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In todays video I discuss the causes of terrorism, Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, HTS's take over of Syria, US support for Syrian regime change, how the CIA views democracy and the war on drugs. John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer and author of The Convenient Terrorist: Two Whistleblowers’ Stories of Torture, Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies and Doing Time Like A Spy. He is the host of Loud and Clear on Sputnik Radio. Follow him on Twitter @JohnKiriakou . John was formerly an analyst and case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, counterterrorism and a consultant for ABC News. He was the first U.S. government official to confirm in December 2007 (in an ABC interview) that waterboarding was used to interrogate al-Qaeda prisoners, which he described as torture. In 2012, Kiriakou was convicted of passing classified information to a reporter and was sentenced to 30 months in prison. It is long suspected and likely the push to charge him was political and to punish him for speaking out, as the CIA name he provided was never made public. Previous Video - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-example-of-a-politicians-hypocrisy-public-deceivery-bilderberg-mi6-bp-david-lammy-sunak   Previous Interview -  https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/dave-decamp-on-israel-palestine-hamas Please feel free to comment if I have missed any links in the show notes. https://www.youtube.com/@truthovercomfort9162/videos   https://www.bitchute.com/channel/jc56qKZUGuFj/   https://rumble.com/user/TruthOverComfort https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/ Tik Tok @truthovercomfort https://www.tiktok.com/@truthovercomfort Twitter @truthovercomfo2 - https://twitter.com/truthovercomfo2     Instagram truthovercomfort30 -   https://www.instagram.com/truthovercomfort30/   Books John's Books Show Notes John Kiriakou Previous Interview - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/ex-cia-officer-john-kiriakou-talks-torture-terrorism-us-foreign-policy-more Julian Dorey John Kiriakou Interviews "Americans are asking, why do they hate us? They hate what we see right here in this chamber -- a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms -- our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other." For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary September 20, 2001 Response & Recovery, 2001 Video & Timeline Homeland Security, 2001 Video & Timeline Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People George Bush John Kiriakou Bio “I paid a military security price every day as the commander of CentCom because the Americans were seen as biased in support of Israel, and that moderates all the moderate Arabs who want to be with us, because they can’t come out publicly in support of people who don’t show respect for the Arab Palestinians,” Ex-US general: We pay a price for backing Israel Slamming settlements, James Mattis, former commander of CentCom, tells crowd in Aspen that moderate Arabs are forced to hide support for America By Lazar Berman 25 July 2013 Times of Israel "AIPAC endorsed 362 candidates and won in every primary we had a candidate on the ballot! We helped our friends win and defeated 11 anti-Israel candidates. Being pro-Israel is good policy and good politics!" AIPAC November 6th 2024 Tweet Video shows Israeli settler trying to take over Palestinian house Video captures Palestinian woman confronting Jewish settler in her family home in occupied East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah. Israeli settler An Israeli settler was captured on video in the garden of a Palestinian family's home in Sheikh Jarrah Aljazeera On 4 May 2021 4 May 2021 Peter Beinart, Rabbi Sharon Borus: Jews blind to their own self-destruction - opinion As of late, there has been no shortage of self-hating Jews; one can only look on in horror and pray they realize the error of their ways By HAYIM LEITER MARCH 19, 2025 Jerusalem Post Anti-Zionist beliefs ‘worthy of respect’, UK tribunal finds Judges say unfairly dismissed academic David Miller’s views on Israel should be protected by antidiscrimination laws Matthew Weaver and agencies Mon 14 Oct 2024 The Guardian Lebanon and Syria agree to ceasefire after 2 days of border clashes, Syrian defense ministry says March 17th 2025 AP EU Promises Syria HTS money JD Vance: Europe is teetering on ‘civilizational suicide’ March 15th Fox News "In the years leading up to the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States, the Taliban provided a safe haven for al-Qa‘ida. This gave al-Qa‘ida a base in which it could freely recruit, train, and deploy terrorists to other countries. The Taliban held sway in Afghanistan until October 2001, when they were routed from power by the US-led campaign against al-Qa‘ida." US Government DNI Afghan Taliban Counter Terrorism Guide Report — US, UAE discussed lifting Assad sanctions in exchange for break with Iran By Reuters 2 December 2024 Times of Israel Arab League Normalises With Assad Syria Foreign Minister HTS Goes To Saudi Arabia Kill The Messenger 2014 Snowfall "There's A Bombshell In Here!" JFK Files Released By Piers Morgan Uncensored Piers Morgan Uncensored 20/03/25 CIA Declassified UNIFYD TV

In todays interview I spoke with Michael Tracey, where we focus on the lack of criticism of Trump in the media space, his base and campaign. We discuss the Pro-Israel donors of Trump, including the Adelson's, his administration picks, the lack of pushback during his campaign, his Gaza & Ukraine policy and more. Although I personally prefer Trump foreign policy wise, compared to previous presidents, where he is slightly outside the Beltway club, there is also a huge blind spot on Trump and basically zero pushback on his so called "America First" policies, from his base and alternative media space. Previous Video - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-example-of-a-politicians-hypocrisy-public-deceivery-bilderberg-mi6-bp-david-lammy-sunak Previous Interview - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/kyle-anzalone-on-hts-aq-syria-terrorism-overthrowing-assad Please feel free to comment if I have missed any links in the show notes. https://www.youtube.com/@truthovercomfort9162/videos   https://www.bitchute.com/channel/jc56qKZUGuFj/   https://rumble.com/user/TruthOverComfort https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/ Tik Tok @truthovercomfort https://www.tiktok.com/@truthovercomfort Twitter @truthovercomfo2 - https://twitter.com/truthovercomfo2 Instagram truthovercomfort30 - https://www.instagram.com/truthovercomfort30/ Michael's Links & Bio Over the years I have contributed to a wide range of publications across the political spectrum, from The Nation to The American Conservative, the New York Daily News to the New York Post, and many more. A substantial portion of recent columns can be found at the website Unherd. From 2017 to 2018, I was a correspondent for The Young Turks, which was a peculiar adventure; prior to that I was a columnist for VICE. Since 2019, I have been largely funded by online supporters to engage in independent journalism and analysis. Lots of people seem to have very excitable reactions to my Twitter account. Also, look me up on Clubhouse — that app’s a real trip. https://x.com/mtracey https://www.mtracey.net/ Clips Trump Fox News Laura Ingraham Syria Oil Show Notes Trump Says Egypt, Jordan Will Take Palestinians US-Russia Ukraine Peace Talks in Saudi Arabia Trump says US will take over Gaza Strip, create 'Riviera of the Middle East' President Donald Trump said Tuesday the United States would "take over" the Gaza Strip, resettle Palestinians in other countries and turn the territory into "the Riviera of the Middle East" in a startling announcement that drew audible gasps during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu France 24 05/02/2025 Netanyahu Israel Adopt Trumps Gaza Plan Trump Threatens Greenland, Canada and Panama Vance Wields Threat of Sanctions, Military Action to Push Putin Into Ukraine Deal In interview with The Wall Street Journal, vice president says Ukraine must have ‘sovereign independence’ By Bojan Pancevski Follow and Alexander Ward Feb. 14, 2025 WSJ When asked if he would cease sending funds to Ukraine, Trump said: "No, we are, but we want it secured, and the money is going to be secured" and he added, "because if we didn't do that, then Putin would say he won. We're the thing that's holding it back and frankly, we'll go as long as we have to go because we're not going to let the other happen." Donald Trump Says US Will Still Send Ukraine Aid Feb 13, 2025 Newsweek Trump official says minerals deal will give Kyiv post-war 'security shield' By Tom Balmforth, Max Hunder and Yuliia Dysa February 12, 2025 Reuters "There's a loan component to it. This would not have passed without President Trump. I want to thank the House Speaker [Mike Johnson] and [Minority Leader] Hakeem Jeffries working together in a bipartisan fashion to give weapons to Ukraine to fight a fight that matters to us," Lindsey Graham Crediting Trump for Ukraine Aid Passing Raises Eyebrows Apr 21, 2024 Newsweek Trump admin approves new sale of anti-tank weapons to Ukraine The Trump administration first approved the sale of Javelins to Ukraine in 2017. ByLuis Martinez, Conor Finnegan, and Elizabeth McLaughlin October 1, 2019 ABC Trump tells Danish PM he’s serious about taking over Greenland in ‘fiery’ call that has Danes in ‘crisis mode’ President has wanted the U.S. to obtain Greenland since his first term Katie Hawkinson in Washington D.C. Friday 24 January 2025 The Independent Bill Ackman (Billionaire supporter of Trump) Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Takes Forceful and Unprecedented Steps to Combat Anti-Semitism January 30, 2025 Donald Trump Adelsons 2020 Campaign Funding US says Israeli settlements are no longer illegal 18 November 2019 BBC Musk spent at least $250M to help elect Trump, filings show by Filip Timotija The Hill 12/06/24 Elon Musk Special Government Employee Trump slams Harris for ‘always demanding ceasefire,’ says he’d deport ‘pro-Hamas thugs’ By ToI Staff and Agencies 16 August 2024 Trump lifts US sanctions on Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank Israeli officials welcome Trump’s decision to remove sanctions imposed by the Biden administration Jan 21st 2025 Al-Jazeera Trump ends hold on delivery of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel Shipment was withheld by Biden administration due to its concerns over potential use in densely populated areas of Gaza By Jacob Magid Follow and Amy Spiro TOI 26 January 2025 Israel: Anger over controversial Mike Pompeo tour of settlement in occupied West Bank Mike Pompeo's tour comes on the back of President Trump's controversial view that West Bank settlements are not illegal. Mark Stone Sky News Thursday 19 November 2020 Trump urges ending Gaza ceasefire if all hostages not released by noon Saturday After Hamas says it will delay release of hostages, US president says he’ll call for resumption of war if all captives not freed by weekend; threatens to cut aid to Jordan, Egypt By Jacob Magid TOI 11 February 2025 The ZOA presented Trump with its Theodor Herzl Gold Medallion Israeli group mints Trump coin to honor Jerusalem recognition Mikdash Educational Center creates 1,000 coins with US president’s image alongside King Cyrus, in move likely to rile Iranians By AP and ToI Staff 28 February 2018 Rabbi David Katz: We recognize what Trump did for Jerusalem and the Jewish people Watch: Executive Director of the Israel Heritage Foundation speaking at the special gala event with Former President Donald Trump Israel National News Israel National News Jul 16, 2023 (Third Temple) ^ - Michael Tracey Tweet Pastors at embassy opening highlight evangelicals' deal with The Donald This article is more than 6 years old David Smith in Washington Controversial preachers at Jerusalem event symbolise the Christian right’s pact with a president who has sinned, but also delivered Tue 15 May 2018 Inside the Evangelical Money Flowing Into the West Bank A Haaretz investigation reveals that Christian groups have invested up to $65 million