It is illegal to report from Lebanon without prior accreditation by the Ministry of Information.
On the day Niels and I arrived in the country, a new rule was introduced by the Ministry specifically excluding online media from accreditation, which is now limited to print newspapers and broadcast TV stations only.
All freelance journalists and independent TV production companies are also specifically excluded.
The specific instruction from the Ministry of Information states:
not: web or digital or online or production house
The new policy is given in writing to journalists who apply, by the Press Bureau of the Ministry of Information. I have been unable to find any evidence of it being announced or what its statutory basis is, but that is probably available in Arabic. None of the many Lebanese journalists I am in contact with were aware of this rule or its implications.
As you will have noticed, by restricting legal publication and reporting from Lebanon to only print newspapers and TV stations – overwhelmingly billionaire- or state-owned – the Lebanese Government is in effect saying “Zionist, pro-Israeli coverage only”.
To illustrate this starkly, when we were in the Ministry of Information on Thursday presenting our credentials from Consortium News, the team from the Murdoch-owned, Zionist Wall Street Journal were being accredited. Consortium News on the other hand was refused as an online publication, even though it hosts some of the most distinguished and experienced journalists on the planet, including Chris Hedges and Joe Lauria.
Consortium News is of course pro-Resistance and was refused permission to report from Lebanon. The Zionist Wall Street Journal was accepted to report from Lebanon.
I am not reporting from Lebanon, merely telling you of my personal affairs in trying to get established to report here. Future articles once we can publish are well advanced – including on American influence in the Lebanon (ahem), the reality of life in carpet-bombed Dahiya, and the multiple functions of Hezbollah – and we plan to visit Tyre, Baalbek and the Resistance in the South.
Being prepared to deploy infinite persistence and resource, we have now been commissioned to report, and designated as correspondents, by a media outlet which does meet the Ministry of Information’s stipulations. We will be presenting our new media credentials first thing on Monday morning.
While not doing any journalism myself until accreditation, I have been advised there is no restriction on myself being interviewed, as a well-known person visiting Beirut, by accredited journalists who can operate and publish from here.
I can’t publish those interviews here, but if you search Russia Today or Wartime Cafe you may find me.
This is a very expensive operation and we have already spent a five-figure sum on travel, accommodation, subsistence, transport and administrative expenses.
Constant liaison with multiple authorities (and, sadly, lawyers) is required, and for what we want to do in both video and written content we need a car and driver, interpreter and production assistant, as well as workspace.
Niels and I both earn our living from this and money goes to us too and, as regular readers know, keeps me in Lagavulin. At the moment not only are we are both not receiving any income, but we have put substantial personal funds into working towards bringing you the real narrative from Lebanon.
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Good to know you are well. “ten figure sum”? That’s at least 1 billion in what currency?
That caught my eye as well. Lebanese pounds would make sense I think.
Best of luck to you in your efforts Craig. It all sounds like a trying experience.
Thanks, just a product of a scrambled brain. I am for now being reticent about the difficulties here.
That’s OK, just a relief to know you are safe. If not a problem, give a small update like this from time to time.
Evidently your reputation as a truth teller goes before you. I wonder how they can stop you and the rest of the consortium with rules that appear only to apply to you. That you and your colleagues have put the empire to such trouble is a little victory to be enjoyed. I look forward to you and your colleagues running rings round them. ;O)
It looks like the USUK have run Lebanon’s affairs and services for far too long. The western intelligence services must work hand and foot with the football hooligans of Mossad.
Thanks for your update, it will be interesting to hear your full reports when you get back home.
Yes unfortunately Lebanon is just another one of those corrupt arab nations that let US/Israel have its way, I always thought, after all destruction being brought upon Lebanon by Israel, for decades, that that would sharpen the general resistance against Israel, US. But I was wrong.
There have now been some 3500 lebanese killed – the corrupt and apathic nature of the lebanese leaders make it impossible to know how many of these are civilian deaths. On top of it major wanton destruction and hundreds of thousands displaced + a GDP that will retract perhaps up to 20% according to fresh studies:
Israel’s war is devastating every aspect of civilian life in Lebanon
Future looks increasingly bleak amid widespread destruction, mass displacement and high financial cost of war
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-war-lebanon-devastates-every-aspects-civilian-life
It seems that the arab leaders hate Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis so much that they will accept a genocide in Gaza just like they accepted a genocide in Yemen and perhaps even a genocide in Lebanon to get rid of these groups.
All these “collaborator” regimes are Western puppets. Remember that Britain and France took advantage of the decline in the Ottoman empire to break it up together with Austro-Hungaria and Prussia. Look on a map and see what an immense amount of land, one huge land barrier between Europe and Asia, was broken up during WWI. Not a coincidence.
Since then, the borders in that region are those drawn up by Britain and France, purposefully so to cut through all ethnical/cultural regions and groupings, so that every nation would be a concoction of different religious/cultural peoples who would be having a hell of a time creating a meaningful national identity, and headed by puppets who were allowed to have loads of wealth (stored in the City of London’s vaults) as long as they made sure to be good servants of the Western colonisers.
After WWII, the US took over most of these vassals and controls them until this day.
European elites have always shown to be masters of evil as well as psychological insight. It’s the most lethal combination, and also a completely natural one.
Orla Guerin gave the game away in yesterday’s From our correspondent on R4. She stated that only certain Shia parts of Beirut and southern Lebanon are being heavily bombed whilst the rest is safe.
SA
Not surprising and should be approached as another proof that Israel try to commit genocide also in Lebanon by targeting a specific religious group, killing them all, regardless of them being combatants or not.
It goes along with Netanyahu’s veiled threat at the UN back in september where he put up a map claiming, in effect, that the shiites, are “cursed”.
https://globalnews.ca/video/10779161/netanyahu-holds-up-blessing-vs-curse-maps-of-middle-east-at-unga
” Look on a map and see what an immense amount of land, one huge land barrier between Europe and Asia, was broken up during WWI. Not a coincidence.”
WW1 then, the first was for oil. And that’s still what’s at the bottom of it.
No, it was for the balance of power, same as the Big Two.
It is ironic that Craig Murray is entangled in the bureaucracy of a state created when French and British Imperialism drew a line in the sand when his only consistent political idea is to draw a line from the North Sea to the Irish Sea, creating a new state in Britain to be financed from oil.
Hello Craig; best wishes to you, and I hope this new venture goes well. So capitalism is effectively pricing independent journalism out of reporting, eh? Only to be expected I suppose.
‘The Light’ is a monthly paper publication that supports freedom of speech, in all its facets. Why don’t you investigate an arrangement with them ?
[https://thelightpaper.co.uk/]
I would recommend that people not touch The Light with a bargepole. I’ve read a copy; it’s a paranoid mix of alt-right doomsday prepper stuff, anti-science treatments of both Covid and climate change, underscored with a big dose of unsubstantiated conspiracy theory. The website includes an endorsement from White Rose, who seem to have some cross-over with white supremacy and anti-Jewish hate groups.
