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@OV_Matter - 🇦🇺OurVoicesMatter
Yep Check out my analysis of Russia and the Middle East below Let’s start with Right video General Wesley Clark (After 9/11) We're going to take-out 7 countries in 5 years. Iraq Syria Lebanon Libya Somalia Sudan Iran America deceived the world about WMDs and causing the deaths of millions of Iraqis. They've supported and "accidentally dropped" weapons to ISIS locations, toppled numerous leaders in the name of democracy, and most recently orchestrated a coup in 2014 to remove the democratically elected leader of Ukraine, replacing him with a "WEF puppet. The war with US+NATO and Russia officially started back in 2014, not 2022 In Syria, a situation unfolded as Christians faced persecution and brutal killings at the hands of ISIS in 2014. Recognising the severity of the crisis, the Syrian president sought assistance from Russia. In response, Russia intervened and urged the United States to step back, which occurred in 2014. Facing limited options, the US reluctantly complied and withdrew its involvement. However, before their retreat, the US authorities directed the Australian Airforce to target what they believed to be ISIS locations. The area turned out to be occupied by the Syrian army . This error led to the loss of over 100 Syrian Army personnel lives, creating a significant embarrassment for then-President Obama and the Australian Government In the aftermath of this incident, President Obama shifted his attention and priorities towards Ukraine. Obama proceeded with staging a coup of the democratically elected leader. The 2014 coup in Kyiv, which overthrew the President Viktor Yanukovych. This coup was openly supported by US and European imperialism and implemented primarily by neo-Nazi Svoboda Party. After the 2014 coup in Kyiv, the people of the peninsula voted in a referendum to re-join Russia, a decision that most NATO members have not recognised. (Left Video) The US and the NATO war machine has wreaked havoc in the Middle East and inched closer to the east, right next to Russia, by deliberately provoking Ukraine to join NATO. With five expansions since the Cold War, Putin views this as a substantial threat, much like the rest of the world.
@OV_Matter - 🇦🇺🇱🇧OurVoicesMatter
Yep Check out my analysis of the US Proxy war with Russia, featuring Ukraine and the Middle East below 👇 Let’s start with 🎥Right video General Wesley Clark (After 9/11) We're going to take-out 7 countries in 5 years. 🇮🇶Iraq 🇸🇾Syria 🇱🇧Lebanon 🇱🇾Libya 🇸🇴Somalia 🇸🇩Sudan 🇮🇷Iran 🇮🇶America deceived the world about WMDs and causing the deaths of millions of Iraqis. They've supported and "accidentally dropped" weapons to ISIS locations, toppled numerous leaders in the name of democracy, and most recently orchestrated a coup in 2014 to remove the democratically elected leader of Ukraine, replacing him with a "WEF puppet. 🏁The war with US+NATO and Russia officially started back in 2014, not 2022 🇸🇾In Syria, a situation unfolded as Christians faced persecution and brutal killings at the hands of ISIS in 2014. Recognising the severity of the crisis, the Syrian president sought assistance from Russia. In response, Russia intervened and urged the United States to step back, which occurred in 2014. Facing limited options, the US reluctantly complied and withdrew its involvement. 🇦🇺However, before their retreat, the US authorities directed the Australian Airforce to target what they believed to be ISIS locations. The area turned out to be occupied by the Syrian army 😡. This error led to the loss of over 100 Syrian Army personnel lives, creating a significant embarrassment for then-President Obama and the Australian Government 🇺🇸In the aftermath of this incident, President Obama shifted his attention and priorities towards Ukraine. Obama proceeded with staging a coup of the democratically elected leader. 🇺🇦The 2014 coup in Kyiv, which overthrew the President Viktor Yanukovych. This coup was openly supported by US and European imperialism and implemented primarily by neo-Nazi Svoboda Party. 🇷🇺After the 2014 coup in Kyiv, the people of the peninsula voted in a referendum to re-join Russia, a decision that most NATO members have not recognised. 🎥(Left Video) The US and the NATO war machine has wreaked havoc in the Middle East and inched closer to the east, right next to Russia, by deliberately provoking Ukraine to join NATO. With five expansions since the Cold War, Putin views this as a substantial threat, much like the rest of the world.
@KimDotcom - Kim Dotcom
Understanding the Hamas attack on Israel: Iran is aiming for a confrontation with Israel and the US. The success of Russia in Ukraine is encouraging Iran to undo decades of hostile US foreign policy in the Middle East. A bankrupt US Govt has just been invited to another war. The timing is opportunistic. The US Govt is forced to print trillions of USD as it struggles to raise new debt. Another war would lead to a significant increase in inflation and an accelerated economic decline of the US. If Iran mines the Strait of Hormuz the global energy crisis would become critical. The Biden administration has used the majority of US oil reserves to stabilize domestic oil prices. Iran can increase the pain for the US Govt significantly. Ukraine is turning into a major defeat for the US and NATO. A new front in the Middle East would accelerate the US decline. The US Govt and its western partners simply cannot afford it. Russia and China would benefit most. Iran understands this and is playing into the hands of its partners.
@jakeshieldsajj - Jake Shields
This is why they are trying to make America fight their war for them https://t.co/GRAhLp7PNM
@LaurenWitzkeDE - Lauren Witzke
Iran is now officially engaged in the war. This extremely quick escalation is exactly what Netanyahu wanted. He will soon be demanding billions in aid and thousands of American kids to come and fight his war. Time for the U.S. to get out, and get out now.
@amaryllisfox - Amaryllis Fox
This is what craven provocation of war looks like. Shi'a militias have launched over a hundred fifty attacks against US bases since we killed Soleimani in 2020. Much like Israel's lobbing of missiles across the Lebanese border, this activity has been in the normal range of the Middle East's delicate status quo. The US has tolerated it, given its troops remain in Iraq, a majority Shi'a country, even after Iraq's legislature unanimously voted for US Forces to leave its territory in 2020, US Forces have killed over 300,000 civilians in Iraq and Syria, and our military operations in both countries are egregious violations of international law. Any claim that recent Shi'a militia strikes are unusual enough to justify US escalation into a potentially catastrophic regional war are fatuous chunks of red meat designed to be repeated by useful idiots. The corporate puppeteers of our war machine are revving up their money machines without a single thought for the blood that may be spilled or the calamitous damage to the global economy (and your cost of living) that may result. Until we get such corrupt influences out of govt, our only hope to keep this conflict contained is praying for the restraint of Tehran's response. You know it's time for new leadership in Washington when the current crop leave you dependent on the mullahs' good judgement to keep your country out of war. Time for a grown-up in the situation room and a return to American strength by keeping the peace. #Kennedy24 #Syria #Iran #Biden #Trump #WarMachine
@TrumpsMustache - Trump's Mustache
And the militias will keep doing it.....striking them doesn't impact Iran a bit... FJB and his weak foreign policy... He'll continue to coddle Iran and China Pentagon: Almost 60 Troops Injured by Iran-Proxy Forces in Iraq and Syria https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/15/pentagon-confirms-almost-60-troops-injured-by-iran-proxy-forces-in-iraq-and-syria/ via @BreitbartNews
@Prolotario1 - Ariel
Joe Biden wants to attack Iraq facilities. 🇮🇶 Ofcourse he does. We all know US oligarchy have already lost the Middle East. Now they are just throwing temper tantrums. The parallel market in Iraq is finished. No coming back from that Cabal. Leave it alone.
@Megatron_ron - Megatron
BREAKING: ⚡ 🇺🇸 American network CBS: "A new batch of American troops is preparing to head to both Iraq and Syria under the pretext of fighting ISIS." Megatron: Both Syria and Iraq officially call these bases illegal, hence the US occupation of these countries. The US illegally extracts tons of oil from Syria every year. (photo illustrative) t.me/megatron_ron
@AdameMedia - ADAM
BREAKING: Joe Biden to AUTHORIZE MILITARY ACTION in the Middle East “as early as tonight” Syria and Iraq to prepare for massive bombing All for 🇮🇱 American dollars and American lives exist to be sacrificed for 🇮🇱 https://t.co/5OFVVIbKCO
@aaronjmate - Aaron Maté
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)
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
🧵The Ultimate Thread on Biden’s Betrayal of Israel The notion that President Joe Biden is a stalwart supporter of Israel, let alone acting in the best interests of the U.S. in the Middle East, is and has been a complete and total canard. This Big Lie, propagated by the administration and its mouthpieces, provides cover for what amounts to an anti-American plot to put the screws to Israel, as part and parcel of an effort to make the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, Iran, the regional hegemon. Since Oct. 7th – a Holocaust-in-a-day perpetrated by Iran’s proxy Hamas – despite initial rhetoric to the contrary and the continued provision of munitions (for now), the Biden admin has shown in word and more importantly deed that it is doing everything it possibly can within political reason to slander, stymie, sabotage, and ultimately imperil the very existence of our chief ally in the Middle East. Now the Biden admin is going in for the kill shot: A push to force the Jewish state to effectively lose the war to Hamas, free hundreds if not thousands of jihadists, and reward a Palestinian Arab population overwhelmingly supportive of the Oct. 7 massacre and Hamas with a state in a bid to “sue for peace” with Iran -- threatening Israel's very existence in exchange for purported "normalization" with Arab powers. What follows is an effort to chronicle the Biden admin's treachery towards Israel. This thread should serve as the death knell of the false narrative that Biden supports the Jewish state – and more fundamentally that he is representing the interests of the American people over those of our adversaries with the blood of our countrymen on their hands.
