9/11 Events as I See It – John Davies

9/11 Events as I See It – John Davies

Introduction of myself – John Davies

My analysis is from a mix of sources over the years, such as David Ray Griffin’s books. I checked his references and videos as far as I could determine, they were accurate. I researched Architects &, Engineers for 9/11 Truth and other websites for truth about 9/11, various YouTube videos when they were easier to find regarding information about a 9/11 inside job. I was able to do this before internet algorithms were used to attack, hide from searches and just exclude information on 9/11 that were contrary to the government and media 9/11 story.

I’ve arranged my information below in an order that can lead non-believers’ step by step to a greater truth of the 9/11 arracks. I’m no expert or specialist just used information of articles, books etc., I am just an amateur making my own notes for friends and people! I have put my ideas online now to help persuade them and leave it to them to pursue their own further research. I have looked into several contentious conspiracy theories with an open mind: ones mentioned in my list are older ones confirmed on Wiki, which is from the establishment on currently contentious events.

I’m 63 from Wales and I have a range of various interests in my life. I have a university degree in French, also a master’s in social work. I was social worker for years and now care for my wife. I used to write for a World Cinema magazine. I have also taught English at a school, as well as privately, in France. I have been a Youth Court Officer and Adoption panelist in Wales for the local authority/council. I have considered myself a leftist though nowadays that term is widely misapplied. I am more an independent thinker who is not attached to isms. 

My Analysis of the 9/11 Events

MOTIVES

– The Neo-Cons, with their Project for a New American Century, had said a “new Pearl Harbor” was needed for their military plans in the Middle East to get public support and be enacted. With 9/11 they soon got that support. Their intention was for increased US power, strategic control from the Mediterranean to China, enrichment through resources, and elimination of the enemies of USA and Israel.


– Bush and his government, who were pushing for a war with Iraq before 9/11, wrongly connected Saddam and Iraq with 9/11 and lied over both Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, and its imminent threat, to justify the war.


– 9/11 also paved the way for acceptance of the USA Patriot Act, prepared before 9/11, with increased government control over dissidents and US citizens’ lives, extensive surveillance, indefinite incarceration, breach of common civil rights and further empowerment of the CIA and the establishment.


CONSPIRACIES

– Watergate, Operation Northwoods (plot similar to 9/11), Operations Dirty Trick, Mockingbird, Paperclip, Condor, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, MK Ultra mind control, Cointelpro disinformation programme, the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, the Willowbrook school experiment and a mass of unethical and fatal human experimentation, forced sterilisation in USA and abroad, the Iran-Contra scandal, CIA large-scale drug-dealing, assassinations, attempted assassinations of Castro, torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo bay, as well as lies over Iraq WMD, are just some of the proven/ admitted murderous or nefarious conspiracies by the United States establishment alone.


– US governments have been willing to kill, as well as needlessly cause the deaths of, large numbers of their own citizens, not just foreign civilians. An assumption that Bush’s or any US government would never allow or carry out such an attack as 9/11 is naive and mistaken.
 

– Conspiracies happen all the time. The frequent use of the term “conspiracy theory” as an absurdity suits criminals and skulduggery in the establishment and politics, as a simple means of dismissing awkward claims or investigations. Each conspiracy claim should be judged on its own merits, with open mind, based on evidence, not assumptions and automatic ridicule. 9/11 truth claims are very far from analogous to Flat Earth, the Sun orbiting the Earth or Elvis Presley being alive on Mars. The official contradictory versions of 9/11 involve a conspiracy theory (implicating only Muslim extremists), which according to those who automatically ridicule “conspiracy theories” must be no less ridiculous than others.  


FAILURE TO PREVENT

– The US military machine should have been able to foil the attacks, and certainly once the 1st plane had hit, but in 109 minutes, in the USA’s most sensitive airspace, none of the planes were intercepted or even closely approached before hitting their targets, including the Pentagon, the heart of the US military machine. Potential intercepting planes were delayed, remained grounded or were sent off in wrong directions. Speedy scrambling of jets and interceptions of planes are the expected and routine response in USA, as hijackers would have known.


– The Government lied in saying it had no planes aloft in Washington during the crisis. An Air Force E-4B was captured on news footage.


– Norman Mineta’s testimony, taken with Vice-President Cheney’s statement he ordered shoot down for flight 93 only, inadvertently implicated Cheney in stand down order for flight 77 as it approached the Pentagon. Mineta’s testimony (among others) also showed that Cheney knew of events and was in control long before he and the 9/11 Commission said, in order to excuse the defence failure.


