OLD NEWS?  NEW NEWS? WITH ISRAEL, IT’S ALL THE SAME

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This article first appeared in the American Herald Tribune, a publication twice shut down by the US government

Zionist Noses.  According to the September 12, 2019  edition of the American political journal POLITICO, Israel “likely” placed cell phone surveillance devices around the White House and other “sensitive locations” in Washington, D.C.  The publication based it’s statement on three, unnamed, former senior U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter.  (The story, however, first broke in June 2018 in a variety of news outlets which noted that the devices, called “sting rays”, had been detected the previous year.)

Sting rays are not fish but are, as Politico described them, devices “which mimic regular cell towers to fool cell phones into giving them their locations and identity information. Formally called international mobile subscriber identity-catchers or IMSI-catchers, they also can capture the contents of calls and data use.”  American police departments use them and such use has occasioned a series of lawsuits alleging violations of the 1st and 4th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights, regarding freedom of speech and warrantless searches.

Israeli officials, as is normally the case, denied any involvement.  Donald Trump also denigrated the “alleged” Israeli activities, saying “My relationship with Israel has been great…Anything is possible but I don’t believe it.”

Why?  Donald Triumph has long been known to be less than security-conscious.  “POLITICO reported in May 2018 that the president often used an insufficiently secured cell phone to communicate with friends and confidants. The New York Times subsequently reported in October 2018 that “Chinese spies are often listening” to Trump’s cell phone calls, prompting the president to slam the story as “so incorrect I do not have time here to correct it.””  According to its sources, Trump’s phone, POLITICO said, has been hardened against intrusion.

But Isn’t This Old News?  Israel has been spying on the United States government, American businesses, and public officials for decades.  In the 1950s, former ambassador Andrew Kilgore once noted, Israel had planted microphones in the American embassy in Tel Aviv.

“As Paul Pillar, the CIA’s former national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia, told Newsweek [in May 2014], old habits are hard to break: Zionists were dispatching spies to America before there even was an Israel, to gather money and materials for the cause and later the fledgling state. Key components for Israel’s nuclear bombs were clandestinely obtained here. “They’ve found creative and inventive ways,” Pillar said, to get what they want.”

Then there was Jonathan Pollard, a U.S. Navy civilian employee.  He had been arrested in 1985 and sentenced to life in prison for passing suitcases full of highly-classified documents to Israeli intelligence.  After much Zionist pressure, his life term was commuted to 30 years and he was released.

In the first half of 2001, “Israeli art students” attempting to sell their wares turned up at government offices in 40 U.S. cities.  They were attempting to penetrate the Drug Enforcement Administration and other U.S. government agencies, including those with addresses not known to the public.  Salon, a news and opinion website, wrote in May 2002:  “According to one account, some 140 Israeli nationals were detained or arrested between March 2001 and Sept. 11, 2001.  Many of them were deported. According to the INS [Immigration and Naturalization Service], the deportations resulted from violations of student visas that forbade the Israelis from working in the United States… After the Sept. 11 attacks, many more young Israelis — 60, according to one AP dispatch and other reports — were detained and deported.”

The journalist Wayne Madsen has written extensively about the “art students” and this writer can attest that they are still operating.  A few years ago, he once visited the Pentagon City Mall (near the iconic military headquarters). A sales girl, from a cart hawking perfume, approached him, asking if he had ever been to her country, Israel.

Yet, for obvious reasons, there has been little investigation of this by the Zionist-controlled U.S. media.

It Gets More Technical.  As Christopher Ketcham wrote in a September 2008 issue of CounterPunch, “Since the late 1990s, federal agents have reported systemic communications security breaches at the Department of Justice, FBI, DEA, the State Department, and the White House.  Several of the alleged breaches, these agents say, can be traced to two hi-tech [Israeli] communications companies, Verint Inc. (formerly Comverse Infosys), and Amdocs Ltd., that respectively provide major wiretap and phone billing/record-keeping software contracts for the U.S. government.  Together, Verint and Amdocs form part of the backbone of the government’s domestic intelligence surveillance technology.”

The article went on to quote Philip Giraldi, former CIA counterterrorism and counterintelligence officer.  He said “This is par for the course in the history of Israeli penetrations in the U.S.”   Quoting annual FBI reports called “Foreign Economic Collection and Industrial Espionage”, Giraldi noted Israel is second only to China in stealing U.S. business secrets.  One FBI account added “Israel has an active program to gather proprietary information within the United States. These collection activities are primarily directed at obtaining information on military systems and advanced computing applications that can be used in Israel’s sizable armaments industry.”  A key Israeli method, warns the FBI report, is computer intrusion.