in projects in the ‘Biblical Heartland’ over the past decade. That doesn’t include services they provide free of charge, like volunteer laborers Haaretz from Judy Maltz Follow Dec 9, 2018 Lee Fang @lhfang Pastor John Hagee this am says Iran's missiles are the prophetic start of the "Gog and Magog" war from the Bible (that ends w/ Jesus returning and Jews killed or converted). Says he will travel to DC to lobby lawmakers not to "deescalate" and support Israel. Asks for money. April 14th 2024 Opinion | Iran's Attack on Israel Stoked Netanyahu's Evangelical Allies' Appetite for the Apocalypse The joy that today grips Hagee and his friends is further proof of the errors in the policies of Benjamin Netanyahu Noa Landau Follow Apr 16, 2024 Speaker Johnson says it’s U.S.’s ‘biblical admonition’ to help Israel Johnson spoke at a pro-Israel event on Monday night By Elizabeth Elkind Fox News April 15, 2024 Trump proposes nuclear deal with Russia and China to halve defense budgets ‘We’re all spending a lot of money that we could be spending on other things,’ the US president said Guardian staff and agencies in Washington Thu 13 Feb 2025 The Guardian Keir Starmer Potentially putting Britons in harm’s way is a huge responsibility – but we must be ready to do our bit for Europe Helping to guarantee Ukraine’s security is helping to guarantee the security of our country and our continent Keir Starmer Telegraph 16 February 2025 We should have listened to you regarding Russia − Macron addresses Eastern Europe Ukrainska Pravda Wed, May 31, 2023 Yahoo News “We’re waging a proxy war, but we’re not giving our proxies the ability to do the job. For years now, we’ve been allowing them to fight with one hand tied behind their backs and it has been cruel" Boris Johnson: British troops should help defend Ukraine's border as part of any peace deal The Telegraph Interview November 28th 2024 - Proxy war Min 27:50 The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin For more than a decade, the United States has nurtured a secret intelligence partnership with Ukraine that is now critical for both countries in countering Russia. A Ukrainian Army soldier in a forest near Russian lines this month. A C.I.A.-supported network of spy bases has been constructed in the past eight years that includes 12 secret locations along the Russian border By Adam Entous and Michael Schwirtz Adam Entous and Michael Schwirtz conducted more than 200 interviews in Ukraine, several other European countries and the United States to report this story. NYT Feb. 25, 2024  “But even as the Biden administration has declared it will not deploy American troops to Ukraine, some C.I.A. personnel have continued to operate in the country secretly,mostly in the capital, Kyiv, directing much of the vast amounts of intelligence the United States is sharing with Ukrainian forces, according to current and former officials.” use to target and attack Russian troops. “Several lower-level Ukrainian commanders recently expressed appreciation to the United States for intelligence gleaned from satellite imagery, which they can call up on tablet computers provided by the allies. The tablets run a battlefield mapping app that the Ukrainians.” Commando Network Coordinates Flow of Weapons in Ukraine, Officials Say A secretive operation involving U.S. Special Operations forces hints at the scale of the effort to assist Ukraine’s still outgunned military NYT June 25th 2022 "British and American spy planes are carrying out regular missions on the fringes of Ukraine’s airspace, where RAF sources say they can try to monitor Russian communications on the battlefield.“ How western spy planes keep tabs on Russia  One of the ‘crown jewels’ of British intelligence is helping Ukraine chart Putin’s next moves The Times March 11th 2022 "Carlson repeatedly evoked the pro-Kremlin talking point that the war in Ukraine was a “proxy war” instigated by the United States. Carlson hosted conservative journalist Michael Tracey , who claimed that the U.S. was engaged in a “proxy war” against Russia. In a separate edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson presented Ukraine as a “a pure client state of the United States State Department,” [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, 3/22/22, 2/23/22]" Tucker Carlson’s upcoming interview with Putin tracks with his long history of pro-Kremlin propaganda Defending Vladimir Putin's leadership and the invasion of Ukraine was a central narrative of Tucker Carlson Tonight Written by Jack Winstanley 02/06/24 'He is the best': Ukrainians praise Boris Johnson as town names street after 'hero' British prime minister Catherine Neilan May 4, 2022 Business Insider "I said, 'Vladimir, 'if you go after Ukraine, I am going to hit you so hard, you're not even going to believe it. I'm going to hit you right in the middle of fricking Moscow,'" Trump purportedly said. "I said, 'We're friends. I don't want to do it, but I have no choice.' He goes, 'No way.' I said, 'Way.'" Russia Responds to Donald Trump's Alleged Threat to Strike Moscow Newsweek Oct 21, 2024 "The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is OVER. We require a commitment from these Countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy. They can go find another “sucker!” There is no chance that the BRICS will replace the U.S. Dollar in International Trade, and any Country that tries should wave goodbye to America" Donald Trump Twitter Nov 30, 2024 Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies During an event at Tesla’s design studio in Hawthorne, Elon Musk introduces a line of batteries for homes and businesses. During an event at Tesla’s design studio in Hawthorne, Elon Musk introduces a line of batteries for homes and businesses. (Jerome Adamstein / Los Angeles Times) By Jerry Hirsch May 30, 2015 Elon Musk agrees with tweet accusing Jewish people of ‘hatred against whites Owner of X responds to antisemitic tweet calling it ‘the actual truth’ and criticizes Anti-Defamation League Blake Montgomery Fri 17 Nov 2023 The Guardian This article is more than 1 year old Elon Musk visits Auschwitz after uproar over antisemitic messages on X This article is more than 1 year old Months after he endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory, the CEO of X went to the site of the Nazi death camp Associated Press Mon 22 Jan 2024 The Guardian Politics Elon Musk attends Netanyahu’s speech to Congress as his guest, but dozens of lawmakers skip it Wed, Jul 24 2024 CNBC US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine won't sign minerals deal, sources tell Reuters Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share via Email by Abbey Fenbert February 22, 2025 Kyiv Independent Musk walks back administration’s claim about $50 million condom allotment for Gaza ‘Some of the things I say will be incorrect,’ says DOGE chief after reporting reveals that Gaza Strip was mistaken for province in Mozambique By Jacob Magid 12 February 2025 Times of Israel Elon Musk Venezuela Elon Musk We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.

In todays show I interviewed Kyle Anzalone to discuss the HTS overthrow of Assad, the events that lead to that (US/NATO/Gulf/Israel proxy war), the groups terrorist links to ISIS & Al-Qaeda, the similarities with the NATO's overthrow of Libya and the Western support for the new HTS regime. Previous Video - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-example-of-a-politicians-hypocrisy-public-deceivery-bilderberg-mi6-bp-david-lammy-sunak Previous Interview - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/part-2-matthew-hoh-on-assange-wikileaks-assassinations-operation-pelican-uk-judges-release Please feel free to comment if I have missed any links in the show notes. https://www.youtube.com/@truthovercomfort9162/videos   https://www.bitchute.com/channel/jc56qKZUGuFj/   https://rumble.com/user/TruthOverComfort https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/ Tik Tok @truthovercomfort https://www.tiktok.com/@truthovercomfort Twitter @truthovercomfo2 - https://twitter.com/truthovercomfo2 Instagram truthovercomfort30 - https://www.instagram.com/truthovercomfort30/ Kyles Links Bio Kyle Anzalone is news editor of the Libertarian Institute, opinion editor of Antiwar.com and co-host of Conflicts of Interest with Will Porter and Connor Freeman. Conflicts Of Interest Twitter  -   https://twitter.com/KyleAnzalone https://libertarianinstitute.org/   https://antiwar.com/   Clips "What my constant cry was that our biggest problem was our allies. Our allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria. The Turks were great friends, and I’ve a great relationship with [Turkish President Recep] Erdoğan, who I’ve just spent a lot of time with, the Saudis, the Emiratis, etc. What were they doing? They were so determined to take down Assad and essentially have a proxy Sunni-Shia war, what did they do? They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad, except that the people who were being supplied were al-Nusra, and al Qaeda, and the extremist elements of jihadis coming from other parts of the world. If you think I’m exaggerating, take a look. Where did all of this go? So now what’s happening? All of a sudden, everybody is awakened because this outfit called ISIL, which was al Qaeda in Iraq, which when they were essentially thrown out of Iraq, found open space and territory in eastern Syria, work with al-Nusra, who we declared a terrorist group early on, and we could not convince our colleagues to stop supplying them. So, what happened? Now, all of a sudden [now that ISIS has taken over western Iraq]—I don’t want to be too facetious—but they have seen the lord. Now we have—the president’s been able to put together a coalition of our Sunni neighbors, because America can’t once again go into a [Sunni] Muslim nation and be the aggressor. It has to be led by Sunnis. To go and attack a Sunni organization. And so, what do we have for the first time? Now Saudi Arabia has stopped the funding from going in. Saudi Arabia is allowing training on its soil of American forces under Title 10, open training. The Qataris have cut off their support for the most extreme elements of the terrorist organizations. And the Turks, President Erdoğan told me—he is an old friend—said, “You were right; we let too many people through. Now we are trying to seal the border.” VP Joe Biden 2014 talk to Harvard University Delivers remarks on foreign policy  min 53:10 "former DIA chief Michael Flynn – who had been in the post at the time the report was circulated in 2012 and remained there until 2014 – quite remarkably not only confirmed in a July 2015 Al-Jazeera interview that the report had crossed his desk but also explained that he ‘paid very close attention... the intelligence was very clear.’ When asked if the US government’s decision to ignore the intelligence was deliberate or accidental he then stated: ‘I don’t know that they turned a blind eye, I think it was a decision. I think it was a wilful decision.’ As if this was not enough, when the incredulous interviewer asked Flynn to clarify whether he meant there was a decision in the US government knowingly to support such extremist groups, the former DIA chief doubled down by confirming ‘it was a wilful decision to do what they’re doing.’ Moreover, when he was then asked why he did not try to stop arms transfers to the Salafist principality while in office he replied: ‘I hate to say this... but it’s not my job" Al-Jazeera, ‘Head to Head: Who is to blame for the rise of ISIL?’, 29 July 2015 Michael T Flynn, the former head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, on how to deal with ISIL and Iran  (interview minute 11-13) John Kerry ISIS Admission - Leaked Audio   Hillary Clinton speaks out about US creating the Mujahedeen Show Notes https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/irrefutable-proof-the-mainstream-media-self-censor-make-huge-omissions-or-are-directed-to Abu Mohammad al-Julani Arab Spring Operation Timber Sycamore "The ongoing civil war in Syria was a significant factor in driving worldwide terrorism events in 2014. The rate of foreign terrorist fighter travel to Syria – totaling more than 16,000 foreign terrorist fighters from more than 90 countries as of late December – exceeded the rate of foreign terrorist fighters who traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, or Somalia at any point in the last 20 years. Many of the foreign terrorist fighters joined ISIL, which, through intimidation and exploitation of political grievances, a weak security environment in Iraq, and the conflict in Syria, secured sufficient support to conduct complex military operations in an effort to seize contiguous territory in western Iraq and eastern Syria for a self-declared Islamic caliphate. ISIL routinely and indiscriminately targeted defenseless civilians, including religious pilgrims, while engaging in violent repression of local inhabitants." BUREAU OF COUNTERTERRORISM Country Reports on Terrorism 2014 Report US State Department Vol. 36 No. 8 · 17 April 2014 The Red Line and the Rat Line Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels London Review Of Books Attacking Syria Is the Best Way to Deal with Iran by Andrew J. Tabler Sep 4, 2013 WINEP Barak: Fall of Assad regime will seriously hurt Iran and Hezbollah Defense minister says Syrian president's fate is sealed, though it's taking longer than expected By Stuart Winer 17 May 2012 Times of Israel "AQI supported the Syrian opposition from the beginning, ideologically and through the media.. AQI conducted a number of operations in several Syrian cities under the name Al Nusra, one of its affiliates… If the situation unravels there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in eastern Syria. And this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want in order to isolate the Syrian regime" Department of Defense, ‘Information Report 14-L-0552/DIA), August 2012 Judicial Watch  Page 3 2017 ISIS Iran Parliament Attack Saudi Intervention in Bahrain To Put Down Protests HTS Meets UK, US, French, German Officials From Syrian jihadist leader to rebel politician: How Abu Mohammed al-Jolani reinvented himself BBC Mina Al-Lami Jihadist Media Specialist, 9 December 2024 HTS AQ Split Strategic US Gov Terrorism Factsheet After toppling Syria's Bashar Al-Assad, Uyghur fighters warn Xi Jinping; say next stop China, vow to free East Turkistan The Economic Times December 14th 2024 People Freeze To Death In The Idlib Province Turkey Shoots Down Russian Fighter Jet Russia-Turkey Idlib Ceasfire "The United States prepared a rebel force to join the offensive that overthrew the regime of Bashar al-Assad, fighters have claimed. British and American-trained fighters in the Revolutionary Commando Army (RCA), a group aligned against Islamic State, were told “this is your moment” in a briefing by US Special Forces before Assad was ousted. In the first indication that Washington had prior knowledge of the offensive, the RCA revealed it had been told to scale-up its forces and “be ready” for an attack that could lead to the end of the Assad regime. “They did not tell us how it would happen,” Capt Bashar al-Mashadani, an RCA commander, told The Telegraph from a former Syrian army air base used by Russia on the outskirts of the city of Palmyra. “We were just told: ‘Everything is about to change. This is your moment. Either Assad will fall, or you will fall.’ But they did not say when or where, they just told us to be ready.” ... Capt Mashadani said the RCA and the fighters of HTS, which is led by Syria’s interim leader Mohammed al-Jolani, were co-operating, and communication between the two forces was being co-ordinated by the Americans at Al-Tanf. " US ‘prepared Syrian rebel group to help topple Bashar al-Assad’ Fighters funded and trained by America and Britain tell The Telegraph they had advance warning regime would be overthrown Adrian Blomfield in Palmyra Adrian Blomfield The Telegraph 18 December 2024 Ukrainian operatives aided Syrian rebels with drones, Washington Post reports By Reuters December 11, 2024 James Jeffrey Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Turkey Jeffrey has been a top U.S. diplomat in the George W. Bush, Obama and Trump administrations. He served as the U.S. ambassador to Turkey from 2008 to 2010 and to Iraq from 2010 to 2012. More recently, he served as Special Representative for Syria Engagement. The following interview was conducted on March 8, 2021, by FRONTLINE filmmaker Martin Smith. Protests in Syria over Christmas tree burning Lina Sinjab & Jacqueline Howard BBC News, Damascus and London BBC 24 December 2024 Syria rebels appear to credit Israeli strikes on Hezbollah with aiding shock advance Opposition figures speaking to Israeli TV say they love Jewish state and want to forge friendship; report indicates Hezbollah may be sending forces to Syria as Assad looks for help By ToI Staff and Agencies 2 December 2024 Whats Next For Syria: An Interview With HTS Channel 4 Dec 11th 2024 Rebels Loot Syria Kafr Qasim Massacre Saudi Arabia calls for Syria sanctions relief as Arab, EU diplomats gather in Riyadh Middle East Saudi Arabia said Sunday it was time to lift sanctions on Syria as it hosted talks between key diplomats from the Middle East and Europe focused on reestablishing stability in the war-torn country following the fall of Bashar al-Assad France 24 12/01/2025 Davos-Syria's economy will be open for foreign investment, foreign minister says By Reuters January 22, 2025 Syrian rebel leader: Territory will not be used to launch attacks against Israel Chief of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which ousted Assad regime, pledges commitment to 1974 buffer-zone agreement, says IDF activity in Syria ‘must end’ and Israel ‘has to pull back’ By AFP and ToI Staff 17 December 2024 Leading Syrian rebel group said to demand disarmament of country’s Palestinian factions By Gianluca Pacchiani 15 December 2024 TOI Netanyahu claims credit for starting ‘historic’ process that led to fall of Assad regime By Lazar Berman, Sam Sokol, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff 8 December 2024 Who's Funding ISIS? Wealthy Gulf 'Angel Investors,' Officials Say 'Angel investors' from the Gulf continue to provide money to the terror group, say officials. Image: ISIL militants driving in vehicles near the central Iraqi city of Tikrit An image from a propaganda video uploaded on June 8 by the jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, AKA ISIL or ISIS, allegedly shows militants driving in vehicles near the central Iraqi city of Tikrit. AFP - Sept. 21, 2014 by Robert Windrem NBC News   "From: Jake Sullivan To: Hillary Clinton Date: 2012-02-12 09:01 Subject: SPOT REPORT 02/12/II See last item - AQ is on our side in Syria" UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05789138 Date: 10/30/2015  - Wiki Leaks Ex-defense minister says IS ‘apologized’ to Israel for November clash Moshe Ya’alon’s office refuses to elaborate after alluding to contact with terror group By JUDAH ARI GROSS 24 April 2017 The Israel Times US embassy cables: Hillary Clinton says Saudi Arabia 'a critical source of terrorist funding' Sun 5 Dec 2010 The Guardian Wiki Leaks The Real Reason to Intervene in Syria Cutting Iran's link to the Mediterranean Sea is a strategic prize worth the risk By James P. Rubin June 4th 2012 Foreign Policy  (Bill Clintons Assistant  Secretary of State for Public Affairs) "We asked Lord Richards whether he knew that Abdelhakim Belhadj and other members of the al-Qaeda affiliated Libyan Islamic Fighting Group were participating in the rebellion in March 2011. He replied that that “was a grey area”. He added that “a quorum of respectable Libyans were assuring the Foreign Office” that militant Islamist militias would not benefit from the rebellion. He acknowledged that “with the benefit of hindsight, that was wishful thinking at best.”. The possibility that militant extremist groups would attempt to benefit from the rebellion should not have been the preserve of hindsight. Libyan connections with transnational militant extremist groups were known before 2011, because many Libyans had participated in the Iraq insurgency and in Afghanistan with al-Qaeda." House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Libya: Examination of intervention and collapse and the UK’s future policy options Third Report of Session 2016–17 Report, together with formal minutes relating to the report Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 6 September 2016  Page 13 "Instead, Mr. Obama decided to make the rebel training program a “covert action” run by the C.I.A. He signed a secret finding allowing the agency to begin preparing to train and arm small groups of rebels in Jordan, a move that circumvented the legal issues and allowed the White House to officially deny it was giving the lethal aid. Besides the legal worries, there were other concerns driving the decision to make the program a secret. As one former senior administration official put it, “We needed plausible deniability in case the arms got into the hands of Al Nusra.” Obama’s Uncertain Path Amid Syria Bloodshed October 22nd 2013 NYT

“On August 4th, it was reported another attack occurred. It was not clear then that that attack had occurred. We made every possible effort to determine whether it had or not. I was in direct communication with the Commander-in-Chief of all of our forces in the Pacific (CINCPAC) by telephone several times during that day, to find out whether it had or hadn't occurred. He had reports from the commanders of the destroyers on the scene: they had what were known as sonar readings -- these are sound readings. There were eyewitness reports. And ultimately it was concluded that almost certainly the attack had occurred. But even at the time there was some recognition of a margin of error, so we thought it highly probable but not entirely certain. And because it was highly probable -- and because even if it hadn't occurred, there was strong feeling we should have responded to the first attack, which we were positive had occurred -- President Johnson decided to respond to the second [attack]. I think it is now clear [the second attack] did not occur. I asked [North Vietnamese] General Giap myself, when I visited Hanoi in November of 1995, whether it had occurred, and he said no. I accept that.” CNN Cold War – Interviews: Robert McNamara June 14th 2008 Ann Clwyd, ‘See men shredded, then say you don’t back war’, The Times , 18 March 2003  (former labour mp ) “It seems Clwyd based her story on the uncorroborated claims of one individual from northern Iraq. Neither Amnesty International nor Human Rights Watch, in their numerous investigations into human rights abuses in Iraq, had ever heard anyone talk of a human-shredding machine.” Brendan O’Neill, ‘The media’s tall tales over Iraq’, Guardian , 4 February 2010 “There is next to no doubt that chemical weapons were used in Ghouta in eastern Damascus, and that, unlike previous alleged attacks, they produced mass casualties. Whether the death toll is in the hundreds or over a thousand, as the rebels claim, this is one of the most significant chemical weapons attacks since Saddam Hussein's on the Kurds in Halabja 25 years ago, and an unmistakable challenge to the vow Barack Obama made a year ago that, if proved, the use of chemical or biological weapons would "change my calculus".” Editorial, ‘Syria: chemical weapons with impunity’, Guardian , 22 August 2013 “This, we are told, is what makes Israel a special case, uniquely deserving of hatred. This is what animates Livingstone’s long-held hostility to Israel and what lay behind Shah’s past call for the “transportation” – a word with a chilling resonance for Jews – of Israel to America.” Jonathan Freedland, ‘My plea to the left: treat Jews the same way you’d treat any other minority’, Guardian , 29 April 2016 “The time to find out that Naz Shah was of the view that Israelis should be put on “transportation” to America, with all the chilling echoes that has for Jews” Andrew Rawnsley, ‘How the parties let the poison of racism seep back into our politics’, Guardian , 1 May 2016 “Naz by name, Nazi by nature, was revealed to have backed the transportation of Jews in Israel to the United States” Richard Littlejohn, ‘The fascists at the poisoned heart of Labour’, Daily Mail , 19 April 2016 “Mr Corbyn has now been leader for six months, and the only conclusion that can be drawn is that our fears were justified. Labour now seems to be a party that attracts