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Promoting Peace and Stability in the Middle East by Unconditionally Backing Its Worst Aggressor

President Biden — if you feel like pretending Biden is still serving as president and still making the decisions in the White House — has pledged to support Israel against any retaliations for its recent assassination spree in Iran and Lebanon which killed high-profile officials from Hamas and Hezbollah.

A White House statement asserts that Biden spoke with Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday and “reaffirmed his commitment to Israel’s security against all threats from Iran, including its proxy terrorist groups Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis,” and “discussed efforts to support Israel’s defense against threats, including against ballistic missiles and drones, to include new defensive U.S. military deployments.”

Hilariously, the statement also claims that “the President stressed the importance of ongoing efforts to de-escalate broader tensions in the region.”

Yep, nothing emphasizes the importance of de-escalating broader tensions in the region like pledging unconditional military support for the region’s single most belligerent actor no matter how reckless and insane its aggressions become.

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Israel’s Alleged Assassination in Tehran Serves 2 Purposes: Sabotage New President, Get U.S. Into War

Israel’s alleged decision to blow up Hamas’s top political leader in Tehran who was in the country for the presidential inauguration of a potential moderate who could improve relations with the West, is its latest attempt to sabotage the new administration in Tehran so it will have to respond and then get labeled a terrorist regime in the pro-Israel media in the U.S.

Amir Saied Iravani, Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the UN, said Thursday that the assassination was par for the course for Israel, which has been destabilizing the region for decades. But he said, “Israel was also pursuing a political goal with this act, aiming to disrupt the first day of the new government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has prioritized strengthening peace, and stability in the region, and enhancing cooperation and constructive engagement with international community.”

Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran’s new president is a heart doctor and seen as a centrist and a reform candidate. Anadolu Ajansi reported: “Pezeshkian gave indications he would be more open to diplomatic engagement with the world, including the West, and intends to initiate reforms in economic and cultural domains.”

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Israel Might Well Fall Apart

A somewhat premature comment on the conflict between the Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant and Minister of National Security (and convicted radical) Itamar Ben-Gvir:

10:36 AM · Jul 30, 2024 Hussein @EyesOnSouth1 – 10:36 AM · Jul 30, 2024

The disintegration of the Zionist society is happening earlier than expected. This will exacerbate the more Israelis become aware that war failure is inevitable. Civil war is very likely, but almost a third of the population (liberals & affiliates) would leave rather than fight.

This is not a clash between two officials, this is an ideological clash between two schools of thought who are at the complete opposite spectrum.

This will not stay between Ben-Gvir & Gallant/Halevi, it will become a conflict between the army and the police/militias.

The current conflict between Gallant and Ben-Gvir comes after the Military Police arrested nine soldiers accused of raping a Palestinian prisoner.

The Israeli investigation of the rape became necessary after reports by CNN, the New York Times (archived) and the Washington Post (archived) about prisoner abuse and murder in Israeli jails. The reports threatened to trigger international investigations:

Judicial officials told Ynet that the serious suspicions must be investigated. “An internal Israeli investigation is better than an international probe,” the said.

“Abuse of prisoners could cause unprecedented damage internationally. Internal investigations protect Israel from the International tribunals in the Hague. If we do not investigate, we are ensuring the political and military leaders end up before those courts and Israel subjected to grave steps. The suspects were detained for questioning and not arrested. They will receive a fair and just due process.”

Lawyers for the suspected reservists denied the accusations of rape and said the prisoner refused a search when he was moved to the Sde Teiman facility and was restrained by force.

To describe a brutal anal gang rape as “restrain by force” requires some chutzpah.

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World War 3 Alert! Iran Says That It Will Conduct “Special Operations” To Take Revenge On Israel

It is difficult to see how a cataclysmic war in the Middle East can be avoided at this point.  The region was already teetering on the brink of disaster, and now the head of Hamas has been assassinated.  It would be difficult to overstate the anger that the Islamic world is experiencing right now, and the Iranians are particularly mad because it happened on their territory.  As you will see below, the Iranians are vowing that they will take revenge on Israel.  If the Iranian response is too large, there is a risk that it could set off a series of events in the Middle East that nobody is going to be able to control.

