The Israeli Air Force announced on Sunday that it has received new Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance aircraft, called the Oron. The announcement detailed that the 122nd (“Nachson”) Squadron received its new aircraft – the “Oron”, which will grant the IAF unprecedented intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities. The advanced aircraft was formally introduced in a ceremony led by the Commander of the IAF, Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin. The 122nd (“Nachshon”) Squadron, known as the IAF’s ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) squadron, operates two “Nachshon” aircraft models: “Shavit” (Gulfstream G500) and “Eitam” (Gulfstream G550). Today, the squadron received the newest member of the […]
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The Israeli Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced on 25 February that it has chosen Lockheed Martin’s heavy-lift CH-53K King Stallion as a new Israel Defense Force᾿s (IDF) transport helicopter, replacing the current “Yas’ur” (CH-53) model. On Thursday, the Ministry press release said that Defense Minister Gantz accepted the recommendations presented by IDF Chief of the General Staff, Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi, and Defense Ministry Director-General Maj. Gen. (Res.), Amir Eshel, to select Lockheed Martin CH-53K helicopters as the IDF’s new heavy-lift aircraft. “It is essential to the IDF’s ability to carry out a wide range of operational activities. The new helicopter […]
Israel’s Ministry of Defense confirmed on Tuesday that the German Federal Ministry of Defense signed and signed a government-to-government (G2G) agreement to supply Israeli designed Trophy active protection system for their fleet of Leopard-2 main battle tanks. Within the agreement, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems will supply Trophy Active Defense System (ADS) to equip 17 Leopard-2 tanks. It includes the provision of systems for a company of tanks, interceptors, and spare parts as well as operational and technical training. The systems will be delivered over the next several years. The beneficiary unit is expected to be combat-ready by 2023 and join Germany’s […]
A Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter belonging to the Israeli Air Force has been photographed flying low over Lebanon. Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has released pictures of F-35I stealth fighter over Lebanon. At the same time, they mistakenly calling it an F-15 aircraft and caused some confusion. The F-35I stealth fighter, or Adir, was working at low altitude in Lebanese airspace. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – Israeli Air Force officials have refused to comment or release any information about what doing its F-35I combat aircraft over Lebanon. The images circulated on social media are causing considerable debate as these […]
Israeli blockade Has Cost Gaza $16.7 Billion November 26, 2020 Israeli blockade Has Cost Gaza $16.7 Billion2020-11-262020-11-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/gaza-e1606437573234.jpg200px200px Above photo: Palestinian street vendors sell candy in Gaza City. Getty. Israel‘s blockade of the Gaza Strip cost the Palestinian enclave’s economy an estimated $16.7 billion in just over a decade, the United Nations said Wednesday. The coastal enclave has been under an Israeli-enforced blockade since 2007, the year the Islamist movement Hamas took power. In the 11 ensuing years, its economic situation deteriorated dramatically, the UN Conference on Trade and Development found in a new report. Between 2007 and 2018, “the estimated cumulative economic cost of the […]
The Israeli Navy took delivery of its new anti-missile ship, Sa’ar 6 corvette, according to a recent service news release. “The Israeli Navy welcomed its newest addition, the Sa’ar 6 Corvette, this week,” said in a statement, “Not only is the 2,000-ton ship the Israeli Navy’s most advanced anti-missile ship yet, it will also be equipped with our latest operating systems to thwart any enemy threat.” The details were given in a 6 November media release, to announce upon arrival, the Israeli Navy will work to make it fully operational by installing defensive systems, of which 90% are Israeli-made. – ADVERTISEMENT […]
Israeli Weapons Fuel The Violence In Azerbaijan By Raul Diego, Mintpress News. October 22, 2020 Israeli Weapons Fuel The Violence In Azerbaijan2020-10-222020-10-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/wars.jpg200px200px Above photo: A man fences off a tail of a multiple rocket after shelling by Azerbaijan’s artillery during a military conflict in Shushi, outside Stepanakert, the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Oct. 18, 2020. AP. With an eye on nearby Iran. Hoping to profit, protect an important source of oil, and to antagonize nearby Iran, Israel is selling drones and weapons to Azerbaijan, fueling the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. The latest iteration of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which has already claimed the […]
Israel’s Coronavirus National Information and Knowledge Center revealed Monday that vitamin D deficiency might be linked to an increased risk of contracting COVID-19. According to the center’s report, published Monday and reviewed by the Jerusalem Post, research studies have shown a circumstantial link between vitamin D levels and the risk of contracting the novel coronavirus. Despite the lack of a known causal relationship between the vitamin and COVID-19 risk, the center still recommends that people take vitamin D supplements. Following the publication of its report, the Coronavirus National Information and Knowledge Center launched a communications campaign to inform the public about […]
A massive brawl erupted between Israeli troops from two different training companies over who was going to eat first at the canteen. Some 21 soldiers were injured in what the IDF called an “unusual and serious” incident. The confrontation between training companies representing the Bedouin 585th reconnaissance unit and the Shaked Battalion occurred at the Har Keren training base on Sunday. Things became so heated in the fracas that one of the troops even started loading his gun, according to one witness who was cited in local reports. The brawl lasted several minutes and involved around 30 people – some 21 […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202010121080744753-israeli-cabinet-approves-peace-deal-with-uae-will-sumbit-accord-for-parliamentary-ratification/ Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan said in a tweet earlier in the day that he had had a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss strengthening bilateral ties and the prospects for peace in the region. Source link
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman is an organized crime figure who is furthering the Kosher Nostra extremist Likudnik Israeli agenda, an American political analyst has said. Kevin Barrett, an author, Veterans Today Editor and radio host with a Ph.D. in Islamic and Arabic Studies, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Thursday. Breaking a long-standing tradition of ambassadors being politically neutral, Friedman said on Sunday that US policy toward Iran could take a turn for the worse from the perspective of Israel if Democratic nominee Joe Biden is elected the US president in November. “Joe Biden was […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107656/71/1076567179_0:100:1920:1180_1200x675_80_0_0_c57ce6e8bd968897e88c94011d8a1c15.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Daria Bedenko. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/science/202010071080700556-israeli-researches-point-at-breach-in-comcast-remotes-allowing-hackers-to-spy-through-them/ According to the researchers, the remote’s voice control function can be subject to security breaches, allowing hackers to break into the remote and use it as a recording device. Researchers from the Israel-based Guardicore company have discovered what they describe as a possible “security breach” in the XR11 remotes produced by the US-based Comcast telecommunications company, which could allow hackers to listen and record through the remotes. The hackers could access remotes that have the option of voice control, activating it remotely and using the device to listen and record what is happening […]
