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Group.png Israel   NNDB Sourcewatch WikiquoteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
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Formation14 May 1948
Capital cityJerusalem
LocationMiddle East
TypeUnited Nations Members.svg nation state
Subgroups•  Military Intelligence Directorate (Israel)
•  Mossad
Interest ofSheldon Adelson, Joel Bainerman, Jane Biran, Blue Star PR, Sasha Bratwa, CENTCOM, Conservative Friends of Israel, Jonathan Cook, Tom Cotton, Gilad Erdan, Stephen Gowans, Jacob de Haan, Hamas, Richard Heideman, HonestReporting, J Street, Gideon Markuszower, David Mencer, Victor Ostrovsky, Emanuele Ottolenghi, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Alison Weir, Wexner Foundation
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Renewing the Memorandum of Understanding in September 2016, whereby the American taxpayer agreed to pay Israel $38 billion over a 10-year period

Israel is a singular nation state in the Middle East. It occupies a small land area on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Its small area belies its importance in modern geopolitics.

It has considerable expertise in the area of "[terrorism]]" and in 1979 hosted the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism, which prepared the "war on terror".

Origins

Thereby hangs a tale...

"Terrorism"

Full article: “Terrorism”

Israel used the word "terrorism" in the 1960s and 70s to refer to attacks by Palestinians, both against civil and military targets.[1]

US military aid

On 14 September 2016, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Tom Shannon and acting Israeli National Security Adviser Jacob Nagel signed a new 10-year memorandum of understanding for $38 billion in US military aid to Israel.

A signing ceremony — described as “low-key” by the Washington Post — was held in the US State Department’s Treaty Room. Ceremonial protocol revealed not only why such a memorandum of understanding (MOU) cannot be subjected to much public scrutiny, but also the identities of the main constituencies pushing for such aid in the face of growing opposition.

The attendees were either State Department special guests invited to fill the arced row of chairs in the Treaty Room, or members of the news media responding to a last-minute notification posted on the State Department’s website. The rules for news media were strictly enforced. There were to be no questions asked of officials — such as Nagel or US National Security Adviser Susan Rice — before or after their speeches. Reporters were also kept from asking questions of the many special guests who filed in from an elegant annex. They were marched from a private passageway, relieved of cell phones, and kept behind a rope line at the back of the room. Numerous State Department minders were on hand to keep the press in line.

It quickly became clear that pro-Israel activists made up the large contingent of the special guests. “I want you to meet…he’s from the Conference of Presidents! [of Major American Jewish Organizations]!” went one introduction. Jonathan Greenblatt, the new head of the Anti-Defamation League, entered the room with quiet intensity, less effusive than his predecessor, Abraham Foxman, who headed the organization for 28 years before stepping down in 2015. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), ejected in June amid controversy as chair of the Democratic National Committee, only to immediately be named Hillary Clinton’s honorary campaign chair, flitted among her numerous admirers across the Treaty Room. Only a handful of low-ranking uniformed military personnel were on hand, ignored by most of the special guests and mainly serving at the very end as props for an official photo opportunity.

After a perfunctory speech by Rice claiming an “unshakeable commitment to Israel’s security” and assertion that “our security is linked” without explaining how, and additional comments by Nagel, the MOU signatures were inked at a long table. The leather portfolios passed between signatories seemed too thin to contain the actual MOU. Shannon and Nagel cast what seemed to be almost furtive glances at the audience as press and State Department video cameras rolled and shutters snapped.

The new MOU succeeds the George W. Bush administration’s 10-year (2009-2018) $30 billion MOU. Under that agreement, Israel used 26.3 percent of its U.S. aid to build up its own domestic export-oriented military industrial complex. It also used MOU aid to purchase U.S. commodities such as military rations, diesel and aviation fuel. Israel and its U.S. affinity organizations then lobbied and extracted hundreds of millions more from Congress each year in additional “short fuse” emergency funds for missile defense. The U.S. taxpayer shelled out $1.3 billion for Israel’s Iron Dome system, with additional ad hoc allocations for Israel’s Arrow-3 and David’s Sling systems.

