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I warn against trusting the Iran ceasefire, claiming in 90 days the US launched an energy blitzkrieg: crippled Russia’s oil, disrupted a third of China’s oil & LNG, seized major oil fields, seized Syria & Gaza gas. This births the Petrogas-dollar and the Pirate State.

@richimedhurst - Richard Medhurst

Do not be fooled by the ceasefire in Iran. In 90 days, the US have launched an energy blitzkrieg: • Crippled Russia’s oil infrastructure 🇷🇺 • Disrupted 1/3 of China’s oil & LNG 🇨🇳 • Seized the planet’s largest oil fields 🇻🇪 • Seized Syria & Gaza's gas🛢️ This is the birth of the Petrogas-dollar and the Pirate State 🏴‍☠️

Video Transcript AI Summary
The speakers portray the United States as having shifted from an empire to a pirate state, with a transformation into what they call the petro gas dollar or LNG dollar. They claim the US has quietly carried out an armed robbery of the world’s oil and gas supply, hitting Russian tankers and refineries, crippling China’s oil supply, capturing major oil fields, and kidnapping or assassinating leaders, all while expanding its domination over global energy and finance. The analysis emphasizes that the US, now the world’s top producer and exporter of oil, gas, and LNG, operates with self-sufficiency but seeks to kill competition to maintain a monopoly. The claim is that the US used the Ukraine war as cover to eliminate rivals and then used the Iran war to finish off Qatar’s LNG position, forcing Europe to buy American LNG at ten times the price and turning Europe into a US energy client. As a result, European energy prices rise, euros lose value relative to the dollar, and BRICS and dedollarization efforts falter. A central strategic thread is the destruction of competing energy suppliers to create captive markets. The speakers allege that the US destroyed Nord Stream II and blew up pipelines, which not only hurt Russia but forced Europe to rely on American LNG. They argue that the US then redirected gas flows to the Gulf and Levant, sealing a role for Chevron and other US energy giants in these transactions. The Board of Peace is described as a front for a legal cover of Washington’s colonial plan, enabling energy seizures in Gaza, the Levantine Basin, and elsewhere, with Chevron’s activities framed as orchestrated groundwork for energy deals in the Levantine Basin, as well as in Venezuela and Lebanon. The narrative then claims the US intends to dominate China by cutting off its vital fuel sources, forcing China to buy American oil and gas, thereby preserving the dollar and hobbling BRICS and multipolarity. It details how the US targeted Venezuela’s oil, kidnapping Maduro and seizing oil, which previously supplied 80% of Venezuela’s oil exports to China, and how the US expanded its reach by threatening Cuba’s energy grid after Maduro’s removal. It asserts the US orchestrated a global oil blockade, with attacks on Russian energy hubs, ships, and refineries, to cripple Russia and China’s energy security, including attacks in the Caribbean, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Black Sea, and Baltic Sea. The speakers describe Iran as being cut off from Hormuz and subjected to an escalating cycle of strikes that disrupt its toll system and port infrastructure, while Russia’s exports are disrupted by attacks on export hubs and ships, creating a 40% reduction in Russia’s seaborne oil export capacity. They claim the US is using this chaos to drive up LNG and oil prices, forcing Europe and Asia to bid on US gas while shipping dominance remains with Washington. The financial logic is that dedollarization efforts fail because the US can force energy trade to be settled in dollars, while the US economy benefits from wartime pricing and export profits. The “maritime extortion network” is described as a system where the US can move LNG on ships, changing routes as needed, and a “protection racket” via the US Navy is proposed as a price for safe passage. The monroe doctrine is reframed as moving the planet’s energy corridor into the Western Hemisphere, with the Gulf of Mexico and Washington as the key nodes, rather than the Middle East. Finally, the speakers assert that Iran’s drones, missiles, and air defenses have degraded the US air force’s bases and radar arrays, while the USS Gerald R. Ford was compelled to relocate, reinforcing the claim that Iran’s actions are challenging US military dominance and undermining the myth of invincibility. The overarching claim is that the US empire is consolidating global energy control through piracy, sanctions, and strategic energy realignments, with Chevron playing a pivotal role in every facet of this strategy.
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Speaker 0: The war in Iran is much larger than anyone seems to grasp. True. The United States are being humiliated on the battlefield by Iran losing not just their f 30 fives and radars, but their military prestige. But in the background, The United States have quietly been carrying out an armed robbery of the world's oil and gas supply. In the last three months alone, The US have hit Russian tankers, refineries, crippled China's oil supply, captured the world's largest oil fields, and kidnapped and assassinated two heads of state. We are witnessing the transition of The United States from an empire into a pirate state and the birth of what I call the petro gas dollar Speaker 1: or the LNG dollar. Speaker 0: In the past, The United States were very sensitive to oil shocks. Something like the Strait Of Hormuz being closed would be a catastrophe because The United States simply couldn't produce enough oil to meet demand. So if oil prices spiked, you would see the dollar crash and everyone run to gold. Speaker 2: Unreal. Isn't this disgusting? Why doesn't anybody contact president? Why is Speaker 0: Today, the situation is completely reversed. Oil and gas prices are through the roof, yet the US dollar is surging, and gold is suffering its worst crash in forty years. See, The United States Of 2026 is not The United States of 1973. Today, The US is the world's top producer of oil, gas, and refined products and the world's largest exporter of liquefied natural gas or LNG. They're completely self sufficient. The problem is even if you're the number one producer, you still need a market to sell to. And if you want a monopoly, need to kill the competition. Speaker 2: The Russian economy is vulnerable. 