creation and the power of the human mind to discover this creation with the effect of making life better through scientific and technological progress would easily be killed from this outlook @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of advanced knowledge or technological progress just become another kind of “ secret knowledge ” for some gnostic-styled cult with a select few endowed with the powers of secret knowledge ( in this case , those who are privy to communicate with aliens and use their tech . )
The questions an intelligent person should now ask are : Why would a leading figure of the Rockefeller dynasty devote the last decades of his life to the cause of “ UFO truth ” ?
Did Laurence Rockefeller or those on his payroll or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the right of the people to know hidden truths , or is the plan just designed to mis-direct the minds of credulous and jaded citizens into an invisible cage ?
Might such a mis-direction prevent people from dealing with issues of America ’ s lurch to fascism and accelerating disintegration ?
Is it possible that these pedophiles , globalists , and Malthusian billionaires care less about the truth and more about inducing Americans to fixate on aliens while the republic is destroyed under economic collapse and war ?
A large portion of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into the investigation of crop circles which were first recorded in the early 1970s in Britain , and which have the peculiar characteristic of becoming increasingly well executed and complex over the course of five decades .
Live Science reported that “ the first real crop circles didn ’ t appear until the 1970s , when simple circles began appearing in the English countryside .
The number and complexity of the circles increased dramatically , reaching a peak in the 1980s and 1990s when increasingly elaborate circles were produced ” .
My question @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at faster-than light speed , have been leaving encoded messages to us , then why would their artistic skills have improved so dramatically over a few years ?
Just a question .
Most people know of the CIA/MI6-funded mass brainwashing operation known as MK Ultra which was launched in 1953 .
Very few people have recognized the connection between MK Ultra and the rise of the UFO movement that grew in spades throughout the Cold War .
While US and UK government UFO investigations did occur in piece meal starting in 1947 under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Project Grudge ( 1949 ) , it wasn ’ t until 1950 that official tax payer-funded departments were created in both nations to pursue “ UFO research ” .
These took the form of the USA ’ s Project Blue Book ( 1952 ) which itself was modelled on the work conducted by Britain ’ s 1950 “ Flying Saucer Working Party ” spear-headed by Sir Henry Tizard ( Chief Science Advisor to the Ministry of Defense and Chairman of Britain ’ s Defense Research Policy Committee ) .
Journalist Naomi Klein stated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Tizard played a leading role in the creation and funding of MK Ultra during a high level meeting in Montreal and Tizard ’ s Wikipedia entry notes that : This Ritz-Carleton meeting would lay the seeds for MK Ultra that was not only designed to deal with brainwashing , but created LSD , and explored the matter of breaking down a human mind into a blank slate with the explicit intention of reconstructing minds from scratch .
As Klein ’ s book eloquently showcases , the intention was to use these discoveries on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ shock therapy ” on nations in order to break cultures and nations from their historic memories and traditions with the purpose of reconstructing them under a post-nation state ( and post truth ) neo liberal world order .
While MK Ultra was funded and executed by the Americans , the guidance for this operation were always driven by London ’ s Tavistock Clinic .
A bone chilling expose of this clinic was produced by EIR ’ s Jeffrey Steinberg in 1993 which may keep you up at night .
As one can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government funds to investigate flying saucers was itself sufficient to legitimize the existence of aliens in the minds of millions of Europeans and Americans during the Cold War years .
During these dark years , faith in honest government collapsed under the imperial wars of Korea , Vietnam abroad and the growth of the Military Industrial Complex and McCarthyism at home .
The world of secret patents , secret weapons , secret R & D that developed during this period in facilities like Area 51 made the frequent sightings by civilians and even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aircraft ” an expected occurrence .
In her 2012 book Area 51 Uncensored , journalist Annie Jacobson provided lengthy detail of the Cold War experiments , aerospace technology and nuclear bomb testing that took place at Area 51 during this period which largely put the earlier social engineer experiment of H.G .
Wells ’ War of the Worlds emergency broadcast read aloud in 1938 .
The mass panic that ensued the broadcast provided an insight into the levers of mass psychology that certain social engineers drooled over .
What could account for observed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ NPR Radio , Jacobson stated : During WWII , the Horten brothers were associated with the Austrian scientist Viktor Shauberger whose innovative designs for implosion ( vs explosion ) flying technology utilized water currents , and electromagnetism to generate flying machines that by all surviving accounts flew faster than the speed of sound .
While much of his research was confiscated and classified by victor nations after WWII , Schauberger was promised government sponsorship in America which induced the inventor to move across the ccean where Canada ’ s Avro Arrow program sought @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aircraft .
When he discovered that his work would only be used for military purposes , Schauberger pushed back and over the course of several months , his patents were essentially stolen , and he returned to Austria to die broke and depressed in 1958 .
It was never a secret that the post-1971 globalized world order championed by the likes of Sir Henry Kissinger , David and Laurence Rockefeller and other Malthusians throughout the 20th century was always designed to collapse .
With the mass shock therapy that such a collapse would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ believed that a deconstruction of the Abrahamic traditions that governed western society for 2000 years could be accomplished and a new society could be socially engineered in the image of the Brave New ( depopulated ) World that would live like happy sheep forever under the grip of a hereditary alpha class and their technocratic managers .
The story of the Tavistock-led attack on scientific progress is told brilliantly in the 2010 Lpac film The Destruction of NASA .
The only problem these social engineers have encountered in recent years is the re-emergence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sacrifice their people and traditions on the altar of a new global Gaia cult .
Such defenders of humanity ’ s better traditions have launched the multipolar alliance and have driven a policy of long-term growth and advance scientific and technological progress which is embodied brilliantly by the New Silk Road , and its extensions to the Arctic .
The most exciting aspect of this New Silk Road/Multipolar Paradigm is the leap into space exploration as the new frontier of human self-development which has not been seen since the days of President Kennedy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pact to jointly develop lunar bases and the NASA Artemis Accords calling for international cooperation on Lunar and Mars resource development/industrialization , the age of unlimited growth that was lost with the LSD-driven mass psychosis of 1968 ’ s “ live in the now ” paradigm shift may finally be recaptured .
Programs designed to put humanity ’ s focus on real objective threats like Asteroid collisions , and solar-induced new ice ages are seriously being discussed by leaders of Russia , China and the USA .
There are billions of suns and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are there is indeed life on many of the planets orbiting some of the stars within our growing , creative universe… and there is also a fair chance that cognitive life has also emerged on some of those planets .
The best way to find out is not to sit at home while the world economic system collapses under a controlled disintegration thinking about Rockefeller-funded conspiracy theories , but rather to fight to revive humanity ’ s open system destiny starting with a cooperative space program to extend human culture and economy to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ onto other planetary bodies followed by missions to deep space .
If other civilizations exist , maybe it is our duty to take up the torch left to us by JFK and go find them .
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review , a BRI Expert on Tactical talk , and has authored 3 volumes of ‘ Untold History of Canada ’ book series .
In 2019 he co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation .
He can be reached at [ email protected ]

In my last few articles, I found myself writing on the theme of the emerging new system and the battle between two paradigms (multipolar vs unipolar).
Within that theme, the important issue of psy ops, false solutions and epistemological warfare which are a part of everyone’s’ daily life (whether they know it or not) arose as well. Recent events and announcements have caused me to tackle another aspect of psychological warfare in the modern age.
What would you do if the American and British governments both revealed that their secret UFO programs would declassify material from each nations’ respective National Archives?
What if you found out that leading politicians like former House Majority speaker Harry Reid had allocated $22 millions of tax payer dollars to UFO research and that Obama’s former chief counsellor (and rampant pedophile) John Podesta has openly called for UFO disclosure on several public occasions since 2002 or that Hillary Clinton herself called for UFO disclosure during her presidential campaign pledges of 2015?
Would you believe these claims or would you remain skeptical? How would you decide what to do?
With the July 23 public statement from the Pentagon that “off world vehicles not made on this earth” have been kept secret for decades, this question has become extremely important.
Major opinion-shapers like Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, and even Russia Today have promoted the cause of alien disclosure for the past few years and with the most recent Pentagon announcement, fascination in little grey men has spread like wildfire.
Who’s Playing this Game?
For the past several decades, government-sponsored UFO research has largely been driven by the work of private subcontractors like Bigelow Aerospace which was founded by billionaire real estate speculator Robert Bigelow. Having recently joined the “new space movement” (ie: an anti-nation state trojan horse designed to promote privatized money driven model of space funding) alongside other billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson, Bigelow allocated large swaths of his fortunes to the creation of organizations like the National Institute for Discovery Science which have always worked in a private capacity with governments and academia. One of Bigelow’s biggest tools was Sen. Harry Reid who not only received generous campaign funds from the billionaire between 1998-2009 but also allocated tens of millions in national defense funds to his company starting in 2007.