For Israel, the second Palestinian uprising was a bloody page in the country’s history. It claimed the lives of more than a thousand people and injured many others. But for the Palestinians, assaults on Israeli targets, even if they were civilian, were necessary simply because they were a tool in the hands of people fighting for their independence. It has been 20 years since the eruption of the so-called second Intifada, or Palestinian uprising, that was believed to have been instigated by the visit of then head of the Israeli opposition Ariel Sharon to the Temple Mount, a plateau in Jerusalem […]
VT: It isn’t just Google Corporation, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. It’s Fox, the NYDaily News, Wall Street Journal and then…everything else as well. Our issue? When Trump blames ‘fake news,’ he is blaming his best friends and allies, fake president, fake news… By Christopher Bollyn – American Free Press Christopher Bollyn is an investigative journalist who has written extensively on the events of September 11, 2001 in the Washington-based American Free Press. He has researched different aspects of the 9/11 attacks and uncovered facts and evidence that challenge the official version of events. Fox News tried to smear Bollyn as an […]
Israeli bitcoiners take note: a handful of Knesset members are seeking to ease Israel’s hefty taxation of cryptocurrencies. Four Knesset members from the nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party on Tuesday introduced a draft bill that would effectively end Israel’s 25% capital gains tax on bitcoin by redefining certain “distributed digital currencies” as currency, instead of a taxable asset. Source link
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Mediterranean Another terrible explosion, another alleged Hezbollah deposit in the crosshairs, another suspicion that it is an Israeli attack on Lebanon. On the afternoon of Tuesday 22 September, a devastating explosion was seen and heard in the south of the country, according to local sources. The news was promptly picked up by Middle East Eye (below) but also by the BBC. According to an initial report, there was only damage to the structures and minor injuries but no deaths. “Beirut Massacre for a Missile!”. Lebanon President and Italian Military Expert said. “Thermal rings the […]
26 September is commemorated as international day for the total elimination of nuclear weapons, reminding the global community that 75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, atomic bombs still pose a threat to global stability. Over the years, the realisation of how risky nuclear energy can be has prompted some governments to shut down their reactors. Such was the case in Germany, which decided to phase out all its reactors following the Fukushima disaster of 2011; and such was the case in Italy, which has rejected any plans to resume the construction of nuclear plants on its soil. But there were also […]
…from SouthFront.org The Ansar Allah movement (also known as the Houthis) continues pounding Saudi Arabia with drones and missiles. Late on September 17, the Yemeni Air Force loyal to the Houthi government struck Abha International Airport in the Saudi province of Asir with Samad 3 combat drones, which can be used as loitering munitions. The Houthis claimed that the strike hit a military section of the airport causing material damage and casualties among Saudi forces. The military infrastructure in the Abha airport area and southern Saudi Arabia itself has regularly become a target of Houthi missile and drone strikes. Just during […]
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Occupation Of UK Factory Involved In Israeli Drone Manufacture By Joe Gill, Middle East Eye. September 17, 2020 Occupation Of UK Factory Involved In Israeli Drone Manufacture2020-09-172020-09-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/pal-laction-occupation-e1600354079762.jpg200px200px Above photo: Activists scaled the building at UAV Engines factory, where engines for Elbit Systems drones are built in Shenstone, near Birmingham. Palestine Action. A direct action group is pushing to end the UK’s military complicity with Israel’s human rights abuses. Direct action protests against Israel’s largest weapons company have escalated in the UK, with an occupation of a factory building engines for drones used by Israel’s army entering its third day on Wednesday. Protests […]
Israel has celebrated the deal with the UAE and Bahrain but Prime Minister Netanyahu has also faced a barrage of criticism, with tweeps accusing him of failing to handle the raging coronavirus and the threat emanating from Hamas. On Tuesday, it finally happened. After 26 years when the Middle East saw few glimpses of hope for a normalisation of Arab relations with Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed treaties with the Jewish state and sent a message to the world that they’d chose peace over war. In Israel, the ceremony at the White House was a reason for celebration, […]
TEL AVIV (Sputnik) – A total of 1,000 Israeli police officers will monitor the compliance with the total quarantine regime imposed to tackle the spread of COVID-19, police spokesman Mikhail Zingerman said, adding that there will be fines for those people who blatantly violate it. “It would be similar to what happened in the first lockdown [in the spring of 2020]. One thousand police officers – mainly on a geographical basis – will be engaged to perform this task,” Zingerman said. Restrictions will be applied to those individuals who violate it, Zingerman added, noting that flagrant cases will be sanctioned with […]
Israel continues to violate Syria’s sovereignty, invoking the large military presence of Iranian forces and proxy militias in Syrian territory as an excuse, especially under the rule of the regime’s president “Bashar Al-Assad”. It is worth noting that Israeli strikes started to escalate greatly since 2018, as Israel vowed to block Iran’s entrenchment in Syria and force it out of the region. According to Syrian Observatory statistics, Israel carried out 79 attacks on Syria between January 2018 and September 2020, destroying nearly 250 targets, including buildings, warehouses, headquarters, centres, posts and vehicles. The attacks also left some 509 people dead (12 […]
Through its main investors, SoftBank and Lockheed Martin, Cybereason not only has ties to the Trump administration but has its software running on some of the U.S. government’s most classified and secretive networks. – Originally published on VT 15 January 2020 – by Whitney Webb, Mint Press If the networks of the U.S. military, the U.S. intelligence community and a slew of other U.S. federal agencies were running the software of a company with deep ties, not only to foreign companies with a history of espionage against the U.S. but also foreign military intelligence, it would — at the very least — […]