What we just witnessed within a 24-hour period is truly unprecedented.

First, a key Hezbollah commander named Fuad Shukr that had been orchestrating terror attacks since the 1980s was taken out…

Israel says it has killed a top Hezbollah commander after carrying out an air strike on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

The Israeli military says Fuad Shukr was the target of an “intelligence-based elimination”.

Then the entire world was absolutely shocked when the political leader of Hamas was assassinated in Tehran…

Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Iran’s capital after attending the inauguration of the country’s new president, Iranian officials and the militant group said early Wednesday. Both blamed Israel for the strike that killed Haniyeh, and Iran’s foreign ministry said the U.S. bore responsibility for the killing as Israel’s biggest ally.

And now there are unconfirmed reports that a top figure in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been assassinated in Damascus…

In a dramatic turn of events, unconfirmed reports from Syria suggest that Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Forces, has been assassinated in an attack near the Syrian capital of Damascus. Hajizadeh, a key figure in the Iranian military hierarchy, was reportedly the senior commander behind the Iranian ballistic and cruise missile attacks against Israel in April.

According to journalist Levent Kamal, “There are unconfirmed reports from Syria that Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Commander of the Aerospace Forces of the IRGC, was killed in an attack near the Syrian capital Damascus.”

This is essentially the equivalent of slamming a hornet’s nest with a baseball bat over and over again.

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The Murder of Ismail Haniyeh

Some reflections, written urgently in response to the urgency of the moment, on the assassination early Tuesday of Ismail Haniyeh. The 62–year-old chairman of Hamas’ Politburo, murdered during an official visit to Iran, was the organization’s chief negotiator in talks intended to produce a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas and Palestinian prisoners held in Israel’s jails. 

These talks may now be definitively dead. This is news but not news: It has been apparent for some time that the Netanyahu regime — and the U.S., by obvious extension — has never been serious about an accord to bring the Israel Occupation Force’s genocide in Gaza to an end. This is now beyond all question, the Biden regime’s mealy-mouthed drivel to the contrary notwithstanding. 

Important as this conclusion is, one must view Haniyeh’s murder in its larger context. From this perspective we can come to some useful understandings. A few scales may now fall from the eyes of the determinedly illusioned.    

Terrorist Israel has not acknowledged responsibility for this vastly consequential act, but it has often remained silent in its long history of assassinations of this kind, notably when these operations breach another nation’s sovereignty. This is not important. Anyone who thinks the Israelis did not kill Haniyeh at this, a moment of heightened political and diplomatic significance, is either compulsively naïve or compulsively blind to the bottomlessly pernicious character of the Zionist regime. 

Haniyeh had traveled to Tehran to attend the inauguration of Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist recently elected Iran’s president, and was bivouacked at a residence for army veterans in North Tehran, the fashionable quarter of the capital. IRNA, the Islamic Republic’s state-run news agency, reported that a precision-guided missile killed Haniyeh and his bodyguard at the residence at 2 a.m. Tuesday. 

In a story published later in the day, Military Watch, the independent online magazine, said if the attack was confirmed to be an air strike, it was likely an F–35 fighter jet, an aircraft capable of evading Iran’s air-defense systems, that carried it out. The F–35 is a stealth fighter the U.S. has so far sold to 16 countries, including Israel, which, in 2018, became the first country to deploy the jet in combat. 

The Israelis may have relied on U.S. intelligence and targeting assistance to execute an operation of this extraordinary exactitude, although this is not now confirmed. It nonetheless requires equal naïvete to assume the Biden regime, from the White House to the intelligence agencies and the Pentagon, had no foreknowledge of the Israelis’ assassination plot. 

