All Discussions Tagged 'Israel' - 12160 Social Network2024-03-29T07:46:54Zhttps://12160.info/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=Israel&feed=yes&xn_auth=no“Shared Values and Security Interests?”tag:12160.info,2022-11-16:2649739:Topic:22352602022-11-16T18:50:41.573ZParrhesiahttps://12160.info/profile/DianaLovell
<p class="container"><span class="contents"><strong>Is that what the ‘wag the dog’ US relationship with Israel is all about?</strong></span></p>
<p class="container" id="p_1_1"><span class="contents">Jonathan Greenblatt, the aggressive head of the Jewish advocacy group the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) …</span></p>
<p class="container"><span class="contents"><strong>Is that what the ‘wag the dog’ US relationship with Israel is all about?</strong></span></p>
<p id="p_1_1" class="container"><span class="contents">Jonathan Greenblatt, the aggressive head of the Jewish advocacy group the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) <a title="https://www.mediaite.com/online/anti-defamation-league-prez-denounces-trumps-post-warning-jews-to-get-their-act-together-this-jewsplaining-is-insulting-and-disgusting/" href="https://www.mediaite.com/online/anti-defamation-league-prez-denounces-trumps-post-warning-jews-to-get-their-act-together-this-jewsplaining-is-insulting-and-disgusting/">recently attacked</a> some comments on the Israel relationship made by former President Donald Trump, who prefaced his remarks by accurately observing that “No President has done more for Israel than I have.” Greenblatt nevertheless complained in a tweet that “We don’t need the former president, who curries favor with extremists and antisemites, to lecture us about the US-Israel relationship. It is not about a quid pro quo; it rests on shared values and security interests. This ‘Jewsplaining’ is insulting and disgusting.”</span></p>
<p id="p_1_2" class="container"><span class="contents">Greenblatt’s perpetual whine is also “insulting and disgusting” but he possesses little in the way of introspection or restraint. He and his predecessors in the Jewish lobby have historically been largely successful in selling a load of self-serving nonsense about why the United States has become a client state that has its Middle Eastern foreign policy run out of Tel Aviv by a racist regime. US political and national security interests in the region have been subordinated to those of Israel. Washington provides political cover for anything Israel chooses to do and, the ultimate absurdity, the American taxpayer gifts a relatively wealthy Israel with $3 billion in “aid” per year plus other trade and co-production benefits.</span></p>
<p id="p_1_3" class="container"><span class="contents">To justify it all, phrases like “the only democracy in the Middle East” and “Israel has a right to defend itself” roll off the lips of a host of bought-and-paid-for congress critters like the chorus in a Greek tragedy every time the Israelis see fit to kill a few more Palestinians, Syrians or Iranians. Even killing American citizens like Rachel Corrie, 34 members of the crew of the USS Liberty and Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh does not draw any censure from Washington. Beyond that, Israel has recently convinced the US government to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, which incorporates criticism of the Jewish state as <em>ipso facto</em> the mark of an anti-Semite. And going still further, twenty-six state governments have chosen to penalize their citizens who, in seeking benefits or a job at local level, refuse to sign or swear to a statement that they will not support any boycotts of Israel.</span></p>
<p id="p_1_4" class="container"><span class="contents">It is all about the dual loyalty that many Jews have as relates to Israel. Indeed, one might argue that folks like Greenblatt have something amounting to singular loyalty, and it is at least questionable whether any of that applies to the good old U S of A. Recently Greenblatt and his host of perpetual complainers have been riding hard the alleged surge in anti-Semitism, as defined by them to justify everything they and their Israeli brethren do. They know they can get away with saying and doing almost anything when it comes to Israel, to include the shamelessly hyped alleged sad plight of perpetual Jewish victims worldwide, even in the United States where they enjoy unparalleled and grossly disproportionate privilege, power, status and wealth. Jewish power driven by Jewish money dominates much political interaction while also driving the accompanying media narrative. And the Jewish/Israeli viewpoint defines what are acceptable viewpoints within academia while also shaping the product that comes out of the entertainment industry, as well as the decision making in many business and financial services sectors.</span></p>
<p id="p_1_5" class="container"><span class="contents">Israel is about to put together its most extreme right-wing government ever, headed for the third time by Benjamin Netanyahu and including probable cabinet level ministers who have been described as “terrorists,” “racists,” and even “fascists.” The pressure on the Palestinians will no doubt intensify with the objective of first fully establishing control on the ground before ethnically cleansing the Arabs to produce an overwhelmingly dominant Jewish state. Settlements will expand and new ones will be planted while armed settlers destroy the livelihoods of the remaining Palestinians, compelling them to flee. And there will also be pressure from Netanyahu to force the United States to take the offensive against Iran, up to and including a military first strike to destroy its fictional nuclear weapons program. President Joe Biden has already committed the United States to do something like that, promising that Iran will not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon.</span></p>
