Tuesday, 20 February 2024

US Administration Greenlights Genocide - Supplies the Bombs - Threatens UN Ceasefire Veto - Mumbles Something About a Ceasefire

 • FEBRUARY 18, 2024

My new, brief interview with Ofogh TV, Tehran

As war intensifies between Israeli regime and Palestinians, what is your general opinion about what is going on in Rafah?

Well, about one and a half million Palestinians are in Rafah. Many of them have been forced there by genocidal Israeli bombing of their homes and their life support systems. Now the Israeli regime’s leaders are saying they are planning to invade Rafah, and the American administration is responding by telling them not to, or rather discouraging it.

However, the American administration is continuing to supply the bombs that the Zionist regime is dropping on innocent Palestinian civilians, and that it will use if it attacks Rafah and invades Rafah as it’s threatening to. And rather than cutting off the supply of bombs — so far the Americans have supplied the Zionists with 20,000 bombs — the Zionists are now asking for thousands more.

And the Americans have agreed. The Biden administration is not even asking Congress, but going over the heads of Congress to supply the Zionists with thousands more bombs to drop on innocent Palestinians.

And the Biden administration has not threatened to cut off these bombs in the event of an all-out Zionist attack on Rafah. On the contrary, it has said that it will continue to supply the Zionists with these bombs no matter what. [And the US is now threatening to veto a UN ceasefire resolution.]

So it’s unclear whether the American administration really has any interest in slowing, much less stopping the genocide in Gaza. It says it does. It says it wants a ceasefire. But the US administration has not backed up its words with actions.

 
(Republished from Substack by permission of author or representative)
https://unz.com/kbarrett/us-administration-greenlights-genocide-supplies-the-bombs-threatens-un-ceasefire-veto-mumbles-something-about-a-ceasefire/

How Israel Corrupted America

My new Freedom Hub interview (final 35 minutes is Q & A, including angry diatribe from a Christian Zionist)

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Extract:

Thanks, Charlie and Jim. Good to be back with you guys. So the topic is Israel’s harmful influence on the United States. I suppose I could talk for many hours about that, but I’ll kind of boil it down to 15 minutes.

And, you know, where do you even start?

I guess some people might start back with the foundation of the Federal Reserve and World War One, and argue that Zionists had a hand in that undermining of the Republic.

But I’ll start in 1948 when the State of Israel was created by an act of genocide. The Zionist leaders had always known that to have a Jewish state in Palestine, they would have to kill and/or expel the native Palestinians. They didn’t advertise that too blatantly, but they said it many times in so many words.

Now, the average ordinary Zionists didn’t know that. So there were Jews who went to Palestine, thinking this is all a wonderful thing and we’ll cooperate with people there and such. But the leadership knew that it was a genocidal project from the very beginning.

And so in 1948 the Zionists began massacring the local Arab population, going from village to village and bayoneting everybody to death, raping the women and then killing them, and committing these horrific atrocities. The most famous village that got that treatment was Deir Yassin, but there were a few hundred actually. These atrocities were widely advertised by the Zionists themselves. After they had murdered everybody in the previous village and raped the women and killed them, they would go with sound trucks to the next village and tell them “get out or else,” and then strafe them from the air as they fled.

So this was the Nakba, the genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestine. And it was only after the Zionists had begun this genocide that the Arab countries in the region declared war on the Zionists and came in to try to save the Palestinian people from genocide.

Well, the Zionists succeeded in murdering or expelling more than 80% of the people of Palestine in that very brief episode in 1948. This horrendous genocide against the population of Palestine, which is again accelerating, has been a nonstop slow motion genocide since 1948. It kind of ramped up in 1967 when the Zionists invaded the neighboring countries and stole a lot more land. And now it’s ramped up again with this attempted genocide of Gaza.

Now, why is this harmful for the United States? Well, let’s go back to 1948, when the president was Harry Truman. He was mobbed up. He was friends with a Pendergast mob. His Jewish organized crime friends handed him $2 million in cash in a suitcase in return for his support for creating the state of Israel. (The source on that is Gore Vidal through John F. Kennedy.)

The entire establishment of experts in foreign policy told Truman, do not even think about supporting this so-called state of Israel that these crazy genocidal Zionists are trying to create. The entire State Department issued a very, very strong, basically almost an order to Truman to not recognize Israel: “This will create unending bloodshed and chaos in the region and America will be dragged in forever. This will be the worst thing that could ever happen to American national interest.” And the military leaders and advisors said the same thing.