Syria’s air defenses thwarted an Israeli attack on Aleppo city early Friday morning, as multiple missiles were intercepted before reaching their targets, Syrian state-run television reported. The strikes occurred around 1:30am local time on Friday, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported, citing a military source who noted the country’s air defenses had repelled “most of the enemy missiles.” The source pinned the attack on Israel, however Tel Aviv has yet to comment on the incident. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The news agency shared footage of the blast on social media, while an unconfirmed photo purporting to […]
Trump in February with Chad Wolf, the acting homeland security chief. Wolf reportedly told Murphy his Russia assessment should be ‘held … [because it] made the president look bad’. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters VT: Daily Beast, which normally jumps on such stories censored this one as it threatens to expose Israel as driving the RussiaGate narrative which has led back to them. Trump has been the Kosher Nostra’s bitch since 1991. Now we all are. Thanks ‘tards. Guardian: Trump loyalists running the Department of Homeland Security manipulated intelligence reports to play down the threat of Russian election interference and white supremacists and exaggerate […]
Robert David Steele is the conceptualizer of integrated election reform (#UNRIG) and the integration of holistic analytics, true cost economics, and Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) such that we can achieve a prosperous world at peace at 10-20% the cost of the failed Western economic model burdened by banks and lawyers. A former US spy and co-founder of the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, he is today the Chief Enabling Officer (CeO) of Earth Intelligence Network, a 501c3 and now also CeO of Open Source Everything (OSE Inc.). He continues his education with non-fiction reading, posting over 2,000 reviews across 98 categories; […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202009081080401562-trump-will-attend-signing-ceremony-of-israel-uae-peace-deal-at-white-house-israeli-media-says/ Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi agreed to normalize ties last month in a deal brokered by Washington. Palestinian leaders slammed the agreement, calling it a betrayal. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the UAE’s decision, saying it showed that Arab countries will not be “held hostage by the Palestinians” in dealing with Israel. US President Donald Trump will personally attend the signing ceremony for the normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates at the White House on September 15, Walla diplomatic correspondent Barak Ravid has reported, citing White House officials. According to […]
Kfar Gaza, a community located just a few kilometres from the Gaza Strip, has seen emergency situations before but the outbreak of COVID-19 is now presenting new challenges, the primary one being a full lockdown, set to be imposed on Monday. Only a month ago Kfar Gaza, a southern Israeli community located just five kilometres from the Gaza Strip, was associated with rockets emanating from the enclave and the resilience of its residents who chose to stay in the area despite the constant threat of terror. Now, however, with the coronavirus raging and the town declared a red-zone, meaning the number […]
At least 12 people have been arrested and 2 police officers injured in sporadic clashes in Jerusalem during a weekly anti-government protest over PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s alleged corruption and botched Covid-19 pandemic response. Thousands have hit the streets of Jerusalem on Saturday night, as the protests against Netanyahu continue for the 11th consecutive weekend, although failing to reach last week’s record numbers. As one group gathered in front of Netanyahu’s official residence, another crowd marched through the city to join them. About a dozen people were arrested for trying to cross barricades, veering off-path, ignoring police orders and “fighting with cops.” Police […]
…from SouthFront.org The Israeli Air Force conducted a second round of missiles strikes on Syria in less than a week. Late on September 2, Israeli warplanes launched missiles at the T4 airport in the province of Homs. According to Syria’s state media, the strikes were conducted from the direction of the US-controlled zone of al-Tanf on the Syrian-Iraqi border. Syrian pro-government sources claimed that a large part of the missiles was intercepted. The impact of the strikes remains unclear. The T4 airport is well known as the operational base of Iranian-backed forces and as a logistical hub for Iranian supplies moving […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202009021080351871-syria-intercepts-israeli-strike-on-central-air-base—state-media/ According to Syrian state media, several missiles fired at the T-4 air base were intercepted on Wednesday. According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), Syrian air defenses over the city of Homs engaged a barrage of “rockets” allegedly fired by an Israeli aircraft at the T4 air base. The report notes the missiles came from the direction of at-Tanf, a US-controlled base on the Syrian-Iraqi border. The report noted that most of the missiles were shot down; however, some did hit their targets without loss of life. MORE INFORMATION TO FOLLOW… Source link
From Middle East Monitor Palestinian-Jordanian cartoonist, Emad Hajjaj, was arrested in Jordan three days ago after publishing a caricature insulting Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed. The CEO of the Centre for Defending Freedom of Journalists (CDFJ), Nidal Mansour, said that Hajjaj was arrested in connection with a case published under the Cybercrime Law. The cartoon which was published on his Al-Araby Al-Jadeed news site depicts Bin Zayed being spat on by a dove of peace displaying the flag of Israel. t Palestinian-Jordanian cartoonist, Emad Hajjaj Hajjaj’s cartoon comes after a peace deal was announced between the UAE […]
Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) claimed on Wednesday that Hezbollah had attacked the country from between two UN positions in southern Lebanon, a move described as a violation of UN resolution 1701 that calls for a ceasefire between the two countries. The Lebanese Al-Mayadeen broadcaster released a video of what it described as an Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) soldier dummy placed on the country’s border with southern Lebanon. The broadcaster described the move as an Israeli plot to “lure the resistance to strike an imaginary target” and provoke a response. The video, that Al-Mayadeen claimed to have obtained from military media, shows […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Mediterranean There is no peace for Lebanon. After the alleged nuclear attack on the port of Beirut which caused more than 200 deaths and thousands of injured by destroying an important part of the city and also devastating an Italian military base, Israel is still targeting the border areas with the territories occupied by the Zionists. Beirut: Deep State “Killed” Shia-Christian Govt. Ex Zionist MP: “Blast as Nuclear Bomb. I hope it was Israel” In recent days, the Lebanese paramilitary forces of Hezbollah (also an important Shiite political component in Parliament) reported that they […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107541/25/1075412524_40:0:1240:675_1200x675_80_0_0_ff10291dc2e1a021a03e006275b9bf12.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008231080250463-hezbollah-says-downs-israeli-drone-after-it-violated-lebanons-airspace/ BEIRUT (Sputnik) – The Hezbollah militant group says it has downed an Israeli drone on the border between Lebanon and Israel. According to a Hezbollah statement, the drone violated Lebanon’s airspace near the southern village of Ayta ash Shab, located about 1 kilometre (0.6 miles) northeast of the Israeli border. The Lebanon-based group and political party Hezbollah said the downed drone was now in its possession. Meanwhile, the IDF said that their glider fell on Lebanese territory during an operation on the border with Lebanon. מוקדם יותר היום, במהלך פעילות מבצעית של כוח צה״ל בגבול […]
