Haaretz: Photos show killers of hostages were Israelis, NOT Hamas
If the Israelis knew the truth, there’d be a coup d’etat tomorrow! Killing Palestinians is one thing, but killing their own kind is making the Netanyahu regime VERY unpopular. Israelis are seething.
Translation from Arabic with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
هآرتس: صور الجثث أظهرت أن الجيش مَن قتل الاسرى ليس حماس (alkhanadeq.org.lb)
Wednesday 31 January 2024 03:45
Haaretz: Pictures of the bodies showed that the perpetrators were not Hamas, but it was the army that killed the prisoners
A wave of doubts surround the families of the dead Israelis, who constantly demand to know how their sons and daughters were killed. The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz indicates in a report translated by the “Trenches” website that the family of one of the prisoners accused the Israeli army of killing their son: “The results of the investigation: Ron was actually killed... not by Hamas. Not by stray bullets and not in an exchange of fire. This was murder. intentionally by the army.”
Translated text: [From Hebrew to Arabic. It was further translated into English for inclusion in my newsletter]
A few days before the grim news arrived that her son had died in Hamas captivity, Dr. Maayan Sherman sensed that something bad had happened. “The strange thing is that I had been relatively calm until that moment,” she recalls. “We knew from the videos that Ron had been taken alive and that he was unharmed, and after that we were told that he had shown signs of life.”
However, in an interview on Kan 11 television, which was broadcast on October 31 before she was officially notified of Ron's death, she said: "I fear that they have been abandoned. That a ground operation will be carried out that will end with the deaths of many. What worries me is not Hamas but the government of Israel."
Sherman's gut feeling led her to meet with Gal Hirsch, the prisoner coordinator, and with Varda Pomerantz, the former head of the IDF's casualty division, who now worked with Hirsch. They both tried to calm her fears. “They told me again that the terrorists take care of the captives, that they are a safety net for them and that everything is fine,” Sherman says. “But I had a very strong bad feeling.”
Members of the unit bringing the bad news arrived on December 14: “They told me that Ron had been killed in Hamas captivity, that's the wording of the notice, and they asked us if we wanted to do an autopsy. Because that would mean postponing the funeral until after the weekend, I said no. To finish it already. I also didn't want to know exactly how he died. After all, they said Hamas killed him, and I know how cruel they were, so why did I need to know about the abuse he suffered? Whether they beheaded him or shot him? And they buried him in a regular military burial.”
However, from the moment the horrific news arrived, his mother was constantly haunted by the idea that her son had been killed by terrorists. "When I went to sleep, I saw in my mind how Ron was being abused. When you're told he was killed, and you don't know how, you imagine the worst."
But two weeks later, it became clear that there were no indications that Ron had actually been killed.
Sherman: “The pathologist came to see us. It turned out that although they [the army] did not do an autopsy [after recovering the body], they did do a CT scan of the body, examined it from all directions and found no injuries — no gunshot wounds or knife wounds. "No shrapnel, no fractures or external injuries, no signs of strangulation or blast injury. We received a detailed report, which was really shocking for me as a mother, because by that time the body was a month old, but the cause of death was not found."
On the eve of their demobilization, Israeli soldiers talk about the fighting, the hostages and why they entered Gaza. “We have lost everything. The pain is infinite. Only without Netanyahu will there be hope.”
Sherman was surprised that the Israeli army approached her on its initiative. Regarding whether this was actually the army’s idea or the coroner’s idea, Dr. Alon Crispin, director of the National Center for Forensic Medicine, who signed the report that the family received, answered: “It was an agreement between me and the Israeli army.” He explained to Haaretz: “I contacted the Sherman family because I believed that, as citizens, they deserved to know directly what happened to their son, and not through documents and bureaucracy.” He declined to say more.
Since receiving the news, Sherman has been angry, making accusations and demanding answers. Sherman also accuses the government of abandoning her son twice: once because of its responsibility for the October 7 disaster, and again because it abandoned those being held hostage in the Gaza Strip. Regarding the IDF, she suspects that it was involved in causing the death of her son and two other hostages.
In a Facebook post, Sherman accused the Israeli military of killing her son with poison gas that was pumped into the tunnel. “Investigation results: Ron was indeed murdered,” she wrote. Not by Hamas... not by stray bullets and not in an exchange of fire. This was premeditated murder. Bombardment with poisonous gas.” She added that a source in the Israeli army admitted that this was one of the possible possibilities for the death of the three prisoners.