And In The End?  Do we force Israel to divest itself of its spies and its companies deeply involved in espionage in the United States?  Do we block visas for Israelis to enter this country?  Do we end American financial support of Israel:  $10 million a day/365 days a year?  Plus tax-free purchase of Israeli bonds?  Plus sales of Israeli-controlled consumer goods like Tribe and Sabra Hummus or Ahava beauty products?

Would government officials with knowledge of Israeli espionage activities admit their failures and resign?  Would the American press cover this?  In a country that passes laws to condemn criticism of Israel?  Or of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS).  Not hardly.

The United States of America is completely under the control of Israel and its Zionists.  Things will not change until Israel does.

  1. Michael Springmann is a former U.S. State Department official having served as a diplomat in the Foreign Service with postings in Germany, India, and Saudi Arabia. He previously authored, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider’s View, recounting his experiences observing officials granting travel visas to unqualified individuals. Additionally, he penned Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos?  Merkel’s Migrant Bomb, an analysis of the alien wave sweeping the Continent. He currently practices law in the Washington D.C. Area. He is a frequent commentator on Arab, Russian, and Iranian news programs.

 

 

ZIONIST PUPPETS

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Sigal Pearl Mandelker

This article first appeared in the American Herald Tribune, a publication twice shut down by the U.S. government.

Puppets? There are puppets in the theater and there are puppets in politics. Here is one tale of a Zionist puppet in the U.S. government. Where she came from, we know. Where she is now, we know. How she got there, we don’t know. Did she have a godfather, did she have a rabbi, did she have a puppet master? We don’t know. What we do know is that she moved very quickly and very smoothly through very sensitive areas in the American government.

Sigal Pearl Mandelker is currently Undersecretary of the U.S. Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. This position oversees, inter alia, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). OFAC places sanctions on organizations and individuals.  FinCEN has access to the U.S. National Security Agency’s Signals Intelligence Network (i.e., they read other peoples’ mail, be it email, faxes, telephone calls, or use of communications apps such as Signal or Telegram). Although confirmed by the American Senate on June 21, 2017, Mandelker was born and grew up in Israel.

When and how she came to America, we don’t know. Possibly, it was the result of marriage to Steven D. Capozzola, once connected to the right-wing Breitbart organization.

Career track. After law school at the University of Pennsylvania, Mandelker became a law clerk to conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. After that, and a clerkship with Judge Edith Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, she moved to national security positions at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Justice. Prior to her confirmation as Undersecretary, she was a partner at the law firm of Proskauer Rose LLP, with a personal income of more than $1 million per annum.

But, let’s focus on the Treasury job.  The first office head of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (OTFI), created during the George W. Bush administration, was Stuart Levey, followed by David Cohen, succeeded by Adam Szubin, and now Sigal P. Mandelker. Those names are not Buddhist names nor are they good Muslim names.

However, Philip Giraldi, former CIA counterterrorism officer, pegged them as Israeli operatives. He noted that Levey worked secretly with the Apartheid Entity’s government and its cats-paws in the U.S., such as AIPAC (American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee) and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD). Giraldi went on to say that Cohen and other OTFI counterterrorism job holders were both Jews and Zionists. Giraldi added that Adam Szubin, who took the position in 2015, was replaced by Mandelker in 2017.  Conceivably, Giraldi commented, Mandelker could still be an Israeli citizen. (“Israel’s Fifth Column: Exercising Control From Inside the Government.” If Americans Knew Blog.)

Giraldi went on to say that OTFI heads like Mandelker have targeted individuals and organizations that Israel and its American lobbyists have deemed enemies.  One example might be the New Horizon Conference, which, during the past 6 years, brought together government officials, journalists, politicians, activists, and thinkers from abroad for meetings with Iranian politicians, clerics, and reporters.

According to a knowledgeable D.C. attorney, Mandelker is hard at work on imposing sanctions and is deeply involved with the efforts of people and organizations seeking to free themselves from such restrictions.

We drew a blank. In an effort to clarify Mandelker’s background, the author called a number of Zionist organizations and asked them to help fill in the gaps in the Undersecretary’s history. For example, how did she get to the United States and move so quickly through its government?  Moreover, this writer was curious about her statements at the May 2017 Senate confirmation hearings and asked about them. Before the banking committee, Mandelker went into great detail about how her parents, before they migrated to Israel, had endured great hardship hiding from the Nazis, and how they inculcated their values into her in Israel. However, she said little about her own qualifications for the position, other than recounting the list of her previous jobs.

This correspondent dialed AIPAC, which didn’t return his message. He telephoned the Anti-Defamation League and B’nai Brith, to no avail. When he rang up the FDD, Toby Dershowitz, their government affairs contact, told him Mandelker was doing a great job and she didn’t know or care what her ethnic origin was.

Digging deeper, this writer emailed the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., and asked if an Israeli would lose his citizenship if he became an American citizen. The embassy did not reply. Then, the author emailed the Israeli Foreign Ministry with the same question. Again, there was no response.