In 2014, the creative force driving the “UFO-disclosure cause” has taken the form of a weird organization called To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science run by high level intelligence operatives and using a cardboard cut-out Tom Delonge (former lead singer of the punk band Blink 182). To the Stars has poured millions of dollars into cultural/educational and lobbying projects driven by books, movies, film and documentaries in the cause of “elevating global consciousness” in preparation for a new age of UFO disclosure.
As Delonge says in his promotional video:
“through a series of meetings I was soon connected to a large group of US government officials. From the CIA, to the Department of Defense to Lockheed Martin Skunkworks. These were the guys involved in the secretive government programs that dealt with these subjects.”
Some of the shadowy figures affiliated with To the Stars and featured on the group’s website include a former CIA director of operations, former Deputy Assistant secretary for Defense Intelligence, former Director of Information for White House Technology, and former chief of the CIA’s counter-biological weapons program. Both Podesta and Bigelow’s Aerospace have also worked closely with Delonge’s strange group over the past six years.
Bigelow is not the only billionaire who has allocated their vast fortunes to the cause of “UFO truth”.
The Rockefeller UFO Project
In 1993, the Disclosure Initiative was created by none other than financier Laurence Rockefeller (4th son of Standard Oil Founder John D. Rockefeller). The initiative had a two-fold purpose:
Unite all of the largest UFO research organizations in America under one umbrella organization which was promptly accomplished within one year and
Massively lobby the Clinton Administration to declassify millions of documents which was done in 1994, revealing little more than mountains of anecdotal testimonies and correspondences.
During the heyday of the Rockefeller UFO Disclosure Initiative, the Clintons stayed at the Laurence Rockefeller ranch in Wyoming, during which time an early recruit to the “disclosure mission” was Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta. Podesta started going public with calls for UFO disclosure in 2002 and has continued to work with figures like Bigelow and To the Stars Academy over the next 18 years.
A fuller overview of Laurence Rockefeller’s “other” civilization-shifting programs from the 1950s-1990s can be seen here.
During the Clinton White House years, Laurence Rockefeller recruited a bodybuilding biologist named Stephen Greer to become the controller of the Disclosure Project which has provided his meal ticket to this very day. Greer has given thousands of interviews promoting the narrative that NASA’s Apollo Lunar projects were stopped in 1972 merely because the aliens who have been stationed on the Moon for eons didn’t want the truth to leak out (but were at least kind enough to let us keep the technology they gave us earlier in Roswell in the 1950s). If you believe in Greer’s narrative (which gets much crazier I promise), then human creative thought is actually not as special as “the shadowy forces controlling the government” wanted you to believe since space technology only exists because we stole stuff from ETs. Pretty much any inspired awe in universal creation and the power of the human mind to discover this creation with the effect of making life better through scientific and technological progress would easily be killed from this outlook.
Steven Greer
From this mindset, the idea of advanced knowledge or technological progress just become another kind of “secret knowledge” for some gnostic-styled cult with a select few endowed with the powers of secret knowledge (in this case, those who are privy to communicate with aliens and use their tech.)
The questions an intelligent person should now ask are:
Why would a leading figure of the Rockefeller dynasty devote the last decades of his life to the cause of “UFO truth”? Did Laurence Rockefeller or those on his payroll or those in the CIA actually care about the right of the people to know hidden truths, or is the plan just designed to mis-direct the minds of credulous and jaded citizens into an invisible cage? Might such a mis-direction prevent people from dealing with issues of America’s lurch to fascism and accelerating disintegration?
Is it possible that these pedophiles, globalists, and Malthusian billionaires care less about the truth and more about inducing Americans to fixate on aliens while the republic is destroyed under economic collapse and war?
Squaring the Crop Circle
A large portion of the Disclosure Project’s work has gone into the investigation of crop circles which were first recorded in the early 1970s in Britain, and which have the peculiar characteristic of becoming increasingly well executed and complex over the course of five decades. Live Science reported that “the first real crop circles didn’t appear until the 1970s, when simple circles began appearing in the English countryside. The number and complexity of the circles increased dramatically, reaching a peak in the 1980s and 1990s when increasingly elaborate circles were produced”.
My question is: If transcendental alien races travelling at faster-than light speed, have been leaving encoded messages to us, then why would their artistic skills have improved so dramatically over a few years? Just a question.
MK Ultra & UFOs
Most people know of the CIA/MI6-funded mass brainwashing operation known as MK Ultra which was launched in 1953. Very few people have recognized the connection between MK Ultra and the rise of the UFO movement that grew in spades throughout the Cold War.
While US and UK government UFO investigations did occur in piece meal starting in 1947 under Project Sign (1947), and Project Grudge (1949), it wasn’t until 1950 that official tax payer-funded departments were created in both nations to pursue “UFO research”. These took the form of the USA’s Project Blue Book (1952) which itself was modelled on the work conducted by Britain’s 1950 “Flying Saucer Working Party” spear-headed by Sir Henry Tizard (Chief Science Advisor to the Ministry of Defense and Chairman of Britain’s Defense Research Policy Committee).
Journalist Naomi Klein stated in her book The Shock Doctrine that Tizard played a leading role in the creation and funding of MK Ultra during a high level meeting in Montreal and Tizard’s Wikipedia entry notes that:
“One of the most controversial meetings he had to attend in his capacity as chair of the National Research Commission would only emerge many years later with the de-classification of CIA documents, namely a meeting on June 1st, 1951 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Montreal Canada, between Tizard, Omond Solandt (chairman of Defence Research and Development Canada) and representatives of the CIA to discuss “brainwashing”.
This Ritz-Carleton meeting would lay the seeds for MK Ultra that was not only designed to deal with brainwashing, but created LSD, and explored the matter of breaking down a human mind into a blank slate with the explicit intention of reconstructing minds from scratch. As Klein’s book eloquently showcases, the intention was to use these discoveries on a national scale in order to conduct “shock therapy” on nations in order to break cultures and nations from their historic memories and traditions with the purpose of reconstructing them under a post-nation state (and post truth) neo liberal world order. While MK Ultra was funded and executed by the Americans, the guidance for this operation were always driven by London’s Tavistock Clinic. A bone chilling expose of this clinic was produced by EIR’s Jeffrey Steinberg in 1993 which may keep you up at night.
As one can imagine, the very act of providing government funds to investigate flying saucers was itself sufficient to legitimize the existence of aliens in the minds of millions of Europeans and Americans during the Cold War years. During these dark years, faith in honest government collapsed under the imperial wars of Korea, Vietnam abroad and the growth of the Military Industrial Complex and McCarthyism at home. The world of secret patents, secret weapons, secret R&D that developed during this period in facilities like Area 51 made the frequent sightings by civilians and even un-vetted military pilots of “unidentified flying aircraft” an expected occurrence.
Flying Saucers and Area 51
In her 2012 book Area 51 Uncensored, journalist Annie Jacobson provided lengthy detail of the Cold War experiments, aerospace technology and nuclear bomb testing that took place at Area 51 during this period which largely put the earlier social engineer experiment of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds emergency broadcast read aloud in 1938. The mass panic that ensued the broadcast provided an insight into the levers of mass psychology that certain social engineers drooled over.
What could account for observed UFO phenomena?
In an interview with NPR Radio, Jacobson stated:
“The UFO craze began in the summer of 1947. Several months later, the G2 intelligence, which was the Army intelligence corps at the time, spent an enormous amount of time and treasure seeking out two former Third Reich aerospace designers named Walter and Reimar Horten who had allegedly created [a] flying disc. … American intelligence agents fanned out across Europe seeking the Horton brothers to find out if, in fact, they had made this flying disc.”
During WWII, the Horten brothers were associated with the Austrian scientist Viktor Shauberger whose innovative designs for implosion (vs explosion) flying technology utilized water currents, and electromagnetism to generate flying machines that by all surviving accounts flew faster than the speed of sound. While much of his research was confiscated and classified by victor nations after WWII, Schauberger was promised government sponsorship in America which induced the inventor to move across the ccean where Canada’s Avro Arrow program sought his designs for supersonic nuclear missile delivery aircraft. When he discovered that his work would only be used for military purposes, Schauberger pushed back and over the course of several months, his patents were essentially stolen, and he returned to Austria to die broke and depressed in 1958.
The Strategic Importance of Space
It was never a secret that the post-1971 globalized world order championed by the likes of Sir Henry Kissinger, David and Laurence Rockefeller and other Malthusians throughout the 20th century was always designed to collapse. With the mass shock therapy that such a collapse would impose upon the world, it was believed that a deconstruction of the Abrahamic traditions that governed western society for 2000 years could be accomplished and a new society could be socially engineered in the image of the Brave New (depopulated) World that would live like happy sheep forever under the grip of a hereditary alpha class and their technocratic managers. The story of the Tavistock-led attack on scientific progress is told brilliantly in the 2010 Lpac film The Destruction of NASA.