<p id="p_1_6" class="container"><span class="contents">Articles <a title="https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/narrow-government-ben-gvir-and-smotrich-threatens-us-israel-ties" href="https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/narrow-government-ben-gvir-and-smotrich-threatens-us-israel-ties">in the Jewish media</a> in particular but also in national publications like the <em>New York Times</em> and <em>Washington Post</em> suggest that many liberal Jews are concerned over the right-wing political shift in Israel, which might be described as being in the grip of “religious nationalism.” Diaspora Jews understand that it will become harder to defend the actions of the Jewish State and to sell the current “tie-that-binds” to both an American and international audience.</span></p>
<p id="p_1_7" class="container"><span class="contents">The perception that Israel, which in 2018 <a title="https://mondoweiss.net/2022/11/the-american-jewish-war-over-zionism-can-begin/?ml_recipient=71303147494049598&ml_link=71301929712486385&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2022-11-09&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2022/11/the-american-jewish-war-over-zionism-can-begin/?ml_recipient=71303147494049598&ml_link=71301929712486385&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2022-11-09&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines">declared itself to be legally</a> the nation state of the Jews with “exclusive right of self-determination,” is already an apartheid state that casually commits what many would describe as war crimes is growing and will almost certainly impact on the international acceptance of the Israelis. But in the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and France in particular, such concerns might be considered overwrought as Jewish hard power and money have effectively bought into and even dominate some aspects of their respective political and economic systems. A clear majority of British Members of Parliament are members of various “Friends of Israel” associations and in the US both parties are heavily dependent on Jewish/Israeli donors for campaign funding and also to ensure a friendly media. Most congressmen have learned the lesson that criticizing Israel is a red line that must not be crossed if one wants to remain in office, so it is most likely that the US love affair with Israel will continue no matter what Netanyahu and company do.</span></p>
<p id="p_1_8" class="container"><span class="contents">One might reasonably consider two things when it comes to the lopsided Israel-US relationship. First, how accurate is the Greenblatt boast that it rests on “shared values and security interests?” And second, to what extent are ADL, not to mention groups like the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), actually acting as directed <a title="https://www.aipac.org/election2022" href="https://www.aipac.org/election2022">agents of the Israeli government</a> and therefore subject to the terms of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) of 1938 which would open up their books to scrutiny and also require some transparency vis-à-vis their contacts with the Israeli Embassy and the country’s Foreign Ministry and intelligence and security agencies?</span></p>
<p id="p_1_9" class="container"><span class="contents">First of all, Greenblatt’s claim of shared values is completely a fraud unless one considers corrupt elections to protect the likes of Hunter Biden and Netanyahu, who has been accused of corruption in Israel which the election result will enable him to avoid. Israel is no democracy unless one considers that disenfranchising many of the potential voters in the area that you control is somehow “democratic.” The United States is meanwhile becoming more like Israel. It is turning into a managed democracy where the party in control uses that power to attack and delegitimize the opposition. This occurred in 2016 with Trump vs. Hillary and has been taking place since the 2020 election through Democratic Party apparatchik attempts to link the GOP to the post-electoral January claimed insurrection. Of course, Trump himself has unfortunately hurried this process along through his ill-advised attempts to focus his support among Republicans based on how enthusiastically they support his insinuations, which is at least tactically a bad move.</span></p>
<p id="p_1_10" class="container"><span class="contents">Security interests? I was in the CIA overseas at a post where we would receive much processed Israeli intelligence. Believe me, it nearly all related to making Muslims look bad. Any “threat” information that Israel is able to collect legitimately the United States NSA and other intelligence organizations are able to do as well or better. The United States could drop Israel as an intelligence partner tomorrow and it would not make any difference vis-a-vis US national security. Greenblatt is as usual blowing smoke to enhance the value of the bilateral relationship, such as it is. In reality it is a rip-off all to the advantage of Israel.</span></p>
<p id="p_1_11" class="container"><span class="contents">Finally, there is the issue of the Israel/Jewish lobby serving as an active agent for the Jewish State of Israel, which clearly it is and does do. After last week’s election, AIPAC <a title="https://www.aipac.org/election2022" href="https://www.aipac.org/election2022">boasted that</a> a pac that it had set up had raised $17 million to defeat candidates critical of Israel, while also supporting those politicians who were friends, 95% of whom were elected. To pretend that the Lobby exists to provide some kind of perspective or balance in foreign policy is a case of who is kidding whom on the issue. As one of my agents in Turkey used to describe it, “It is as the hand fitting into the glove.” The Justice Department should move to investigate and, if necessary, indict all Jewish organizations that have sustained contact with the Israeli government as foreign agents, no exception. Yes, I know, it will never happen, particularly with Attorney General Merrick Garland nee Garfinkel in charge as he is too busy investigating Russia.</span></p>