In exasperation, this correspondent filed a complaint with the Treasury Department’s Inspector General. He noted Mandelker’s Israeli citizenship, her strong support of Zionist policy, and questioned her loyalty to the United States. In particular, this writer emphasized her lies about the New Horizon Conference: that it was anti-Semitic (with Arabs and Jews in attendance); that it denied the Holocaust (which it didn’t); and that it recruited spies for Iranian intelligence (no one approached this writer). No answer has been forthcoming.

What are they hiding? Simple. The Undersecretary’s godfathers, her rabbis, her puppet masters! She, like many dual-national, dual loyalty Zionists, has been carefully picked and carefully groomed and carefully placed in positions of great influence by Israel and Israeli agents.

God is said to protect fools, drunkards, and the United States of America. However, given Zionists of Influence, He has His hands full.

  1. Michael Springmann is a former U.S. State Department official having served as a diplomat in the Foreign Service with postings in Germany, India, and Saudi Arabia. He previously authored, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider’s View recounting his experiences observing officials granting travel visas to unqualified individuals. Additionally, he penned Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos?  Merkel’s Migrant Bomb, an analysis of the alien wave sweeping the Continent. He currently practices law in the Washington D.C. Area.

THE UKRAINE: A TALE OF TWO REALITIES

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The Beginning.  Being ‘satiably curious like the Elephant’s Child, I began to wonder about the Russian police action in the Ukraine.  The film V for Vendetta noted that it’s the government’s job to manufacture the news while it’s the media’s job to report it.  Or, as noted musician and political thinker Gilad Atzmon recently commented, we read the 4th Estate’s comments to learn what is not happening.

For example, The Washington Post daily fills its pages with lots of ink about the failed Russian “invasion” of the Ukraine.  Russian armed forces have run out of men and materiel.  Its officers are being assassinated by valiant Ukrainian soldiers.  The entire world reviles the brutal baby killers and mass murderers of the Russian Federation.

That’s one reality.

Another is historical and based on something other than fantasy.

Background.  In 2014, US President Barak Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Assistant Secretary for European Affairs Victoria Nuland worked with the American Central Intelligence Agency to overthrow the Ukraine’s legitimate government.  Why?  The Ukraine favored a more advantageous economic deal with the Russian Federation, rather than the one the European Union (EU) offered.

The inept, Neo-Nazi government the US put in place made a mess of the Ukraine’s economy and began a war against the ethnic Russians of the eastern Donbass Region (Donetsk and Lugansk).  Killing roughly 14,000 people, displacing 1.2 million others, in these now-independent areas, successive governments led by candy-king Poroshenko and high-heel wearing comedian/actor Volodymyr Zelensky flatly refused to implement the Minsk Agreement.  Basically, this accord included a ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons, release of prisoners of war, reform in the Ukraine granting self-government to certain areas of the Donbass, and restoring control of the state border to the Ukrainian government.

Fed up with failed efforts to get the international community to recognize the Ukraine’s war crimes in the Donbass, Russian President Vladimir Putin then looked to what the United States and its creature NATO were doing in the area.  In1990, James Baker, then US Secretary of State, and President George H.W. Bush reassured the Soviet government that NATO would not move one inch to the east.  Yet, NATO, originally a defensive alliance, added more members directly abutting the Russian frontier.  This included countries such as Poland and the Baltic States, with historical antipathies to Russia and its predecessor governments.  NATO also participated in American wars half a world away, such as in Afghanistan.

The Ukraine wanted to join NATO as well.  Moreover, it appeared to be planning another attack on the Donbass.  Putin, apparently fearing a renewed effort to destroy the Russian State, its culture, and its religion, ordered his armed forces into the Ukraine to preserve Donetsk and Lugansk as well as to put an end to the country’s Neo-Nazi government.

The Reality.  While the Post and other US and European media touted the ferocious fight against a weakened Russian government and its failing, incompetent armed forces, they seemed to omit some glaring problems that perspicacious folk twigged to.  The fictional stories the media put out were, as the New York Times commented, designed to buck up morale amongst the Ukrainians.  Some of the tales, told by “responsible” journalists included the “Ghost Fighter of Kiev”, who supposedly shot down a good bit of the Russian air force.  However, if the Ukrainian armed forces were so good, why did they need millions of dollars of anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons from NATO countries?  And why was the Ukrainian government recruiting a Foreign Legion to bolster its army’s ranks?

Mercenaries.  Deciding that the mainstream media was hiding some important information, I went directly to the source, the Ukrainian Embassy here in Washington, D.C.  Failing repeatedly to make contact by telephone, I emailed its Press Secretary, Volodymyr Rizichenko, asking a few pertinent, non-controversial questions:

Mr. Riznichenko:

The Embassy’s phone is constantly busy.  I’m drafting an article for publication about the subject matter.  [Ukraine’s Recruiting of Foreigners]

I’d like you to help me follow-up on a March 21 Washington Post story about volunteer foreign fighters.  Some of the details are kind of sketchy and you might be able to flesh out some of the missing information.