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Here's your air strike update for Feb 4, 2024
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://za-dergavy.livejournal.com/2263813.html?ysclid=ls82aowg9t964445310
Excerpt
– A thermal power plant has been burning for several hours in Krivoy Rog
A few hours ago, an explosion occurred on the territory of the Krivoy Rog thermal power plant, local media reported. No alarm was declared in the Dnepropetrovsk oblast [where Krivoy Rog is located]. Local residents began to share their emotions about what they heard, as well as footage of the glow from the strike site. However, the Ukrainian media took the path of “information security” and began to claim that there was no strike at all. It is noteworthy that after the strike in most of Krivoy Rog the power went out - the nearest high-voltage lines and substations were destroyed.
Officials observe “information hygiene” and do not scare citizens - silence has reigned for several hours. Residents are beginning to assume that not only the power plant was damaged, but also the nearby fuel and energy complex. Meanwhile, the flames are only growing.
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Our thanks to JS for this [my additions in bold and in [brackets]]
A brief list of the names that have been assigned to various areas now called “West Asia”
the Near East
the Middle East
the Levant [Allow me to interject here that when it comes to Arabic dialects, the Levantine dialect is spoken mostly in Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. It therefore is not spoken throughout the Levant, which includes Iraq and other regions]
Geographically, The Levant (/ləˈvænt/ lə-VANT) is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia. In its narrowest sense, which is in use today in archaeology and other cultural contexts, it is equivalent to Cyprus and a stretch of land bordering the Mediterranean Sea in western Asia, i.e. the historical region of Syria ("Greater Syria"), which includes present-day Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Palestinian territories and most of Turkey southwest of the middle Euphrates. – It does not include the Arabic peninsula, unlike West Asia]
The Fertile Crescent [defined here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertile_Crescent , not quite identical to the other named regions]
Southwest Asia [West Asia, also called Western Asia or Southwest Asia, is the westernmost region of Asia. As defined by most academics, UN bodies and other institutions, the subregion consists of Anatolia, the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Mesopotamia, the Armenian highlands, the Levant, the island of Cyprus, the Sinai Peninsula, and the southern part of the Caucasus Region (Transcaucasia).]
Eastern Mediterranean
Asia Minor
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RE: we are taught by role model to scoff at the idea of morality.
Not true. Those who oppose abortion, who sometimes call themselves “pro-life”, vociferously claim to be motivated by the moral view that all pre-natal human life is sacred and must be protected and loudly denounce those who differ from them as immoral. [Yes, absolutely right, JS. I was referring to the globalist concept of morality. BTW, isn’t it odd that these fundamentalists condemn the killing of the unborn but refuse to condemn the Israeli genocide against Palestinian children? Seem a bit hypocritical?]
But many of those same “pro-life moralists” are almost steadfastly indifferent to how the foreign and economic policies they favor punish post-natal humans and even pre-natal humans in societies far from their own.
As with so many other values in our capitalist/consumerist/exceptionalist society, morality has become commodified.
Here is an excellent definition of that concept as derived from the writings of Karl Marx:
Commodification:
The subordination of both private and public realms to the logic of capitalism. In this logic, such things as friendship, knowledge, women, etc. are understood only in terms of their monetary value. In this way, they are no longer treated as things with intrinsic worth but as commodities or objects with price tags. (They are valued, that is, only extrinsically in terms of money.)
So to suggest that we are taught to scoff at the idea of morality is not exactly correct. Rather we are taught to assign a monetary value to behaving morally (in the original sense of that word) and compare that monetary value with the monetary value of behaving in ways that violate the intrinsic (which is to say, non-monetary) values of morality.
Moreover, we are taught to apply our self-righteous indignation only to those immoral behaviors that do not threaten the monetary value of the other behaviors we are taught to adopt, value and practice.
So, it is clear that in some sense morality still guides human behavior and attitudes, but this guidance is almost entirely in the form of selective moral indignation as described above. This kind of behavior is of course profoundly immoral.
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RE: You as a “news” consumer are in a sense buried under a heap of toxic trash that is being dumped onto you daily
SEE:
The Radical Vocation: An Interview with Noam Chomsky (1990)
(Note: The interview was conducted on 20 February 1990 at Chomsky's office in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at M.I.T., Cambridge.)
http://adamjones.freeservers.com/chomsky.htm
EXCERPT:
INTERVIEWER: The topic of your last two books has been the role of the mass media as a propaganda system in western society. What's your basic thesis?