<p id="p_1_12" class="container"><span class="contents">So here we go again. A new government alignment will soon be in place in Washington but nothing changes. Israel’s friends will be firmly in control until someone in power has the guts to go after all the Jewish organizations that are part of the so-called Israeli lobby. Make them register, find out where their money comes from and check out their close and continuing relationships with the Israeli government. And by the way, forget all about that “shared values” and “security interests” nonsense, it’s all a sham. I would like to invite Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden to travel with their families to the Israeli army occupied West Bank and live as Palestinians for a few weeks. They would get a good taste of Israeli “values.” And as for “security interests,” it’s all about Israeli perceptions, isn’t it? Genuine American interests in the Middle East region have long been ground down under the heel of Jewish power in the United States and people like Jonathan Greenblatt will continue to use their bully pulpit to make sure that critics of the process are effectively silenced.</span></p>
<p class="container"><span class="contents"><a href="https://alethonews.com/2022/11/15/shared-values-and-security-interests/">“Shared Values and Security Interests?” « Aletho News</a></span></p> Entire world votes 185 to 2 against blockade of Cuba – US and Israel are rogue states at UNtag:12160.info,2022-11-04:2649739:Topic:22330702022-11-04T15:30:22.938ZParrhesiahttps://12160.info/profile/DianaLovell
<p><span>For the 30th year in a row, almost every country on Earth voted at the United Nations General Assembly to oppose the illegal six-decade US blockade of Cuba. 185 nations voted against just two: the United States and Israel.</span></p>
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<p><span>On November 3, the UN General Assembly voted an overwhelming 185 to two to condemn…</span></p>
<p><span>For the 30th year in a row, almost every country on Earth voted at the United Nations General Assembly to oppose the illegal six-decade US blockade of Cuba. 185 nations voted against just two: the United States and Israel.</span></p>
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<p><span>On November 3, the UN General Assembly voted an overwhelming 185 to two to condemn Washington’s suffocating embargo.</span></p>
<p>The only countries that supported the illegal blockade were the United States itself and the<span> </span><a href="https://multipolarista.com/2022/02/03/israel-apartheid-ali-abunimah/">Israeli apartheid regime</a>.</p>
<p>Just two nations abstained: Brazil’s far-right Jair Bolsonaro administration, and the NATO client regime in Ukraine.</p>
<p>Moreover, the real number of member states that would have voted against the blockade is 186. However, Venezuela was unable to do so because its UN voting rights were temporarily suspended, due to<span> </span><a href="https://www.rfi.fr/es/am%C3%A9ricas/20220113-venezuela-entre-ocho-pa%C3%ADses-que-pierden-el-derecho-a-votar-en-la-onu-por-falta-de-pago">Venezuela’s inability to pay</a><span> </span>member fees to the United Nations, ironically because of the illegal US blockade and sanctions against it.</p>
<p>There are 193 members states of the United Nations. This means that 96% of the countries on Earth voted to condemn the US blockade of Cuba.</p>
<p>In June 2021, the<span> </span><a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/06/1094612">vote was almost exactly the same</a>. The only difference was that Colombia’s previous right-wing government had abstained, whereas its<span> </span><a href="https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/02/colombia-petro-visits-venezuela-unity-bolivar/">new left-wing President Gustavo Petro</a><span> </span>opposes the blockade.</p>
<p>The<span> </span><a href="https://multipolarista.com/2022/02/03/illegal-us-blockade-cuba-60th-anniversary/">US embargo was officially declared in 1962</a>, but in reality Washington began imposing illegal unilateral sanctions almost immediately after the victory of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.</p>
<p>Why has the United States waged such relentless economic war on Cuba for so many decades? An<span> </span><a href="https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06/d499">internal State Department memo from 1960</a><span> </span>clearly explains Washington’s imperial intentions.</p>
<p>In the document, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Lester D. Mallory admitted that the “majority of Cubans support [Fidel] Castro” and there “is no effective political opposition.”</p>
<p>“The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship,” he concluded.</p>
<p>The top State Department official insisted that “every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba.”</p>
<p>Washington’s goal, Mallory wrote, was to make “the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.”</p>
<p><span>On October 28, there was a similar UN General Assembly vote in which the United States and apartheid Israel once again showed themselves to be rogue states on the international stage. An overwhelming 152 member states voted against just five to tell </span><a href="https://multipolarista.com/2022/10/31/un-vote-israel-nuclear-weapons/">Israel to give up its illegal nuclear weapons</a><span> and abide by the Non-Proliferation Treaty.</span></p>
<p>In the 2022 General Assembly resolution, the UN Development Program (UNDP) stated clearly that the US “embargo limited the acquisition of medicines and medical equipment and supplies, it affects the external economic relations of Cuba, and its impact can be observed in all spheres of the country’s social and economic activities.”</p>
<p>“The embargo has an impact on the population’s most vulnerable groups and on human development in general,” the UNDP wrote, adding that it “affects opportunities for national and local development and creates economic hardship for the population.”</p>
<p>The UN body cited official estimates that the illegal US blockade caused Cuba’s economy to lose $144.4 billion from the early 1960s to 2020.</p>