  1. How many American citizens or permanent residents have contacted your Embassy about going to fight for your country?
  2. Do they reach out to your Embassy first or do they go to the website FightforUA.org?
  3. What sort of background do they have?  E.g., none or prior military experience, policemen, active-duty soldiers, sailors, airmen?  And what prompts them to volunteer?
  4. If they don’t meet your army’s requirements, what other militias can they apply to join?
  5. What are these militias like?  Only the Azov Battalion seems to pop up.  There must be others.
  6. What requirements do the militias have for volunteers?
  7. Regarding total volunteers, the numbers seem to be up and down, widely differing in total.  Can you give me a good estimate, including by country?

Many thanks for your help.

Mike Springmann

As of this writing, I have received no response.  Unfortunately, I posed the same questions to the Russian Press Office.  And also received no response, following a question of “Why do you think we know more?”

The Law.  It’s pretty clear:

18 U.S. Code § 960 – Expedition against friendly nation

Whoever, within the United States, knowingly begins or sets on foot or provides or prepares a means for or furnishes the money for, or takes part in, any military or naval expedition or enterprise to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominion of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States is at peace, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

As far as I know, the United States Congress has not declared war against the Russian Federation.  Moreover, it would appear to be a breach of diplomacy for a foreign state to recruit soldiers within this country for war against a Power at peace with America.

The U.S. Department of State notes that, while it may be possible for a US citizen to go abroad to fight for a foreign power, recruitment or hiring in the United States may be a violation of the law.  Citing Wiborg v. U.S., 163 U.S.632 (1896).  N.B., this was tied to a filibustering expedition against Spanish Cuba and the decision should be seen in that light–and the subsequent war against Spain in 1898.

The State Department notes that prosecution of such persons is the responsibility of the Justice Department.  (The U.S. Attorney General Garland is a Jew, the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, and the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland are all Jews, as are the President of the Ukraine Zelensky, and its Prime Minister Groysman.  Cousins protecting Cousins?)

The Mercenaries.  According to a March 6, 2022 Jerusalem Post article, Zelensky, whose army includes the Neo-Nazi, white supremacist Azoz Battalion, has recruited some 16,000 foreigners to serve in its war against the Donbass and Russia.  No details, of course, were available on the nationalities of these people, whom the Russian government asserted were not subject to the laws of war as legitimate combatants.  Naturally, “The UK, Latvia, and the Canadian government have all stated that they will allow the enlistment of citizens to the legion.”

In an undated article in Deutsche Welle (Germany’s state-owned international broadcasting service), the organization claimed “Ukraine’s bid to recruit fighters from Africa sparks uproar:  Nigeria, Senegal and Algeria have criticized Ukraine’s efforts to enlist international fighters as it resists the Russian invasion. Analysts say those who have responded to the call need to reconsider.”

Definition. West Point’s Lieber Institute says this:

In 1977, the First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions (AP I) significantly changed the law for mercenaries. AP I, Article 47 begins by withholding from a mercenary “the right to be a combatant or a prisoner of war.” It defines a mercenary as any person who meets six criteria, specifically any person who:

  1. a) is specially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in an armed conflict;
  2. b) does, in fact, take a direct part in the hostilities;
  3. c) is motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a Party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of similar ranks and functions in the armed forces of that Party;
  4. d) is neither a national of a Party to the conflict nor a resident of territory controlled by a Party to the conflict;
  5. e) is not a member of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict; and
  6. f) has not been sent by a State which is not a Party to the conflict on official duty as a member of its armed forces.

Furthermore, the article states:

…Ukraine [is a] part[y] to AP I. Therefore, [it] is bound by Article 47 in the current armed conflict. Additionally, Ukraine is a party to the 1989 International Convention Against the Recruitment, Use, Financing, and Training of Mercenaries. The 1989 Convention creates a criminal law regime for mercenarism—it identifies and defines criminal offenses, establishes rules of jurisdiction, and obligates enforcement measures. Furthermore, Article 1 of the 1989 Convention expands the AP I, Article 47 definition of “mercenary” by removing the condition that a mercenary actually take part in hostilities. Unlike AP I, the 1989 Convention criminalizes direct participation in hostilities by any person who meets the Article 1 definition.

So.  On March 3, 2022, The Middle East Eye wrote, in part apropos of the Ukraine:

However, sources told Middle East Eye that there are also private military contractors with significant war experience among the volunteers. The sources said some of the private contractors had arrived in the country for extraction, evacuation and defence purposes having been hired by private companies.

