Illegitimate Transfer of Inalienable European Rights via Convention(s) & Supranational Bodies Establishment of Sovereignty-Usurping Supranational Body Dictatorships Enduring Program of DEMOGRAPHICS WAR on Europeans Enduring Program of PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR on Europeans Enduring Program of European Displacement, Dismemberment, Dispossession, & Dissolution
No wars or conditions abroad (& no domestic or global economic pretexts) justify government policy facilitating the invasion of ancestral European homelands, the rape of European women, the destruction of European societies, & the genocide of Europeans.
U.S. RULING OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR TO SALVAGE HEGEMONY [LINK | Article]
Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? —Who wants to make free people free?
[CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE] HOW DARE YOU? HOW DARE YOU? HOW DARE YOU? RAISE THE SPECIAL ANTI-CRITICISM SHIELD
meanwhile CUCKED BRITISH LABOUR PARTY
"If you look around this room, how many African, Caribbean and Asian people are there? We really need to get our house in order ..."
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The latest drama involving Our Noisiest, Most Protected, Most Funded, and 'secretly' Nuclear Armed Ally, and its supporters:
"Jeremy Corbyn was engulfed in a fresh row over Israel when he appeared to compare the government of Binyamin Netanyahu to Islamic extremists at the launch of an independent review into antisemitism in the Labour party."
... ONLY HE DIDN'T and The Guardian published the following:
This story was amended on 30 June 2016 to correct the quotation in the second paragraph. An earlier version quoted Corbyn as saying ...
and paragraph 2 has been amended to read:
In prepared remarks, Corbyn said: “Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organisations.”
Corbyn has no balls and his words mean nothing.
It's whitewash ... unless all his 'friends' are non-supporters of foreign states and organisations.
Those that support Israel and those that support Islamic organisations, are also responsible for supporting any unacceptable activity committed by those states and organisations, when that activity conforms to a clear pattern of behaviour.
The beleaguered, cowering, and craven Labour Party suspended Livingstone for mentioning historic fact:
"Corbyn and Shami Chakrabarti, the author of the report into antisemitism, declined to comment on remarks made by the former London mayor Ken Livingstone, who was suspended by the party after saying Adolf Hitler had supported Zionism. Livingstone was still under investigation, said Chakrabarti, so “it would be completely wrong to comment”."
and the standard pattern of histrionics, media smear, politician public grovelling display and politician/public figure 'amends' display ensued.
Ruth Smeeth, (culturally Jewish, former director of public affairs & campaigns at: Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre)British Labour politician and US Embassy collaborator, according to WikiLeaks Cables, is accused by a heckler of collaborating with the British press that's hounding the British Labour Party and, more particularly, its leader on the left, Jeremy Corbyn, who has EXPRESSED STRONG SUPPORT FOR the dispossessed, bombed, and 9-years-blockaded PALESTINIANS.
Smeeth's heckler was expelled from the Labour Party, while the witch-hunt of Jeremy Corbyn continues ...
PoliticsHome.com Ruth Smeeth heckler expelled from Labour party
Written by: Agnes Chambre
Posted On: 1st July 2016
The activist who accused a Jewish MPof “working hand in hand" with the Daily Telegraph at Labour’s anti-Semitism report launch has been expelled from the party.
Marc Wadsworth, who claims to be a member of the pro-Corbyn campaign group Momentum, accused Ruth Smeeth of conspiring in a "witch hunt" with the paper.
Ms Smeeth later called on Mr Corbyn to quit because he "stood by and did absolutely nothing" while the incident was taking place.
Jeremy Corbyn accused of anti-Semitism by Jewish Human Rights Watch
WATCH: Jeremy Corbyn chats happily to Ruth Smeeth heckler
Labour coup on hold as 'defiant' Jeremy Corbyn refuses to quit
Labour MP says party is not a 'safe place for British Jews' under Jeremy Corbyn [comment: lol ... they're just using the 'anti-Semitism' card to get rid of a left that will challenge Israel's abuse of Palestinians. ]
Mr Wadsworth today expressed regret for any offence caused to Ms Smeeth and revealed to LBC radio that he had been expelled from the party due to “media reports”. [comment: what a pussy. if you're going to heckle, do so unapologetically ... especially if your sh*tty political party expels you for doing so. ]
“I’ve now been expelled from the Labour party. I've received a letter from this very shadowy unit called the constitutional unit," he said. [comment: all these pseudo left parties are cucked and f*cked: vote nationalist. ]
"And they have summarily expelled me without any opportunity to give my side, just based on media reports.”