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Update: VT has been tracking COVID stats and disinformation/censorship since day one. Now, in light of the Beirut attack (Trump backs us up), we now view the release of a hybridized version of COVID 19 on the New York metropolitan area as a terror attack. Stats on hospitalization and deaths there have been altered/censored which prove this was a biological attack. Death rates were many times higher than elsewhere and even target specifically the Jewish population, something Israel has done before. We have watched Google Corporation manipulation of the internet, we have tracked them and find clear and absolute evidence that […]
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel on Thursday agreed to sign a treaty to begin the process of normalising relations, in a deal said to have been brokered by US President Donald Trump. The Israeli Prime Minister claims that the new relationship between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv will lead to an agreement with the Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said that a normalising of relations with the United Arab Emirates shows that Arab countries will not be “held hostage by the Palestinians”. In an interview with Fox News’ Eric Shawn, Netanyahu enthusiastically celebrated the promise of the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008161080190382-israeli-tanks-attack-hamas-positions-in-gaza-strip-idf-says/ On Sunday, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said in a statement that the country’s soldiers had repelled an attempted “terror attack” against Rachel’s Tomb in the city of Bethlehem, detecting “terrorists who tried to hurl a Molotov cocktail toward the Tomb area”. In the early hours of Monday, the IDF announced that Israeli tanks had conducted an attack against Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip. The attack came, according to the IDF, in response to explosive balloons allegedly sent into Israeli territory and the instigation of riots along the Palestinian-Israeli border wall by “dozens […]
On Friday, the United Nations Security Council rejected a US draft resolution to indefinitely extend the UN arms embargo against Iran, which is set to expire in October. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the decision “scandalous,” while senior US Senator Lindsey Graham claimed it makes “a major conflict” with Iran “much more likely.” The United States and Israel are already preparing for a scenario in which Russia sells its S-400 air defence system to Iran, including by conducting drills involving the destruction of advanced surface-to-air missile threats, Breaking Defense has intimated. The outlet points out that Iran has “already invested […]
VT: On November 2, 2019, VT reported that Israel had developed a micronuclear weapon. In a leaked photograph from Israel, a sub-kiloton nuclear bomb is demonstrated. These weapons, the size of a beer can, are capable of nuclear explosions up to just under 10 kilotons with no residual radiation, very small fuel burn flashes and few telltale signs of explosion. In a strange twist of fate, with missile videos, planes overhead and so much controversy over fake fertilizer explosions, we must ask, did the geniuses of Tel Aviv, almost all Nobel Prize winners, pull something amazing off? The first denied videos […]
On Thursday, US President Donald Trump announced that Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) had reached a “historic peace agreement” on establishing full diplomatic ties. Under the deal, expected by the US president to be signed in three weeks, Tel Aviv has agreed to postpone its plans on sovereignty extension over the West Bank. The Emirates company, APEX National Investment, announced the signing of a strategic commercial agreement with Israel-based TeraGroup on Saturday, dedicated to the development of research on the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, according to the official Emirates News Agency (WAM). The agreement was signed during a press conference […]
CBS News: A federal government watchdog said Friday that Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli, the highest-ranking officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), were invalidly appointed to their current positions at the department charged with implementing President Trump’s immigration agenda. Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf and acting DHS Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli were named to their current roles in violation of the Vacancies Reform Act, government watchdog finds. https://t.co/HBxHI0kQyM — ABC News (@ABC) August 14, 2020 In a decision published Friday, the Government Accountability Office, Congress’ investigative arm, found that former acting DHS secretary, Kevin McAleenan, did not have the […]
LEBANESE PREMIER RESIGNED UPDTATE ON 11 AUGUST Lebanon’s government resigned Monday as the fallout from last week’s deadly explosion deepened a political crisis in the country’s blast-ravaged capital. Prime Minister Hassan Diab said he would resign along with all of his ministers. “We will back down and stand with the people. We need to open the door for the people,” he said in an address to the nation. The Masonic-Zionist Deep International State has once again won in the tormented Lebanon. The street uprising of a few thousand guerrillas, skilfully piloted by Canvas, a self-styled CIA-backed anti-violence center, is destabilizing the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/art_living/202008101080120463-vip-protection-israeli-jeweller-works-on-15-mln-gold-diamond-encrusted-face-mask/ According to a designer, this will be an 18-karat white gold mask decorated with 3,600 diamonds and fitted with top-rated N99 filters. An Israeli jewellery company has been working on what it says will be the world’s most expensive coronavirus mask, Haaretz reported. The mask will be made of gold and will have more than 3,500 white and black diamonds encrusted in it. Its price is estimated at $1.5 million. The weight of such a luxurious face covering will be 270 grams, which is about 100 times that of an ordinary surgical mask. REAL […]
After spending decades bracing for massive military assaults from nearby states, Israel is now more focused on detecting low-grade assaults and terrorist threats in a timely manner, which explains a shift in financing, the former official alleged. The Israeli Mossad significantly exceeding its 1.5 billion NIS ($440 million) budget, as the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) are struggling to keep their weapons programmes running, is not as unreasonable as it might seem at the first glance, former Intelligence Minister Dan Meridor alleged in an interview with The Jerusalem Post. The former official elaborated that since the inception of the IDF, and the […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Mediterranean More than 100 were killed and more than 4,000 injured in the explosions that took place yesterday in the port of Beirut, Lebanon, and caused by about 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate present in a warehouse. This is what the Red Cross reported today, quoted by the Lebanese website Daily Star. But the budget could be heavier, the authorities warn: according to the city governor, Marwan Abboud, quoted by the media, more than 100 are missing. Some of the soldiers of an Italian ship of the Unifil peace mission have been lightly injured. […]