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/7/23: The very day in which Hamas executes the most deadly and barbaric attack on Israel in its modern history – raping, murdering, burning, mutilating, beheading, and taking hostage innocents totaling 1,200 dead and approximately 240 abducted – including among them ~40 Americans – U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs urges “all sides” including Israel “to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks.” It quickly deletes the message, but this reflexive response will prove revealing
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/8/23: Sec. of State Antony Blinken likewise tweets and then quickly deletes post encouraging Turkey’s “advocacy for a cease-fire” https://x.com/RobbieGramer/status/1711366571665342603?s=20 State Dept. would reportedly issue a directive barring such rhetoric in public statements, but within months wholly obliterate that order https://www.huffpost.com/entry/state-department-internal-emails-gaza-israel_n_65296395e4b0a304ff6ff95d
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
The U.S. announces it is moving a carrier strike group to the Eastern Mediterranean as part of a plan administration officials say aims to “deter[]…other states or non-state actors that might seek to widen this war” – not specifically Iran despite its menacing from the north. Nearly 100,000 Israelis will be displaced from the region. Meanwhile, evidence will suggest this show of force is as much about deterring Israel from striking Hezbollah and Iranian proxies, as those proxies from striking Israel, the U.S., and other allies and partners. Those proxies will launch an endless barrage of attacks undeterred in the coming months https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/was-bidens-speech-as-pro-israel-as-you-think At the same time, the U.S. will feverishly work to de-link Iran from the Oct. 7 attack, and the aggression of its proxies more broadly https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/iran-america-october-massacre
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/10/23: Politico reports U.S. officials call for Israel to respond to Oct. 7 attack in a “proportionate” manner, with Deputy National Security Adviser Jon Finer stressing “It is our advice that this war be conducted based on principles of international law.” Officials will restate this and similar lines endlessly in the coming weeks. The implication is that Israel, which boasts perhaps the most ethical and humanitarian-focused army in the history of mankind, would violate such standards https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/10/us-israel-response-hamas-00120733
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/11/23: As WSJ will later report, with Israeli warplanes awaiting the order to strike Hezbollah as part of a multipronged attack, President Biden tells Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “stand down.” Hezbollah will engage in numerous attacks subsequently, while again nearly 100,000 Israelis from the north will become refugees in their own land https://archive.ph/hNR9z
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/12/23: Five days after Oct. 7, Biden admin emphasizes “it’s so important to take every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians” https://x.com/USPalAffairs/status/1713234758841315362?s=20 In a thinly-veiled warning, Sec. Blinken says in remarks after meeting with PM Netanyahu “how Israel does this matters. We democracies distinguish ourselves from terrorists by striving for a different standard – even when it’s difficult – and holding ourselves to account when we fall short… That’s why it’s so important to take every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians.” https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-and-israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-after-their-meeting-2/ During his visit to Israel, where Blinken will become a perpetual presence, he meets with Brothers in Arms, which had served as the military wing of the resistance to PM Netanyahu during the judicial reform fight, as well as opposition leader Yair Lapid https://www.jns.org/as-biden-turns-against-israel-netanyahu-must-stand-strong/ Blinken also says, in a line the admin will repeat ad nauseum that “We know Hamas doesn’t represent the Palestinian people or their legitimate aspirations to live with equal measures of security, freedom, justice, opportunity, and dignity.” Beyond the fact Hamas was elected by Gazans, that Gazan civilians gleefully cheered on the Oct. 7 attack, and many were active participants in it, including holding hostages for months on end, polls will also show that Palestinian Arabs overwhelmingly support the Oct. 7 attack, genocide against the Jews, and favor Hamas over the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority https://x.com/USPalAffairs/status/1712472034356453835?s=20; https://x.com/bhweingarten/status/1749924165774086397?s=20;
@USPalAffairs - U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs
Jerusalem Oct 12, 2023 Secretary Blinken: "That’s why it’s so important to take every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians. And that’s why we mourn the loss of every innocent life, civilians of every faith, and nationality who have been killed." https://rb.gy/qv2ro
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/13/23: Six days after Oct. 7, State Dept. Spokesman Matthew Miller tweets that Sec. Blinken “reiterated that Hamas does not stand for the Palestinian people’s legitimate rights” – setting the stage for bolstering the PA to lead a future Palestinian state https://x.com/StateDeptSpox/status/1712816679745364115?s=20
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/14/23: A week after Oct. 7, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin stresses that Israel must act within rules of war and protect civilians https://x.com/spectatorindex/status/1713298811962249286?s=20 WaPo will later report that after Sec. Austin’s visit to Israel, Biden NatSec and foreign policy team would become “increasingly concerned that a ground assault would turn into an open-ended quagmire” and begin to sour on a massive ground invasion https://archive.ph/ZkjnO#selection-985.99-985.182
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/15/23: President Biden starts to set down desired outcomes for Israel-Hamas War, calling it a “big mistake” if Israel were to occupy Gaza, and suggesting “there needs to be a Palestinian Authority. There needs to be a path to a Palestinian state” post-war. https://archive.ph/n0y4w#selection-3895.219-3915.0 In a tweet, Joe Biden de-links “suffering” Palestinians from Hamas https://x.com/POTUS/status/1713525125478228437?s=20 Admin officials suggest they will insist that Israel permit humanitarian aid during the course of any coming invasion – de facto resupply for Hamas, while as @CarolineGlick notes, feeding the Hamas propaganda campaign that Israel rather than the jihadist group is responsible for the destruction in Gaza https://archive.ph/ZNv70; https://www.jns.org/as-biden-turns-against-israel-netanyahu-must-stand-strong/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/16/23: @Tabletmag reports Biden admin calls on Israel not to launch a preemptive strike against Hezbollah despite its continued attacks on Israelis, in exchange for the U.S. committing assets if Hezbollah attacks first. Sec. Blinken also conveys to Israel that the U.S. “will find it difficult to support a military operation in Gaza that involves widespread harm to civilians” – a virtual impossibility given Hamas’ explicit use of civilians and civilian infrastructure to protect itself https://x.com/bhweingarten/status/1714039148997226605?s=20 Biden admin announces the president will visit Israel, further delaying its ground invasion of Gaza https://x.com/JSchanzer/status/1714098497857679465?s=20 Sec. Blinken telegraphs Pres. Biden will “receive a comprehensive brief on Israel's war aims and strategy” and “hear from Israel how it will conduct its operations in a way the minimizes civilian casualties” and allows aid to flow https://x.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/1714071658191863879?s=20
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/17/23: In reporting on Biden’s trip to Israel, CNN reveals visit was conditioned on Israel opening Gaza to humanitarian aid https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/17/politics/inside-joe-biden-israel-trip-planning/index.html National Security Council (NSC) spokesperson John Kirby says, on eve of Biden’s visit, that POTUS “wants to get a sense from the Israelis about the situation on the ground, and more critically, their objectives, their plans, their intentions in the days and weeks ahead. And he'll be asking some tough questions” https://x.com/mlakan/status/1714448929142497492?s=20
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/18/23: During remarks in Tel Aviv, Biden tells Israelis that “Justice must be done,” but “don’t be consumed by [rage];” emphasizes that Israel “live[s] by the rule of law” and “law of wars;” that war “requires being deliberate…asking very hard questions;” while noting “The Palestinian people are suffering greatly as well,” and calling on the Israeli cabinet “to agree to the delivery of lifesaving humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/10/18/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-october-7th-terrorist-attacks-and-the-resilience-of-the-state-of-israel-and-its-people-tel-aviv-israel/ Despite knowledge purported “humanitarian assistance” to Gaza had been used to turn it into a mini-terror state in the first place – underwriting the Oct. 7 massacre – the Biden admin commits $100M in aid to Gaza and the West Bank https://x.com/USPalAffairs/status/1717412400142442852?s=20; https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/18/u-s-announcement-of-humanitarian-assistance-to-the-palestinian-people/ Admin says “If Hamas diverts or steals the assistance…it will end.” The admin will not cease such aid, and will in fact demand ever-greater amounts of aid be surged despite ample evidence over the coming weeks it is being commandeered by the jihadist group https://x.com/ElliotKaufman6/status/1757459676751413261?s=20; https://www.timesofisrael.com/gaza-aid-trucks-stolen-by-gunmen-and-looted-as-convoys-start-crossing-from-israel/; https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/palestinian-territories/1702285314-caught-on-camera-hamas-terrorists-steal-humanitarian-aid-beat-civilians; https://x.com/CarolineGlick/status/1751688519284584751?s=20 Biden also says “we must keep pursuing peace. We must keep pursuing a path so that Israel and the Palestinian people can both live safely, in security, in dignity, and in peace. For me, that means a two-state solution.” That day the Biden admin lets UN sanctions on Iranian ballistic missile, drone programs lapse.
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/20/23: When asked why Israel permitted aid before Hamas released all hostages, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says “The Americans insisted and we are not in a place where we can refuse them. We rely on them for planes and military equipment. What are we supposed to do? Tell them no?” https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/gallant-we-cant-say-no-to-the-us-on-humanitarian-aid-given-how-much-they-do-for-us/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/21/23: Two weeks after Oct. 7, Joe Biden again signals his ultimate desire to effectively reward Hamas, tweeting, “As hard as it is, we cannot give up on peace. We cannot give up on a two-state solution.” https://x.com/POTUS/status/1715790062359593029?s=20 That same day the first shipment of “humanitarian aid,” which will be exploited by Hamas, enters Gaza. https://x.com/PowerUSAID/status/1715806009057329449?s=20https://jewishinsider.com/2024/01/house-committee-unrwa-chief-philippe-lazzarini-aid-gaza-hamas/ Amb. Beth Jones reiterates at Cairo Peace Summit that “President Biden cautioned Israel not to become blinded by rage. Civilian lives must be protected, and assistance must urgently reach those in need. We will continue to work closely with our partners in the region to stress the importance of upholding the law of war, respect for international humanitarian law…” She also reiterates that “the vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas, and Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people” https://eg.usembassy.gov/remarks-by-charge-daffaires-ambassador-beth-jones-at-the-cairo-peace-summit/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/22/23: Reports emerge that the Biden administration, led by Special Presidential Coordinator for Global Infrastructure and Energy Security Amos Hochstein, is working to prevent Israel from striking Hezbollah. https://x.com/AcrossTheBay/status/1727426851683897799?s=20 That same day, NYT reports Biden admin is advising Israel to delay a ground invasion of Gaza “hoping to buy time for hostage negotiations and to allow more humanitarian aid to reach Palestinians.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/22/us/politics/us-hostages-israel-gaza.html POTUS also sends a “both-sides” tweet, indicating that while Israel “has a right to defend itself,” PM “Netanyahu and I have discussed how Israel must operate by the laws of war. That means protecting civilians in combat as best as they can. We can’t ignore the humanity of innocent Palestinians who only want to live in peace. That’s why I secured an agreement for the first shipment of humanitarian assistance for Palestinian civilians in Gaza. And we cannot give up on a two-state solution.” https://x.com/POTUS/status/1716084761184100418?s=20
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/23/23: Report suggests President Biden tells PM Netanyahu to refrain from taking aggressive action against Hezbollah in the north during temporary ceasefire https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-biden-asked-netanyahu-to-seek-to-calm-northern-front-during-temporary-truce/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/25/23: Now nearly three weeks removed from the worst attack against Israel in its modern history, Axios details that “President Biden, despite his full-throated support for Israel and its right to strike Hamas, has methodically and meticulously delayed the looming invasion of Gaza, U.S. officials tell us.” Consequently, he buys Hamas time to hunker down and move assets around in preparation for a coming incursion, eliminates Israel’s ability to seize the initiative with any sort of element of surprise, and allows international pressure to mount against Israel as casualties result from air strikes. This effort is largely built on the idea that delaying the invasion provides time for “hostage diplomacy.” The Biden admin will repeatedly seek to use the desire for releasing hostages as leverage to get Israel not to prosecute the war as needed to defeat Hamas. https://www.axios.com/2023/10/25/biden-israel-hamas-strategy-gaza-invasion Separately, in a joint press conference with PM Albanese of Australia, President Biden declares “There’s no going back to the status quo as it stood on October the 6th . . . When this crisis is over, there has to be a vision of what comes next. And in our view, it has to be a two-state solution” https://x.com/USPalAffairs/status/1717471243132182839?s=20