He added: “They told me that my membership has not been accepted as a full member of the party...
“I’ve been a member for several months, so its not a matter of my membership being pending.
"This is something I'm going to challenge and I'm getting a lot of Jewish support."
Ms Smeeth said in a statement after the event that Mr Wadsworth had "used traditional anti-Semitic slurs to attack me for being part of a media conspiracy”. [comment: So simply being Jewish is some kind of an immunity from criticism and challenge magic shield? ]
“It is beyond belief that someone could come to the launch of a report on anti-Semitism in the Labour party and espouse such vile conspiracy theories about Jewish people.” [comment: if you just look at the BBC pro-Israel bias and Jewish top-down corporate cultural influence cited in the article below, and BBC's pro-Israel stance, Jewish influence of media is not some 'conspiracy theory'. And that's just the BBC: never mind the rest of it. ]
Human rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti, who wrote the anti-Semitism report and was at yesterday's event, said Mr Corbyn shared her anger at what had happened.
She told Radio 4's Today programme: "I have been to see Ruth Smeeth and I've apologised to her because it was my press conference and I was chairing it and I'm really sorry she was treated in that way. [comment: WTF for? Politicians mustn't get heckled? So, being Jewish lends special protective cover to politicians? Why should Ruth Smeeth receive any special protections from being challenged? ]
"I was chairing the press conference and I probably didn't give [Jeremy] a chance to jump in because I was so quick to jump in.
"He concurred with me when I admonished the gentleman in question for heckling not just Ruth Smeeth but me and for abusing the privilege of asking a question at a national press conference and the leader concurred with me."
However Mr Corbyn was today reported to the Labour party by Jewish Human Rights Watch over his "conduct" at the launch. [comment: this is bullsh*t. I hate the Labour party, but this is a Jeremy Corbyn witch-hunt, probably led by the local Jews/Zionists and their allied non-Jew politician supporters of Israel, who probably want someone more favourably disposed to Israel heading up the British Labour Party (in the case of the former) and power (in the case of the latter, I guess)]
Jeremy Corbyn: Jews Must Not Be Blamed “for the Actions of Israel or the Netanyahu Government”
Guardian Sinks into Gutter on Corbyn – Again
By Jonathan Cook
Global Research, July 04, 2016
Jonathan Cook Blog 30 June 2016 This is way beyond a face-palm moment.
Jeremy Corbyn today launched a review into the Labour party’s supposed “anti-semitism crisis” – in fact, a crisis entirely confected by a toxic mix of the right, Israel supporters and the media. I have repeatedly pointed out that misleading claims of anti-semitism (along with much else) are being thrown at Corbyn to discredit him. You can read my criticisms of this campaign and Labour’s reponse here, here and here.
In his speech, Corbyn made an entirely fair point that Jews should not be blamed for the behaviour of Israel any more than Muslims should be for the behaviour of states that are Islamic. He said:
Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organisations.
But no matter what he said, the usual suspects are now accusing him of comparing Israel with Islamic State, even though that is clearly not what he said – not even close.
First, even if he had said “Islamic State”, which he didn’t, that would not have meant he made a comparison with Israel. He was comparing the assumptions some people make that Jews and Muslims have tribal allegiances based on their religious or ethnic background. He was saying it was unfair to make such assumptions of either Jews or Muslims.[comment: of course he was; he's a Labour cuck, but those that want to oust him, won't let that stand in their way ... LOL.]
In fact, such an assumption (which Corbyn does not share) would be more unfair to Muslims than to Jews. It would suggest that some Muslims easily feel an affinity with a terror organisation, while some Jews feel an affinity with a recognised state (which may or may not include their support for the occupation). That assumption is far uglier towards Muslims than it is towards Jews. [comment: LOL ... it would depend on which side of the fence you stand on. I'm guessing that Arabs and cultural Arabs would see things otherwise. ]
But, of course, all of this is irrelevant because Corbyn did not make any such comparison. He clearly referred to “various self-styled Islamic states or organisations”. A spokesman later clarified that he meant “Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran or Hamas in Gaza”. In other words, “various self-styled Islamic states and organisations” – just as he said in the speech.
Surprise, surprise, the supposedly liberal Guardian’s coverage of this incident is as appalling as that found in the rightwing Telegraph. The Guardian has an article, quoting rabbis and others, pointing out the irony that Corbyn made an anti-semitic comment at the launch of an anti-semitism review – except, of course, that he didn’t.
In fact, contrary to all normal journalism, you have to read the Guardian story from bottom-up. The last paragraph states:
This story was amended on 30 June to correct the quotation in the second paragraph. An earlier version quoted Corbyn as saying: “Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu government than our Islamic friends are responsible for Islamic State.”
