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THREAD: 🚨 So here’s what just came out. Israeli media outlet Channel 13 leaked internal government transcripts from March 2025 that show the Israeli war cabinet knowingly pursued a strategy of starvation in Gaza. https://t.co/s0Wc4wdrnA

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According to Israel’s @ynetnews, Israel is charging US journalist Jeremy Loffredo with “aiding the enemy during wartime and providing information to the enemy” for reporting on the Israeli military targets hit by Iran earlier this month. Israel is detaining and prosecuting an American journalist for doing journalism. Will his media colleagues defend him? https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ryjxg00b1je

American journalist disclosed secrets during Iran attack, police says Jeremy Loffredo faces Israeli court after reporting Iranian missiles striking several Israeli air bases; U.S. fears possible diplomatic incident following reporter's actions ynetnews.com

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On the same day that the Biden-Harris admin announces new US weapons shipments to Israel:

@HossamShabat - حسام شبات

Breaking: Israeli occupation forces have just targeted another school in Gaza City early this morning. So far, 100 people have been killed, mostly women and children. https://t.co/BPM3kddKX9

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"A Partnership Based On Values." -@AIPAC https://t.co/Lf3BSqaA8o

@HamzaMSyed - Hamza M Syed

Up for discussion in the Israeli parliament: the legitimacy of raping prisoners https://t.co/9KuqCW9ntK

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Based on Israeli media and military sources, these by my count are the confirmed locations so far of where the Israeli military enacted the Hannibal Directive and killed Israelis on Oct. 7th: 1. Nova Rave 2. Kibbutz Be’eri 3. Erez military base 4. Re’im army base 5. Nahal Oz military outpost 6. vehicles heading toward Gaza 7. Area around Gaza border barrier -- aka the “killing zone”

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New humiliation for NYT's @gettleman, lead author of the "Hamas sexual violence" scam. The *NYT itself* has now confirmed that one of Gettleman's key "witnesses" -- a medic from an Israeli paramilitary unit -- falsely claimed to have seen evidence that two females suffered sexual violence at Kibbutz Be’eri on Oct. 7th. Video from an Israeli soldier proves it. (https://nytimes.com/2024/03/25/world/middleeast/video-sexual-assault-israel-kibbutz-hamas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fU0.ltUw.z4pNLV4fFPEd&smid=url-share…) @TheGrayzoneNews called out this medic's falsehoods months ago. (https://thegrayzone.com/2024/01/10/questions-nyt-hamas-rape-report/) How can the NYT continue to stand by a story that it's now being forced to debunk?

Israeli Soldier’s Video Undercuts Medic’s Account of Sexual Assault (Gift Article) Kibbutz residents concluded that two sisters killed on Oct. 7 were not victims of sexual violence. nytimes.com

Screams without proof: questions for NYT about shoddy ‘Hamas mass rape’ report - The Grayzone After dismantling a New York Times front page feature alleging "a broader pattern of gender-based violence on Oct. 7" by Hamas, The Grayzone is demanding answers of the paper for its journalistic malpractice. The following was submitted to New York Times editors and lead author, Jeffrey Gettleman. The Grayzone has identified serious issues with the thegrayzone.com

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Confronted about his lies, the Israeli medic "declined to say whether he still stood by the account, saying he would like to put the attacks behind him." Translation: I lied. But amazingly, the Israeli army is now falsely claiming that he stands by his story, and is trying to pretend that he may have seen the victims somewhere else: "Later, an Israeli military spokesman said that the medic stood by his testimony but might have misremembered the place where he saw the teenage girls... and might have seen the teenagers in a different kibbutz." The NYT prints this transparent cover-up attempt by Israel without acknowledging what a transparent lie it is.

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Unsurprisingly, NYT scam artist @gettleman is parroting the Israeli gov's new cover-up attempt. He now amends his original article to acknowledge that his own newspaper has now debunked one of his key witnesses, the medic. But Gettleman now parrots the Israeli gov's new excuse that the medic may have seen the two bodies at a different Kibbutz: "It was unclear if the paramedic was describing bodies he discovered elsewhere." It's undoubtedly clear that @gettleman is a fraud, and that his article should be retracted.

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According to a new account in the NYT: On the night of the Maidan coup in Ukraine ten years ago, Feb. 24th 2014, Ukraine's post-coup spy chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko arrived at his new headquarters and made his first call to "the C.I.A. station chief and the local head of MI6." He asked them "for help in rebuilding the agency from the ground up, and proposed a three-way partnership." Why was Ukraine's new spy chief already on such good terms with the CIA and MI6, literally on the night of a coup that brought his new government to power? 🤔

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At a Columbia event today, @HillaryClinton and @USAmbUN are facing protests over their support for the Israeli genocide in Gaza: https://t.co/uOMCdI6fiw

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@HillaryClinton @USAmbUN Another protester interrupts HRC: https://t.co/uLdlnJhMqn

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@HillaryClinton @USAmbUN After UN Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield took the stage, the event was temporarily shut down after audience members began chanting "Free Palestine": https://t.co/JhYBSkW235