antisemites like flies to a cesspit. Barely a week goes by without the identification of a racist party member or allegations of racist behaviour by those involved in the party. And the target of that racism seems always to be Jews.” Anonymous, ‘Labour’s shame’, Jewish Chronicle , 17 March 2016 “The dictatorship is living its last days and Maduro knows it," former MP Maria Corina Machado told AFP news agency at the women's march. "That's why there are these unprecedented levels of repression.”” Venezuela protests: Women march against Maduro’, BBC website, 6 May 2017 "Venezuela is now a dictatorship," says Luis Ugalde, a Spanish-born Jesuit priest who during his 60 years living in Venezuela has become one of the South American nation's most well-known political scientists.” Vanessa Buschschlüter, ‘Venezuela’s irreconcilable visions for the future’, BBC website, 22 May 2017 “But here it is necessary to be as hard on many of the opponents of war as on its proposers, as well as to clear away the misleading idea that evidence that Saddam is concealing weapons of mass destruction is at the centre of the argument. It is at the centre of the manoeuvring, yes, but not of the argument. Among those knowledgeable about Iraq there are few, if any, who believe he is not hiding such weapons. It is a given. We print accounts of them, with diagrams and charts, in our newspapers every day. That is why both the Americans and the British insist that it is not just a matter of the inspectors being able to go where they please, but of Iraq handing over the weapons that everybody knows they have.” Martin Woollacott, ‘This drive to war is one of the mysteries of our time’, Guardian , 24 January 2003 “Like them, I believe that Iran is trying to acquire the bomb.” George Monbiot, ‘The Middle East has had a secretive nuclear power in its midst for years’, Guardian , 20 November 2007 “John McDonnell was right to swiftly force Naz Shah's resignation - but now the party has to suspend her.” https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/72529959970816000 0 “Ken Livingstone has to be suspended from the Labour Party. Preferably before I pass out from punching myself in the face.” https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/725646692234715138 Theodore Sayeed, ‘Chomsky and his critics’, Mondoweiss , 19 February 2016 “Downing Street said the Heathrow deployment was "an ongoing operation in relation to a specific threat" personally authorised by the Prime Minister. Tony Blair's spokesman said: "The Government and the security authorities are taking whatever action they believe necessary to protect the public.”... At Heathrow, troops from the 1st Battalion the Grenadier Guards and the Household Cavalry Regiment patrolled the airport complex. The convoys of army vehicles and police cars included several Scimitar armoured reconnaissance vehicles which spent short periods at the terminals and other sites. Soldiers, dressed in combat fatigues and carrying rifles, patrolled on foot in teams of two or three around the terminal buildings. Scimitars, which resemble small tanks” Troops patrol Heathrow after terror warning of 'missile attack on aircraft' Paul Peachey Wednesday 12 February 2003 The Independent  George Eaton, ‘Labour MPs believe Jeremy Corbyn is incapable of tackling anti-semitism’, New Statesman , 29 April 2016 “That’s what’s been happening in the Labour party this week, as Tony Blair and others tried to sit the kids down and say: “Look, you’ve had your fun. But take it from us, even if Corbyn is right – which he isn’t – he is never, ever going to get elected. This crusade is doomed. Come back home.”” Jonathan Freedland, ‘The Corbyn tribe cares about identity, not power’, Guardian , 24 July 2015 “Corbyn fever has gripped the Labour leadership contest, amid warnings that they teeter on the verge of civil war. Suddenly the party that has been a reasonably friendly coalition through the Blair, Brown, Miliband years, begins to feel like the poisonous place it was in the early 80s. That’s when it split over toxic Militant entryism unchallenged by Michael Foot, its unelectable leader with a raft of impossibilist policies.” Polly Toynbee, ‘This was the week the Labour leadership contest turned nasty’, Guardian , 23 July 2015 “The Labour party can choose to be part of what is happening or it can further cut itself off. Right now they appear to be in the process known to post-Marxists as the “Nobody loves me. Everybody hates me. I am going down the garden to eat worms” stage. Meanwhile everyone else is getting on with it.” Suzanne Moore, ‘I could pay £3 to have a say, but why would I intrude on Labour’s private grief?’, Guardian , 22 July 2015 Leader, ‘Silence of the lambs: Labour’s would-be leaders must stand up to the growing mutiny on the party’s left’ July 27th 2015 “What positive debate (as @robfordmancs just asked me) is served by having Corbyn on the ballot?”  David Aaronovitch BBC 4 Radio Presenter https://twitter.com/DAaronovitch/status/610408642823761920 “Just as the Vikings and the Mayans brought about their own extinction by destroying the environment on which their cultures depended… so the Labour party is threatening its survival by abandoning electoral victory as a definition of success. If Labour chooses Jeremy Corbyn – a man who will never be elected prime minister – as leader next week, its end could be as brutal and sudden as those other once great tribes” Will a Corbyn victory be the end of Labour? 1st September 2015 Labour MUST dump vampire Jezza: If MPs don't vote for 'Jexit' now their party is doomed, says DAN HODGES By Dan Hodges, Mail on Sunday Jun 2016  (changed from Labour MUST kill vampire Jezza) Dan Hodges, ‘March of the Corbinators: Britain’s best political columnist DAN HODGES joins the Mail on Sunday – and reveals Labour plot to ditch Corbyn’, Mail on Sunday, 13 March 2016 Jeremy Corbyn’s weapons pledge makes ‘nuclear holocaust more likely’ John Woodcock says the Labour leader's comments were 'unfortunate' and 'concerning' for national security Matt Dathan Online Political Reporter Wednesday 30 September 2015 The Independent  Nicholas Watt and Mark Sweney, ‘BBC justifies decision to allow Stephen Doughty to resign live on Daily Politics’, Guardian , 8 January 2016 Jessica Brown, ‘When Rupert Murdoch saw the exit poll “he stormed out of the room”, John Prescott tweets’, Independent, 9 June 2017 “He told the BBC’s The World at One: “I can understand why people are worried about whether some of the most senior editorial voices in the BBC have lost their impartiality on this”” Rowena Mason, ‘BBC may have shown bias against Corbyn, says former trust chair’, Guardian 12 May 2016 (Michael Lyons) John Pilger, ‘Getting Julian Assange: The untold story’, blog, 20 May 2017 “A polarising president, Mr Bush sounds a lot better out of office than in it. His swipe at Donald Trump’s brand of populism may mark a turning point for Republicans. We hope so” Editorial, ‘The Guardian view on George W Bush: a welcome return’, Guardian , 27 February 2017 Amelia Tait, ‘How George W. Bush went from “war criminal” to the internet’s favourite grandpa’, New Statesman , 13 March 2017 Daniel Boffey and Emma Supple, ‘Barack Obama: “He has such power … yet such humility”’, Guardian , 24 April 2016 “It is almost impossible these days to get away from the winklepickered Jesus Clown who preaches revolution, so I won’t bother naming him as that only seems to annoy people” Suzanne Moore, ‘Russell Brand’s revolution or a meaningless two-party system? Politics should be about more than this’, Guardian, 15 October 2014 “Television news producers are as world-weary as any burnt-out celebrity. They want Brand to be their new Farage and draw hundreds of thousands to their failing programmes. I am not saying that there is not a need for a left populism to confront financial power and environmental degradation. But Brand is a religious narcissist, and if the British left falls for him, it will show itself to be beyond saving” Nick Cohen, ‘Revolution by Russell Brand review – the barmy credo of a Beverly Hills Buddhist’, Observer , 27 October 2014 Romesh Ratnesar, ‘The unbearable narcissism of Edward Snowden’, Bloomberg BusinessWeek , 1 November 2013 “Edward Snowden, a twenty-nine-year-old former C.I.A. employee and current government contractor, has leaked news of National Security Agency programs that collect vast amounts of information about the telephone calls made by millions of Americans, as well as e-mails and other files of foreign targets and their American connections. For this, some, including my colleague John Cassidy, are hailing him as a hero and a whistle-blower. He is neither. He is, rather, a grandiose narcissist who deserves to be in prison.” Jeffrey Toobin, ‘Edward Snowden is no hero’, New Yorker , 10 June 2013 “The unkind reading of this is to suggest that support for Corbynism, especially among the young, is a form of narcissism.” Jonathan Freedland, ‘The Corbyn tribe cares about identity, not power’, Guardian , 24 July 2015 “In his malignancy, mendacity and hypocrisy, in his narcissism and anti-patriotism, he is betraying not only the history of the Labour Party but the basic values of this country” Dominic Sandbrook, ‘Putin’s useful idiots: Warped, deluded, ignorant. Corbyn’s support for Russia shames his party and his country’, Daily Mail , 13 October 2016 “Sultan had a reputation for a fierce temper but his habit of working deep into the night won him the nickname of "bulbul" – nightingale. He was both a conservative and political moderate. "Sultan," wrote Holden, "whose vigour on the couch was a cause for even more concern and respect, had proved a stern, tough and headstrong character.”” Trevor Mostyn, ‘Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz obituary’, Guardian , 23 October 2011 “The death of one of Latin America's most egotistical, bombastic and polarising leaders was announced on television by Vice-president Nicolas Maduro” David Usborne, ‘Death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez leaves tears – and a nation divided’, Independent , 6 March 2013 Peter Oborne, ‘Dispatches: Inside Britain’s Israel lobby 2009’, Channel 4, published on YouTube, 1 September 2013 “Harding, who is Jewish, will also have to leave behind the pro-Israeli line of the Times. In a debate at the Jewish Community Centre For London in 2011, Harding said "I am pro-Israel" and that in reporting on the Middle East, "I haven't found it too hard" because "the Times has been pro-Israel for a long time"” Lisa O’Carroll, ‘James Harding: ex-Times editor could become the story at the BBC’, Guardian , 16 April 2013 Adam Rosgan, ‘Hamas leader to JPost: We’re ready for long-term cease-fire with Israel’, Jerusalem Post , 6 September 2017 Ethan Bronner, ‘Parsing gains of Gaza war,’ New York Times , 18 January 2009 “A four-month ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza was in jeopardy today after Israeli troops killed six Hamas gunmen in a raid into the territory… The attack comes shortly before a key meeting this Sunday in Cairo when Hamas and its political rival Fatah will hold talks on reconciling their differences and creating a single, unified government. It will be the first time the two sides have met at this level since fighting a near civil war more than a year ago.” Rory McCarthy, ‘Gaza truce broken as Israeli raid kills six Hamas gunmen’, Guardian , 5 November 2008 “four days into Israel’s eight-day assault on the Gaza Strip, deputy Israeli Prime Minister Eli Yishai publicly called for the Israeli army to “blow Gaza back to the Middle Ages, destroying all the infrastructure including roads and water”” The ‘Flattening’ of Gaza Relief Web UN 26 Dec 2012 “There is no middle path here – either the Gazans and their infrastructure are made to pay the price, or we reoccupy the entire Gaza Strip… flatten entire neighbourhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn’t stop with Hiroshima – the Japanese weren’t surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too. There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing. Then they’d really call for a ceasefire” A decisive conclusion is necessary   By GILAD SHARON NOVEMBER 18, 2012 Jerusalem Post “It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed. Otherwise we