Or in other words, the Guardian reporterdid not even bother to listen to the video of the speech posted alongside her report on the Guardian’s own website. Instead she and her editors jumped on the same bandwagon as everyone else, spreading the same malicious rumours and misinformation. [COMMENT: That would be Harriet Sherwood 'religion correspondent' - here. Coincidentally, this same reporter was accused of being pro-Palestinian a few years ago, so there's no pleasing everybody as a reporter. But, yeah, fabrication is a bit much to swallow ... ]
When it later emerged that the story was a complete fabrication – one they could have proved for themselves had they listened to what Corbyn really said – they simply appended at the bottom a one-par mea culpa that almost no one will read. The Guardian has continued to publish the same defamatory article, one based on a deception from start to finish.
This is the very definition of gutter journalism. And it comes as the Guardian editor, Kath Viner, asks (begs?) readers to dig deep in their pockets to support the Guardian. She writes:
The Guardian’s role in producing fast, well-sourced, calm, accessible and intelligent journalism is more important than ever.
UK Labour head Jeremy Corbyn slams Israel in newly released letters June 1, 2016 5:03pm
Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn speaking after a 'Stop Trident' march though central London, Feb. 27, 2016. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
(JTA) — In letters sent to the foreign minister, the head of Britain’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, called for sanctions against Israel and described some of the Jewish state’s politicians as “criminals” who should be banned from Britain.
Corbyn’s anti-Israel letters, written while he was a Parliament member but before he was elected party chief, were obtained by the UK’s Jewish News through a Freedom of Information request. In an article published Wednesday, the Jewish News reported that Corbyn also saidIsrael treats Palestinians “with disdain” and that its “victimization of the people of East Jerusalem is an abomination.”
Corbyn already is under fire from British Jewish leaders who have voiced concerns that he is not doing enough to address anti-Semitism among party members.
News of the letters came on the same day a documentary on Corbyn aired showing him criticizing a Jewish journalist who wrote that the Labour Party has an anti-Semitism problem.
In one segment of “Jeremy Corbyn: The Outsider,” which was produced by Vice News, Corbyn describes a Guardian Op-Ed by Jonathan Freedland about Labour’s “anti-Semitism problem” as “Utterly disgusting, subliminal nastiness, the whole lot of it.” He adds that Freedland, who is also a columnist for London’s Jewish Chronicle, is “not a good guy at all. He seems kind of obsessed with me.”
According to the Jewish News, Corbyn in 2013called on then-Foreign Secretary William Haig to “stop allowing Israel’s criminal politicians to come to our country freely,” “end the siege of Gaza” and to “ensure the BBC portray Palestine fairly,” complaining that the national broadcaster “barely” mentioned “the Palestinian hunger strike!”
Many Jews and Israelis have accused the BBC of having a pro-Palestinian bias.
On the subject of banning Israeli politicians, Corbyn wrote: “I cannot help wondering how long successive governments are going to stand by pretending that an occupying power of so many years should be treated in the same way as the people whose land is not only occupied, but routinely confiscated.”
United Nations' rights envoy for Palestine resigns, accuses Israel of denying access to West Bank, Gaza
Posted 5Jan 2016, 6:28am
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Makarim Wibisono, United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, said his repeated oral and written requests for access had gone unanswered for over 18 months.
In a statement announcing his resignation, Mr Wibisono, who reports to the UN Human Rights Council, voiced "deep concern at the lack of effective protection of Palestinian victims of continuing human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law".
Israel has long rejected the post of the independent investigator for the territories, accusing the 47-member state forum of bias against the Jewish state, a position backed by its main ally the United States.
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Mr Wibisono, a former Indonesian diplomat who took up the UN post in June 2014, said in his first report to the council in March 2015 that Israel should investigate the killing of more than 1,500 Palestinian civilians, one third of them children, during the 2014 Gaza war, and make the findings public.
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His predecessor Richard Falk, an American law professor who is Jewish, long drew controversy in Israel.
In 2008 Mr Falk compared Israeli military strikes against Hamas in Gaza — during which 1,400 Palestinians were killed and there was widespread destruction in densely populated areas — to those of the Nazis.
Director of BBC television signs The Guardian’s pro-Israel letter
Amena Saleem Media Watch 29 October 2015
Director of BBC television Danny Cohen. (BBC Media Centre)
The BBC’s outgoing director of television has signed a letter published in The Guardian last week, pleading for Israel not to be singled out as a target for cultural boycotts.