80% of Russian exports are in oil, gas, and minerals. You want to depend more on the North American energy platform, the tremendous bounty of oil and gas that we're finding in North America. You want to have pipelines that don't go through Ukraine and Russia. Speaker 0: No one would buy expensive American gas as long as cheap Russian gas existed, so The United States simply killed off the alternative to create a captive market. Speaker 3: There will be no longer a Nord Stream two. We we will bring an end to Speaker 0: Blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, The US didn't just hurt Russia. It also turned Europe into a permanent US client. The cheap gas was gone forever, and Europe was now forced to buy American LNG at 10 times the price. This greatly benefited US corporations and helped secure the US dollar for the time being against BRICS, dedollarization, and the multipolar world. As governments were now forced to get rid of their euros to the point they became more worthless for the first time in twenty years than US dollars. The US had successfully turned its closest ally into an energy colony, bleeding them dry to keep the dollar alive. The US went from supplying just 9% of Europe's energy before Ukraine to being Europe's number one source of coal, oil, and LNG, not just at Russia's expense, but eating half of Qatar's LNG share in the process. After The United States, Australia, closely followed by Qatar, are the world's largest suppliers of LNG and America's biggest competitors. But The US is now at full export capacity. They can't physically ship enough of their own gas to satisfy the market that they just cleared. The empire realized that they didn't actually need to build more infrastructure to win. They just needed to delete the competition again. Just as Washington used the cover of the Ukraine war, sanctions, and the Nord Stream bombings to force Russia out of Europe, they similarly used the cover of the Iran war to finish off Qatar's position as a global LNG player. By forcing Qatar to declare force majeure and then triggering the retaliatory strikes on Ras Lefan, Washington took the world's largest gas field out of the picture, crippling Iran and sidelining Qatar in one fell swoop. There is no doubt The US and Israel provoked this because they had spent up until this point three weeks bombing Iran, gauging their responses, and Iran had made it explicitly clear that it was now an eye for an eye. This move allowed The United States to hit three birds with one stone. By crippling even partially Qatar's LNG capacity, they forced them to cancel their cheap long term contracts. While The US remains shielded, this sent LNG prices soaring, forcing Europe and Asia to bid on the spot market for US gas at exorbitant prices and would position The US as seemingly the only reliable supplier of energy in an unstable world. This timing is perfectly in line with The US Israeli grab of the Levantine Basin. This is one of the largest gas fields in the world right off the coast of Syria, Palestine, and Lebanon. Its proximity to Europe would allow Washington to keep selling their overpriced LNG by sea while also replacing piped Russian gas entirely. In that vein, Israel and US company Chevron recently signed a $35,000,000,000 gas deal for which they began laying the groundwork two years before the Gaza genocide. Speaker 2: To move away from Russia and diversify to trustworthy suppliers. Speaker 0: As The US began their global energy blitzkrieg in late twenty twenty five, they timed everything perfectly. First, the Gaza ceasefire in October, then a month later, the Board of Peace, and a month after that, the gas deal. Chevron would handle the gas deals and extraction. Meanwhile, the Board of Peace would serve as the front organization for the takeover. This corporate body was railroaded through the United Nations Security Council to provide the legal cover for Washington's colonial plan, a plan which China and Russia dubiously and inexplicably let pass. A closer examination of resolution two eight zero three reveals nothing more than a fleeting mention of, quote, water, electricity, and sewage, unquote. The word energy doesn't appear once in the entire document. Then out of nowhere, at the first Board of Peace Summit, we see an oil and gas rig slapped right on the corporate advertisements of New Gaza. This coupled with the timing of Israel's gas deal and the fact that only Chevron operate in this area lead us to the only logical conclusion that they plan on robbing the gas fields in the Gaza Marine. In the meantime, The US plan to topple the Syrian government had finally worked out, so Chevron wasted no time in moving on Syria's oil and gas laying the groundwork for yet another energy deal in the Levantine Basin just eight weeks after their takeover of Gaza's resources. This energy takeover in the Levantine Basin was formalized at the very same moment that Chevron were making off with Venezuela's oil on the other side of the planet and with the protection of the US Navy. And it was barely three years ago that Israel sent a massive FPSO ship to try and take Lebanon's gas from the Qurich field, only retreating to diplomatic talks once the resistance threatened to sink the vessel. Speaker 3: Now Speaker 0: controlling Europe and weakening Russia was just the first stage. The real target is China. China is too big and competitive to destroy. The goal is to control it. By cutting off their most vital fuel sources, The United States want to force China to buy American oil and gas. This guarantees the dollar's survival and makes China dependent on Washington. This also makes it more difficult in the long term to fully dedollarize, and it weakens BRICS, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the idea of a multipolar world. China receives around one third of its oil from Venezuela, Russia, and Iran combined. Beijing considers these countries not just to be sources of oil, but strategic partners. In the last ninety days alone, The United States proceeded to target all three of those lifelines with increasing escalation. First, The United States deployed a fleet to The Caribbean under the pretext of fighting narcotics. They then kidnapped president Maduro and seized Venezuela's oil, the largest oil fields in the world. Speaker 3: Between Venezuela and us, we have 62% of the world's oil. Speaker 0: 80% of Venezuela's oil exports used to go to China. This accounted for 4% of China's oil imports, specifically the heavy crude that China's teapot refineries require in order to make the diesel that is used for China's high-tech industries. Russia provides 17% of China's total oil imports. While some of it is piped, most of it reaches China by sea. This includes the heavy medium Urals blend that China's teapot refineries also run on. Despite the extensive pipe network on land, most of this is shipped via Russia's western ports in the Baltic Sea. The US knew that China would immediately look to Russia to replace that oil, so they moved that same fleet to the North Atlantic in order to cut them off. As a matter of fact, during the last months, The United States and their allies began systematically hunting down Russian oil and gas ships, not just in the North Atlantic, but across the entire planet. Particularly after the war in Iran began, we've seen an uptick in Russian tankers and LNG ships being blown up or pirated all the way from the Caribbean to the North Atlantic, to the Mediterranean, to the Black Sea, Baltic Sea. This explains why Donald Trump wants Greenland and Canada so much and why the Royal Navy deployed a carrier strike group just last month to the Greenland, Iceland, UK corridor. Speaker 3: Right now, Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships all over the place. We need Greenland. Speaker 0: The goal is to target Russian tankers and fuel ships and corner them in the Baltic and the Arctic Corridor before they're even able to leave. During the last weeks, we haven't just seen the largest amount of attacks on Russian ships, but also on Russian refineries and export hubs, including Russia's three primary western export hubs and several of their top refineries. As a result, around 40% of Russia's seaborne oil export capacity had been disabled. That's the most severe oil disruption in modern Russian history. While these strikes were officially claimed by Ukraine, they could have only been carried out with US backing, permission, and equipment. The United States are clearly establishing a massive global oil blockade against Russia and China. The reason the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor was precisely because The United States imposed an oil embargo on them. Russia and China are much more powerful than Japan was at the time, so I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the possibility of this potentially turning into an actual world war if it continues to escalate. Now Iran export around 60% of the oil they produce, and like Russia and Venezuela, they export most of it to China at a discount. Iran make up around 11% of China's seaborne crude imports. Since president Maduro was kidnapped, China have sought to replace the loss of Venezuelan crude with higher volumes of Russian and Iranian imports, making a reliable steady supply all the more critical. As Iran control the Strait Of Hormuz, these ships shouldn't usually have any problems getting through and would, in fact, be prioritized as China is a strategic partner. However, the very nature of a war ensures chaos. Iran's experimental toll system, like all infrastructure, is being systematically disrupted by The US Israeli attack, resulting in a crippling backlog. Moreover, in dealing with a pirate state, the threat level from Washington has reached irrational and unprecedented levels as evidenced by the assassination of Khamenei and the torpedoing of the IRIS DINA. Death and destruction from the sky all day long. The US are now operating as a pirate state. They needn't even enter the Strait Of Hormuz and can simply lie in wait near Diego Garcia or across the Indian Ocean to ambush commercial vessels at will. Ultimately, pricing cargo in yuan achieves nothing if the cargo keeps getting sunk by an irrational actor. For the time being, this means that all three strategic suppliers of Chinese oil are either out of action, under attack, or threatened by The United States. This is especially critical because the type of crude oil that China normally received from Iran, Russia, and Venezuela was a mix of heavy and medium blends. China's teapot refineries are designed with this kind of oil in mind as they're able to break down the heavy thick sludge and turn it into the diesel that powers China's high-tech industries. Russian and Iranian oil are chemically different from Venezuelan crude and easier to refine, but China receives them at such a discount that it actually makes it worth their while to refine them using the teapots. While China can recover in the long term and their energy consumption is diverse, solar and coal alone can't power their industrial base to its absolute potential. Even with massive reserves, these cannot compare in the long run with the impact of having a pirate state attack their three most valued energy partners in the span of ninety days. This oil is considered even more valuable when you take into consideration that it is sold to China at a discount or in the case of Venezuela as a form of debt repayment. Replacing this specific kind of oil at the same competitive price is practically impossible. This creates a cascade effect of sabotage on China's economy, of which The United States is undoubtedly acutely aware of. To add insult to injury, The US has rerouted this heavy crude to its own Gulf Of Mexico refineries, increasing its own profit margin and then compounding further on its profits by exporting the light shale oil that The United States normally produces at wartime prices to Europe and Asia. Furthermore, The US and are using their control of the world's largest oil fields to threaten Cuba with regime change. Half of Cuba's energy grid was dependent on oil from Venezuela. Immediately after kidnapping Maduro and taking control of the oil, The United States cut Cuba off, plunging its power grid into darkness. This shows that capturing Venezuela's oil wasn't merely about corporate greed, but for strategic geopolitical purposes as a leverage, as a weapon to use for regime change. Speaker 3: Turns out that Cuba and us, we are talking. In the meantime, there's an embargo. There's no oil. There's no money. There's no any taking Cuba. I mean, whether I free it, take it, I think I could do anything I want with it. You wanna know the truth? They're very Speaker 0: While The United States allowed a single Russian tanker to reach Cuba and issued a thirty day reprieve for Iranian and Russian oil, these shouldn't be mistaken for signs of de escalation. They are only meant as pressure valves designed to stabilize the US dollar and global markets just enough in order to prevent a world war while Washington complete the hostile takeover. Following the strikes on the Ras Laffan refinery, the planet lost 20% of its LNG supply, which came from Qatar. Then by some astronomical stroke of luck, Australia, the planet's second largest LNG supplier, is hit by a cyclone, taking half its hubs offline with shutdowns expected to last several weeks. Whether one buys that story or not, the result is the same. In the span of just nine days, The United States' two largest competitors were taken off the board, sending LNG prices soaring for Europe and Asia. While Chevron and ExxonMobil take small hits in Qatar and Australia, they make back tenfold what they lost to disruption through the wartime prices exacted by The US. Russia and Iran are both Chinese allies, and they respectively have the largest proven reserves of natural gas on the planet. So you would think that they would be able to perhaps help China out in this situation. Well, the problem is that Iran consumes 94% of the gas it produces, and its ability to provide the remaining 6% was already taken out by the recent strikes. Now Russia are already running their gas and oil pipelines, so that's Power of Siberia and ESPO respectively at full capacity. Power of Siberia too is still years away from completion, and Russia lack the tanker fleet, Arctic class, or otherwise to help China make up for their losses whose LNG imports, by the way, fell to an eight year low during this war. Even if Russia could somehow procure the right vessels, US backed strikes on Russian energy and tankers are now so frequent and severe that insurance premiums have skyrocketed, almost defeating the entire purpose of buying their oil at a discount. By hunting these ships, The United States are not just dismantling the strategic energy partnerships that these countries have built with each other over the years, but also destroying the very infrastructure that they use to trade with one another from the ships to the export hubs to the refineries, forcing China to buy that missing oil and gas from The United States because they're the only option on the spot market at exorbitant prices, and here's Speaker 1: the final cherry on top in US dollars. Think about the level of criminality that's going Speaker 0: on here. So China has to dump its own yuan to buy the dollars needed to pay the very country that just sabotaged its energy security. They're losing their industrial competitive edge while literally funding The United States' takeover of their own economy. And in a move of incredible timing, the same day that the European Union banned Russian spot gas, that was the day Qatar's LNG supply was taken out. This date was known in advance, and I would have a very difficult time believing that The United States and Chevron were unaware. So in an emergency, like right now when there's no Qatari LNG, there's no Australian LNG, and prices are through the roof, the European Union as well as China have to join a bidding war for US gas. So The United States once again have thought this through and ensured a cascade or a multilayered system of gains. They not