I could not tell the easy, comforting lie.
“No”, I told the woman, her traumatised children clinging to her legs, “I can’t say you are safe here; not one of us is safe. The Israelis are genocidal. But in Lebanon so far, I don’t think they have bombed a school”.
I was with one of 67 families, with 215 children, living as refugees in a small school at Ain Rumaila in Southern Beirut. The area borders the evacuated suburb of Dahiya which the Israelis are systematically demolishing, and bombings rattle the windows of the school every day.
This woman is a school teacher when at home in Southern Lebanon, and her husband a retired soldier. They had to leave their small town with no notice, through an intense air raid, as Israeli bombs destroyed buildings and killed and maimed people all round them.
They got out only with what they could carry. Their home was destroyed behind them.
Israel has targeted refugees all over Lebanon. Just the day before, we had been at the site of a refugee aid centre in central Beirut, which had been targeted for missile attack. The death toll on that attack has now risen to five, with seventeen seriously injured.
I reached that site before I could establish exactly what the target was:
My aim in visiting the school was to let a few refugees tell to camera their own stories about their daily pre-war lives and their communities, so that people might see them as individuals, and not just a huddled mass of misery.
I think that worked. Within 48 hours the resulting video will be available. But what this woman urgently wanted me to tell her was that now they are safe.
And I couldn’t. If the children understood English, then I might perhaps have lied for their sake and replied that everything is OK. But the situation is too serious for self-serving false cheer.
Before I left, one of the families we met who have lost everything and are struggling with basic provision, absolutely insisted we sat and shared their meal of salad and lentils, cooked on a single burner ring directly on top of a gas bottle.
It was a deeply humbling experience to experience their graciousness and warmth to strangers.
Yesterday Amos Hochstein, the US Middle Eastern Envoy, flew in to Beirut to “negotiate” a peace deal between Lebanon and Israel.
Over 3,500 Lebanese have been killed, the majority of them women and children. The bombs that killed them were not only made in the USA, they were supplied by the USA for the purpose. As were the aircraft that dropped them.
The Americans are arrogant enough to send Amos Hochstein, born in the terrorist state to Israeli parents and himself a former member of the IDF, as their “peace envoy”.
And it says everything about America’s real interest in the region that Hochstein’s official position in the Biden Administration is actually Energy Security Adviser.
As I explained in my last article, Israel’s intensified bombing campaign is designed to terrify Lebanon into signing a peace deal that is actually a surrender. It guarantees Israeli armed forces access at will into Southern Lebanon, and military overflight of the entire country.
The access to Southern Lebanon in the latest draft has been supposedly toned down and phrased as “in pursuit of Israel’s right of self-defence”.
As the entire world has seen this last year and more that “Israel’s right to self-defence” is interpreted by both Israel and the United States as the right to commit genocide, Lebanon would be utterly mad to sign this document.
Similarly Lebanon is supposed to be reassured by insertion of the USA as the “guarantor” of the agreement.
You read that right; the county which is currently funding and supplying the genocidal bombing of Lebanon is going to be the guarantor of its safety.
As always in such negotiations, neither side wishes to be seen to be standing in the way of a deal, so the Lebanese were polite to Hochstein and he is now shuttling off to Tel Aviv to seek Israeli agreement to little linguistic tweaks that make it all sound better.
I worry for Lebanon. In another post I will try to outline the myriad ways in which the USA and Israel are attempting to re-open the old divisions of the civil war to undermine the resistance.
One of those ways is of course to convince factions that Israel really wants peace and Hezbollah is blocking a reasonable deal. It is plainly not a reasonable deal, but people made desperate by Israel’s state terror inflicted on their country, may see what they wish to believe.
Should Lebanon accept the deal in the interest of preserving unity, as the US connive, then I have no doubt whatsoever that this deal will shortly be understood to have been a key step on the path to Israeli annexation of Southern Lebanon.
Because it is essential to understand that Greater Israel has been the goal all along of both Israel and the United States.
If you have not by now seen through the Biden administration’s pretence of “trying to restrain” Israel, whilst providing ever greater funding and weapons for the genocide, then you are such a fool that I cannot help you.
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The Financial Times says it was the USA that gave the Ukraine permission to launch British and French missiles at Russia:
https://www.ft.com/content/0c5d6307-8cf5-409a-bd25-19ad1b27778d
Remember that if Britain gets nuked.
Brian Red
You seem to believe that Russia should have impunity for its aggressions due to its possession of nuclear weapons?
Do you believe that Israel also should?
I don’t.
Equivalence is a lame foundation for an argument. Russia is not the aggressor, the USA is the aggressor. Israel is the aggressor.
Mike Carroll
Equivalence is a sound basis for an argument.
Israel has launched a brutal attack on Palestinian lands and on Lebanon using the Hamas assault last October as a pretext.
Russia has launched a brutal attack on Ukraine using a variety of excuses, all waffle and spoofing.
I assume this could be a bit OT and too long.
However I believe this is vital discussion material considering the state of world affairs.
Since obviously we are getting closer to WWIII.
Which is why I dare to give it a try to post it here not in the forum where nobody would see it.
* * *
Israel/Palestine and Russia/Ukraine are two completely different cases.
Hamas had nor means nor the intent to destroy Israel.
The US has been out for destroying Russia as late as 1945.
Read the historic records.
For starters the 1992 DoD outline for a new world order as issued by then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and reported by the NYT:
“U.S. STRATEGY PLAN CALLS FOR INSURING NO RIVALS DEVELOP”, March 8th, 1992
https://archive.is/YZcwu
“(…)
The classified document makes the case for a world dominated by one superpower whose position can be perpetuated by constructive behavior and sufficient military might to deter any nation or group of nations from challenging American primacy. Rejecting Collective Approach
(…)
With its focus on this concept of benevolent domination by one power, the Pentagon document articulates the clearest rejection to date of collective internationalism, the strategy that emerged from World War II when the five victorious powers sought to form a United Nations that could mediate disputes and police outbreaks of violence.
(…)
Until such time as the Russian nuclear arsenal has been rendered harmless, “we continue to face the possibility of robust strategic nuclear forces in the hands of those who might revert to closed, authoritarian, and hostile regimes,” the document says. It calls for the “early introduction” of a global anti-missile system.
Plan for Europe
(…)”
All one needs to know to understand what has happened since is in this document.
And btw. this past Wednesday spokesperson of US STRATEGIC COMMAND (i.e. specialty nuclear deterrence and nuclear war planning) Rear Admiral Thomas Buchanan in a Q&A with CSIS said “nuclear war is winnable”.
See TC: 32:30 in video #2:
https://www.csis.org/events/report-launch-project-atom-2024
This is not some fiction. This is reality. The talk about nuclear war is reality now.
And I am not at all sure any more that this “thing” will not go overboard and with it most of our species.
Because NATO will not back off until a huge number of civilians have died.
Because NATO´s role is in essence about using nukes. And it´s the only competence they have.
In reference to the rabidly anti-Russian and hysteric strategic paper NSC-68, devised by Paul Nitze in 1950, which was setting the gold standard for US global dominance think, Rhode Island University professor for political science, Nicolai Petro, on the occcasion of commemorating the 1st year of the War in Ukraine, wrote in Febr. 2023:
“(…)
All this hints at the existence of a long term U.S. foreign policy strategy that outside observers can only guess at. I would not be at all surprised if, thirty years from now, future historians learned of the existence of a new NSC-68—America’s 1950 blueprint for conducting the Cold War—cooked up within the Biden administration in anticipation of just such a confrontation. After all, the contents of NSC-68 itself, although rumored about for years, were only revealed in 1975.
(…)”
Entire NSC-68 (single page version well searchable):
https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gna/Quellensammlung/10/10_nsc68_1950.htm
A short summary of NSC-68:
https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/cwr/82209.htm
“(…)
National Security Council Paper NSC-68 (entitled “United States Objectives and Programs for National Security” and frequently referred to as NSC-68) was a Top-Secret report completed by the U.S. Department of State’s Policy Planning Staff on April 7, 1950. The 58-page memorandum is among the most influential documents composed by the U.S. Government during the Cold War, and was not declassified until 1975. Its authors argued that one of the most pressing threats confronting the United States was the “hostile design” of the Soviet Union.
(…)”
Each RAND paper on Russia in the years preceding this war was about destroying Russia.
So if you connect the dots beginning with NSC-68 (and the Truman Doctrine), to the 1992 DoD outline by Dick Cheney to the RAND papers which have been quoted in this forum many times, there is a clear red-coloured thread of utter US-comtempt for RU and relentlessness to destroy anyone who might challenge US supremacy. Which so far meant RU.
How can it be that nothing has changed since 1949 in our Western ideology and our jingoist lingo. While in public our societes have been bragging about how things have changed and improved since the end of the Cold War?
As former Pentagon nuclear missile expert Ted Postol said in March 2022:
“(…)
And all this nonsense about NATO not being a hostile alliance against—all you have to do is read NATO’s statements and records, and what they’re up to, and why they’re planning and what their planning is for. It’s ridiculous to claim that NATO is not a hostile alliance against Russia.