I don’t know this website, but it looks like a good and relevant read: https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2021/09/inside-the-white-rose-the-extremist-groups-looking-to-capitalise-on-covid-paranoia/
Jon – I imagine SB’s response would be, “Well, what’s wrong with any of that?”
Jon. I fully understand, free speech and alternative opinions aren’t for everyone. Don’t go near it if it offends you, best to stay in your comfort zone.
My comfort zone is facts, not bullshit.
Sounds like what Zionist shills say when they don’t like other opinions.
Is that your response to everyone calling out dubious sources, including Stormfront?
No, I don’t like their opinions. Or yours, by the seem of it. And it’s cheap and exceptionally lazy to go around labelling anyone not liking your “other opinions” with a slur like that.
I like a good conspiracy theory and that’s why The Light looks like a state psy-op to me.
So funny that avowed activists only like freedom and anti fascism if it comes in pre-approved and sanitised safe form for them, neatly boxed off to the certain issues that are their armchair causes.
Join the dots. Do your own research. Form your own conclusions. Science and debate is not a fixed point.
Round earthers were the ‘conspiracy theorists’ and ‘alt rightists’ of old.
These are anyway just jazzy terms invented by the people you hate to help keep you in your blinkered wee pen and away from possible allies and new theories.
Open your eyes and ears a bit wider and don’t throw the baby away with the bath water on this one just because all theories do not align with your current set.
@Jon – Despite being called horsepaste and horse dewormer by corporate media during the Covid era, the Nobel Prize winning ivermectin did indeed turn out to have remarkable antiviral properties and might even be a wonder therapeutic for late-stage cancers. Just look it up on Nature or ask Prof Angus Dalgleish of St George’s London. Why on Earth would Big Pharma want to cancel an out of patent drug that costs pennies?
The Light is a crackin’ read, Craig. Well recommended.
As soon as you see something described as Alt Right or Conspiracy Central you know they are on the right track.
When Corbyn’s brother gave a speech in Glasgow’s George Square recently as a guest of the anti-lockdown movement you could see what the Zionist State is scared of.
Stay safe, and thanks for doing this. Hats off. Hope they won’t come after you. Luckily you are a public figure, but it may also be a curse and attract more attention.
Eager to read about your experiences.
Craig – By having to fight for the right to report you are flagging yourself even higher on the radar.
Get what information you need and get out ASAP.
Report it later from somewhere safe.
Please.
Lebanon is not just “influenced” by USA, it is under the full control of the US Ambassador who dictates to the Lebanese government how things ought to be done. If the US Ambassador gets her sock puppet Joseph Aoun as President of the country, then Lebanon will become a fully captured state.
To be fair to the authorities there, Lebanon are at war and bloggers and online reporters could easily be Israeli spies, seeking Hezbollah targets. Would any country want people arriving and grant free movement in that scenario? Look at Israel’s arrest of the Grayzone’s Jeremy Loffredo. Lebanese authorities have already discovered a few posing as investigative journalists:
Before he was arrested as a suspected Israeli spy, Ziad Ahmad Itani was a successful artist, journalist and playwright.
His personal and professional trajectory did not suggest that he would end up working for the Mossad, Israel’s notorious external spy agency.
While Itani’s case may be different, it is not isolated. He was arrested on November 24 and charged with spying for Israel on Lebanese journalists, intellectuals, and government ministers.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/1/how-ziad-ahmad-itani-fell-into-mossads-honeytrap
Err, so you only accredit mainstream media journalists who you can be almost certain ARE reporting back to western security services and by extension Mossad?
I am not sure you have thought that through.
Were it my decision you’d be more than welcome to report.
As for the well-known MSM correspondents, they tend to stay in relatively ‘safe’ areas, all grouped together. Typically, they’re easily identified by their large entourages and accompanying crews, govt provided translators etc. So espionage perhaps isn’t seen as a big risk?
If they allowed in citizen journalists and bloggers to roam without restriction, then it’s almost certain their enemies would also try to exploit such tolerant arrangements to monitor and track certain individuals’ movements and military installations etc. There are places in the UK where you’d be quickly moved on if you tried to film, and we, thankfully, aren’t having bombs dropped on us every night.
I don’t know, but I’d imagine the govt there probably have enough on their plate without trying to figure out who is what they say they are i.e. investigative journalists, and who’ll produce objective and/or sympathetic coverage.
Goose, I don’t think you’ve answered Craig’s question, and I would also be interested in your response to that. The context is that corporate papers with Zionist sympathies ARE getting accredited, so your worry about “Israeli spies” misses the mark. Do you support anti-imperialist journalists reporting from Lebanon?
(I worry that Lebanon is not in favour of anti-imperialist journalists, but that is rather a separate question.)
Jon
There may be a risk of reading too much into it. It could be just something as simple as perceived media clout. Plus, I’d imagine some of the bigger mainstream media names have well-established contacts or fixers, who can make a few phone calls to the right people to expedite things, and you’re up and running. It’s like that in lots of countries.
This is part of the problem with the arab world, and they always fall into the same trap. Instead of bringing forward reporters from the region and/or people like Craig they instead bring forward the same western media outlets that in effect works against them.
It is about creating their own narrative instead of letting pro-western/israel outlets like AFP, Reuters etc frame the situation.
Just added to the Lagavulin Fund hope it all goes well with the Ministry!
…wonders whether any “journalist” in the Lebanon is currently investigating who bombed the pagers and how they did it…
I mean that was a new thing that happened in the world.
It’s not like floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, a celebrity getting a boob job, the US controlling a foreign country, or genocide. They’ve all happened before. Blowing up handheld devices on such a scale is new.
So you would have thought reports of this particular area of Lebanese current affairs might be of interest internationally.
And the authorities are supposed to try to keep the country secure against terrorism, right?
But something tells me nobody should seek “accreditation” as a “journalist” to investigate it.
No need to investigate. In the unlikely case that anyone still had any doubts, Netanyahu himself admitted in a cabinet meeting no later than today that he was personally responsible and gave the green light to that operation.
Aren’t you interested in how and where the perpetrators did it and who was involved?
It’s especially interesting because that’s all being kept quiet. Ideal topic for a Woodward or Bernstein de nos jours.
I wouldn’t be surprised if not even the world’s leading intelligence agencies could put p>0.9 on what they think is most likely regarding important aspects of this operation. Finding out what really happened, or achieving a high level of confidence, is probably a major target for such agencies in Lebanon right now (and in whichever other territories may have been involved).
Not sure why you believe reports about what Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting.
This was a new leap forward for terrorism, that unfortunately the intended victims didn’t see coming.