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/26/23: WaPo reports that “The Biden administration is urging Israel to rethink its plans for a major ground offensive in the Gaza Strip and instead to opt for a more “surgical” operation using aircraft and special operations forces carrying out precise, targeted raids on high-value Hamas targets and infrastructure” https://archive.ph/ZkjnO#selection-583.0-583.289
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/27/23: WaPo reports that three weeks after the Oct. 7 massacre, Biden admin officials begin exerting pressure on Israel to take a “humanitarian pause” from airstrikes to surge aid into Gaza https://archive.ph/1tpZN
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/28/23: Israel begins ground invasion of Gaza https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/eu-calls-humanitarian-pauses-gaza-aid-israel-raids-enclave-2023-10-26/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/29/23: President Biden issues tweet indicating he does not want Gazans displaced to Egypt, keeping civilians amassed in Gaza and thereby making Israel’s war effort substantially more difficult – ultimately concentrating Palestinian Arabs in planned Rafah offensive to come https://x.com/POTUS/status/1718740437249245326?s=20 Readout of conversation between Biden and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi confirms that they discussed “ensuring that Palestinians in Gaza are not displaced to Egypt or any other nation.” That same day, U.S. successfully pressures Israel into restoring phone and internet comms in Gaza – after Israel had jammed internet and telecoms networks upon entering Gaza for its ground offensive https://archive.ph/eTZQk; https://archive.ph/KCSZ2 Axios’ Barak Ravid reports that National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says that President Biden will speak to PM Netanyahu and “stress the need for the IDF to do every possible effort to distinguish between terrorists and Palestinian civilians during the ground operation in Gaza” https://x.com/BarakRavid/status/1718623866463891500?s=20
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/30/23: Sec. Blinken says Israel must be in “compliance with international humanitarian law” and “urged Israel to take every possible measure to avoid civilian harm,” indicating Israel understood “massive levels of civilian life and displace scale we saw in the north [could] not be repeated in the south” https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/blinken-urges-israel-to-comply-with-international-law-and-spare-civilians-in-war-against-hamas
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
11/1/23: State Dept. spokesman Matthew Miller notes that in meetings in Jordan, Sec. Blinken will “reaffirm the U.S. commitment to working with partners to set the conditions for a durable and sustainable peace in the Middle East, to include the establishment of a Palestinian state that reflects the aspirations of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank” https://www.state.gov/briefings/department-press-briefing-november-1-2023/ In the start of something of a whisper campaign aimed at undermining if not toppling PM Netanyahu – something the admin had quietly supported dating back to the judicial reform crisis – Politico reports that “Joe Biden and top aides have discussed the likelihood that Benjamin Netanyahu’s political days are numbered,” with the expectation his tenure will end within months. According to a former official, reportedly “With an eye toward the future, U.S. officials are talking to Benny Gantz, a member of the current unity government; Naftali Bennett, a former prime minister; and Yair Lapid, an opposition leader and former prime minister, among other Israeli figures” https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/01/biden-administration-thinks-netanyahu-may-not-last-politically-00124849 Also that day, @SenTomCotton tweets that “Biden is now secretly pressuring Israel to allow fuel into Gaza. Hamas has huge reserves of fuel that it could use for civilians, but instead stockpiles for its rockets and terror tunnels” https://x.com/SenTomCotton/status/1719815260851376426?s=20
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
11/2/23: President Biden calls for a “pause” in Israel’s ground offensive to “get the prisoners [hostages] out” of Gaza https://thedailyscroll.substack.com/p/what-happened-today-special-edition-e8f NYT adds in report that Sec. Blinken “will urge the Israeli government to agree to a series of brief cessations of military operations in Gaza to allow for hostages to be released safely and for humanitarian aid to be distributed” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/us/politics/biden-israel-gaza-fighting-pause.html
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
11/3/23: Reports emerge suggesting Sec. Blinken told Israeli counterparts of desire for a humanitarian pause, purportedly to buy it political cover from those demanding a ceasefire https://www.axios.com/2023/11/04/israel-hamas-blinken-gaza-ceasefire
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
11/4/23: NYT reports that U.S. officials press Israel to use “smaller bombs” in targeting Hamas, to “employ[]…ground forces to separate civilian population centers from where the militants are concentrated,” and for “a series of pauses to fighting to facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza and the exit of foreign nationals” – all of which imperiled Israeli lives and may have prolonged the war. The Times writes: “Changing Israel’s approach is a critical priority for the Biden administration. Mr. Blinken’s public comments that ‘we provided Israel advice that only the best of friends can offer on how to minimize civilian deaths’ underscored the shift in the administration’s position. U.S. officials say their private messages to the Israelis have been more blunt.’” https://archive.ph/Fy9zh According to @kann_news, the U.S. presses “Israel to allow humanitarian pauses in Gaza fighting to boost global legitimacy for war” https://x.com/IsraelRadar_com/status/1720882618248356304?s=20
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
11/6/23: Report suggests U.S. conditions assault rifle delivery on weapons not being distributed to Jewish militias in Judea and Samaria – under purported fear of uptick in “settler violence” that will prove a false narrative. This is at the same time Palestinian Arabs are engaged in rampant terrorism against Jews in Judea and Samaria https://archive.ph/lhcjx https://archive.ph/BMpmS; https://www.jns.org/israeli-fm-condemns-settler-violence-narrative-as-blood-libel/; https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/the-myth-of-escalating-settler-violence/; https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/fraudulent-case-against-violent-settlers
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11/9/23: Under pressure from Biden admin, Israel begins to implement humanitarian “pauses,” effectively flowing re-supply to Hamas, with Israel promising no military operations in relevant areas during said pauses. While acknowledging the challenge of Israel operating with Hamas using civilians as human shields, NSC’s Kirby says “At the same time, Israel has an obligation to fully comply with international law,” and “we believe these pauses are a step in the right direction” https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/09/israel-humanitarian-pauses-gaza-00126355
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11/10/23: Sec. Blinken says that “Far too many Palestinians have been killed. Far too many have suffered these past weeks…we’ll be continuing to discuss with Israel the concrete steps to be taken to advance these objectives [preventing civilian harm and maximizing aid]” https://www.yahoo.com/news/blinken-brings-notable-shift-us-191932122.html
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11/11/23: Sec. Austin “emphasize[s]” to Israeli Defense Minister Gallant the need to “contain the conflict to Gaza and avoid regional escalation” per a readout, also reportedly asking Gallant to explain “Israeli air strikes in Lebanon” and “avoid steps that could lead to an all out war between Israel and Hezbollah,” per an unidentified Israeli official https://www.nysun.com/article/biden-in-a-stunning-reversal-wheels-on-israel-seeking-to-restrain-its-counterattacks-in-lebanon-and-syria?newsletter-access&utm_source=MG&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Evening%20Sun%20%202023-11-13; https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3586349/readout-of-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iiis-call-with-israeli-minister/
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11/12/23: Axios reports that “Some in the Biden administration are concerned Israel is trying to provoke Hezbollah and create a pretext for a wider war in Lebanon that could draw the U.S. and other countries further into the conflict, according to sources briefed on the issue” https://www.axios.com/2023/11/12/israel-lebanon-lloyd-austin-yoav-gallant-military
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11/13/23: Sec. Blinken drafts memo emphasizing the desire for “Gaza unified with the West Bank,” calling for “No forcible displacement of Palestinian civilians from Gaza…No reoccupation of Gaza…Not attempt to blockade or besiege Gaza. No reduction in the territory of Gaza” – expressly setting conditions governing resolution to the war https://www.pdffiller.com/jsfiller-desk21/?flat_pdf_quality=low&isShareViaLink=1&requestHash=5359b781479459d446d40498b032c1ca4099bea8ec2f56865ba8ec67f48380c6&lang=en&projectId=1394848376&loader=tips&MEDIUM_PDFJS=true&PAGE_REARRANGE_V2_MVP=true&richTextFormatting=true&isPageRearrangeV2MVP=true&jsf-page-rearrange-v2=true&LATEST_PDFJS=true&jsf-document-scroll-zoom=true&jsf-redesign-full=true&act-notary-pro-integration=false&jsf-dss-v2=false&routeId=e37b3329d6aefa4e48917b9e5c864e74#2a3681f7d06b4a4fac7529ff59beb665 Biden official leaks dissatisfaction with PM Netanyahu’s rejection of Hamas-lite PA leading Gaza “the day after” war, with reports suggesting U.S. “has begun to ask about the possibility of a more moderate government being shuffled in.” It suggests “diplomatic umbrella” being provided by U.S. could collapse absent Israel bowing to desired policy https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-stances-frustrating-us-attempts-to-rally-arab-support-for-post-hamas-gaza/ That same day, WaPo reports of an emerging cease-fire-plus-hostages-for-terrorists exchange being mediated by the U.S.-supported Qataris between Israel and Hamas https://archive.ph/KWDPz Also, five weeks after Oct. 7, Biden sanctions Hamas-affiliated via terror designations that Sen. Ted Cruz national security advisor @omriceren says had been sitting “on the shelf” but left un-implemented “for ideological reasons” https://x.com/omriceren/status/1724468990225854788?s=20
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11/18/23: In a WaPo op-ed, Pres. Biden writes that “As we strive for peace, Gaza and the West Bank should be reunited under a single governance structure, ultimately under a revitalized Palestinian Authority, as we all work toward a two-state solution.” https://archive.ph/AVy6H The PA is led by Hamas-lite Fatah, which refused to condemn the Oct. 7 attacks; will compensate the families of the jihadists who perpetrated the attacks; has members who reportedly participated in the attacks; and whose leaders would demonstrate an interest in forming a government incorporating Hamas. Relatedly, Biden indicates the U.S. is preparing to impose sanctions on Israeli “extremists [purportedly] attacking [Palestinian Arab] civilians in the West Bank” https://x.com/BarakRavid/status/1725976743234683347?s=20
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11/21/23: NSC’s Kirby warns that Israel should not expand its operations into southern Gaza absent “a clearly articulated plan for how they’re going to protect the lives of the hundreds of thousands of people that have now been added to the population [in the south] because they were asked to leave by the Israelis” https://thedailyscroll.substack.com/p/what-happened-today-5d7
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11/24/23: After weeks of effort and pressure from the Biden admin, Israel yields and agrees to multi-day war pause plus hostage exchange for three-times as many Palestinian Arab prisoners, many jihadists, plus surging of humanitarian aid to Gaza Separately, Biden says that conditioning military aid to Israel was a “worthwhile thought” https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4326184-biden-conditions-on-aid-to-israel-a-worthwhile-thought/
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11/26/23: Biden asserts he wants four-day pause in Israel-Hamas war to extend https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/1701019872-biden-says-he-wants-the-truce-in-gaza-to-continue-past-original-four-days That same day, the British Daily Express reports that Israel’s Shabak knows where “many” of the then-240 hostages were located, but did not rescue them due to the threat of collateral damage – which according to @CarolineGlick would “risk U.S. resupply, which Israel cannot fight without” https://www.jns.org/biden-is-the-primary-obstacle-to-israeli-victory/
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11/27/23: @CarolineGlick reports that three weeks prior, the Biden admin “began demanding that Israel limit (or cancel entirely) its pre-ground battle aerial bombings. Consequently, in the week that preceded this week’s ‘humanitarian pause,’ the IDF’s battle losses were overwhelmingly the consequence of sniper fire from Hamas terrorists hiding in buildings that the air force did not destroy before the battles, due to U.S. pressure” https://www.jns.org/biden-is-the-primary-obstacle-to-israeli-victory/
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11/28/23: Pres. Biden tweets “Hamas unleashed a terrorist attack because they fear nothing more than Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace. To continue down the path of terror, violence, killing, and war is to give Hamas what they seek. We can’t do that.” @TabletMag reports: The Biden administration is sending clear signals that it wants the current cease-fire to mark the beginning of the end of Israel’s major combat operations and plans to place additional conditions on any renewed Israeli offensive. On Monday, an anonymous administration official told reporters that “the Israeli campaign when it moves to the south must be done in a way that is to a maximum extent not designed to produce significant further displacement of persons” and “conducted in a way that is maximally de-conflicted with humanitarian facilities.” Also on Monday evening, Biden reiterated his support for a two-state solution on X, while Senate Democrats met to discuss proposals to condition U.S. aid to Israel on Israel’s observance of international law (as The Wall Street Journal points out, Washington can already withhold aid on human-rights grounds, so the measure would amount to a specific rebuke to Israel’s conduct of the war.) https://thedailyscroll.substack.com/p/what-happened-today-771