The complete contents of the George W. Bush MOU — like its Obama administration successor — remains a mystery. Neither has been publicly released. The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum — responding to a FOIA request — confirmed that the expiring MOU was “approximately 675 pages”, but shows no eagerness or haste to release it. The State Department has not responded to a FOIA request for the current MOU, which is likely even lengthier and more complex, or for a complete list of MOU ceremony invitees. According to the MOU 'Fact Sheet' released by the White House, Israel will now be prevented from lobbying Congress for additional missile defense aid, may no longer spend MOU dollars on commodities such as fuel, and the huge subsidization of Israeli military contractors will gradually sunset.

However, the MOU must still be funded by Congress. As an executive order mandating Foreign Military Financing, a Foreign Operations Appropriations Act must be passed each year by Congress and signed into law by the president before spending on new military hardware can commence. The appropriation is likely to be included in an omnibus spending bill in December.

Key members of Congress heavily supported by pro-Israel donors and PACs, have already proclaimed the MOU caps on addition funds “unconstitutional”. Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham (SC), Kelly Ayotte (NH), John McCain (AZ) and Ted Cruz (TX) have already rejected the principle of limitations by filing measures to provide Israel with $1.5 billion in military aid in addition to MOU commitments.[2]

Arms Production

Israel was the #10 nation worldwide as regards arms exports from 2012-2016.[3]


 

Events carried out

EventLocationDescription
2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War/Israeli invasion of GazaGazaAfter October 7, Israel invaded Gaza with widespread international support. The IDF went on a widely reported revenge killing spree. Even by Israel's own account, they killed 19,500 Palestinian civilians after half a year of bombing hospitals, schools and civilian towers, utilising numerous condemned tactics.
July 2021 Gulf of Oman incidentIncident in July 2021
Project Pegasus revelationsMass leak of info about Israel spyware
USS Liberty IncidentA 1967 false flag attack by Israel that tried and failed to sink the USS Liberty, a United States Navy signals intercept ship. The investigation was told to "conclude that the attack was a case of 'mistaken identity' despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary." Israel paid compensation but always contested that it was accidental.

 

An example

Page nameDescription
Two-state solutionPrivate Eye's two-state solution in October 2023: A state of war... and a state of more war

 

Related Quotations

PageQuoteAuthorDate
2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War“There had already been a significant increase in violence by Israeli settlers this year, even before the Hamas attack, according to UN data, with more than 100 incidents reported each month and about 400 people driven from their land between January and August.

Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem told the BBC that since the attack, it had documented "a concerted and organised effort by settlers to use the fact that the entire international and local attention is focused on Gaza and the north of Israel to try to seize land in the West Bank". Partial data compiled by B'Tselem, covering the first six days after the Hamas attack, recorded at least 46 separate incidents in which it said settlers threatened, physically attacked or damaged the property of Palestinians in the West Bank.

"A lot of shepherding families and communities have fled because they were threatened in the past week by settlers," said Roy Yellin, a spokesman for B'Tselem. "Settlers have been giving residents a deadline to leave and telling them if they don't they will be harmed. And some villages have been totally emptied out."”
BBC
Joel Gunter
2023
2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War/Israeli invasion of Gaza“When I was first asked to work there [at Shifa], I was told there was a part of the hospital I was not to go near, and if I did, I’d be in danger of being shot. No, but implicit was that it was being used for non-medical purposes. I stayed away, but I saw a few dodgy-looking non-medical characters going in and out all the time. It was a ward leading to a basement. As I said, I didn’t go there; so I behaved myself. I was welcome everywhere else, and as I say the doctors and nurses there were very welcoming and very kind and the hushed tones under which this was said was very consistent with all the other hushed tones with which Hamas was discussed. You know people were genuinely fearful. I cannot emphasise too much, the air of collective paranoia that existed there. If hospital staff were 10 per cent frightened of possible Israeli airstrikes, they were 90 per cent frightened of being persecuted by Hamas.’”Daily Mail
Nick Pisa
2023
2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War/October 7“Last year, after Israel obtained the Jericho Wall document, the military’s Gaza division drafted its own intelligence assessment of this latest invasion plan.