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MiniTru Strikes Again: Wikipedia Wipes Out Josh Shapiro’s History Ahead of Likely VP Selection

Welcome to Oceania, Twitchy readers. Here, we are at war with Eastasia. We have always been at war with Eastasia. And that will remain the only truth you need to know until we go to war with Eurasia (who we then will also have always been at war with). 

In case you haven’t noticed, our beloved Ministry of Truth has been busy dutifully scrubbing the histories of preferred Democrats in anticipation of the totally legitimate and not-at-all-rigged election coming in November. 

As apparatchiks do.

First, Wikipedia went to work eliminating all references on its website to Kamala Harris as border czar (which she never was, and don’t you dare say otherwise). Not to be outdone, the politician-rating website GovCheck found that their own rating of Harris as the most liberal Senator in America was inconvenient, so … poof. Now there’s no evidence they ever rated her that way.

Room 101 awaits anyone who would question this new reality. 

This weekend, however, in their clumsy fashion, many Democrats have leaked that Harris is likely to select Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as her running mate (who also received no primary votes). With Shapiro’s voterless coronation looming, it meant the Ministry of Truth had to get back to work. 

Poor guys. There’s no rest for the weary censor. 

Yesterday, Wikipedia was back at it, this time deleting Shapiro’s past work with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

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Iran will attack Israel – media

Iran and its allies are expected to launch a large-scale attack on Israel within the next few days following the assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, US officials have reportedly told the media.

According to CNN, US President Joe Biden’s administration is preparing for Iranian retaliation against Israel that could also potentially target American forces. Similar reports have also been shared by Axios, citing three US officials who believe that Iran’s response is imminent and could also involve the Lebanese Hezbollah group.

Haniyeh, one of the top figures of the Gaza-based militant group and the head of its political bureau, was murdered on Wednesday while staying in the Iranian capital. Hamas says the official was taken out by a missile strike on his residence in Tehran. The New York Times, however, has claimed that the murder was carried out using an explosive device planted inside Haniyeh’s guesthouse.

Both Hamas and Iran have blamed Israel for the attack and have promised revenge on the Jewish state. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said it is Tehran’s “duty” to avenge the murder of Haniyeh, and promised “harsh punishment” for Israel following the assassination.

Iran has also stated that the US bears partial responsibility for the brazen attack, given that it has been a “supporter and accomplice” of Israel.

West Jerusalem has neither confirmed nor denied its responsibility for the assassination, while the US has insisted that it was not aware and had no part in the murder plot.

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With Hamas Leader Assassinated, Israel’s War Against Iran about to Go Kinetic

Just as tensions are growing for the WWIII front to open up in Europe, hostilities are likewise now surging in the Middle East with the latest developments in the past few days. And though Ukraine and collective West lie every time their puppet leaders open their mouths, psychopathic deception by Netanyahu pours out daily with even more outrageous, over-the-top lies. Since Bibi the Butcher’s nonstop false claims last Wednesday that captured 70 standing ovations from the enthralled, AIPAC owned Congress, and the death toll of Palestinians pushes near 40,000 after nearly 10 months of genocide in Gaza, the latest Netanyahu lie accuses Hezbollah of the rocket attack on Saturday that killed 12 Druze Arab kids playing soccer in the occupied Golan Heights town. Bibi had to offset the mounting wrath of the entire world closing in against his pariah rogue Jewish State, with UN’s high court pushing warrants for his arrest, the Butcher’s next misdirection escape valve is to pull off another false flag lie accusing Hezbollah of a child massacre on Israeli claimed soil.

On Monday July 29th, veteran war correspondent of 35 years Elijah Magnier told Sputnik:

First, [Israel has] refused any Western investigation by Israeli allies. So they don’t want anyone to investigate the type of rockets and/or the debris. And the technical details of the explosions are very telling. The Falaq rocket that Hezbollah fires is a 50-kilogram explosive. Now, a warhead with such a quantity of explosive doesn’t leave the damage that was left by the explosion that happened in Golan Heights, [it would be] much bigger.