A job advertisement that appeared this week on Silent Professionals, a listing website for defence and private security jobs, is looking for multiple “extraction and protective agents” to conduct evacuation operations of individuals and families throughout Ukraine’s countryside and major cities.

“Employer is a US-based corporation. Both male and female agents are welcome to apply,” the advertisement says.

“Only highly experienced candidates who possess at least 5+ years of military experience in this region of Europe will be considered for this role.”

The ad says the payment would be $1,000-2,000 per day and a bonus will be available after the completion of the operation.

Amazing that this is out, without any detail on numbers of mercenaries and their citizenship included.

Yeni Safak, a Turkish news service, wrote on March 4, 2022:

“The Russian Defense Ministry accused the West on Thursday of sending mercenaries to Ukraine to support the Ukrainian armed forces.

At a daily briefing in Moscow, ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the employees of private military companies raid Russia’s military convoy, attack aviation, using US Javelin and UK NLOW anti-tank missiles and a man-portable air-defense system Stinger, and other weapons, supplied by the West.

Meanwhile, Konashenkov said the US intelligence launched a mass campaign to recruit more mercenaries.

Great Britain, Denmark, Latvia, Poland, and Croatia legally authorized their citizens to take part in the hostilities in Ukraine, while France plans to send ethnic Ukrainians serving in its foreign legion to Ukraine as well, he continued.

“According to Zelenskyy, about 16,000 foreign mercenaries are expected to arrive in Ukraine in addition to those already available to compensate for the crushing military failures of the Ukrainian security forces. A visa-free regime is officially introduced for them,” he noted.

“Last week, about 200 troops arrived in Ukraine from Croatia, they joined one of the Nazi battalions,” Konashenkov added.

It’s certainly good to know that the “intelligence” services are continuing to seek the end of the Russian Federation.  The Washington Post certainly won’t report this.  However, Veterans Today, on March 4, 2022, recounted that Erik Prince of name-changing Blackwater infamy, traveled to Kiev to confer with Ukrainian officials.  However, before his secret travel to the Ukraine, Prince consulted with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Director National Intelligence Avril Haines (another of the Cousins).

So, Who Are We Really Dealing With?  Germany’s Deutsche Welle noted that the Azov Battalion is defending Mariupol, a city where the opera house, allegedly filled with refugees, mysteriously exploded—without any visible casualties.

The Azovs are, as Al Jazeera noted in a March1, 2022 piece, a far-right, neo-Nazi group that is part of the Ukrainian Army, is a street militia, and is a political party.  They coat their bullets in pig fat to use against any Muslims fighting in the Russian army.  They are white supremacists and ultra-nationalists.  Nazi symbols and SS regalia are part of their uniforms.  They display the Wolfsangel, resembling a swastika, on a yellow background.

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Knowing the kinds of people recruited, the Jewish Telegraph Agency wrote on February 27, 2022, that the Ukraine’s Embassy in “Israel” tried to enlist its citizens to fight the Russians.

The New York Jewish newspaper The Forward commented:  The very first thing Ukrainians see as they walk into Poland at the Medyka checkpoint is a large Israeli flag. Two, actually – one pinned to the army-green tent of the Jewish Agency, another waving on a pole above the tent of the emergency-medical group Hatzolah Without Borders. Asked how they got such prime real estate, the men running these operations hoisted their elbows and shrugged, “We’re Israeli.”

So, There You Have It, Dear Reader.  The United States and the European Union are working with Zionists, Neo-Nazis, and extremists of all sorts to destroy Russia.  They are violating their own laws as well as international law.  Why?  Because Russia, like the now-destroyed Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, did not always do or think the way the Western states desired.  In fact, at times, they opposed the Western militarist, capitalist, and globalist viewpoint as hazardous to their national existence.

And Joseph Robinete Biden, Jr. called for the removal of Russian President Putin on March 26, 2022.  Wouldn’t it be better for the entire world if Joe Biden found a new line of work?  Before one of the Stinger anti-aircraft missiles hits his own plane or a civilian airliner?

WE’ VE GOT 1,000 TERRORISTS: WHAT TO DO?

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This was originally published in the American Herald Tribune, now shut down by the US government.

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On February 15, 2019, The Military Times reported that U.S. forces occupying Syria, along with some of their “allies” were holding about 1,000 ISIS fighters. With Syria becoming unified under its legitimate government, the question now is:  What do we do with the terrorists? Release them? Imprison them? Send them home to one of the dozen or so countries that contributed them?   Pack them off to Guantanamo Bay, as one U.S. Senator, Tom Cotton (R-Kan.), suggested?