– Bush and government colleagues lied when saying it had not occurred to any of them that planes might be used in such a way; training exercises for such an eventuality had taken place, and there had been warnings, the trade centers had also been attacked before. There were even war game/ terror drill simulations for similar attacks on 9/11 itself, adding to confusion.


– The “Phoenix memo” was just one piece of evidence that the security services knew in advance of an Islamic threat using flight schools.  


– According to statements by Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and those of four others, Able Danger had identified 2 of 3 al-Qaeda cells active in the 9/11 attacks; the ‘Brooklyn cell’ linked to “Blind Sheik” Omar Abdel-Rahman, including September 11 attacks leader Mohamed Atta, and three of the 9/11 plot’s other 19 hijackers. Shaffer and the others were ordered not to testify to the investigating committee.


– A declaration by Don Canestraro, lead investigator for the Office of Military Commissions, acknowleged that some of the “hijackers” worked for the CIA.


– The FBI’s Most Wanted page for Bin Laden did not include 9/11 among the crimes he was wanted for. This was explained by the FBI as due to the lack of “hard evidence” of his involvement. Yet he was quickly identified to the world’s media as the culprit and used as the excuse to start war in Afghanistan.  Rather than being detained, members of Bin Laden’s family were allowed to fly out of USA.


WORLD TRADE CENTER 7 & THE TWIN TOWERS

– The symmetrical collapse of WTC7, not hit by a plane, at free fall speed for 2 1/4 seconds,  and virtual freefall speed overall, into its own “footprint”, as well as the symmetrical collapse of the twin towers, showed the typical signs of controlled demolition.


– A BBC reporter said WTC7 had collapsed long before it did. Silverstein said he gave the order to “pull it”.  The 9/11 Commission ignored the collapse of WTC7, as did most of the mainstream media following 9/11.


– Police clearing the area in advance of its collapse said WTC7 was going to blow up.


– NIST did not investigate controlled demolition as cause of the collapse, even though admitting free fall.  NIST are still refusing to release various key data of their computer modelling and the collapse. Their report, like their deeply flawed modelling, aimed to explain a fixed pre-set hypothesis, rather than open to possibilities and the obvious alternative, was misleading, full of inaccuracies and did not match reality or actual film footage, as confirmed by (among other engineers’ and scientists’ responses) the University of Alaska’s investigation, which is clear that the collapse was certainly not caused by fire, but  near-simultaneous failure of every column in the building.”


– Prior to 9/11 there had been no previous instances of such demolition-like collapses of high rise steel buildings as the twin towers and WTC7. NIST explained the collapse of WTC7 as due to fire (which it exaggerated), but far worse fires in high-rise towers (such as Grenfell, which remained standing, among many others) have not led to swift and demolition-like collapse. No steel-framed high rise building has collapsed due to fire, apart from- supposedly- the 9/11 towers.


– At the time, many TV reporters said they heard explosions in the towers after the initial planes’ impacts, and many reporters and presenters said it appeared the towers had been brought down by explosives, a belief also voiced by officials in the White House, FBI and Fire Department. Cheney and Giuliani were quick to deny that. Mainstream media then accepted official denials and explanations without due scrutiny or questioning; in fact proponents of controlled demolition and use of explosives have been routinely castigated and ridiculed, or ignored.


– The towers clearly turned to dust in mid air, were pulverised.


– TV reporters and presenters also mentioned the surprisingly small amount of debris and rubble- as confirmed on film. Also melted steel, witnessed too by fire fighters and others.


– Numerous cars, trucks and buses in the area were toasted- astonishing to reporters, and contrary to the official version.


– Seismographic data did not match the official explanations for the towers but indicate instead the use of explosives.


– New York Fire Department Commissioners have called for a new investigation into 9/11, due to “overwhelming evidence  that  pre-planted explosives . . . caused the destruction of the three World Trade Center buildings.  


– Building construction and fire service guidelines were not changed despite the NIST report into the three towers’ unprecedented collapses- an implicit acknowledgment of another cause than NIST and official explanations.


– Rubble and evidence were illegally removed from Ground Zero crime scene. Mass pulverisation and molten steel at Ground Zero indicated controlled demolition. There was evidence of nano-thermite, thermate and explosive material.  The fires were not hot enough to melt steel. The twin towers turned to dust, in mid air.


– A large number of witness statements of numerous explosions at the towers, including multiple witness accounts of a massive explosion in the lobby of one tower, were ignored by both the 9/11 Commission and NIST. NIST did not look for evidence of explosives and incendiaries in the rubble.  