On Monday when the grieving families and townspeople of Majdal Shams were burying the last boy, Netanyahu, his officials and IDF show up trying to take advantage of media propaganda mileage by blaming Hezbollah. But the Druze families weren’t having it, demanding they immediately leave. These Druze know their tragedy was another coldblooded false flag murder, perpetrated by Israel for political gain at the expense of their own children’s lives, and weren’t tolerating Netanyahu blaming their fellow Arabs living not far away in Lebanon. These local villagers are painfully aware that the Jewish State did this horrendous crime, and had the audacity to show up playing compassionate victim before the cameras, using the loss of the Druze youth as their despicable excuse for falsely seeking revenge, with wicked intent to expand the wider regional war, to coerce its genocidal partner-in-crime the US into World War III against Iran and its proxy allies. Bibi the Butcher and his masters are growing desperate.

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Only a failing US empire would be so blind as to cheer Netanyahu and his genocide

There is only one country in the world right now, in the midst of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is guaranteed dozens of standing ovations from the vast majority of its elected representatives.

(Article by Jonathan Cook republished from MiddleEastEye.net)

That country is not Israel, where he has been a hugely divisive figure for many years. It is the United States.

On Wednesday, Netanyahu was back-slapped, glad-handed, whooped and cheered as he slowly made his way – hailed at every step as a conquering hero – to the podium of the US Congress.

This was the same Netanyahu who has overseen during the past 10 months the slaughter – so far – of some 40,000 Palestinians, around half of them women and children. More than 21,000 other children are reported missing, most of them likely dead under rubble.

It was the same Netanyahu who levelled a strip of territory – originally home to 2.3 million Palestinians – that is expected to take 80 years to rebuild, at a cost of at least $50bn.

It was the same Netanyahu who has destroyed every hospital and university in Gaza, and bombed almost all of its schools that were serving as shelters for families made homeless by other Israeli bombs.

It was the same Netanyahu whose arrest is being sought by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, accused of using starvation as a weapon of war by imposing an aid blockade that has engineered a famine across Gaza.

It was the same Netanyahu whose government was found last week by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to have been intensifying Israel’s apartheid rule over the Palestinian people in an act of long-term aggression.

It was the same Netanyahu whose government is standing trial for committing what the ICJ, the world’s highest judicial body, has termed a “plausible genocide”.

And yet, there was just one visible protester in the congressional chamber. Rashida Tlaib, the only US legislator of Palestinian heritage, sat silently grasping a small black sign. On one side it said: “War criminal”. On the other: “Guilty of genocide.”

One person among hundreds mutely trying to point out that the emperor was naked.

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In Gaza, the Casualty Rate Is a Mere Fraction of the Death Rate. Starvation. No Food or Medical Supplies are Entering Gaza

As planned, the people of Gaza are now dying in much larger numbers from starvation and disease than from Israeli weaponry. For all practical purposes, no food or medical supplies are getting into Gaza. Even the handcarried supplies that outside medical personnel used to carry in are now prohibited and confiscated. The relief agencies now warehouse their supplies outside Gaza, waiting in vain for permission to enter.

How much of the population of Gaza has died from the weaponization of food, water, sewage, sanitation and other requirements for life that have been removed and prohibited by Israel?

We don’t have – and may never have – those statistics. The population of Gaza has always grown in the past. Now it is shrinking. By how much? Surely hundreds of thousands, perhaps half a million or more. The casualty figures from weapons of war are meaningless. And the living skeletons of Gaza will drop in number as the existing supply of food inside the Strip drops toward zero.

As planned. What is the purpose of denying the means of life to an entire population, other than to eradicate that population? And what is the point of attempting to preserve a nation whose population willingly participates in such slaughter? If it has a future at all, it is only as a monstrous pariah. What impels such actions?

The young die faster and more frequently, first as fetuses, then as newborns, then as infants, then young, growing bodies that have no means to grow. But the adults also die faster, and especially the old. And if the plan works, they will all die.

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