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After the killings of 3 US troops, top State Dept. official Victoria Nuland declares that "the USA is not withdrawing from Syria." She adds that the US needs to stay to fight ISIS. Pentagon documents show that this is a lie: the US is barely fighting ISIS. In fact, the US has let ISIS grow when it can threaten the Syrian government. Which speaks to the real reason for the US occupation of Syria: as admitted quietly by a senior Biden official and other DC neocons, the US is there to steal Syria's oil and wheat in order to punish its people for successfully resisting the CIA-led regime change war. (https://www.aaronmate.net/p/to-keep-troops-in-syria-us-leaders)

To keep troops in Syria, US leaders are lying like in Afghanistan While claiming to oppose "endless military deployments" abroad, the Biden administration is keeping hundreds of US troops in Syria and deceiving the public like its predecessors in Afghanistan. aaronmate.net

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Today is 10th anniversary of the Ghouta chemical massacre in Syria. US blamed Syrian gov't, but all evidence points to sectarian death squad rebels. That's why Obama didn't bomb. There are Western officials who know more about Ghouta than has been publicly disclosed. Just as the OPCW leaks exposed the Douma deception, perhaps they will find a way to tell the truth about Ghouta.

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Obama officials leaked that the intel about Assad wasn't a "slam dunk." This was a deliberate reference to the Iraq WMD hoax. Obama later confirmed that directly. (https://apnews.com/article/c2ad647bc3c248f286ad4d186f1ba9d2) (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/)

AP sources: Intelligence on weapons no 'slam dunk' WASHINGTON (AP) — The intelligence linking Syrian President Bashar Assad or his inner circle to an alleged chemical weapons attack is no "slam dunk," with questions remaining about who actually controls some of Syria's chemical weapons stores and doubts about whether Assad himself ordered the strike, U.S. intelligence officials say. President Barack Obama declared unequivocally Wednesday that the Syrian government was responsible, while laying the groundwork for an expected U.S. military strike. "We have concluded that the Syrian government in fact carried these out," Obama said in an interview with "NewsHour" on PBS. "And if that's so, then there need to be international consequences." However, multiple U.S. officials used the phrase "not a slam dunk" to describe the intelligence picture — a reference to then-CIA Director George Tenet's insistence in 2002 that U.S. intelligence showing Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was a "slam dunk" — intelligence that turned out to be wrong. A report by the Office of the Director for National Intelligence outlining that evidence against Syria includes a few key caveats — including acknowledging that the U.S. intelligence community no longer has the certainty it did six months ago of where the regime's chemical weapons are stored, nor does it have proof Assad ordered chemical weapons use, according to two intelligence officials and two more U.S. officials. The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders has said an Aug. 21 rocket strike killed 355 people. A three-page report released Thursday by the British government said there was "a limited but growing body of intelligence" blaming the Syrian government for the attacks. And though the British were not sure why Assad would have carried out such an attack, the report said there was "no credible intelligence" that the rebels had obtained or used chemical weapons. Quizzed by lawmakers in Britain's House of Commons, Prime Minister David Cameron gave various descriptions for his level of certainty to Assad's responsibility, ranging from "beyond doubt" to being "as certain as possible." "We have a regime that has used chemical weapons on 14 occasions, that is most likely responsible for this large-scale attack, that if nothing is done it will conclude that it can use these weapons again and again and on a larger scale and with impunity," he said. Like the British report, the yet-to-be-released U.S. report assesses with "high confidence" that the Syrian government was responsible for the attacks that hit suburbs east and west of Damascus, filled with a chemical weapon, according to a senior U.S. official who read the report. The official conceded there are caveats in the report and there is no proof saying Assad personally ordered the attack. There was no mention in the report of the possibility that a rogue element inside Assad's government or military could have been responsible, the senior official said. All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the intelligence report publicly. Relevant congressional committees were to be briefed on that evidence by teleconference call on Thursday, U.S. officials and congressional aides said. Administration officials said Wednesday that neither the U.N. Security Council, which is deciding whether to weigh in, nor allies' concerns would affect their plans. But the complicated intelligence picture raises questions about the White House's full-steam-ahead approach to the Aug. 21 attack on a rebel-held Damascus suburb, with worries that the attack could be tied to al-Qaida-backed rebels later. Intelligence officials say they could not pinpoint the exact locations of Assad's supplies of chemical weapons, and Assad could have moved them in recent days as the U.S. rhetoric increased. But that lack of certainty means a possible series of U.S. cruise missile strikes aimed at crippling Assad's military infrastructure could hit newly hidden supplies of chemical weapons, accidentally triggering a deadly chemical attack. Over the past six months, with shifting front lines in the 2½-year-old civil war and sketchy satellite and human intelligence coming out of Syria, U.S. and allied spies have lost track of who controls some of the country's chemical weapons supplies, according to the two intelligence officials and two other U.S. officials. U.S. satellites have captured images of Syrian troops moving trucks into weapons storage areas and removing materials, but U.S. analysts have not been able to track what was moved or, in some cases, where it was relocated. They are also not certain that when they saw what looked like Assad's forces moving chemical supplies, those forces were able to remove everything before rebels took over an area where weapons had been stored. In addition, an intercept of Syrian military officials discussing the strike was among low-level staff, with no direct evidence tying the attack back to an Assad insider or even a senior Syrian commander, the officials said. So while Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that it was "undeniable," a chemical weapons attack had occurred, and that it was carried out by the Syrian military, U.S. intelligence officials are not so certain that the suspected chemical attack was carried out on Assad's orders. Some have even talked about the possibility that rebels could have carried out the attack in a callous and calculated attempt to draw the West into the war. That suspicion was not included in the official intelligence report, according to the official who described the report. Ideally, the White House would prefer more clarity on all those points in the intelligence provided to it. The U.S. has devoted only a few hundred operatives, between intelligence officers and soldiers, to the Syrian mission, with CIA and Pentagon resources already stretched by the counterterrorism missions in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, as well as the continuing missions in Afghanistan and Pakistan, officials said. The quest for added intelligence to bolster the White House's case for a strike against Assad's military infrastructure was the issue that delayed the release of the U.S. intelligence community's report, which had been expected Tuesday. The uncertainty calls into question the statements by Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden. "We know that the Syrian regime maintains custody of these chemical weapons," Kerry said. "We know that the Syrian regime has the capacity to do this with rockets. We know that the regime has been determined to clear the opposition from those very places where the attacks took place." The CIA, the Pentagon and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment, and the White House did not respond to requests for comment. ___ Associated Press writers Bradley Klapper, Julie Pace and Lara Jakes contributed to this report. ___ Follow Dozier on Twitter: http://twitter.com/kimberlydozier and Apuzzo at http://twitter.com/mattapuzzo apnews.com