only benefit by stealing oil and stealing gas and then driving up the prices and forcing their competition to buy from them, they also win because by making energy expensive everywhere else, they deindustrialize Europe and Asia. That means European companies and Asian companies that includes industrial giants like Mercedes, like Toyota, like Siemens, are moving to The United States just to keep their factories running. This creates a flight of capital and deindustrializes The United States competitors. And once that capital gets to America and is injected in The US economy, very difficult to get it out. So once again, multilayered gains. By making energy unaffordable everywhere, The US not only guarantee their own energy security, but global energy dominance and the position of Speaker 1: The US Dollar. This racket goes even further. See, The US operate what is essentially a mobile taxi service for gas. Most of Russia's gas for example or Norway's gas is in pipelines. The United States puts its gas on ships and those ships are in the ocean, they're mobile, and they Speaker 0: can turn around mid journey and change course to whoever is willing to pay the most. As a matter of fact, that's precisely what they're doing right now. It's a maritime extortion network. Even worse, the maritime action plan, which was introduced just last month, forces everyone doing business with The US to switch to US made ships. That includes the entire fleet of LNG traders, meaning everyone who's exporting LNG from The United States to the rest of the world, and that's a lot of ships given that The United States now has a dominant share in Europe and will likely corner the rest of the market. It also includes anyone bringing cargo into The United States. For example, the refineries, they bring in crude oil. Around 40% of refined products in The United States are made using crude oil from other countries. So you have the choice of investing in an American naval shipyard and buying a US made ship, or you get punished and pay the tax. Either way, you're gonna pay uncle Sam something. Finally, Donald Trump announced he'll be offering what is essentially a bodyguard service via the US Navy in order to protect ships at a, quote, very reasonable price, unquote. So this adds the final layer to the monopoly in the form of a protection racket. So all of this gives United States several revenue streams, making money at every single point of the process and controlling it as well. All of this is part of the Monroe Doctrine. People have a fundamental misreading of this and think that it's a copy of the Monroe Doctrine. What The United States have in mind is not simply control of the Western Hemisphere. It's about moving to the Western Hemisphere, the planet's energy corridor. So to get your oil and gas, you now have to go to the Gulf Of Mexico or through Washington rather than The Middle East. So The US accomplished this by using their dominant market position, by killing off the competition quite literally, and then transplanting the planet's industrial base to their own soil. So as this rat race unfolds where everyone is scrambling to move their factories to The United States just to keep the lights on and scrambling to buy the last scraps of gas and oil at 10 times the price, This provokes a massive flight of capital to The United States, de industrializing and effectively cannibalizing their so called allies in The Gulf, Europe, Asia, which strengthens the dollar for the time being in a last ditch attempt to save US hegemony. And the final act, The US boards up the exits and uses its navy to harass, disrupt, Speaker 1: and pirate as it pleases across the planet. Chaos is the model. Speaker 0: For the time being, it appears to be working. The question Speaker 1: is for how long? Speaker 0: In the past, the petrodollar was too dependent on political events in The Middle East. So by doing this, The United States can control everything without having to rely on bases in the Middle East, whether that's Israel or the Gulf Kingdoms or actual US army bases. So The United States produce the world's oil and gas on their own soil. The rest of it, they simply steal from Venezuela just next door or from other countries and then bring it over and control it via Washington, and then force everyone to do business via Washington and build their ships in The United States. And when it comes to the oil that's left over in The Middle East or that exists elsewhere, The United States realized after Ukraine that they don't need to invade Russia and physically control their oil fields and their gas. All they have to do is keep Russia out of the market in order for them to corner it. That's precisely what they're doing now. By making it inaccessible, it drives up the prices and makes America the only option where you can even buy the gas to begin with. The United States have such a dominant position in natural gas that when they start wars, consumer prices barely even flinch. But that same gas in Europe and Asia rakes in a fortune. When it comes to oil, prices do go up in The US, but far less than they do in Europe and Asia. They have to sell their euros and their yuan in order to buy dollars, in order to buy the oil and gas. So they're not only paying through the nose, but they're weakening their own currencies. Whereas American consumers will be disgruntled at the pump, but the money is still pocketed by US energy giants, meaning it never leaves The US economic circuit. From Wall Street or the Empire's point of view, as long as there aren't pitchforks outside, it's a win win win situation. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Cheniere, and other US energy giants are raking in their biggest profits in history as we speak. Their share valuations are at all time highs. They have never had it so good. Although for this war, Chevron CEO seems to think the oil prices are still a bit too low. I guess they could always do better, can't they? Everywhere you look throughout this hostile takeover, you will find the fingerprints of Chevron. They have a finger in every pie. In The United States, in Australia, in Qatar, in the Levantine Basin, in Cyprus, in Venezuela. As a matter of fact, Chevron ships are the only ones that are allowed to leave Venezuela with their tankers full. But if the CEO is saying oil prices aren't high enough, well, clearly, world domination and control of the world's energy supply is not everything it's cracked up to be. So next time you're paying double at the pump, spare a thought or even a prayer for the CEO of Chevron whose life must be so difficult right now. Speaker 1: The strategy is very simple. Produce so much gas and oil that you are self reliant and have Speaker 0: it in abundance. Force everyone to buy your energy by blowing up their infrastructure. And if anyone else tries to sell their own oil and gas, you just steal it in transit or disable their refineries or blow out their industry. So this makes you de facto the only option giving you a total monopoly. In 1944, Bretton Woods established the current global capitalist financial order. The US dollar was pegged to gold until the nineteen seventies, at which point it was then removed and unofficially pegged to Gulf oil creating a petrodollar. Today, we're witnessing another revolution where The United States is decoupling from Gulf oil and pegging the dollar to its own domestic gas and oil production, as well as the reserves that it's stolen, of course, creating the petrogas dollar. This is far stronger because Europe's