Hamas had "decided to plan a new raid, unprecedented in its scope," analysts wrote in the assessment reviewed by The Times. It said that Hamas intended to carry out a deception operation followed by a “large-scale maneuver” with the aim of overwhelming the division. But the Gaza division referred to the plan as a “compass.” In other words, the division determined that Hamas knew where it wanted to go but had not arrived there yet. On July 6, 2023, the veteran Unit 8200 analyst wrote to a group of other intelligence experts that dozens of Hamas commandos had recently conducted training exercises, with senior Hamas commanders observing.

The training included a dry run of shooting down Israeli aircraft and taking over a kibbutz and a military training base, killing all the cadets. During the exercise, Hamas fighters used the same phrase from the Quran that appeared at the top of the Jericho Wall attack plan, she wrote in the email exchanges viewed by The Times. The analyst warned that the drill closely followed the Jericho Wall plan, and that Hamas was building the capacity to carry it out. The colonel in the Gaza division applauded the analysis but said the exercise was part of a “totally imaginative” scenario, not an indication of Hamas’s ability to pull it off.

“In short, let’s wait patiently,” the colonel wrote.”
Ronen Bergman
Adam Goldman
2023
Sheldon Adelson“What is there to negotiate about? What I would say is: listen, you see that desert out there? (...) So you pick up your cellphone and call someone is Nebraska and say OK, let one go and it doesn't hurt a soul, maybe a couple of rattlesnakes and scorpions or whatever and say: See? The next one is in the middle of TehranSheldon Adelson2013
Sucharit Bhakdi“I admired the Israelis more than any people in the world. ... The greatest spirits were Jews, I adored them ... And now they are doing this. The people who have fled from this country [Germany], where the evil one [Hitler] was, have turned their own country into something even worse. It's unbelievable. There is no people who study better than them, but they have learned and implemented evil. And that's why Israel is now living hell.”Sucharit Bhakdi
George Carlin“Sanctity of life. You believe in it? Personally, I think it’s a bunch of shit. Well, I mean, life is sacred? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death. Has been for thousands of years. Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Christians all taking turns killing each other ‘cause God told them it was a good idea. The sword of God, the blood of the land, vengeance is mine. Millions of dead motherfuckers. Millions of dead motherfuckers all because they gave the wrong answer to the God question. “You believe in God?” “No.” Boom. Dead. “You believe in God?” “Yes.” “You believe in my God? “No.” Boom. Dead. “My God has a bigger dick than your God!” Thousands of years. Thousands of years, and all the best wars, too. The bloodiest, most brutal wars fought, all based on religious hatred.”George Carlin
Document:The Israel lobby“My No. 1 priority in foreign policy is to protect Israel.”Dick ArmeySeptember 2002
Hamas“To a certain degree, the Islamist Organisation whose militant wing has rained rockets on Israel [Hamas] has the Jewish state to thank for its existence.”Ishaan Tharoor30 July 2014
Khaled Al Jalahma“I am honored to announce that I will be arriving in Tel Aviv today to begin my post as #Bahrain’s first Ambassador to #Israel.”Khaled Al Jalahma31 August 2021
Sigrid Kaag“Happily there were pro-Israeli demonstrators in Tel-Aviv that said the road of Benjamin Netanyahu, that soundbite, with an almost racist demagogue.... about the Palestinian peace-partner that has been isolated. But look at their environments, day in, day out, 1 million people are prisoners.”Sigrid Kaag10 June 1996
Logic Industries
Covert UAE-Israel Security relationship

In 2008 Abu Dhabi authorities agreed to pay an Israeli owned company $816mn to install security systems protecting oil and gas installations in the emirate.