The Obama Doctrine The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world. theatlantic.com

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A now widely accepted study found that the range of the Ghouta rockets was outside of Syrian gov't-controlled territory – making a launch from that area impossible. The evidence was so convincing that the NYT was forced to publish this rare corrective: (https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/29/world/middleeast/new-study-refines-view-of-sarin-attack-in-syria.html)

New Study Refines View of Sarin Attack in Syria (Published 2013) A new analysis of rockets linked to the chemical attack on Damascus in August concluded that they were most likely fired by multiple launchers and had a range of about three kilometers. nytimes.com

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Seymour Hersh reported in LRB that US intel knew that Syrian insurgents acquired sarin from Turkey; UK tests found Syrian gov't stockpile didn't match the sarin used in Ghouta; and that Al Qaeda had a sarin production cell. (https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n08/seymour-m.-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line) (https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n24/seymour-m.-hersh/whose-sarin)

Seymour M. Hersh · The Red Line and the Rat Line: Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels · LRB 16 April 2014 The full extent of US co-operation with Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar in assisting the rebel opposition in Syria has... lrb.co.uk

Seymour M. Hersh · Whose sarin? · LRB 19 December 2013 Barack Obama did not tell the whole story when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the... lrb.co.uk

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A 2021 open-source study from @MichaKobs, @CL4Syr and others traced all missile impact locations in Ghouta back to the most likely launch spot where they all intersected: a small area within insurgent-controlled territory. No one has refuted it. (https://blog.rootclaim.com/new-evidence-2013-sarin-attack-in-ghouta-syria/) (https://thegrayzone.com/2021/07/26/syrian-insurgents-guilty-of-red-line-2013-sarin-chemical-attack-study-finds/)

New evidence resolves the controversy surrounding the 2013 Syria sarin attack. A reexamination of rocket trajectories shows that the chemical rockets were launched from opposition - controlled territory. blog.rootclaim.com

Syrian insurgents guilty of ‘red line’ 2013 sarin chemical attack, study finds - The Grayzone A new open-source study concludes that Syrian insurgents carried out the Ghouta sarin chemical attack in August 2013. The explosive findings add to a growing body of public evidence that undermines US-led efforts to blame the Syrian government, which almost led to US military intervention. Hundreds of people were killed and thousands were wounded when thegrayzone.com

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Yes, US intel officials declared that the Wikileaks emails "came from the Russians." One option is to parrot them; the other is to look at the actual evidence, which undermines their claim. (https://realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/05/13/hidden_over_2_years_dem_cyber-firms_sworn_testimony_it_had_no_proof_of_russian_hack_of_dnc_123596.html)(https://realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/06/06/what_durham_skipped_903673.html) Roger Stone's trial confirmed what was obvious from the start to anyone who isn't a Trump-Russia conspiracy theorist: he had no privileged access to Wikileaks, as NYT-WP reported and Mueller report (in later un-redactions) admitted.

Hidden Over 2 Years: Dem Cyber-Firm's Sworn Testimony It Had No Proof of Russian Hack of DNC CrowdStrike, the private cyber-security firm that first accused Russia of hacking Democratic Party emails and served as a critical source for U.S. intelligence officials in the years-long Trump-Russia realclearinvestigations.com

Russiagate Prober Durham Neglected DNC Hack Claim, Despite Evidence It Too Was a Democrat Sham By Aaron Maté, RealClearInvestigationsJune 6, 2023 Special Counsel John Durham’s final report faults the FBI for opening the Trump-Russia collusion investigation on baseless grounds and r realclearinvestigations.com