<p>In the resolution, the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) added that the US blockade also affect third countries and companies, not just Cuba, writing, “The embargo imposes strict limitations on the Caribbean nation, with extraterritorial effects that hinder its relations with third countries and affect the well-being of the Cuban population.”</p>
<p>The UN commission noted that the Donald Trump administration imposed an additional 240 unilateral sanctions on Cuba, and that the Joe Biden administration has renewed the criminal economic measures.</p>
<p>“The numerous United States sanctions produce real harm that obstructs the access of Cuban citizens to basic goods and violates their rights,” the UN ECLAC wrote. “These policies are an obstacle to economic, social and environmental development.”</p>
<p>“In short, the numerous United States sanctions constitute the most severe and prolonged system of unilateral coercive measures ever applied against any country and continue to hinder the development of the potential of the Cuban economy,” the UN commission concluded.</p>
<p>The UN<span> </span><a href="https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N21/288/02/PDF/N2128802.pdf?OpenElement">resolution A/76/405</a>, officially titled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba,” was voted on at the 77th session of the<span> </span><a href="https://media.un.org/en/asset/k16/k16o4lsqf3">28th plenary meeting of the General Assembly</a>.</p>
<p>The document received more than 170 pages of responses from dozens of member states and UN bodies explaining why Washington must end its illegal blockade.</p>
<p>Numerous international organizations explained how the US embargo greatly harms the Cuban population as a whole.</p>
<p>The<span> </span><strong>UN Development Program</strong><span> </span>wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>In pandemic conditions,<span> </span><strong>the embargo remains in place, and its negative impact has been more specific and significantly larger than in previous years, particularly on commerce and financial activities</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>The embargo limited the acquisition of medicines and medical equipment and supplies, it affects the external economic relations of Cuba, and its impact can be observed in all spheres of the country’s social and economic activities</strong>.</p>
<p>The embargo also maintains the restrictions on the use of the United States dollar and on imports from Cuba. It affects opportunities for national and local development and creates economic hardship for the population.</p>
<p><strong>The embargo has an impact on the population’s most vulnerable groups and on human development in general.</strong></p>
<p>According to official estimates, the<span> </span><strong>cumulative direct and indirect losses for the Cuban economy owing to the embargo from the early 1960s until March 2020 amount to $144.4 billion at current prices</strong>.</p>
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<p>The<span> </span><strong>UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean</strong><span> </span>wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>During the Administration of President Donald Trump, over 240 coercive measures were activated against Cuba</strong><span> </span>in the framework of the United States embargo against the island, and these still remain in force.</p>
<p>In fact, on 7 September 2021, the President of the United States, Joseph Biden, extended the law regulating the embargo against Cuba under the so-called Trading with the Enemy Act, until 14 September 2022.</p>
<p>In a memorandum addressed to the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury, the President ordered the extension of the sanctions that heavily limit trade with Cuba under these rules. Former President Trump had renewed these in September 2020.</p>
<p>The embargo imposes strict limitations on the Caribbean nation, with<span> </span><strong>extraterritorial effects that hinder its relations with third countries and affect the well-being of the Cuban population</strong>. These restrictions deepen the multiple challenges imposed on the island by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and multiply its adverse socioeconomic, health and financial effects. On several occasions, they have<span> </span><strong>hindered the arrival of humanitarian aid in Cuba</strong>.</p>
<p>…</p>
<p><strong>The numerous United States sanctions produce real harm that obstructs the access of Cuban citizens to basic goods and violates their rights</strong>. These policies are an obstacle to economic, social and environmental development.</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>In short,<span> </span><strong>the numerous United States sanctions constitute the most severe and prolonged system of unilateral coercive measures ever applied against any country</strong><span> </span>and continue to hinder the development of the potential of the Cuban economy.</p>
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<p>The<span> </span><strong>International Labor Organization (ILO)</strong><span> </span>wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>The embargo has intensified in recent years and has significantly constrained development possibilities in Cuba, greatly impacting the living conditions of the Cuban people</strong>. Among the effects, just to name a few:</p>
<p>•<span> </span><strong>Restrictions on the transfer of remittances</strong><span> </span>still imply a higher indirect tax burden on salaries legitimately earned abroad and sent for household spending on basic human needs such as food, clothing, education, housing, water and sanitation.</p>
<p>•<span> </span><strong>Limitations on commerce and financial transactions</strong><span> </span>still represent a serious bottleneck and an additional cost for business development and job creation, especially in sectors like agriculture and tourism, as decent work largely depends on productive investment and access to financing.</p>