Through working with two partner companies former Intelligence agent Mati Kochavi has also won contracts to implement the entire emirate-wide Falcon Eye surveillance project that monitors the movements of all those living in Abu Dhabi.”
Craig Murray“The International Court of Justice has stated definitively that the Israeli occupation is illegal and it is the duty of states not to support it. Yet in UK law it is perfectly legal to state that you support the IDF and hope that they kill all the Palestinians in Gaza But it is illegal in the UK - and carries 14 years in jail - to express support for named Palestinian organisations engaged, legally in international law, in armed resistance to illegal occupation.”Craig Murray20 August 2024
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez“An unspoken secret in Congress is that much of the reflexive, blind, unconditional vote support for nearly any Israeli gov action isn’t from actual agreement. It’s from fear. Reps are terrified of this. Of AIPAC. So they don’t vote their conscience. They vote their fear”Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez2024
Miko Peled“[...] and Israel governs this one state very skillfully with three different sets of laws. You have the laws of governed people like myself, Israeli Jews who can come and go and say what they please, pretty much a democratic state for all purposes. You've got the laws that govern the Palestinians who are citizens of Israel and there are over 30 laws, in the law books, that discriminate them against them specifically and you've got an entire culture of discrimination, against them - that is deep-seated and deep-rooted in Israeli society and then you've got the laws that govern the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and this is really at the pleasure of the Israeli army. If they want to destroy, they destroy, if they want to arrest and beat, they arrest and beat, if they want to torture, they torture, if they want to kill, they kill and Palestinians have no recourse. This is the reality. There's an education system, the zionist education system, like Judith alluded, my sister, just wrote a book about it, she's an educator, that teaches racism in a very subtle way. There's a bureaucracy, an entire bureaucracy, that is dedicated to making life impossible for Palestinians through all kinds of restrictions and permits and requirements that are absolutely uncalled for and unnecessary, but are all given and provided under the guise of security [...]”Miko Peled2012
Daniel Pipes“There can be either an Israel or a Palestine, but not both. To think that two states can stably and peacefully coexist in the small territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is to be either naive or duplicitous. If the last seventy years teach anything, it is that there can be only one state west of the Jordan River. Therefore, to those who ask why the Palestinians must be deprived of a state, the answer is simple: grant them one and you set in motion a chain of events that will lead either to its extinction or the extinction of Israel.”Daniel PipesApril 1990
Ronald Plasterk“All the more exasperating that in the reactions to Hamas's horrific pogrom, in which more Jews were murdered in one day than at any time since the Holocaust, first, it is pretended that it is indeed symmetrical, and the major media such as the NOS news even ostentatiously takes sides with Hamas and against Israel (see, for example, holding Israel directly responsible for that bomb on the hospital, without any check, and then no neat response).

You can have all sorts of objections to the Netanyahu government, and because Israel is a democracy (the only one in the Middle East) there are many people even within Israel who voice those objections. You can insist on observing borders when counterattacking. If you recognise Israel's full right to defend itself, there are always limits anyway; remember, for example, that Israel is a nuclear power. But even if you keep the balance right, it is important to have in mind why the situation between Israel and Hamas is anything but symmetrical.

There are civilian casualties on both sides. A first fundamental difference is that Hamas, as a terror organisation, is out to inflict as many civilian casualties as possible, while the Israeli army is trying to hit Hamas while inflicting as few civilian casualties as possible. You might perhaps think that they should take even more of a margin on that point, but in any case the intention is a completely different one from Hamas’.

A further difference is that Israeli soldiers may be willing to die in war, but still prefer to come home to their families in one piece. Hamas has a death culture, with the highest good being to blow yourself up, for which you are rewarded with sex with 72 young virgins (not wondering if those 72 young women feel like it).

Then taking civilians hostage as human shields, including very young children. That is a serious war crime, and one would expect that all responses would constantly insist that Hamas must first release those hostages. On top of that, Hamas is also preventing its own civilians from leaving locations where Hamas posts are located, precisely with the intention of those civilians being killed in attacks from Israel. Another criminal tactic that Israel does not use.”
Ronald Plasterk2023
Social media“Social media manipulation was pioneered by Israel in 2009, during its Gaza offensive, not by Russia and China. The UK and the US both have had online "psychological operations" for years. Calling out some actors but giving others a free pass does little to address the problem.”Clare Daly10 December 2021

 