If it turns out the Lebanese government was deeply involved, that would be the end of the Lebanon as a country. For that reason, I doubt they were deeply involved…but who knows? Who knows what the Zionists’ plans for the Lebanon are?
If we don’t know something, we may as well keep open minds about it.
“Who knows what the Zionists’ plans for the Lebanon are?”
Haven’t they stated their intention of incorporating it into Israel?
Hiya Brian, good point. A bit like the Nordstream operation, scant interest, if any. Even the Germans don’t seem that bothered. Considering that so much of our International sub-sea cabling exits via Cornwall, it would be interesting to see our reaction if certain Cornish coves went boom.
Be interesting to know how really controlled Lebanon is by the the American Embassy. If one can believe it, reports of the American Embassy telling Lebanon whether or not its own airline can land and take off at Beirut airport and whom it may carry. For example, no injured Lebanese can be flown out to hospitals abroad for treatment. Makes my hair catch on fire! Glad to hear you are still well and keeping safe. Be kind to animals!
@Rosemary – Interesting. Big contracts with hospitals inside the Lebanon could be a factor in that.
Also in the longer term, if there is to be a mass evacuation from Beirut (as there has been before), there will be big contracts for that too, and those who are salivating at such contracts won’t want someone else coming along and winning the contract instead, AUKUS-style.
Most of us who comment here think of horrible human experiences when we think of war, but there are those who think MONEY.
The root of all evil!
Mr Murray
Would it not be possible to write a regular column or reports in collaboration with local media. I think AlMayadeen based in Beirut might be a good choice and has both Arabic and English websites and live transmission in Arabic.
Al Jazeera is another possibility but they are l somewhat more controlled.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/albanese-calls-for-probe-into-western-coverage-of-amsterdam
https://www.almayadeen.net/
“Being prepared to deploy infinite persistence and resource, we have now been commissioned to report, and designated as correspondents, by a media outlet which does meet the Ministry of Information’s stipulations. We will be presenting our new media credentials first thing on Monday morning.”
Sounds great. As we all know, patience is a virtue. So we can easily wait until Tuesday to read your long-awaited reports. Meanwhile, the earth continues its endless journey, and new developments in Gaza, the West Bank and also Russia could be interesting topics for future posts.
We all know how expensive life can be in war-torn countries, but in the same time Bitcoin is reaching new peaks, thanks to Elon’s alliance with the Donald, so in the grand scheme of things, it might make things easier.
https://news.sky.com/story/amsterdam-police-break-up-pro-palestinian-protest-after-antisemitic-violence-following-football-game-13252043
“The Israeli government has told its citizens not to attend cultural or sports events abroad over the next week following violence in Amsterdam.”
Observations:
1. If the plan is to resettle northern Gaza or the whole of Gaza (as it seems to be), the settlers have got to come from somewhere. Western Europe might be a suitable source. A big rush of people “rescued” could be ideal.
2. What counts as qualifying for a “shanda fur die goyim” changes, and there are many Zionists who don’t really believe in that stuff any more.
To some extent, many now think “Let the goyim believe whatever they want about us, because the goyim can’t do anything about anything – and what counts as ‘thinking’ among the goyim nowadays ain’t what it used to be, anyway. So hey, go to Amsterdam and shout kill all the Arab kids, ra ra ra, cause some fights with Muslim taxi drivers – do what you like, lads, because everyone needs a bit of fun and relaxation sometimes.”
But both inside Israel and in the Jewish world outside (I won’t use the word “diaspora”), there are still some Zionists who DO believe in “don’t be a shanda fur die goyim”, and they are still one of the propaganda markets for those who call the shots in Zionism. Those Zionists are probably mostly thinking “Oh dear, what an embarrassment in Amsterdam. The youth of today come out of the army and they don’t understand about being a shanda. ‘Bibi’ is right to say don’t let fans travel to such places.“
I understand that Lebanon is officially at war with israel, so why would its Ministry of Information discriminate against internet journalism so as to favour Zionism? If, by some chance, Zionists made use of MI6 to lean on Lebanon to arrange your predicament, then after you make your film, it might be expedient, not to bring it with you back to the UK (or indeed be carrying any valuable equipment liable to confiscation), but to arrange for your report to be published in some other way, and to enter the UK carrying precisely nothing incriminating, so that if the authorities detained you, the exercise would be a waste of time. Indeed it would, since you are a law-abiding citizen who wouldn’t dream of bringing anything illegal into the UK.
MJ. I agree.
All the online journalists/commentators have made the mistake of not distributing back up copies of their output to more sympathetic countries. You can start a trend.
That’s what happens when you trust States who claim to be Democracies and in favour of Free Speech – I’m afraid.
Qatar is now on the US’s Naughty Step so I’ll be looking for a change of tone at Al Jazeera. Saudi Arabia seems to be playing political and economic Hokey Kokey as well.
They should all remember the historic (and proven) adage: ‘Never be a friend of America’.
If things go wrong for Israel, the US will back off quicker than a group of Hunters seeing a Fox operating a machine gun.
@MJ – Nobody who is critical of the system and who is in their right mind nowadays should bring any digital data with them into Britain that it’s important not to let the authorities get hold of, let alone the only copies of it.
Everyone who comments here who disagrees should rethink.
@Mark – Which are these sympathetic countries that would publish some good investigative work on the Lebanon or the doings of Zionists? I follow TASS, Al Jazeera, and Press TV, and while I’m grateful for their existence (and the BBC isn’t fit to lick any of their boots) I wouldn’t say they are brilliant and great.
Brian Red. I agree.
But the very act of sending copies to them or say Cuba or Venezuela would make sure that the PTB can’t bury information. It will be kept, hopefully – somewhere – not destroyed like The Guardian’s cowardice vis Julian Assange’s info. And that after the leaks came out and were public.
The aim for the PTB is to remove the info it doesn’t like and push diversions. Like the football match nonsense. Good work from The Grayzone as usual on that. As I suspected it was ‘organised’.
I suspect the attack on the pro-Palestine encampment at UCLA last spring was similarly “organized.”
If Lebanon is at war, I would expect its military forces to be actively repelling the invaders and reciprocating with attacks on Israel. It isn’t.
So either it’s not at war or its government is under foreign control. The answer is clear.
The Ministry of Truth.
I tried Russia Today and “the server could not establish a connection.” Draw your own conclusions…
I’ll be watching your Wartime Café interview on YouTube shortly (and Middle East Eye covers your comments on Western complicity).
Thank you.
It’s here too –
https://swentr.site/ [RTnews]
(It’s backwards to avoid the censorship)
Stay strong and be safe.
Netanyahu admitted today he was personally behind the pager attack. An attack that killed some 40 people, including children and injured some 3000 by the use of a civilian phone/device.