Danny Cohen, a member of the BBC’s executive board and one of the most senior figures in the organization, joins top Israel apologists — including the chair of Conservative Friends of Israel and the vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel — in putting his name to the letter.
(The BBC recently announced that Cohen was to move on from his position at the BBC after eight years, but will retain his post through the end of November.)
The letter published in The Guardian states that “Cultural boycotts singling out Israel are divisive and discriminatory, and will not further peace,” and calls for “cultural engagement” in place of boycotts.
As Omar Robert Hamilton writes in Counterpunch: “When you’re dealing with the mechanized destruction of an entire people by one of the most technologically advanced and diplomatically shielded militaries in the history of mankind then talk, in 2015, of ‘cultural engagement’ is nothing more than further cover for Israel’s continuing colonization of what remains of Palestine.”
It is to this letter, and the highly politicized opinions within it, that the BBC’s director of television, whose salary is funded by license fee payers, has put his name.
In response to a query I sent, asking if Cohen is in breach of any BBC guidelines requiring employees to show impartiality regarding the situation in Palestine and Israel, the BBC Press Office sent this inconsequential reply: “Danny Cohen was expressing his view about his belief in the importance of creative freedom of expression.”
This is ridiculous.
The views expressed in the letter do not constitute a request for unfettered “creative freedom of expression” but are a plea for Israel to be protected from the consequences of its illegal occupation of Palestinian land and its siege on Gaza.
“Coexistence”
The letter also declares support for a new organization called Culture for Coexistence, whose committee includes at least one Israeli, but no Palestinians, and board members of Conservative Friends of Israel, but no one from a pro-Palestinian organization. The website itself is sparse, containing only the text of the letter to The Guardian and a list of committee members.
It looks suspiciously like a front for a bigger hasbara (or propaganda) organization.
Cohen’s fellow signatories to The Guardian letter include Eric Pickles MP, chair of Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), a pro-Israel lobby group which, according to its website, “works to ensure that Israel’s case is fairly represented in Parliament.”
Another 13 members of parliament, apart from Pickles, have signed the letter. Seven of them are CFI’s parliamentary officers, five others are either members of CFI or have recently been on one of its delegations to Israel, and the 13th, Michael Dugher, is vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel — the Labour Party’s equivalent group.
There are no pro-Palestinian MPs among the signatories.
Openly pro-Israel
There are former BBC employees on the signature list as well, including George Weidenfeld, who worked for the BBC Overseas Service, and is now vice-chair of the EU-Israel Forum. Weidenfeld also founded the eponymous Weidenfeld Safe Havens Fund, whose stated aim is to “rescue” Christians from Syria. The fund has received financial support from the Jewish National Fund, an organization essential to the continued ethnic cleansing of historical Palestine.
These signatories are openly pro-Israel. Cohen’s position at the BBC, however, requires neutrality. If he supports Israel in its suppression of the Palestinian people, those views should not be allowed to affect his work at the BBC. And yet, here he is, with others, very publicly arguing for a continuation of the status quo which favors the Israeli state against the occupied Palestinian people, employing vacuous terms such as “building bridges” to hide the fact that Israel is a serial violator of international law and Palestinian human rights, whose senior politicians openly declare that there will never be a Palestinian state.
It is a stupefying display of favoritism towards Israel from the BBC’s director of television, a man whose job supposedly demands impartiality.
Cohen’s influence within the BBC is huge.He oversees the BBC’s four main TV channels, BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three and BBC Four, in addition to BBC iPlayer, and online content for BBC Television. He also oversees the drama, entertainment, knowledge and comedy genres and BBC Films. Further responsibilities include the BBC Television archive and BBC Productions, Europe’s largest television production group.
And his views on Israel and the occupation are now out in the open.
Shockingly, he is not the only senior figure at the BBC known for pro-Israel sympathies.
Endemic bias
The BBC’s director of news and current affairs, James Harding, once told a conference organized by the pro-Zionist Jewish Chronicle newspaper: “I am pro-Israel. I believe in the State of Israel.”
Speaking in 2011, when he was still editor of Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper The Times, Harding added, “I would have had a real problem if I had been coming to a paper with a history of being anti-Israel. And, of course, Rupert Murdoch is pro-Israel.”
Harding is responsible for the entirety of the BBC’s news and current affairs output across BBC radio, TV and online, including its current coverage of October’s violence in Palestine and Israel. The position he holds at the BBC is described by The Guardian as “arguably the most important editorial job in Britain.”