shall come into control of an utterly ruined land. We shall not, for instance, be able to get housing materials out of Germany for our own needs because some temporary provision would have to be made for the Germans themselves. The destruction of Dresden remains a serious query against the conduct of Allied bombing. I am of the opinion that military objectives must henceforward be more strictly studied in our own interests rather than that of the enemy. The Foreign Secretary has spoken to me on this subject, and I feel the need for more precise concentration upon military objectives, such as oil and communications behind the immediate battle-zone, rather than on mere acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive” International Churchill Society Education – Bombing Germany: Again  - - Dresden: The World War Two bombing 75 years on By Toby Luckhurst BBC News 13 February 2020   “GAZA CITY — The four Bakr boys were young cousins, the children of Gaza fishermen who had ordered them to stay indoors — and especially away from the beach. But cooped up for nine days during Israeli bombardments, the children defied their parents and went out Wednesday afternoon, the eldest shooing away his little brother, telling him it was too dangerous. As they played on and around a jetty in the late-afternoon sun, a blast hit a nearby shack. One boy was killed instantly. The others ran. There was a second blast, and three more bodies littered the sand. One was charred, missing a leg, and another lay motionless, his curly head intact, his legs splayed at unnatural angles. The Israeli military acknowledged later that it had launched the strike, which it said was aimed at Hamas militants, and called the civilian deaths “a tragic outcome.” The four dead boys came quickly to symbolize how the Israeli aerial assaults in Gaza are inevitably killing innocents in this crowded, impoverished sliver of land along the Mediterranean Sea. They stood out because they were inarguably blameless, children who simply wanted to play on their favorite beach, near the fishing port where their large extended family keeps its boats” Anne Barnard, ‘Boys drawn to Gaza Beach, and into center of Mideast strife’, New York Times , 16 July 2014 John Plunkett, ‘BBC defends coverage of Israeli air strikes in Gaza after bias accusations’, Guardian website, 16 July 2014 “Production increased by more than 40% since BP joined partnership to redevelop Rumaila oilfield in 2010 Oil production rate highest in 27 years Around $200 billion generated for the Iraqi economy” BP Global press release, ‘Rumaila oilfield achieves 3 billion barrel production landmark’, 20 December 2016 Boris Johnson Libya 'dead bodies' comment provokes anger 3 October 2017 Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said Libyan city Sirte could be the new Dubai, adding, "all they have to do is clear the dead bodies away BBC “it was Yugoslavia’s resistance to the broader trends of political and economic reform – not the plight of Kosovar Albanians – that best explains NATO’s war” John Norris, Collision Course: NATO, Russia, and Kosovo , Praeger, 2005 - Wiki “Amnesty International also criticised the response of the African Union to the unfolding crisis, which has seen hundreds killed and persistent reports of mercenaries being brought in from African countries by the Libyan leader to violently suppress the protests against him.” Amnesty Press Release, ‘Security Council and African Union failing Libyan people’, 23 February 2011  Page 1 “In November 2011, Amnesty International-USA appointed Suzanne Nossel as its executive director. From August 2009 to November 2011, Nossel had been the US State Department’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of International Organization Affairs.” Quote from book - Suzanne Nossel "One of America's most senior diplomats claimed at the United Nations security council that Muammar Gaddafi is supplying his troops with Viagra to encourage mass rape, according to diplomats… A UN diplomat at the closed session on Thursday said: "I was in the room when she mentioned Viagra. The remark did not cause a stir at the time. It was during a discussion about whether there is moral equivalence between the Gaddafi forces and the rebels. She listed human rights abuses by Gaddafi's forces, including snipers shooting children in the street and the Viagra story." Gaddafi ‘supplies troops with Viagra to encourage mass rape’, claims diplomat US ambassador Susan Rice The Guardian Fri 29 Apr 2011 US intel: No evidence of Viagra as weapon in Libya’, blog, 29 April 2011 NBC “If we waited one more day, Benghazi ... could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world.” March 28, 2011 Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on Libya White House “Not to respond to Gaddafi's chilling threats would leave us morally culpable, but action in Libya is fraught with danger” Jonathan Freedland, ‘Though the risks are very real, the case for intervention remains strong’, Guardian , 22 March 2011  “Unlike Bahrain or Yemen, the scale and nature of the Gaddafi regime's actions have impelled the UN's 'responsibility to protect’” Brian Whitaker, ‘The difference with Libya’, Guardian , 23 March 2011 “The experience of Iraq should not make us deaf to Libyan calls for international support” Menzies Campbell and Phillipe Sands, ‘Our duty to protect the Libyan people’, Guardian , 9 March 2011 Leader, ‘Libya: The west can’t let Gaddafi destroy his people’, Observer , 13 March 2011 Editorial Board Boris Johnson, ‘Libya: Taking on Colonel Gaddafi is a noble cause, but the risks are huge’, Telegraph , 21 March 2011  “I was never in favour of this war mainly because of the threats of terrorism or WMDs. Getting rid of Saddam (and therefore the myriad afflictions of the Iraqi people) was enough… These claims cannot be wished away in the light of a successful war. If nothing is eventually found, I - as a supporter of the war - will never believe another thing that I am told by our government, or that of the US ever again. And, more to the point, neither will anyone else. Those weapons had better be there somewhere” David Aaronovitch, ‘Those weapons had better be there ...’, Guardian , 29 April 2003 David Aaronovitch, ‘Go for a no-fly zone or regret it,’ The Times , 24 February 2011 “There is no perfect formula for military intervention. It must be used sparingly — not in Bahrain or Yemen, even though we condemn the violence against protesters in both countries. Libya is a specific case: Muammar el-Qaddafi is erratic, widely reviled, armed with mustard gas and has a history of supporting terrorism. If he is allowed to crush the opposition, it would chill pro-democracy movements across the Arab world” Editorial Board, ‘At war in Libya’, New York Times , 21 March 2011 “But it can now reasonably be said that in narrow military terms it worked, and that politically there was some retrospective justification for its advocates as the crowds poured into the streets of Tripoli to welcome the rebel convoys earlier this week. The argument that we had foolishly gone in on one side in a civil war must be weakened by such scenes” Editorial, ‘Foreign policy: intervention after Libya’, Guardian , 23 August 2011 “And after all the waiting, the killing and the tears, the wheel of history turned inexorably, and all who watched knew it would never turn back. The Arab spring had claimed another infamous scalp. The risky western intervention had worked. And Libya was liberated at last.” Simon Tisdall, ‘Muammar Gaddafi’s violent death leaves Libya at a crossroads’, Guardian , 20 October 2011 “If Libya doesn't build on what's been achieved, then that's Libya's tragedy, not ours… The motives of Cameron and Sarkozy, as they first ordered their planes into action, seemed more humanitarian and emotional than cynically calculated. There was no urgent reason in realpolitik to oust Gaddafi as winter passed. His last 10 years in power had been quieter than his first berserk three decades. Labour home secretaries spooned his soup and drank his wine. Tony Blair embraced him. Libya's oil contracts were not at issue (just as they aren't today). The survival of Gaddafi's regime may have been a moral affront, but it was one among many. No: what sent British jets across the Mediterranean was a perceived need to save lives… The number of civilian casualties inflicted by the airstrikes seems to have been mercifully light” Editorial, ‘An honourable intervention. A hopeful future’, Observer , 28 August 2011   “The war in Iraq would undo Tony Blair, they cried. It would be his Suez on the Tigris, they said. Wrong. It would be Vietnam crossed with Stalingrad. Wrong. To win the war, the Anglo-American forces could only prevail by inflicting casualties numbered in their hundreds of thousands. The more extravagantly doom-laden predictions had the deaths in millions. Wrong.” Andrew Rawnsley, ‘The voices of doom were so wrong’, Observer , 13 April 2003 “One lesson – a rather familiar tutorial this – is that conventional wisdom is often wrong. We were told that it would be impossible to get a UN resolution – and one was secured. We were told that Arab support would not stay solid – and, by and large, it did. We were told, as recently as 10 days ago, that the campaign was stuck in a stalemate which exposed the folly of David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy in pursuing the enterprise. So much for the wisdom of the conventional.” Andrew Rawnsley, ‘The right and the wrong lessons to draw from Libya’s liberation’, Observer , 28 August 2011 Nick Robinson, BBC ‘News at Six’, 20 October 2011 “Mr Blair is well aware that all his critics out there in the party and beyond aren’t going to thank him – because they’re only human – for being right when they’ve been wrong.” Andrew Marr, BBC ‘News at Ten’, 9 April 2003 “Mr Cameron took risks on Libya – but they paid off. The critics he calls "the armchair generals" were sceptical about securing a UN resolution to allow intervention; they doubted a no-fly zone would topple the dictator and feared being sucked into an Iraq-style civil war. Working closely with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, Mr Cameron proved the doubters wrong.” Andrew Grice, ‘Vindication for Cameron over the “armchair generals”’, Independent , 20 October 2011 “his death vindicates the swift action of David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy in halting the attack on Benghazi” Editorial, ‘This grim end should serve as a warning’, Telegraph , 20 October 2011 “It is surely a matter for quiet national pride that an Arab Srebrenica was prevented by a coalition in which Britain played an important part” Matthew d’Ancona, ‘Libya is Cameron’s chance to exorcise the ghost of Iraq’, Telegraph , 26 March 2011  (Telegraph, Spectator, Guardian, NYT etc columnist) “Concern was real enough that a Srebrenica-style massacre could unfold in Benghazi, and the UK Government was right to insist that we would not allow this.” Leader, ‘Libya – the mission that crept’, Independent , 28 July 2011 “Since the revolution three years ago that overthrew Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, about 1.8 million Libyans — nearly a third of the country’s population — have fled to Tunisia. A new wave of refugees has arrived in recent months as fighting has engulfed the Libyan capital, Tripoli, driven away by random shelling and shooting, as well as shortages of cash, electricity and fuel.” Carlotta Gall, ‘Libyan refugees stream to Tunisia for care, and tell of a home that is torn apart’, New York Times , 9 September 2014 “All of the migrants spoke of being subjected to random brutality, not only from the Libyan army, police and militias, but also ordinary citizens intent on robbing them of what little money they had managed to earn from casual work or by borrowing from their families to fund their quest to reach Europe. "Everyone in Libya is armed now," said Djiby Diop, a 20-year-old from Senegal who spent three months in Libya dodging gunmen."Every guy of my age has a gun," he said, speaking in French. "If you don't work for them, they shoot you. If you don't give them all your money, they shoot you. Or they shoot you just for fun. Or they will throw you in prison and you have to pay 400 dinars (£200) to get released.”” Nick Squires, ‘Migrants tell of deepening chaos in Libya: “Everyone is armed now”’, Telegraph , 22 February 2015 “In 2014, the most recent year for which reliable figures are available, Libya generated $41.14 billion of gross domestic product and the average Libyan’s annual income had decreased from $12,250 in 2010 to $7,820.28 Since 2014, Libya’s economic predicament has reportedly deteriorated. Libya is likely to experience a budget deficit of some 60% of GDP in 2016. The requirement to finance that deficit is rapidly depleting net foreign reserves, which halved from $107 billion in 2013 to $56.8 billion by the end of 2015. Production of crude oil fell to its lowest recorded level in 2015, while oil prices collapsed in the second half of 2014. Inflation increased to 9.2% driven by a 13.7% increase in food prices including a fivefold increase in the price of flour.29 The United Nations ranked Libya as the world’s 94th most advanced country in its 2015 index of human development, a decline from 53rd place in 2010. 