Israeli media is not reporting on the protests against him, but taking part in them, PM Benjamin Netanyahu said as he launched several attacks on the country’s press, which he insisted was acting “North Korea-style.” The demonstrations, which have been underway for months in Israel, are “being fueled especially by the media who have enlisted themselves [to the protests] in a manner the like of which I can’t remember,” Netanyahu said following a cabinet meeting on Sunday. They are not reporting on the protests, but participating in them, and fueling them. The journalists completely neglect the violence on the part of […]
UK Students Fighting For Universities To Cut Ties With Israeli Apartheid By Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. July 31, 2020 UK Students Fighting For Universities To Cut Ties With Israeli Apartheid2020-07-312020-07-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/an-apartheid-off-campus-bus-stop-action-e1596161203151.png200px200px Above photo: An “Apartheid Off Campus” bus stop action. “We need to be working bottom-up, because we know that top-down will just not work anymore.” Apartheid Off Campus is a newly-formed student network fighting to sever the ties between UK universities and the Israeli occupation. “University students are in a powerful position to campaign in support of Palestinians and against the structures of racism by both challenging/exposing these links and forcing their universities to […]
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Huge crowds calling for the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rallied outside his home Saturday in Jerusalem on growing discontent over the government’s Covid-19 response, high unemployment and corruption. More than 5,000 people gathered on Balfour Street, now a frequent site of anti-government demonstrations, according to Haaretz newspaper, making it the biggest of several protests this week. Demonstrators also rallied elsewhere in Israel. Protesters’ grievances focus mainly on Netanyahu’s handling of the pandemic, including a strict lockdown that caused unemployment to surge and a spike in cases after the abrupt lifting of safety measures in May. Demonstrators also are […]
An Israeli company specializing in rapid recognition tests says it is now working on a COVID-19 novel coronavirus test kit that provides results in 30 seconds, which could give people “the confidence to go back and act as normal.” What does the novel coronavirus smell like? One Israeli company thinks it’s figured it out. NanoScent, an Israeli tech company, told reporters on a recent tour that it is currently developing a 30-second COVID-19 test that would cost around $10 and could help the world return to normalcy. “Just like you have image recognition, we have scent recognition that we’ve designed,” NanoScent […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202007241079973182-explosions-heard-on-syrian-side-of-israeli-border-idf-says/ The day before, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) boosted their presence at the northern borders with neighbouring Lebanon in anticipation of Hezbollah’s retaliation for the killing of one of its prominent members in Israel’s recent attack in Syria. The Israeli Defence Forces reported on Friday that an explosion was heard on the Syrian side of Israel’s northern border. A short while ago, explosions were heard adjacent to the security fence from the Syrian side of Israel’s northern border. Damage to a civilian building and an Israeli vehicle was likely caused by fragments. — Israel […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202007231079967027-israeli-fighter-jet-makes-aggressive-pass-over-iranian-passenger-plane-in-syrian-airspace—report/ According to reports in Iranian media, an Israeli aircraft made an “aggressive” close pass near an Iranian airliner that was flying through Syrian airspace on Thursday. MORE INFORMATION TO FOLLOW… Source link
Refaeli and her mother previously confessed to evading paying taxes on income nearing $10 million. According to their plea bargain, the family will repay millions in taxes as well as a $1.5 million fine; the model was sentenced to nine months of community service, while her mother will spend 16 months in prison. Israeli top model and TV hostess Bar Refaeli and her mother Tzipi were convicted by a Tel Aviv court on Monday on four counts of tax offences. According to the prosecutors, Refaeli provided incorrect tax information, as she had to declare her worldwide income in 2009-2012; Refaeli claimed that […]
by Phil Giraldi, …with The Unz Review [ Editor’s Note: If any of you are feeling depressed today or have your blood pressure spiking, do not read this until you are feeling better. It is another story of the American taxpayer getting raped again by an army of thieves in government and business that are experienced at doing this. Phil Giraldi Phil put a lot of work into building a long list below of those that gorged themselves on the Covid stimulus money, including even Israeli start up companies, something that even took my hard butt by surprise. The money was […]
The Israeli Air Force has released new details of its training programs to train fighter pilots. In the 420th (“Fighter Simulator”) Squadron at Hatzor AFB, at the F-16 Instruction Center, pilots drill various emergency scenarios that can occur during any flight. The center’s goal is to train aircrew members to fly on the platform. Immediately after graduating from the Flight Course and arriving at their operational squadrons, F-16 aircrew members first meet the fighter jet and go through three weeks of training at the Instruction Center. The training includes ground lessons, teamwork lessons, as well as lessons about the aircraft’s weapons […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202007181079924684-israeli-media-reports-claim-huge-explosion-occurred-at-iranian-oil-pipeline/ At the beginning of July, an explosion occurred at the country’s Natanz nuclear facility, which an anonymous Middle Eastern intelligence official blamed on Israel. In an interview with The New York Times, the man claimed that Tel Aviv had planted a powerful bomb at the site. A powerful explosion has occurred at an oil pipeline in Iran’s Khuzestan province, Israeli media reported. Footage of a huge blaze was posted on social media. However, there has been no confirmation from Iranian officials of the incident. The development comes two days after a US official told […]
…from Press TV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: The hammer just came down on the holocaust hoaxers in Israel and all over the world, via none other than Israel’s top holocaust expert. There will be some squirming around in Zioland over his recent story And of course no one will be calling him a holocaust denier, but others might be called “holocaust hustlers” which is what I have always viewed them as. Thank you Professor Yehuda Bauer for putting them in play. By punching a huge hole in the holocaust narrative, albeit on this specific item of Polish participation, he has opened […]
Shai Efrati, an associate professor at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine and the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University and a senior doctor at the Shamir Medical Center in the city of Tzrifin, said that the secret for reversing aging in the brain has been “right in front of our noses” the whole time. A group of Israeli physicians led by Shai Efrati, director of the Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research at the Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center and a Tel Aviv University associate professor, claims to have found a successful way to “reverse” aging in the brain, […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0f/1079888593_0:82:3071:1810_1200x675_80_0_0_b037bb49cf61866f9d988805b84c26b7.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202007151079888651-israeli-police-detain-50-people-during-anti-government-riots-in-jerusalem/ TEL AVIV (Sputnik) – Israeli police have detained 50 people during anti-government riots in Jerusalem over the violation of public order and property damage, the police said on Wednesday. “During the riots, 50 suspects of disturbing public order, causing property damage and assaulting police officers and media representatives were detained”, the police said. According to the statement, the protest took place on Tuesday evening near the residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Media reported that the protests turned violent and resulted in clashes with police officers. According to the Times of Israel, thousands of […]