And then it got worse. The Zionists hadn’t completely taken over the U.S. during the 1950s. President Eisenhower was still somewhat independent of them. And so when the Zionists teamed up with Britain and France in the Suez War, Eisenhower was able to tell them to go home. Eisenhower sided with the Arabs, the people of the region, at that time.

When John F. Kennedy came into office, expectations were that he was going to side with the Arabs even more strongly. He had to give lip service to Jewish power to get elected in 1960, but the Kennedy family was well known to be quote-unquote anti-Semitic, and John F. Kennedy strongly leaned towards supporting the independence of Algeria and the other Arab causes.

And Kennedy’s perhaps number one priority in his brief presidency was nuclear nonproliferation, starting with preventing Israel from getting nuclear weapons. And that’s probably the single biggest reason why he was murdered.

So U.S. support for Israel led to yet another level of corruption, the murder of a president. Similar things were happening here in France. (I’m speaking right now from Paris.) And de Gaulle, the great French leader who led the French resistance, was also targeted by basically the same forces that killed President Kennedy in the United States. And de Gaulle narrowly escaped more than one assassination attempt by the same people, because de Gaulle also sided with the Arabs against the Zionists. And he ended up being overthrown in a color revolution in 1968. There’s a whole parallel story to how France was ruined by its Zionists as well.

In 1967, the Zionists, through their controlled asset Lyndon Johnson, “America’s first Jewish president” according to a major Jewish magazine of the time, supported the Zionists in their war of aggression to steal territory from neighboring countries and indeed collaborated with Zionists on a plan to drag the U.S. into that war through murdering all of the sailors on the USS Liberty. President Johnson was a de facto Israeli agent and agreed to that plan to murder American sailors. He even has been quoted by witnesses as saying that I want that goddamn ship on the bottom. That is, he wanted all 300 American sailors to die under this Israeli attack that was going to be falsely blamed on Egypt.

We could also mention that in 1968, John F. Kennedy’s brother Robert was “murdered by a Palestinian patsy.” Well, no, he wasn’t. The Palestinian patsy Sirhan Sirhan was hypnotized into firing shots at random in Kennedy’s presence. It was merely a distraction. And the professional gunman shot Robert Kennedy from behind from point blank range. One would think that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today would understand, just from the fact that they picked a Palestinian patsy to (be blamed for) killing his father.

And maybe he does understand that. Maybe that’s why he’s so terrified of the Zionists that he pretends to be more Zionist than thou, or professes to be.

So that level of corruption of the American political process, these are sort of the highlights. Throughout subsequent decades, there’s been pushing and shoving to see how much the Zionists can get from the American government. In terms of money, they’ve extracted over a trillion dollars from the United States by the early 2000s, according to the Christian Science Monitor. And that doesn’t count the $7 trillion spent on the 9-11 wars for Israel.

And so we’ll skip all of the 70s, 80s, and 90s shenanigans.

September 11, 2001 was the biggest false flag operation in history. It was run by Israel and Israel’s assets, the neoconservatives in the United States, once again, grossly corrupting the American political process. And that led to that theft of essentially six to seven trillion dollars, according to most establishment estimates, on wars against Israel’s enemies in the Middle East.

Today, the US is about to lose its empire largely because of its support for this accelerated genocide of Gaza. Virtually all American leaders are professing support for that genocide. They’re risking their reputations and their country’s reputation. And they’re risking their freedom, because they very well may be named in future war crimes prosecutions.

Joe Biden is ruining his political future, because about half the Democratic Party sees that this is a genocide and sides with the Palestinians, and yet Biden is giving Israel total support and paying for the weapons that are perpetrating this genocide. So far, well over 30,000 innocent Palestinian civilians have been massacred, the vast majority women and children.

The U.S. is continuing to exert its pressure on international bodies, including the U.N. The U.S. has vetoed U.N. resolutions more than 45 times to protect the genocidal Zionist entity. It’s repeatedly gone to war against Israel’s enemies. It’s caused untold damage and killed millions of people in Iraq, Libya and Syria, all on behalf of Israel.

The American government officials have helped the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad steal American government secrets repeatedly and steal nuclear weapons. And in fact, prominent Jewish Americans have actually boasted that they have helped steal American nuclear weapons to give to Israel.

The US authorities have essentially rolled over. And today, virtually every one of them is supporting this genocide of Gaza. This is all bought and paid for by Zionist money. There are hundreds of Jewish billionaires—probably between a third and a half of the billionaires in the United States are Jewish—and they’re almost all strongly pro-Israel partisans. There are hundreds of thousands of Jewish millionaires in the United States, many of whom are pro-Israel partisans. And then the average Jew in America earns a six-figure income.