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U.S. officials emphasize that “As Israel defends itself from terrorism, they have the obligation to do everything possible to prevent any civilian casualties and distinguish between terrorists and civilians;” also “We don’t support southern operations unless or until the Israelis can show that they have accounted for all the internally displaced people of Gaza;” said campaign “must be done in a way that is to a maximum extent not designed to produce significant further displacement of persons. It cannot have the sort of scale of displacement that took place in the north replicated in the south” https://jewishinsider.com/2023/11/white-house-reiterates-bidens-support-for-israels-war-against-hamas-amid-confusion-over-tweet/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Kickoff%20November%2029%202023&utm_content=Daily%20Kickoff%20November%2029%202023+CID_48831ae9ed3f4722a37ec6bef33bc702&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor%20JI&utm_term=Read%20more%20here
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11/30/23: Sec. Blinken tells PM Netanyahu Biden admin will announce series of visa bans against Israelis in Judea and Samaria who allegedly attacked Palestinians. It will introduce no such measures against Palestinian Arab terrorists https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/us-tells-israel-it-will-announce-visa-ban-on-violent-settlers-in-coming-weeks-officials/ That same day, reports leak that in meeting with Israel’s war cabinet, Sec. Blinken told Israeli leaders that “You can’t operate in southern Gaza in the way you did in the north,” and that in response to Defense Minister Gallant’s comment that all of Israel “is united behind the goal of dismantling Hamas, even if it takes months,” quote “I don’t think you have the credit for that” https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/blinken-said-to-tell-israel-to-change-strategy-for-southern-gaza-suggest-it-wont-have-months-to-win-war/
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@CarolineGlick 12/1/23: “Temporary pause” ends https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/the-truce-broke-down-over-the-details-of-further-hostage-and-prisoner-exchanges-israeli-officials-say.html#:~:text=But%20the%20two%20Israeli%20officials,the%20sensitivity%20of%20the%20discussions
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12/2/23: Sec. Austin delivers speech noting “I have personally pushed Israeli leaders to avoid civilian casualties, and to shun irresponsible rhetoric, and to prevent violence by settlers in the West Bank,” and warning that Israel could suffer “strategic defeat” otherwise https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-02/defense-secretary-austin-warns-of-risk-for-israel-over-civilian-deaths-in-gaza?embedded-checkout=true
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@CarolineGlick 12/4/23: Politico reports that Biden admin officials have since mid-October been planning post-war scenario envisioning a “revitalized” PA in charge of Gaza. This represents an attempt to box PM Netanyahu, who resists telegraphing post-war plans https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/04/biden-gaza-israel-hamas-war-00130000#:~:text=Key%20parts%20of%20the%20plan,advising%20Palestinian%20security%20forces%2C%20the
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12/5/23: Sec. Blinken announces visa restrictions on Jews targeting those “involved in or meaningfully contribution to actions that undermine peace, security, and stability” in Judea and Samaria https://x.com/SecBlinken/status/1732093745380659342?s=20 That same day, report drops indicating U.S. wishes for Israeli invasion to be over by the first week of January https://x.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1732055439607582817?s=20
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@CarolineGlick 12/6/23: Report indicates WH seeking to broker deal between Israel and Lebanon that according to senior Israeli officials aims to “prevent[] Israel and the IDF from engaging in a military campaign along the northern border” https://x.com/Nadav_Eyal/status/1732458034448720281?s=20; https://x.com/bhweingarten/status/1732468165068603417?s=20
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Read @AcrossTheBay on the maritime deal that the U.S. apparently sees as the model for the next Hezbollah-Israel pact. To what extent is Biden forcing this on Bibi? https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/in-lebanon-israel-america-opposite-sides
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12/7/23: Report suggests Biden admin is going around Israel to work with PA on a plan to run Gaza post-war – with PA calling for Hamas to join it in coalition government https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-08/palestinian-authority-working-with-us-on-postwar-plan-for-gaza?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email That same day Sec. Blinken criticizes Israel for its southern Gaza offensive, noting there is a “gap…[between] the intent to protect civilians and the actual results that we’re seeing on the ground” https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/blinken-says-gap-remains-between-israels-intent-protect-civilians-results-2023-12-07/#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20Dec%207%20(Reuters),been%20happening%20on%20the%20ground. A report also circulates suggesting U.S. directed Israel not to respond to Houthi attacks despite being under de facto blockade https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-said-to-tell-israel-it-will-handle-houthi-attacks-but-is-eschewing-strikes-for-now/; https://www.jns.org/standing-up-to-the-american-colossus/
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12/10/23: @carolineglick reports that Hochstein reportedly seeking to broker Israel-Lebanon plan whereby Israel would withdraw from strategically significant sovereign territory, with Hezbollah proclaiming it will abide by the UNSC Resolution it has been violating – thereby imperiling Israel https://www.jns.org/israels-survival-clashes-with-americas-lebanon-delusions/
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12/12/23: At a fundraiser with prominent Jewish Democrats, Pres. Biden suggests he lectured PM Netanyahu, with respect to the Israel-Hamas War, “Don’t make the same mistakes we made [after] 9/11. There was no reason why we had to be in a war in Afghanistan [after] 9/11,” falsely claiming Israel had been engaging in “indiscriminate bombing,” and also indicating that “I think he [Netanyahu] has to change.” Biden warns Israel is “starting to lose…support” internationally. He also criticizes conservative national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/biden-netanyahu-needs-to-change-coalition-israel-is-starting-to-lose-support-around-world/
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12/13/23: Axios reports Biden admin delays sale of rifles to Israel “over concerns about attacks by extremist Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank” – again a canard used to smear and slander Israeli opposition to desired two-state plan https://www.axios.com/2023/12/13/us-israel-rifle-sale-delay-west-bank-violence
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12/14/23: Axios reports NSA Sullivan told PM Netanyahu et al. that Israel needs to “transition to the next lower intensity phase [of the war] in a matter of weeks, not months,” contrary to what Israeli officials were saying they needed in terms of time https://www.axios.com/2023/12/14/jake-sullivan-netanyahu-israel-meeting; https://jewishinsider.com/2023/12/israel-united-states-jake-sullivan-benjamin-netanyahu-hamas/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Kickoff%20December%2015%202023&utm_content=Daily%20Kickoff%20December%2015%202023+CID_7e184a663d92ff56e78d0bbbdd7f95eb&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor%20JI&utm_term=Jewish%20Insider%20Washington%20correspondent%20Gabby%20Deutch%20reports That same day Politico reports U.S. has gathered intelligence that could allow it to make assessments about whether Israel is abiding by the laws of war https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/14/israel-conduct-war-intel-tactic-00131868
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12/15/23: Times of Israel reports various Israeli leaders have urged the Biden admin to stop talking about a “two-state solution” – pleas that will go ignored https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-urging-us-not-to-talk-publicly-about-two-state-solution-officials/ NSA Sullivan tells reporters while in Tel Aviv that the Hezbollah “threat can be dealt with through diplomacy,” undermining potential Israeli military action https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-778166 That same day, reports emerge suggesting U.S. wishes to ensure not only humanitarian aid but commercial goods be allowed into Gaza strip https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/with-kerem-shalom-to-reopen-us-sets-sites-on-re-entry-of-commercial-goods-into-gaza-officials-tell-toi/
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12/16/23: Reports indicate U.S. military leaders press Israel to limit its war effort to “prevent a wider regional war,” the indication being that Israel must cease intense operations – necessitated by the attack perpetrated by Iran proxy Hamas – to get Iran’s proxies to stop attacking https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-major-combat-operations-austin-b201d682a10735c0bc6847359edeca8b
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@CarolineGlick 12/22/23: U.S. abstains in the face of UNSC resolution calling “for urgent steps to immediately allow safe, unhindered, and expanded humanitarian access and to create the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities” https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-security-council-acts-boost-aid-gaza-after-us-abstains-2023-12-22/
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@CarolineGlick 12/28/23: Reports emerge suggesting Biden admin is unhappy with and pressing Israel to release tax revenue it is withholding from the PA https://www.axios.com/2023/12/28/biden-netanyahu-call-palestinian-authority-tax-revenue
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1/2/24: State Dept. calls “inflammatory and irresponsible” comments of Israeli national security minister Ben-Gvir and finance minister Bezalel Smotrich calling for Palestinians to voluntarily leave Gaza and pressing for Israelis to return https://archive.ph/r7JjL#the-state-department-rebukes-israeli-ministers-pushing-for-gazans-to-leave-the-enclave That same day, Israel allegedly assassinates Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in Lebanon, prompting Biden administration officials to claim, per @rich_goldberg, they had advised against the attack https://x.com/rich_goldberg/status/1742271226339377239?s=20
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1/8/24: President Biden says, in the face of protestors, “I’ve been quietly working with the Israeli government to get them to reduce and significantly get out of Gaza. And using all that I can to do that” https://x.com/karol/status/1744426829300068444?s=20 Jake Tapper tweets that a Biden admin official indicates PM Netanyahu will have to choose between Israeli conservatives, and Biden and the U.S. https://x.com/jaketapper/status/1744397998904275048?s=20
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1/9/24: In remarks in Tel Aviv, Sec. Blinken holds Israel responsible for the “acute food insecurity” of Gazans, demanding “Israel needs to do everything it can to remove any obstacles from crossings to other parts of Gaza. Improving deconfliction procedures to ensure that the aid can move safely and securely is a critical part of that” – this regarding aid distributed primarily by a captured entity of Hamas, UNRWA. Despite lamenting how “the daily toll on civilians in Gaza…is far too high,” Blinken says “the United States unequivocally rejects any proposals advocating for the resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza” https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-at-a-press-availability-45/#:~:text=And%20then%20once%20they're,a%20critical%20part%20of%20that. @CarolineGlick’s analysis suggests Biden admin officials are working behind the scenes to topple PM Netanyahu with a left-wing Israeli alternative that will make massive land concessions in connection with establishment of a Palestinian state https://www.jns.org/victory-is-more-important-than-us-support/
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1/10/24: Following meeting with PA President Mahmoud Abbas – currently serving in the 20th year of a four-year term – Sec. Blinken declares Abbas “committed” to reforming the PA https://www.timesofisrael.com/blinken-seeks-palestinian-reform-as-he-tries-to-rally-region-behind-postwar-vision/ As WSJ reports, this comes amid recent news the PA would extend its “pay for slay” compensation to families of Hamas terrorists killed after Oct. 7 https://archive.ph/Ls6sJ
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1/14/24: “The president’s patience is running out” with the continuing Israeli war on Hamas, a U.S. official leaks to Axios. Also leaked, Sec. Blinken’s view that Israel’s plan for post-war Gaza was “pie in the sky.” Notably, Blinken met with both war cabinet minister Gantz, opposition leader Lapid, and Defense Minister Gallant, all cast as potential PM Netanyahu successors in the press https://www.axios.com/2024/01/14/biden-netanyahu-israel-gaza-war-tensions NSA Sullivan says on “Face the Nation” that “it’s the right time” for Israel to scale back its military offensive https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-01-14-2024-3af5b75f744b92c5517b287baf20b55b
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1/17/24: NBC News reports of growing rupture between Biden admin and PM Netanyahu, with U.S. officials leaking that Netanyahu “will not be there forever” – again part of a whisper campaign against him suggesting a desire to see him toppled. “The officials said the Biden administration is trying to lay the groundwork with other Israeli and civil society leaders in anticipation of an eventual post-Netanyahu government. In an attempt to work around Netanyahu, Blinken also met individually with members of his war Cabinet and other Israeli leaders, including opposition leader and former Prime Minister Yair Lapid, officials said.” Blinken also conveys, per NBC, that there is “no military solution” to Hamas https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/frustrations-biden-israeli-pm-netanyahu-mount-rcna134263 That same day in conversation with NYT admin mouthpiece Thomas Friedman, Blinken puts onus on Israel to make peace, noting “Arab countries and Muslim countries…are prepared to have a relationship with Israel in terms of its integration, its normalization, its security” in exchange for a Palestinian state. “When in previous times we came close to…getting a Palestinian state…the view then…was that Arab leaders, Palestinian leaders, had not done enough to prepare their own people for this profound change. I think a challenge now, a question now: Is Israeli society prepared to engage on these questions?” https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-at-a-conversation-with-thomas-friedman/