by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor, …with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, …and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa. “With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.” – Otto von Bismark, German Chancellor, 1871 -1890 [ Editor’s Note: The doo doo has hit the fan for Bibi in the coronavirus. The out of work, bored younger people were doing what their compatriots were doing, not following social distancing. […]
JERUSALEM—Israel’s unchecked resurgence of COVID-19 was propelled by the abrupt May 17 decision to reopen all schools, medical and public health officials have told The Daily Beast. “We know Israelis have terrible discipline, but now, it’s the leadership. ” — Galia Rahav, Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv The assessment of Israel’s trajectory has direct bearing on the heated debate currently underway in the United States between President Donald Trump, who is demanding a nationwide reopening of schools for what appear to be largely political reasons, and health authorities who caution it could put the wider population at risk. Importantly, on […]
Pegasus software, a spyware platform sold by Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group and said to be capable of gaining access to a smartphone’s camera and microphone, turning the device into a ‘pocket spy’, is said to have been repeatedly used to target activists, journalists, diplomats, politicians and lawmakers across the globe. Roger Torrent, speaker of the Catalan parliament and a regional MP for the Catalan Republican Left party, has claimed that his cellphone was targeted in 2019 using the Israeli spyware firm NSO Group’s Pegasus platform, according to two joint reports, by the Guardian and El Pais, published on Monday. Torrent has […]
In January, Amnesty International filed a lawsuit against Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group, urging the court to revoke the company’s export license and restrict it from selling technology allegedly used to violate human rights across the globe. The Tel Aviv District Court has rejected a petition filed by Amnesty International to suspend Israeli spyware firm NSO Group’s export license over allegations that the company’s technology is used to target journalists, lawmakers and activists around the world, including one of the NGO’s employees, according to The Times of Israel. The court ruling, issued on Sunday and published on Monday, stated that lawyers for […]
…from SouthFront Iran will help to strengthen Syrian air defense capabilities as part of a wider military security agreement between the two countries, Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri said on July 8. The statement was made after the signing of a new military cooperation agreement in Damascus. The agreement provides for the expansion of military and security cooperation and the continuation of coordination between the Armed Forces of the two countries. Major General Baqeri said that the signed deal “increases our will to work together in the face of US pressure.” […]
The report comes amid media speculation that Israel may have been involved in the 2 July blast at Iran’s Natanz nuclear power plant. Defence Minister Benny Gantz appeared to deny the claims on Sunday, saying “not every event that happens in Iran is connected to us”. Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency has thwarted a plot to attack multiple Israeli embassies, Israel’s Channel 12, a Hebrew-language broadcaster, has reported. The plot, said to have been masterminded by Iran, was said to have involved embassies in Europe and around the world, although the list of specific countries where the attacks were meant to take […]
In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has affirmed the district court’s dismissal of the lawsuit filed against the American Studies Association (ASA), its executive director, and eight former ASA officers or committee members: Lisa Duggan, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Sunaina Maira, Curtis Marez, Jasbir Puar, Chandan Reddy, Steven Salaita, and Neferti Tadiar. The definitive judgment rebukes the arguments advanced in the federal courts by four persons (Simon Bronner, Michael Rockland, Michael Barton, and Charles Kupfer) who have disputed the ASA’s endorsement of the boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The decision on June 19, […]
On Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pointed out that the country is currently grappling with “a major outbreak” of COVID-19, underscoring the need to return to a national lockdown so as to tackle a spike in coronavirus cases. Israeli police spokesman Michael Zingerman on Saturday confirmed that Israeli border police commander Yaakov “Kobi” Shabtai has been diagnosed with the coronavirus. “Shabtai remains in stable condition as the police are looking into who had recently contacted him”, Zingerman said, adding that a decision on who should be quarantined would be taken after the end of the probe. The statement followed the […]
Despite international resistance and pressures from within his own cabinet, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to go ahead with Tel Aviv’s plans to ‘apply sovereignty’ to large swathes of territory in the West Bank and the Jordan Valley, with the process expected to begin as soon as later Wednesday. Marwan Muasher, a retired Jordanian diplomat who served as Jordan’s first ambassador to Israel following the signing of the 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty, has warned that the realization of the Netanyahu government’s plans to take over as much as 1/3 of the West Bank cannot be done peacefully, and that […]
Blockchain startup Kirobo says its technology can prevent the loss of cryptocurrency caused by human error when sending what are normally irreversible transactions between wallets. The firm’s Retrievable Transfer feature works by building a new layer onto existing blockchain protocols. Users then have the ability to “cancel” a transaction sent to an incorrect cryptocurrency wallet address, the Israeli company said in a press release Tuesday. “Our aim is to make blockchain transactions as simple and as secure as online banking,” said Kirobo CEO Asaf Naim. The company’s logic layer functions by providing a unique transaction code that must be entered by […]
The Israeli Air Force has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria in recent years, justifying air and missile attacks by accusing Iran of trying to establish a proxy presence in the Arab Republic. Damascus has denied these claims, and accused Tel Aviv of blatant aggression. Israel will continue its military operations against Iran in Syria to prevent its entrenchment in that country, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced. “We are absolutely resolved to prevent Iran from entrenching itself militarily in our immediate vicinity,” Netanyahu said, speaking to reporters at the start of a meeting with US Special Representative for Iran […]