The UN Human Rights Council said back then that the attack was likely a war crime:
UN human rights chief calls pager, radio attacks in Lebanon ‘war crime’: Volker Turk says attacks ‘unleashed widespread fear, panic and horror among people in Lebanon, already suffering in an increasingly volatile situation’
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/un-human-rights-chief-calls-pager-radio-attacks-in-lebanon-war-crime/3336248
And the former CIA chief Leon Panetta said it was a clear act of terrorism:
Former CIA director Panetta calls Israel’s pager explosion operation ‘terrorism’
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/former-cia-director-calls-israels-pager-explosion-operation-terrorism
So war crime and terrorism.
If Lebanon have any integrity they should refer this pager attack to the ICC (+ the general assault going on by Israel against Lebanon right now).
Lebanon was actually close doing this earlier this year but suddenly backtracked, either they got pressured by the west not doing so or they fear they will be implicated somehow themselves.
Can the ICC issue arrest warrants over Israeli actions in Lebanon?
Lebanese government would need to file a declaration giving Hague-based court jurisdiction – something it had agreed to do before backtracking
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/can-icc-issue-arrest-warrants-over-israeli-actions-lebanon
By taking no action against Israel, just emboldens Israel and make sure that there will be more type of terrorist acts against Lebanon and elsewhere.
Zionists are the masters of terrorism. Expect a lot of European/Israeli dual nationals to be embedded after this series of football matches. False flag, blah blah etc etc
Excellent report on what happened in Amsterdam, here:
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/11/10/video-israeli-hooligans-attacked-police-amsterdam/
“many of the Maccabi Tel Aviv Ultras were confirmed as reservists in the Israeli military who had participated in the assault on the besieged Gaza Strip. And they were escorted to Amsterdam by agents from Israel’s Mossad intelligence and assassination agency. “
“they were escorted to Amsterdam by agents from Israel’s Mossad intelligence and assassination agency.”
Why was that? Didn’t the spooks trust them not to smash up the duty-free places?
Or might they have got lost on the metro?
Speaking of the airport, Mossad’s European HQ is at Schiphol airport, and I really hope that the Dutch radical left are talking about this a lot.
Any idea whether Chabad was involved somewhere along the line?
They usually are when there’s any trouble in a European city that involves or is of interest to Zionist Jews. Their premises are used for a lot.
And on Thursday israeli hooligans will go to France to cause havoc during another football game involving another israeli team. Tagging along is of course Mossad but also JDL (jewish defense league) which seems to be quite strong in France.
Quite absurd when one think about it. Israelis traveling around and cause havoc and hatred in the same nations that back them in the their genocidal war through and through. This is the thanks?
But again, this is just how Israelis themselves behave in Israel, they do not know better Being foul and acting despicably is just who they are, they proved it themselves.
One could also see a far more sinister plot, motive by the israelis by trying to divide western nations, by trying to pit westerners against immigrants/muslims/arabs/palestinians, making western societies pre-occupied about fight in their streets while Israel themselves expand their genocide – for example right now Israel conduct ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza – judging from the editorials in the west, some racist israeli hooligans are far more important to write about
Also, the usual intelligence/msm-editorial crowd that for years warned about alleged russian plots to divide western societies are nowhere to be seen.
Good point Jack.
Israel using ‘divide and conquer’ in europe (and USA) to destablise and set state against the people.
Netherlands divided; Ditto UK; Ditto Germany; Ditto France (?).
I cannot see Turkey putting up with this nonsence from the genocidal pigs.
@Jack – That’s very interesting info about Thursday in France, when the French and Israeli football teams are scheduled to play against each other.
France has more Jewish residents than any other country in Europe. Encouraging Jews to leave Europe for Palestine (or at least to establish second homes in Palestine) is surely a Zionist goal here.
Quite probably, the Zionists want them to go to Gaza or, if they spread the current Nakba to the West Bank, then there.
The Netherlands has far fewer Jewish residents. Might have been a dry run.
Let’s hope nobody gets killed in Paris on Thursday.
The Minister of Aliyah and Integration comes from National Religious Party that’s led by Bezalel Smotrich. Would we put it past such specimens to plant bombs in Europe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-seventh_government_of_Israel#Members_of_government
For a truly obscene genocidalist and supremacist image:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2023/12/19/israeli-real-estate-firm-pushes-settlement-building-in-gaza
Gary Lineker is to leave British regime TV’s “Match of the Day” programme.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-14069609/Gary-Lineker-QUIT-Match-Day.html
Lineker has spoken out in support of the Palestinians. He once called for the Zionist team to be banned from international football. I don’t know whether that’s his position now. (It may well be.) He has certainly shown courage and opposed genocide, and he has suffered for it.
Any BBC staff of any kind who are reading this – seriously how can you look at yourselves in the mirror each morning?
The best is yet to come! Be prepared!
On Thursday, the Israeli soccer team is playing in Paris… Much more fun, after Amsterdam… since the French ultras (unlike their Micron president) are overwhelmingly pro-Palestine, as they recently proved with their huge tifo last week.
Very cleverly, Israel’s foreign minister officially requested Israeli supporters to abstain from attending the game. Which obviously means that in the unlikely event that anyone would be involved in incidents before, during or after the game, they could only be innocent passersby, and certainly not agents provocateurs.
Very clever. Remains to be seen whether the French will fall into that trap…
The israelis even tried to burn the palestinian and the netherlands flag inside the stadium!
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vThuC75aNR0
Will they try the same in France? In France there are actually laws that forbid burning of their flag but if israelis are burning the french flag I am sure the french authorities will somehow justify it.
“Very cleverly, Israel’s foreign minister officially requested Israeli supporters to abstain from attending the game.”
As if there aren’t channels through which one country can inform another country that they believe a guy intends to enter the other country to take part in violence at or near a football match.
There’ll probably be more Israeli “fans” in Paris than there were in Amsterdam. They will probably be given a slap-up meal at Ben Gurion airport before they leave, with the foreign ministry picking up the tab.
Is Zionism about settlement or is Zionism about settlement?
You have no idea how right you are. Apparently, the same ‘channels’ as you call them are throwing a big party the day before, also in Paris, under the sober name of “Israel is forever”.
Obviously not an initiative likely to be seen as provocative by Palestine supporters, who are increasingly active in France despite government restrictions.
Thanks for that link, Stevie Boy – I’ve passed it on to others.
Thanks for the GRAYZONE report, Stevie Boy – I’ve shown it to others.
Soon there will be no “reporting” critical of the rulers that’s available online to large numbers of punters. It will simply be switched off. Welcome to the new normal. Within a few years, max.
You saw a glimpse of how the transition will happen during Covid.
Availability of such reporting will go the way of the phone box and the freedom to walk a city street without being tracked.