He came to the BBC in April 2013. There he joined James Purnell, who had been appointed two weeks earlier as the BBC’s director of strategy and digital. Purnell is a former Labour MP and minister who, for two years, served as chair of Labour Friends of Israel.
But the pro-Israel bias is not present only in the BBC’s current appointments. Another signatory of the letter in last week’s Guardian is Michael Grade, who served as chair of the BBC between 2004 and 2006.
Deep support for Israel
As well as calling for Israel to be protected from boycotts, Grade last week publicly complained that the BBC was too pro-Palestinian in its coverage of events in October which have seen at least 61 Palestinians killed in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, as well as 10 Israelis.
The Jewish Chronicle reported that Grade had written to the BBC’s director general, Tony Hall, accusing the BBC of failing to show stone-throwing Palestinians in its reports and creating an “equivalence between Israeli victims of terrorism and Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli security forces in the act of carrying out terror attacks.”
Ironically, as close monitoring by Palestine Solidarity Campaign has demonstrated, the BBC’s coverage in October has focused almost exclusively on Israeli stabbing victims, and its flagship radio news program Today has even attempted to fool its audiences into thinking that all those killed during October have been Israeli.
But it would seem that, whatever lengths the BBC goes to in order to present the occupying Israeli state as a victim, it can never go far enough for some who have worked at the organization.
It cannot be denied then that support for Israel runs deep through the top layers of BBC management, both past and present, and that support probably trickles down through the rest of the BBC as a matter of corporate culture.
This could explain why BBC editors failed to see the pro-Israel bias of commissioning historian Simon Schama to make a five part series for BBC Two in 2013, during which he made what he called “the moral case for Israel” and announced, in one episode, “I am a Zionist and quite unapologetic about it.”
Schama, unsurprisingly, joined Cohen in adding his name toThe Guardian letter on cultural boycotts.
Corporate culture
The same corporate culture could also explain why BBC Online’s Middle East editor, Raffi Berg, felt comfortable enough to send his colleagues an email during Israel’s November 2012 assault on Gazaasking them not to “put undue emphasis” on Israel for starting the prolonged attacks.
And it may explain why Cohen feels he cansign a letter in support of Israel without fear of reprisal from his bosses for breaching impartiality requirements.
Consumers of BBC news and current affairs may often wonder why the number of Israeli spokespersons appearing across the BBC’s output far outnumber Palestinian spokespersons, why Palestinians, when they do make a rare appearance, are constantly interrupted by BBC presenters, while Israelis such as diplomat Mark Regev are given free rein to speak almost without challenge.
They may wonder why the killing of Palestinian children by Israeli soldiers goes unreported by the BBC, while rockets fired from Gaza which cause damage to roads make headlines.
But, if the pro-Israeli views of those at the top of the BBC have created a corporate culture of pro-Israeli biasthroughout its editorial ranks, then such one-sided reporting, while disgraceful, should no longer come as a surprise to anyone.
Now I'm sorry I had a look at this dreary material. It's not at all straightforward, and I don't want to devote the next week or two unravelling the tangled web of finger-pointing, press and political 'outrage' & smear.
It's a huge time-waster, in politics, in media and in terms of public attention. This is ridiculous: it's just politics being hijacked and manufactured drama leveraging an attempt to get rid of British Labour's Jeremy Corbyn. Even though I hate the left, I'm opposed to this hijacking and power-grab in British politics, and am disgusted by the capitalist press that abets this circus.
Plus, pluralism isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Israel's right.
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Have I got a Bibi fetish, or is Bibi naturally funny? He looks such a naughty, naughty Prime Minister ... LOL
Israeli warplanes launch several airstrikes on Gaza Strip
Sat Jul 2, 2016 12:58AM
Israeli warplanes have launched several airstrikes on the Gaza Strip in yet another act of aggression against the besieged Palestinian coastal territory.
No casualties have yet been reported in the Saturday morning attacks that followed reports of an alleged rocket launch from Gaza on a vacant kindergarten in the town of Sderot in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Israeli warplanes reportedly hit the Zeitoun district of Gaza City and a site belonging to the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas.
The Israeli bombardment of Gaza came hours after Tel Aviv imposed a closure on the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) and its surrounding areas following the killing of an Israeli man in a drive-by shooting there. Earlier on Friday, Israeli forces shot dead a 27-year-old Palestinian woman, identified as Sarah Tarayra, after she allegedly attempted to carry out a stabbing attack near the revered Muslim religious monument of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city.
The Israeli military frequently bombs the Gaza Strip. The disproportionate force is always used in violation of international law, and civilians are often killed or injured.