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1/19/24: After several weeks of reported silence, President Biden and PM Netanyahu speak, during which Biden presses Netanyahu to agree to the creation of a Palestinian state post-war. John Kirby tsk-tsks Netanyahu for saying “I shall not compromise on full Israeli security control of the entire area west of Jordan River,” responding “It’s not a phrase that we recommend using because of that [‘from the river to the sea’] context” https://archive.ph/rneca
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1/21/24: WSJ reports on U.S.-Egypt-Qatar plan to essentially force Israel to end the war with an Israeli loss by leveraging a hostage-for-terrorist exchange during a freeze that would ultimately lead to the withdrawal of Israeli troops, the ending of surveillance, flooding of Gaza with aid, followed by “talks for a permanent cease-fire, normalization of relations between Israel and Arab countries like Saudi Arabia and the relaunching of a process to create a Palestinian state.” In such a scenario, Hamas would not be destroyed, and hundreds if not thousands of freed jihadists could be re-deployed from a newly established Palestinian terror state. These U.S.-supported talks persist to this day https://archive.ph/2sxO2
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@CarolineGlick 1/22/24: Politico telegraphs Biden admin will seek to pressure Israel to de-intensify/halt war to get Houthis to stand down https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2024/01/22/how-to-stop-the-houthis-00137030
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1/26/24: State Dept. announces “temporary pause” on UNRWA funding after organization is found to be brimming with Hamas members and colluders. But the freeze only comes after 99.8% of the $121M in UNRWA funding earmarked has already been delivered https://archive.ph/5XSul Separately, with Israeli protestors preventing aid at Kerem Shalom border crossing from entering the Gaza strip until hostages are freed, White House reportedly pressures Israel to ensure aid moves unabated https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-third-day-running-protesters-block-gaza-aid-at-kerem-shalom-crossing/
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1/28/24: NBC News reports Biden admin “is discussing using weaponry sales to Israel as leverage to convince the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to heed long-standing U.S. calls to scale back its military assault in the Gaza Strip.” A Biden official leaks “There’s a lot more that needs to be done and they [Israel] need to be more careful about.” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-administration-discussing-slowing-weaponry-deliveries-israel-pre-rcna136035 Shin Bet Director reports vast majority of humanitarian assistance goes to Hamas https://x.com/CarolineGlick/status/1751688519284584751?s=20; https://jewishinsider.com/2024/02/daily-kickoff-the-growing-u-s-israel-divide-over-gaza-aid/
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1/31/24: Axios reports State Dept. is reviewing options on “possible U.S. and international recognition of a Palestinian state after the war in Gaza” on heels of meeting between Sec. Blinken and Israeli Minister for Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer – a move that if done unilaterally would violate Oslo Accords https://www.axios.com/2024/01/31/palestine-statehood-biden-israel-gaza-war That same day, WSJ reports that U.S. is “pushing for a cease-fire deal that could stop the war in Gaza long enough to stall Israel’s military momentum and potentially set the stage for a more lasting truce,” beginning with a six-week cease-fire and hostage-for-terrorist exchange in which “Hamas has demanded the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners for each female Israeli soldier set free” https://archive.ph/O5Clz Comments from Hamas officials suggest they believe the U.S. is effectively on its side in negotiations https://thedailyscroll.substack.com/p/january-31-the-terms-of-israels-hostage Also that day, NYT’s Friedman previews a coming “Biden Doctrine” involving forcing a Palestinian state on Israel to gain the “global legitimacy, the NATO allies and the Arab and Muslim allies it needs” to “take on Iran in a more aggressive manner” https://archive.ph/oFphP
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2/1/24: Biden issues executive order sanctioning, de-banking Jews living in their biblical homeland of Judea and Samaria should they challenge the White House’s desired “two-state solution” based on fraud claim of an uptick in “settler violence.” EO is meant to draw equivalence between vastly more lethal and pervasive Palestinian Arab jihadist threat and Israelis, undermine cause of Jews in Judea and Samaria who will most fervently oppose two-state plan and who are suffering disproportionate casualties fighting in war. “Exceptional” response, as PM Netanyahu terms it, applies not only to those detained by police but supportive NGOs and government officials. Leaks indicate Biden admin considered applying sanctions to ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. UNRWA officials colluding with or found to be members of Hamas, among other Palestinian Arabs not slapped with such sanctions https://x.com/BarakRavid/status/1753069501472764293?s=20; https://x.com/EVKontorovich/status/1753406644011008097?s=20
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
@CarolineGlick 2/2/24: Report indicates Biden admin is pressuring Israel not to recruit foreign workers for construction industry in bid to force Israel to re-open itself to Palestinian Arab workers https://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/us-leaning-on-israel-to-drop-foreign-manpower-providers-keeping-pa-workers-option-open/2024/02/02/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
2/3/24: Israel Hayom reports Biden admin threatens to invoke Leahy Law – restricting funding of military aid to foreign units over purported human rights violations – in response to Israeli security counter-terrorism operations aimed at neutralizing pervasive jihadist threat in Judea and Samaria https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/02/03/934807/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
@CarolineGlick 2/4/24: Politico reports Pres. Biden has called PM Netanyahu a “bad fucking guy,” though a spokesperson denies the claim https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/04/biden-third-party-peril-00139380
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
2/5/24: @CarolineGlick writes that “the IDF has been compelled to conserve its ammunition on the ground due to shortages in supplies, indicating that the United States is slow-walking its supply of key armaments to Israel.” Glick also reports on another visit from Hochstein to Israel as he pursues a purported diplomatic solution to the Hezbollah threat from the north – one that will see the jihadist group continue to menacingly threaten northern Israel while Israel is expected to cede sovereignty to strategic significant lands therein https://www.jns.org/360-degrees-of-hostility-the-biden-administration-and-israel/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
2/6/24: Left-wing Israeli outlet Haaretz reports that a new Biden admin policy aims to target Israeli “executives, investors and maybe even employees at companies producing offense cybersecurity technologies” by causing them “to lose their visas to the United States if the spyware their firms sell is misused and deployed against political activists, human rights defenders or journalists” in a bid to create leverage over Israel and PM Netanyahu to bend to the Biden admin’s favored war plans https://archive.ph/5XSul
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
@CarolineGlick 2/7/24: Sec. Blinken says “Israelis were dehumanized in the most horrific way on October 7th. The hostages have been dehumanized every day since. But that cannot be a license to dehumanize others” https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-at-a-press-availability-46/#:~:text=Israelis%20were%20dehumanized%20in%20the,a%20license%20to%20dehumanize%20others
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
2/8/24: Biden issues national security memorandum conditioning military aid broadly on recipients providing “credible and reliable written assurances” they are acting in “compliance with international humanitarian law” – targeting Israel, which will have to produce such assurances within 45 days, the due date coinciding with the Jewish holiday of Purim https://x.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1755769385698857227?s=20; https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/02/08/national-security-memorandum-on-safeguards-and-accountability-with-respect-to-transferred-defense-articles-and-defense-services/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
That same day reports circulate suggesting State Dept. has issued “strident warnings” against a Rafah offensive, with U.S. State Dept. deputy spokesman Vedant Patel challenging Israel’s plans by noting admin had “yet to see any evidence of serious planning for such an operation” and that “To conduct such an operation right now with no planning and little thought in a[] [densely populated] area” would be a “disaster.” The Rafah offensive is imperative to crippling Hamas https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-ramps-up-strikes-on-rafah-as-us-warns-major-offensive-would-be-disaster/ NYT reports, in leak undermining war effort, that U.S. intel officials had told Congress Israel “was not close to eliminating” Hamas, and that officials “raised doubts about whether the destruction or elimination of Hamas is a realistic objective” https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/09/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news#us-intelligence-officials-tell-congress-that-israel-is-not-close-to-eliminating-hamas @Eluttwak details – in piece in @tabletmag countering that on the contrary Israel is winning the war going away – how it has succeeded despite U.S. demands hampering Israel’s ability to expedite the war in Gaza, particularly in limiting actions of the Israeli air force https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/israel-winning-gaza
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
2/9/24: President Biden tells reporters “I’m of the view, as you know, that the conduct of the response in Gaza, in the Gaza Strip, has been over the top” https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/biden-calls-israels-response-in-gaza-to-hamas-october-7-attack-over-the-top/ NYT reports that in closed-door meeting with Arab American leaders in Michigan, Deputy NSA Finer undermines Netanyahu-led government in asking, “Will Israel be willing to do the hard thing that’s going to be required of them, which is meaningful steps for the Palestinians on the question of two states? I don’t know if the answer to that is yes. I do not have any confidence in this current government of Israel.” He also expresses regret for not rebuking Israeli officials over their fiery rhetoric regarding Hamas https://archive.ph/AfJjJ#selection-4683.127-4683.394
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
2/11/24: WaPo reports “Biden’s patience is wearing thin over how Israel has conducted its military campaign” in article detailing that the president “and his top aides are closer to a breach with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu than at any time since the Gaza War began” https://archive.is/lRe9b#selection-985.4-985.88 In call, Biden reportedly directs Netanyahu to find a way to “close the gaps with Hamas” in ceasefire negotiations https://thedailyscroll.substack.com/p/february-12-2024-a-black-weekend?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=680918&post_id=141615528&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=dqwj3&utm_medium=email U.S. Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield tells NPR that under current conditions an Israel military operation “cannot proceed” in Rafah
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
2/12/24: President Biden declares U.S. is pushing for a six-week pause in Israel-Hamas war with the intent to extend towards a longer ceasefire https://archive.ph/iR4MB Biden also says “A major military operation in Rafah should not proceed without a credible plan for ensuring the safety and support of more than 1 million people sheltering there” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/12/foreign-secretaries-and-diplomats-try-to-persuade-netanyahu-to-call-off-rafah-offensive During remarks with the King of Jordan – who bashed Israel without any response from the president – Biden quotes Hamas-sourced casualty figures, ones he himself had called unreliable months prior only to recant in the face of Muslim activists. NSC’s Kirby says “We have consistently conveyed our concerns to our Israeli counterparts, including the prime minister…about moving forward in Rafah in a major way without due consideration of civilians,” adding “there’s been too many [civilian casualties]” https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240213-us-conveyed-concerns-to-israel-about-moving-forward-in-rafah-white-house/ NBC News reports that Biden has in recent weeks been disparaging PM Netanyahu, referring to him as an “asshole” as he “has been venting his frustration in recent private conversations…over his inability to persuade Israel to change its military tactics in the Gaza Strip…nam[ing] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the primary obstacle” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/biden-disparages-netanyahu-private-hasnt-changed-us-policy-israel-rcna138282 That same day, in response to an Israeli hostage rescue, NSC’s Kirby says that while “pleased” about the operation, of potential associated Palestinian deaths “the proper number of civilian casualties is zero” and “We certainly mourn any loss of innocent life as the result of those operations” https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-786613?utm_source=jpost.app.apple&utm_medium=share
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
2/13/24: Word leaks that contrary to NSC Kirby remarks from one month prior, the Biden admin has “been assessing possible international law violations by Israel for months…and…[is] continuing to do so” https://sg.news.yahoo.com/biden-administration-investigating-israels-possible-155307310.html In a perhaps unprecedented de facto ask, the U.S. says “Any credible plan” for Rafah invasion must account for “physical movement, safe movement, as well as proper sustenance for them – food, water, medicine, access to healthcare” of civilians there https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/kirby-says-us-has-not-seen-israels-plan-for-rafah-praises-idf-efforts-to-protect-civilians/#:~:text=Speaking%20at%20a%20White%20House,of%20an%20operation%20in%20Rafah. https://x.com/Jewtastic/status/1757479681132216527?s=20 Axios reports Pres. Biden says in any new hostage deal, Israel may have to release a greater multiple of Palestinian jihadists for hostages than in the initial ceasefire/hostage trade https://x.com/BarakRavid/status/1757485702432817209?s=20 Biden officials reportedly express outrage for Israel holding grain from being delivered to Gaza by way of Hamas-captured UNRWA https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/385148