If you want it in USA terms, there has never been freedom of speech on the internet, because the internet is private property. That isn’t a great angle, because there’s no big division between private and state, but at least it says something that’s at least a bit astute. I mean if you asked 1000 people at random in the USA or one of the bumsniffer countries, probably only about 8 would agree with the true statement that “the internet is private property”. Those 8 would be the ones with the brain cells. Five of them might be 77th Brigaders having a day out, but the other three maybe one could work on.
Yep, the idea of the internet as a realm of freedom was a fly-by-night con all along. Rather like democracy.
I’d be interested to know whether anyone here agrees with this assessment.
Yes.
The majority of people, of all ages, are just (dumn) ‘users’ of the internet. They have no idea what it is or how it works, at any level. Of course it’s private property, in that its components, the wires and applications, are supplied by business entities and are not ‘free’ in any sense. The ‘internet’ was a bit free-er in the early days (90s) but then the establishment sat up and took notice.
I find it amazing how many people are happy to allow the big tech companies to gather parsonal data and spy on them through all the technical baubles such as smart devices: phones, virtual assistants, even EVs. Google, Amazon, Meta and all the others are closely aligned with state security. There is no privacy with the modern internet, making everything ‘digital’ ensures you’re monitored and able to be controlled.
And the stupid thing is that with all our eggs in the one digital basket it would only take one cosmic storm or high altitude EMP device to disable everything.
But don’t worry, I’m just a conspiracy freak, what do I know ? …
On the subject of the internet:
The United States and Britain are preparing to blow up underwater fiber-optic cables that provide the whole world with the Internet – This, according to Nikolai Patrushev, who’s a top security official and key aide to Putin.
Sounds sketchy and improbable, but Nord Stream’s destruction seemed improbable too. I doubt the US would be involved in such activities, but the UK’s Starmer and France’s Macron, who are both bitterly opposed to the Trump/Vance proposals for Ukraine?
And then there’s all those NATO countries (nearly all), who oppose Trump’s Ukraine peace plan – a plan which, from the scant details available, appears to involve territorial concessions. I doubt the neocons will allow Trump to carry through that plan to end the Ukraine war without leaving some obstacles. The NAFO fellas are active tonight, saying it’s just like Russia to preannounce its own plan – it really isn’t tho. As before the Ukraine invasion it was western security officials claiming Russia had filmed a false flag in order to provide a pretext to justify the invasion – no such thing happened. By the neocons’ own logic, why would Russia cut fiber-optic cables when according to these self-same neocons, Putin is about to get a deal to end the war he’ll likely say yes to? Makes no sense, does it?
The USA isn’t powerful enough to end the Russo-Ukrainian war. Any humanitarian person hopes the war ends as soon as it can, though. There are no two ways about that. It doesn’t matter if Trump or any other loony says he’s the one to thank.
There was a novel a few years ago with the premise of the internet stopping. I could see this happening for a short period, maybe a few weeks. Classic Skinnerian “variable schedule of reinforcement” stuff. Or playing hard to get. Where and how people will refuse the internet is the big question of our epoch. Not sure that the answer lies in any part of the west at all.
According to reports, Starmer is “demanding” Biden release another $15 billion and give Ukraine permission to fire Storm Shadows deep into Russia.
What the hell is wrong with neocon Starmer? And why is he so hell bent on risking catastrophic escalation, in a war that could soon be over? Pro-Ukraine western media reports that Ukraine are suffering record troop desertions; their forces are concluding that if Trump follows through, they risk serious injury or throwing their lives away for nothing.
Even the hawkish Telegraph newspaper is struggling to make sense of just why Starmer is trying to undermine Trump through escalation now. It’s as though Ukraine are holding the UK to ransom; why are the UK security services so obsessed with Ukraine? The hawks say it’s like Hitler and the Sudetenland, but there are no parallels whatsoever, and history rarely repeats precisely the same. It’s perfectly plausible to imagine a future in which Putin’s Russia is contained and content with Crimea and the Donbas, and Ukraine gets some pseudo – NATO membership sans the military build up that guarantees their new border.
Publicly accessible private property I suppose, like a shop. Which you can be trespassed out of, as long as not for a discriminatory reason I think.
But news today that it was ok for Yorkshire Council to sack their IT projects officer, James Orwin, because he was putting in an email footer that he considered himself a human male with xy chromosomes. Because he added it “in direct opposition to the [council] position that gender self-identification is acceptable.” Even though the court “recognise and agree [that the council] adopted a political position by introducing the policy” of suggesting people put gender pronouns of their choice in their emails.
“Ministry of Information”
Not Orwellian in the slightest, that.
The advisory notice from said ‘Ministry of Information’ was apparently issued in August 2021, just before most independent journalists decided to dispatch themselves to Lebanon.
I fully agree. It’s really a shame that George Orwell is no longer here to collect his royalties, when so many people reference his work without even having read any of it.
I also agree it’s quite a bad name for a government agency. Why not also have a “National Health Service” in a country where people cannot get medical care?
It’s not a new name.
Orwell’s wife Eileen worked at the Ministry of Information.
He himself worked at the BBC on broadcasts (to India) that were approved by the Ministry of Information.
Jonathan Cook posted an excellent and insightful piece earlier today:
The West buries a genocide – by making victims of Israel’s football thugs
«How is it possible that fans of Israeli teams not only find themselves embraced by western leaders but treated as victims when they parade their anti-Arab, anti-Muslim bigotry – and their glorification of genocide – in European cities?
The Israeli national team is due to play France in a Uefa Nations League match in Paris on 14 November. Clashes are all too predictable. They could be easily averted by imposing a ban – similar to the Russian one – on Israeli involvement in international competitions.
What the coverage demonstrates so clearly is that the aim of leading western politicians, aided by the establishment media, is to recast Europe’s Arab and Muslim populations as a threat, as barbaric, as antisemitic, as impossible to integrate into a supposed western “civilisation”.
In other words, the transparent goal is to turn Europe’s Arab and Muslim communities into Europe’s Jews of the 1930s – reviled, distrusted and seen as a menace.»
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2024-11-11/genocide-victims-israel-football-thugs/
And as with the A/S black-op smear campaign against Jeremy and the Left, and the demonisation of the anti-genocide marchers and the student protests, the message to Jews around the world is that no-where is safe – “Just look what happened in Amsterdam!” – so come live in Israel, the promised land.
The zionists have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about creating worry and concern and fear in Jewish people with their lies and falsehoods.
The bad guys are trying, but they’re losing. That video of the Amsterdam violence photographed by the Dutch kid Bender has been seen by many people, who now know the truth.
Could there possibly be some other reason the knives are out for Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, at this precise time – other than the official reason? He welcomed the ICJ’s opinion on the genocide:
https://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/news/news-and-statements/archbishop-canterbury-statement-icjs-advisory-opinion-israel-and-occupied
If this is really only about the sexual abuse of children committed by John Smyth, why is Winchester College not in the frame? Anyone who tried to keep track of the instances of sexual abuse of children at Winchester College would almost certainly lose count. There have been and continue to be so many. Known abusers have continued to be honoured post-retirement by that school, and some still work there.