(…)”
https://scheerpost.com/2022/03/25/ted-postol-what-you-really-need-to-know-about-the-threat-of-nuclear-war/
What the Ukraine War is about is in the open from day #1.
In April 2024 former diplomat Paula Dobriansky at the Council on Foreign Relations argued in favour of a new “defense package” for Ukraine when it was blocked by Republicans:
“(…)
one of the core arguments that I think is important here (…) that is that the aid that we provide is less than 4% of our defense budget. We don’t do the fighting, we just give the aid. The fact is that that’s not a high price for containing Russia. We get a double objective there. Of the $68 billion of military and other assistance that we have given to Ukraine, did you know that 90% supports the American workers? That’s phenomenal.
(…)”
“Containing Russia”. Nothing has changed in 75 years.
Do you really think this Ukraine war would be happening if e.g. 50.000 US soldiers had been killed for conducting it (not to speak of the staggering 500.000-900.000 Ukrainians, now depending on source)?
President Biden and German politicians said verbatim “degrade Russian capabilities to a point where they cannot wage war.” That means only one thing: disarm Russia in a way that it cannot defend its sovereignty and stuctural integrity.
Imagine Russia would have said the same thing about the US???
Any country´s last line of defense is about that very point. The Israeli Samson Option says in essence: if its sovereignty is at existential danger it may use WMDs to destroy everyone including Israel. Even though no such scenario would ever arise since the US had and has its back.
Both “conflicts” occure at the same time. Their main enabler is the same power. But that´s it.
Jeffrey Sachs with a monologue on the Ukraine War when on a Q&A at the University of Cambridge past summer:
“Jeffrey Sachs Explains the Russia-Ukraine War”
https://scheerpost.com/2024/11/23/jeffrey-sachs-explains-the-russia-ukraine-war/
To compare Israel/Palestine and Ukraine/Russia is ahistoric and simply invalid. Those are not just completely different cases. They are in fact totally contradicting each other.
Ukraine already in 2020 was boasting with having one of the most powerful armies in Europe in 2020 with 350,000 men (see Atlantic Council) under arms (and hardened after 6 years of Civil War and antiterrorism operation in Donbas).
By April 2022 Ukraine had the second biggest army in NATO-Europe after Turkey with 750.000 soldiers and state of the art equipment from NATO and Hundreds of tanks and fighter jets.
The war in Ukraine is between Russia and NATO. Not Russia and Ukraine.
The genocide in Gaza is a genocide because there is NO army to defend the people.
Afer 1 year of fighting in Ukraine – or more correctly Eastern Ukraine, since the Western part has hardly anything to do with the war still – 8.500 civilians had been killed (now it´s roughly 9.500).
In the same time period Israel had killed at least 45.000.
However studies by Lancet and doctors who work there calculate with 450.000 killed by the end of he year.
The war in Ukraine is a war.
Israel is not conducting war. That is genocide.
Two totally different things.
There is a reason why protesters in the Global South are waving Russian flags.
The only people waving Israeli flags are corrupt elites sitting in US Congress and racist politicians and scholars in Germany, overpaid and uneducated.
Who is providing Israel with its impunity (and its armoury) for Genocide?
Can either you or Brian “Red” bring yourselves to say it?
@JK – “You seem to believe that Russia should have impunity for its aggressions due to its possession of nuclear weapons?”
Ukraine started this war in 2014, with US and British and Zionist backing.
Britain is clearly not acting as any kind of independent country. The British regime can’t even hold Ukraine to not bombing Russia with British-supplied weapons when the burger munchers tell Ukraine to go ahead and do it. This seems to have been revealed for the first time in today’s Financial Times, as if it were as natural as anything, as if everyone knew that end-user deals between Britain and recipients of British weapons were subject to being ripped up on burger muncher say-so. Fancy getting nuked because of that?
Brian Red
I’m not British.
If Putin was mad enough to attack London (say) with a nuclear weapon, the Ukanian (see what I did there) government would no doubt respond by nuking Moscow.
Putin would have gained nothing.. And would have lost his capital city.
Re: ‘The British regime can’t even hold Ukraine to not bombing Russia with British-supplied weapons’
As I understand it, the British regime was actively petitioning Biden to allow Ukraine to use its Storm Shadows on internationally recognised Russian territory, Brian.
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If Putin is ever mad enough to nuke London, JK, UK Trident missiles will almost certainly be going nowhere near Moscow. Think about who programmes their guidance systems – it’s not the Brits.
Correct, good ‘ol Uncle Sam ain’t going to DEFCON1 for us. WWIII is to be contained to mainland Europe.
Thanks for your reply Jim. US Presidents and Congresspersons swear oaths to defend the Constitution (though most of them don’t do that, preferring instead to drive a coach & horses through it). They don’t swear any oaths to defend ‘Yarrup’ – and there’s nothing in the North Atlantic Treaty that obliges them to defend it. Any future thermonuclear war probably won’t be confined to the mainland though, in that the British Isles is likely to get its fair share of nukes as well.
Boris told Zelensky to spit on the Istanbul Agreement and continue the war.
Those who voted for Johnson must remember that.
Mr Corbyn alone is asking the right questions. He is asking Keir Starmer: to comment on Storm Shadow’s strikes deep into Russia; to explain why such a move was made without parliamentary approval; and, to explain the risk to the British people.
Those who voted for the current MPs should also remember that parliament did not ask questions about these missiles.
Well, and also all Britons should remember what their taxes are spent on.
On Boris Johnson:
1. Boris Johnson’s stepmother Jenny Sieff is from the Zionist family that controls Marks and Spencer:
(Her father was Teddy Sieff, the honorary vice-president of the British Zionist Federation who was famously shot by Ilich Sanchez (“Carlos”) in St John’s Wood in London.)
On Marks and Spencer, the fact of this company’s strong support for the occupation of Palestine is not in dispute:
criticism: https://www.ihrc.org.uk/briefing-a-brief-chronology-of-the-marks-spencer-israel-relationship/
praise: https://www.cufi.org.uk/spotlight/the-jewish-roots-of-ms-and-how-it-helped-the-zionist-cause/
2. Boris Johnson stayed on a Zionist colonial settlement in Palestine when he was an undergraduate, as arranged by “Israeli diplomat” Michael Comay, a friend of his stepmother Jenny’s.
Read about it in Haaretz here: https://archive.is/kQJVb
3. Boris Johnson has been big electorally in two contexts:
a. beating Ken Livingstone for the London mayorship
b. beating Jeremy Corbyn in a general election
Both times, his opponent was subjected to utterly false and hysterical accusations by the Lobby as being “anti-Semitic”. (Both Livingstone and Corbyn have been anti-racists all their lives.)
4. Back in 2017, SIS was reportedly wary of giving Johnson intelligence briefings when he was foreign secretary. You can read about this here:
https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2017/11/joke-s-over-how-boris-johnson-damaging-britain-s-global-stature
Can’t help but think that in any major conflagration that it will be Britain and Western Europe that become the proxies in any US war against Russia.
Ukraine has found out what it’s like to be the US’s proxy. Starmer and the great British public might soon find out what the Ukrainians have found out.
More Storm Shadow missiles, the UK ‘s up for it.
Maybe Tatyana you can put a word in with Mr Putin and suggest that he tests one of his shiny new missiles on Westminster, wednesday afternoon is a good time.
Stevie Boy
I’m not British and am no admirer of the British government.
But a Russian nuclear attack on London would presumably result in the nuclear destruction of the Russian capital.
JK Redux
Yes. As long as the USA allows it.
The US would sanguinely let Europe and Russia fire Tactical Nukes at each other and if the US had to come into the equation then sit down with the Russians to talk. If of course they were still around?
The only way Russia can’t be around is for the US to become involved in World War Three. That’s MAD in tactical terms and MAD if the US no longer exists too.
As Jim Bowen on Bullseye used to say: ‘That’s the gamble.’
Mark Cutts
I was simply commenting on Stevie Boy’s post that suggested that “tests one of his shiny new missiles on Westminster, Wednesday afternoon is a good time.”
Probably intended as black humour.
But Hoo Nose (sic).
Stevie Boy
I was just thinking yesterday that if I were as rich and advanced in IT as Elon Musk, I would launch a global service. Something like an interactive map where users can mark the next Russian missile strike. I think I can guess which place would be #1 in the rating.
By the way, this can be monetized. If I charge even a modest penny, I could earn a good amount. Again, I can sell advertising space on the map, offer map outlook customizations, for an additional fee an animated video with the impact aftermath…
Does anyone have Elon’s contacts? I think I have a business idea for him 🙂
JK
Why nuclear? We can stuff this with Novichok! No one will die, but many will shit their pants. No need to be a cruel Armageddon delivery man.
Perhaps I will change my penname to Tatyana, the Mercy Bringer 🙂
I have little doubts that Vlad reads the FT that usually. Brian, since none of us actually trust what the MSM can publish, why refer to them only when it brings water to the mill (so to speak). Besides
France may be a lackey to the imperial USA. But Britain is powerful and independent, or am I missing something?
Speaking of MSM, they’re having a field day. Thanks to their effort, millions of people are scared shitless, or pretend to. Will I wake up tomorrow?