– Bush said explosives were planted high in the towers by operatives in order to maximise destruction. Maintenance and renovation work in the towers were carried out in the months before 9/11, with elevators out of service being repaired and reduced public access within the building.


– Senator John Kerry, probably unaware of the implications, acknowledged that World Trade Center 7 had been brought down by controlled demolition.


– 5 Israelis seen filming the attacks on the towers and dancing in celebration were arrested in a van which according to the media was filled with explosives, but were later released.


THE PENTAGON

– There has been no film footage shown of a plane hitting the Pentagon, despite a court order that it be released. There were many cameras at the Pentagon. Personal filming and cameras near the Pentagon at the time were confiscated. Very short images from 2 cameras released merely show an explosion, but no plane.


– The plane hitting the Pentagon would have required an extremely difficult and needless manoeuvre round and low behind the building by the hijack pilot whose flying ability was claimed to be poor.


– 9/11 Commissioner Roemer initially said a missile (but then changed it to plane: “a missile……..plane”) breached the Pentagon defence.


– The day before 9/11 Rumsfeld admitted 2.3 trillion dollars were missing from Pentagon funds. 9/11 diverted attention from the issue and the Pentagon attack prevented a thorough investigation. The budget office was destroyed.


HIJACKINGS & FLIGHTS

– Lack of evidence from the 4 black boxes


– There was massive pulverisation of the towers yet an intact hijacker passport was found nearby.


– There has been no film footage or evidence of the alleged hijackers in the airports or entering or being on board the planes


– Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said flight 93 was shot down; this was excused as “mis-speaking”.


– Debris of flight 93 plane was scattered over several miles and reporters and witnesses at the “crash site” said at the time there was very little sign of a plane crash there.


– Seismic records indicate flight 93 shoot-down rather than crash.


9/11 COMMISSION, GOVERNMENT & MEDIA COVER-UP

– According to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (among others), Bush and Cheney were opposed to a public investigation into 9/11. They resisted it. They refused to testify under oath, alone, or in public to the 9/11 Commission which they had delayed and underfunded and was directed by their Neo-Con ally Zelikow, with a pre-arranged outline for the report.


– The lead Commissioners Hamilton and Kern said they did not have enough time or money and were bound to fail. Commissioners have admitted that the commission was variously misled, obstructed and, ultimately, forced to participate in a politically-motivated cover-up, with many questions still unanswered.


– The 9/11 Commission said the military lied to them.


– The Commission ignored most of over 400 questions put by the steering committee of the victims’ families, who wanted Zelikow removed from his role. Many family members, including firefighters’ relatives, support 9/11 Truth.


– There was a large amount of suspicious dealing in shares indicating fore-knowledge of 9/11, ignored by the Commission. SEC destroyed their records on the investigation into the insider trading before the attacks.


– The official and mainstream media versions of 9/11 have been riddled with inaccuracies, lies, changes and contradictions (with many outlined in David Ray Griffin’s book 9/11 Contradictions).


– A White House spokesman lied in saying that Bush left the school at once on being told of the attacks.  In a genuine attack, he should have left with security, as per standard procedures, for his safety in a public place, but did not, as footage later proved. 
 

– Supposed debunking (promoted, or accepted without challenge, by mainstream media) of the 9/11 truth movement’s claims have in turn been roundly debunked- debunking which has been sidelined.  Whereas various TV programmes present a case for alien landings on Earth and establishment cover-up, the main TV channels and newspapers in USA and UK have almost entirely barred any presentations of 9/11 truth.


– Google, yahoo and youtube have now systematically sidelined information and videos promoting 9/11 Truth, with mainstream establishment accounts to the fore instead. Youtube have now made it hard to find a video simply of WTC7 collapse, without the official version and explanations attached, never mind one from the point of view of 9/11 truth.  


– Mainstream media have sidelined the NY fire commissioners’ claim of pre-planted explosives in the towers and demand for a new investigation, and the Fairbanks University of Alaska report into WTC7, among other important developments challenging the official version attached.


– Before its public release Spike Lee’s series on 9/11 was criticised for giving credence to conspiracy theorists and he was obliged to edit it. What amounts to a conspiracy of silence and deliberate misdirection still prevails. The establishment and mainstream media guard 9/11 coverage ferociously.  


WHISTLEBLOWERS & ONGOING 9/11 TRUTH CHALLENGE

– Active culprits in the plot would hardly be likely to admit their complicity.