Just to take up the thesis that the bar for removal from public employment in Britain for talking about Palestinians as if they were human beings has been further lowered – see the removal of Gary Lineker and the knives out for Justin Welby – who might be next? Diane Abbott? There aren’t many left. Someone at Oxfam maybe?
Archbishop Justin Welby, moral conscience of the nation.
https://www.thejc.com/news/archbishop-reveals-revulsion-for-corbyn-at-jw3-event-with-chief-rabbi-oe1qhl34
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/21/pastor-says-welby-would-not-meet-him-if-he-spoke-at-palestine-rally-with-corbyn
I am always suspicious when historic alleged abuse is invoked against an individual or an institution, because there is inevitably often no independent proof. The claims against Prince Andrew and the late Al-Fayed look particularly suspect and politically motivated, in my opinion, especially given the latter’s legal campaign over the death of his son and Princess Diana.
Don’t know if anyone saw the only report as the hooligan ziofascist ran amok in gangs arming themselves for a riot, insulting and assaulting local citizens and property in Amsterdam whilst protected by few police?
No it wasn’t by the mainstream tv and print. Even when they knew that such provocation was planned.
But one plucky little amateur boy reporter did cover it – on the web – and is now a viral star across the world for it. I watched it some days ago.
Pesky kids stopping the villains getting away with their master plan. Scoobydoobydoo ..😆
🇮🇱🇳🇱Twitter user “Bender” goes viral documenting Maccabi Tel Aviv fans rioting in the streets.
In what is perhaps the greatest evidence we have yet seen against the media’s line on the Dutch football clashes, a twitter user named “Bender” has gone viral for documenting the Zionists rioting in the streets, armed with wooden planks and poles.
The bought and paid for mainstream media has been unanimous in repeating the Zionist account of events, which is that their innocent fans were targeted by evil Jew-hating anti-semites for no other reason than being Jews.
‘The reality is the far-right thugs who support this team showed up in the Netherlands looking for a fight, then cried when they lost.
These ultras have a long history of violence, racial abuse and generally shitty behavior. They are even infamous in the Zionist entity itself, where this sort of violence is directed against Palestinians on a regular basis. If the people who spend their entire lives attacking Palestinians with bats think you’re extreme, you are.
It is a sad state of affairs when one Dutch child is doing a better job at journalism than the “professionals” in the mainstream media. At some point, the difference between a journalist and a propagandist vanishes, and the western media crossed that line long ago.
🔴@DDGeopolitics‘
If many witnesses post their eyewitness reports from Lebanon do they also count as unapproved journalists?
What about travelogues? Or comedy shows? Satire? Writers making a journey like Orwell in civil war Spain? Can they define ‘news’?
The mainstream mockingbirds and their owners are yellow-bellied scum who don’t like to be shown up as bare-arsed liars.
That’s the same video covered in the Grayzone article linked by Stevie Boy above @ 9:03am.
I was just doing some research regarding the Holocaust, or to be more precise, the extermination of European Jews, and I came across the following, which I’ve never heard of before:
The death camps were discussed between American and British officials at the Bermuda Conference in April 1943.[26] On 12 May 1943, Polish government-in-exile member and Bund leader Szmul Zygielbojm committed suicide in London to protest the inaction of the world with regard to the Holocaust,[27] stating in part in his suicide letter:
I cannot continue to live and to be silent while the remnants of Polish Jewry, whose representative I am, are being killed. My comrades in the Warsaw ghetto fell with arms in their hands in the last heroic battle. I was not permitted to fall like them, together with them, but I belong with them, to their mass grave. By my death, I wish to give expression to my most profound protest against the inaction in which the world watches and permits the destruction of the Jewish people.
And now the world LITERALLY watches and permits the destruction of the Palestinians in Gaza by Israel/Netanyahu.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_for_the_Holocaust (under the subheading: Allied knowledge of the atrocities)
PS And just to be clear, what I’m referring to when I say I’ve never heard of it before, is someone – this guy – committing suicide (and in London).
I posted most of this in a comment in the previous thread, but not all of it:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht was “marked on the streets of Amsterdam” a day earlier when hundreds of Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer fans were attacked by anti-Israel mobs.
“Tomorrow, 86 years ago, was Kristallnacht, when Jews on European soil were attacked for being Jews. This has now recurred,” Netanyahu said referring to the events of November 9, 1938, a Nazi pogrom that marked a turning point in the escalating persecution of Jews that eventually led to the murder of 6 million European Jews by the Nazis and their supporters during the Holocaust.
“There is one difference now, though, the Jewish people now have a state of their own,” Netanyahu said in a statement during his visit to the Foreign Ministry’s situation room where he was briefed on Israel’s response to the widespread attacks in the Dutch capital, adding that those behind the attacks don’t just pose a risk to Jews but the entire free world.
Well at least he’s honest about it!
https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-86th-anniversary-of-kristallnacht-marked-on-the-streets-of-amsterdam/
And just spotted the following on The Times of Israel website, posted just after midnight:
Ex-Trump aides warn Israeli ministers not to assume he’ll back annexation in 2nd term
Cabinet members told support for controversial move could hamper other US foreign policy goals, would only happen as part of peace plan like the one in 2020 that far-right opposed
At least two officials in Donald Trump’s previous administration have warned senior Israeli ministers not to assume that the president-elect will support Israel annexing the West Bank in his second term, three sources familiar with the conversations told The Times of Israel.
Though the message was delivered in separate meetings and conversations held in the months leading up to Trump’s presidential election victory last week, far-right cabinet members did not seem deterred. On Monday, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich declared that 2025 would be “the year of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria [the West Bank],” thanks to Trump’s return to office, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir last week said that “this is the time for sovereignty.”
On Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel’s next ambassador to the US will be Yechiel Leiter, a former settler leader who has advocated for annexing large parts of the West Bank and against the establishment of a Palestinian state.