CHOMSKY: The thesis is indicated, in a way, by the titles of book Edward Herman and I wrote, Manufacturing Consent, and my follow-up, Necessary Illusions. Neither title is actually ours. We took those phrases from mainstream commentators who were promoting these concepts.
Walter Lippmann, the dean of American journalism, is the person who coined the phrase "manufacture of consent." He advocated it since, in a democratic society, you can't control people by force. Therefore, you've got to control what they think. That's an idea that goes back to the 17th century. It was the immediate élite reaction to the first democratic revolutions, and it grew to become a major theme in modern 20th-century liberal-democratic theory. The voice of the people can be heard, so you've got to control what it says. That's not so important in a totalitarian state, where you just control what people do.
As Lippmann put it, the general population is a "bewildered herd," and we have to protect ourselves from the rage and trampling of the bewildered heard. You do it by manufacturing consent.
INTERVIEWER: And "necessary illusions"?
CHOMSKY: That was the phrase used by Reinhold Niebuhr, the leading moralist who was called the "theologian of the establishment." His conception was that ignorant slobs - the great mass of the population - are incapable of rational thought. "Rationality belongs to the cool observers," he said - folks like us. So what we have to do is create necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications, so the ordinary folk don't get themselves into any trouble. The idea throughout is that the general population is plainly incompetent to make reasonable decisions. They won't know what to do, so it would be immoral to let them participate in public affairs. It would be like letting a three-year-old child play with a kitchen knife.
The people who put forward these theories have their own illusions: namely, that decisions are made by "cool observers," the specialized class, the intelligent minority. In fact, the "cool observers" are only able to make decisions if they serve the interests of those with real power, namely business [Corporatism might have been a more appropriate word here]. That "necessary illusion" enables them to play their role as low-level managers for other interests.
INTERVIEWER: This is what you call the "propaganda model."
CHOMSKY: Right. The media, the intellectual community in general, and most of the academic community as well, act as they're intended to by those who've thought about the problem of democratic theory. They provide the modalities of thought control and indoctrination that protect power from scrutiny, and allow political power to be exercised efficiently by those who have, ultimately, economic power.
In a free society, a society that really doesn't have force at its command - or at least not much - the techniques of propaganda have to be quite sophisticated and elaborate. There's a lot of thought that goes into them. We have, in fact, a major industry - the public-relations industry - which is quite openly devoted to what it calls the "engineering of consent," controlling the public mind. A large part of the overall effort in earlier years was directed toward trying to undermine and destroy the labour movement and popular support for it: the whole culture of solidarity that was associated with working-class politics. That succeeded decades ago.
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RE: The Indian Adoption Program.
Author Trace L. Hentz has written several books on this genocidal policy.
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
a. Killing members of the group;
b. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
c. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
d. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
e. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
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(26) Understanding American Totalitarianism and Hegemony in 3 minutes (substack.com)
Everyone in the world knows that the Israelis do not follow any rules of war. And we all know that the United States doesn't follow any rules of war either. I don't think there's a torturer in the world who didn't learn it from you, who didn't learn it from the appropriately named School of the Americas. Look that up, too, if you don't know.
More here
Source: https://rumble.com/v4b21m3-understanding-american-totalitarianism-and-hegemony-in-3-minutes.html
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Boiling the Red Sea: Just the beginning - Tehran Times
Excerpt
The courageous actions of the Yemenis have embarrassed some Islamic countries that have many pressure tools to stop Israel's killing machine but do not use them.
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RE: Senator Wicker
Let's not forget Senatewhore Wicker's history of dangerously irrational exhortations, like this one:
Senator Wicker of MS back in December of 2021:
“Military action could mean that we stand off with our ships in the Black Sea, and we rain destruction on Russian military capability,” Mississippi’s senior senator said during an interview with Fox News host Neil Cavuto today. “It could mean that. It could mean that we participate, and I would not rule that out, I would not rule out American troops on the ground. We don’t rule out first use nuclear action.”
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/18727/sen-wicker-dont-rule-out-attacking-russia-with-nukes-ground-troops
[Senator Wicker is on the Security Committee if that makes you feel any safer,,,?]
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Bang! And 30 more times: “The United States has waited for answers from Iran” - you will have to hear the truth (tsargrad.tv)
Feb 4, 2024
BA-BANG! AND 30 TIMES MORE: “The USA WAS WAITING FOR A REPLY FROM IRAN” - YOU WILL HAVE TO HEAR THE TRUTH
With every US action, the situation in the Middle East region becomes more and more unstable. The Americans responded swiftly to the attacks on Syria and Iraq.