<p>•<span> </span><strong>Limited access to technology transfer</strong><span> </span>implies further difficulties for enterprises, as well as for social and economic development.</p>
<p>The implementation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act intensifies the embargo by<span> </span><strong>affecting business and investment opportunities in Cuba for third-country investors</strong>; the creation of new job sources; and decent work in Cuba.</p>
<p><strong>The direct and indirect effects of the embargo on the Cuban economy and people affect not only the enterprises, but even more their workers and the population in general</strong>. The International Labour Organization (ILO) is particularly concerned about the<span> </span><strong>impacts on children, workers and the elderly</strong>. Ending the embargo would turn the overall loss into an opportunity for productive investment, employment generation and new business opportunities, as well as for achieving the Plan Nacional de Desarrollo Económico y Social hasta 2030 and other reforms aimed at improving the economic and social system, for example monetary unification and the expansion of self-employment schemes.</p>
<p>In the context of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic recovery, the embargo is limiting the possibilities for the country to implement jobs and economic recovery strategies.</p>
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<p>The<span> </span><strong>UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)</strong><span> </span>wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>Given that Cuba is subject to an embargo, projects implemented by FAO in the country are affected with regard to the procurement of equipment and supplies that complement the technical assistance because the resources that could be imported from the United States have to be imported from far more distant markets, at much higher prices and higher freight costs. If acquisitions could be made in the United States, it would be much cheaper and more activities could be supported through the available budget.</p>
<p>The most recent<span> </span><strong>embargo measures against Cuba, under which third-country companies trading with Cuba can be sued in United States courts, have had a negative impact on Cuban trade by drastically reducing the commercial partners that operate in the country.</strong><span> </span>This has had a direct impact on the procurement operations that FAO carries out in Cuba in the framework of its technical cooperation projects.</p>
<p>…</p>
<p><strong>Under the embargo, conditions hinder the processes of payments and banking transactions to and from suppliers</strong><span> </span>who provide services for cooperation projects and to the FAO country office. This is demonstrated by banks’ rejections of transfers from FAO for sales to Cuba; the impossibility for suppliers to offer products to Cuba obtained from other North American companies; and the inability of suppliers to transfer funds to Cuba for payment of services contracted in the country.</p>
<p>In addition,<span> </span><strong>banks reject commercial and financial transactions by Cuban enterprises in United States dollars and in other currencies, which hinders payment for certifications of Cuban products</strong><span> </span>with a high potential to be commercialized in Europe.</p>
<p>FAO staff continue to be affected by expensive and long formalities in banking processes.</p>
<p>A summary of the negative effects caused by the embargo in some of the sectors in which FAO is providing technical support and other sectors included within its country programming framework is presented below.</p>
<p>The losses originated mainly in:</p>
<p>(a) Price differences owing to changes in the import market;</p>
<p>(b) Additional costs related to freight insurance;</p>
<p>(c) Additional costs owing to a freeze of assets;</p>
<p>(d) Monetary damages;</p>
<p>(e) Losses owing to lack of access to the latest technology from the United States;</p>
<p>(f) Relocation of exports.</p>
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<p>The<span> </span><strong>Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)</strong><span> </span>wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) continued to express concern regarding the<span> </span><strong>negative impact that extraterritorial sanctions have on human rights</strong>.</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>Seven United Nations human rights experts reiterated this in a message,<span> </span><strong>requesting the United States of America to lift its economic and financial embargo on Cuba that is obstructing humanitarian responses</strong><span> </span>to help the country’s health-care system fight the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>Particular difficulties were reported in countries subject to unilateral coercive measures, including Cuba, to obtain medical equipment vital to fight the pandemic, including oxygen supply and ventilators, protective kits and spare -parts software</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>The Human Rights Council expressed its grave concern that, in some countries,<span> </span><strong>such measures impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the populations, with particular consequences for women, children, the elderly and persons with disabilities</strong>.</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reiterated her call for the lifting of unilateral sectoral sanctions, given their negative impact on human rights, including the right to health.</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>four mandate holders of the Special Procedure of the Human Rights Council stressed that<span> </span><strong>unilateral sanctions impinge on the right to development</strong><span> </span>and called on countries that impose unilateral sanctions to withdraw or at least to minimize them to guarantee that the rule of law and human rights, including the right to development, are not affected.</p>