The only problem these social engineers have encountered in recent years is the re-emergence of actual statesmen who are unwilling to sacrifice their people and traditions on the altar of a new global Gaia cult. Such defenders of humanity’s better traditions have launched the multipolar alliance and have driven a policy of long-term growth and advance scientific and technological progress which is embodied brilliantly by the New Silk Road, and its extensions to the Arctic. The most exciting aspect of this New Silk Road/Multipolar Paradigm is the leap into space exploration as the new frontier of human self-development which has not been seen since the days of President Kennedy.
With China and Russia signing a pact to jointly develop lunar bases and the NASA Artemis Accords calling for international cooperation on Lunar and Mars resource development/industrialization, the age of unlimited growth that was lost with the LSD-driven mass psychosis of 1968’s “live in the now” paradigm shift may finally be recaptured. Programs designed to put humanity’s focus on real objective threats like Asteroid collisions, and solar-induced new ice ages are seriously being discussed by leaders of Russia, China and the USA.
There are billions of suns and potentially billions of galaxies, and chances are there is indeed life on many of the planets orbiting some of the stars within our growing, creative universe… and there is also a fair chance that cognitive life has also emerged on some of those planets. The best way to find out is not to sit at home while the world economic system collapses under a controlled disintegration thinking about Rockefeller-funded conspiracy theories, but rather to fight to revive humanity’s open system destiny starting with a cooperative space program to extend human culture and economy to the Moon and Mars, and then onto other planetary bodies followed by missions to deep space.
If other civilizations exist, maybe it is our duty to take up the torch left to us by JFK and go find them.
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review , a BRI Expert on Tactical talk, and has authored 3 volumes of ‘Untold History of Canada’ book series. In 2019 he co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation. He can be reached at matt.ehret@tutamail.com


veteranstoday--2020-08-05--Something rotten at the heart of UK Government

As George Washington put it , “ a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils ” .
He warned that sympathy for the favourite nation encourages the illusion of common interest where none really exists , risks participation in its quarrels and wars , and involves “ concessions to the favourite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained… And it gives to ambitious , corrupted , or deluded citizens ( who devote themselves to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sacrifice the interests of their own country.
” So a month ago I asked my MP Alister Jack : “ If Netanyahu proceeds with his sickening annexation , what will you say in Cabinet , please , about the need for real consequences such as sanctions ?
And will you speak up to ensure UK trade deals with Israel do not facilitate its territorial expansionism ?
” It was a reasonable question which he has chosen to ignore .
Jack is Secretary of State for Scotland in the UK Government and would be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ to foreign powers .
Netanyahu didn ’ t carry out his threatened land grab on 1 July but might yet do so .
Jack ’ s silence is therefore unacceptable and I ’ d like to know whether the person who represents me in Parliament aligns himself with the Israeli regime ’ s evil intent .
Meanwhile a pro-Palestinian activist , exasperated by the UK Foreign Office constantly repeating the same old mantra excusing its inaction over Israel ’ s illegal and brutal occupation of Palestine , has received the same old @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they will not be corresponding with her again .
The FO ’ s letter followed the familiar let ’ s-duck-the-issue formula .
• In line with international law , and relevant Security Council resolutions , notably Resolutions 242 and 497 , we do not recognize Israel ’ s sovereignty over the territories occupied by Israel since June 1967 , including the Golan Heights , and we do not consider them part of the territory of the State of Israel .
Okay .
But when is Britain , a key player in the founding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ permanent seat on the Security Council , going to do something about it ?
• The two-state solution is the only viable long-term solution .
It is the only way to permanently end the Arab-Israeli conflict , preserve Israel ’ s Jewish and democratic identity and realise Palestinian national aspirations .
The “ only way ” ?
Israel ’ s “ democratic identity ” , when it ’ s a deeply unpleasant ethnocracy ?
Why does Britain persist with these fantasies ?
• We are firmly opposed to sanctions .
We believe that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supporting anti-Israeli boycotts would not support our efforts to progress the peace process and achieve a negotiated solution .
But you ’ ll cheerfully slap Iran , for example , with sanctions for no good reason… .
except to please Israel and its bitch , the US , which is what all this is really about .
Civil society has resorted to BDS ( Boycott , Divestment , Sanctions ) in the absence of any real diplomatic pressure from the so-called ‘ great powers ’ .
It ’ s the only non-violent language @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beginning to work .
Get behind it .
We ’ re told that Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab spent the summer of 1998 working for one of the PLO ’ s chief negotiators on the Oslo peace accords , a doomed initiative begun in 1993 to create a form of interim governance and framework for a final treaty by the end of 1998 .
So Mr. Raab was there at a time when the two sides had been faffing about in the name of peace for 5 years and getting nowhere .
In October @ @ @ @ @ @ @ keep the charade going , held a summit at Maryland ’ s Wye River Plantation at which Clinton with Yasser Arafat , Benjamin Netanyahu , and senior negotiators produced the Wye River Memorandum .
Not that this did much good either .
But Raab must have learned a lot about Israeli perversity , not to mention America ’ s shortcomings as an honest broker .
Before entering Parliament Raab joined the Foreign Office and worked at The Hague bringing war criminals to justice , then became an adviser on the Arab-Israeli conflict .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump ’ s so-called peace plan saying : “ Only the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian territories can determine whether these proposals can meet the needs and aspirations of the people they represent .
We encourage them to give these plans genuine and fair consideration , and explore whether they might prove a first step on the road back to negotiations.
” But it ’ s debatable whether the leaders on either side represent anyone but themselves and their own warped interests .
Raab ’ s boss Boris Johnson said of it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It would ensure that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and of the Palestinian people….
” But the Trump Plan relegates the Palestinian capital to the outskirts of East Jerusalem keeping the rest of Jerusalem , including the sublime and ancient walled city ( which is officially Palestinian territory ) , under Israeli control .
That is perhaps the cruellest part of the Trump/Netanyahu swindle .
Because Jerusalem/Al-Quds is immensely holy to all three Abrahamic faiths , the UN proposed that it should be a corpus separatum – an internationally-governed open access @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
What could be more sensible than that ?
In the Global Britain debate on 3 February Raab boasted that Britain will be an even stronger force for good in the world .
“ Our guiding lights will remain the values of democracy , human rights and the international rule of law ” .
Whereupon Alistair Carmichael ( LibDem ) asked : “ If the concept of a global Britain is to have any meaning and value , surely it must have respect for human rights and international rules-based order at its heart @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Foreign Secretary reconsider the unqualified support he gave to President Trump last week in respect of the so-called peace plan for Palestine ?
Will the right hon .
Gentleman repudiate the proposed annexation of the West Bank and at long last support the recognition of a Palestinian state ?
” Raab replied : “ The one thing that the plan put forward by the US included was a recognition of and commitment to a two-state solution .
We have been absolutely clear that that is the only way in which the conflict @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rejecting the plan , it is important that we try to bring the parties together around the negotiating table .
That is the only path to peace and to a two-state solution.
” Then Foreign Office minister Lord Ahmad , in a debate on the Israel-Palestine conflict in March , said : “ The UK Government have made it clear that , before taking part in any peaceful negotiations on the two-state solution , any party at the negotiating table needs to agree the right of Israel to exist.
” But what about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lord Ahmad must know that he ’ s talking about the fate of his Muslim brothers and sisters , not to mention the Christian communities there .
On the basis of what he says , wouldn ’ t the UK Government ’ s continuing refusal to recognise a Palestinian state bar us from the peace process ?
Raab , by now , ought to be extremely skeptical of any two-state solution given the many irreversible facts on the ground that Israel has been allowed to create with impunity .
And he would know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sides have come to the table for lopsided ‘ negotiations ’ and how the Israelis never honour the agreements they make .
And what would a two state solution look like ?
Yeah , too messy to describe .
So why keep pushing it as the only answer ?
Netanyahu has said repeatedly that there will be no Palestinian state during his tenure as Israel ’ s prime minister .
Furthermore there ’ s no prospect of Israel willingly giving up the Palestinian territory it illegally occupied and effectively annexed in 1967 and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ever to enjoy their universal right to freedom and independence .
Netanyahu has declared : “ We will not withdraw from one inch… .
There will be no more uprooting of settlements in the land of Israel… .
This is the inheritance of our ancestors .
This is our land… .
We are here to stay forever.
” Read his lips .
The question is : what ancestral links do he and his partners-in-crime have to the biblical land of Israel ?
Zionist leaders before Netanyahu broadcast their fraudulent claims to the land @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seize it .
It has been well advertised and , to a large extent , already implemented .
Even if Netanyahu wanted a two-state solution he would be opposed by his own party and the others making up his ruling coalition , virtually all of which stand against Palestinians having a state of their own .
Those paying attention have known that the idea of a two-state solution by negotiation has been dead for 20 years and the only purpose in still talking about it is to perpetuate the status quo and buy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ annexation .
The British Government ’ s pledge to Lord Rothschild and the Zionist Federation on 2 November 1917 , signed by Lord Balfour , was simply this : “ His Majesty ’ s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people , and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object , it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country.