– Whistleblowers include Sibel Edmonds, Coleen Rowley, Robert Wright, Susan Lindauer, William Binney, Kevin Ryan and Harry Samit. David Schippers, prosecuting lawyer involved in the attempt to impeach Clinton, admitted advanced knowledge of the attack, which he passed on to various government agencies, officials and senior politicians in Senate and Congress, but was ignored.  Major General Stubblebine said a plane did not hit the Pentagon. Republican Congressman Curt Weldon denounced the intelligence agencies’ prior knowledge of 9/11, the inaction and cover-up. CIA operative Robert Baer casually mentioned fore-knowledge of the attacks through a White House contact. Regarding the Pentagon ordering Lt. Col Anthony Shaffer and four other key witnesses not to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee investigating Able Danger’s fore-knowledge of the Mohamed Atta cell, committee chairman Arlen Specter stated “That looks to me as if it may be obstruction of the committee’s activities”


– Thousands of verified architects, engineers, scientists, pilots, firefighters, lawyers, distinguished academics, military personnel, CIA and FBI operatives and officials, even government officials including Bush’s chief economist, are part of the 9/11 Truth movement. Some have lost their jobs as a result, others had been reluctant to come forward publicly for fear of ridicule and damage to their careers (no doubt many more still are).


– Fair, independent, open-minded investigation and media coverage in many countries, including USA in particular, are long overdue. It is important that the truth is recognised, not only to bring the perpetrators to justice, but to properly understand the significance of 9/11, its causes, outcomes and lessons, learn from the truth, and to help ensure that no such event takes place again.

CHIEF SUSPECTS


Elliott Abrams
John Bolton
George H W Bush
George W Bush
Dick Cheney
Michael Chertoff
Ralph Eberhart
Rudy Giuliani
Stephen Hadley
Richard Myers
Benjamin Netanyahu
Donald Rumsfeld
Larry Silverstein
Paul Wolfowitz
Philip D. Zelikow

CIA and Mossad agents…. with the complicit knowledge of others in the US, Israeli and also Saudi governments.

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The 9/11 Attack Government Conspiracy

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Libertarian View’s

Libertarian View’s

Updated 2024-08-27

2024-08-18 Important message from Diane Sare. Please take this to heart and circulate it widely.   https://www.facebook.com/61554717286920/videos/1049637799847153

2024-08-13 Diane Sare for NY U.S. Senate Tablinghttps://www.facebook.com/61554717286920/videos/3807543766129238

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Levy, Gideon – Israeli Journalist and Author

Levy, Gideon – Israeli Journalist and Author (also see Israel End Game and Journalists)

Updated 2024-08-27

2024-07-31 Netanyahu’s end game: Why Israel killed Hamas chief in Iran | Gideon Levy | The Big Picture S5E1    Two assassinations. Two capital cities. Less than 24 hours.   One struck an apartment in downtown Beirut, killing a woman and two children – targeting a Hezbollah senior commander.Then just hours later, a strike in the heart of Tehran, assassinating Hamas’ most high profile figure, and its political chief – Ismail Hanieyah.

Israel has claimed the first attack, though not the second – at least not yet – but the reverberations are already starting to be felt – as are fears that we’re barreling towards an inevitable regional war – one that could spiral quickly out of control.

This week on The Big Picture Podcast, we sit down with award-winning Israeli journalist and author Gideon Levy about the significance, and wisdom, of the two high profile assassinations.  

Hanieyah’s killing in particular threatens to derail the already fragile ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas, which have so far failed to put an end to a horrific 10-month war that killed more than 39,000 Palestinians and 1200 Israelis.  It also pushes the United States deeper into a corner. The Biden Administration has failed to pull Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from the brink, but continues to supply him with weapons used against a civilian population in Gaza, while undermining attempts to hold Israel to account internationally.

Now less than 100 days before an election that could return Trump to the White House – can the US really afford to follow Israel into a war with Hezbollah – and possibly – a war with Iran? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9JB8jMu3lk

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Levy, Daniel – Former Israeli Peace Negotiator

Levy, Daniel – Former Israeli Peace Negotiator (also see Cease Fire)

Updated 2024-08-27

2024-08-13 Former Israeli Peace Negotiator Daniel Levy: U.S. Is Part of “Axis of Zionist Extremism”     The United States, Qatar and Egypt are urging Israel and Hamas to hold a new round of negotiations to finalize a ceasefire deal in Gaza. However, Hamas is urging mediators to enforce the ceasefire terms proposed by President Biden in May that Hamas already agreed to and that Israel rejected. Daniel Levy, president of the U.S./Middle East Project and a former Israeli peace negotiator under Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Yitzhak Rabin, says U.S.-led efforts for a ceasefire are likely to fail as long as the Biden administration remains unwilling to pressure Israel. “It’s quite clear Netanyahu does not want a ceasefire deal,” says Levy, who adds that the Washington playbook of unlimited support for Israel and threats to keep other regional actors in line could pull the U.S. into a wider Middle East war. “America is playing the role as a member of the axis of Zionist extremism.”   Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO8OwqMDDAU