<p>They explicitly referred to Cuba as a targeted country and pointed out that<span> </span><strong>owing to the unilateral sanctions some countries sink into poverty because they cannot get essential services like electricity, housing, water, gas and fuel, let alone medicine and food</strong>.</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights noted that sanctions can create severe and undue suffering for individuals who have neither perpetrated crimes nor otherwise bear responsibility for improper conduct.<span> </span><strong>When sanctions target an entire country, or address entire economic sectors, it is the most vulnerable people in that country – those who are least protected – who are likely to be worst harmed.</strong></p>
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</blockquote> Israel Authorizes Military to Kill Palestinians with Drones in the West Banktag:12160.info,2022-10-15:2649739:Topic:22297392022-10-15T15:36:45.849ZParrhesiahttps://12160.info/profile/DianaLovell
<p><em>Commanders of the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) have been<span> </span><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-718422">authorized to use armed drones to kill Palestinians</a><span> </span>in the occupied West Bank, with the approval of Chief of Staff<strong><span> </span>Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi</strong>.</em></p>
<p>Hamas called the order “<a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220914-hamas-israels-use-of-armed-drones-in-west-bank-a-dangerous-step/">a dangerous step</a>”…</p>
<p><em>Commanders of the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) have been<span> </span><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-718422">authorized to use armed drones to kill Palestinians</a><span> </span>in the occupied West Bank, with the approval of Chief of Staff<strong><span> </span>Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi</strong>.</em></p>
<p>Hamas called the order “<a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220914-hamas-israels-use-of-armed-drones-in-west-bank-a-dangerous-step/">a dangerous step</a>” and urged Palestinians “to continue resisting the Israeli occupation with all means possible until they regain their legitimate rights.”</p>
<p>The authorization to expand the use of killer drones coincides with “a significant rise in shooting attacks and massive gunfire during arrest raids, specifically in the northern West Bank cities of Jenin and Nablus,”<span> </span><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-718422">according to<span> </span><em>The Jerusalem Post</em></a>. On September 28,<span> </span><a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/report-israel-approves-use-of-drones-to-assassinate-palestinians-in-west-bank/">the IOF killed four Palestinians and injured dozens</a><span> </span>more during protests in Jenin.</p>
<p>Since as early as<span> </span><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-718422">2008</a>, the Israeli Air Force has been killing Palestinians in Gaza with drones. They have also been used to<span> </span><a href="https://imemc.org/article/israeli-army-begins-using-armed-drones-in-west-bank/">fire gas bombs and live rounds</a><span> </span>in occupied Jerusalem. Although drones have been employed for surveillance, this is the first time armed drones will be utilized in the occupied West Bank. Drones comprise<span> </span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-preparing-to-use-armed-drones-in-west-bank-operations/">80 percent of the total flight hours</a> in the Israeli Air Force.</p>
<p>Israel justifies targeting Hamas and Islamic Jihad “terrorists” with drones for “<a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-718422">counter-terrorism</a>” operations if armed gunmen are thought to pose an imminent threat to Israeli troops. But Israel has<span> </span><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/as-an-occupier-israel-isnt-entitled-to-self-defense-under-international-law/">no right of self-defense</a><span> </span>against the people whose land it occupies. The Fourth Geneva Convention says that an occupying power has a legal duty to protect the occupied. As an occupying power, Israel cannot use military force against the occupied Palestinian people.</p>
<p>Under international law, the Palestinians have a lawful right to resist Israel’s occupation of their lands, including through armed struggle. In 1982,<span> </span><a href="https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-184195/">the UN General Assembly</a><span> </span>“reaffirmed the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle.”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-authorizes-military-kill-palestinians-drones-west-bank/5796318">Israel Authorizes Military to Kill Palestinians with Drones in the West Bank - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Research on Globalization</a></p> Hitler and Zionists - Unlikely Bedfellowstag:12160.info,2019-08-21:2649739:Topic:19414822019-08-21T09:19:14.174ZChris of the family Mastershttps://12160.info/profile/ChrisofthefamilyMasters
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<p>"THE SECRET CONTACTS : ZIONISM AND NAZI GERMANY, 1933-1941 KLAUS POLK.EHN* Anti-Semitism became official German government policy when Hitler was named Chancellor of the German Reich on January 30, 1933. The spring of 1933 also witnessed the beginning of a period of private cooperation between Zionism…</p>
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<p>"THE SECRET CONTACTS : ZIONISM AND NAZI GERMANY, 1933-1941 KLAUS POLK.EHN* Anti-Semitism became official German government policy when Hitler was named Chancellor of the German Reich on January 30, 1933. The spring of 1933 also witnessed the beginning of a period of private cooperation between Zionism and the German fascist regime to increase the inflow of German Jewish immigrants and capital to Palestine. The Zionist authorities succeeded in keeping this cooperation a secret for a long period, and only since the beginning of the 1960's have criticisms of it been expressed here and there. The Zionist reaction has usually consisted of declarations that their onetime contacts with Nazi Germany were undertaken solely to save the lives of Tews. But the contacts were all the more remarkable because they took place at a time when many Jews and Jewish organizations demanded a boycott of Nazi Germany."</p> Former Israeli minister charged with spying for Irantag:12160.info,2018-06-19:2649739:Topic:17890032018-06-19T07:05:33.444ZRagnarokhttps://12160.info/profile/OldDenmark