” A national home , not a state .
And no harm to the rights of non-Jews .
Britain ’ s failure to uphold that bit leaves a disgusting stain of cowardice and corruption on the UK .
The fate of Israel/Palestine is not a matter for meddlesome nations with vested interests seeking to override UN resolutions and re-shape the Middle East to suit themselves .
It is for the International Court of Justice to decide on the basis of international law .
But we never hear about law and justice from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ administration , in relation to the Holy Land .
Why is that , Mr Raab ?
Don ’ t we believe in it any more ?
Or are we too stupid to respect it , too morally bankrupt to pursue it , too yellow to enforce it ?
When will the penny finally drop that you can ’ t have lasting peace without justice ?
Talk is cheap when you have no intention of following up with action .
It has become a sacred tradition to post pro-Israel stooges to key positions in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Office , to prevent any rocking of the boat .
Raab ’ s predecessors suffered the same paralysis .
Alistair Burt , a product of the Israel lobby , was not about to transform himself into a man of action for peace .
He ’ d been an officer of the Conservative Friends of Israel .
The then prime minister , David “ I ’ m-a-Zionist ” Cameron , proclaimed : “ In me you have a Prime Minister whose belief in Israel is indestructible.
” What a disgraceful pledge for the prime @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make to a lawless , racist entity that respects nobody ’ s human rights Christian or Muslim , continually defies international law and shoots children for amusement ( see ‘ The methodical shooting of boys at work in Gaza by snipers of the Israeli Occupation Force ’ by surgeon David Halpin and reports on the use of dum-dum and other soft-nose or ‘ exploding ’ rounds by Israeli snipers ) .
But Cameron is not the only one to have done so .
It has become a regular appeasement ritual .
Should we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Conservatives , then as now , chose to spew their infatuation with the Israeli regime all over the British nation and the Arab world .
In a speech to the Board of Jewish Deputies , Burt recalled how he had worked from the age of fifteen for an MP who was a president of the Board and a founder of the Conservative Friends of Israel , and how this “ had a lasting effect upon me , and on my interests in Parliament… .
Israel is an important strategic partner and friend for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of important shared objectives across a broad range of policy areas.
” Can anyone think of a single objective they ’ d wish to share with those people ?
Many of us are tired of being told by the Government and senior politicians that “ the UK is a close friend of Israel ” .We don ’ t believe Israel has a friend in the world outside the Westminster and Washington bubbles and the US Bible Belt .
And Burt ’ s stance on Palestinian independence was always puzzling .
I remember him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Palestinian state unless it emerged from a peace deal with Israel .
London “ could not recognise a state that does not have a capital , and doesn ’ t have borders.
” He ’ d been talking earlier about a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital , which is understood to be the legal position .
Even Hamas agrees to that .
So why had Burt suddenly lost the plot ?
And where did he suppose Israel ’ s borders are ?
Where the UN drew @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Has Israel ever declared its borders ?
Is Israel ever within them ?
Is Israel where Israel ought to be ?
If not , how could he or Mr Raab or anyone else in the Government possibly recognise Israel let alone align themselves with it ?
And where did Burt suppose the offshore borders of Palestine , Lebanon and Israel ran in relation to the huge reserves of marine gas and oil in the Levantine Basin ?
Israel is intent on stealing the lot .
The question for many years has been : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its own gas ?
“ We are looking forward to recognising a Palestinian state at the end of the negotiations on settlements….
” But Israel ’ s illegal squats , or ‘ settlements ’ , are classed as war crimes .
Since when did Her Majesty ’ s Government approve of negotiating with the perpetrators of such crimes ?
Besides , the Holy Land ’ s status was ruled upon long ago .
International law has spoken .
But instead of enforcing the law and upholding justice Mr Burt and his Government still @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Raab is doing today .
The danger of inappropriate ‘ friendships ’ with foreign regimes became blazingly obvious in December 2009 when three of Israel ’ s vilest – Ehud Barak , Tzipi Livni and retired general Doron Almog – cancelled engagements in London for fear of ‘ having their collar felt ’ .
They complained bitterly to David Miliband , the Foreign Secretary at the time , who promised that UK laws on ‘ universal jurisdiction ’ would be changed and asked Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Justice Minister Jack Straw for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and ousted Miliband from the Foreign Office , but the grovelling promise was eagerly taken up by his replacement , William Hague , another fanatical ‘ friend of Israel ’ .
Hague declared that a situation where foreign politicians like Mrs Livni could be threatened with arrest in the UK was “ completely unacceptable… .
We will put it right through legislation… .
and I phoned Mrs Livni amongst others to tell her about that and received a very warm welcome for our proposals.
” Oh bravo , Mr Hague !
Never mind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ issued to answer well-founded criminal charges .
Never mind that all States that are party to the Geneva Conventions are under a binding obligation to seek out those suspected of having committed grave breaches of the Conventions and bring them , regardless of nationality , to justice .
And never mind that there must be no hiding place for those suspected of crimes against humanity and war crimes .
The UK Government didn ’ t give a toss about such piffling principles .
And still doesn ’ t .
Private arrest warrants were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the habit of shirking its duty under the Fourth 1949 Geneva Convention and deliberately dithering until the birds had flown .
Bringing a private prosecution for a criminal offence , said Lord Wilberforce , is “ a valuable constitutional safeguard against inertia or partiality on the part of the authority ” .
Lord Diplock , another respected Lord of Appeal , called it “ a useful safeguard against capricious , corrupt or biased failure or refusal of those authorities to prosecute offenders against the criminal law ” .
And the beauty of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ issued speedily .
The Foreign Office ’ s move to scupper this was even more deplorable when you consider that Tzipi Livni was largely responsible for the terror that brought death and destruction to Gaza ’ s civilians during the blitzkrieg known as Operation Cast Lead .
Showing no remorse , and with the blood of 1,400 dead Gazans ( including 320 children and 109 women ) on her hands and thousands more horribly maimed , Livni ’ s office issued a statement saying she was proud of it .
Speaking later at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Institute for Security Studies , she said : “ I would today take the same decisions.
” Nevertheless the British government of the day was happy to undermine our justice system in order to make the UK a safe haven for the likes of her .
By 2015 , Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu felt untouchable enough to say that if he was returned to power , a Palestinian state would not be established because handing back territory would threaten Israel ’ s security .
And in August 2017 he announced that Israel would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would be no more uprooting of squatter ‘ settlements ’ : “ We are here to stay forever… .
This is the inheritance of our ancestors .
This is our land.
” Saying it again and again doesn ’ t make it so .
The true inheritors are the Palestinian peoples who have been there since the days when Jerusalem was a Canaanite city .

As George Washington put it, “a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils”. He warned that sympathy for the favorite nation encourages the illusion of common interest where none really exists, risks participation in its quarrels and wars, and involves “concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which are apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained… And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country.”
So a month ago I asked my MP Alister Jack: “If Netanyahu proceeds with his sickening annexation, what will you say in Cabinet, please, about the need for real consequences such as sanctions? And will you speak up to ensure UK trade deals with Israel do not facilitate its territorial expansionism?”
It was a reasonable question which he has chosen to ignore. Jack is Secretary of State for Scotland in the UK Government and would be wise to have no ‘passionate attachments’ to foreign powers. Netanyahu didn’t carry out his threatened land grab on 1 July but might yet do so. Jack’s silence is therefore unacceptable and I’d like to know whether the person who represents me in Parliament aligns himself with the Israeli regime’s evil intent.
Meanwhile, a pro-Palestinian activist, exasperated by the UK Foreign Office constantly repeating the same old mantra excusing its inaction over Israel’s illegal and brutal occupation of Palestine, has received the same old half-baked reply but with a warning that they will not be corresponding with her again. The FO’s letter followed the familiar let’s-duck-the-issue formula.
In line with international law, and relevant Security Council resolutions, notably Resolutions 242 and 497, we do not recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the territories occupied by Israel since June 1967, including the Golan Heights, and we do not consider them part of the territory of the State of Israel.
Okay. But when is Britain, a key player in the founding of the United Nations and with a permanent seat on the Security Council, going to do something about it?
The two-state solution is the only viable long-term solution. It is the only way to permanently end the Arab-Israeli conflict, preserve Israel’s Jewish and democratic identity and realize Palestinian national aspirations.
The “only way”? Israel’s “democratic identity”, when it’s a deeply unpleasant ethnocracy? Why does Britain persist with these fantasies?
We are firmly opposed to sanctions. We believe that imposing sanctions or boycotts on Israel or supporting anti-Israeli boycotts would not support our efforts to progress the peace process and achieve a negotiated solution.
But you’ll cheerfully slap Iran, for example, with sanctions for no good reason…. except to please Israel and its bitch, the US, which is what all this is really about. Civil society has resorted to BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) in the absence of any real diplomatic pressure from the so-called ‘great powers’. It’s the only non-violent language Israel understands. And it’s beginning to work. Get behind it.