In their recent meetings with several senior Israeli ministers, Trump’s former advisers did not rule out the possibility of the president-elect backing the move, but asserted that it should not be treated as a “foregone conclusion,” one Israeli official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-trump-aides-warn-israeli-ministers-not-to-assume-hell-back-annexation-in-2nd-term/
And here are several other stories I came across on there:
At Riyadh summit, Saudi crown prince backs Iran, accuses Israel of genocide
Mohammed bin Salman warns Israel against hitting Islamic Republic, marking turn toward Tehran and away from US-supported normalization with Jerusalem
Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler on Monday called on Israel to respect Iran’s sovereignty and refrain from attacking Iranian soil, while appearing to step up criticism of Jerusalem, accusing it of genocide.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-riyadh-summit-saudi-crown-prince-backs-iran-accuses-israel-of-genocide/
Knesset suspends far-left MK Ofer Cassif for six months over comments on Gaza war
Hadash-Ta’al lawmaker penalized by for supporting South African motion accusing Israel of genocide before the International Court of Justice in The Hague
https://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-suspends-far-left-mk-ofer-cassif-for-six-months-over-comments-on-gaza-war/
And this, posted Sunday night:
Dutch police arrest dozens who defy protest ban after antisemitic riots in Amsterdam
Hundreds rally against Israel, claim Maccabi soccer fans ‘attacked our city’; ban on demonstrations extended to Thursday, as police chief reports ongoing anti-Jewish incidents
And get THIS, towards the end of the article:
Israeli officials said 10 citizens were injured in the overnight violence Thursday, apparently committed by local Arab and Muslim gangs, that followed the soccer game. Hundreds more Israelis huddled in their hotels for hours, fearing they could be attacked. Many said that Dutch security forces were nowhere to be found.
But it does say this, at the end of the article:
Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters were recorded before the game on Thursday using anti-Arab chants, and taking down a Palestinian flag.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/dutch-police-arrest-dozens-who-defy-protest-ban-after-antisemitic-riots-in-amsterdam/
And finally, this:
DC kosher restaurant has windows smashed on eve of Kristallnacht anniversary
https://www.timesofisrael.com/dc-kosher-restaurant-has-windows-smashed-on-eve-of-kristallnacht-anniversary/
Those zionists again, no doubt.
And, the situation is destined to get worse.
“US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, a staunch ally of Israel and a foreign policy hawk, to serve as the next ambassador to the UN.
… on Sunday, Stefanik wrote that the US was “ready for a return to President Trump’s MAXIMUM PRESSURE campaign against Iran.” She argued that Tehran has been “emboldened by the weakness of the Biden-Harris Administration”
https://www.rt.com/news/607492-trump-names-un-envoy/
This horrible woman is an out and out zionist with regular and longstanding direct interactions with Israel. (Haley II)
the Trump ME agenda, driven by israel, is plainly anti Iran. A war is now a real possibility. However, Iran is no Iraq and a conflict would be a disaster for everyone. What will Trump actually do ?
And Marco Rubio as secretary of state. Up until recently Trump and Rubio were somewhat political enemies, Trump keep hiring people that are not on the same path as himself, I could already see Trump replacing Rubio with someone else half-way into his second term. But as I expect is that the anti-Trump media/intelligence/military/bureacracy will not approve any foreign-policy related adventurism and by taking harsh stance against Iran or Venezuela, Palestine, it will also, hopefully, isolate the US and lessen their hegemony.
Talking about horrible women, I wonder what the expected payback was for the $100million given by Miriam Adelson to the Trump campaign. Is there any doubt that the USA is certainly now a ZOG ?
I first heard the term ZOG in the film “So proudly we hail” starring Edward Herrmann and David Soul (“Hutch” of Starsky & Hutch). Soul’s performance as a neo-Nazi leader (who speaks of the ZOG) was remarkable. It’s a pity that the film isn’t available on DVD, though I saw it on VHS when commercial lending libraries for videos and later DVDs existed, remember them?
Ilan Pappe has recently written Lobbying for Zionism on both sides of the Atlantic, which tells of its history. It’s now available in paperback (ISBN 0861549163).
The film Israelism (dir. Erin Axelman, featuring Simone Zimmerman) points out that one danger of the Zionist lobby is precisely that of stoking anti-semitism, including the ZOG theory.
Some good news ?
“Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza as “genocide” in some of the harshest public criticism of the country by a Saudi official since the start of the war.
Speaking at a summit of Muslim and Arab leaders the prince also criticised Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Iran.” BBC.
Saudi plays for both sides. When the time comes to choose he will side with Iran. He has controlling ownership of Heathrow Airport. I recall his triumphant London visit a year or two back when he drove across the city with his own heavily armed escorts, hidden behind canvas, admiring the massive billboard and lamp post adornments of his face along his route…
Saudis indeed play both sides but they are not siding with Iran and the other resistance groups, the saudis are fanatical sunni sectarian – more or less racists – that is obsessed with shiites and their allies – Hamas/Houthis/Hezbollah.
Paying lip service means nothing – saudis have “condemned” israel for decades they only do that not too look too weak on the palestinian issue. Look at what they do not what they say: the saudis have not done anything to actually stop and/or making Israel pay for what they have done in Gaza/Lebanon.
Yes. But the good news is there will be no Israeli/Saudi agreements whilst the Gaza genocide continues. Small crumbs maybe but it keeps the pigs isolated …
Stevie Boy
Sure but I would not trust the saudis on this issue, they keep flip-flopping. Remember how they for decades said there would be no peace/normalization with Israel until there was a palestinian state. Then they changed. And now they allegedly changed back. This prove they lack principles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Arab_League_summit
Jack
Hamas are Sunni Muslims.
That’s why many Iranians frown on their government’s support for the group – which is mainly vocal encouragement : enemy of my enemy stuff. . Smuggling arms into Gaza would have go through Egypt where Iranians aren’t welcome. When US politicians talk about Iran arming Gaza they are pushing false narratives. How would they get arms in? Air drops and shipping are impossible with Israel controlling the skies and patrolling the shoreline; driving via land across Israel is also out of the question. Arms are mainly smuggled through tunnels from Egypt, and Iran has no presence in Egypt which is 90% + Sunni.
If anyone should be standing up for the Palestinians, it should be the likes of Egypt, KSA and the other Gulf states.
The Iranians are more sympathetic to Shia group, Hezbollah, and were angered by the indiscriminate assassination of Nasrallah et al. Hamas even supported those who wished to remove Assad, when Iran and Hezbollah were trying to defend him and his administration. The picture is more complicated than our dishonest politicians and media present it as being.
Israeli cabinet minister Bezalel Smotrich is to attend a “gala” in support of Israel in Paris tomorrow, Wednesday, the day before the France-Israel football match:
https://linsoumission.fr/2024/10/30/bezalel-smotrich-gala/
https://linsoumission.fr/2024/11/05/gala-israel-bezalel-smotrich/
It’s not clear who from the French government will attend, e.g. Emmanuel “Emmerdeur” Macron, or maybe foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot, or both.
Meanwhile the Israelis are continuing to humiliate France in French possessions in Jerusalem. Minor pushing and shoving between Israeli and French security there has been common during French presidential visits, over the years. But last week (7 November) the Israelis went further and briefly detained two French security officers. The French government is trying to preserve a bit of dignity while having its face wiped in the dirt by a foreign power, even to the extent of summoning the Israeli ambassador today. But we shall see. If they were really in a position to stand up to Israel, they wouldn’t focus solely on the humiliation in Jerusalem. They would stop the genocidalist “gala” in Paris and also the entry of Israeli reservists into Paris hell-bent on violently attacking anyone who is pro-Palestinian. Fortunately the left are mobilising. Good to see.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241111-france-foreign-ministry-summons-israel-ambassador-in-wake-of-arrest-of-jerusalem-staffers/
It’s kinda obvious that the Zionists are pushing the envelope, and pushing it hard and fast, in their relations with France.
