| To: Les H who wrote (45013) | 2/18/2025 9:27:45 AM | | From: Les H | | | | Meeting in Paris is a flop: no agreement on sending troops for peace-keeping in Ukraine
Both Le Monde and The Financial Times this evening are reporting that the meeting earlier in the day of the heads of government of the most interested EU member states, the secretary general of NATO, the president of the European Council, the head of the European Commission and her Commissioner for External Relations to discuss their response to Trump’s request to list the number of units and equipment they are ready to deploy in Ukraine as peacekeepers and enforce a peace settlement with Russia ended only in discord.
To be sure, Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom said he was ready to deploy troops. The Swedes were more circumspect, saying they ‘do not exclude’ such a possibility. However, German Chancellor Scholz put a firm Nein! to the idea which he called ‘very inappropriate’ and ‘premature.’ Most surprisingly, the viscerally anti-Russian prime minister of Poland Donald Tusk also said his country is not ready to deploy. Tusk knows better than anyone else among his neighbors the might of the Russian armed forces and the wholly underprepared state of Polish military assets.
The meeting in Paris lasted 3 hours and appears to have adjourned without any joint statements, meaning it was a failure for Europe.
Where there are losers on one side, there are winners on the other side. The failure of the Europeans represented a victory for President Trump. When the moment came to ‘put up or shut up’ as poker players say in the States, Europe just shut up. Quite possibly this is precisely what Trump expected when he demanded not generalities about their values but solid commitments of men and materiel from the European allies.
Gilbert Doctorow
Next up is supposedly a 700 billion dollar aid package from the EU, probably spread over 10 years. It remains to be seen how much is intended to support the Ukrainian government, Ukrainian immigrants to EU member countries, and supply of weapons for the war.. |
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| From: tntpal | 2/18/2025 9:32:10 AM | | | | | | A Long History of Blaming the Jews
religiondispatches.org
The Jews killed JFK?
Message 35004425
The Jews exploit the holocaust?
Message 35029811
Maybe they faked the 6 million deaths?
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The Palestinian Grand Mufti, Yasser Arafat and Abbas = Nazism & The Palestine State
Yasser Arafat did not emerge as a product of immaculate conception. He had a mentor – the notorious Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini. Writing in The Tower Magazine of November 2015, Edy Cohen describes, ” How the Mufti of Jerusalem Created the Permanent Problem of Palestinian Violence.” Cohen considers al-Husseini one of the most important figures in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict..
Consider his attributes [a] the founding father of the Arab national movement in Palestine the most important Nazi collaborator in the Arab world a political activist who worked tirelessly for the ethnic cleansing and physical destruction of the Jews in Palestine and in the Middle East as a whole and a fervent anti-Semite.
 
There was no Palestinian people or Arab Palestine then or at any other time in history.
The PLO, Arafat’s terror organization invented the false notion of a Palestinian Arab nation in their charter of 1964. Further, as a matter of historical fact the term “Palestinian” had always referred to the Jews of that area. The Palestinian Post was a Jewish newspaper which later became the Jerusalem Post. The Palestinian Brigade in the British army was a Jewish entity that the British formed to assist them in an effort to defeat the Germans invading North Africa, who were heading towards Palestine.
Through his meeting with Hitler in November, 1941, Amin al-Husseini, was able to join Nazi leader in restating their commitment to the “elimination” of any form of Jewish sovereignty in Palestine. He was regarded by the Nazis as their key Arab ally with potential to be a head of state in Palestine. He remained in Germany until the Nazi defeat in may, 1945...
To this day, Palestinian leaders still revere the Mufti and embrace his policy of absolute rejectionist. When the Nazi’s were defeated, he found refuge with King Farouk in Egypt, his asylum being extended under the regimes of Maj. Gen. Mohammed Naguib and President Nasser. After WW2 his claims to leadership were wholly discredited and he was eventually sidelined by the PLO, losing most of his residual political influence. He died in Beirut, Lebanon in July 1974. [NY Times July 5, 1974]
A small sampling of the terrorist attacks which occurred during the tenor of Arafat and Abbas, inspired by al-Husseini follows:
September 05, 1972: Massacre in Munich, Black September Palestinian terrorists – 9 athletic hostages killed [+2 at commencement] 5 terrorists killed, 3 captured alive by 1992 – Israel assassinated all live terrorists.
Mar. 04, 1975: Savoy Hotel, Tel Aviv 3 civilians and 2 soldiers killed, 7 terrorists killed and many hotel guests and staff held hostage until resolution.