We’re told that Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab spent the summer of 1998 working for one of the PLO’s chief negotiators on the Oslo peace accords, a doomed initiative begun in 1993 to create a form of interim governance and framework for a final treaty by the end of 1998. So Mr. Raab was there at a time when the two sides had been faffing about in the name of peace for 5 years and getting nowhere.
In October of 1998 the US, desperate to keep the charade going, held a summit at Maryland’s Wye River Plantation at which Clinton with Yasser Arafat, Benjamin Netanyahu, and senior negotiators produced the Wye River Memorandum. Not that this did much good either. But Raab must have learned a lot about Israeli perversity, not to mention America’s shortcomings as an honest broker.
Before entering Parliament Raab joined the Foreign Office and worked at The Hague bringing war criminals to justice, then became an adviser on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
As reported in Jewish News he welcomed Trump’s so-called peace plan saying: “Only the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian territories can determine whether these proposals can meet the needs and aspirations of the people they represent. We encourage them to give these plans genuine and fair consideration, and explore whether they might prove a first step on the road back to negotiations.”
But it’s debatable whether the leaders on either side represent anyone but themselves and their own warped interests.
Raab’s boss Boris Johnson said of it: “It is a two-state solution. It would ensure that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and of the Palestinian people….” But the Trump Plan relegates the Palestinian capital to the outskirts of East Jerusalem keeping the rest of Jerusalem, including the sublime and ancient walled city (which is officially Palestinian territory), under Israeli control. That is perhaps the cruellest part of the Trump/Netanyahu swindle.
Because Jerusalem/Al-Quds is immensely holy to all three Abrahamic faiths, the UN proposed that it should be a corpus separatum – an internationally-governed open access city free from Israeli or Palestinian control. What could be more sensible than that?
In the Global Britain debate on 3 February Raab boasted that Britain will be an even stronger force for good in the world. “Our guiding lights will remain the values of democracy, human rights, and the international rule of law”. Whereupon Alistair Carmichael (LibDem) asked: “If the concept of a global Britain is to have any meaning and value, surely it must have respect for human rights and international rules-based order at its heart. With that in mind, will the Foreign Secretary reconsider the unqualified support he gave to President Trump last week in respect of the so-called peace plan for Palestine? Will the right hon. Gentleman repudiate the proposed annexation of the West Bank and at long last support the recognition of a Palestinian state?”
Raab replied: “The one thing that the plan put forward by the US included was a recognition of and commitment to a two-state solution. We have been absolutely clear that that is the only way in which the conflict can be resolved… Rather than just rejecting the plan, it is important that we try to bring the parties together around the negotiating table. That is the only path to peace and to a two-state solution.”
Then Foreign Office minister Lord Ahmad, in a debate on the Israel-Palestine conflict in March, said: “The UK Government have made it clear that, before taking part in any peaceful negotiations on the two-state solution, any party at the negotiating table needs to agree on the right of Israel to exist.” But what about Palestine’s right to exist? Lord Ahmad must know that he’s talking about the fate of his Muslim brothers and sisters, not to mention the Christian communities there. On the basis of what he says, wouldn’t the UK Government’s continuing refusal to recognize a Palestinian state bar us from the peace process?
Evil Intent
Raab, by now, ought to be extremely skeptical of any two-state solution given the many irreversible facts on the ground that Israel has been allowed to create with impunity. And he would know better than most how many times the sides have come to the table for lopsided ‘negotiations’ and how the Israelis never honor the agreements they make.
And what would a two-state solution look like? Yeah, too messy to describe. So why keep pushing it as the only answer? Netanyahu has said repeatedly that there will be no Palestinian state during his tenure as Israel’s prime minister. Furthermore, there’s no prospect of Israel willingly giving up the Palestinian territory it illegally occupied and effectively annexed in 1967 and which must be returned if Palestinians are ever to enjoy their universal right to freedom and independence.
Netanyahu has declared: “We will not withdraw from one inch… There will be no more uprooting of settlements in the land of Israel… This is the inheritance of our ancestors. This is our land… We are here to stay forever.” Read his lips.
The question is: what ancestral links do he and his partners-in-crime have to the biblical land of Israel? Zionist leaders before Netanyahu broadcast their fraudulent claims to the land and bragged about their evil plan to seize it. It has been well advertised and, to a large extent, already implemented. Even if Netanyahu wanted a two-state solution he would be opposed by his own party and the others making up his ruling coalition, virtually all of which stand against Palestinians having a state of their own.
Those paying attention have known that the idea of a two-state solution by negotiation has been dead for 20 years and the only purpose in still talking about it is to perpetuate the status quo and buy time for Israel to complete its creeping annexation.
The British Government’s pledge to Lord Rothschild and the Zionist Federation on 2 November 1917, signed by Lord Balfour, was simply this: “His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”
A national home, not a state. And no harm to the rights of non-Jews. Britain’s failure to uphold that bit leaves a disgusting stain of cowardice and corruption on the UK.
The fate of Israel/Palestine is not a matter for meddlesome nations with vested interests seeking to override UN resolutions and re-shape the Middle East to suit themselves. It is for the International Court of Justice to decide on the basis of international law. But we never hear about law and justice from the UK Government, or the US administration, in relation to the Holy Land. Why is that, Mr. Raab? Don’t we believe in it anymore? Or are we too stupid to respect it, too morally bankrupt to pursue it, too yellow to enforce it?
When will the penny finally drop that you can’t have lasting peace without justice?
Talk is cheap when you have no intention of following up with action. It has become a sacred tradition to post pro-Israel stooges to key positions in the UK administration, especially the Foreign Office, to prevent any rocking of the boat. Raab’s predecessors suffered the same paralysis. Alistair Burt, a product of the Israel lobby, was not about to transform himself into a man of action for peace. He’d been an officer of the Conservative Friends of Israel.
The then prime minister, David “I’m-a-Zionist” Cameron, proclaimed: “In me, you have a Prime Minister whose belief in Israel is indestructible.”
What a disgraceful pledge for the prime minister of a mainly Christian country to make to a lawless, racist entity that respects nobody’s human rights Christian or Muslim, continually defies international law, and shoots children for amusement (see ‘The methodical shooting of boys at work in Gaza by snipers of the Israeli Occupation Force’ by surgeon David Halpin and reports on the use of dum-dum and other soft-nosed or ‘exploding’ rounds by Israeli snipers). But Cameron is not the only one to have done so. It has become a regular appeasement ritual.
Should we recognise Palestine or un-recognise Israel?
The Conservatives, then as now, chose to spew their infatuation with the Israeli regime all over the British nation and the Arab world.
In a speech to the Board of Jewish Deputies, Burt recalled how he had worked from the age of fifteen for an MP who was a president of the Board and a founder of the Conservative Friends of Israel, and how this “had a lasting effect upon me, and on my interests in Parliament… Israel is an important strategic partner and friend for the UK and we share a number of important shared objectives across a broad range of policy areas.”
Can anyone think of a single objective they’d wish to share with those people? Many of us are tired of being told by the Government and senior politicians that “the UK is a close friend of Israel”.We don’t believe Israel has a friend in the world outside the Westminster and Washington bubbles and the US Bible Belt.
And Burt’s stance on Palestinian independence was always puzzling. I remember him saying that we would not recognize a Palestinian state unless it emerged from a peace deal with Israel. London “could not recognize a state that does not have a capital, and doesn’t have borders.”
He’d been talking earlier about a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, which is understood to be the legal position. Even Hamas agrees to that. So why had Burt suddenly lost the plot? And where did he suppose Israel’s borders are?
Where the UN drew them in the 1947 Partition Plan? Has Israel ever declared its borders? Is Israel ever within them? Is Israel where Israel ought to be? If not, how could he or Mr Raab or anyone else in the Government possibly recognize Israel let alone align themselves with it? And where did Burt suppose the offshore borders of Palestine, Lebanon, and Israel ran in relation to the huge reserves of marine gas and oil in the Levantine Basin? Israel is intent on stealing the lot. The question for many years has been: will Gaza ever get a whiff of its own gas?
“We are looking forward to recognizing a Palestinian state at the end of the negotiations on settlements….” But Israel’s illegal squats, or ‘settlements’, are classed as war crimes. Since when did Her Majesty’s Government approve of negotiating with the perpetrators of such crimes? Besides, the Holy Land’s status was ruled upon long ago. International law has spoken. But instead of enforcing the law and upholding justice Mr Burt and his Government still pushed for more lopsided talks. Like Raab is doing today.
The “passionate attachment” that’s utterly inappropriate
The danger of inappropriate ‘friendships’ with foreign regimes became blazingly obvious in December 2009 when three of Israel’s vilest – Ehud Barak, Tzipi Livni, and retired general Doron Almog – canceled engagements in London for fear of ‘having their collar felt’.