Of course, this is slightly off topic, but I am not the only one…
PS I enjoy your comments.
I would have thought some part of the Russian foreign ministry definitely does read everything in the Financial Times that might be relevant to Russia – whether in London, Frankfurt, Berlin, or Moscow. And part of the defence ministry too, when it’s military-related.
@Wilshire – Not sure which country you are in, but have you seen any food hoarding yet? I plan to go to Tesco tomorrow and will report on any empty shelves.
Do that please. I do not have the privilege to be currently living in England, even though I very often visited.
I never checked. Is Tesco honorable, if you see what I mean. I tend to patronize local shops….
Obviously you felt the irony in my question.
But there’s some truth in stating that just like there are warmongers there are also some actors who for some reason feed on the fears.
No, in my book, WW3 has obviously already started, but it’s not going to involve nuclear weapons. Because both Donald and Vlad care about their own survival. That’s why. Sorry, but I still like your comments.
I don’t presently believe that World War 3 is imminent, but if I ever come into a substantial sum of money, such as tonight’s Euromillions, the first priority will be to buy an isolated property in, say, Cumbria, and to have a nuclear shelter installed beneath the same, the kind that you can live in for months. The old imperialism was at least prudent enough to visit its evils on people’s with only a stone age, or at best nascent iron age technology. The most egregious post WW2 imperialism has been visited upon the Arabs, who possess the scientific wherewithal to make nuclear bombs. The monomania within the psyche of Israels only extant ally, the US, concerning the safety of what must be described as a parasitic infestation of its body politic, and its ceaseless efforts to preserve this state, vassal turned master, as in some way akin to the Laputa of the Middle e East, divorced from the geopolitical realities of the hinterland, has caused America to spend its resources on such a prodigal scale as to cause a detectable tectonic shift towards Beijing. My God, how the Chinese leadership must have chucked to see their most powerful rival squandering itself to cosset a shitty little apartheid state can never render its benefactor the remotest service in return, and would have no inclination to help the US should the latter ever come upon an hour of need.
However, there must be heads even in the US State department who can see where their country’s unstinting and unquestiined support is trending on the global checkerboard and wish to develop a strategy to stem the tide of world power towards the far East. This involves arrogating possession of Russias vast natural resources into American control, thus guaranteeing a second consecutive “American century” whatever the developments elsewhere. If the colonialism being practiced at the Arabs expense is playing with fire, this latter is more like juggling gelignite, and the future looks dangerous indeed
“France may be a lackey to the imperial USA. But Britain is powerful and independent”.
You’ve got that ass backwards, as they say.
France has always been much more, socialist, and ‘independent’ of the USA than the UK. Remember Iraq and ‘the cheese eating surrender monkeys’. The UK has a ‘special relationship’ whereby the USA tells it what to do and the UK says ‘yes massa’.
Ever heard of the word ‘IRONY’ ?
Not that I crave for the French government. Not at all. I think Macron is a disgrace. But in the context, they have not recently supplied weapons to Israel. And currently, they are arresting Netanyahu in the unlikely event he would show up in the country of Camembert and Beaujolais.
Sorry for the confusion !
Irony ! Yes, it’s like goldy and bronzy only it’s made out of iron. As Baldrick said.
Well then just iron it
Removes wrinkles
Thanks for FT.
NYT reported Nov. 21st that WH was discussing nukes for Ukraine.
Allegedly that went nowhere.
Well, why am I doubtful about that?
I wouldn´t be surprised if nukes are “accidentally” discovered in Ukraine…
NYT
“Trump’s Vow to End the War Could Leave Ukraine With Few Options”
Nov. 21, 2024
https://archive.is/4G56L
Of course it comes in the very end of the article:
“(…)
Several officials even suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union. That would be an instant and enormous deterrent. But such a step would be complicated and have serious implications.
(…)”
Well, there’s a lie if ever I seen it.
The day will come when there is peace. Israel will not exist on that day.
That will be post a nuclear war – as Israel will launch its nukes before it cedes the land it has stolen.
Nuclear launch is what Israel threatens – not necessarily what they will be able to do. The threat was uttered more than 20 years ago. Things have changed since then. It is now increasingly obvious that if a collapse of Israel occurs, it will be through internal collapse, not external invasion, which is what the paranoid Israelis imagine. By the way van Creveld told us those nukes are aimed at Europe, not at the Arabs, and he was equipped to know, in order to discourage backsliding in support. (So you will be one to suffer from this policy).
For peace it will be necessary, as in the case of South Africa, for Israel to abandon apartheid in favour of full democracy between the Jordan and the Mediterranean. To effect this may need American sanctions (BDS), as in the past.
That way Israel will choose evolution instead of revolution, as South Africa did. Instead of being a pariah state it can become a great and good influence in the Middle East and the world, and set an example as South Africa has done, and decommission all nuclear weapons and forbid citizens to participate in their manufacture.
I understand why some countries feel that such weapons are necessary for survival. North Korea thinks that they need them to avoid Gaddafi’s fate. Which is one reason why attacking Libya was a bad idea. But North Korea can democratise and avoid destruction, as can other undemocratic regimes, and this will help to defuse the whole world. American-Russian or Indian-Pakistani rivalries may take SALT diplomacy, if possible. Reagan and Gorbachev succeeded in it. (The collapse of Communism in Europe was a different matter).
Is there any reason now stopping the ICC from also declaring Starmer and Sunak as war criminals for explicitly supporting the genocide in Gaza?
Good point, there should be an additional case regarding just this, the complicity of actors. All western states have law forbidding them from providing arms to states that engage in gross human rights violations.
Agreed. Starmer publicly said Netanyahu had the right to do one of the very things the ICC has accused him of that constitutes a crime against humanity: cutting the water supply to Gaza.
Regarding the internationally wanted criminal Netanyahu, perhaps one of the Gaza MPs or Jeremy Corbyn could also enquire as to whether he holds a bank account at the Bank of England or any other assets under British jurisdiction. Starmer ought to be able to answer a question on that, given he’s supposed to be the head of the British government.
Clearly Netanyahu isn’t about to hand himself over – he’s too busy comparing himself to Dreyfus, seemingly regardless of the fact that Dreyfus consented to stand trial twice – so further steps must be taken to apprehend him and he cannot be allowed to operate as a financial entity in any country that respects the ICC. Or does Andrew Bailey at the Bank of England fancy a trip to the Hague?
The Bank of England is literally a law unto itself. It is an anachronistic hangover from the middle ages, It would be a mistake to assume it answers to the UK Government.
Stevie Boy.
I recall an Indonesian court finding Blair and Bush guilty of war crimes in absentia – both men are still free to walkaround and are living the good life – even though there’s a plethora of evidence out there to show they are guilty – this example of Western corruption is exactly why Johnson, Sunak, Starmer, Biden, Scholz, and the incoming Trump, etc, will never see the inside of a court with regards to war crimes – they are protected by the Western establishment.
Would not surprise me a bit, the western puppet states do not have the honesty to publicly declare that their weapons (along with their advisors) will be used against Russia.
Well whaddayaknow?
Netanyahu had a bank account with the Royal Bank of Scotland on the British tax haven “crown dependency” of Jersey:
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4477362,00.html
And for some reason the Jersey Evening Post has taken a close interest in Netanyahu’s being suspected and then indicted in the terrorist state for bribery and other financial crime:
https://www.jerseyeveningpost.com/morenews/worldnews/2018/02/14/police-recommend-corruption-charges-against-israels-pm-benjamin-netanyahu/
https://www.jerseyeveningpost.com/morenews/worldnews/2019/12/02/benjamin-netanyahu-issued-with-official-bribery-indictment/
US Senator Tom Cotton is calling for the USA’s Hague Invasion Act to be invoked. Cotton called the ICC a “Kangaroo Court” and its chief prosecutor Karim Khan “A Deranged Fanatic”.
Cotton added: “Woe to him and anyone who tries to enforce these outlaw warrants.”
One has to wonder if these ‘people’ would have had the same reactions 75 years ago at Nuremberg. (Which actually was a ‘kangaroo court’)
Senator Cotton is no outlier. His threat has not been condemned by anybody in US politics. The Act itself remains enshrined in US law with no calls (even beyond the Uniparty) for it to be repealed.
Paradoxically, one can ponder the idea that these apparent threats past couple of months against the ICC by the US actually made the ICC taking the final step to issue the arrest order to prove just to the world that they had not been compromised by the US intimidations, threats.
Not that they would but it would be very interesting if ICC unveiled and publicized all the threats, intimidation, influence that not only the US, Israel, but the rest of the west, put on ICC during these times.
Also remember how David Lammy welcomed the arrest order against Putin:
17oct 2023:This is an historic step by the ICC.
President Putin is now a wanted man, facing charges of war crimes. This should send a clear message to all his cronies in Russia- you will and must face justice for your barbaric war in Ukraine.
https://x.com/DavidLammy/status/1636771371668717572
But today Lammy is nowhere to be seen with embracing the ICC’s arrest order against Netanyahu.
Let’s apply Lammy’s words consistently. Suppose “Lammy2” said
This is an historic step by the ICC.