In early July 2014, Israel waged a war on the Gaza Strip. The 50-day military aggression, which ended on August 26, 2014, killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians, including 577 children. Over 11,100 others – including 3,374 children, 2,088 women and 410 elderly people – were also wounded in the war. Israel continues to carry out attacks on the Palestinian strip from time to time.
Gaza has been blockaded since 2007, a situation that has caused a decline in the standard of living, unprecedented levels of unemployment, and unrelenting poverty.
The apartheid regime of Israel denies about 1.8 million people in Gaza their basic rights, such as freedom of movement, proper job, and adequate healthcare and education.
The US-Anglo Capitalist Empire (and allied capitalist puppets) ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 9-YEAR IMPRISONMENT OF PALESTINIANS BY ISRAELI BLOCKADE, as well as the decades long dispossession, decades long refugee status, and regular killings of Palestinians.
Balfour Declaration (1917):
"The British government hoped that the declaration would rally Jewish opinion, especially in the United States, to the side of the Allied powers against the Central Powers during World War I (1914–18). They hoped also that the settlement in Palestine of a pro-British Jewish population might help to protect the approaches to the Suez Canal in neighbouring Egypt and thus ensure a vital communication route to British colonial possessions in India.
The Balfour Declaration was endorsed by the principal Allied powers and was included in the British mandate over Palestine, formally approved by the newly created League of Nations on July 24, 1922."
Turkish Conquer of Cyprus Hypocrisy & Ethnic Incitement
Maria Sakharov re Turkey: "We all know the conqueror"
21.05.2016 | 10:23
The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Sakharov, in a post on Twitter,said that Ankara "uses increasingly annoying term" occupation ", while in the meantime know, for example, the true conqueror of Cyprus." Placing the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry concerning Turkey's stance onCrimeanoting that Ankara's policy aimed at inciting ethnic conflict and destabilization.
Note that last February, Maria Sakharov, commenting contacts occupation regime officials in Ankara with Erdogan, spoke of "Turkey's blatant interference in Cyprus." The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry had said that "theTurkish leader guided them open T / C to follow harsh and uncompromising line in the ongoing intercommunal negotiations in Cyprus, including on such a sensitive issue as the territorial demarcation."
Recall that Erdogan had suggested to the representatives of the puppet regime for Morphou (non-return) and the granting of "nationalities" to settlers. As is known, the Nicosia by the Foreign Minister, had distanced themselves from the placement of a representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry ( "Let me not to intervene in this kind of discussion").
Meanwhile, although not expected developments relating to Cyprus during the UN World Humanitarian Summit to be held next Monday and Tuesday in Istanbul, many players of the Cyprus problem will be there. The President Nicos Anastasiades will participate in the session, while this will be the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon.
The only meeting that has been determined is that the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
At the meeting will be attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the emir of Kuwait Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte, the Nigerian President Muhammed Yusuf, Prime Minister of Lebanon Tamam Selam.
At the meeting will not attend the possessory leader Mustafa Akinci, although it was intended by the Turkish side. The United Nations will not have an excuse to invite him.
Spokesman Akinci, Baris Burj said yesterday that the possessory leader was not invited.
He said "there is still no such invitation. And he's one I know such an invitation have not. " If you receive such a call will evaluate the issue, he added.
Ankara launched a massive crackdown on predominantly Kurdish areas in the south-east, imposing indefinite curfews in many Kurdish districts and waging gun, mortar and tank battles against PKK fighters.
The areas are under a government lockdown, with the Turkish government preventing foreign journalists or inspectors from assessing the situation on the ground. Pro-Kurdish activists accuse Turkish forces of numerous violations of human rights, including extrajudicial killings of civilians, torture and other crimes. The Turkish government insists that it only does what it has to do stop Kurdish terrorism, but some activists call it collective punishment of the entire Kurdish people.
The accusations may be consistent with the spree of attacks on pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), the offices and rallies of which were bombed or attacked in other manner ahead of last year’s election. [RTnews | ibid]
AND they deal in ISIS stolen fuel, while also
supporting and training ISIS Islamists that are destroying Syria for Turkey, Israel, Gulf Arabs, USA, Britain, their off-siders & the EU scum capitalist elites.
Seymour Hersh: Turkey staged gas attack
to provoke US war on Syria LINK | here
AND the were
caught planning false flag ops in Syria.