They complained bitterly to David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary at the time, who promised that UK laws on ‘universal jurisdiction’ would be changed and asked Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Justice Minister Jack Straw for urgent action. A general election intervened and ousted Miliband from the Foreign Office, but the groveling promise was eagerly taken up by his replacement, William Hague, another fanatical ‘friend of Israel’.
Hague declared that a situation where foreign politicians like Mrs Livni could be threatened with arrest in the UK was “completely unacceptable… We will put it right through legislation…. and I phoned Mrs Livni amongst others to tell her about that and received a very warm welcome for our proposals.”
Oh bravo, Mr Hague! Never mind that the arrest warrants in question were issued to answer well-founded criminal charges. Never mind that all States that are party to the Geneva Conventions are under a binding obligation to seek out those suspected of having committed grave breaches of the Conventions and bring them, regardless of nationality, to justice. And never mind that there must be no hiding place for those suspected of crimes against humanity and war crimes. The UK Government didn’t give a toss about such piffling principles. And still doesn’t.
Private arrest warrants were necessary because the Government itself was in the habit of shirking its duty under the Fourth 1949 Geneva Convention and deliberately dithering until the birds had flown. Bringing a private prosecution for a criminal offense, said Lord Wilberforce, is “a valuable constitutional safeguard against inertia or partiality on the part of the authority”.
Lord Diplock, another respected Lord of Appeal, called it “a useful safeguard against capricious, corrupt or biased failure or refusal of those authorities to prosecute offenders against the criminal law”. And the beauty of the private warrant was that it could be issued speedily.
The Foreign Office’s move to scupper this was even more deplorable when you consider that Tzipi Livni was largely responsible for the terror that brought death and destruction to Gaza’s civilians during the blitzkrieg known as Operation Cast Lead. Showing no remorse, and with the blood of 1,400 dead Gazans (including 320 children and 109 women) on her hands and thousands more horribly maimed, Livni’s office issued a statement saying she was proud of it. Speaking later at a conference at Tel Aviv’s Institute for Security Studies, she said: “I would today take the same decisions.”
Nevertheless, the British government of the day was happy to undermine our justice system in order to make the UK a safe haven for the likes of her.
By 2015, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu felt untouchable enough to say that if he was returned to power, a Palestinian state would not be established because handing back territory would threaten Israel’s security.
And in August 2017 he announced that Israel would keep the West Bank permanently and there would be no more uprooting of squatter ‘settlements’: “We are here to stay forever…. This is the inheritance of our ancestors. This is our land.”
Saying it, again and again, doesn’t make it so. The true inheritors are the Palestinian peoples who have been there since the days when Jerusalem was a Canaanite city.
Stuart Littlewood
5 August 2020


veteranstoday--2020-08-06--VT Los Angeles: Rosebock’s War on Veteran Homelessness

WEST LOS ANGELES ( KABC ) — Homelessness is a big problem for U.S. veterans ; and so is getting those vets the help they need .
ABC-7 salutes an effort to provide temporary housing during the covid-19 pandemic .
“ They work together as a team .
They have a mission to keep working together to help each other get out here , ’ said Veteran advocate Bob Rosebrock .
“ There are so many ways we can help resolve this.
” In limbo , the veterans camping outside the West VA Medical Center campus face obstacles of all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ list or another , to enter even keeping a service dog .
“ When I arrived , I was denied because I had a service dog .
I actually ended up on the sidewalk with the veterans you see out here , ” said Robert Reynolds , US Army Infantry 2007 .
According to the VA , the encampment residents could have access to full services , but are resistant to VA rules .
This outpost is part transitional housing , part protest .
Rosebrock says he would love to supervise this tent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ less red tape .
Rosebrock says his program of teamwork has already transformed his sidewalk camp .
Before it had the look of skid row : a line of ragged pup tents .
But then came help from small donors .
“ One of them came from France because the lady was grateful for our troops , going into Normandy of 76 years ago , ” said Rosebrock .
COVID-19 brought new neighbors… Vets from scattered encampments relocated inside the fence .
But Rosebrock says the tents there were a disgrace .
Men @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ I can ’ t tell you the transformation of going from a sleeping bag to a walk-in tent , their own little residence , ” said Rosebrock .
“ They immediately take a responsibility.
” Small steps in a long march says Reynolds , who found housing .
“ They ’ re having little duties to do and it starts getting them out of that funk of being homeless , you know , ” said Reynolds .
“ Getting back into a normal routine , so that way when they get housed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s what we want .
”

WEST LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Homelessness is a big problem for U.S. veterans; and so is getting those vets the help they need. ABC-7 salutes an effort to provide temporary housing during the covid-19 pandemic.
“They work together as a team. They have a mission to keep working together to help each other get out here,’ said Veteran advocate Bob Rosebrock. “There are so many ways we can help resolve this.”
In limbo, the veterans camping outside the West VA Medical Center campus face obstacles of all kinds, as they wait on one list or another, to enter even keeping a service dog.
“When I arrived, I was denied because I had a service dog. I actually ended up on the sidewalk with the veterans you see out here,” said Robert Reynolds, US Army Infantry 2007.
According to the VA, the encampment residents could have access to full services, but are resistant to VA rules. This outpost is part transitional housing, part protest. Rosebrock says he would love to supervise this tent neighborhood securely the VA fence but with less red tape.
Rosebrock says his program of teamwork has already transformed his sidewalk camp. Before it had the look of skid row: a line of ragged pup tents. But then came help from small donors.
“One of them came from France because the lady was grateful for our troops, going into Normandy of 76 years ago,” said Rosebrock.
COVID-19 brought new neighbors… Vets from scattered encampments relocated inside the fence. But Rosebrock says the tents there were a disgrace. Men in wheelchairs couldn’t fit. “I can’t tell you the transformation of going from a sleeping bag to a walk-in tent, their own little residence,” said Rosebrock. “They immediately take a responsibility.” Small steps in a long march says Reynolds, who found housing. “They’re having little duties to do and it starts getting them out of that funk of being homeless, you know,” said Reynolds. “Getting back into a normal routine, so that way when they get housed they can be successful. That’s what we want.”


veteranstoday--2020-08-06--‘It Is What It Is’ Trump ‘Performance’ Approval Rating, All Parties Plunges to 13% (Flabbergasted)

This isn ’ t politics , its disaster .
60 % plunge with GOP voters in months .
But they love Trump in Poland .
Worst part of it is that , during the last two days , Trump has had a rash of sane moments , even following VT ’ s lead on the Beirut disaster .
The 13 % number isn ’ t votes , its approval of the direction of the country under Trump , which will soon hit zero .
The hoax/Q barrage has failed totally .
Yahoo News : Thanks to a marked shift among @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus pandemic , just 13 percent of Americans surveyed now say they are satisfied with “ the way things are going in the United States.
” A poll by Gallup released Wednesday shows that the percentage of Republicans who say they are “ satisfied ” with the direction the country is heading has fallen by 60 points since February , when the coronavirus pandemic began spreading rapidly across the U.S. “ The plunge in the U.S. mood , both in the past month and since February , is mostly occurring among Republicans .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) is about half what it was a month ago ( 39 % ) and down 60 points since February , after the Senate acquitted President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial .
The current figure is easily the lowest for Republicans during the Trump administration , with their prior low being 38 % in October 2017 , ” Gallup said on its website .
Just 7 percent of Democrats say they are satisfied with how things are going in the country , while 12 percent of independents agree with that assessment .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and the economic downturn caused by the pandemic as influencing the steep drop concerning satisfaction .

This isn’t politics, it’s a disaster. 60% plunge with GOP voters in months. But they love Trump in Poland. The worst part of it is that, during the last two days, Trump has had a rash of sane moments, even following VT’s lead on the Beirut disaster.
The 13% number isn’t votes, its approval of the direction of the country under Trump, which will soon hit zero. The hoax/Q barrage has failed totally.
Trump widely hated in the international community. Gallup Poll. https://t.co/y4TR5RRQJ3 — Barry R McCaffrey (@mccaffreyr3) August 5, 2020
In general, are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States via Gallup poll: March: 42% satisfied, 57% dissatisfied
May: 32% satisfied, 66% dissatisfied
June: 20% satisfied, 78% dissatisfied
Now: 13% satisfied, 86% dissatisfied — Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) August 4, 2020
Fox News is onto something here… he is NOT okay pic.twitter.com/PgFpVchkdR — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) August 4, 2020
Yahoo News: Thanks to a marked shift among Republican voters since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, just 13 percent of Americans surveyed now say they are satisfied with “the way things are going in the United States.”
“Conservative identification dropped across every racial and demographic group, but it dipped most sharply among Americans with a household income over $100,000, those ages 35 to 54, whites and suburban voters–several key blocs for Republicans.” https://t.co/VNXoPWLm2m — Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25) July 28, 2020
A poll by Gallup released Wednesday shows that the percentage of Republicans who say they are “satisfied” with the direction the country is heading has fallen by 60 points since February when the coronavirus pandemic began spreading rapidly across the U.S.