The website of the Al Mayadeen TV channel reports that an American military base located near the Conoco field (Deir ez-Zor province in eastern Syria) was hit. As reported, the rocket attack took place on the night from Friday to Saturday.
“The American base at the Conoco gas field in the east of Deir ez-Zor came under rocket fire,” the resource said in a statement. [This is the area where the US is stealing oil! But we’re supposed to think we are the good guys and the actual owners of this land are the bad guys!]
As military expert Mikhail Zvinchuk’s project “Rybar” reported, about 30 munitions from pro-Iranian formations flew into the American military base. Meanwhile, just a few days earlier, the Iraqi group Kataib Hezbollah announced that military operations against American forces would be suspended in the region. Reuters reported this on January 30, citing a press release from the organization.
The violation of such a shaky truce was provoked by the Americans themselves, who on Friday began launching attacks on the provinces of Iraq and Syria. The US Central Command announced the bombing of military targets in the region. A massive airstrike was reported against more than 85 targets. As the command noted, the strikes were carried out in response to an attack on a military base located in Jordan. So, in fact, the Americans received a response from the pro-Iranian groups immediately after they began their operation.
Let us recall that as a result of a drone attack on an American [Later it turned out the base was actually in Syria] base in Jordan on January 28, and three servicemen were killed. Washington blamed Tehran for the incident, while the Iranian side declared its non-involvement.
The United States openly admits that most of the planes and bombers that carried out the attacks came straight from the States. More than 125 precision-guided missiles were used in the bombing. The targets, as the command said, were certain “objects” of the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] and associated groups.
After the US strikes, Iran reported that there were no IRGC units in the affected areas. Also, Nasser Kanaani, a spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said that this was “an adventurous action and a strategic mistake that will lead to increased tension and instability in the region.”
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Looks like NATO is eyeing turning Taiwan into another failed state like Ukraine after Russia wins
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202402/1306652.shtml
NATO is pushing the Russia-Ukraine conflict toward a ‘world war’
By Global Times
Published: Feb 04, 2024
Cartoon: Carlos Latuff
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg recently visited the US, with the aim of discussing continuing the support for Ukraine and ensuring a continuous supply of weaponry for Ukraine amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict. This includes the approval of an additional $60 billion aid package and a four-year budget of $54.5 billion to support Ukraine.
More here
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Deep fake in WaPo:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/31/hungary-orban-european-union-nato/
Opinion How to sideline Viktor Orban, a chief enemy of freedom in Europe
Editorial Board
Enlarging the European Union and NATO after the Cold War raised hopes it would unleash an important advance for freedom [there is no real freedom within the EU dictatorship, and in fact, that fact that WaPo is telling the EU how to deal with Orban is solid evidence that the US is pulling the strings in Brussels] in a part of the world that had enjoyed little. Integrating former Eastern Bloc countries into keystone Western institutions — and requiring democratic and market-oriented reforms for them to join exclusive clubs of wealthy nations — would discourage anti-Western nationalism and intolerance. [Actually, forcing US-style economic ideology on these countries has not enriched a single one of them. Westernizing Ukraine, for example, has made that country totally dependent on western donations and loans and the war foisted on Ukraine has virtually destroyed it and killed off or banished vast swathes of its population, while at the same time, EU expansion intensifies Russophobia and hence, increase the risk of a world war] For the most part, this strategy has worked, with countries that once suffered behind the Iron Curtain now vibrant democracies. [Nonsense, the US-imposed Russophobia has now led to plans in the Baltic statelets to deport citizens of Russian ethnicity – an unheard-of racist policy reminiscent of the Third Reich! It is eerily similar to the ethnic cleansing by Israel in Palestine]
Me
The EU is a soft dictatorship that imposes its will, heavily influenced by the globalist WEF, and by Washington, on European countries, many of which strongly disagree with these laws. All laws are initiated (but not passed) by the unelected European Council. Adding more countries to this soft dictatorship does not increase freedom or democracy. It just adds new vassals obliged to kowtow to the EU dictators. Further, it enforces the transfer of funds to Ukraine, the most corrupt country in Europe and the perverted notion that Russia is an enemy. It also increasingly prohibits the beneficial use of Russian energy, a ban that is impoverishing Europe, eg, de-industrializing Germany. Germany was the world’s second biggest exporter after China before the Biden regime blew of Nord Stream. Now it is being totally de-industrialized.