Just gotta wonder what on earth they might do next. Take control of the French possessions in Jerusalem? Shoot Arabs in Paris? A false-flag attack?
Further note: the two French guys who were briefly detained in Jerusalem are described as security officials with diplomatic status, working for the French Consulate-General in Jerusalem.
This seems to suggest they are not just building guards.
Interesting, isn’t it? These two French security officials with diplomatic status are held by Israeli state goons in Jerusalem, but the French state rolls out the red carpet for Israeli reservists (many more than two of them!) coming to Paris to smash stuff up.
This seems to me like a classic Israeli operation. Israel has many “friends” in senior positions in France. But that isn’t good enough for them. They push and push and push until they find or create some sort of crack of division between those who are totally supine and those who want to retain a bit of dignity, and they foresee and influence what happens next, until things are rearranged at an even higher level of submission.
Amazing that smotrich is free to travel to the EU, So much racism, so much pure colonialism, hatred spewed by this man. But these are the values of the west in 2024 obviously.
So much for standing up against israeli settlers:
Back in february: “France bans entry for 28 illegal Jewish settlers over violence on Palestinians in West Bank”
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/france-bans-entry-for-28-illegal-jewish-settlers-over-violence-on-palestinians-in-west-bank/3136451
But France do not dare to ban the “leader” of the settler movement, Smotrich, himself.
By sending Smotrich to Paris tomorrow, it’s as if the Israelis are telling the French “Make our day, punks”.
It could be Netanyahu himself they send next.
They’ve done it before. President Hollande sat respectfully in the audience at the Grande Synagogue in 2015 while Netanyahu declared that French Jews have a homeland in Israel that they will be welcomed to if they decide to move there – possibly the most extreme humiliation of a head of government by a foreign power in recent years.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/watch-live-hollande-netanyahu-at-paris-synagogue-for-memorial-service-387401
Exactly, it seems that israelis wish for chaos to happen in France, to, in their twisted view, “get back” at France.
Some weeks back:Netanyahu hits out at Macron over call for halt to arms exports to Israel
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/06/netanyahu-hits-out-at-macron-over-call-for-halt-to-arms-exports-to-israel
Then we have the more recent humiliation in Jerusalem:
France slams Israel after gendarmes detained in occupied East Jerusalem
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/8/france-slams-israel-after-gendarmes-detained-in-occupied-east-jerusalem
+ we have the french role/influence/stance on Lebanon which Israel give a sh*t about too
The west must stop being this pathetic push-over object when it comes to Israel and realize that they hold they key, Israel would be nothing without the enormous support they get from the west.
Wake up folks and smell the coffee.
The advance battalion of front line IDF escorted by mossad in Amsterdam will be at their billet now, ready for the conquest of Europe. The same in France. Likewise Turkey. Cutting our internet will be the blackout, now that our copper wired telephone system is gone. Getting someone to start a war with Iran will bring a managed demolition of Europe, like the Ukraine war is intended to bring Russian forces into conflict with Europe, but Putin has not played his part in that scenario yet. This is not a NATO or US or UK decision. Zionists have all the key positions in our respective governments, and they do not represent us.
None dare call it conspiracy, but the writing is on the wall
Mossad are unlikely to devote officers to stewarding.
Mossad is a small organisation with very few officers permanently stationed abroad, but they rely on a very large network of support, which they call on when needed.
Compare e.g. when a chappie from the British embassy tells a local British medic, banker, lawyer or contractor in a far-flung country, “National security, old bean”. The local medic will of course do whatever he’s asked, and f*ck the law, and he’ll be paid handsomely too. It’s somewhat different from that, because the pro-Israeli community is pretty much permanently mobilised – Zionism is an organisation. Moreover, the “defcon” level has been especially high for more than a year now. But there are still campaigns that require levels of “giving it some” that are even higher. They are very serious about this war. No time for debating or anything so wimpy.
What is happening right now is provocation of the kind that intelligence agencies and secret police excel in. It’s ongoing, and more instances in the very near future are extremely likely. An assessment that Amsterdam was probably prep for Paris seems reasonable.
The stuff in the Jewish press about “I’m in Amsterdam, and this is a terrible pogrom, the goyim are seeking to hang us all from lamp-posts, and any of our boys who’s a football supporter is welcome to seek refuge in my home, because it’s a Jewish home and we’ve all got to look after each other”…suggests there is this kind of heightened mobilisation afoot. [*]
An interesting question, to which I don’t know the answer, is where are the Gilets Jaunes? Some of them at times have stood up for the Palestinians, but to a much lesser extent than you might expect if they weren’t so spooked up. Perhaps they will muck in with LFI and other anti-Zionists. Kudos to them if they do. Let’s hope they do. Little respect due to them if they don’t.
Note
*) See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgv4mdr9y8o
The Maccabi ultras keep being vile, on their facebbook page they put up posts directed against muslims/arabs in Amsterdam. Calling them “rats”. Note that. Rats. These fanatics sure mimic the rhetoric and acts of the nazis, fascists:
“Like your leaders, you only knew how to be men in front of – women, children and old people – but at the moment of truth, when we were looking for you in every corner around Amsterdam, you ran to the dens like stinking rats!”
Above is a google translated transcript: https://www.facebook.com/MaccabiFanatics/posts/pfbid0njqy3FhHpgvHAeM4CbKGnygTnzSRMfE4S6BvjA5XdfajgQP1mjzeGKxmDnFNrGrVl?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZXVyE0v1FP_z8ZxQ3LJqkUTMO30IXnz2KaU2lFdAxRIwn5AxVzHUzAikZMXYGjeaocoqDG93WUKxOiFGqEMC-zZnYxr0mo9ETkobqmDT89YghJVChGBzlchRzxmctilJCLH-y20PQVcXmsQUG6kv-kpSXUz9lNwRxdTw9R8v8esGQ&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R
The “Maccabis” have a history of violence and racism. Netanyahu is big supporter of the team and vice versa:
Maccabi Tel Aviv Fans: Champions of Intolerance?
https://www.frontpow.uk/p/maccabi-tel-aviv-fans-champions-of
https://www.frontpow.uk/p/inside-amsterdams-chaotic-night-of
Also, Maccabi is some type of israeli sports union that even have branches, for the youth, in the west which now all condemn the “attack” on their hooligans. Is that what they teach their youth? That it is ok to spew racism against non-jews?
https://maccabieurope.com/ for example in the UK: https://www.maccabigb.org/
Their behavior go against everything sports suppose to be about.