Prime Minister Netanyahu is now a wanted man, facing charges of war crimes. This should send a clear message to all his cronies in Israel – you will and must face justice for your barbaric war in Gaza.
What’s the problem?
You couldn’t make this up, and it quite clearly shows how biased the UN can be.
Russian journalists have been denied access to a UN session in Paris – on media freedom!
UNESCO – reportedly refused accreditation for Russian journalists to attend the panel – or to enter the organisation’s headquarters in the French capital.
It’s probably down to Ukraine killing journalists (taking a leaf from Netanyahu’s book) – they don’t want evidence of this known in the UN.
Get this: the head of the German government is indicating he won’t allow a man who is internationally wanted for crimes against humanity to be arrested if he comes to Germany – in other words, the German state will brazenly obstruct the work of the international court that issued the arrest warrant – because apparently Germany has something that the Daily Telegraph calls a “Nazi history”.
So the wanted criminal against humanity is free to come to Germany whenever he wants, in a similar way to how another criminal against humanity, Adolf Eichmann, was free in Argentina.
What a shame the PFLP hasn’t the capacity to capture Netanyahu and either deposit him in the Hague or try the c*** in Palestine.
Shame on Germany! Although hats off to Scholz and the Torygraph for reminding people of the country’s Nazi history.
What do Germany’s law officers think about this? There are judges in the German regime, right? A free biscuit for any journalist who tries to contact one of them.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/22/germany-wont-arrest-netanyahu-nazi-history/
PS Those of us who would like to see Netanyahu and other Zionist murderers brought to justice need to keep repeating the name of one of the crimes for which the ICC would like to try him. It’s called crime against humanity.
I had been under the impression that, in a functioning democracy, the head of state lacked the power to decide for him/herself and declare – by diktat – when laws should be applied or not, when Treaties could be ignored, and what the police and courts should or should not do.
Jesus, even when the top judicial authority claim that this man is involved in mass murder of civilians the germans cannot even come to grips about Netanyahu!
Germans really like to torture themselves, they are so cooped up with their “guilt” not realizing that they will soon find themselves getting a second “guilt” by supporting the modern day Hitler of Netanyahu and his killing spree of palestinians.
It would be so easy for Germany to say, ‘yes we will follow ICC arrest demands on Netanyahu but we will not block other israeli reps from coming here’ (how bad that is in itself).
“Germany has suggested that it will not arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he travels to the country because of its Nazi history”.
With that logic Germany should not have any problem inviting Putin considering how many russians/slavs that Nazi germany was involved in killing. Far more than jews.
Some 11 million slavs died because of the “Generalplan Ost”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost
Speaking on Russia remember how much the collective west have condemned various allies of Russia for not arresting Putin (when he have travelled outside of Russia) and then they go about doing the exact same thing!?
If there is 1 word that describe the west it must be: hypocrites.
Just to point out that you would not want Russian forces defending your neighbourhood. At the end of WWII returning Russian allies raped millions of East German women. More than 2 million abortions were provided free of charge by the government. In the regions of East Ukraine which voted to secede from Ukraine, Russian soldiers go house to house, shooting the men and raping the women, even though these are the Russian speaking Ukrainians who consider themselves to be ethnic Russians. The Democrats intended this horror to be inflicted on the Ukrainian people, but the young Russian conscripts will have lost their good manners if they survive to return home.
War is a terrible thing. And the Russians were the only one of the Allies against Nazi Germany to do widespread raping of females. Israel is in a league of its own, though, as far as rape as a weapon of war is used. It is used violently against detained Palestinian men, and is most brutally used against doctors and healthcare workers in Gaza.
Israel is a formidable foe and we in most of Europe have enjoyed 70 years of peace thanks to mutually agreed deterrence under the umbrella of NATO. Zionists have undermined the rules-based order and I haven’t the foggiest idea how they can be persuaded to end their crusade against countries where so many Jews still live successfully and in peaceful integration.
A few points:
– That was then and is no indicator of what would happen now.
– The Russians, more than anyone, had good reason to despise the Germans.
– The figure of 2Mn abortions/rapes should be viewed in the light of biased MSM reporting.
Also,
Israel is NOT a formidable foe, it is a badly disciplined mob that has been able to get away with genocide purely because of its friends (USA, UK). Any disciplined force would have no trouble beating these thugs. The IDF is plagued with bad morale and desertion, although you won’t hear that in the MSM.
Stevie Boy
You dismiss Alyson’s comments re the mass rapes by the Red Army rather casually.
The phrase “The Russians, more than anyone, had good reason to despise the Germans” suggests that the Red Army’s alleged behaviour (on which you implicitly cast doubt) was somehow understandable .
And of course you use the term Russian for the Soviet soldiers…
Stevie Boy, please respect women’s testimony, currently, and note that record keeping in East Germany was quite good, so even if they were just winners taking revenge against females (mostly) of all ages, it was wrong then and it is wrong now. Civilian non-combatants can usually be ignored in warfare as they will be under new government at the cessation of hostilities. The Palestinians thought so, too, for too long, seeing towns and villages erased as somehow just a one off, and living life as normal right up until it was too late.
Alyson. Agreed war crimes are war crimes, full stop, no excuses.
However, you decided to just concentrate on the red army. The reality is that virtually every nation involved in WW2 were also involved to some level in war crimes. So not excusing the red army, just not targeting them to meet the western agenda. To my knowledge, Americans and British troops amongst others were also involved in rapes in Germany and Japan and elsewhere.
I have no problems with current Russian forces, they appear to be professional and disciplined unlike their opponents.
BTW, I also don’t give any extra weight to testimony just because it comes from a woman. IMO, Everyone should be treated equally regardless of sex, colour and religion.
” – The figure of 2Mn abortions/rapes should be viewed in the light of biased MSM reporting. ”
Are you are Holocaust Denier too?
https://english.alarabiya.net/features/2018/03/11/PICTURES-The-largest-mass-rape-in-history
Reports from Ukraine suggest that Russian forces are anything but professional and disciplined.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/04/03/ukraine-apparent-war-crimes-russia-controlled-areas
Ukraine fired its ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova, precisely because she spread fakes about rape, including of minors, including in a perverted form – there in the territories controlled by Russia.
As Denisova herself commented, she believed that she was helping her country!
When things like this become known, it’s difficult to understand what exactly happened and whether it happened at all.
About Germany, Wiki says that about 17 million people lived in the Soviet occupation zone. How many of them were women of reproductive age? Are there any demographers among us?
The figure of 2 million scares me. I’m a woman and am familiar with the female reproductive system first-hand, so to speak. If 2 million coituses led to pregnancy, then we can extrapolate their approximate total number.
The two million figure cited refers to rapes and not abortions, Tatyana.
The book is called Our bodies, their Battleground. The journalist Isabel Hilton travelled to war zones and recorded testimonies of survivors around the world. Silencing these voices is not new, but she was deeply shocked by how widespread rape as a weapon of war is, in various different forms. These women trusted her enough to tell her their experiences. A few men as well, but it was very difficult for them to speak out. Laurence of Arabia merely stated that his Turkish captors had destroyed the fount of his manhood.
Europe as a whole has laws to prosecute rapists. If Russia wishes to be accorded respect in any post-war peace then Putin must rescind his order to his soldiers to rape the women in the areas where they are supposed to be responsible for protecting the civilians and infrastructure. This would be the best indication that a stable and peaceful resolution is possible.
Thanks for correction, Lapsed Agnostic.
Alyson, you say ‘rescind his order to his soldiers’, and it sounds as if Purin orderd to rape people??? Do you really mean this? Russian soldier get trialed and punished for war crimes, 2908 are reported to go to prison, this month 2 got lifelong prison term.
Tatiana – I did not see him order soldiers to rape but I saw him encouraging soldiers to volunteer by saying there would be beautiful Ukrainian women for them. If he can assure observers that apologies will be immediately forthcoming for any misunderstanding, and make it clear that rape will be punished, then perhaps the testimonies of this misunderstanding can be the end of the matter.
It is to be hoped that the occupation by Russian forces will be ended when a peace accord can be agreed. All of Ukraine has had a very difficult experience, but those living near the disputed regions have suffered more than most.
Alyson, that is a monstrous statement for Putin. Can you please perhaps give a link or any proof? I cannot belive he said so.
From all the propaganda about joining the army that I see on billboards and on the Internet, the pitch is that it’s OUR people there.
From my point of view, this is true. I know that the people there are ethnically and culturally Russian, and I also heard that long before the war began, many in Donbas and Lughansk had dual citizenship, that is, they had Russian passports. When Kiev bombed them and cut them off from all government services, it was on the basis of their dual citizenship that they received pensions and social benefits from Russia.
What Baron writes in the comment below came to my mind as well, this is the impression that comes from such words – Goebbels propaganda.
I searched via Google and printscreened the result. You can see .jpg uploaded in the cloud server of the PrintScreen tool:
in Russian:
https://prnt.sc/4Vv6E17L_90r
The same in English:
https://prnt.sc/WyTwUKAcsbsq
The first link is Ukrainian website, the news is deleted
https://www.ukr.net/news/details/russianaggression/91171861.html
The second link is the Yandex snippet to the video by Ukrainian channel ‘Ukrainochka’, here it’s on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjOXHazVw3U
The video has 3 likes and zero comments, so I assume it had no wide audience.