So there are a lot of pretty well-off people, and many of those people are very active lobbyists. So the Israeli lobby is really the biggest single pressure group in Washington and basically has completely taken over the US government by so-called campaign contributions, which are really bribes.

And then this history that I’ve mentioned of these illegal, these criminal operations like assassinations, false flag attacks, and so on. They’ve terrorized the governing class in the United States. And so everybody, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of a man who was murdered by Israel, is so terrorized by the Zionists that he feels it necessary to pretend to be more pro-Israel than anybody else.

So that’s just kind of a very brief summary of how badly Zionism and Israel have corrupted American politics. And we could get into the cultural side of it as well. There are all sorts of different avenues we could explore. But I’ll stop and let you guys direct me towards what you’re interested in.

 
(Republished from Substack by permission of author or representative)
https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/how-israel-corrupted-america/

Nancy Pelosi Is Pressing Charges Against Peace Activists

 


by David Swanson 

Reprinted from WorldBeyondWar with permission.

Nancy Pelosi is having peace activists charged with felonies for nonviolent activities in front of her San Francisco home, and yet not having them investigated for, much less charged with what she has publicly accused them of, namely working for both Russia and China.

Heather Phipps is being represented in court by civil rights attorney Walter Riley. She allegedly splashed washable red paint on Pelosi’s garage door last week. A few drops of the paint accidentally got on a policeman’s uniform. The Pelosis are claiming that the damage to their garage door exceeds $400, and thus Heather committed a felony. The drops of paint on the policeman’s uniform are being used to also charge her with battery. Meanwhile Cynthia Papermaster, coordinator for CODEPINK in the Bay Area, is being charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly leaving red handprints on the garage door. The washable paint was completely washed off by evening.

Papermaster commented: “Pelosi takes $600,000 from the Israeli lobby and refuses to call for a ceasefire. We wonder — is she working for us, her constituents, or is she doing Netanyahu’s and Israel’s bidding? While Pelosi is funding a genocide in Gaza with our tax dollars that’s killing and starving thousands of children, she has time for petty vendettas against committed peace advocates. I fasted for Gaza for 20 days, taking only liquids amounting to 200 calories or less per day, which is what innocent children in Gaza are receiving if they can even find food to eat. There is a genocide happening before our eyes, and Pelosi is good with funding it with our tax dollars. So I’m now committed to ousting Pelosi from her undeserved position as San Francisco’s member of Congress.”

She continued: “Nearly 80% of Democrats want a ceasefire. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a ceasefire resolution by a vote of 8 to 3 with thousands of residents showing up at City Hall to support the resolution. Pelosi is either completely unaware of her constituents’ needs, or she is deliberately ignoring them, which is the more likely explanation. Her Federal Building office has been closed for years. Constituents are prevented from meeting with her staff or even entering the Federal Building. She doesn’t hold town meetings like other Representatives. She has walled herself off from the people she is supposed to represent. She continually votes against the interests of her constituents who fervently wish for her to call for a ceasefire and to stop funding the Israeli genocide in Gaza with our tax dollars. She is a failure as San Francisco’s member of Congress and she needs to step down and be replaced.”

On February 11, 2024, Bay Area CODEPINK took to Nancy Pelosi’s home again to tell neighbors and fellow constituents that a genocide is being bunded in our names!

In October, Pelosi told our members calling for a ceasefire to “go back to China.” These same women have been protesting for peace at her house for 17 years.  Pelosi takes thousands of dollars from AIPAC every year. Who’s the foreign agent here?  Video by Peter Menchini

David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson’s books include War Is A Lie and When the World Outlawed War. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. He hosts Talk Nation Radio. This originally appeared  at WorldBeyondWar.org.

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2024/02/19/nancy-pelosi-is-pressing-charges-against-peace-activists/

US changes position on Gaza ceasefire – Reuters

 

Washington has reportedly proposed a UN resolution opposing Israel’s planned Rafah offensive

US changes position on Gaza ceasefire – Reuters

US President Joe Biden’s administration has reportedly dropped its opposition to a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and proposed a UN resolution calling for Israel to cancel its planned military offensive in the Palestinian enclave’s last refuge for displaced civilians.

The draft resolution noted that the planned storming of Rafah would harm civilians and displace more Gaza residents, potentially pushing many into Egypt, Reuters reported on Monday, citing a copy of the text.