Events

EventDescription
1948 Palestine war
2006 Lebanon War
2018 Gaza MassacreA massacre of at least 135 unarmed protestors including many women and children, and the wounding of many thousands more by Israeli IDF sniper teams, during the Palestinian 'Great March of Return' and the weeks following its end on 15 May 2018
2023-2024 Israel-Hamas WarHamas attack on dozens of illegal Israeli settlements in Southern Israel provoking mass retaliatory killings by Israel. Corporate media call it the Israeli "9-11", while critics of Israel refer to "10-7" as a staged, military operation in order to manufacture consent for a disproportionate response.
2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War/October 7Hamas attacks Israeli settlements in Southern Israel, mass raping and abducting, which get called an Israeli "9-11" by CCM. The NYT and Al Jazeera claimed the Israeli government knew of the impending attack, ignored warnings, shot some of their own civilians, made up several stories and used the resulting increased death toll to go on a revenge killing spree in the 2023 Israeli invasion of Gaza.
Gulf WarA war used by the US to effectively cow the Saudis into submission and bolster US military domination of the Gulf region.
Herzliya Conference/2006A 2006 conference on Israeli security needs.
Herzliya Conference/2007"The conference examined the array of dangers, threats and difficulties Israel has faced since early 2006, identified a broad web of problems in all of the fundamental strata upon which national security is based, and proposed strategies for action."
Herzliya Conference/2009
Jerusalem Conference on International TerrorismThe birthplace of the "War on Terror" doctrine, "a major international forum for the movement against détente".
Six Day War

 

Groups Headquartered Here

GroupStartDescription
Bar-Ilan University1955Important Uni in Israel, deep state connections
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic StudiesIsraeli pro-military think tank, supporter of ISIS.
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev1969Institutes include the National Institute for Biotechnology, Nanoscale Science and Technology,Desert Research, Study of Israel and Zionism.
El AlAn airliner flying from Central Israel, with several prolific incidents and covert operations ordered by the Deep State.
Israel/Deep stateThe Israeli Deep state is important and highly influential, but not well documented.
Israel/Supreme Court1948
Likud
Logic Industries2006Secretive company founded by the Israeli-born billionaire spook/businessman Mati Kochavi, reported to produce security software.
Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy2005
Mossad13 December 1949"Mossad" (Hebrew for Institute) is an abbreviation for ha-Mossad le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim (Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks). It is the Israeli State Agency with overall responsible for external intelligence and covert operations.
Rubin Academy of Music1933Israeli music academy
Taglit Birthright
Teva1901Israeli drug company
Unit 82002004An Israeli NSA
University of Haifa1963Many Arab-Israeli students, very few among faculty.

 