The woman in that video refers to Arestovich, she says that according to Arestovich (chief Ukrainian propagandist) there are rapes and massacres in Zaporozhie. She also says, that some British baroness stated that there’s an order to rape Ukrainian women.
Her interlocutor (according to the video’s headline he is Sheitelman) says that he is sure that Putin personally gave the order to rape Ukrainian women.
I also googled for Sheitelman. His YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTY1dmeZ87bGv1dCv_jzMlQ
The description of the channel says:
Mikhail Sheitelman is a political strategist and writer. He is called the secret hero of several revolutions of the 21st century. Personal consultant of Boris Berezovsky.
I searched by different keywords, but found nothing except for the above 2 links.
All these facts together make me think that this all “Putin’s order to rape” is fake. Probably originating in Britain and spread by people who have something to do with old money stolen in Russia by Jewish oligarchs after the collapse of the USSR.
For what the Nazis did to the Russian people, men, women and children, Alyson, the raping of Western women by the Russian soldiery was a walk in the park. The Americans both in Germany, but also in France and Italy, raped women as well. The figure of 2mn is a pure invention, nobody really knows the actual number. The West had every reason to inflate it, borrowing from Goebbel’s agitprop, painting the Russian soldiers as barbaric Asiatic hordes – their officers as Jewish/Bolshevik rapists, when the news of a number of gang rapes and rape murders took place in East Prussia in April 1944.
“…tales of horror were emerging – so many that a special hotline set up by Lyudmila Denisova, Ukraine’s Ombudsman for Human Rights had taken 1,500 calls within the first six weeks … The mother and younger daughter eventually died of their injuries and the 17 year old was left locked in a cellar for three days with their bodies … an eleven year old boy … didn’t speak for a month … a number of young teenagers had been left pregnant … “ I have not put in the detail as it is too awful. “They were mostly young soldiers aged 20 to 25. They did it publicly in front of other family members…” (tied to chairs)
This was in 2022. Christina Lamb is the author of ‘Our Bodies, Their Battlefield’.
I’m sad for you Tatyana that this is so hard to believe. I also saw Putin’s twinkly-eyed speech, but I cannot find it to provide a link. These gang rapes by the soldiers are leaving lasting trauma in the girls and women (and boys) who survive. This aspect of war is usually hidden from the record. It would seem that men on both sides of the war still wish it to be erased from history.
Just like most Israelis, most Ukrainians are inveterate liars. Please don’t fall for their BS.
In the case of Germany, the point to bear in mind is that Scholz appears to be on the way out finally. He has been such a catastrophe for Germany’s interests, virtually destroying the country and its economy in one term. We don’t know yet what the successor will do, though I don’t have great hopes for greater independence of action.
“Scholz appears to be on the way out”
Don´t bet on it. Especially with left voters who buy into anti-AfD-PR. And the specter of nuclear war where Merz has a problem now to walk back from.
(For what´s it´s worth: I was right on Pistorius.)
And people do not like Merz. Never did.
I am surprised Söder has been so quiet. But there is a plan behind that.
He wants to be chancellor. No question.
But he has time. So I assume he waits until Merz messes it up.
Very refreshing to hear Craig in conversation with Max Blumenthal on The Grayzone Live. Sound commonsense and insightful analysis on Lebanon, Israel, Skripal, British-Russian relations, Ukraine etc. Truths one would not hear in a decade listening to establishment talking heads. (Or let’s be honest, ever). We need his ass home safe.
https://www.youtube.com/live/fKH1ebU9CCw?si=JinAaEmlzIL5g36t
Preceded by discussion between Max and Aaron Maté on the ICC arrest warrant and the US establishment reaction to that and Trump’s disparate cabinet selections.
The live audience for Craig on Friday evening was apparently larger than either MSNBC or CNN attracted at the same time. People have had enough of them.
Craig mentions he tried to get to the West Bank, but wasn’t allowed in by Israeli authorities. Fascinating, we’d like to hear more about this episode.
The zionist, fat boy, Musk is rumoured to be considering buying MSNBC. Don’t know if that’s a good thing or not?
Thanks for sharing the link, Frankywiggles.
Thanks to Craig, we finally know the truth about the Skripals saga. And about the sad fate of poor Dawn Sturgess. This interview is well worth watching, the Grayzone deserves its reputation. From Salisbury to Beirut, let independent journalists reveal what the corporate media keeps hiding.
Wilshire
Dawn’s fate would be good to know if she had had an Inquest.
As far as I know she didn’t have one and was cremated fairly quickly.
As to Dawn Sturgess’s fate, John Helmer has all the details of the inquiry at Dances With Bears and believes that “A corpse had to be found, dead enough not to be able to testify otherwise as Yulia Skripal had done.
That turned out to be Dawn Sturgess, who died at her home on June 30, 2018, of cardiac arrest and brain hypoxia after consuming a combination of sleeping and anti-anxiety medications, cocaine, and fentanyl. The Novichok weapon, fabricated in a perfume atomiser by MI6 and Porton Down, was then placed on Sturgess’s kitchen table for the police to discover eleven days after her drug binge and collapse; and after medics and police had failed to find it through multiple and repeated searches.
Further to my last post, here’s the link
https://johnhelmer.org/british-operation-kiss-kill-instantly-skripals-has-failed-to-kill-but-succeeded-at-covering-up-almost/
According to her post-mortem, Johnny, Dawn Sturgess died on 8th July in Salisbury Hospital, after her life-support system was switched off. The paramedics actually managed to restart her heart in Charlie Rowley’s flat on 30th June. The fentanyl detected in her system will have almost certainly been used to put her in a medically induced coma (not that it would have been required as she was brain-dead). There’s no compelling evidence that she died of any drug binge* – she might have had a bit of charlie with Charlie, but that’s very unlikely to have killed her. However, tests carried out by Birmingham University found that the levels of active acetylcholinesterase in her blood were less than 5% of what they should have been; that’s completely consistent with nerve agent poisoning. The questions still to be answered are: a) What was that nerve agent (the pathologist who actually carried out the examination of her corpse doesn’t state that it was Novichok)?; b) Where did it come from?; and c) How did it get into her system?
* I previously thought that a heroin/fentanyl overdose was the most likely explanation for her untimely death, but evidence presented to her Inquiry has since convinced me otherwise.
Just saying, we know the lies about the Skripal saga, but I don’t think we know the truth.
We do know for a fact that the Skripals have been ‘disappeared’ by the security services,
So Dawn had a Post Mortem but not an Inquest. Sounds like a Blood Test only to me. Is that usual?
The intriguing thing is all this is months on from the original attack. The CCTV cameras may show a lot of hovering (or guilty?) spooks in the vicinity. Definitely the Skripals on the bench.
Julia has Copper-coloured hair – the colour she arrived from Russia with.
A witness from the Sports Shop described the woman on the bench as having blonde hair; a couple more did too.
Thanks for your reply Mark. I believe that the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry is in lieu of a coroner’s inquest. Dawn’s post-mortem involved a lot more than just blood tests. I already gave you a link in the last-but-one comments section, but in case you missed it here it is again:
https://dsiweb-prod.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/INQ005227.pdf
CCTV footage of the bench in the Maltings from 15:48 to 15:55 on 4th March 2018 will probably show a lot more than just spooks hovering about, which is very likely the reason we’re not being allowed to see it. See my comment on one of the forum discussion threads on the Skripal affair for more details:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/forums/topic/the-salisbury-poisonings-episode-was-all-staged/page/3/#post-101456
Four people have described the woman seen incapacitated on the bench as having blonde hair in witness statements: Snap Fitness manager Freya Church, passer-by Olly Field, the army’s former Chief Nurse Alison McCourt & PC Alex Collins. However, more people have described her as having brown or red hair. Rather than there being any funny business at play, I’m fairly sure it’s just a good example of the Russian proverb: ‘He [or she] lies like an eyewitness.’
Lapsed Agnostic. Thanks for that. It’s very thorough.
No medical expert, so can’t really interpret much. Except that the original Doctor who examined Julia described a lot of saliva as reported from Dawn.
Also, there were no blisters or marks on Dawn’s wrists, neck, hands, etc. – when some reports said that Dawn had marks of some kind after being taken to hospital.
The Red-bag lady is seen in the arcade – she has blonde hair and a red bag yet – the young female witness said the Lady on the Bench had blonde hair. Unless she (or others) saw two different incidents involving two different sets of people? Both with Red Bags? Quite a coincidence, even by mistaken identity.
Red Bag – blonde hair (on CCTV).
Red Bag – Copper-coloured hair? (don’t know).
Thanks for the update and glad to see you are able to travel and witness the daily dozens of Guernicas being visited by the Collective Wastes natzo miltary might upon the Levantines.
The ziofascist illegal apartheid entity – the Last of the AngloEuropean Imperialist Colonisations over centuries – is going to end as spectacularly fast as the SubContinent was bloodily abandoned and stitched into the monstrous chimera it drama is to this day; as Rhodesia was equally corruptly given independence and shapeshifted to Zimbabwe as cover and as awkwardly as South Arica was begrudged to the ANC and Nelson Mandela who was kept as an official Terrorist in the U.K. state until after his retirement as president and just before he died, aged nearly 90 in 2009 I think.