The Supreme Court's approval rating has climbed to 58%, its highest mark in more than a decade, according to a new Gallup poll. 60% of Republicans, 57% of independents and 56% of Democrats approve. https://t.co/UYbEPRrHpm — Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) August 5, 2020
“The plunge in the U.S. mood, both in the past month and since February, is mostly occurring among Republicans. Republicans’ satisfaction today (20%) is about half what it was a month ago (39%) and down 60 points since February after the Senate acquitted President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial. The current figure is easily the lowest for Republicans during the Trump administration, with their prior low being 38% in October 2017,” Gallup said on its website.
GOP satisfaction with the way things are going in the country has plunged, per Gallup: https://t.co/CbYcJe7ofwpic.twitter.com/1HloIRBO2V — Conor Sen (@conorsen) August 5, 2020
Just 7 percent of Democrats say they are satisfied with how things are going in the country, while 12 percent of independents agree with that assessment.
95. Trump called American hero Senator John McCain a “dummy” and falsely claimed that he graduated last in his class at the United States Naval Academy. Trump also said that McCain was not a war hero “because he was captured.” McCain spent five-and-a-half years as a POW. pic.twitter.com/UEOnfKp0VW — Republican Voters Against Trumpism (@RVAT2020) July 31, 2020
The pollster also cited the protests in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and the economic downturn caused by the pandemic as influencing the steep drop concerning satisfaction.


veteranstoday--2020-08-06--Beirut: Christian Party secretary Killed in alleged Israeli Attack, 100 more deaths, Italian marines

Beirut: Christian Party secretary Killed in alleged Israeli Attack, 100 more deaths, Italian marines injured

More than 100 were killed and more than 4,000 injured in the explosions that took place yesterday in the port of Beirut , Lebanon , and caused by about 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate present in a warehouse .
This is what the Red Cross reported today , quoted by the Lebanese website Daily Star .
But the toll could be heavier , the authorities warn .
According to the city governor , Marwan Abboud , quoted by the media , more than 100 are missing .
Some of the soldiers of an Italian ship of the Unifil peace mission @ @ @ @ @ @ @ minister Hamad Hasan has advised anyone who can get away from Beirut to do so .
Hasan , as quoted by local media , said the dangerous materials released into the air after the blasts could have deadly long-term effects .
The governor of Beirut , Marwan Abboud , said the cost of the damage to the capital could be between $ 3 billion and $ 5 billion , adding that the explosion made about 200,000 to 250,000 people homeless .
“ We are witnessing a real catastrophe , ” Prime Minister Hassan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aid and promising a full investigation .
Among the dead there is also a victim who gives an even stronger “ political ” connotation to what many sources now believe was a “ surgical ” attack capable of hitting an ammonium nitrate deposit to make the damage even more devastating .
Impact of a nuclear bomb , as revealed by Veterans Today , American website focused on military intelligence .
In fact , the footage above shows that there were two blasts and the second created the gigantic mushroom typical of an atomic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ explosion in Beirut was an attack , a bomb of some kind : Donald Trump said in a press conference in the White House .
“ The US will help Lebanon , ” said the president of the United States .
Three sources of the Department of Defense – covered by anonymity – then reported to CNN that they had not seen indications of the possibility that the terrible explosions were the result of an attack .
The Secretary General of the Lebanese Party Christian Kataeb , or Falange , Nizar Najarian was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ destabilize the country where , as in Syria , Muslims of Shiite confession and Maronite Christians peacefully coexist in a fundamental government alliance undermined by protests in recent months ( piloted by the CANVAS organization close to the Central Intelligence Agency ) and by sanctions imposed by the United States in blatant intimidation against Hezbollah .
This Lebanese paramilitary organization ( Ḥizb Allāh ) was born in June 1982 and later also became a Shiite political party , despised by the United States and Israel Governments because it has always been an ally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Islamic Revolution of Iran .
Both allies of Bashar Al Assad in Syria .
« Everything that happens in the Middle East , both in Egypt , and in Syria , and in Iraq , is a war that has two dimensions .
In Iraq and Syria , the war is between Sunnis and Shiites ; in Egypt the war is between fundamentalists , including the Muslim Brotherhood , and the moderates .
They are endless wars , but , I ’ m sorry to say , there are countries , especially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ East , which are stirring up all these conflicts .
A solution must be found to all these problems .
In wars in the Middle East , Christians pay the highest price » .
These words are from Bechara Boutros Rai , the Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronite Christian Church who is in communion with the Catholic Church and recognizes the Pope as Primate .
He pronounced them in an interview with Vatican Radio in August 2013 and Gospa News reported them exactly a year ago when on August 31 , 2019 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Israel Defense Forces ( Tsahal ) in the suburbs of Beirut in the perspective of the continuous provocation against the Hezbollah similar to that against the Quds Forces ( the elite unit of the Iranian Pasdaran heade by killed Qasem Soleimani ) which every week also kill civilians in Syria .
The response of the Lebanese militias was so determined that winds of war blew up .
This is why , according to some international analysts , behind the Beirut attacks yesterday there could be the covert direction of Israel and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most criminal in the world.
, enough to be accused of training Brenton Tarrant , the attacker of the massacres in the mosques of Christchurch on March 15 , 2019 .
Yesterday , Lebanese President Michel Aoun declared three days of national mourning at the end of the Defense Council meeting , during which Premier Hassan Diab defined “ unacceptable that a load of ammonium nitrate , estimated at 2,750 tons , was present for six years in a warehouse , without precautionary measures ” .
The explosions were recorded by seismographs as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ data from the US geological service Usgs .
However , the reported magnitude is not directly comparable to an earthquake of similar size , since the Lebanese explosion occurred on the surface ( as opposed to a seismic wave ) .
But Veterans Today senior editor Gordon Duff , a former Marine officer and international intelligence consultant , reported the probable cause of the explosions thanks to confidential sources that even provided an image of one of the two alleged bombs .
« First explosion was caused by Gabriel anti ship missile of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Israeli Delilah missile from F16 .
Our country is in complete jeopardy with this lazy and corrupt regime » wrote VT .
This is the radiation signature of the explosion received from a source in Italy , submitted to VT by the International Atomic Energy Agency ( UN ) .
« Jeff Smith of the IAEA confirms this is a nuclear explosion .
The lies about fireworks in ships and fertilizer are what we always get .
You don ’ t store either one downtown in a major city like Beirut under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ told , is expected to retaliate against Israel and they say there is no way for Syria not to be brought in » added Duff .
« Terrorists involved in Urban Warfare in ME do not have access to these highly advance tactical weapons .
If they have it now , then someone is equipping them for political gains .
Let us wait for the official statements from Lebanon .
Even if there is going to be a government cover up for peace and political implications in the coming hours , one thing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ operation by some anti-Lebanon foreign agency not by some random terrorist ( non-state actor ) » reads further on VT. A general in the Lebanese Army reports that Israel dropped a tactical nuclear weapon on the port of Beirut today .
He reports that this was done to collapse the current political regime there and revolt against Hezbollah .
« However , what influential and credible sources from Beirut are telling me is this : “ The Beirut explosion is about 100 times the energy than the 2015 Tianjin explosion , or 5.4 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ extrapolation from Tianjin , which involved 800 tonnes of ammonium nitrate ) » highlighted VT. « Israeli Delilah missile carrying 6 kiloton ( 6000 tons of TNT equivalent ) nuclear missile ( unretouched photo via VT Damascus ) Tineye says this is a unique image and doesn ’ t appear anywhere on the web .
We , however , are always suspicious when something seems ‘ too good to be true ” » .
The killed Secretary General of the Lebanese Party Christian Kataeb , Nizar Najarian was not the only political figure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Minister Hassan Diab ’ s wife and daughter were allegedly injured , while the Kazakh ambassador to Lebanon was also hurt as the explosion damaged the embassy building , Al-Jazeera reported .
Also The Australian embassy compound was heavily damaged .
A general in the Lebanese Army reports that Israel dropped a tactical nuclear weapon on the port of Beirut today .
He reports that this was done to collapse the current political regime there and revolt against Hezbollah .
« On behalf of @ UNIFIL_ peacekeepers , our thoughts & prayers are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ explosion in # Beirut .
# UNIFIL stands ready to support the people , the Government of # Lebanon & @ LebarmyOfficial .
I am in contact w/ the authorities & ready to help » wrote on Twitter Stefano Del Col , italian troops commander in Unifil mission to maintain pecase on the Blue Line at Lebanon and Israli border in Golan Heights .
« Due to the explosion that rocked # Beirut Port today , one of our Maritime Task Force ships was damaged , leaving some naval peacekeepers injured .
# @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ready to provide assistance & support to the Lebanese Government » added the general of Bersaglieri .
The 1,200 Italians soldiers comprise the Joint Task Force – Lebanon Sector West , an area in which the change of hand of the United Nations flag which sanctioned the change of the Italian contingent in Unifil took place on July 27 .