Citizens of Israel on Wikispooks

TitleBornDiedDescription
'Feliks'Very busy Wikipedia (German edition) editor that was exposed as an German and Israeli reserve officer.
Jonathan Adiri12 February 1982Spooky Israeli digital healthcare businessman who previously worked in national security think tank
Nahum Admoni21 November 1929Director of the Mossad 1982 - 1989
Avraham Ahituv10 December 193015 July 2009Led the Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency, from 1974 to 1980
Kobi Alexander4 May 1952A spooky businessman with connections to 9-11 and 7-7.
Moshe Arens27 December 19257 January 2019suspected deep state operative
Gilad Atzmon9 June 1963Jazz saxophonist, novelist, political activist and writer - mainly on the subjects of Israel and Judaic power
Juval Aviv24 February 1947A terrorism expert and Mossad operative who once remarked on live TV: "It's easy to put a truck bomb, as we did, er, as happened in London."
Yossi Avni-Levy25 May 1962Israeli diplomat.
Ehud Barak12 February 1942Israeli spook who was Prime Minister of Israel from May 1999 to March 2001. Pal of Jeffrey Epstein.
Élie Barnavi1946Israeli historian and proponent of a two-state solution who attended the 2004 Bilderberg
David Ben-Gurion16 October 18861 December 1973
Asher Ben-Natan15 February 192117 June 2014"A central figure in Israel’s defense and diplomacy establishment" who spoke at the 1979 JCIT
Ronen Bergman16 June 1972Israeli journalist who published Rise and Kill First: The secret history of Israel’s targeted killings - in reality a very flattering limited hangout.
Michael Chertoff28 November 1953A long-standing US Republican Party apparatchik and dual US/Israeli citizen who has held senior US legal and national security positions.
Avner Cohen1951
Yehoshua Cohen22 June 19228 August 1986Member of a 3 man Stern Gang team dispatched by Yitzhak Shamir in September 1948 to kill Count Folke Bernadotte. He was the man who fired the fatal shots that killed both Folke Bernadotte and French Colonel Andre Serot who was travelling with him in the ambushed car
Martin van Creveld5 March 1946An Israeli military historian and theorist.
Jordana CutlerWent from senior Israeli propagandist to leading Facebook's censorship of Israel-critics.
Danny Danon8 May 1971Israel's Permanent Representative to the UN since 2024
Ron Dermer16 April 1971Benjamin Netanyahu's closest adviser and strategic consultant
Yuval Diskin11 June 1956Senior Israeli spook
Alex DizengofProgrammer who co-founded Carbyne, with close ties to the Israeli state.
Izi Dorot19161980Senior US spook
Tomer Eiges199516 May 2021Attempted whistleblower at the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate who died in military prison
Shaul Eisenberg22 September 192127 March 1997Israeli arms dealer and billionaire tycoon
Gilad Erdan30 September 1970Israeli Spook and Ambassador at the UN
Levi Eshkol25 October 189526 February 1969Prime Minister of Israel 1963-1969
Stanley Fischer15 October 1943Israeli/US central banker and quad Bilderberger
Jacob Frenkel8 February 1943Serial WEF AGM, Bank of Israel/Governor 1991-2000, CFR
Orit Gadiesh31 January 1951One of the world's "100 most powerful women". Attended the 1997 and 1998 Bilderbergs.
Shlomo Gazit19268 October 2020Director of Israeli military intelligence Aman 1974-1978
Haim Geron195214 September 2021Witness in the Benjamin Netanyahu corruption trial who died in explosive plane crash.
Dan Gertler1973Israeli billionaire businessman in natural resources
Eival Gilady1957Connected triple Bilderberger Israeli soldier turned businessman
Ivan Glasenberg1957CEO of Glencore, a mining company with close ties to Mossad.
Dan HalpernIsraeli diplomat who passed confidential US documents to AIPAC, to lobby for a trade agreement massively favorable to Israel.
Yuval Harari1976World Economic Forum court futurist
Yitzhak Hofi25 January 192715 September 2014Leader of Mossad 1974-82
Meir Kahane1 August 19325 November 1990A cofounder of the Jewish Defense League and founder of the Israeli political party Kach, he was assassinated in New York in 1990.
Moshe Katsav5 December 1945
Ephraim Katzir16 May 191630 May 2009Chief scientist of the Israel Defense Department and President of Israel
David Kimche14 February 19288 March 2010Mossad spymaster
Yair KleinIsraeli arms dealer known for his activities in the 80s
Mati KochaviJuly 1962Mati Kochavi is a billionaire Israeli spook, since 9-11 a 'high-tech mogul'. CEO of many high tech companies specialising in cutting edge "cyber-security" and "public safety" technologies.
Aviv Kokhavi23 April 1964
Igor Kolomoisky13 February 1963Russian billionaire oligarch banned from entering the US due to "significant corruption"
Israel Krupp9 March 190825 October 1991
Eduard Kuznetsov29 January 1939
Mark Leibler1943Tax lawyer who is one of the leaders of the Australian Zionist lobby through the billionaire-funded Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council. While "not not well known to most Australians", his influence "far exceeds his public profile", and he has developed and sustained close relationships with senior Australian politicians.
... further results

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War7 October 2023Gaza
Israel
Iraq
Egypt
Syria
Palestine
Lebanon
Indian Ocean
Golan Heights
Hamas attack on dozens of illegal Israeli settlements in Southern Israel provoking mass retaliatory killings by Israel. Corporate media call it the Israeli "9-11", while critics of Israel refer to "10-7" as a staged, military operation in order to manufacture consent for a disproportionate response.
July 2021 Gulf of Oman incident29 July 202129 July 2021Incident in July 2021

 