Mar. 09, 1978: Coastal Road massacre – Fatah bus high jacking, 38 Israelis including 13 children killed and 71 wounded prior to Israeli-Egyptian peace talks.
Sep. 1993 to Sep. 2000 following Oslo Accords, nearly 300 Israelis were killed.
Apr, 09 1995: Aliza Flatow and 7 Israeli soldiers killed on the way to Gaza when her Kfar Daron bus was detonated by a terrorist.
Nov, 20 2000: 3 children of Rabbi Cohen had legs amputated as a result of a Gaza school suicide attack.
Dec. 2000 : Al Aqsa Intifada 1,100 Israelis killed.
Aug, 09 2001: Sbarro pizzeria suicide bombing – 15 killed including 7 children and 130 injured, terrorist killed in blast.
Mar, 27 2002: Netanya Park Hotel Passover – 30 people killed and 140 injured [20 seriously] in Hamas suicide attack.
Sep, 09 2003: Cafe Hillel Jerusalem, famed Dr. Applebaum and daughter Nava among 7 Israelis killed in suicide bombing.
Mar, 11 2011: Itamar suicide attack – 5 family members killed while in bed.
The introduction to this paper demonstrates how less than credible individuals have positioned the Jewish people into a nation under constant siege as described by Connor Cruise O’Brian in his book of the same name.
Yet another item, which has largely impacted how Israel finds itself occurred at the conclusion of the Six Day War. As explained by Joshua Muravchik in his “Making David into Goliath – How the World Turned Against Israel.” His explanation, “No longer was it Israel verses the Arabs. Now it was Israel verses Israel verses the homeless Palestinians.”
Clever, very clever. It most certainly has worked very well for the “invented people.” It’s all about the magic word “Palestine”. Unlike, Iraq, Syria, Egypt et al whose sovereignty was recognized by the British as were “—non existing non-Jewish communities” besides “the Jewish people—“
Even the Grand Mufti admitted that the Jews did not steal land from Arab Palestinians when speaking at the Peel Commission on January 12, 1937.
“Of Course, the Palestinians are an ‘Invented ‘ People” - Jerome S. Kaufman
https://religiondispatches.org/a-long-history-of-blaming-the-jews/ |
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| From: tntpal | 2/18/2025 10:13:50 AM | | | | | | Hitler and the Nazis’ Anti-Zionism
During the Cold War the Soviet Union, its Warsaw Pact Allies and the Western far-left spread a variety of lies about the history of Zionism,
the most famous of these falsehoods being the assertion that Hitler and the Nazi regime were supporters of Zionism. It was a falsehood that fit well with another big lie of Communist Cold War propaganda,
namely that Zionism was itself a form of racism. If the latter were the case, it would make logical sense that racists such as Hitler supported Zionism.
The fact is however that Hitler and the Nazis despised Zionism and did all they could to defeat it...
Zionism became as embarrassing as the actual history of Nazi anti-Zionism. Neither fit into the dogmas of Communist anti-imperialism which, it appears, have now filtered into some ranks...
Anti-Semitism, like all forms or racism and religious hatred, is built on lies and distortions about the past and present. Around the world, London stands for worldliness, cosmopolitanism and often for an understanding of history. When the former Mayor of this city reveals how little he knows about World War II and Britain’s role in it, one has to wonder what has happened to the qualities we admire in British intellectual life.
First, Hitler despised Zionism. In fact he ridiculed the idea as he was convinced that the Jews would be incapable of establishing and then defending a state. More importantly, he and his government viewed the prospect of a Jewish state in Palestine as part of the broader international Jewish conspiracy which his fevered imagination presented as a dire threat to Germany. While (after robbing them of most of their possessions) the Nazis did allow some German Jews to leave the country in the 1930s in order to travel to Palestine, that policy was primarily driven by a desire to get the Jews out of Germany rather than to build a Jewish state in Palestine. By the late 1930s the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, who later collaborated with the Nazis in wartime Berlin, had informed German diplomats stationed in Jerusalem that the entry of Jews into Palestine from Germany was angering local Arabs. For reasons of their own, the
Nazis cut off Jewish emigration in 1941 to pursue their goal of murdering Europe’s Jews. This ignorance about the implications of the Holocaust is stunning. As the Israeli historian Anita Shapira has pointed out, it is only a half-truth to say that Israel was founded because of the Holocaust. The other half of the truth is that literally millions of Jews in Europe who might have contributed to the establishment of the Jewish state in Palestine could not do so because the Nazis had murdered them. The Holocaust itself was an enormous blow to the Zionist project.
fathomjournal.org
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Palestine Hijacked: How Zionism Forged An Apartheid State From River to Sea By Thomas Suárez
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...In January 1933 when Hitler came to power as German Chancellor, there were international calls for a boycott of German goods and services, supported by prominent Jews and Christians. The boycott caused a severe blow to the Reich’s economy.