30 In 2016, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated that out of a total Libyan population of 6.3 million, 3 million people have been impacted by the armed conflict and political instability, and that 2.4 million people require protection and some form of humanitarian assistance. 31 In its World Report 2016, Human Rights Watch stated that Libya is heading towards a humanitarian crisis, with almost 400,000 people internally displaced and increasing disruption to basic services, such as power and fuel supplies. Forces engaged in the conflict continued with impunity to arbitrarily detain, torture, unlawfully kill, indiscriminately attack, abduct and disappear, and forcefully displace people from their homes. The domestic criminal justice system collapsed in most parts of the country, exacerbating the human rights  crisis. 32. People-trafficking gangs exploited the lack of effective government after 2011, making Libya a key transit route for illegal migration into Europe and the location of a migrant crisis. 33 In addition to other extremist militant groups, ISIL emerged in Libya in 2014, seizing control of territory around Sirte and setting up terrorist training centres. Human Rights Watch documented unlawful executions by ISIL in Sirte of at least 49 people by methods including decapitation and shootings” House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Libya: Examination of intervention and collapse and the UK’s future policy options Third Report of Session 2016–17 Report, together with formal minutes relating to the report Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 6 September 2016 Page 8 “Despite his rhetoric, the proposition that Muammar Gaddafi would have ordered  the massacre of civilians in Benghazi was not supported by the available evidence. The Gaddafi regime had retaken towns from the rebels without attacking civilians in early February 2011. 72 During fighting in Misrata, the hospital recorded 257 people killed and 949 people wounded in February and March 2011. Those casualties included 22 women and eight children. 73 Libyan doctors told United Nations investigators that Tripoli’s morgues contained more than 200 corpses following fighting in late February 2011, of whom two  were female. 74 The disparity between male and female casualties suggested that Gaddafi regime forces targeted male combatants in a civil war and did not indiscriminately attack civilians. More widely, Muammar Gaddafi’s 40-year record of appalling human rights abuses did not include large-scale attacks on Libyan civilians.” House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Libya: Examination of intervention and collapse and the UK’s future policy options Third Report of Session 2016–17 Report, together with formal minutes relating to the report Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 6 September 2016 Page 14 “38. We have seen no evidence that the UK Government carried out a proper analysis of the nature of the rebellion in Libya. It may be that the UK Government was unable  to analyse the nature of the rebellion in Libya due to incomplete intelligence and insufficient institutional insight and that it was caught up in events as they developed. It could not verify the actual threat to civilians posed by the Gaddafi regime; it selectively took elements of Muammar Gaddafi’s rhetoric at face value; and it failed to identify the militant Islamist extremist element in the rebellion. UK strategy was founded on erroneous assumptions and an incomplete understanding of the evidence” House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Libya: Examination of intervention and collapse and the UK’s future policy options Third Report of Session 2016–17 Report, together with formal minutes relating to the report Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 6 September 2016 Page 15 “When I was asked by the prime minister (David Cameron) to make a judgment on how long it might take to depose, regime change, get rid of Gaddafi” Baron Richards of Herstmonceux, ‘UK military chief criticises Libya decision’, BBC website, 14 September 2016 “The UN resolution is limited in its scope. It explicitly does not provide legal authority for action to bring about Gaddafi’s removal from power by military means. But we will continue to implement a wide range of tough sanctions designed to put pressure on the regime towards that end.” PM statement to the House on Libya Prime Minister David Cameron has secured comprehensive support from MPs for the military intervention in Libya. Cabinet Office, Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street and The Rt Hon Lord Cameron 21 March 2011 “Libya has some of the biggest and most proven oil reserves – 43.6 billion barrels – outside Saudi Arabia, and some of the best drilling prospects” Steven Mufson, ‘Conflict in Libya: U.S. oil companies sit on sidelines as Gaddafi maintains hold’, Washington Post , 10 June 2011 “But Bill Richardson, the former US energy secretary who served as US ambassador to the UN, is probably right when he says: "There's another interest, and that's energy... Libya is among the 10 top oil producers in the world. You can almost say that the gas prices in the US going up have probably happened because of a stoppage of Libyan oil production... So this is not an insignificant country, and I think our involvement is justified.”” Johann Hari, ‘We’re not being told the truth on Libya’, Independent , 7 April 2011 Libya needs to exploit its hydrocarbon resources to provide for its rapidly-growing, relatively young population. To do so, it requires extensive foreign investment and  participation by credible IOCs.  Reformist elements in the Libyan government and the small but growing private sector  recognize this reality.  But those who dominate Libya's political and economic leadership are pursuing increasingly  nationalistic policies in the energy sector that could jeopardize efficient exploitation of Libya's extensive oil and gas reserves.  Effective U.S. engagement on this issue should take the form of demonstrating the clear downsides to the GOL of pursuing this approach, particularly with respect to attracting participation by credible international oil companies in the  oil/gas sector and foreign direct investment.” Leaked cable, WikiLeaks, ‘GROWTH OF RESOURCE NATIONALISM IN LIBYA’, 15 November 2007 "According to sensitive information available to this these individuals, Qaddafi's government holds 143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver… This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an  alternative to the French.franc (CFA). (Source Comment: According to knowledgeable individuals this quantity of gold and silver is valued at more than $7 billion. French intelligence officers discovered this plan shortly after the current rebellion began, and this was one of the  factors that influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to commit France to the attack on Libya. According to these individuals Sarkozy's plans are driven by the following issues:  a. A desire to gain a greater share of Libya oil production,  b. Increase French influence in North Africa, c. Improve his intemai political situation in France,  d. Provide the French military with an opportunity to reassert its position in the world,  e. Address the concern of his advisors over Qaddafi's long term plans to supplant France as the dominant power in Francophone Africa)" U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05779612 Date: 12/31/2015 , Email Between Hillary Clinton And Sidney Blumenthal, April 2, 2011  Salma El Wardany, ‘Libya restarts Wintershall oil fields to boost nation output’, Bloomberg Businessweek , 22 January 2018 Paul Jay interview with Kevin G. Hall, ‘WikiLeaks reveals US wanted to keep Russia out of Libyan oil’, The Real News , 11 May 2011 Mark Landler, ‘How Hillary Clinton became a hawk’, New York Times magazine, 21 April 2016 “Under Clinton’s leadership, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation” David Sirota, ‘Clinton foundation donors got weapons deals from Hillary Clinton’s State Department’, International Business Times , 26 May 2015 Gareth Porter, ‘US military leadership resisted Obama’s bid for regime change in Syria, Libya’, Middle East Eye , 4 January 2016 James Rubin, ‘Why Hillary Clinton would make a better president than Obama’, Sunday Times, 12 April 2015 Mary Riddell, ‘Hillary Clinton is not alone these days. Are women finally taking over the world?’, Telegraph, 12 April 2015 “There is, of course, supposed to be a ceasefire, which the brutal Assad regime simply ignores. And the international community? It just averts its gaze. Will you do the same? Or will the sickening fate of these innocent children make you very, very angry” Independent on Sunday , 27 May 2012, archived cover SYRIA: THE WORLD LOOKS THE OTHER WAY. WILL YOU? “In the aftermath of the massacre at Houla last month, initial reports said some of the 49 children and 34 women killed had their throats cut. In Damascus, western officials told me the subsequent investigation revealed none of those found dead had been killed in such a brutal manner. Moreover, while Syrian forces had shelled the area shortly before the massacre, the details of exactly who carried out the attacks, how and why were still unclear … In Houla, and now in Qubair, the finger has been pointed at the shabiha, pro-government militia. But tragic death toll aside, the facts are few: it’s not clear who ordered the killings – or why” Jon Williams, ‘Reporting conflict in Syria’, BBC website, 7 June 2012 Maj Gen Robert Mood, cited, ‘Houla: How a massacre unfolded’, BBC website, 8 June 2012 In Syria, this is no plan for peace’, Guardian , 27 May 2012 “First, that the perpetrators were Shabbiha or other local militia from neighbouring villages, possibly operating together with, or with the acquiescence of, the Government security forces; second, that the perpetrators were anti-Government forces seeking to escalate the conflict while punishing those that failed to support – or who actively opposed – the rebellion; or third, foreign groups with unknown affiliation… With the available evidence, the CoI [Commission of Inquiry] could not rule out any of these possibilities” Oral Update of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, Human Rights Council Twentieth session Agenda item 4 Human, 26 June 2012  Page 10 “Western Officials say they are picking up new signs of activity at sites in Syria that are used to store chemical weapons. The officials are uncertain whether Syrian forces might be preparing to use the weapons in a last-ditch effort to save the government, or simply sending a warning to the West about the implications of providing more help to the Syrian rebels” Flow of Arms to Syria Through Iraq Persists, to U.S. Dismay By Michael R. Gordon Eric Schmitt and Tim Arango Dec. 1, 2012 NYT “that the [Syrian] regime is considering unleashing chemical weapons on opposition forces.” Matt Williams and Martin Chulov, ‘Barack Obama warns Syria of chemical weapons “consequences”’, Guardian, 3 December 2012 “Was there an element of political spin here to accompany NATO’s decision to deploy patriot missiles in Turkey? Sources contacted by the BBC say