2024-07-11 Netanyahu “Trying to Do Everything to Prevent a Deal,” Says Ex-Israeli Peace Negotiator Daniel Levy    Former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy discusses ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas, the ruling party in the Gaza Strip, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s continued hostility to compromise and the Biden administration’s ineffectual mediation. Contrary to its claims of brokering peace, the U.S. “will continue to send the weapons” Israel uses to devastate Gaza, unremittingly fueling an increasingly unpopular war, says Levy, who is now president of the U.S./Middle East Project.   Democracy Now! is an independent global newshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pfJzZ2xAkU

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Lancet Report

Lancet Report (also see Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide Intent)

Updated 2024-08-27

2024-07-05 Palestine Post: Latest News and Developments     This week marks 9 full months of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. As we’ve done just about every Monday since October, we’ll turn back  today to our recurring segment – The Palestine Post, talking about the latest news from Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and the efforts that people are taking from across the world to stop it.   We spend an extended hour (far too long to air on our slot on KPFA’s radio airwaves) in conversation with Nora Barrows-Friedman, a staff writer and editor at The Electronic Intifada, and also a former KPFA host and producer.

We’ll discuss a new report by the Lancet on the projected direct and indirect death toll in Gaza to be in the area of 170,000. Then we’ll talk about Haaretz’ report that Israel used the ‘Hannibal Directive’ on October 7th, which the Electronic Intifada previously reported just a few days after the Al Aqsa Flood and were lambasted for their coverage by mainstream media. We close with a discussion on the potential for ceasefire talks as representatives for Hamas and Israel meet in Cairo and Doha as well as a new commitment from the Presbyterian Church to divest from Israel bonds.   To read the Lancet report: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext     https://kpfa.org/episode/law-disorder-july-8-2024/

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Kamela Harris – Uncommitted 

Kamela Harris – Uncommitted (also see Biden – Uncommitted Voters)

Updated 2024-08-27

Not Another Bomb! Kamala Harris, Pledge to Enact an Arms Embargo   We know that in order to achieve a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, the U.S. must stop arming Israel’s war and occupation against Palestinians. That’s why we are calling for an immediate embargo on US arms to Israel. Join us in calling on presidential candidate Kamala Harris to distance herself from Biden’s disastrous policy of arming Israel’s ongoing genocide and occupation in Palestine.

Not another bomb!    https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/not-another-bomb-sign-on-letter?

2024-08-24 ‘Muslim Women for Harris’ Abruptly Withdraws Their Support     The group “Muslim Women for Harris-Walz” says they can no longer support Kamala Harris after being informed that a Palestinian American speaker could not address the Democratic National Convention (DNC), per Newsweek.    The group responded, “We cannot in good conscience, continue Muslim Women for Harris-Walz, in light of this new information from the Uncommitted movement, that VP Harris’ team declined their request to have a Palestinian American speaker take the stage at the DNC.”    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/muslim-women-for-harris-abruptly-withdraws-their-support/ss-AA1pn6tq?

2024-08-19 Kamala Harris Is Reaching Out to Arab American Leaders, But Will There Be Any Change in Gaza Policy?    Arab American voters could significantly impact the 2024 presidential election, particularly in Michigan, home to the largest Arab community in the United States. Many of these voters, incensed at U.S. support for the Israeli war on Gaza, have mobilized over the past year to pressure the Biden administration to change policy, including by casting hundreds of thousands of ballots for “uncommitted” in Democratic primary elections to signal their demand for policy changes. We speak with Osama Siblani, founder and publisher of _The Arab American News_, who has had several meetings with senior figures from the White House and the Democratic presidential campaign. Despite all those meetings, “nothing has happened” except “more killing,” Siblani says. “Something has to be done to stop Benjamin Netanyahu’s appetite for killing.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr6KiRizPDk

2024-08-17 Harris Is Better Than Biden on Gaza—But She Must Go Further     As U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris steps into the spotlight to take over the Democratic ticket from President Biden, some on the left have so far withheld their support. Of central concern are her views on Palestine and the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Will she stake out a different policy than Biden when it comes to indiscriminate Israeli warfare on Palestinians, which has so far received unconditional US aid and political support?

For better or worse, much of Harris’s positions on Palestine are presumed by proxy to Biden’s. Indeed, Biden administration officials themselves have stated there is no daylight between hers and Biden’s positions on Israel’s war in Gaza. When pressed at public events this past month – prior to her candidacy – Harris restated Biden’s position and endorsed a two-state solution. 