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
2/14/24: WaPo reports Biden admin is “rushing to complete a detailed, comprehensive plan for long-term peace between Israel and Palestinians, including a firm timeline for the establishment of a Palestinian state,” which would include “the withdrawal of many, if not all, settler communities on the West Bank; [and] a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem.” Report asserts that “under consideration [is] early U.S. recognition of a Palestinian state” https://archive.ph/Kj7xN Axios reports Sec. Austin discusses with his counterpart Defense Minister Gallant “the importance of safeguarding civilians and ensuring the movement of and access to humanitarian assistance before any operations against Hamas in Rafah” WSJ also reports U.S. is probing Israeli strikes in Gaza and Lebanon https://archive.ph/rJ1Un While Israelis and Judea and Samaria are threatened with sanctions, President Biden issues a waiver for deportable Palestinians in the U.S., shielding them from deportation for 18 months https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/02/14/memorandum-on-the-deferred-enforced-departure-for-certain-palestinians/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
2/15/24: WSJ reports that: “The U.S. has communicated that it wouldn’t—under any circumstances—support a plan for a full-scale invasion of Rafah, and that it would prefer to see targeted operations, U.S. officials said. The Biden administration has asked the Israeli military to produce a ‘credible plan’ that included both a military and humanitarian component if it decides to disregard Washington’s advice and invade the city, U.S. officials said.” https://archive.ph/pSocs#selection-2275.0-2279.397 In a separate report, a U.S. official says that “in recent days, the Biden administration has handed Israel a list of demands that must be met before any operation in Rafah” https://www.jns.org/in-a-rafah-op-israels-most-pressing-concern-isnt-the-us-but-egypt/?_se=YWdsaW5jaGVyQG5peG9ucGVhYm9keS5jb20%3D&utm_campaign=Morning+Syndicate+Thursday+02152024&utm_medium=email&utm_source=brevo Claiming “There’s no indication Biden” will take any such measures, Politico lays out a series of punitive actions it might take to the extent Israel undertakes a Rafah offensive the administration disapproves of https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2024/02/15/bidens-options-to-prevent-catastrophic-rafah-invasion-00141485 A readout of a call between Biden and Netanyahu released that evening notes 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.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/02/15/readout-of-president-bidens-call-with-prime-minister-netanyahu-of-israel-12/ As @TabletMag reports, halting the Rafah operation and thereby throwing Hamas a lifeline will lead to preserving its: leadership and at least some of the terror group’s organizational and military strength and to incorporate this "deradicalized" remnant into the government of a Palestinian state, where it can reconstitute itself with international aid, constantly exert pressure on Fatah to take more radically anti-Israel stances, and serve as a permanent Iranian foothold on Israel’s eastern border, in addition to the footholds Iran already has on Israel’s northern and southwestern borders. But even if the PA doesn’t incorporate Hamas, as the PA prime minister says he hopes to do, Israel would still have problems. As The Washington Free Beacon reported Thursday: An investigation by Palestinian Media Watch, the nonprofit watchdog based in Jerusalem, documented at least 55 attacks by PA security forces against Israeli soldiers or civilians since 2020, including four in the past month alone. In each case, the PA or its ruling Fatah party has eulogized the attacker as one of their own "soldiers." WSJ separately reports Biden admin had considered punitive action the month prior “includ[ing] a reversal of two Trump-era policies: one that allows products made in Jewish settlements in the Israel-occupied West Bank to be labeled as being ‘Made in Israel,’ and another that upended longstanding U.S. policy that the West Bank settlements violate international law” https://archive.is/wBbUA#selection-2765.45-2765.325
@KevorkAlmassian - Kevork Almassian🇸🇾🇦🇲
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs and @TuckerCarlson discuss the real reasons the neocons orchestrated the regime-change war in Syria. Sachs: “We started arming the jihadists in Syria and the US said Assad must go.” Tucker: “Why would you want to overthrow Bashar al-Assad?” Jeffrey Sachs referred to multiple points such as the presence of Russia's navy on the Mediterranean in Syria, installing an American puppet in Damascus and sheer ignorance from the American decision-makers. But, in my opinion, there is more to that. The US wanted to remove Assad from power for a few other factors: while removing the Russian Navy from the Mediterranean (and the Black Sea) has been a geopolitical priority, there is also the Iranian factor at play. The strategic alliance between Syria and Iran created a network of alliances between state and non-state actors in Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon and posed serious challenges to the US and Israeli hegemony over the region. Under Bashar al-Assad, Syria has become the "strategic depth" of the "axis of resistance" against American and Israeli dominance in the region. For example, in 2006, Syria's Assad opened the military warehouses of the Syrian army to Hezbollah which were used to repel the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and force them to leave. After that, Hezbollah delivered Syrian weapons to Gaza such as the anti-tank Kornet rockets. Therefore, the neocons and Zionists thought removing Assad from power would minimize the influx of weapons to the groups fighting against the Israeli occupation forces. Second, Syria is an important piece of geography in the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative. This explains the reason why the US forces are stationed on the Eastern shore of the Euphrates; not only to "keep the oil" but rather also to block the borders between Iraq and Syria, and eventually block the access of China's Belt and Road Initiative to the Mediterranean. Third, if you listen to hardcore Zionist theorists, they preach about the "Greater Israel". Where does the Eastern border of this Greater Israel end? On the Western shore of the Euphrates. According to these hardcore Zionists, the Kurds would be their neighbour on the Eastern shore of the Euphrates, and that is exactly what the US has done in that region. Washington created a large militia dominated by the YPG Kurds and encouraged them to separate from Syria and form their own entity. At the end of the day, whatever the reasons were, the US has committed a crime against humanity in Syria. A crime that will not be forgotten. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians are dead and millions more became refugees. The US supported the jihadists and created ISIS, al-Nusra, Islam's Army, Ahrar al-Sham, the Islamic Turkistan Army and many more terrorist armies and destroyed a beautiful and peaceful country with a rich history and civilization. In the discourse of this chaos, the Christians of Syria were ethnically cleansed from many towns and villages by these armies of US-backed terrorists.
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⚡️Trump just reposted a video explaining that the wars in Iraq and Syria came from Netanyahu Netanyahu “is STILL trying to get us to fight Iran to this day” “He’s gotten us into endless wars and because of the power of all of this in the U.S. politics, he’s gotten his way” This is the same Jeffrey Sachs that explained the “Greater Israel” agenda on Tucker Carlson and that the wars in the Middle East happened because Israel controls US foreign policy. ⚡️TRUMP KNOWS. Nothing is what it seems.
@KAGdrogo - ĐⱤØ₲Ø🇺🇸
Trump KNOWS this but can’t say it outright …yet
@KAGdrogo - ĐⱤØ₲Ø🇺🇸
He already told us if you were paying attention.
@KAGdrogo - ĐⱤØ₲Ø🇺🇸
This is critical to understand. Despite what it appeared on the surface, Obama and Hillary were agents of Israel.
@KAGdrogo - ĐⱤØ₲Ø🇺🇸
Trump stopped funding lsraeI’s proxy terrorist lSlS/AIQaida groupsand pulled troops from lsraeI’s war in Syria during his last administration. This is why they tried to stop him and it cannot be overstated.
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lSlS/AIQaida = lsraeI/ClA
@KAGdrogo - ĐⱤØ₲Ø🇺🇸
The New Orleans terror suspect had an ISIS flag on truck but you’re supposed to forget that Israel armed and funded ISIS and AI Qaeda, along with the US deep state, (Israel.) https://t.co/ODRTU5SmwS
@KAGdrogo - ĐⱤØ₲Ø🇺🇸
Obama and Hillary funded, trained and armed lSlS & AIQaida because lsraeI runs US foreign policy.
@KAGdrogo - ĐⱤØ₲Ø🇺🇸
The reason Obama never wanted to take out lSlS is because he was really just a puppet of lsraeI & the ClA. https://m.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1009/S00027/obama-and-his-family-tied-to-cia-for-years.htm https://t.co/nr3T1YAXct
@KAGdrogo - ĐⱤØ₲Ø🇺🇸
Does anyone REALLY believe Iran’s true controllers actually changed after 1979? The Iran-Contra affair, where a cabal of US/Israel officials covertly conspired with Iran — started in 1980, IMMEDIATELY after the fake 1979 Islamic Revolution
@KAGdrogo - ĐⱤØ₲Ø🇺🇸
Listen very carefully: This is THE SAME Jeffrey Sachs who TRUMP JUST REPOSTED⚡️
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Oh, BTW - General Flynn knows too.
@KAGdrogo - ĐⱤØ₲Ø🇺🇸
Our job is to say the things they can’t. MIL-CIV alliance. They know. https://t.co/74XYZcZIKc
@KAGdrogo - ĐⱤØ₲Ø🇺🇸
A couple days later, he doubled down. They know.
@KAGdrogo - ĐⱤØ₲Ø🇺🇸
🔥General Flynn just spotlighted a thread implicating Israel and the deep state of the U.S. (Israel) for being behind ISIS, AIQaida and the regime change in Syria. It even mentions “Greater Israel.” I keep saying this but THEY KNOW. This is very encouraging to see from him. Thank you @GenFlynn for speaking out.
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@AnonymousDigs - Anon Researcher
Thread: What's really behind Trump's attack on Yemen? 1. Donald Trump claims to be the president of peace. However, answering Israel's beck and call, he has started another war in the Middle East. Previously they urged him to bomb Iran. President Trump announced “decisive and powerful military action” against the Yemeni militia Saturday, demanding they halt attacks on shipping and warships in the Red Sea or face “hell” “like nothing they have ever seen before!” Sputnik reached out to a veteran observer of Middle East politics to find out what's actually behind the US aggression. The strikes have less to do with the Houthis than they do with trying to ensure the survival of the State of Israel, and [Israeli and US projects to expel the Palestinians from Gaza, to turn the strip into a glitzy Las Vegas-style resort, and exploit its offshore gas resources], the academic said. (Typical US Hegemony) “This is not possible if Ansar Allah is able to undermine Israel’s economy,” Blumi stressed, pointing to the colossal impact the militia’s partial blockade of the Red Sea in support of Gaza has had on Israeli shipping income, including the bankruptcy of the port of Eilat." This, not Trump's claims about "freedom of navigation" in the region, accounts for the surprise US attacks, the observer said. Going forward, the professor fears that if the Yemeni crisis turns into a prolonged, regional crisis, Houthi missile power could be directed at neighboring countries providing direct or indirect support for the US, Britain and Israel. This would fundamentally "change the dynamics of the Middle East” and its resource-based economic well-being, Blumi said. https://sputnikglobe.com/20250127/houthis-warn-israel-you-break-gaza-ceasefire-we-fire-missiles-1121507507.html 2. US Surprise Attack on Yemen: What We Know So Far US warplanes attacked the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, as well as Saada, Dhamar, Al-Bayda, Radaa, Hajjah, and Marib. Yemeni Health Ministry spokesperson Anis Al-Asbahi said 31 people were killed and over 100 injured in the attacks, [mostly women and children.] CENTCOM said its “precision strikes” were carried out “to defend American interests, deter enemies and restore freedom of navigation.” The strikes were launched by F/A-18 jets from the USS Truman super-carrier in the Red Sea, and aided by P8 Poseidon, RC-135V and MQ-4C Triton jets and drones flying out of US bases in the Gulf. A British KC2 Voyager out of Cyprus also took part, per Yemeni media reports. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, touching on Yemen. Lavrov called for an “immediate” halt to the use of force, and stressed the need for dialog “to find a solution that would prevent further bloodshed.” The Houthis’ political bureau warned the militia was “prepared to confront escalation with escalation.” "Militia spokesman Yahya Saree announced Sunday that the Houthis had targeted the USS Harry Truman super-carrier and its escorts in the northern Red Sea with 18 ballistic and cruise missiles and a drone." Saree warned that Ansar Allah “will not hesitate to target all American warships in the Red Sea and in the Arabian Sea in retaliation to the aggression against our country.” CENTCOM has yet to comment on the Houthi operation, and whether the Truman or its escorts were threatened or damaged in any way. US and UK commercial vessels and warships have been added back on to the Houthis’ list of legitimate targets. "Houthi Brig. Gen. Abdullah bin Amer recalled that ten years ago, a Gulf coalition sought to oust Ansar Allah in “two weeks,” but “months and years passed…and Yemen has not been subdued.” The same fate will meet today’s aggressors, who were “disappointed before,” and “will definitely be disappointed again,” Amer said." Houthi political bureau member Hussein al-Azzi sent Trump a letter Sunday following the strikes, telling him he has "very stupid advisors," and warning that the US president could "dream of breaking the will of the Yemeni people" when he becomes "able to uproot" the Brooks Mountain Range with his teeth." Preparations for Saturday's strikes began after Trump put the Houthis back onto the US’s “terror” listing, and accelerated after they downed another US Reaper drone March 4, per sources cited by Axios. The strikes come days after the Houthis’ announcement that they would resume attacks on Israeli vessels in the Red and Arabian Seas, [citing Israel’s refusal to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.] (Now the truth comes out) Frens: this is nothing more than the Neocons greed and the attempt to impose the US/Israel hegemony on to weaker nations. God Speed.
@EricRWeinstein - Eric Weinstein
The U.S. has every right to step away. But if Israel alone frees the Persians from the Mullahs, and rids the region/world of a malignant thermonuclear theocracy…again alone…then that will have consequences as well. Israel is *not* attacking the people of Iran. It’s trying to end a regional and global nightmare regime. At least let us wish them and the Persian people a safe night while Israel is working through the wee hours to make sure that the mullahs won’t be able to strike us here with WMD. And let us pray they know what they are doing. Godspeed.