There is no easy realisation of guilt and return of the global robber piracy of centuries.
They never apologise, never give up without being forced- because they themselves are very Few and hide behind proxy nation’s patriotic superiority complexes. Happily seing them die in their millions whilst always escaping with the booty.
The World changed a few days ago when the Imperilaist had their trouser pulled down in public and got a spanking whilst they waved their fake nuclear weapon dicks around like so many Shelensky’s playing piano with these fake members.
The Terror of the Occupied Palestine can end with a salvo on the West Asian Military bases being used to attack the civilians and protect the deluded proxy ziofascist settlers of the Entity and its satraps Old Arab Slave traders.
Hazelnut lashes , rods of hypersonic fire can end the centuries of warring in an hour.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has been doing the rounds trying to explain why it is not possible to agree with any extradition request from the ICC. Here..
a} it’s not her job to say whether the UK would obey international law and extradite them to the ICC and
b) that there would be ‘legal processes’ and ‘government processes’ that would have to be completed before the UK could decide whether the extradition would go ahead. She is lying. https://skwawkbox.org/2024/11/23/labour-is-lying-when-it-says-there-would-have-to-be-legal-processes-before-netanyahus-extradition/
On Putin’s arrest warrant the Grayzone demolished the case against him for transferring children from a war zone into Russia. The case was initiated with the help of the US state Department and willing dupes at the ICC including Amal Clooney. Here..
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/04/13/nato-states-icc-prosecutor-putin/
Lindsey Graham, was in fulsome support for the ICC court’s campaign, in their prosecution of Putin. celebrating the ICC’s prosecutor as a modern-day Nazi hunter.
Now that his friend Netanyahu is in the frame he wants the US to take punitive action against the ICC. Will that action involve US law which threatens other countries with invasion:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-becomes-law
If that was the case could those NATO countries invoke article 5 of NATO charter? /S
When you are not a racist or paid to be a zionist–
One-third of Jewish-American teens say they sympathise with Hamas, Israeli government poll shows
Survey shows 66 percent of Jewish teens in US say they sympathise with the Palestinian people
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/one-third-american-jewish-teens-say-they-sympathise-hamas-israeli-government-poll-shows
Could be the case that approx 1 million Jewish Americans would be liable to be arrested if the same law in the UK [Section 12 Encouragement to Terrorism Act] was applied there. What crazy legislation.
From the War on Drugs … to the War against Terror (™ Netanyahu) … to the War on Sympathy?
Wait till those Jewish-USA teens who sympathise with the Palestinians and the Islamic Resistance Movement hear about the PFLP!
If any are reading these words, here’s some good music for you to play really loud when your parents can hear it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnRraYlzGIw
Meanwhile a new epoch beckons in Britain with a glorious combination of mass handing out of wrist-strapped and finger-worn “health and freedom” trackers by the NHS, together with assisted dying because it’s so humane.
The prime minister does not deserve to be called by the first name “Keir”. (Note: his parents specifically named him after Keir Hardie, so I am not just making a juvenile comment here.) His first name is “Genocide”.
This may be seen by Palestinian sympathisers as a hopeful sign, but in the UK these youngsters should be careful about making public statements containing named banned organisations. Condemning the racism and human rights abuses under Israeli apartheid, and calling for sanctions (BDS) as in the case of apartheid South Africa, is a safer way.
If 1 million people were to sign a document saying “Victory to Hamas and the PFLP”, the British regime might find it hard to jail us all. See what happened with Michael Baumann’s autobiographical “How It All Began” in West Germany. Besides, the PFLP is not proscribed in Britain. (But the PFLP-GC is.)
Or get to a position where it comes down to holding up blank pieces of paper.
Or something completely new.
One doesn’t want to be like these brown-tongued politicians in all major western countries who are being extremely careful in what they say about the ICC’s arrest warrant. Each of them knows that if they stick their head out too far, they’ll have the “defence” arm of the local Zionist structure coming for their b*llocks.
The blank pieces of paper thing – which comes from Hong Kong and was also used in London during the covid crackdown – is a great resistance tactic *if* it’s possible to take the struggle to a point where this tactic has purchase.
I was referring to named banned organisations. IMO references to the whole community like ‘Palestinians’ or ‘Palestinian rights’ or ‘Palestinians are full human beings’ (like BLM) should be fine.
Another example: an upside down solid red triangle might be illegal as it has been used as a symbol by Hamas (and I believe it is now banned in Berlin), but a complete Palestinian flag, or keffiyeh, or watermelon should be another matter.
Should not Israel’s Hannibal Directive be investigated (by ICJ or ICC)? A policy that set out killing your own population is surely a war crime or even crime against humanity.
Not that they would, but in the best of worlds, Israel should had conducted proper autopsies, with the supervision of foreign experts, on the dead bodies from 7th of october to pinpoint the cause of death. For example, how many were actually killed by Israel themselves? That Israel do not really come clean about this could imply a very high number.
No doubt Netanyahu and Gallant have be well warned by Starmer – not to come to the UK.
“Britain would most likely honor the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he came to visit, a spokesman for 10 Downing Street has said.”
As for the UK complying with International Law – don’t make me laugh.
““The UK will always comply with its legal obligations as set out by domestic law, and indeed international law,” a spokesman for Prime Minister Keir Starmer told British media on Friday.
However, he added that domestic procedures linked to ICC arrest warrants have never been used by the UK, because no one wanted by the court has ever visited the country.”
https://www.rt.com/news/608076-uk-netanyahu-icc-arrest-warrant/
Here’s a question for lawyers: what if Netanyahu visits Jersey to check on his bank account? This is assuming he still holds one there.
Will the warrant be executed? Or will anyone trying to execute the ICC warrant on Jersey be about as welcome as an investigator into the coverup of the murders at the Haut de la Garenne children’s “home”?
Jersey is not part of Britain. The UK regime’s law does not apply there.
However, the Jersey government’s official position is that it “acts in line with the UK on matters of foreign policy”. So that should mean it would respect an ICC arrest warrant.
https://www.gov.je/Ukraine/pages/index.aspx
Free biscuit to any journalist who contacts the Jersey government, asks this question, and then reports the answer.
Second question: is the Jersey government cool with operating bank accounts for internationally wanted criminals against humanity? “So you can’t give us a straight ‘No’, chief minister?”
Senator Tom Cotton – that deranged psychotic US Politician – has lost his mind over the ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu….
“Predictably, Benjamin Netanyahu has responded to this decision by shrieking about antisemitism and calling the ICC’s move “a modern Dreyfus trial”. He is doing this because he does not have anything resembling a real argument in his defense, and neither does anyone else.
We saw this illustrated in a statement from Senator Tom Cotton, who proclaimed that the U.S. would invade The Hague if the ICC tries to enforce its arrest warrants.
“The ICC is a kangaroo court and Karim Khan is a deranged fanatic,” Cotton said. “Woe to him and anyone who tries to enforce these outlaw warrants. Let me give them all a friendly reminder: the American law on the ICC is known as The Hague Invasion Act for a reason. Think about it.”
This is as psychotic a public statement as anything you’ll see from the most far-right extremists in the Knesset. The United States is run by demented zealots with nukes, just like Israel.
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/22/caity-johnstone-today-in-imperial-recklessness-insanity/
Harry Law
Netanyahu and his Crazies have put their fellow Israelis on a hook. The gamble is that they can persuade the US to extend their land grab right up to and including Iran. That way all will be fine for The State of Israel and no-one will ever think of touching them again.
The US is great at bombing – absolutely lousy at occupying and will leg it if it doesn’t suit their interests. The form on US desertion of former allies is legion.
Yes – at the moment Israel is a US Most-Favoured Nation, but as Kissinger said: Never be a friend of America.
Netanyahu is not only deluded, he is cornered, because if Trump doesn’t play ball – what does he and Israel do then?
Tom Cotton called for the army to suppress protests against the murder of George Floyd. Not just in the abstract. He said they gotta do it “tonight”.
I thought he might be Trump’s pick for vice-president this time, but nope.
The c*** has called slavery a “necessary evil”. Dunno how he gets along with Nikki Haley who says the USA has never been a racist country.
We may well hear more of Cotton. He’s only 47.
Craig, please get yourself out of there, you are such a valuable person; it is therefore insane you’re doing this. I know you have a huge heart but please take a step back here. Do we need to say that you would be huge loss? What the fuck are you doing buddy? Just for your knowledge of 2014, the Salmond stitch-up … if you die that dies with you. Stop this futile martyr-shit man and get home and get writing. We all know it is genocide and ethnic cleansing; you don’t have to sacrifice yourself. We all feel the same helplessness.
I concur, Craig has more than done his bit this past year. He is putting himself at the mercy of the most depraved and unscrupulous forces imaginable. His voice is needed for many more years to come.
Let him be, Mac – he’s far smarter than you and so knows what he’s doing.