But an agreement with Hitler was arranged by Zionists to circumvent the boycott and provide Germany with needed capital, with Hitler allowing German Jews with sufficient wealth to emigrate to Palestine in return for their purchase of German goods and equipment, a quid pro quo arrangement that provided Germany with a propaganda win by claiming the boycott-breaking deal was made by Jews. Four years later, Adolph Eichmann, on a trip to Palestine, was involved in a follow-up effort with the Zionist terrorist militia, the Haganah, and its representative Feival Pokes, for the Nazis to pressure German Jewish groups to urge Jews to go only to Palestine and no other countries. |
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| To: Les H who wrote (45014) | 2/18/2025 11:23:32 AM | | From: Les H | | | | Ukraine Risks Trump’s Wrath After Bombing Partially US-Owned Oil Infrastructure In Russia
Andrew Korybko
Feb 18, 2025
Ukraine carried out a large-scale drone strike against the partially US-owned Caspian Pipeline Consortium’s (CPC) pumping station in Russia’s Krasnodar Region early Monday morning. Few were hitherto aware of this project, let alone that it continued operating without any problems amidst the NATO-Russian proxy war in Ukraine and the West’s anti-Russian sanctions, but it’s one of America’s most significant regional investments. This audacious attack therefore risks provoking Trump’s wrath.
Korybko substack
Orders probably came from Zelensky's masters in the British MI6, just like the Chernobyl attack with only 1 drone. |
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| From: tntpal | 2/18/2025 11:24:24 AM | | | | | | 60 Minutes are liars,
All USAID employees were offered 8 months of pay & benefits.
'60 Minutes' is a habitual liar - we all remember their careful editing of Kama's interview prior to the election.
60 Minutes aired an interview of 2 USAID Contractors last night—one was Kristina Drye—the same woman ABC interviewed who confessed to taking “incriminating books” with her after
@DOGE utesentered the USAID building.
Strangely, Kristina Drye has deleted her X account.
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| To: Les H who wrote (45017) | 2/18/2025 11:50:13 AM | | From: Les H | | | | PM refused to approve entry of mobile homes, earthmoving equipment to Gaza – reportPolitical official says issue to be discussed, after Hamas briefly balked at releasing hostages and claimed Israel violated truce by barring bulldozers, trailers from Strip
By ToI Staff16 February 2025, 11:09 am
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly did not give approval for the entry of mobile homes and heavy equipment into the the Gaza Strip during Saturday night’s security consultations, in a potential breach of the ceasefire deal with Hamas.
“Following a security consultation chaired by the prime minister, it was decided that the issue of trailers will be discussed in the coming days,” the Kan public broadcaster quoted a political official as saying. “Israel is fully coordinating with the United States.”
According to reports, the ceasefire and hostage release agreement explicitly states that supplies and equipment can be brought in to Gaza to establish at least 60,000 temporary living facilities. The details of the deal have not been published in full.
00:07 / 30:07
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| To: Les H who wrote (45019) | 2/18/2025 11:50:49 AM | | From: Les H | | | | Israel Plans 1,000 New Settlement Homes as West Bank Raids Intensifyby Brett Wilkins | Feb 17, 2025
Israeli authorities are planning to expand a Jewish-only settlement in the West Bank by nearly 1,000 homes, a Tel Aviv-based peace group said Sunday as Israeli soldiers and settlers escalated attacks on Palestinians in the illegally occupied territory.
Peace Now said Israel’s Civil Administration has issued a new tender for the construction of 974 new housing units in Efrat, a Jewish-only colony located about 7.5 miles south of Jerusalem between Bethlehem and Hebron. The planned expansion will increase Efrat’s population of approximately 11,800 residents by 40% and geographically isolate Palestinian communities in the southern West Bank.
Emboldened by U.S. President Donald Trump’s return to power, far-right members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet have vowed to annex the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967 in violation of international law.
On Sunday, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that “the goal for 2025 is to demolish more than the Palestinians build in the West Bank,” according to Al Jazeera. This, following the largest Israeli seizure of Palestinian land in the West Bank in decades last year.
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