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
Mega Thread 🧵 Blowback Nation: How the CIA’s Iran Coup Forged a Theocracy with Nuclear Ambitions
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
Operation Ajax – the 1953 Anglo-American coup in Iran – overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, ending Iran’s brief oil nationalization. U.S. and British intelligence orchestrated street riots and bribed officials to topple Mossadegh, largely to restore Western control of Iran’s oil and to prevent a feared tilt toward the Soviet bloc. Source: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/the%20central%20intelligence%20%5B15369853%5D.pdf
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
The motivations were explicit. Mossadegh had nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (BP today), enraging Britain, and he championed Iranian sovereignty over foreign oil concessions. London lobbied Washington to intervene, framing Mossadegh as a potential gateway for communism in the Cold War climate . In reality, U.K. officials privately admitted Mossadegh’s government was broadly democratic and nationalist but London and the CIA resolved to remove him to protect oil interests and Western hegemony.
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
In August 1953, the CIA (led on the ground by Kermit Roosevelt Jr., Theodore Roosevelt’s grandson) and Britain’s MI6 executed the coup (code-named TPAJAX). After an initial failed attempt, royalist military units aided by CIA-funded mobs succeeded on August 19, 1953, in ousting Mossadegh . The Iranian prime minister’s house was shelled by tanks and crowds ransacked Tehran in coordinated chaos. Nearly 300 people died in street clashes as the coup unfolded. Source: https://archive.is/wTpuH
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
The coup d’état reinstalled Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as uncontested monarch. The Shah had fled during the chaos but returned in triumph after Mossadegh’s overthrow, signing royal decrees (firmans) that cemented his power. U.S. Embassy and CIA personnel stood by as Iran’s last popular government was crushed. A CIA internal history, kept secret for decades, later openly admitted the agency “planned and helped implement the coup” in tandem with British intelligence.
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
With Mossadegh imprisoned and the Shah back on the Peacock Throne, Iran was transformed into a client regime of the West. The Shah’s autocracy deepened: he quickly became a major purchaser of American weaponry and welcomed foreign oil companies back in. Over the next 25 years, Washington provided massive support from weapons to finance propping up the Shah as an anti-Soviet “pillar” in the Middle East . US officials hailed Iran’s “stability,” while turning a blind eye to growing repression. Source: https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/#:~:text=Recently%2C%20the%20CIA%20has%20declassified,as%20anxious%20to%20shield%20British
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
A new secret police, SAVAK, was created in 1957 with close guidance from the CIA and Israel’s Mossad . SAVAK’s agents were schooled in the dark arts of surveillance, interrogation, and torture, earning a fearsome reputation as the Shah’s iron fist. Thousands of political dissidents, from Islamists to leftist students, were rounded up, imprisoned, or worse. Iranians lived in terror of SAVAK, whose American and Israeli-trained operatives routinely tortured and killed regime opponents.
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
Source: https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/history-in-the-making/article/1283/&path_info=31_74_20Sword_20McGhee.pdf
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
Authoritarian rule under the Shah intensified through the 1960s and ’70s. Despite initiating some modernizing reforms, the Shah brooked no dissent. He banned opposition parties, censored the press, and used oil revenue to enrich a small elite while many Iranians remained in poverty. U.S. officials publicly praised the Shah’s “progressive” leadership even as his prisons filled with journalists, clergy, and activists. This disconnect bred smoldering resentment – a sense that the Shah was a puppet of foreign powers who put Iran’s wealth and destiny in foreign hands. Source: https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-politics-revolution/29752729.html
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Decades of pent-up anger exploded in 1978–79. Strikes and demonstrations swept Iran’s cities, uniting Islamists, liberals, and leftists against the Shah’s regime. Protesters chanted “Death to the Shah” and denounced him as a U.S. puppet. Security forces responded with violence – including a notorious massacre on “Black Friday” in Sept 1978 – which only galvanized the opposition. By January 1979, the unrest had grown into a full revolution. The Shah fled into exile, never to return.
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
In February 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile to a hero’s welcome, riding the revolutionary wave. The U.S.-backed monarchy collapsed and was replaced by Khomeini’s Islamic Republic. Almost overnight, Iran went from being a crucial American ally to a bitter adversary. Khomeini’s theocracy combined religious rule with fierce anti-Western rhetoric. The new regime wasted no time blaming Iran’s misery on American “imperialism” – starting with the 1953 coup that had “enslaved” Iran to foreign masters.
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
That historical memory fueled one of the revolution’s most dramatic events: the 1979 hostage crisis. When the deposed Shah was admitted to the U.S. for medical treatment in November 1979, Iranian students suspected a repeat of 1953, another American plot to restore the Shah. In response, militant students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 52 Americans hostage. Their explicit rationale was that the embassy had been the CIA’s headquarters for the 1953 coup, and they aimed to prevent history from repeating. The hostages were held for 444 days, paraded blindfolded before crowds – a traumatic episode that seared anti-Iran sentiment into the American psyche. Source: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/students-iran-hostage-crisis/#:~:text=the%252520Iranian%252520capital%25252C%252520chanting%252520%E2%80%9CMarg,%E2%80%9D
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Khomeini’s Iran swiftly pivoted ideologically. The Islamic Republic denounced both the “Great Satan” (the United States) and the “Little Satan” (Israel) as enemies of Islam. This was a stark reversal – under the Shah, Iran had quietly cooperated with Israel and even recognized it diplomatically . But the new regime cast itself as champion of the oppressed, especially the Palestinians. Tehran cut all ties with Israel, turned the former Israeli embassy in Tehran over to the PLO, and inaugurated an annual “Quds Day” of pro-Palestinian rallies . Anti-Western murals and slogans became ubiquitous in Tehran, reflecting a regime narrative of resisting imperialism. Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/6/iran-and-israel-from-allies-to-archenemies-how-did-they-get-here#:~:text=Ayatollah%20Ruhollah%20Khomeini%2C%20the%20leader,to%20serve%20their%20own%20interests
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
From 1979 onward, Washington and Tehran treated each other as implacable foes. The U.S. isolated Iran, cutting off diplomatic relations and imposing sanctions that strangled Iran’s economy. In 1980, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Iran, a bloody war that would last eight years and the U.S. tilted in favor of Iraq, seeing Iran’s new Islamist regime as the greater threat. American intelligence and aid flowed to Saddam, even as he launched chemical attacks that killed thousands of Iranian soldiers and civilians. One U.S. State Department official later acknowledged it was “folly” to support Saddam’s aggression, but at the time Iran’s pleas for help fell on deaf ears.
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
The Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) was catastrophic for Iran. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians perished in trench warfare and from mustard gas and nerve agents that Saddam unleashed with tacit Western approval. The drawn-out slaughter cemented a siege mentality in Tehran. Traumatized by the war and convinced that the U.S. and its allies would prefer Iran’s destruction, the Islamic Republic’s hardliners gained the upper hand. Revolutionary leaders like Khamenei (now Supreme Leader) doubled down on developing deterrents both conventional and unconventional to prevent Iran from ever being so vulnerable again. Source: https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2004-12/iran-nuclear-briefs/iran-case-addressing-why-countries-want-nuclear-weapons#:~:text=recurrent%20theme%20in%20U,basis%20for%20Iranian%20security%20concerns
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n the war’s wake, Iran began cultivating regional proxies as a forward defense. During the 1980s, Iran helped form and arm Hezbollah in Lebanon (especially once Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982). Tehran also supported groups opposing Israel and pro-U.S. regimes, from Palestinian militants to later the Houthis in Yemen. The goal was clear: extend Iran’s strategic depth and counter Israel’s and America’s regional influence. “Wherever Israel looks, it sees Iran on its border,” an analyst noted – not because Iran seeks war, but because it wants to deter the U.S. or Israel from attacking by raising the costs. In effect, Iran built a network of militias as its insurance policy against regime change. Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/16/iran-israel-attack-shadow-war/
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
While buttressing proxy forces abroad, Iran also pursued a more controversial insurance policy at home: a nuclear program. Ironically, this effort had begun under the Shah with U.S. encouragement – the American government in the 1970s actively aided the Shah’s plan to build nuclear reactors . After the revolution, those plans were stalled and Iran’s nuclear work was modest. But by the mid-1990s, facing U.S. sanctions and open talk of overthrowing the Islamic Republic, Tehran quietly accelerated nuclear research. Iranian leaders saw what happened to countries without a deterrent – Iraq under Saddam, Libya’s Gaddafi – and drew a lesson that a nuclear capability might ward off foreign attack. Source: https://archive.globalpolicy.org/empire/intervention/iran/general/2006/0214iranhistory.htm
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
U.S. officials, for their part, often painted Iran’s nuclear ambitions as irrational aggression. But internal analyses acknowledged Iran’s logic: Tehran had legitimate security fears. The U.S. had a “dual containment” policy to weaken Iran (and Iraq) and openly funded Iranian exile groups seeking regime change . President George W. Bush’s 2002 “Axis of Evil” speech pointedly included Iran – right after the U.S. had invaded two countries next door (Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003). American forces now ringed Iran on nearly every side . Facing this encirclement, even some Western observers admitted Iran had “objective basis” for feeling threatened . In this light, Iran’s interest in nuclear deterrence was a bid to ensure its survival, however dangerous the proliferation risk. Source: https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/fpb033.pdf
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
By the early 2000s, the Iran-Israel standoff centered on Iran’s nuclear advances. Israel, which had secretly built its own nuclear arsenal, vowed it would never allow Iran to obtain the bomb. The standoff saw a shadow war intensify. Iranian nuclear scientists began dying in mysterious explosions and shootings – at least four were assassinated between 2010 and 2012, operations widely attributed to Israel’s Mossad. A joint U.S.-Israeli cyberattack in 2010, known as Stuxnet, sabotaged Iranian centrifuges and temporarily set back the enrichment program . In 2011, an unexplained blast killed the architect of Iran’s missile program; in 2020, a top nuclear scientist (Mohsen Fakhrizadeh) was ambushed and killed in broad daylight . These covert attacks aimed to delay Iran’s progress without sparking full-scale war. Source: https://www.wired.com/2014/11/countdown-to-zero-day-stuxnet/
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Amid this pressure, Iran and global powers signed the JCPOA (nuclear deal) in 2015. Tehran agreed to strict limits on enrichment and intrusive inspections, dramatically rolling back its nuclear capacities . In return, it received sanctions relief. The deal was working – Iran’s compliance was verified repeatedly by UN inspectors. But hardliners in Washington and Tel Aviv railed against the accord. In 2018, President Trump unilaterally quit the JCPOA and reimposed sanctions, despite Iran’s adherence . This U.S. withdrawal – cheered by Iran hawks – blew up a rare diplomatic success. Iran began rebuilding its nuclear stockpile in response, and tensions soared again. Source: https://archive.is/4Lro2
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
Since then, Israel has escalated its sabotage campaign. Mysterious explosions rocked Iran’s Natanz enrichment site in 2020 and 2021, knocking out critical equipment . Israeli leaders openly boast of acting to prevent “another Holocaust,” while clandestinely hitting Iranian targets. The United States, meanwhile, has kept piling on sanctions and military pressure. In January 2020, a U.S. drone strike assassinated Iranian General Qassem Soleimani – the architect of Iran’s regional strategy – as he visited Iraq, nearly triggering direct war. Iran retaliated with missile strikes on a U.S. base in Iraq, but the cycle of provocation continues. Today, hardliners on all sides cite these attacks to justify further aggression, trapping both nations in a dangerous impasse. Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/signs-increasingly-point-to-sabotage-in-fiery-explosion-at-iranian-nuclear-complex/2020/07/06/d1035e84-bfce-11ea-b178-bb7b05b94af1_story.html
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
Through proxy wars and brinksmanship, Iran and Israel now confront each other across the Middle East. In Syria, Israeli jets have bombed Iranian advisors and arms convoys to Hezbollah. In Yemen and Iraq, Iran’s allied militias occasionally target U.S. and Israeli interests. Israel, with backing from Washington (over $3 billion in annual U.S. military aid), has insisted it will preemptively strike Iran rather than let it obtain nuclear weapons. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-68121694
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
This week they’ve kept their promise. While Iranian leaders, for their part, vow “resistance” until U.S. and Israeli dominance recedes. Each side portrays the other as an existential threat, leaving little space for dialogue. Now we stand at the precipice of an escalation that could spell disaster for all of those involved unless cooler heads can prevail. However judging from past events, that seems highly unlikely. Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-iran-strike-each-other-new-wave-attacks-2025-06-14/
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
Seven decades after the 1953 coup, the legacy of Western interference still poisons Iran’s relations with the world. The CIA’s toppling of Mossadegh – motivated by oil and geostrategy – set in motion a cascade: an authoritarian Shah, a repressive backlash in the form of an Islamic Revolution, and an enduring climate of mistrust and hostility. Iranians have never forgotten that foreign powers robbed them of self-determination, and hardliners exploit that history to shore up their rule. Likewise, Americans and Israelis scarred by 1979 and security threats see Iran as implacably aggressive. The result is a dangerous standoff – one rooted not in age-old hatred, but in blowback from covert ops and tyranny. A 2017 declassified review by the U.S. government itself concluded that the 1953 coup “poisoned” Iran’s feelings toward the West and fueled the Islamist surge of 1979. Source: https://consortiumnews.com/2015/04/02/the-us-israel-iran-triangles-tangled-history/#:~:text=Exclusive%3A%20Iran%20and%20world%20powers,Iranian%20triangle%2C%20reports%20Robert%20Parry
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Today’s nuclear crisis and regional tensions are a direct consequence of this troubled history. The lesson is stark: meddling in other nations’ affairs, propping up dictators or sabotaging agreements, can create a blowback that lasts generations. Ending the cycle will require honesty about that past and a break with the “might makes right” mindset that started it all.