that there are indications of activity at certain chemical weapons storage sites. However it is of course impossible to determine if this is a preliminary to the weapons’ use or, as some analysts believe, much more likely, the movement of munitions to ensure their security. Indeed such movement has been noted in the past” Jonathan Marcus, ‘Fears grow for fate of Syria’s chemical weapons’, BBC website, 5 December 2012 United Nations Mission to Investigate Allegations of the Use of Chemical Weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic: Final report, 13 December 2013 Editorial, ‘Syria: chemical weapons with impunity’, Guardian , 22 August 2013 “Assad’s government gassed to death over a thousand people ...We know the Assad regime was responsible ... And that is why, after careful deliberation, I determined that it is in the national security interests of the United States to respond to the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons through a targeted military strike” Barack Obama, ‘President Obama’s Sept. 10 speech on Syria’, Washington Post , 10 September 2013 Suffocating Syria: Assad and Isis are poisoning a once-proud nation. Both must be dislodged’, The Times , 6 April 2012 Editorial, ‘The US strike against Assad was justified – now for the hard part’, Independent , 7 April 2017 “And we almost certainly know who did it. Every sign points to the regime of Bashar al-Assad” Jonathan Freedland, ‘Inaction over Syria has exacted a terrible price’, Guardian , 5 April 2017 John Simpson, ‘Barack Obama’s best years could still be ahead of him’, BBC website, 29 October 2014 Saddam Hussein’s alleged shredder’, Wikipedia Media Lens, ‘Disappearing genocide: The media and the death of Slobodan Milosevic’, 20 March 2006 “But what we do say is that the international community has an avowed responsibility to protect and that protection must be exerted. If that means confronting Russian air power defensively, on behalf of the innocent people on the ground who we are trying to protect, then we should do that.” Mitchell added that “you would certainly use Nato aircraft” to enforce the no-fly zone. “It’s not a declaration of war against Russia but it is an absolute declaration that we will seek to protect the innocent victims of these war crimes.”” Patrick Wintour, ‘West must confront Russia over Aleppo, emergency Commons debate to hear’, Guardian , 11 October 2016  (Andrew Mitchell UK MP) There is no other country that comes close to that record of belligerence; not the Americans, not the French, not even the Romans. These days, of course, we have not the slightest intention of invading or conquering anyone – not least after the unhappy experience of the Iraq war. All we want is to do our very considerable best to help keep the world safe; and our American friends are, of course, right to think that our defence budgets – like those around Europe – are under strain… But their role is much more important than that. As our American friends instinctively understand, it is the existence of strong and well-resourced British Armed Forces that gives this country the ability to express and affirm our values overseas: of freedom, democracy, tolerance, pluralism. “ Boris Johnson, ‘If we want to be taken seriously, we have to defend ourselves’, Telegraph , 16 February 2015 “As time has gone by, I am afraid I have become more and more cynical about the venture. It looks to me as though the Americans were motivated by a general strategic desire to control one of the biggest oil exporters in the world, as well as to remove Saddam, an unpleasant pest who had earlier attempted to murder the elder Bush. Blair went in fundamentally because he (rightly) thought it was in Britain’s long-term interest to be closely allied with America,” Boris Johnson, ‘Blair’s Iraq invasion was a tragic error, and he’s mad to deny it’, Telegraph , 15 June 2014 “Britain will support the Saudi-led assault on Yemeni rebels “in every practical way short of engaging in combat”, the Philip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, said on Friday.” Peter Foster and Almigdad Mojalli, ‘UK “will support Saudi-led assault on Yemeni rebels – but not engaging in combat”’, Telegraph , 27 March 2015 Jon Stone, ‘Britain is now the second biggest arms dealer in the world’, Independent , 7 September 2016 Graham-Harrison, ‘UK in denial over Saudi arms sales being used in Yemen, claims Oxfam’, Guardian , 23 August 2016 Samuel Osborne, ‘Saudi Arabia delaying aid to Yemen is “killing children”, warns Save the Children’, Independent , 1 March 2017 Amnesty International, ‘Yemen: Children among civilians killed and maimed in cluster bomb “minefields”’, 23 May 2016 Ben Kentish, ‘Saudi-led coalition in Yemen accused of “genocide” after airstrike on funeral hall kills 140’, Independent , 9 October 2016 “Apart from maintaining traditional links on military and intelligence cooperation, Mr Jubeir also said post-Brexit Britain could look forward to forging new trade links with the kingdom as Saudi Arabia embarks on its ambitious plan to restructure its economy under a plan called Saudi Vision 2030. ‘We are looking at more than $2 trillion worth of investment opportunities over the next decade, and this will take the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Britain to an entirely new level post-Brexit” Con Coughlin, ‘UK must keep supporting Yemen campaign to prevent terror in West, says Saudi foreign minister’, Telegraph , 6 September 2016 Louis Charbonneau and Michelle Nichols, ‘U.N. chief blasts Saudi pressure after Yemen coalition blacklisting’, Reuters, 19 June 2016 Yemen conflict: UN accuses Saudis of pressure over blacklist’, BBC News, 9 June 2016 Kayleigh Lewis, ‘UN “blackmailed” into removing Saudi Arabia from blacklist after just a week’, Independent , 9 June 2016 “Given a choice, do we really think that the suffering civilians of Sierra Leone would object to a military presence by the British?” David Aaronovitch, ‘It’s because we’re rich that we must impose peace for others’, Independent , 25 March 1999 “Is this cause, the cause of the Kosovar Albanians, a cause that is worth suffering for? ... Would I fight, or (more realistically) would I countenance the possibility that members of my family might die? …  I think so” David Aaronovitch, ‘My country needs me and the cause is worth fighting for’, Independent , 6 April 1999 “For a fair-minded progressive the call should not be Stop the War. That slogan is now irrelevant and harmful. The requirement is surely to win the peace ... So on Sunday, instead of listening to the same old tired stuff about cowboys with rockets and selective horror stories from Mazar; instead of marching along with mouth open and ears closed (however comforting that can be); instead of indulging yourself in a cosmic whinge, why not do something that might help the people of Afghanistan” David Aaronovitch, ‘Stop trying to stop the war, Start trying to win the peace’, Independent , 16 November 2001 “I want him out, for the sake of the region (and therefore, eventually, for our sakes), but most particularly for the sake of the Iraqi people who cannot lift this yoke on their own” David Aaronovitch, ‘Why the Left must tackle the crimes of Saddam: With or without a second UN resolution, I will not oppose action against Iraq’, Observer , 2 February 2003 David Aaronovitch, ‘Go for a no fly zone over Libya or regret it’, The Times , 24 February 2011 “I say we could arm the rebels so that they can defend themselves from the weapons supplied by the Russians. And I argue for safe havens inside Syrian territory for civilians and have to agree that this may well require military action to deal with Syrian air defences” ‘Remember Bosnia, seedbed of radical Islam; The people of Syria wonder why the West will not help’, The Times , 31 May 2012 “We must do everything short of putting boots on the ground to help the Kurds to defend themselves against Isis and similar groups” David Aaronovitch, ‘Forget the past. Iraqi Kurds need our help now; The 2003 invasion is irrelevant to what is happening in Mosul now. What matters is preventing the advance of Isis’, The Times, 12 June 2014 Editorial, ‘The Guardian view on famine: sitting by as disaster unfolds. Millions face starvation, but the world is turning away. We are too late to prevent this severe food crisis – but we can and must act now to save lives’, Guardian , 23 February 2017  BBC News, ‘Labour MP urges probe into Philip Hammond’s Yemen answers’, 29 July 2016 “Perhaps most crucially of all, Britain and the United States have provided Saudi Arabia with diplomatic cover. Last year [2015], Britain and the United States helped to block a Dutch initiative at the UN Human Rights Council for an independent investigation into violations of international humanitarian law” Ian Johnston, ‘Anger as Saudi Arabia blocks UN inquiry into “war crimes” in Yemen’, Independent , 1 October 2015 Patrick Wintour, ‘Saudi Arabia makes plea for Britain not to ban arms sales’, Guardian , 6 September 2016 Rowena Mason and Euan MacAskill, ‘Saudis dropped British-made cluster bombs in Yemen, Fallon tells Commons’, Guardian , 20 December 2016 Ewen MacAskill and Paul Torpey, ‘One in three Saudi air raids on Yemen hit civilian sites, data shows’, Guardian , 16 September 2016 Sir Roger Carr BAE Systems & BBC Nicholas Wilson, ‘Amber Rudd shuts down my speech about HSBC and Saudi Arabia’, YouTube, 4 June 2017; www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEcMW6RmC_w Rona Fairhead Glenn Greenwald, ‘Cowardly firing of Australian state-funded TV journalist highlights the West’s real religion’, The Intercept , 30 April 2015 Jenni Russell, ‘Could Newsnight’s editor really have acted alone on the Jimmy Savile story?’, Guardian website, 23 October 2012 (Ex BBC Editor) Francis Elliott, ‘Media Diary: Helen the hidden’, Independent website, 26 November 2006 Brian Wheeler, ‘Dyke in BBC “conspiracy” claim’, BBC website, 20 September 2009 Rowena Mason, ‘BBC may have shown bias against Corbyn, says former trust chair’, Guardian website, 12 May 2016 Mike Lynch Lord Patten of Barnes  ‘Scottish independence: Pension shortfall warning’  BBC News, 26 April 2013 ‘Scottish independence: Warning over “weakened military”’ BBC News, 22 April 2013 ‘Scottish independence: “Havoc” warning from pensions firm’BBC News, 14 March 2013 Scottish independence: Luxembourg warns against “going separate ways”’ BBC News, 2 December 2012 ‘Scottish independence: Barroso warning on EU membership’ BBC News, 10 December 2013 ‘Scottish independence: Michael Moore issues warning over vote question’ BBC News, 15 January 2013 ‘Scottish independence: “Border checks” warning from home secretary BBC News, 25 March 2012 Unverified Sources “Today we have to admit that we have no evidence that Gaddafi employed mercenary forces ... we have no sign nor evidence to corroborate these rumors”  Genevieve Garrigos, President of Amnesty International France “But to Jeremy Corbyn, the man who polls say will be the next Labour leader, Karl Marx is still a hero. He said yesterday: ‘We all owe something to him.’ Corbyn doesn’t want to take Labour back to its Bennite years in the 1980s. He wants to turn the clock back to 1917 and the Russian revolution” Marxed man,’ The Sun, July 27, 2015 Medical insurance for 500 BBC bosses’, Telegraph , 12 March 2012