The Past Isn’t Past.   In the American Herald Tribune of February 1, 2019, C.J. Werleman asked “Could ISIS be the United States’ next ally in its war against the Taliban and other insurgent groups?” Citing Taliban and Russian assertions, he noted that the U.S. had ferried arms and supplies to ISIS groups operating in Afghanistan. Continuing, Mr. Werleman said “that the Iranian English language news service Tasnim News Agency published a report alleging US forces operating in Afghanistan carried out a secret military operation…which helped ISIS inmates escape the prison the Taliban held them in.”

Esteemed Reader, the United States of America created Islamic Terrorism.  What ‘s worse is that America then worked closely with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to train and supply it.

Look back to what people think is the past. In the 1980s, the U.S. wanted to move its National Security Agency (NSA) signals intelligence listening posts from Iran, lost through the fall of the Shah, to Afghanistan.   Unfortunately, the Soviet Union was occupying that latter country.

The obvious solution was to remove the Soviets, give them their own Vietnam, and let the Watchbirds watch (or listen).

How Did Presidents Carter and Reagan Handle This?  With Osama bin Laden’s help (and that of the State Department), they recruited wild men from all over the world. They used American diplomatic posts in Saudi Arabia, principally in Jeddah, on the Red Sea coast. These issued visas to enter the U.S. for training at military facilities.  Additionally, there were 52 recruiting offices in the United States, including one in Washington, D.C. Then, they were called mujahideen (those engaged in struggle). Using American and other countries’ weapons, the “muj” eventually pushed the USSR’s army back across the Amu Darya river into the Soviet Union.

Then, the United States was left with a well-trained cadre of terrorists able to shoot things down and blow things up. The choice then was let them go, send them home, or use them to destabilize and overthrow countries Washington didn’t like. This was the birth of what this author calls the Arab-Afghan Legion.

The Legion saw its first action in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.   Osama bin Laden plus about 5,000 Saudis and others moved into the country, worked closely with NATO, and helped turn a real country into a series of dysfunctional statelets.

Next.   At the end of his February 1 article, Mr. Werleman summed things up by writing “…the United States has a long and distinguished history of arming past enemies to fight current foes, and arming ISIS might turn out to be merely its next desperate measure in its increasingly desperate military presence in the “graveyard of empires.”

Well, it’s more than Afghanistan. It’s also re-branding of the muj to Al-Qaeda and then to ISIS, then sending them off to fight new enemies.

Iraq  he United States moved Osama’s Arab-Afghan Legion from Yugoslavia to Iraq. According to Professor Edmund Ghareeb, Al-Qaeda didn’t exist in the country until the American invasion of 2003. Working with the Marines, British Special Forces, and former officials involved with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) death squads in Central America, U.S. policy helped destroy Iraq, the Land Between Two Rivers. American Marines create their own militias, the British broke captured terrorists out of jail, and John Negroponte, then ambassador to Iraq and formerly to Honduras, imported into Iraq men who had helped him run death squads in Honduras. Terrorists captured while crossing the Iraqi border were freed by U.S. soldiers and secretly flown elsewhere.

Libya.  Deciding that Moammar Gaddaffi had to go. He didn’t fit the American view of leader. Gaddaffi had established the highest quality of life in his country than could be found in all
Africa. He was seeking to organize the continent behind his management.

Fighters trained in Afghanistan and Yugoslavia and Iraq suddenly appeared in Libya.  The U.S. and NATO and their secret intelligence services so supplied the “rebels” with such quantities of weapons that their arms exceeded those held by the British army.

Syria.   In Shia member Bashar al-Assad’s socialist state, the only Arab holdout against American Middle East policy, suddenly uprisings began all over the country. Then, experienced fighters with ties to the Arab-Afghan Legion began battling the legitimate government and its forces. Weapons were transferred from Libya to Syria and the American ambassador, once political counselor in Iraq, began working with “dissidents”.

Continuing the Pattern.   The 1,000 ISIS members now held in Syria aren’t going to be disposed of.  So many men trained in the skills necessary to destroy entire countries are too valuable to waste. They’re going to be used.  Likely not in Morocco. That country, monarchical and conservative, fits the American pattern of “allies”. But Tunisia has bountiful “Islamic militants” and corruption. Algeria is lumbered with its ailing, problematic economy, jihadists, and absolute presidential control. It has an aged, infirm president and a secretive group of power brokers around him. Jordan is too useful to the Americans as a staging and training area for its attacks on Syria.

But there is Iran. It has a restive Arab minority in the west and it is number one on the American/Israeli hit list. Even its conferences bringing together journalists, authors, activists, and thinkers are now targeted. Why?   They bring foreigners to Iran and show that it is not Hell run by demons with horns and pointy tails. For example, the New Horizon Conference and its management have now been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department after the organization’s successful May 2018 event, bringing former American government officials and an anti-Israel Rabbi, Dovid Weiss, to Iran.  According to the U.S. government, the conference’s real goal was to recruit U.S. spies and support the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force. (This writer attended that event and must confess that no one ever asked him to spy for Iran.)