Ever since the US Justice Department put an Israeli woman behind bars for 22 years last December, Israelis who operate online investment websites are running scared. Israeli binary options fraudster Lee Elbaz was found guilty by a Maryland jury on August 7, 2019, of three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a vast scheme to defraud investors all over the world out of about $145 million. She had been the CEO of Yukom Communications, one of over 100 binary options call centers to operate out of Israel in recent years. Elbaz’s conviction and […]
by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor, …with PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: Israel continues to bomb Syrian and Iranian military positions far from the border area with Israel, degrading Syria’s ability to continue its insurgent fight against the US, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and Turkey. The IDF tactics are working well. It fires dummy air missiles initially to engage the Syrian air defenses and then the real ones to increase their chances of getting through. These ongoing attacks also keep Syria’s inventory of air defense missiles being depleted. Russia has a quiet arrangement with Syria not to use its air defenses […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107968/11/1079681189_0:193:3296:2047_1200x675_80_0_0_c9ef08e2fb438863ed5489dce65389ac.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202006241079707627-un-security-council-discussing-israeli-plans-to-extend-sovereignty-over-west-bank—video/ Since the presentation of the so-called deal of the century proposed by US President Donald Trump on 28 January, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to start unilaterally extending the Jewish state’s sovereignty over one-third of the West Bank by 1 July. The UN Security Council is gathering Wednesday for a virtual meeting on the situation in the Middle East, particularly focusing on the plan of the Israeli government to bring parts of the West Bank under its control. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to bring the land in the West Bank […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/104723/77/1047237730_0:150:3109:1898_1200x675_80_0_0_8545b5df28469de852cd97ab55fa0e16.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006241079705301-syrian-military-accuses-israeli-forces-of-attacking-army-positions-in-hama-province/ BEIRUT (Sputnik) – Israeli air forces have attacked the positions of the Syrian armed forces in two cities in Hama province and the country’s air defence systems repelled the attacks, the command of the Syrian armed forces said on Wednesday. “At 00:45 a.m. [21:45 GMT on Tuesday], Israel carried out a new act of aggression from the air, attacking several of our facilities in Salamiyah and Sabburah in the province of Hama,” the statement said. According to the Syrian military, the country’s air defence systems downed a big number of Israeli rockets that brought […]
Thousands Of Palestinians Protest Against Israeli Annexation Plan June 23, 2020 Thousands Of Palestinians Protest Against Israeli Annexation Plan2020-06-232020-06-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/annex-e1592934203628.jpg200px200px Above photo: A demonstrator holds an anti-US President Donald Trump placard during the rally. Mohamad Torokman/Reuters. Dozens of foreign diplomats attend Jericho event, including UN envoy stressing annexation is against international law. Thousands of Palestinians have rallied in Jericho to protest against Israel’s unilateral plan to annex large swaths of the occupied West Bank and Jordan Valley. Monday’s gathering was also attended by dozens of foreign diplomats, including the United Nations peace envoy for the Middle East, Nickolay Mladenov, and the European Union’s […]
Several military bases in central and southern Syria have been targeted by air attacks that Damascus blamed on Israel, Syrian state media have reported. Videos on social media show massive explosions illuminating the night. Israel targeted several locations in Salamiyah and Saburah just before 1 am on Wednesday, the Syrian army said, adding that its air defenses shot down “a large number” of hostile missiles but that some struck their targets and inflicted “limited material damage.” Judging by the volume of explosions, one of the targets appears to be an ammunition depot. The Hama strikes followed the attacks on As-Suwayda and […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106656/09/1066560952_0:100:1920:1180_1200x675_80_0_0_65c7e4ec7181b111f35ce43046513300.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006211079682458-israeli-ministerial-committee-reportedly-backs-marijuana-bill-in-first-step-to-legalization/ TEL AVIV (Sputnik) – Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved a bill to legalize marijuana in the country, media reported on Sunday. The bill will now be forwarded to the Knesset for three rounds of voting, the first of which is scheduled for Wednesday’s session, The Times of Israel reported. The bill envisions fully legalizing possession and recreational use of up to 15 grams of marijuana for citizens over 21 years old and decriminalizing possession of up to 50 grams, according to the newspaper. “For the first in the State of Israel’s history, my […]
Miko Peled (born 1961) is an Israeli-American activist, author, and karate instructor. He is author of the books The General’s Son: The Journey of an Israeli in Palestine and Injustice and Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five. He is also an international speaker. Miko Peled Born in Jerusalem in 1961, Peled grew up in Motza Illit to a prominent Zionist family; his grandfather, Avraham Katsnelson, signed Israel’s Declaration of Independence. His father, Mattityahu Peled, fought in 1947–1949 Palestine war, and served as a general in the Six-Day War of 1967; later, after the Israeli cabinet ignored […]
It was reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition government partner from the Blue and White Alliance, Benny Gantz, discussed on Wednesday four scenarios presented by the PM to extend sovereignty to lands on the West Bank. Although the two have failed to agree on a course of action, talks are expected to continue. Alternate Prime Minister and Minister of Defence of Israel, Benny Gantz, during a Thursday meeting with senior defence officials said that he would not support extending the Jewish state’s sovereignty to areas on the West Bank populated by “many Palestinian residents” in order to […]
July 1: Call To Action To Confront Israeli Annexation, Free Palestine June 16, 2020 July 1: Call To Action To Confront Israeli Annexation, Free Palestine2020-06-162020-06-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/freepal-e1592328683398.jpeg200px200px Samidoun Network in occupied Palestine and in the diaspora has issued the following call, originally in Arabic. As an international network, we fully join in this call and urge all supporters and friends of Palestine to take action on 1 July in support of the mobilization taking place in Ramallah, occupied Palestine, to confront Israel’s declared plans for the annexation of much of the occupied West Bank of Palestine. We know that many Palestinians in exile and […]
Coinbase announced Wednesday it is considering listing Bancor’s BNT token, as well as 18 others, which already gave the asset’s global trading price a slight bump. “Coinbase’s goal is to offer support for all assets that meet our technical standards and which comply with applicable laws,” the announcement said. “As part of the exploratory process customers may see public-facing APIs and other signs that we are conducting engineering work to potentially support these assets.” Although Coinbase declined to comment further, it’s not hard to imagine why BNT made the list. The token project itself saw a resurgence in May, facilitating nearly […]