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@LibertyLockPod - Clint Russell
From June 9th until last night we went from "Israel can handle this on their own" to US B-2's dropping bombs directly on Iran. Every step of the way both the Israelis and the Trump administration lied to both the Iranians and the American people It is quite clear to me that Iran did not want war with America. They talked tough but tried everything not to escalate with us. Including a rather tepid response even after Trump took out Soleimani in 2020. Given the constant escalations from the Trump admin I'd be shocked if Iran doesn't realize they must fight back in order to increase domestic pressure in the US. This likely means shutting down Hormuz and hammering American bases in the region. If US troops are killed this will immediately shift to a full-on regime change war. Likely the plan all along. This isn't peace through strength. It is war by deception. Which happens to be Mossad's motto
@KashifMD - Kashif Chaudhry
“Iran is a threat to U.S. national security.” Let’s break that down🧵 1953: The U.S. overthrew Iran’s democratically elected government to control its oil. We installed a monarch—the Shah—who ruled brutally, backed by CIA-run secret police (SAVAK) that tortured and disappeared dissenters. 1979: Iranian people finally rose up and overthrew the Shah. In the chaos, angry students took American embassy staff hostage—an illegal act, but notably, not a single hostage was killed. 1980s: The U.S. supported Saddam Hussein as he invaded Iran and used chemical weapons to wipe out entire Iranian villages. A million Iranians were killed. The chemical materials were shipped from the U.S. and the funding came via the CIA. 1988: The U.S. shot down Iran Air Flight 655, a civilian passenger plane, killing 290 innocent people, including 66 children. The flight had just taken off from Tehran and was flying in Iranian airspace. The U.S. never apologized for what it later claimed was “a mistake.” No one was held accountable. In fact, the ship’s captain received a medal the following year for his service. 1990s: After that came crippling sanctions and covert operations to sabotage Iran’s economy, scientists, and sovereignty—tactics that continue to this day. 2003– 2011: The U.S. topples Saddam. A million Iraqis are killed. Post-Saddam Iraqi leaders and militias resisting the U.S. occupation build close ties with Iran. 2010–2012: 6 Iranian nuclear scientists are assassinated, widely attributed to Israel’s Mossad, often with U.S. knowledge or coordination. 2015: Iran signed the JCPOA nuclear deal—agreeing to international inspections and limits on uranium enrichment. The UN confirmed Iran complied. 2018: Trump unilaterally withdrew from the deal. Iran is punished despite playing by the rules. Sanctions return—harsher than ever. 2019: Iran announces it will enrich uranium beyond the limit set in the deal, not to build a weapon, but to gain leverage for relief from the crippling sanctions devastating its economy. 2020: The U.S. assassinated Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s top general, in a drone strike on Iraqi soil. He wasn’t launching an attack, but was on a diplomatic mission, carrying Iran’s response to a peace offer from Saudi Arabia, according to Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi. 2023–2025: Iran’s allies (Houthis, Hezbollah, PMFs) begin resisting Israeli regional aggression, especially in response to its genocide in Gaza. 2025: 🚨 Trump bombs Iran following persistent lobbying from Israel. No Congressional approval. No evidence of an imminent threat. No regard for ongoing diplomatic talks. Meanwhile: 🛑 U.S. military bases surround Iran—in every neighboring country. 🇮🇷 Iran has none outside the region. 🛡️ Iran has consistently fought ISIS and al-Qaeda—yet is still branded “the world’s top sponsor of terror.” We need to be honest with ourselves: We have wronged Iran. We have wronged the Iranian people. Not just once—but over and over again. We invaded. We toppled. We assassinated. We bombed. And yet we call them the threat?
@DanielLDavis1 - Daniel Davis Deep Dive
🚨 URGENT WARNING: A U.S. Strike on Iran Would Be CATASTROPHIC for American interests. Andrei Martyanov lays it bare: “If the United States attacks Iran... (There would be) American casualties," and Israel itself will suffer serious losses. Even if the United States were to unleash “2,000 Tomahawks” against Iran, it would have minimal effect, because the country is so vast and important assets spread so wide. Plus, Martyanov warns, Iran will impose serious repercussions; they will not go quietly into the night. Even killing leaders like Khamenei? “He becomes a martyr. And Iranian people... they will fight back.” No one knows Iran's full capabilities—but the fallout could devastate the region and result in serious casualties for U.S. forces. This is not hype; it is military reality. Watch the full clip NOW before escalation spirals → https://open.substack.com/pub/danieldavisdeepdive/p/us-overestimating-our-military-capabilities?r=2sqew7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true 👉 #IranWar #USIran #AndreiMartyanov #MilitaryReality #MiddleEastCrisis #DanielDavisDeepDive
@afshinrattansi - Afshin Rattansi
🚨PROF. JOHN MEARSHEIMER: US🇺🇸 & ISRAEL WANT TO TURN IRAN🇮🇷 INTO SYRIA ‘They don’t simply want to do away with Iran’s nuclear capability…they want to wreck Iran. They want to turn Iran into Syria. And what the Israelis are doing in Syria is going to great lengths to make sure Syria remains a dysfunctional state.’ -Prof. John Mearsheimer on Going Underground
@ProjectConstitu - Project Constitution
🚨BREAKING: Trump Is LYING To You — All Of Our Bases Have Been DESTROYED, Says Former U.S. ARMY Colonel Douglas Macgregor😱 The mainstream media, the defense contractors, and the establishment are LYING to you about what is actually happening in the Middle East right now. While the hijacked, pro-war neo-cons try to sell the America First base on a glorious, easy war with Iran, Former U.S. Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor just went on the record and completely shattered the illusion. It is a disaster, and Iran is doing way better then we thought. Here is the terrifying reality of what is happening on the ground while the politicians lie to your face.👇 We aren't just fighting Iran. Macgregor confirms that Russia and China are sitting on the sidelines feeding top-tier satellite intelligence directly to the Iranian government. They are tracking our every move. Because of this intelligence pipeline, Macgregor states Iran is experiencing "tremendous successes" against Israel and U.S. positions. His exact, chilling words: "All of our bases have been destroyed. Our harbor installations are destroyed." Our regional footprint is collapsing so fast that the U.S. Navy is being forced to fall back on Indian ports just to survive. This is the catastrophic, here we are entering into a long protracted and unwinnable Middle Eastern war that Charlie Kirk warned us about and spent his final months of his life trying to stop. He publicly begged the Trump administration to back off from a larger strike on Iran. And now? The military-industrial complex are cheerleading a slaughter while our service members are sitting ducks. They silenced the loudest anti-war voice in the country, and now the exact disaster he warned us about is unfolding. Tag @RealCandaceO and RT, It's time to wake up and smell the roses. (even if they smell like an outhouse)
@FreeTrevian - Ms Trevian Kutti
🚨MUST READ!!! ISRAELI JOURNALIST GIVES FULL ACCOUNT ON WAR! THIS IS WHY OUR GOVT IS CENSORING US: Israeli journalist, Alon Mizrahi: "We are witnessing history. Iran is, to the surprise of everyone, fucking up US bases so thoroughly and extensively and so decisively that the world isn’t ready to see it." "In 4 days, Iran has managed to expand its scope of military domination in the region. Iran has destroyed the most precious, most expensive military bases, assets and equipment in the whole world. American bases in Bahrain and Kuwait and Qatar and Saudi Arabia are some of the biggest military installations in the entire world. These are assets that took trillions to build over the course of several decades. We’re talking a major chunk of military expenditure for over 30 years, going up in smoke. We are seeing radars costing hundreds of millions of dollars a piece being destroyed in an instant. We are seeing entire military bases being abandoned and burned, decimated and destroyed. And I’m telling you from my knowledge, the US has never suffered such devastation in its entire history, except maybe Pearl Harbor but that was one attack. No enemy in a normal war has done to the US military what the Iranians are doing to the US military right now. This defies belief. The military situation is so bad that censorship blocks practically every piece of new information about this war. If you’ve noticed we’re being exposed to less and less every day. Thirty-five years ago during the first Iraq war, we were being shown endless footage from Iraq. The smart bombs and the cameras were a novelty back then, but every night we were being shown night footage. Now we are seeing almost no video. Understand this! This is supposedly the worlds biggest military power having the worlds biggest air capabilities and for 4 days when the US is on the offensive, supposedly and is supposed to be breaking through Iranian defenses we are seeing NO signs of American domination over Iranian skies. Where is all the footage of our planes flying over Tehran or any part of Iran for that matter? American soldiers can not even dream of setting foot in Iran. And to understand how desperate this war is, that on the 4th day you’re already hearing the craziest suggestions and ideas from the Trump administration. They are suggesting to send military escorts for oil carrying vessels coming out of the Persian gulf. What are you even talking about?! You want to send American ships into the range of thousands of Iranian missiles? NO ONE can pass through the strait of Hormuz right now. The Iranians have been preparing for this for decades. They’re flaunting this idea of arming Kurdish militias to invade Iran. What the FUCK are you talking about? Have you seen a map of Iran?! It seems like the Trump administration has never seen a map of Iran! Do you know how massive it is? What do you mean invade Iran?! You think a 10,000 man militia can invade Iran?! Or even 50,000?! Or 100,000?! Iran will swallow them. The US and Israel have already lost this war. The US and Israel can kill millions of civilians in their homes. They have huge bombs and can explode buildings, but they will not win this war. Iranians military infrastructure and weaponry is so far underground ALL OVER IRAN. There is no way for the Americans and definitely not the Israelis to reach any of it. They are FUCKED. They have started something they have no chance of bringing to an end. When this is over the US will never come back to West Asia. There will be no American presence in the Middle East. I’m telling you this now with certainty.” -Alon Mizrahi, Israeli journalist and peace activist on Substack
@angeloinchina - Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹
Back in 2020, Iraq voted unanimously for the US to leave Iraq. US troops never left. Iran is helping Iraq liberate itself. No other state is liberating Arab nations >>>IRAN is doing it. It is happening NOW. https://t.co/m1IJdbYDIY
@afshinrattansi - Afshin Rattansi
“The Israelis drove the decision to take this action, which we knew would set off a series of events because the Iranians would retaliate.” -Joe Kent who resigned from his position as Trump’s Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, over the war on Iran https://t.co/mAC3Wbuy1h