Turkey YouTube Ban:
Full Transcript of Leaked Syria 'War' Conversation
Between Erdogan Officials LINK | here
Hilarious Leaked Turkish False Flag Plot (Video)
Turkey Exposed Plotting War
Turkey Cries - Leak Is 'Declaration of War' LINK | here
Transcript - Banned Audio Leak
Turkey Head of Intelligence (MIT)
Hakan Fiday & Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoğlu
False Flag Plot for Casus Belli in Syria LINK | here
Reported move would push along stalled talks over energy imports, amid steadily warming ties
By Times of Israel staff May 19, 2016, 3:05 pm
[PHOTO] Flames rise from a gas pipeline explosion in el-Arish, Egypt in July. The pipeline that transports fuel to Israel and Jordan has been attacked more than a dozen times since the fall of former president Hosni Mubarak. (photo credit: AP/File)
Israel may let Egypt slide on nearly $900 million from a fine over an energy deal, as Jerusalem courts warmer business ties with Cairo, according to a report this week.
Egypt owes Israel $1.76 billion for a 2015 court judgment that found Cairo violated an agreement to supply natural gas.
Egypt cut off talks to import Israeli natural gas after the ruling, but two officials close to the case quoted by Bloomberg Wednesday said Israel may forgive half the fine, paving the way to reopening negotiations. According to Bloomberg, payments would be spread over 14 years and talks are still underway.
There was no official confirmation of the report, which comes as Israel has been signaling other moves to warm up to Cairo, including recently upgrading embassies in Cairo and Jerusalem.
On Sunday, Israel is expected to return two Bronze-Age wooden anthropoid sarcophagus lids to new Egyptian Ambassador to Israel Hazem Khairat at a Foreign Ministry ceremony on Sunday, four years after they were discovered smuggled into the Jewish state.
The $1.76 billion ruling, made by three arbitrators in a closed session in December, ended 3.5 years of deliberations in which the Israeli Electric Corporation was claiming over $4 billion in damages stemming from Egypt canceling their bilateral gas deal in 2012.
Egyptian government-owned gas companies EGPC and EGAS were expected to foot the bill.
In response, Egypt’s Oil Ministry ordered the gas import talks frozenuntil after the case is appealed and the ruling is clarified, according to Bloomberg at the time.
Israel is set to become a major gas supplier with the discovery of a massive offshore field and has looked for regional buyers, including Jordan and Egypt.
Before 2012, Israel imported natural gas from Egypt, though the pipeline, running through the restive Sinai Peninsula, was dogged by frequent sabotage.
The deal, initially slated to last 20 years, was finally canceled by Egyptian authorities following the 2012 ouster of president Hosni Mubarak and election of Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi. Morsi was ousted in 2014, and ties between Israel and Egypt, never warm, have steadily improved since.
[comment: Pres = Abdel Fattah el-Sisi / Launched 2013 coup d'etat removing Mohamed Morsi in aftermath 2013 protests. From Egypt's military class. Won in election boycotted by most political parties & Muslim Brotherhood. Sunni. ]
Israel announces discovery of offshore gasfield. Three located in Israeli waters in past five (5) years. Two larger fields: 2009 & 2010. Expected to serve bulk of Israel gas needs. Meanwhile the following are in urgent need of energy supplies:
*Egypt
*Palestine Authority (West Bank ?)
*Jordan
Until 5 years prior, Israel almost entirely coal & energy import dependent.