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Former Israeli minister of energy and infrastructure Gonen Segev has been charged with spying and aiding the enemy in wartime, for allegedly passing sensitive information to the Jewish state’s arch-rival, Iran.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Former Israeli minister of energy and infrastructure Gonen Segev has been charged with spying and aiding the enemy in wartime, for allegedly passing sensitive information to the Jewish state’s arch-rival, Iran.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Segev, who previously served time for drug-smuggling, was arrested in Equatorial Guinea and extradited to Israeli in May. Israel’s Shin Bet security service said in statement on Monday that the former cabinet member had been cooperating with Iranian intelligence officials since 2012, after establishing contact with them at Iran’s embassy in Nigeria.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Segev gave his operators information about [Israel’s] energy sector, about security locations in Israel and about buildings and officials in diplomatic and security bodies, and more,” the agency’s statement reads.</span></p>
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<p>Seldom does an agent for a foreign country dare to push legislation that in effect would prohibit constitutional protections to exercise lawful defiance. Before undertaking a scrutiny of this tragic abuse of legislation, one needs to understand the malevolent nature of AIPAC. Examine the article, <a href="http://batr.org/reactionary/052211.html">AIPAC Zionists - the Archenemy of the American Nation</a> for a detailed analysis of the fifth column that operates with impunity on our very…</p>
<p>Seldom does an agent for a foreign country dare to push legislation that in effect would prohibit constitutional protections to exercise lawful defiance. Before undertaking a scrutiny of this tragic abuse of legislation, one needs to understand the malevolent nature of AIPAC. Examine the article, <a href="http://batr.org/reactionary/052211.html">AIPAC Zionists - the Archenemy of the American Nation</a> for a detailed analysis of the fifth column that operates with impunity on our very shores. If you are concerned about collusion into our elections by a foreign power, look no further than the strings pulled on Congressional representatives, who are toadies for the state of Israel.</p>
<p class="p1"><a href="http://www.batr.org/terror/072517.html">Read the entire article on the "Reign of Terror" archives</a></p>
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<div class="article__text text js-mediator-article"><p><span class="font-size-4">The story, initially reported by the Jewish Chronicle, involved a British teen named Philip (not his real name) and his classmates at Friedenauer Gemeinschaftsschule high school in Berlin.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Philip’s mother, Emma, said she and her husband were particularly attracted to the fact that Friedenauer school had a large portion of Arabic and Turkish students, making it diverse and multicultural.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">But after Philip mentioned his Jewish descent to his classmates, one of them replied:<em> “Listen, you are a cool dude but I can’t be friends with you, Jews are all murderers.”</em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Shortly after, things went from bad to worse. Philip <em>“was attacked and almost strangled, and the guy pulled a toy gun on him that looked like a real gun. And the whole crowd of kids laughed. He was completely shaken,”</em> his mother added.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><em>“It was terrible,”</em> Phillip himself said, <em>“but I didn’t have time to think what’s happening at the time. Now when I look back, I think, oh my God.”</em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"> The school administration has filed a complaint against the alleged offender, its website says, according to German news outlet <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/383373-anti-semite-school-bullying-germany/(http:/www.rp-online.de/politik/juedischer-junge-verlaesst-schule-wegen-antisemitismus-aid-1.6730079">RP-Online. </a>The school will take measures to call the youngster to order, the statement also said.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-6"><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/383373-anti-semite-school-bullying-germany/" target="_blank">https://www.rt.com/news/383373-anti-semite-school-bullying-germany/</a></span></p>
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</div> 19yo US-Israeli citizen arrested for wave of bomb threats against Jewish centerstag:12160.info,2017-03-23:2649739:Topic:16717022017-03-23T17:48:59.910ZRagnarokhttps://12160.info/profile/OldDenmark