survival depends on having the dollar now in order to keep the lights on. And it looks like Asia's will too very soon. Speaker 3: It's incredible. We have such great we're number one in oil by double now. We drill, baby, drill. We're double any other nation, and it's gonna be soon triple any other nation. And that doesn't include Venezuela, who's been great. By the way, the relationship with Venezuela has been fantastic. Millions, literally millions of barrels of oil, are being taken out. Speaker 0: So when BRICS countries wanted to dedollarize during the last years, The United States realized that they needed a way to save the dollar. After Ukraine, the sanctions and Nord Stream bombings pushed Russia to sell the oil and gas to Asia, which they priced in rubles. And after 2022, Russia, Iran, China, Venezuela all adopted new alternatives to SWIFT, such as SIPs, SPFS, and CPAM, as well as new payment systems like MIR and Shittab. Now Iran are charging a toll for safe passage through Hormuz and even pricing it in Yuan. They're also talking about nationalizing the Strait Of Hormuz just as Egypt did with the Suez Canal. These are the right moves geopolitically speaking. The problem is that for this to work, trade has to be physically possible. And if The United States are sinking or pirating the ships while they're in transit or attacking the refineries at the source in Russia or Iran, you can't dedollarize. As a matter of fact, it'll probably make the dollar stronger because the shortage forces you to go and buy the missing oil and gas that you lost at sea from The United States in dollars. As a matter of fact, that's the whole point. That's the whole idea. Speaker 4: We are punching them while they're down, which is exactly how it should be. Speaker 0: So if BRICS countries and Speaker 1: the global South can't trade with each other, then Speaker 0: they can't develop the Belt and Road Initiative either By toppling governments in the global South and keeping the region in a constant state of war, The United States ensure long term damage and stagnated economic growth. Speaker 1: Meanwhile, of course, The US industrial base remains untouched. Ousting Bashar al Assad, for Speaker 0: example, in destroying serious ports at Latakia and Tartus, in addition to infrastructure in Lebanon and Palestine, is what gave The United States and Israel control over the Levantine gas field, and it also ensures that the Silk Road, the new Silk Road, is never completed. Now the Iraqi resistance, they've already succeeded in kicking out the NATO occupation after more than two decades. And this is important because Iraq's railway connects Iran and China to Syria and the Mediterranean Sea. This is precisely why Iran's systematic dismantling of The US occupation bases in the region is so critical, but it won't be enough. If The United States is indeed moving to a more maritime or pirate based model of raids and naval blockades and remote control chaos. Speaker 4: Death and destruction from the sky all day long. Speaker 0: Instead of land based occupation, then the bases are no longer that relevant and the strategy has to shift. The US Navy are still parked outside of Venezuela and widening the global blockade. So what guarantee does anyone have that The US won't position another carrier strike group in the Indian Ocean and do the exact same thing? They say they wanna take Karg Island, but they could also just set up near Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, and then sink any of the oil tankers or any of the commercial ships transiting past the Strait Speaker 1: Of Hormuz. And again, all The United States has Speaker 0: to do from their perspective is deprive Iran and the global south of being able to trade with each other and actually get oil from point a to point b, and then they will be well off. Speaker 4: We'll be hanging around. We're not going anywhere. We're gonna make sure Iran complies with this ceasefire and then ultimately comes to the table and makes a deal. So we'll we'll stay put, stay ready, stay vigilant. As the chairman laid out, our troops are prepared to defend, prepared to go on offense, prepared to restart at a moment's notice. Speaker 1: Purely from a game theory perspective, Iran, Russia, and China Speaker 0: need to make US piracy and US blockades so costly and painful that they leave. Alternatively, by doing the exact same thing The US is doing to Iran's industrial base, crippling their tankers, Speaker 1: their refineries, etcetera, Iran can make the whole plan unfeasible. During the opening weeks of Speaker 0: this war, Iran have been punching 10 times above their weight, taking on The US and Israel simultaneously. No one can doubt any longer the effectiveness of their drones, their ballistic missiles, their air defenses. They've been systematically degrading the crown jewels of the US air force from their f 30 fives to their a tens to Blackhawks to Reapers. As I've covered in my investigations, Iran have systematically neutralized billion dollar radar arrays across US bases in the region at a fraction of the cost. Washington's claim that their largest warship, the USS Gerald r Ford, had to flee the theater of war all the way to Crete because of a laundry room fire that destroyed 600 bunks and went on for thirty hours is perhaps the biggest admission and all the confirmation we need that Iran successfully struck the flagship of the US Navy. We're reminded of how the Lebanese resistance shocked the world in 2006 by striking the flagship of the Israeli Navy, and they too have proven themselves on the battlefield today to be stronger than ever before. So while the final outcome still remains to be seen, these tactical victories have shattered the myth of US invincibility. And it stands to reason that if Iran can successfully take on the US Air Force and all their radars and bases in the region, then surely they can take on their navy as well. And if Washington attempt to set up any pirate blockade the same way they did in Venezuela or in the Arctic, then they're not very likely to fare so well. The strategic value of this plan for the US empire is simply critical. It trumps all potential costs. Even being humiliated by Iran on the battlefield or losing hundreds of thousands of troops or having a disgruntled population is all worth the cost for Wall Street. The United States are transitioning from an aerial power to a naval power, fully cementing their status as a pirate state. If they're able to control others' economies, they may not even need to maintain their 800 bases. From a purely business perspective, when corporations find a more efficient way to do the exact same thing and save costs, they always go for it. So why wouldn't that apply in this case? None of Speaker 1: these events are coincidences. None of these things happened by accident. They were all carefully planned at the highest levels of government and corporate America. This is The United States of tomorrow. It's a pirate state that is completely out of control and has only one goal in mind, world domination, control of everyone's resources, and the use of piracy, violence, Speaker 0: and assassination in order to get its way.
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I read that Israeli Olympic athletes and footballers are not just IDF soldiers: they dedicate medals to the IDF, visit IDF bases, take photos with the IDF, and openly support Israel's genocide in Gaza. I ask why the Olympic Committee and FIFA refuse to confront these violations? https://t.co/pRtuRGmhKk