Harris has certainly not been an avowed, true believer in Zionism the way Biden has historically been. As a US Senator, Harris opposed SB-1, an anti-Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) bill backed by the Zionist lobby, on constitutional free speech grounds.  https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/harris-biden-gaza-policy   

2024-08-12 Kamala Harris’s Israel Quandary   On Saturday, Israel struck another school-turned-shelter in northern Gaza, this time killing at least 100 people, including dozens of children. The Israeli government made the usual excuse that the complex was also sheltering Hamas.  The White House didn’t even bother to protest. These attacks have become all too routine. At least 17 school buildings have been targeted over the last month, killing at least 163 Palestinians, according to the United Nations.

On Wednesday, campaigning in Michigan, Kamala Harris was heckled by pro-Palestinian demonstrators. As she was honing her attack on Donald Trump, chants broke out, “Kamala! Kamala! You can’t hide! We won’t vote for genocide!”  Harris eventually shut them down by saying, “You know what? If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that. Otherwise, I’m speaking.”

But these protesters are not going away. Harris’s effective deadline for offering some policy change is the Democratic National Convention, which begins in just a week in Chicago, where more disruptive protests are planned.   So far, Harris has taken only baby steps toward a different policy. At a campaign event in Phoenix, Harris said that “far too many” Palestinians had been killed “yet again,” adding that Israel had a right to “go after Hamas” but also has “an important responsibility” to avoid civilian casualties.   But words alone, as Biden has repeatedly found to his humiliation, do not change Israel’s policy.  https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2024-08-12-kamala-harris-israel-quandary/

2024-08-09 “Uncommitted” Co-Chair Layla Elabed on Meeting Kamala Harris, Pressing VP for Arms Embargo on Israel      We speak with the co-chair of the Uncommitted National Movement, who briefly met with Vice President Kamala Harris this week as the Democratic presidential candidate is under pressure to define her platform on Palestine. Layla Elabed spoke with Harris before her rally in Michigan to press her on a ceasefire in Gaza and an arms embargo on Israel. “I was very emotional in that brief exchange. I did feel like her sympathy and empathy towards me was very genuine, but Palestinian children cannot eat words,” says Elabed. “We need action.”   Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0j4084JBVc 

2024-07-25 Kamala BLASTS “Unpatriotic” Netanyahu Protesters Who Burned U.S. Flag, Gavin Newsome SWEEPS Homeless   Jordan Chariton is Live with Steve Grumbine to discuss the recent D.C. protests against Netanyahu’s visit with American leaders and Congress, including Kamala’s response to the protesters.   https://substack.com/home/post/p-147010972

2024-07-23 What Would President Harris Do With Gaza?   It’s all but official: With President Biden stepping aside, and virtually the entire party lining up behind her, Kamala Harris will be the Democratic nominee for president.

But that raises the question of just what Harris would do as president. In the arena of foreign policy, the president has sweeping authority, and nowhere has that power been more consequential of late than with the Biden administration’s firm support for Israel’s war on Gaza.

On Gaza, the picture is less clear. Here the Biden administration’s lockstep support for Benjamin Netanyahu’s frankly genocidal war—which has now killed something like 30 times as many people as the 10/7 attacks, the large majority of them civilians—has badly split the Democratic Party. In particular, it seems to have deeply alienated certain blocs of young and minority voters, especially in vital swing state Michigan.  https://prospect.org/world/2024-07-23-what-would-president-harris-do-with-gaza/

2024-07-22 Uncommitted Movement: Harris Must Speak Out Against Gaza Genocide    The grassroots pro-Palestine movement behind hundreds of thousands of protest votes in the Democratic primaries against President Joe Biden is now urging Vice President Kamala Harris to come out against sending more weapons to Israel now that she is likely going to take Biden’s spot as the Democrats’ presidential nominee.

“For months, we’ve warned that Biden’s support for Israel’s assault on Gaza would hurt his electability,” the Uncommitted National Movement wrote in a statement shortly after Biden dropped out and endorsed Harris on Sunday. “Now, it’s crucial for Vice President Harris to take a clear stance against weapons for Israel’s war and occupation against Palestinians.”