2009 - Leviathan - 90m Haifa - 450 bn cubic meters - rights negs Nov 2015 2009 - Tamar - 90m Haifa - 240 bn cubic meters - rights negs Nov 2015
Distribution: Natgaz (Israel Natural Gas Lines)
2015 - Israel 60% electricity from natural gas
2015 - solar energy = 2% of Israel electricity
Benefits:
natural gas less pollutant than oil or coal / greenhouse reduction energy independence for Israel
MASSIVE BACKLASH environmental groups hold massive protests re gas deal Tel Aviv protest over 10,000 Nov. 2015 Green Course one of those groups gas deal deemed dangerous for Israel allows for quick export of Israel gas (potentially leaving Israel w/out gas) gas deal deemed “organized robbery” govt despoiling greatest national resource dividing among a group of magnates monopoly that is selling Israeli gas back to Israelis govt puts out as concessions for: Israel’s geostrategic standing Israelis don't buy that: Bibi has turned Israel into country with: -- most expensive housing in West -- most expensive cars in West -- most expensive food in West -- most expensive gas in West -- Bibi pushed through deal -- public outcry & inter-govt. conflicts ensued -- Bibi forced to put to Knesset vote -- Knesset passed deal (59 / 51) -- approval (at time article) required from Anti-trust Commission / or economy minister -- economy minister resigned, refusing to be first to invoke A.52 -- LOL ... Bibi's taken over
-- duopoly between Nobel and Delek
Bill Clinton -- Bill Clinton has lobbied for Noble Energy in past directly w/ Bibi-- Noble Energy spox denies Clinton a paid lobbyist for Noble-- 2009
Leviathian discover prompts calls to renegotiate tax breaks exploration
-- Due to size of discovery, Israel must renegotiate -- 2010 Bill Clinton complains to Bibi 2010 that Israel cannot tax US business retroactively whenever they feel like it
-- 2015 - Clinton speaks at Rabin assassination mem. / gets booed by crowd -- re his lobbing for Noble Energy
Egypt -- Italian company exploration off coast Egypt -- 'supergiant natural gas field discovery -- LARGEST EVER IN MEDITERRANEAN -- twice the size of Israel's offshore fields -- Egypt no longer potential buy of Israel energy
Domestic Israel -- market Israel & Palestine depend on Israel infrastructure -- already using gas / domestic increase not substantial per annum -- DEVELOPERS & PARTNERS NEED *EXPORT MARKET* -- Israel & Westbank too small to justify expensive development -- companies will only invest in development if they can be assured of STABLE EXPORT MARKET -- talk of joint Italy-Egypt-Israel agreement -- other option: TURKEY -- Turkey = economic sense but political hurdles (strained relations)
Israel single gas pipeline from Tamar (2015) -- more pipes crucial to develop (for additional fields) -- single pipeline problem (monopoly) + in event of damage
$22 billion Saudi aid Saudis visit Egypt April Pres. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in damage control mode crisis: 1. Egypt transferring sovereignty of x2 Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia 2. Saudis providing enormous 'economic aid' package to Cairo (ie credit) -- islands possibly sold -- without $22 billion Saudi aid, Egypt on way to economic collapse -- declining tourism -- declining Suez canal revenues [why? is shipping avoiding?] -- Islamist insurgency (ISIS-led) -- foreign reserves dwindling dangerous levels -- 9% annual inflation rate (deemed big) -- over 13% unemployment (not that big, in my view) -- annual budget deficit - 12% -- military sucks up large part of economy / 30% -- food & energy subsidies @ 20% -- bloated bureaucracy + food & energy subsidies = 80% govt budget p.a. -- babies born every 19 seconds - 2.6% replacement rate -- Egypt population poised to double to 180 million by 2050 -- almost half of Egyptians live on $2 day -- $20 billion goes right back to the Saudis in petroleum projects / so it's credit credit -- funding covers 5 years -- Italian discovered offshore gas coming on in 2-3 years -- Saudi credit helps bridge funding gaps until gas happening -- Sisi may be up for tax reforms, intro VAT & capital gains -- Sisi may reduce public sector wages -- Sisi may streamline regulations (business / environment) -- 2017: stand by for revolution in Egypt -- govt cutting energy subsidies to poor by 43% -- tax reform would enable Egypt to raise food subsidies & to lower deficit -- unknown if Sisi will take this course ... lol -- 2013: Saudi Arabia, UAE & Kuwait $20 billion aid to Egypt -- back then Egypt did not do any of the reforms it needed to do for enduring change -- pending: -- USA loan -- IMF loan
Oh, Israel's forgiving maybe half of Egypt's gas contract cancellation massive kick in the nuts fine. But Egypt was going to appeal the eye-watering fine. Israel's got masses of gas, but Egypt having twice the gas stuffs up Israel. Egypt was going to be a buyer until the offshore discovery ... but now it has become a competitor for customers? Wow, this could get exciting.
So Israel and Egypt are in somewhat similar circumstances: Egypt wants out of Israeli gas supply, presumably as Egypt has huge supply source of own discovered subsequent to contact that Egypt cancelled. Similarly, Israel has a lemon of a deal re exploration with Noble Energy, as Noble got huge tax concessions (before the giant gas discovery).
Don't fancy Egypt's chances now that Egypt has a massive off-shore gas supply, twice the size of Israel's. Uh-oh ... Israel will eat Egypt for breakfast. Wonder what's going to happen? Israelis are highly political: it's incredible how big the street protests were. Bill Clinton's a creep. Punish him, Israel. LOL
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PS ... wonder if any fall-out from this could have any impact on the Israel-Egypt-US special relationship, or if this is just business?
Wow, things aren't good economically in Egypt. It's like another Ukraine, getting raped by USA & IMF ... & Saudis.
Egypt population massive growth + Africa population massive growth by 2050 cannot feasibly be supported, I believe. There's probably going to be a war or something?
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