@richimedhurst - Richard Medhurst

Israeli Olympic athletes and footballers are not just IDF soldiers, they 🎖️Dedicate their medals to the IDF 🪖 Visit IDF bases 📷 Take photos with the IDF 💥 Openly support Israel's genocide in Gaza Why do the Olympic Committee and FIFA refuse to confront these violations? https://t.co/pRtuRGmhKk

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Speaker 0 argues that Israel's Olympic team is made up almost entirely of Israeli soldiers who cannot join the team without military service. She notes that in recent months Olympic athletes have signed bombs that were about to be dropped on Gaza, dedicated their medals to the IDF, and praised soldiers as heroes while bombs were being dropped on Gaza. The men's judo team reportedly visited an Israeli air force base, and the women's judo team visited an Israeli army base. One athlete posted a video of the IDF raising an Israeli flag on a Gaza beach after invading it with the caption, “salute your heroes.” Another uploaded an illustration of Gaza being destroyed. She claims Olympic athletes have repeatedly stated pride in being in the IDF and representing Israel during the current moment, implying endorsement of Israel’s actions in Gaza, and she says this goes beyond mandatory military service. She contends that these athletes are proud to be in the Israeli Defense Forces and openly mix sports with politics, even posing with the Israeli army as it decimates Gaza and faces accusations of genocide in the world court. She asserts there is more incriminating evidence than she can fit in the video. She describes the Wingate Facility as a site where several Israeli national sports teams are based and that it also serves as an IDF base for fitness training, illustrating how closely sports and the military are integrated. She claims the Israeli army publishes videos mixing Olympic athleticism with military service, suggesting they are indistinguishable from one another. She states that although these clubs don’t compete in the Olympics, Israeli football clubs are bound to the Olympic Charter, and they give the Israeli army free merchandise and share photos of the IDF wearing that merchandise while they are in tanks and bulldozers decimating Gaza. She says the clubs organize fundraisers and receptions for the IDF, and players visit wounded soldiers and post obituaries for those killed. One player reportedly said, “erase Gaza,” and another asked, “why haven’t 200 tons of bombs already been dropped on Gaza?” She questions what the Israeli football association does to reprimand them and claims nothing is done, with the behavior condoned in violation of the Olympic Charter and FIFA statutes. Palestinians supposedly tried to raise these issues at FIFA Congress but were blocked by FIFA twice, with the head of the Israeli army allegedly working around the clock to torpedo these efforts. She suggests this explains why Israelis consider Infantino, FIFA president, and the president of UEFA as friends. She contrasts this with Russia’s ban from the Olympics, noting that Russia could compete only under a neutral flag and not support the war in Ukraine, while Israel’s actions during Gaza were not subject to the same conditions, despite the team being in the army and posting pro-genocide content. She recalls the ICJ ruling that Israel has a system of apartheid against Palestinians and argues the Olympic Committee takes no action, pointing to a double standard compared with Russia, South Africa, and Belarus. She claims Israeli soldiers violate the political neutrality of sports and the peace mission of the Olympics, and the Olympic Committee has failed to sanction or protect Palestinian athletes and facilities from Israeli bombs. She also asserts inaction regarding illegal Israeli clubs in the West Bank and Israeli officials threatening Palestinian sports officials with prison for speaking out.
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Speaker 0: Did you know that Israel's Olympic team is made up almost entirely of Israeli soldiers? You cannot even join the team without having been in the army first, but that's not the half of it. During the last months, Israeli Olympic athletes have done things like signing bombs that were about to be dropped on Gaza or dedicating their medals to the IDF saying how they're thinking of the soldiers and praising them and calling them heroes as they are dropping bombs on Gaza. The men's judo team even went on a field trip to an Israeli air force base. The women's judo team also visited an Israeli army base. One Israeli athlete posted a video of the IDF raising an Israeli flag on Gaza beach after invading it with the caption, salute your heroes. Another uploaded this illustration of Gaza being destroyed. Israeli Olympic athletes have constantly said how proud they are of being in the IDF and proud to represent Israel during this moment, implying they endorse what it's doing in Gaza. You see, this is more than just mandatory military service. Okay? These athletes are proud to be in the Israeli Defense Forces. They openly mix sports with politics and even pose with the Israeli army as it decimates Gaza and stands accused of genocide in the world court. This is tacit endorsement of genocide and occupation. There's so much of this incriminating evidence. I don't even have time to put all of it in this video. Several Israeli national sports teams are based at a facility, the Wingate Facility, that also serves as an IDF base for fitness training. That shows you how much sports and the military are one in the same. The Israeli army even publishes videos like this explicitly mixing Olympic athleticism with Israeli military service as if, you know, they are indistinguishable from one another. Even though they don't compete in the Olympics, Israeli football clubs are bound to the Olympic Charter. And yet they give the Israeli army free merchandise and then share photos of the IDF wearing that merchandise while they're in tanks and bulldozers decimating Gaza. They even organize fundraisers and receptions for the IDF. The club's football players will go and visit wounded Israeli soldiers and post obituaries for those killed. One player said, erase Gaza. Another said, why haven't 200 tons of bombs already been dropped on Gaza? And what does the Israeli football association do to reprimand them? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. It condones this behavior in violation of the Olympic Charter and FIFA's own statutes. The Palestinians tried to raise these issues at FIFA Congress, but were blocked by FIFA twice. The head of the Israeli army apparently worked around the clock to torpedo these efforts. So I guess it's no wonder that the Israelis consider Infantino, FIFA president, and the president of UEFA as friends. Now when the Russians were banned from the Olympics, they were told they could only compete under a neutral flag and were not allowed to be in the army or support the war in Ukraine. But when Israel is decimating Gaza, this condition doesn't apply for some reason, even though the whole damn team are in the army and are posting pro genocide things. Remember, South Africa couldn't participate in the Olympics for decades because of apartheid. Well, guess what? The ICJ recently ruled that Israel has a system of apartheid in place against Palestinians, and yet the Olympic Committee takes no action. The double standard here couldn't be clearer. Russia, South Africa, Belarus are held to one standard and Israel to another entirely. Israeli soldiers are openly violating the political neutrality of sports. They violate the peace mission of the Olympics, and the Olympic Committee has failed in its role, not only to sanction them and reprimand them, but to protect Palestinian Olympic athletes, Palestinian footballers, their sports facilities from Israeli bombs. They've done nothing about the illegal Israeli clubs in the West Bank either, or Israeli officials openly threatening Palestinian sports officials with prison if they open their mouths.
Saved - September 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM

@richimedhurst - Richard Medhurst

Ruth Wisse, Prof. of Yiddish at Harvard, arrogantly demands that all Jews "make Israel look good" and "fight the political battle, which is even more important at this point than the military battle". Don't let anyone convince you the work journalists, activists, and students do isn't important.