The Uncommitted movement made waves during the Democratic primaries, earning several dozen delegates nationwide after over half a million voters selected “uncommitted” rather than voting for Biden. The movement, first organized in Michigan, was aimed at sending the Biden administration a message that Biden was losing the support of a huge swath of voters due to his unwavering support for Israel as it has slaughtered tens of thousands — if not hundreds of thousands — of Palestinians in Gaza.https://truthout.org/articles/uncommitted-movement-harris-must-speak-out-against-gaza-genocide/

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Israel’s Abu Ghraib

Israel’s Abu Ghraib (also see Israel Prisoners)

Updated 2024-08-26

2024-08-10 Where Is the Mass Outrage Over Israel’s Abu Ghraib?     It’s been just over 20 years since CBS News published the sobering photographs that proved the U.S. Army was carrying out unspeakable crimes against Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.   Rape. Degradation. Homicide. Torture, both psychological and physical. Sexual humiliation.   The revelations of U.S. barbarity were greeted with horror around the world and played a major role in turning opinion against the Iraq War.

In recent days, it has become all too clear that something comparable to Abu Ghraib—and very possibly worse—has been taking place in Israeli prisons since October 7 when the war on Gaza broke out.   The report, based on interviews with 55 Palestinians detained since the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on October 7, is distressing to read. It provides evidence of degrading treatment, arbitrary beatings, and sleep deprivation, as well as the “repeated use of sexual violence, in varying degrees of severity.”   In addition, last month the United Nations Human Rights office published a report that found shocking abuses in Israeli military facilities and prisons, where at least 53 Palestinians have died since October 7.

How have Western politicians remained silent on these horrors? Where is the mass public outrage?   https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/israel-prison-torture

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Israel Organ Stealing

Israel Organ Stealing

Updated 2024-08-26

2024-03-04 Organs Israel is accused of stealing organs from dead Palestinians. Medics and relatives in Gaza have reported bodies being returned with missing hearts, kidneys and livers. But this isn’t the first time Israel has been accused of organ theft.   https://www.tiktok.com/@ajplus/video/7342537382761188638

2009-11-26 Israeli Organ Trafficking and Theft: From Moldova to Palestine  In August Sweden’s largest daily newspaper published an article containing grisly evidence suggesting that Israel had been taking Palestinian internal organs. The article, by veteran photojournalist Donald Bostrom, called for an international investigation to discover the facts.

Israel immediately accused Bostrom and the newspaper of “anti-Semitism,” and charged that suggesting Israelis could be involved in the illicit removal of body parts constituted a modern “blood libel” (medieval stories of Jews killing people for their blood).   The fact is, however, that Israeli organ harvesting—sometimes with Israeli governmental funding and the participation of high Israeli officials, prominent Israeli physicians, and Israeli ministries—has been documented for many years. Among the victims have been Palestinians.

Nancy Scheper-Hughes is Chancellor’s Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley, the founder of Organ Watch, and the author of scholarly books and articles on organ trafficking. She is the pundit mainstream media call upon when they need expert commentary on the topic.

While Scheper-Hughes emphasizes that traffickers and procurers come from numerous nations and ethnicities, including Americans and Arabs, she is unflinchingly honest in speaking about the Israeli connection:    “Israel is at the top,” she states. “It has tentacles reaching out worldwide.”  https://www.wrmea.org/from-our-archives/israeli-organ-trafficking-and-theft-from-moldova-to-palestine.html

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Israel Media Blackout

Israel Media Blackout

Updated 2024-08-26

2023-10-22 Palestine Letter: Israel is Imposing a Blackout on Gaza to Hide a Massacre     We’re only at the beginning of one of the most protracted and brutal wars in Gaza’s history. I dread the upcoming days. This might be our time to leave this world, torn apart in a random Israeli airstrike.

The next day, electricity, internet and water are all cut off. I start to feel that, step by step, we’re being cut off from the outside world, until it doesn’t exist. Israel wants to intentionally cause a blackout so that we can’t report on the massacres it’s committing in Gaza. They’re preparing for something huge, and without a way of telling the world, no one will know until it’s too late. https://www.wrmea.org/israel-palestine/palestine-letter-israel-is-imposing-a-blackout-on-gaza-to-hide-a-massacre.html

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Israel Massacres

Israel Massacres

Updated 2024-08-26

Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine war     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killings_and_massacres_during_the_1948_Palestine_war

List of massacres in the Palestinian territories     The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in the Palestinian territories (East Jerusalem, West Bank and the Gaza Strip) after the 1948 Palestine war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Palestinian_territories

List of Israeli massacres in Gaza 2023-2024   Since the beginning of 2023 Gaza war, the Israeli army committed numerous massacres in the Gaza strip.  This list tries to cover some of these massacres.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_massacres_in_Gaza_2023-2024