Brits will have to die defending Israel in war against Iran, UK ambassador tells Israeli journalists
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/british-envoy-says-uk-will-put-its-own-personnel-in-harms-way-to-defend-israel-from-iran/
I’d be in favour of that if it meant Etonians and posh British civil servants and diplomats wearing Zionist flags on their clothing lying down at main early military targets on Zionist controlled territory.
But…biscuit to the ambassador for being a good boy and knowing which side his bread is buttered.
When politicians like Starmer, Lammy Biden and Blinken extol the virtues of the Israeli state they do so because they believe quite erroneously that Israel is a Democratic state when in fact it is a racist, Apartheid state which practices genocide. George Orwell thought about these contradictions when he wrote ‘Notes on Nationalism’ here….
“Indifference to Reality. All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe and oppose it in India with no feeling of inconsistency. Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage – torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians – which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by ‘our’ side. The Liberal News Chronicle published, as an example of shocking barbarity, photographs of Russians hanged by the Germans, and then a year or two later published with warm approval almost exactly similar photographs of Germans hanged by the Russians.[5] It is the same with historical events. History is thought of largely in nationalist terms, and such things as the Inquisition, the tortures of the Star Chamber, the exploits of the English buccaneers (Sir Francis Drake, for instance, who was given to sinking Spanish prisoners alive), the Reign of Terror, the heroes of the Mutiny blowing hundreds of Indians from the guns, or Cromwell’s soldiers slashing Irishwomen’s faces with razors, become morally neutral or even meritorious when it is felt that they were done in the ‘right’ cause. If one looks back over the past quarter of a century, one finds that there was hardly a single year when atrocity stories were not being reported from some part of the world: and yet in not one single case were these atrocities – in Spain, Russia, China, Hungary, Mexico, Amritsar, Smyrna – believed in and disapproved of by the English intelligentsia as a whole. Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection”.
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/notes-on-nationalism/
Agreed. There are so many things [5] that even today we can learn from George Orwell.
Even though he knew the great misfortune to actually be called Mr. Blair. Let’s hope he wasn’t related to the Tony by the same name!
Spanish war was terrible, but by far not as bad as Lebanon currently. Mr. Murray, we all wish you can rapidly heed our call and leave to more friendly shores. With the magic of the Internet, you can easily report or get interviewed from anywhere in the world.
Starmer, Lammy, Blinken, Biden all do it because they’re paid to do it. They believe in might is right.
They don’t give a toss about virtue, and as for “democracy”…is that something to do with slaveowner Cleisthenes, or is it like allowing the proles to press a red button as they watch the wrestling? They’re corrupt. They’re thieving scum who belong to the ruling class and they know it. They are not under any illusions or misapprehensions. No debates necessary.
Exactly. Democracy has become a dirty word nowadays. These politicians you mention have nothing but contempt for the concept.
And you know perfectly well there was nothing in common between the tyrant Cleisthenes of Sicyon and his grandson Cleisthenes of Athens, whose memories are still vivid.
They were both slaveowners.
But I meant Cleisthenes of Athens.
But then, in Ancient Greece, almost every household had slaves. Of various status. Beliefs were totally different in those days.
What’s extraordinary and unacceptable is to find in our 21st century some deranged leaders who still view other ethnicities as “human animals”.
The fact is that the reality of ‘democracy’ everywhere does not align with the theoretical, wooly definition of ‘democracy’ bandied about by ‘the plebs’. Therefore, instead of continually fooling ourselves we need to accept that ‘democracy’ is an corrupt system used by the rich, establishment to oppress people and fool them into the belief that they have control and a say in their lives.
Democracy is exactly what you see before you, it is the walls of your prison.
Harry Law
You can also do Regime Changes – if you are a Democracy of course. Because you allegedly hold the High Moral Superiority ground. Rules-based order and so on.
What the democrats mean is: ‘If our rules are applied to us – they don’t count but applied to Non Democracies, then they do’.
That is why Democracy is on its arse and leading the Western World towards nationalism – then Protectionism – then real Fascism (not the mélange we have at the current time).
It does not look good.
Over 20 innocent people lost their lives in yesterday night’s attack in central Beirut. Many more were injured.
The target was Mohammad Haydar, one of the chief officers for Hezbollah. More details to follow.
Update: at least 29 fatalities and 67 other casualties in that bombing in the Basta district of Beirut.
In retaliation, Hezbollah has fired today over 250 rockets and missiles towards Israel, and at least 5 people have been injured.
“We will hunt you down and get you,” Netanyahu said”
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/netanyahu-gaza-says-hamas-will-no-longer-rule-enclave-2024-11-19/
Is he talking about himself? This guy is literally wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. The number of countries that are obliged to arrest Netanyahu if he sets foot on their territory is 124.
In other news, genocide denial is still the law in Turkey, but…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Turkish_diplomats_assassinated_by_Armenian_militant_organisations
Is he Brian .Em Track Mossad record Eh
Shameless article on the Netanyahu warrant by an intellectually retarded physicist (or perhaps his pet AI program) writing in the Times of Israel:
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/zealotry-and-mercy-parashat-pinchas-on-the-war-in-gaza/
Sample extract:
“I argue that Israel’s military actions, while causing immediate suffering, are ultimately acts of mercy aimed at protecting its citizens and securing long-term peace, as well as freeing Palestinians from the oppressive regime of a terrorist organization, Hamas”
Further on in the article, this guy cites numerology, and, curiously, also reincarnation.
Yep, and in my opinion there’s far worse than AI. It’s NS (short for Natural Stupidity). And there’s certainly no shortage of that resource…
A smear campaign is underway, against the ICC’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan – it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out why.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/nov/21/crisis-at-icc-international-criminal-court-karim-khan-allegations
The Guardian cites unnamed people as saying there’s no evidence suggesting Israeli intelligence has anything to do with this allegation made by an unnamed person. What is the point of publishing that kind of assurance if it isn’t to show performatively to the Zionists that the newspaper is “sound”? Karim Khan of course is *not* unnamed.
Fatou Bensouda at the ICC was threatened by Israel:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/israeli-spy-chief-icc-prosecutor-war-crimes-inquiry
What other country has threatened international criminal judges apart from Israel, and, more recently, the USA in support of Israel?
Bensouda and Khan have got guts!
Well Yess Brian.. WE Do pay attention to Consortiumn News.. And the Grayzone .. But recall the Evil Guardian Silence
One have almost forgot about the big demonstrations that went on in the streets of Israel against Netanyahu just prior to october 7, the support for Netanyahu back then was extremely low:
2023 Israeli judicial reform protests
From January to October 2023, large-scale protests took place across Israel in response to the government’s push for a wide-ranging judicial reform. The proposed reform aimed to give the government full control of the Supreme Court or court decisions through various ways
The protests came to an end following the 7 October attacks and the ensuing Israel–Hamas war,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Israeli_judicial_reform_protests
So what better way to divert the attention from yourself to war:
Shin Bet Warned Netanyahu of 10/7 Attack Hours Before It Began
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2024/11/09/shin-bet-warned-netanyahu-of-10-7-attack-hours-before-it-began/
Just as the neocons wished for a big event like Pearl Harbor to happen to advance US foreign policy goals, so did Netanyahu.
US got 9/11 and Israel got 7th of october:
John Pilger 2002: Two years ago a project set up by the men who now surround George W Bush said what America needed was “a new Pearl Harbor”. Its published aims have come alarmingly true
The threat posed by US terrorism to the security of nations and individuals was outlined in prophetic detail in a document written more than two years ago and disclosed only recently. What was needed for America to dominate much of humanity and the world’s resources, it said, was “some catastrophic and catalysing event – like a new Pearl Harbor”.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110224030050/http://www.newstatesman.com/200212160005
This has happened many times – “no more opposition now, there’s a war on, the country is under attack”.
As Joseph Goebbels put it: “The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That’s easy. All you have to do is tell them they’re being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.”
What kind of “opponent” of Netanyahu is all in favour of protests against him until he fronts up a genocidal assault on the Palestinians and then they go home?
That’s maybe a little bit unfair to those who have continued to demonstrate, but from what I’ve seen they don’t appear to be challenging the state or colonialism.
Let’s not hold our breaths waiting for a “Manifesto of the 121” from 121 holders of Israeli passports.
Did Pilger notice that the attacks on New York and the Pentagon in 2001 killed “Vietnam Syndrome” stone dead, to the extent that Vietnam was mentioned a lot in the bourgeois media until that date, and then BANG, since then it has hardly been mentioned at all? He should have done really, because opposition to the US war in Vietnam was a big part of his formation.
There may be some country in the world where there’s a chance of a revolutionary anti-war movement, to wit, a movement against war that is necessarily revolutionary because the ruling class is basically the mass-murdering class. However, if there is such a country, I don’t know where it is. People are far stupider than they were 50 years ago. Give ’em some crap to look at on their microwave trackers and they’ll do exactly what’s wanted. It’s like a BF Skinner happy dream or a Stanley Milgram nightmare.
…hoping someone at the Denison looks up about the M121 the way they did about Cleisthenes 🙂 Skinner and Milgram are surely part of the early training, so they’ll have heard of them already…
Yes the Milgram-experiment is a good point, that is what is going on today on a grand scale and as George Orwell aptly wrote: “All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting”
The people that yell the most have no idea how horrible war is.