@ggreenwald - Glenn Greenwald

@richimedhurst https://t.co/RzcnpAsaJ2

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"And you will say, what? You want us to make you look good? That's not my job. Your job is to make us look good. Our job is not to make you look good, American Jews." "What do you have to worry about? Your job is to make us look good and here's how you do it." "Every one of us has to serve three years in the army, two years in the army, some of us five years, and then for the rest of our lives. You have got to serve two or three years in the army of words. You've got to learn to fight the political battle, which is even more important at this point than the military battle that we are." "We'll fight the military battle." "They keep changing the language. Intersectionality wasn't even a word ten years ago. Now, suddenly, it's intersectionality." "Don't let the war of words ever be fought about Israel's nature." "Let it be fought about why you can't accept Israel, why you have to single out this tiny people."
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Speaker 0: And you will say, what? You want us to make you look good? That's not my job. Your job is to make us look good. Our job is not to make you look good, American Jews. What do you have to worry about? Your job is to make us look good and here's how you do it. Every one of us has to serve three years in the army, two years in the army, some of us five years, and then for the rest of our lives. You have got to serve two or three years in the army of words. You've got to learn to fight the political battle, which is even more important at this point than the military battle that we are. We'll fight the military battle. We're not asking you necessarily to come and be lone soldiers, although some of you can. You've got to learn how to fight back on the campuses, how to make the arguments. Now they keep shifting. You know, it it it it it the ground keeps shifting under us. They keep changing the language. Intersectionality wasn't even a word ten years ago. Now, suddenly, it's intersectionality. You've got to stay on top of it. And you know how we train for the army? We don't train for defensive warfare. If the if the war against Israel ever had to be fought on Israeli soil, Do I have to tell you? It's it's it's an impossibility. So it's the same thing. Don't let the war of words ever be fought about Israel's nature. Let it be fought about why you can't accept Israel, why you have to single out this tiny people. Try to find Israel on the map. It's hardly there. You know, we used to play this game, where's Waldo? You know, you know, there's where is Waldo on the map? Are you gonna really tell me that this is the country you want to blame? Push the young. Teach them how to defend by attacking. Teach them really what one says as in fencing. You've got to do You've got to make demands on them. They've got to serve for three years in the army of words. Well, I cannot even start with this to compete with this passion and compassion.
Saved - September 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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I shared a 1948 document from the UK Mission to the UN about the attack on Deir Yassin, detailing horrific acts where women and children were executed. I question the current behavior of our diplomats and why they continue to cover for such actions.

@richimedhurst - Richard Medhurst

This document was submitted in 1948 by the UK Mission to the UN, titled "Jewish Attack on Arab Village of Deir Yassin" "Women and children were stripped, lined up, photographed, and then slaughtered by automatic firing" What happened to our country's diplomats? Why do they cover for this behavior today?

Saved - October 31, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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In February, the Israelis sent handcuffed hostage Jamal Abu Al-Ola to Nasser hospital to urge people to leave. He complied, but they executed him in front of his mother. This act shows the depths the IDF will go to, highlighting that appeasement isn't an option with Zionists.

@richimedhurst - Richard Medhurst

Remember in February, the Israelis sent a handcuffed hostage, Jamal Abu Al-Ola, to Nasser hospital, to tell everyone to leave. He did what they wanted and then they executed him anyway. In front of his mother. She watched him get murdered. There is no low the IDF won't sink to. You can't appease Zionists.

Saved - June 23, 2024 at 6:26 AM

@richimedhurst - Richard Medhurst

Look at the difference. That Palestinian man has been traumatized and abused by these evil Nazi Irgun terrorists. Meanwhile the Israeli is fine She's an enemy combatant in a military occupation that slaughters Palestinians' friends & families yet they treated her with humility. https://t.co/Y95Q03Lp0J

Saved - June 16, 2024 at 6:36 AM

@richimedhurst - Richard Medhurst

Can you imagine your front door being welded shut so that only Jews are allowed on your street? This is what Israeli occupation settlers do to Palestinians. https://t.co/zFV5ACcnzD

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Israeli military welded shut Palestinian doors, restricting their movement. A Palestinian woman must climb her roof to leave her home, while Jewish settlers can freely exit through the front door. This unequal treatment is evident in the video.
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Speaker 0: Israeli military welded these Palestinian doors shut. Yeah. Speaker 1: This is welded. We actually welded to shut their doors. We send Israeli soldiers to weld shut those front doors, of these families while while everyone else who's not a Palestinian can walk freely. Speaker 0: This video shows what it takes for 1 Palestinian woman to leave her home. She climbs her roof and scales back down to the ground to exit on a back street where she is allowed to be. But if you're a Jewish settler, you can walk out in the front in your front of your front door. Yeah. Look at us. Speaker 1: Not only if you're a Jewish citizen.
Saved - March 15, 2024 at 2:21 AM

@richimedhurst - Richard Medhurst

Fuck Israel https://t.co/nf6oRDYQj9

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Israel and Zionism are condemned, along with anyone associated with them. The speaker expresses anger towards Arab kingdoms and the West. They criticize the hypocrisy of those who wouldn't eat animal food but allow others to suffer. The speaker deems them genocidal and hypocritical.
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Speaker 0: I'm not even talking about the bombs. There's no food. There's no water. I'm I'm sorry. Fuck Israel. Fuck everything to do with Israel. Fuck Zionism. If you're a Zionist, fuck you too. If your family are Zionist, fuck them too. If your friends are Zionist, fuck them too. Your colleagues and your work list are Zionist. Guess what? Fuck them too. You are fucking scum. Fuck the west. Fuck Israel. Fuck all these so called Arab kingdoms that are just puppet states created by the west. Just fuck them from a to zed, from top to bottom, from from front to backwards. They're truly the scum of the earth. The scum of the earth. You would never eat dog food. You would never allow yourselves and your fucking friends to have to eat horse food and fucking donkey food, you hypocritical pieces of fucking shit. Fuck everything to do with you. Fuck your entire existence. You people are bastards. You're hypocrites and fucking genocidal bastards.
Saved - February 29, 2024 at 3:59 PM