Short of an outright war, which might cost Israel and the U.S. dearly, the 1,000 captured ISIS members have the best chance of bringing about “regime change” in Iran, along with help from the sanctions targeting the economy. They’re cheap, well-trained, and easily disposed of.

(For details on the U.S. and its creation of Islamic terrorism, see the author’s book Visas for Al Qaeda:  CIA Handouts That Rocked The World.   Available from Amazon.)

 

 

 

 

WHAT HATH NETANYAHU WROUGHT? The Israel & UAE Agreememt

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This was originally published in The American Herald Tribune, now shut down by the US government.

 

Is God Really All Powerful? If So, Why Does He Rely On The U.S., Israel & The UAE To Do Satan’s Work? According to the Washington Post, Binyamin Netanyahu has produced a minor miracle. As the paper noted August 14, “…it unites Israel with a powerful Persian Gulf ally of Washington that shares the view of Iran as an enemy.”  The journal, notably anti-Trump, nevertheless, quoted him as saying “By uniting two of America’s closest and most capable partners in the region–something which [was] said could not be done–this deal is a significant step towards building a more peaceful, secure, and prosperous Middle East…”

But, buried farther on in the story, all was not sweetness and light. The Palestinian Authority (PA), nominally governing the Occupied West Bank, “condemned the accord as betrayal.” Furthermore, it termed the agreement as “aggression against the Palestinian people.” Speaking the naked truth, the PA said that neither the UAE nor any other party had a right to speak on behalf of Palestine. It then withdrew its ambassador to the UAE in protest.           (The Post did not mention Hamas’ sharply negative reaction until farther on, even though it governs all Gaza.)

The journal went on to quote UAE officials as saying, rather improbably, that they established relations with Israel to forestall Netanyahu’s plans to annex the West Bank [in reality, what was left of it] to give the Palestinians a homeland. (They had had a homeland; the Zionists took it away from them in 1948.)   Surprisingly, the paper noted that UAE Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash believed the two-state “solution” had been threatened and they had to act.

Notably, the paper quoted Netanyahu as saying “The deal was struck. Without Israel having to give up territory it has effectively controlled for more than 50 years of conflict with the Palestinians.” Turning to Jared Kushner, Trump’s Zionist son-in-law and leader of his Middle East peace effort, the Post wrote that “the larger aim of Kushner’s plan[s]was always for Israel to forge new economic partnerships with many of its neighbors, especially Sunni Arab states that share the U.S. and Israeli view of Iran as an enemy.” (Does this mean Saudi Arabia and the Gulf statelets, some of the most authoritarian, repressive, medieval monarchies in the world?)

In the article, Kushner opined on the Palestinian outrage (without any opposing comment or background on the matter) that “they (the Palestinians) have a fairly predictable response that we’ve seen time and time again to all types of things that help make their peoples’ lives better…”

The paper’s columnist David Ignatius, ever the supporter of the American intelligence services, concludes his August 14 column with “Trump’s surprise announcement…[is] welcome news for Israel, the Arabs, and the United States.”

Welcome News? Hussein Ibish, Ph.D., once the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s spokesman and now a flack for the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, D.C. subtitled one of his many articles for Bloomberg News that the agreement meant “ Joy in Cairo, relief in Amman, anger in Ankara and alarm in Tehran.“  In it, he writes:

Riyadh has also clearly been interested in strengthening relations with Israel as a counter to Iran, and will pay close attention to how the UAE fares in the coming months.

Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s point-man on the Middle East, has suggested that another Arab country will follow the UAE’s lead. There’s speculation that Bahrain and Oman will make announcements soon. Manama generally defers to Riyadh on defense and foreign policy issues, so any Bahraini normalization with Israel would serve as a trial balloon for Saudi Arabia as well. But such a Saudi move may only come after the end of the rule of King Salman, who seems committed to the API. [Arab Peace Initiative.]

Formal diplomatic ties with Israel would embellish Oman’s credentials as a regional mediator and a friend to all. Muscat maintains close relations with Iran, but also welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on an official visit in 2018. Oman has, in typically understated fashion, welcomed the announcement.

All three of these Gulf Arab countries have quietly been increasing relations with Israel anyway, so normalization is merely a matter of formalizing what already exists.

Turkey has trade relations with Israel and the UAE but is at cross purposes with them on most issues. Erdogan routinely lambasts Israel over Palestine, and will not take kindly to recent Israeli moves in the Eastern Mediterranean.

…[B]ehind Tehran’s bluster will be grave concern that two of its more active and potent adversaries in the region have come together under Trump’s offices. Increased military and intelligence cooperation between the U.S., Israel and the UAE would indeed be dangerous for the Islamic Republic.