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<div class="article__text text js-mediator-article"><p><span class="font-size-4">The months-long, multi-agency investigation led Israel Police’s International Crime Investigations Unit to the city of Ashkelon, where the suspect and his father were arrested, and a search of their home was conducted on Thursday, local <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Dual-US-Israeli-citizen-behind-most-JCC-bomb-threat-calls-484990">media</a><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.779087">reports</a>. </span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4"><em>“This specific investigation was complex in terms of the suspect and its nature,”</em> Micky Rosenfeld, foreign press spokesman for the Israel Police, <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Dual-US-Israeli-citizen-behind-most-JCC-bomb-threat-calls-484990">told the Jerusalem Post</a>.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><em>“There was a significant breakthrough in the investigation which led us to make the arrest of the suspect who lives in Southern Israel.”</em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><em>“He was the main suspect behind the numerous amount of threats which were made to different Jewish communities and organizations around the world,”</em> Rosenfeld added.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-6"><a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/382052-us-israeli-arrested-bomb-threats/" target="_blank">https://www.rt.com/usa/382052-us-israeli-arrested-bomb-threats/</a></span></p>
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</div> Israel’s mysterious baby-stealing scandal extends to Holocaust survivorstag:12160.info,2016-08-18:2649739:Topic:16335892016-08-18T18:14:46.777ZRagnarokhttps://12160.info/profile/OldDenmark
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<div class="article__text text"><p><span class="font-size-4">Israel has long been <a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/194601/disappeared-yemenite-babies">accused</a> of nabbing babies from Yemenite immigrants in the 1940s and 1950s, but the new <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.736574">report</a>from the country's <em>“oldest daily newspaper”</em> details accounts of families from Europe who lost children in unusual circumstances in both Israeli hospitals and in British detention camps in Cyprus.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4">Many families never received death certificates or burial sites and others report having their children taken from their arms by nurses who told them they had too many.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Some parents even <a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/194601/disappeared-yemenite-babies">received</a> military draft notices on their child’s 18th birthdays, indicating no death certificates were ever filed. </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Since its publication last week, more than 100 others have come forward with <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.737076">testimonies</a>, with 15 Ashkenazi Jewish families reporting they were told one of their twins <em>"died"</em> in various circumstances, but believe they were actually given away and may still be living.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Tzachi Hanegbi, minister for national security, <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.734337">admitted</a> last month that hundreds of babies had been stolen. He was tasked with examining about 1.5 million pages of classified documents in the archives relating to previous investigations, but hasn’t been given access to everything including adoption records. </span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4"><em>“I’m reading testimony of nurses, social workers and people who admitted the children to hospitals and a variety of people, each of whom saw a small piece of the puzzle,”</em> he said. He will examine the material until October, when he will recommend the material be released.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Between 1,500-5,000 Yemenite, North African and Middle Eastern children were reported missing in the 1940s and 1950s.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Israel has conducted three previous commissions into the allegations over the years, which concluded the majority of the children died in hospital.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">The third commission’s results were published in 2001 and a number of testimonies will be censored by the government until 2071. </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/wounds-over-missing-yemenite-children-open-mks-renew-push-for-truth/">voiced</a> his support for getting to the bottom of the missing Yemenite babies in June.<em> “I think the time has come to find out what happened, and do justice,”</em> he said in a video posted to his Facebook page, adding<em> "as of this moment, I don’t know why it [the directive to seal the documents] exists.”</em></span></p>
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<p id="yui_3_18_1_1_1449780780269_1194">WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Donald Trump has scrapped a planned trip to Israel, saying he will reschedule "at a later date after I become President of the U.S."</p>
<p id="yui_3_18_1_1_1449780780269_1200">Trump tweeted Thursday that he is postponing the trip, which had become problematic for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Viewed as a Republican Party supporter, Netanyahu faced calls to cancel the visit, planned for Dec. 28, after Trump called…</p>
<p id="yui_3_18_1_1_1449780780269_1194">WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Donald Trump has scrapped a planned trip to Israel, saying he will reschedule "at a later date after I become President of the U.S."</p>
<p id="yui_3_18_1_1_1449780780269_1200">Trump tweeted Thursday that he is postponing the trip, which had become problematic for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Viewed as a Republican Party supporter, Netanyahu faced calls to cancel the visit, planned for Dec. 28, after Trump called for keeping Muslims from entering the U.S. and made controversial comments to a Jewish group.</p>
<p id="yui_3_18_1_1_1449780780269_1202">Trump told Fox News there were many reasons he decided to hold off on a trip, among them that he didn't want to put Netanyahu in a bind. "In fact, I did a campaign ad for him, and he's a good man, but I didn't want to put him under pressure," Trump said.</p>
<p>More Here: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/trump-scraps-planned-trip-israel-122318724.html">http://news.yahoo.com/trump-scraps-planned-trip-israel-122318724.html</a></p>