List of massacres in Israel – Wikipedia   List of massacres in Israel is a list of massacres that have occurred in Israel after the 1948 Palestine War.  Mostly Palestinian Resistance Terrorist Attacks.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Israel

Deir Yassin massacre – Wikipedia    The Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948, when Zionist paramilitaries attacked the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, killing at least 107 Palestinian villagers, including women and children. The attack was conducted primarily by the Irgun and Lehi, who were supported by the Haganah and Palmach. The massacre was carried out despite the village having agreed to a non-aggression pact. It occurred during the 1947-1948 civil war and was a central component of the Nakba and the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Yassin_massacre

Tantura Massacre – Wikipedia   Took place on the night of 22–23 May 1948 during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Around 40–200 Palestinian Arab villagers from Tantura were massacred by Israel’s Haganah, namely the Alexandroni Brigade. The massacre occurred following Tantura’s surrender, a village of roughly 1,500 people in 1945 located near Haifa. The victims were buried in a mass grave, which today serves as a car park for the nearby Tel Dor beach.    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantura_massacre

2024-08-16 Why Israeli Soldiers Rape, Torture, and Massacre   Instilling fear in the Palestinian people is not a side effect of the IDF’s brutal violations of human rights. It is the strategy.      

On October 25, Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin told Arutz Sheva-Israel National News that “Muslims are not afraid of us anymore.”   It might sound odd that Feiglin saw the element of fear as critical to Israel’s well-being if not its very survival.   In actuality, the fear element is directly linked to Israel’s behavior and fundamental to its political discourse.

Historically, Israel has carried out massacres with a specific political strategy in mind: to instill the desired fear to drive Palestinians off their land. Deir Yassin, Tantara and the over 70 documented massacres during the Palestinian Nakba, or Catastrophe, are cases in point.  https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/idf-rape-torture

2023-04-09 The Deir Yassin massacre: Why it still matters 75 years later     Seventy-five years ago, Zionist militias tore through Palestinian villages, massacring the villagers and expelling those who remained alive, to clear the way for the creation of the state of Israel.   An estimated 15,000 Palestinians were killed and hundreds of thousands fled their homes to live as refugees in other parts of Palestine or neighbouring countries, an event known by Palestinians as the Nakba – “the catastrophe”.

On April 9, 1948, just weeks before the creation of the State of Israel, members of the Irgun and Stern Gang Zionist militias attacked the village of Deir Yassin, killing at least 107 Palestinians.

According to testimonies from the perpetrators and surviving victims, many of the people slaughtered – from those who were tied to trees and burned to death to those lined up against a wall and shot by submachine guns – were women, children and the elderly.

As news of the atrocities spread, thousands fled their villages in fear. Eventually, some 700,000 Palestinians would flee or be forcibly displaced at the outset of Israel’s creation, making the massacre a decisive moment in Palestinian history. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/9/the-deir-yassin-massacre-why-it-still-matters-75-years-later

2022-12-02 Tantura massacre: Documentary exposes Israel’s foundational myth     Filmmaker Alon Schwarz challenges Israel’s narrative about the 1948 massacre of a Palestinian village.    In his quest to get to the bottom of what happened at Tantura in May 1948, the graduate student, Teddy Katz, interviewed around 135 people, both Palestinians and Israelis, collecting 140 hours of testimony for his thesis at the University of Haifa.   His subsequent dissertation detailed how the Alexandroni Brigade, one of a dozen brigades established by the Zionist paramilitary organisation known as the Haganah, had massacred up to 250 Palestinians after the village had fallen. https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-tantura-massacre-documentary-foundational-myth-exposes-how

2021-12-09 Classified Docs Reveal Massacres of Palestinians in ’48 – and What Israeli Leaders Knew     Testimonies continue to pile up, documents are revealed, and gradually a broader picture emerges of the acts of murder committed by Israeli troops during the War of Independence. Minutes recorded during cabinet meetings in 1948 leave no room for doubt: Israel’s leaders knew in real time about the blood-drenched events that accompanied the conquest of the Arab villages  

The discussions were fraught with emotion. Cabinet minister Haim-Moshe Shapira said that all of Israel’s moral foundations had been undermined. Minister David Remez remarked that the deeds that had been done remove us from the category of Jews and from the category of human beings altogether. Other ministers were also appalled: Mordechai Bentov wondered what kind of Jews would be left in the country after the war; Aharon Zisling related that he had had a sleepless night – the criminals, he said, were striking at the soul of the whole government.     https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2021-12-09/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/classified-docs-reveal-deir-yassin-massacre-wasnt-the-only-one-perpetrated-by-isra/0000017f-e496-d7b2-a77f-e79772340000

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