More Riders On The Train To Nowhere.  Ibish asserts that Egypt likes the agreement because “it potentially strengthens the Egyptian-Emirati hand in Libya against Turkish-supported forces for control of the country.” (Cf. ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/4349-turkey-changing-the-middle-east.html). Continuing, he claims that Morocco might be another country looking for an opening with Israel. Dr. Ibish goes on to say “The biggest winner outside of the three parties directly involved in the agreement is surely Jordan, because it allows at least the hope of a Palestinian state in the future. (Yes, he still believes in the long-dead “two-state solution”.

Let’s Throw Some Cold Water On The Celebratory Candles And Let The Ants Eat The Cake. The whole affair is not anything like Richard Nixon’s diplomatic recognition of China.  The Middle Kingdom occupied and still occupies a good portion of the earth’s surface and has a huge chunk of its population.           Israel is an illegitimate and artificial construct, built on theft of Palestinian land and existing only because of the United States. The American taxpayer, gives, without likely knowing it, $10 million a day to Apartheid Israel. Then, there are U.S. military sales. In fiscal year 2019, the U.S. provided $3.8 billion in foreign military aid to Israel. Israel also benefits from about $8 billion of loan guarantees. From illegal outposts to academic research, from legal aid for Jewish terrorists to yeshivas, the tens of millions of dollars that U.S. non-profits send each year to the colonies support all sorts of activities in Jewish enclaves across the West Bank. (U.S. donors to these charities can claim tax deductions.)

Then there are Israeli products like Sabra and Tribe hummus.   They occupy prominent positions on the shelves of American grocery stores. Sabra, half-owned by the Strauss Company, an Israeli firm, and Pepsi Cola, donates food packages to the Israeli army’s infamous Golani Brigade, noted for its war crimes against Palestinians. The company has more than 60% of the American market and sells more than $1 billion a year. (It’s repatriation of profits to Israel is unknown.) Tribe hummus is owned by an Israeli firm, Orem, a key supporter and partner of the Jewish National Fund (JNF). The Fund continues its work of appropriating land for Jews and evacuating Palestinians.  Tribe’s U.S. sales are much smaller than Sabra’s.

The Real Goal. Yes, the agreement might be good, in the short term, for the UAE economy and for Israel’s. It might even help the other riders on the train. However, the aim of the agreement, as has been clear from the Washington Post and Hussein Ibish, and others who parrot the party line, is the complete and utter destruction of Iran–its government, its foreign policy, and its people.

The idea is to split the Arab and Muslim worlds, to the advantage of Zionist Israel and the United States. Look at what has been done to date. The UAE, with its military aid to war-torn Libya and its invasion of Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world, is not a peace-loving state. And it is hostile to Iran, as are the other Persian Gulf statelets, notably Bahrain, headquarters of the American 5th Fleet. Saudi Arabia, which believes itself to be the real leader of the region, the real leader of the Arab nations, and the real leader of Islam, has been holding not-so-secret talks with Israel and is considering joining the agreement. Other countries are as well.

The U.S. has nuclear weapons. Israel does.  Saudi Arabia is interested in them–and has the means to deliver them using its Chinese-made Silkworm Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles. The UAE has one nuclear reactor in operation and plans to build four more. How long would it take to produce enough fissionable material to make a bomb? And which country might be their target?

Iran has, in the past, made numerous statements that the countries of the region should cooperate in maintaining peace and order and security–not outsiders. Yet, what do we have? The United States, from halfway around the world, working with Israel, a land of European immigrants, against the Islamic Republic of Iran and the stability of the entire Middle East. The guide might be trade and diplomatic relations, but, in reality, what we have is a Trojan Horse, designed to unleash major trouble on the area.

And the Palestinians? As usual, they get absolutely nothing out of any agreement in which Israel, the United States, and any Arab country are involved. There is always the smear that they are ungrateful for any “help” given them. They should accept the “two-state solution”, settling on whatever bit of land outsiders might want to give them. They should give up on the right of return for the nearly 7 million exiled Palestinians. Since 1967, the UN has been trying to get Apartheid Israel out of lands it seized in the 6-Day War.  Since the 1978 Camp David Agreements, the U.S. has been “trying” to get the Israelis to withdraw from land it’s taken over the years. And since 1948, no one, absolutely no one, other than the people involved and Iran, has recognized the invasion and occupation of Palestine.

Arabs have told this writer that their people only cooperate if they see an advantage in doing so.  To date, what little collaboration there is has only worked to their detriment–if they could but see it. The Israeli Yinon Plan, to make the Apartheid Entity strong by dividing and weakening the Arab neighbors, seems to have been forgotten. This wretched agreement among Israel, the UAE, and the United States is simply a diplomatic and economic elaboration of that concept. And, so far, it seems to be working.