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Document:I am IsraelProse Poem6 November 2018AnonymousA prose poem detailing the history of the displacement and dispossession of native Palestinians from their ancestral land, the destruction of their homes and the decimation of their livelihoods between 1947 and the present, by Zionist Israel and its enablers
Document:ICJ to decide on emergency measures in Israel-Gaza genocide case this weekArticle24 January 2024Al Jazeera staffSouth Africa’s Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor will travel to The Hague to be present at the International Court of Justice as it rules on the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Document:International justice: the South African complaint against Israel for “genocide” in GazaArticle10 January 2024United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe
Document:Israel Goes to Court for the Crime of GenocideArticle12 January 2024Philip GiraldiThe plan by America’s “best friend” and “closest ally” to nuke the world even has a name: the “Samson Option,” recalling how the Biblical strongman Samson brought down the temple where the Philistines were mocking him, killing thousands of them.
Document:Israel simply has no right to existarticle3 January 2001Faisal BodiA brief historical overview of Israel's claimed and much vaunted "right to exist" as a "Jewish State". The article demonstrates that the validity of the claim rest upon a single Biblical Old Testament source and nothing else. So far as the UN and international law are concerned, the claim would not stand scrutiny and adjudication by a truly impartial court of qualified law practitioners and judges.
Document:Israel v the United States and Iranemail7 September 2010Unknown
Document:Israel's omnicient earsarticleSeptember 2010Nicky HagerIsraeli Signals Intelligence base at Urim in the Negev Desert
Document:Israeli immigration plan for ethnically pure bunker statearticle18 January 2012Jonathan Cook
Document:Jeremy Corbyn says “I Condemn Violence Against All Civilians, Why Can’t Keir Starmer?”Article12 October 2023Jeremy CorbynIn an interview with LBC, Keir Starmer was asked whether “cutting off power and water” to 2 million people, half of whom are children, was appropriate. He agreed that Israel “has that right”. Where is the empathy for Palestinians who have lost their loved ones, their homes and their futures? What happened to the universal application of international law?
Document:Jeremy Corbyn's Acceptance Speech 2013 Gandhi International Peace AwardSpeech9 January 2014Jeremy CorbynGandhi Award to a Man of Peace: Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn
Document:Jewish terrorism in UN-mandate Palestine 1945-48report1 October 1948Various contributorsTimeline-type list of Jewish violence in 'UN-Mandate Palestine' from 1945 to 1948 inclusive.
Document:Jonathan Freedland rewrites history to hide an ugly truth about Israelblog post25 August 2024Jonathan CookThe anti-Zionist Rudolf Vrba's story exposes the ideological foundations of Israel to be fully in sympathy with ugly European ethic nationalisms that culminated in Nazism. Vrba's story explains how Israel was always capable of, and is now committing, a genocide in Gaza.
Document:More than 500 jihadists cared for at the Ziv Medical Centrearticle24 November 2015Voltaire NetworkIsrael treats ISIS/Al-Qaeda fighters before returning them to fight in Syria
Document:Open letter to Ban Ki-Moon from Richard Falkopen letter7 February 2016Richard FalkOn-the-button open letter from Richard Falk to Ban Ki-moon about Israeli attacks on the latter for his modest, reasonable and accurate criticism of Israeli policy - Schadenfreude would be understandable in light of Richard Falks experience at Moon's hands.
Document:Outside In: The Trump Administration’s Plan to Remake the Middle EastArticle10 October 2018Ted SniderBenjamin Netanyahu refers to his doctrine as Outside In: first you pacify the Outside and ally with the Sunni Arab states (Egypt and Saudi Arabia) outside of Israel, then, in exchange, you extract a peace plan out of them that you then impose Inside on a Palestine now devoid of allies and leave it helpless to hold out against a peace plan forced on the Palestinians by Donald Trump.
Document:President Abbas’ Rebuke to Theresa May over Palestineblog post24 September 2017Craig MurrayThe ignored part of the Balfour Declaration to which Abbas referred is of course: “It being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.”
Document:Pulling no punches at yesterday's rally for Palestine in BathSpeech17 November 2024Jonathan Cook"From their own mouths, Lammy and Starmer have told us who they are. They are genocide deniers. They are enablers of genocide. They are conspirators in genocide, just like those who preceded them in the British government."