Brigadier General Diego Filippo Fulco , commander of the “ Granatieri di Sardegna ” Brigade , gave the command to Brigadier General Andrea Di Stasio , commander of the “ Sassari ” Brigade @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , head of the Unifil mission in southern Lebanon , sanctioned the transfer of authority , and Nicoletta Bombardiere , Ambassador of Italy to Lebanon , was present at the ceremony .
Hezbollah Says Beirut Blasts ‘ National Tragedy ’ , Sayyed Nasrallah Delays Speech .
President Aoun receives calls of solidarity from French President Emmanuel Macron , Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and and Iraqi president Barham Saleh .
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by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Mediterranean
Versione originale in Italiano
More than 100 were killed and more than 4,000 injured in the explosions that took place yesterday in the port of Beirut, Lebanon, and caused by about 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate present in a warehouse. This is what the Red Cross reported today, quoted by the Lebanese website Daily Star.
But the toll could be heavier, the authorities warn. According to the city governor, Marwan Abboud, quoted by the media, more than 100 are missing. Some of the soldiers of an Italian ship of the Unifil peace mission have been lightly injured.
The wife of the Dutch ambassador to Lebanon was seriously injured too, the Dutch Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
Lebanese health minister Hamad Hasan has advised anyone who can get away from Beirut to do so. Hasan, as quoted by local media, said the dangerous materials released into the air after the blasts could have deadly long-term effects.
The governor of Beirut, Marwan Abboud, said the cost of the damage to the capital could be between $3 billion and $5 billion, adding that the explosion made about 200,000 to 250,000 people homeless.
“We are witnessing a real catastrophe,” Prime Minister Hassan Diab told reporters, appealing for international aid and promising a full investigation.
Among the dead, there is also a victim who gives an even stronger “political” connotation to what many sources now believe was a “surgical” attack capable of hitting an ammonium nitrate deposit to make the damage even more devastating.
Impact of a nuclear bomb, as revealed by VT, American website focused on military intelligence.
In fact, the footage above shows that there were two blasts and the second created the gigantic mushroom typical of an atomic explosion.
US military officials think the explosion in Beirut was an attack, a bomb of some kind: Donald Trump said in a press conference in the White House. “The US will help Lebanon,” said the president of the United States.
Three sources of the Department of Defense – covered by anonymity – then reported to CNN that they had not seen indications of the possibility that the terrible explosions were the result of an attack.
The Secretary-General of the Lebanese Party Christian Kataeb, or Falange, Nizar Najarian was killed in the blast that aims to destabilize the country where, as in Syria, Muslims of Shiite confession and Maronite Christians peacefully coexist in a fundamental government alliance undermined by protests in recent months (piloted by the CANVAS organization close to the Central Intelligence Agency) and by sanctions imposed by the United States in blatant intimidation against Hezbollah.
This Lebanese paramilitary organization (Ḥizb Allāh) was born in June 1982 and later also became a Shiite political party, despised by the United States and Israel Governments because it has always been an ally of the Pasdaran, the Guards of the Islamic Revolution of Iran. Both allies of Bashar Al Assad in Syria.
«Everything that happens in the Middle East, both in Egypt, and in Syria, and in Iraq, is a war that has two dimensions. In Iraq and Syria, the war is between Sunnis and Shiites; in Egypt, the war is between fundamentalists, including the Muslim Brotherhood, and the moderates. They are endless wars, but, I’m sorry to say, there are countries, especially western ones, but also from the East, which are stirring up all these conflicts. A solution must be found to all these problems. In wars in the Middle East, Christians pay the highest price».
These words are from Bechara Boutros Rai, the Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronite Christian Church who is in communion with the Catholic Church and recognizes the Pope as Primate.
He pronounced them in an interview with Vatican Radio in August 2013 and Gospa News reported them exactly a year ago when on August 31, 2019 some rockets launched by the drones of the Israel Defense Forces (Tsahal) in the suburbs of Beirut in the perspective of the continuous provocation against the Hezbollah similar to that against the Quds Forces (the elite unit of the Iranian Pasdaran heade by killed Qasem Soleimani) which every week also kill civilians in Syria.
The response of the Lebanese militias was so determined that winds of war blew up. This is why, according to some international analysts, behind the Beirut attacks yesterday there could be the covert direction of Israel and the Mossad, the Israeli counter-intelligence believed the most criminal in the world., enough to be accused of training Brenton Tarrant, the attacker of the massacres in the mosques of Christchurch on March 15, 2019.
Yesterday, Lebanese President Michel Aoun declared three days of national mourning at the end of the Defense Council meeting, during which Premier Hassan Diab defined “unacceptable that a load of ammonium nitrate, estimated at 2,750 tons, was present for six years in a warehouse, without precautionary measures”.
The explosions were recorded by seismographs as a 3.3 magnitude earthquake, according to data from the US geological service Usgs. However, the reported magnitude is not directly comparable to an earthquake of similar size, since the Lebanese explosion occurred on the surface (as opposed to a seismic wave).
But VT senior editor Gordon Duff, a former Marine officer and international intelligence consultant, reported the probable cause of the explosions thanks to confidential sources that even provided an image of one of the two alleged bombs.
«The first explosion was caused by Gabriel anti-ship missile of Israel. The second explosion was caused by an Israeli Delilah missile from F16. Our country is incomplete jeopardy with this lazy and corrupt regime» wrote VT.
This is the radiation signature of the explosion received from a source in Italy, submitted to VT by the International Atomic Energy Agency (UN).
«Jeff Smith of the IAEA confirms this is a nuclear explosion. The lies about fireworks in ships and fertilizer are what we always get. You don’t store either one downtown in a major city like Beirut under any circumstances. Hezbollah, we are told, is expected to retaliate against Israel and they say there is no way for Syria not to be brought in» added Duff.
«Terrorists involved in Urban Warfare in ME do not have access to these highly advanced tactical weapons. If they have it now, then someone is equipping them for political gains. Let us wait for the official statements from Lebanon. Even if there is going to be a government cover-up for peace and political implications in the coming hours, one thing is clear, it is a clandestine operation by some anti-Lebanon foreign agency not by some random terrorist (non-state actor)» reads further on VT.
A general in the Lebanese Army reports that Israel dropped a tactical nuclear weapon on the port of Beirut today. He reports that this was done to collapse the current political regime there and revolt against Hezbollah.
«However, what influential and credible sources from Beirut are telling me is this: “The Beirut explosion is about 100 times the energy than the 2015 Tianjin explosion, or 5.4 kilotons of TNT equivalent (using linear extrapolation from Tianjin, which involved 800 tonnes of ammonium nitrate)» highlighted VT.
«Israeli Delilah missile-carrying 6 kilotons (6000 tons of TNT equivalent) nuclear missile (unretouched photo via VT Damascus) Tineye says this is a unique image and doesn’t appear anywhere on the web. We, however, are always suspicious when something seems ‘too good to be true”.
The killed Secretary-General of the Lebanese Party Christian Kataeb, Nizar Najarian was not the only political figure reportedly hurt in the blast. Prime Minister Hassan Diab’s wife and daughter were allegedly injured, while the Kazakh ambassador to Lebanon was also hurt as the explosion damaged the embassy building, Al-Jazeera reported. Also, The Australian embassy compound was heavily damaged.
A general in the Lebanese Army reports that Israel dropped a tactical nuclear weapon on the port of Beirut today. He reports that this was done to collapse the current political regime there and revolt against Hezbollah.
«On behalf of @UNIFIL_ peacekeepers, our thoughts & prayers are with all those affected by the horrific explosion in #Beirut. #UNIFIL stands ready to support the people, the Government of #Lebanon & @LebarmyOfficial . I am in contact w/ the authorities & ready to help» wrote on Twitter Stefano Del Col, Italian troops commander in Unifil mission to maintain pecase on the Blue Line at Lebanon and Israeli border in Golan Heights.
«Due to the explosion that rocked #Beirut Port today, one of our Maritime Task Force ships was damaged, leaving some naval peacekeepers injured. #UNIFIL is assessing the situation & stands ready to provide assistance & support to the Lebanese Government» added the general of Bersaglieri.
The 1,200 Italian soldiers comprise the Joint Task Force – Lebanon Sector West, an area in which the change of hand of the United Nations flag which sanctioned the change of the Italian contingent in Unifil took place on July 27. Brigadier General Diego Filippo Fulco, commander of the “Granatieri di Sardegna” Brigade, gave the command to Brigadier General Andrea Di Stasio, commander of the “Sassari” Brigade.
The Division General Stefano Del Col, head of the Unifil mission in southern Lebanon, sanctioned the transfer of authority, and Nicoletta Bombardiere, Ambassador of Italy to Lebanon, was present at the ceremony.
Hezbollah Says Beirut Blasts ‘National Tragedy’, Sayyed Nasrallah Delays Speech. President Aoun receives calls of solidarity from French President Emmanuel Macron, Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Iraqi President Barham Saleh.
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