@richimedhurst - Richard Medhurst

Do Hamas meddle in our elections? Do Hamas buy off our politicians? Do Hamas restrict our freedom of speech? Do Hamas enact cancel culture on us? Do Hamas take billions from us? Have Hamas ever executed a terrorist attack on us? No. But Israel has done all of those to US/UK

Saved - January 16, 2024 at 12:08 PM

@richimedhurst - Richard Medhurst

Stop what you're doing and read this medic's account of being tortured by Israeli and American soldiers in Gaza. Literal hell. These soldiers have no humanity whatsoever. Please read it to the end and share. https://pchrgaza.org/en/scourge-of-torture-under-detention/

Scourge of Torture under Detention - Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Walid Anwar Yousif al-Khalili (35), a Palestine Medical Relief Society (PMRS) Paramedic from Gaza City, married and father of 3 children, has given the following testimony to PCHR on 02 January 2024. 📑 pchrgaza.org
Saved - January 13, 2024 at 9:38 AM

@richimedhurst - Richard Medhurst

Wait, there are well-tended to Jewish graves in Gaza of WW1 soldiers? How is this possible? I thought kkhamas and Arabs "hate Jews"? See how ridiculous Israeli propaganda is. Zionists then pay Palestinians back by slandering them, killing them, and desecrating their graves.

@yoavzitun - יואב זיתון

מג"ד 74 מחטיבה 188 קרא קדיש על קברי יהודים שטמונים באל-מעזי שבמרכז רצועת עזה - בבית קברות לחללי מלחמת העולם הראשונה - ואיחל משם שבת שלום🙌 https://t.co/vDpjU41ycQ

Saved - December 10, 2023 at 4:38 PM

@richimedhurst - Richard Medhurst

Hamas are resistance fighters. I don't give two craps what the US, Israel and UK claim. The right to armed struggle is a guaranteed right under international law, for every single Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese person living under illegal Israeli occupation.

Saved - November 29, 2023 at 10:54 PM
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Babies left to die in Gaza's Al Nasr hospital as Israeli soldiers refused their evacuation. Heartbreaking scenes unfolded as parents were forced to bid farewell, leaving their children in the intensive care unit. Eyewitnesses confirm the Israeli army's prohibition on evacuating or aiding these helpless infants. Tragic and distressing.

@richimedhurst - Richard Medhurst

Footage of babies left to die in Gaza Al Nasr hospital, filmed by Al Mashhad. Full translation: "Shocking scenes in this hospital, seeing babies which the Israeli soldiers refused to evacuate from this unit. According to eyewitness accounts, parents were forced to say goodbye, and leave their children to die in their beds in the intensive care unit in al Nasr Children's Hospital. To reiterate: the Israeli army forbid these children to be evacuated, or for anyone to help evacuate them from the hospital."

Saved - November 18, 2023 at 2:17 PM
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Israel accused of anti-Semitism: -Genocide against Palestinians, who are Semites -Claims as Jewish state, but Zionist not Jewish -Attacks Jews opposing Zionism -Forced Arab Jewish communities to relocate -Abuses Holocaust memory to silence Israel critics.

@richimedhurst - Richard Medhurst

Israel is anti-Semitic in every sense of the word. -Committing genocide against Palestinians, who are Semites. -Claims to be "the" Jewish state, but is actually Zionist, not Jewish -Attacks Jews who don't like Zionism -Attacked Arab Jewish communities to move them to Israel

@richimedhurst - Richard Medhurst

-Abuses the memory of the Holocaust, and the term "anti-Semitic", to attack critics of Israel

Saved - November 17, 2023 at 4:43 PM

@richimedhurst - Richard Medhurst

Bin Laden never attacked a single Israeli target, despite his "sympathy" for Palestinians. He was a CIA asset like his mentor al Zawahiri. I was next door when they blew up the Egyptian embassy in Pakistan. Israel worked WITH Al Qaeda to hurt Syria. Israel/US/AQ = same team

Saved - November 16, 2023 at 4:41 PM

@richimedhurst - Richard Medhurst

Again, more lies. Hamas don't target civilians. Every Israeli must join the army, men and women, and Israeli settlers carry guns. They are combatants & legitimate military targets, not civilians. If they don't like it, they shouldn't occupy other people's land i.e. colonize

@SwipeWright - Colin Wright

Remember, when Hamas terrorists were slaughtering Israeli civilians in the name of jihad on October 7, we were told by the woke that "this is what decolonization looks like." When they tell us decolonization looks like jihad, we should believe them.

Saved - November 16, 2023 at 4:08 PM
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In discussing religious extremism, it's important to recognize that Palestinians encompass various faiths, including Christians and Jews. Misunderstanding the term "jihad" only perpetuates stereotypes. Similarly, Israelis' belief in being the "chosen people" has led to their occupation of three countries. It's crucial to approach decolonization with the same scrutiny as we do religious extremism. Americans should avoid assuming expertise on Islamic theology, the Middle East, and decolonization. Let's strive for a more nuanced understanding.

@richimedhurst - Richard Medhurst

You are full of shit. Many Palestinians are not Muslim, but Christians and Jews. They're also doing "Jihad"? You don't even know what the word means. You want to talk about religious extremism? Israelis occupy three countries because they think they're the "chosen people".

@SwipeWright - Colin Wright

"Decolonization" is the woke version of jihad, and it should be viewed and treated that way.

@richimedhurst - Richard Medhurst

Americans think everything revolves around them, and must be defined in terms of "woke" and "unwoke". Apparently they are also experts on Islamic theology, the Middle East, and decolonization. Lmfao

Saved - November 13, 2023 at 2:21 PM

@richimedhurst - Richard Medhurst

It's no longer the Gaza strip. Nor the Gaza concentration camp. Israel turned it into the Gaza death camp.

Saved - October 25, 2023 at 7:54 PM

@richimedhurst - Richard Medhurst

I know Israel want to hide this from you, but armed struggle, like Hamas engages in, is perfectly legal. The Geneva Convention is crystal clear. An occupying power (Israel) killing civilians, forcing transfers of populations (ethnic cleansing), and bombing hospitals, is not.

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