Document:Simply No Red Lines At Allblog post11 October 2024Craig MurrayI am simply unable to begin to understand, on a personal basis, the politicians who can condone, support and in fact participate in what Israel is doing. It is simply beyond me. Every time I worry that public interest is faltering and people have become inured to genocide, the Israelis manage to do soemthing still more outrageous. Thankfully social media makes it very hard to hide this.
Document:South Africa institutes Genocide Convention proceedings against Israelstatement29 December 2023International Court of JusticeSouth Africa's 84-page Application instituting Genocide Convention proceedings against Israel
Document:South Africa’s Case Was a Display of International Solidarity - We Should Support ItArticle12 January 2024Jeremy CorbynAt the International Court of Justice, South Africa spoke on behalf of the billions of people who oppose Israel's genocide in Gaza — and put Western governments to shame for their deplorable complicity.
Document:Speaking notes for meetings in Israelspeaking notesJune 2018Dan KaszetaInstitute for Statecraft wants to build a relationship with the Israeli government
Document:Speech by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on 20 August 2017 to the Syrian Diplomatic CorpsSpeech31 August 2017Bashar al AssadThe US President is not the maker of policies, but the executor. Therefore, the “Deep State” in the United States does not govern in partnership with the President, but leaves him a small margin.
Document:Starmer’s purges of Labour have mutated into the arrest of Palestine supportersblog post30 August 2024Jonathan CookBritain’s authoritarian new prime minister is expanding the scope of already draconian laws to redefine his critics as ‘supporters’ of terrorism. Starmer wants to be judge, jury and executioner. We must not let him get away with it.
Document:The BBC is weaponising its Lebanon reporting to help disguise Israel's crimesArticle27 September 2024Jonathan CookBy the third week of September, Israel had killed more than 750 Lebanese, compared to 33 Israeli deaths. The differential is even starker now. And yet the western media has not framed Hezbollah’s attacks as its "right to defend itself" – a right we are continuously reminded Israel has.
Document:The Curious Case of the Freedom Flotillablog post28 April 2024Craig MurrayCraig Murray: "I am therefore entirely perplexed that the organisers went with Guinea Bissau as the flag state rather than a state likely to stand up to Israel and the US. Of course it failed. Is the problem incompetence, or is it again security service influence?"
Document:The Israel-US game plan for Gaza is staring us in the faceArticle30 April 2024Jonathan Cook"The western media is pretending the West’s efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza are serious. But a different script has clearly been written in advance by Israel and the United States. Our job is to do everything in our power to stop them making their plan a reality."
Document:The Israeli Terrorist Stateblog post31 July 2024Craig Murray"For me it is now axiomatic that there is no two state solution and that apartheid Israel must be completely dismantled as an entity. I believe that more and more people around the entire globe believe that now. "And if we have to dismantle our own political and media classes to get there, so be it."
Document:The Myth of the UN Creation of Israelarticle19 February 2011Jeremy R. Hammond
Document:The Relative Value of Life and Deathblog post29 July 2024Craig MurrayIsrael has been bombarding Syria relentlessly from long before October 2023 and has continued unabated – and unreported by western media. Israel’s attacks on civilian areas of Damascus this last few weeks have been devastating. It is pretty obvious that any loose missile that dropped on Majdal Shams is likely to have come from Israel, which is slinging huge quantities of munitions into Syria and Lebanon with wild abandon.
Document:The Saban Center’s prescient paper on war with Iranwebpage20 October 2011Maidhc Ó Cathail
Document:The Suicide Statearticle17 February 2012Uri AvneryOn the suicidal tragectory of zionist Israel
Document:The Tragedy of Gaza was all foreshadowed in the Biblearticle4 August 2014Christopher BookerSenior Establishment journalist Christopher Booker accuses Israel of identifying 'Race' with being 'Right' - an accusation which is self-evident from its constitution but which is too sensitive for publication in his newspaper The Sunday Telegraph
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