We are now in a world where acts of genocide are met with, in part a so-what-shrug and in part gaslighting by a considerable section of world population even though it is perfectly clear what is going on in Gaza. Especially westerners have lost it completely. I thought ICC would put an end to this depravity once and for all but the people in charge, western populations are more sick than I thought. This is tribal mentality of the worst kind, social media is perhaps the prime reason that amplify lies, hatred and justify the unjustifiable because these naive westerners have betted on the wrong horse from the getgo and now they cannot change course and instead just entrench themselves even more in the bloody, genocidal morass:
What is the sunk cost fallacy?
The sunk cost fallacy is our tendency to follow through with something that we’ve already invested heavily in (be it time, money, effort, or emotional energy), even when giving up is clearly a better idea.
https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/the-sunk-cost-fallacy
The Kiev regime seems to have been told to hold back from launching more US and British-supplied weapons at pre-2022 Russia for the moment, now that notice has been taken of the Russian response (strikes on Dnipro, verbal references to a US base in Poland, plus a bit of a hinticule towards the British monarchist theme park).
Whether the Russian response was similar to what US and British intelligence considered most likely, I don’t know.
Meanwhile, goodness knows what’s happening in Romania. Doubtless the cleanest of possible games. What a big surprise during the election. Surely nobody spent any money or cheated. But there you go. Those concerned with France will be taking note.
Washington Post editorial board, November 24, 2024:
The International Criminal Court is not the venue to hold Israel to account.
The ICC is needed to help resolve war crimes in Russia, Sudan, Myanmar.
Targeting Israel makes that harder.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/11/24/israel-hamas-gaza-icc-arrest-warrants-international-criminal-court/
The Washington Post and the regime they support (well, both of the regimes) can do one. I doubt they’ll persuade anyone who wasn’t already pro-Zionist and pro-genocide to begin with.
Three things need to be remembered:
1) Palestine is a member of the ICC, i.e. a signatory of the Rome Statute, and the ICC can arraign and try anyone in the world for committing crimes against humanity on any of its members’ territories. That’s how international law regarding crimes against humanity works.
2) The occupation regime called “Israel” disputed the ICC’s jurisdiction and lost.
3) Disputing a court’s jurisdiction means saying “Regardless of whether we commit crimes against humanity or not, you don’t have the right to try us.” As I said, they lost. See 1.
Netanyahu is a massive pant-pisser compared to Albert Dreyfus, who had the courage to stand trial and defend himself. No, Netanyahu doesn’t have immunity from prosecution for crimes against humanity because he’s Jewish or because of something to do with 1940s Germany, 1890s France, or even 1840s Syria. This is the 2020s now and nobody has immunity from prosecution at the ICC for crimes against humanity. Crimes against humanity are generally considered by decent human beings to be a serious matter and not a f*cking joke.
I’m absolutely sure you’ll agree with me when I say there’s an even much bigger difference between Dreyfus and Netanyahu.
The former had not committed the crimes he was accused of, the latter has committed even more crimes than those mentioned in his arrest warrant.
What cheek to make such a parallel. But it may work with simple minds…
joel
The mental and political corruption of the western elites’ never cease to amaze. It is, just because, western elites’ refusal to deal with their own and/or allied crimes that make their hyperfocus effort to punish non-western states look so completely insincere.
Why is it that west have so hard supporting the top judicial body?! What’s in it for them to defend obvious war crimes by Netanyahu?!
They are scolding the rest of humanity for respecting international law.
Btw the Washington Post editorial board is not Trump, Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton. It is the semi-official mouthpiece of the US liberal establishment.
Further to my comment up thread regarding the way elite politicians consider the relative merits of war crimes perpetrated by ‘our friends’ and those of our enemies, here William Schabas calls out Starmer and Lammy as hypocrites.
“One of the world’s leading scholars on genocide, William Schabas, on Monday denounced British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy for refusing to label Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide.
“These people are hypocrites. They speak with a forked tongue. They do not interpret or apply the Genocide Convention in a consistent manner,” Schabas, a Canadian academic specialising in international criminal and human rights law, told Middle East Eye.
“The statements of British parliamentarians vary depending upon whether they are referring to their friends or their enemies,” said Schabas, who is the former president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars and the author of more than 20 books on genocide and other international law topics.
Last week, Starmer was asked to share his definition of genocide and to outline what action he was taking to save the lives of people in Gaza.
In response, he said he was “well aware of the definition of genocide” and that this explains why he has “never described or referred to [the situation in Gaza] as genocide”.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/top-genocide-scholar-calls-starmer-and-lammy-hypocrites-denying-gaza-genocide
Schabas noted that Lammy and Starmer voted in favour of a House of Commons motion in 2021 condemning China for genocide against the Uyghur minority.
“Although there is some evidence of persecution of Uyghur in China, there is no serious evidence of killings.
Not millions.
None.
The treatment of Uyghur in China and that of Palestinian Arabs cannot be compared,” Schabas told MEE.
Lammy and Starmer would strongly agree with the professor that there is comparison whatsoever. They would inform him that the Uyghrs are being subjected to genocide while the people in Gaza are not.
The Chinese regime is committing crimes against humanity against the Uighurs, including mass forced sterilisation [1] and cultural genocide such as the destruction of graveyards and other attempts to subjugate or smash the culture [2]. There has been mass imprisonment, but as far as I am aware there haven’t been mass killings. Nonetheless the two experiences are both about ethnic supremacism and can legitimately be compared and contrasted, not least because it may only be a matter of time before the Chinese regime goes all “Israeli” on the Uighurs.
Notes
1) Cf. the USA regime’s forced sterilisation of many black, Hispanic, and indigenous women from the 1920s through to the 1970s.
2) Cf. the Norwegian cultural extermination of the Tater (Traveller) people.
PS Pillocks who are in favour of “binationalism” as if it were anything other than what was called “apartheid” in South Africa might like to take note that Uighurs and Han Chinese people in parts of Xinjiang are, although living in the same place, kept in different time zones.
One of the world’s leading scholars on genocide, William Schabas, absolutely schooled by Brian Rad(lib) of internet fame.
There is no logical contradiction between the two statements, just a difference of emphasis. No need for the snark.
Twirlip
You also seem to believe the treatment of the Uyghurs is comparable. Quite strongly so, given it’s the only issue you’ve been moved to comment on.
Joel:
“It’s the only issue you’ve been moved to comment on.”
That’s a nasty, snide lie – which seems to be your modus operandi, on this showing at least. All that’s true is that I don’t comment very often (because I’m aware of my ignorance, and often hesitant in my opinions).
I don’t claim to know anything about China’s treatment of the Uighurs. (I don’t even know how to spell it.) I was making a point of logic, which, whether valid or not, seems to have been entirely lost on you.
Now, if you don’t mind, I’m busy quietly and unostentatiously proofreading Craig’s latest long and interesting article, which, though I say it myself, is a hell of a lot more useful than your nasty little comments.
With respect, that is absolute rubbish. If you keep swallowing the lies of the MSM your brain will turn to mush and you’ll become a laughing stock. Virtually all the anti China BS is supplied to the MSM by the CIA and MI6. China is not perfect but it’s not what our masters tell us.
The Uyghur genocide yarn has been spun relentlessly by the Genocide Democrats, so no surprise to see it regurgitated here.
What Starmer and Lammy are doing is (in the face of so many experts on Genocide) Denying a Genocide is taking place. It is the equivalence of denying the Holocaust, which is an imprisonable offence in Germany and some other countries. Hypocrisy is too mild a word for these two disgusting Labour politicians.
Genocide is a complex and insidious crime; proving destructive intent is an onerous task – yet not when it is so ostentatious, sustained by a political doctrine of ideological hatred and articulated through institutional structures and policies.
Francis Albanese – UN Special Rapporteur
Some days ago:
Israeli minister Ben Gvir visits far-right figurehead Meir Kahane’s grave
The move was seen as indication of the increasing normalisation of the far right in Israel
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-minister-ben-gvir-visits-grave-far-right-figurehead-meir-kahane
This is on par if a norweigan minister paid tribute to the racist terrorist Anders Behring Breivik.
“Incidentally” just a year or so prior Ben Gvir was admitted into the israeli government, US suddenly removed the Kahane party “Kahane Chai” from their terrorlist, a revocation surely pushed by the american israeli lobby:
https://www.state.gov/revocation-of-five-foreign-terrorist-organizations-designations-and-the-delisting-of-six-deceased-individuals-as-specially-designated-global-terrorists/
As with the UK governments denial on Genocide it is also denying that war crimes are taking place in Gaza, its partial ban on arms sales does not cover all arms sales, for instance the supply of F35 parts via a conglomerate of parts manufacturing companies is not included (probably because this would upset the US) when it is known that F35 aircraft have been used in the War crimes in Gaza. The government are now in the frame, not only because they are in breach of their own guidelines but also fundamental norms of International law.
It is to be hoped that the Judicial review scheduled for early December in the High court will rebuke the Government. https://www.scottishlegal.com/articles/uk-legal-challenge-against-arms-exports-to-israel