Israel’s Rafah operation – targeting the last Hamas stronghold in the besieged enclave – “would have serious implications for regional peace and security, and therefore underscores that such a major ground offensive should not proceed under current circumstances,” according to the proposed resolution.

Washington’s UN delegation has previously opposed making demands for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and has twice vetoed UN Security Council resolutions since the conflict began in October. Its new proposal comes in response to a draft resolution from the Algerian delegation, which demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.

US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield has said the Algerian resolution could undermine “sensitive negotiations” to broker a pause in the fighting. She indicated on Saturday that the US would veto the resolution if it came up for a Security Council vote on Tuesday.

About 1.4 million Gazans displaced by Israeli bombardments have been crammed into Rafah, a city on the strip’s southern border that normally has a population of around 280,000, according to the UN.

The UN has warned that Israel’s planned Rafah operation would have “dire humanitarian consequences.” Dozens of European countries issued a similar warning on Monday, following in the footsteps of such nations as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to completely eliminate Hamas in response to the deadly October 7 attacks by Palestinian militants that triggered the war. He has rejected international calls for a ceasefire and has insisted that only “total victory” will make Israel safe. “Those who want to prevent us from operating in Rafah are essentially telling us, ‘Lose the war,’” he told reporters on Saturday.

While publicly supporting Israel’s war effort – and providing US weaponry – Biden has reportedly clashed with Netanyahu behind the scenes. During a telephone call with Netanyahu on Thursday, Biden “reiterated his view that a military operation should not proceed without a credible and executable plan for ensuring the safety of, and support for, the civilians in Rafah,” according to a White House statement.

The UN resolution proposed by the Biden administration also would condemn any efforts to reduce Gaza’s territory or move Israeli settlers into the enclave, Reuters said.

https://www.rt.com/news/592711-us-opposes-israel-offensive-in-rafah-gaza/

Alastair Crooke: Israel/US Fatal Mistakes

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Ukraine has used US-made chemical weapons – Russia

 

Moscow claims that Washington and Kiev have violated the articles of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

Ukraine has used US-made chemical weapons – Russia

Washington and Kiev have violated articles of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) as Ukrainian forces have used illegal munitions on the battlefield, Russian Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov has claimed.

The head of Russia’s Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Protection Forces provided several examples of Kiev’s alleged use of banned chemical weapons and non-lethal chemical agents that he said were obtained from the US. 

Kirillov claimed that Ukraine used drones to drop US-made gas grenades on December 28, 2023 containing “CS” compound – a chemical classified as a riot-control tool that irritates the eyes and upper respiratory tract, and can cause skin burns, respiratory paralysis and cardiac arrest when used in high concentrations.

He said the delivery of such munitions by the US to Ukraine was a direct violation of the rules of the OPCW, which states that a country must “never, under any circumstances, transfer chemical weapons directly or indirectly to anyone.”

He also reported that, on June 15, 2023, Moscow’s forces were attacked by a drone carrying a container filled with chloropicrin, which is classified as a Schedule 3 compound under the Chemical Weapons Convention and is strictly prohibited – even for law enforcement purposes. The same chemical was also used by Kiev on August 3 and 11, 2023 near the village of Rabotino, according to Kirillov.

The general also provided several examples of Kiev using toxic substances against Russian military personnel, as well as poisoning high-ranking officials such as the head of Russia’s Kherson Region Vladimir Saldo in August 2022.

Kirillov said Russian intelligence believes that Ukraine’s forces, under the guidance of its Western backers, are developing a new military tactic that would use a “chemical belt.” This would involve blowing up containers with hydrocyanic acid and ammonia to prevent an advance by Russian forces.

He added that plans for such a large-scale use of toxic chemicals were evidenced by the fact that Kiev had asked the EU to supply it with hundreds of thousands of antidotes, gas masks and other personal protective equipment in 2024. That’s in addition to 600,000 ampules of organophosphorus antidotes, and 750,000 bottles of drugs for the detoxification of mustard gas, lewisite and hydrocyanic acid derivatives that were supplied by NATO countries in 2023.

“It is obvious that the volumes requested by Ukraine are excessive for a country that does not have chemical weapons,” Kirillov stated.

There has been no response from the OPCW despite all of this evidence being presented to the organization four months ago, the general said, accusing it of being run by Washington as a tool to target its political opponents.

In November, Russia lost its seat on the OPCW Executive Council after failing to get enough votes from other members of the organization. Kirillov said Moscow was effectively “pushed out” of its seat and was replaced by Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania, who he claimed were pursuing an obvious anti-Russia policy.

https://www.rt.com/russia/592680-ukraine-us-chemical-weapons/