For left-wingers, Israel’s plan to absorb parts of the West Bank would harm Palestinian statehood. But even Israeli settlers in the territory seem unhappy with the plan, telling RT there was little to gain from the move. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to place around 30 percent of the West Bank under permanent Israeli control – but Israelis living in the area have said that the deal, which would grant Palestinians limited statehood if they meet certain conditions, is actually bad for the controversial settlements. Settlers in Elon Moreh told RT that life would become “impossible” because their community would essentially […]
Amid worldwide protests against the police killing of George Floyd, activists around the US have raised demands for specific policy measures, such as defunding the police. Justifying these demands are the images emerging from the protests, with police officers ramming protesters in vehicles, indiscriminately attacking protesters with pepper spray and exerting excessive force. Local and state policing budgets have nearly tripled since 1977, despite declining crime rates. Even people unfamiliar with the police and prison abolitionist movement are starting, rightly, to envision that public spending could be used in more socially responsible ways. But beyond the fiscal argument is an ethical one: policing in America cannot be […]
Minnesota Cops Trained By Israeli Police, Who Often Use Knee-On-Neck Restraint By Alison Weir, Israeli-Palestinian News. June 4, 2020 Minnesota Cops Trained By Israeli Police, Who Often Use Knee-On-Neck Restraint2020-06-042020-06-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/israeli-police-officers-detain-a-palestinian-protestor-on-march-12-2019-from-israeli-palestinian-news-e1591289020674.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Israeli police officers detain a Palestinian protestor on March 12, 2019 from Israeli-Palestinian News. Over 100 Minnesota law enforcement officers attended a 2012 conference organized by the Israeli consulate in which Israeli police trained them. Israeli forces often use the knee-on-neck restraint on Palestinians. Minnesota cops ‘trained by Israeli forces in restraint techniques.’ By Jon Collins, reposted from the UK Morning Star newspaper (embedded links added by IAK) Officers from the US […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107952/21/1079522158_0:52:1440:862_1200x675_80_0_0_1069e7299dda36e5dfb1cd773fb986c5.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006041079522115-footage-of-israeli-aggression-in-syria-alleged-aftermath-emerges-online/ Another report on what is seen by Syrian media as “Israeli aggression” emerged Thursday after a missile appeared in the sky over the city of Masyaf, in Syrian province of Hama. Video and photos showing an alleged aftermath of an “Israeli attack” in the city of Masyaf, Syria, have appeared online. The incident, described by the Syrian news agency as “Israeli aggression”, took place on Thursday, hitting the outskirts of the city and causing no casualties. Footage of a missile in the sky over Masyaf was shared on social media along with photos and video […]
_________Jerusalem PostIsraeli specialist: Hydroxychloroquine ineffective treatment for COVID-19 A top Israeli infectious disease specialist has said that she believes that hydroxychloroquine is ineffective in treating COVID-19. The drug has been under investigation worldwide, including in the United States, after US President Donald Trump called it a “game changer” in the fight against coronavirus. Galia Rahav, head of the Infectious Disease Unit and Laboratories at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, told The Jerusalem Post that at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, her team treated some patients with hydroxychloroquine and enrolled others in a clinical trial that involved the drug. Hydroxychloroquine is […]
[Editor’s note: The move to annexe the West Bank has almost no support within Israel, least of all with the usually militant settler community. This is purely a Trump-Netanyau plan and characteristically, it ignores any and all international law. The timing of this move is also cynically orchestrated to take advantage of the distraction caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Ian] _________HaaretzIsraeli Annexation Explained: What Is Netanyahu Planning for the West Bank and What Does It Mean Based on his agreement with Gantz, Netanyahu will be able to commence West Bank annexation plans on July 1. Will the U.S. require Israel to […]
According to Israeli cybersecurity company Checkpoint Software Technologies, attacks on laboratories developing a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 have recently increased, with cybercriminals targeting not only Israel, but other countries. The firm said 20,000 attacks related to the coronavirus are reported every day. Israeli research centres working on a vaccine for the novel coronavirus were among the targets of a large-scale cyber attack on Israel, the nation’s Channel 12 reported without citing its sources and elaborating on how many institutes were affected. According to the channel, hackers wanted to sabotage the development of the vaccine, but not steal information. The attacks on research […]
Middle East 01:38 GMT 19.05.2020(updated 01:40 GMT 19.05.2020) Get short URL On 10 May, the managing director of Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization, Mohammad Rastad, confirmed in a televised statement that the county’s port of Shahid Rajaee, in the coastal city of Bandar Abbas, was the victim of a cyberattack by an unknown foreign hacker on 9 May, bringing to a halt all shipping traffic in the facility. US and foreign officials suspect Israel to be behind the 9 May cyberattack on Iran’s port of Shahid Rajaee. The cyberattack obstructed shipping traffic at the facility for days, according to The Washington […]
On 20 April, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main political rival, Benny Gantz, clinched a coalition agreement empowering the Jewish state to start the de-facto extension of sovereignty over some West Bank territories, in line with a peace plan unveiled by US President Donald Trump in January. In an interview with the magazine Der Spiegel on Friday, Jordan’s King Abdulla II warned Israel of a “massive conflict” with the Hashemite Kingdom if the Jewish state proceeds with its extension of sovereignty over certain areas of the West Bank in the coming months. “Leaders who advocate a one-state solution do […]
Nakba Day: Oppose the Israeli Annexation of West Bank Settlements By Howie Hawkins, Popular Resistance. May 15, 2020 Nakba Day: Oppose the Israeli Annexation of West Bank Settlements 2020-05-152020-05-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/05/48.nakba_.truck_-768×422.jpg200px200px It is time for the United States to end its bipartisan unconditional support for Israeli policies that violate the human rights of Palestinians. At this critical moment, when Israel has announced its intention to annex Israeli settlements on the West Bank with the support of the Trump administration, we must speak out and resist this blatant violation of international law and the right of Palestinians to self-government. Friday, May 15 is the anniversary […]
Obama’s former Attorney General, Eric Holder, performed an audit of an Israeli Company, AnyVision, in late 2019 and early 2020. Holder and his team claimed there was no evidence AnyVision had violated its facial recognition pledge. The Gateway Pundit has obtained evidence that Holder’s team had evidence indicating this was not the case. On November 16, 2019, NBC News reported that former Obama Attorney General, Eric Holder, was hired by Microsoft to audit an Israeli company regarding its compliance with Microsoft policies: Microsoft has hired former United States Attorney General Eric Holder to conduct an audit of facial recognition company AnyVision […]