This is a compilation video of Trump revealing the power of the Israel lobby, how Trump thinks it should control US government policy, the donor money he has taken from Adelson's, how the Adelson's came to the White house constantly asking him to give more to Israel, including moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and how he gave them the Israeli occupied Syrian Golan heights after 72 years. I also include the religious extremists in Netanyahus's government saying the new Trump administration could provide an opportunity to annex the West Bank and incoming US-Israel Ambassador Mike Huckabee's thoughts on the West Bank and Israel. Previous Video - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-example-of-a-politicians-hypocrisy-public-deceivery-bilderberg-mi6-bp-david-lammy-sunak Previous Interview - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/matthew-hoh-on-assange-wikileaks-smears-government-insight-part-1 Please feel free to comment if I have missed any links in the show notes. https://www.youtube.com/@truthovercomfort9162/videos   https://www.bitchute.com/channel/jc56qKZUGuFj/   https://rumble.com/user/TruthOverComfort https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/ Tik Tok @truthovercomfort https://www.tiktok.com/@truthovercomfort Twitter @truthovercomfo2 - https://twitter.com/truthovercomfo2 Instagram truthovercomfort30 - https://www.instagram.com/truthovercomfort30/ Show Notes First on CNN: Adelson to spend at least $45 million on 2016 races in boost for GOP Theodore Schleifer By Theodore Schleifer, CNN September 19, 2016 Sheldon Adelson is looking to give big dollars to Rubio because he feels he can mold him into his perfect little puppet. I agree! Twitter Oct 13, 2015 Donald Trump Israel America Council September 2024 - Minute 29:45 Trump’s new presidency presents an “important opportunity” to “apply Israeli sovereignty to the settlements in Judea and Samaria,” added Smotrich, who also serves as a minister in the Defense Ministry, referring to areas of the West Bank by their biblical names. “We were a step away from applying sovereignty to the settlements in Judea and Samaria, and now is the time to do it,” he said, adding: “The year 2025 will, with God’s help, be the year of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.” Smotrich says Trump’s victory an opportunity to ‘apply sovereignty’ in the West Bank New administration could allow Israel to advance annexation of settlements, claims far-right finance minister, says the groundwork is already being put into place By Sam Sokol 11 November 2024 Times of Israel Beit El’s Alon said Trump’s election heralded “a golden age for settlement” in the West Bank. “This is an unparalleled opportunity to act with great resolve in the Judea and Samaria region, to put an end to the murderous terrorism here, and to continue Israeli construction widely and extensively in all our territory,” declared Alon. “This is the time to apply sovereignty to Judea and Samaria and to recognize the region is part of the complete Israel,” he continued, adding, like Ganz, that “there will not be two states here between the sea and Jordan. Speaking in the Knesset, Ben Gvir rejoiced at Trump’s victory, and said it was now “the time for sovereignty, the time for total victory, the time here in the State of Israel to legislate a law for the death penalty for terrorists,” and many other laws which he opined Trump would not oppose. Two settlement leaders, Ben Gvir call to annex West Bank after Trump victory Yesha Council head, Beit El mayor say now is the time to apply Israeli sovereignty to disputed territory, expand settlements, push to end Biden’s sanctions on extremist settlers By Jeremy Sharon 6 November 2024 Times of Israel Convicted US spy Pollard arrives in Israel, welcomed by PM By JOSEF FEDERMAN AP December 30, 2020 Miriam Adelson gives $100 million to Trump campaign, making good on reported pledge Gift from the prolific pro-Israel donor is the largest among new batch of major spending disclosures, eclipses the $75 million that Elon Musk recently gave to a pro-Trump PAC By Asaf Elia-Shalev 17 October 2024 Times of Israel UN - UN General Assembly ADOPTS resolution on the Syrian Golan, demanding that Israel withdraw from all the occupied Syrian Golan to the line of 4 June 1967 in implementation of the relevant Security Council resolutions VOTING RESULT: In favor: 97 Against: 8 Abstain: 64 9:56 PM · Dec 3, 2024 CNN Jan 3, 2017 While visiting an Israeli settlement, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee stated that there is no such thing as a settlement, insisting instead that "they're communities, they're neighborhoods, they're cities." CNN Nov 13th 2024 'Israel Needs Me More Than Anyone': Trump Says US Jews Liable if He Loses to Harris | Dawn News EngMike Huckabee once said that ‘there’s really no such thing as a Palestinian’

On todays show with Matthew Hoh we discuss again Assange, Wikileaks, assassination plans, Trump, Pompeo, Assange's asylum, arrest, treatment in prison, his eventual plea deal and arrest. We also discuss the conflict of interests of the UK Judges, his treatment in prison, the UK police/government operation to get Assange out the Ecuador embassy (Operation Pelican) and the conspiring with the US government. Previous Video - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-example-of-a-politicians-hypocrisy-public-deceivery-bilderberg-mi6-bp-david-lammy-sunak Previous Interview - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/matthew-hoh-on-assange-wikileaks-smears-government-insight-part-1 Please feel free to comment if I have missed any links in the show notes. https://www.youtube.com/@truthovercomfort9162/videos   https://www.bitchute.com/channel/jc56qKZUGuFj/   https://rumble.com/user/TruthOverComfort https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/ Tik Tok @truthovercomfort https://www.tiktok.com/@truthovercomfort Twitter @truthovercomfo2 - https://twitter.com/truthovercomfo2 Instagram truthovercomfort30 - https://www.instagram.com/truthovercomfort30/ Show Notes Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks Zach Dorfman, Sean D. Naylor and Michael Isikoff September 26, 2021 Yahoo News Julian Assange: A man wanted by the US and 'the CIA wanted to take him hostage in London' .Image Quote,JULIA QUENZLER 27 September 2021 BBC Somalia Trump pardons Blackwater contractors jailed for massacre of Iraq civilians This article is more than 3 years old Four guards fired on unarmed crowd in Baghdad in 2007, killing 14 and sparking outrage over use of private security in war zones Michael Safi in Beirut and agencies Wed 23 Dec 2020 The Guardian At Israel’s request, Trump pardons Israeli handler of spy Jonathan Pollard Aviem Sella one of 73 people granted clemency; 70 have sentences commuted; list doesn't include Trump or family; several Jewish convicts pardoned, incl. Lakewood Ponzi schemer By ToI Staff 20 January 2021 Times of Israel Case No: AC-2022-LON-001745 and 1746 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE KING’S BENCH DIVISION DIVISIONAL COURT Royal Courts of Justice Strand Date: PRESIDENT OF THE KING’S BENCH DIVISION and MR JUSTICE JOHNSON Between: JULIAN PAUL ASSANGE - and - (1) GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (2) SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT 26 March 2024 Page 59 Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange by Kevin Gosztola Pompeo: Sources for Yahoo News WikiLeaks report 'should all be prosecuted' Michael Isikoff and Zach Dorfman September 30, 2021 Yahoo News British Court Assassination - Twitter Abu Omar - CIA Italy Extraordinary Renditioning The Power of Stupidity by Giancarlo Livragh Julian Assange will be granted asylum, says official Ecuador's president Rafael Correa has agreed to give the WikiLeaks founder asylum, according to an official in Quito Irene Caselli in Quito Tue 14 Aug 2012 Sigurdur Thordarson New Ecuador Government Takes Away Assange Asylum With Ecuador's Cooperation Bought By IMF Loans Washington Waxes Optimistic On Assange Extradition by Whitney Webb Mint Press March 6th 2019 Vault 7  CIA chief Pompeo: Wikileaks 'hostile intelligence service' Published 13 April 2017 BBC Julian Assange gets almost a year in UK prison for skipping bail Lauren Said-Moorhouse By Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Lauren Kent, CNN May 1, 2019 U.K. Judge Rejects Julian Assange's Bail Request, Citing Flight Risk January 6, 2021 NPR Julian Assange spent 5 years in a 2x3 meter cell, isolated 23 hours a day before his release on bail, WikiLeaks says Thibault Spirlet Jun 25, 2024 Business Insider Julian Assange's lawyer warns his life is 'at risk' if final UK appeal against extradition to US fails By Nick McLaren By Nick Rheinberger ABC Illawarra Wed 10 Jan 2024 Assange too ill to attend last-ditch court bid against extradition, lawyer says 20 February 2024 BBC Declassified UK Articles on Assange Judge Links to UK Establishment and Government Bradley Manning leak did not result in deaths by enemy forces, court hears This article is more than 11 years old Counter-intelligence officer who investigated WikiLeaks impact undermines argument that Manning leak put lives at risk Ed Pilkington at Fort Meade Wed 31 Jul 2013 The Guardian Assange deal undermines claims that leaks cause harm The Washington Post July 5th 2024 Wikileaks release threatens troops, says US military Published 22 October 2010 BBC Julian Assange Question for Cabinet Office UIN 89037, tabled on 16 November 2022 Julian Assange Question for Home Office UIN 136677, tabled on 8 March 2022 Julian Assange branded 'miserable little worm' by UK minister Sir Alan Duncan says it is 'great regret' WikiLeaks founder is still avoiding arrest in Ecuadorean embassy Samuel Osborne Tuesday 27 March 2018 The Independent In the Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister By Alan Duncan · 2021 Assange judge is 40-year ‘good friend’ of minister who orchestrated his arrest Julian Assange’s fate lies in the hands of an appeal judge who is a close friend of Sir Alan Duncan - the former foreign minister who called Assange a “miserable little worm” in parliament. MATT KENNARD and MARK CURTIS 2 December 2021 Declassified UK Edward Snowden Moscow Airport CIA ‘paid security firm to spy on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Ecuador’s embassy’ Graham Keeley, Madrid Friday September 27 2019 The Times ‘Colonialism never ended’: The elite British cabal propping up a Gulf dictatorship Some of the most senior figures in the British establishment have secretly served as ‘privy councillors’ to a highly repressive dictatorship in the Gulf state of Oman. The elite UK group has included heads of MI6 and the military, a foreign minister, an oil executive, the ex-governor of the Bank of England and one of Queen Elizabeth’s closest aides. PHIL MILLER 20 April 2021 Declassified UK Craig Murray Allegations of UK Complicity in Torture - Human Rights Joint Committee Contents Memorandum submitted by Craig Murray August 4th 2009 Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP meetings, July to September 2020 Updated 4 February 2021 This article is more than 7 years old UK prosecutors admit destroying key emails in Julian Assange case This article is more than 7 years old Correspondence between CPS and its Swedish counterparts about WikiLeaks founder deleted after lawyer retired in 2014 Ewen MacAskill and Owen Bowcott Fri 10 Nov 2017 The Guardian Censored: Keir Starmer’s emails about Israeli war crimes case The Crown Prosecution Service is refusing to release files on how Starmer blocked the arrest of former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni over alleged war crimes during the brutal bombing of Gaza in 2008. JOHN McEVOY 25 March 2024 Declassified UK Keir Starmer was not told about dropping of Jimmy Savile case, say sources This article is more than 10 months old Labour leader was unaware a prosecutor had closed case in 2009 despite being head of CPS, it has emerged How leading the CPS changed Starmer – while he changed it Kiran Stacey Political correspondent Thu 21 Dec 2023 The Guardian UN expert on torture sounds alarm again that Julian Assange’s lifemay be at risk 01 November 2019 UN UK police arrest journalist Richard Medhurst under ‘Terrorism Act’ Medhurst, a strong critic of Israel, was arrested and detained for 24 hours at Heathrow Airport in London News Desk AUG 20, 2024 The Cradle UK police raid home, seize devices of EI’s Asa Winstanley Ali Abunimah From the Editors 17 October 2024 Electronic Intifada

On todays show with Matthew Hoh we discuss Assange, Wikileaks, Media Smears, Government Insight through information releases and more. This will be followed up in a part two interview about the corruption of the case, his arrest, imprisonment, release, conflicts of interest and multi-national government collusion and conspiracy. Previous Video - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-example-of-a-politicians-hypocrisy-public-deceivery-bilderberg-mi6-bp-david-lammy-sunak Previous Interview - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/james-corbett-on-911-war-games-insider-trading-aq-links-more-questions Please feel free to comment if I have missed any links in the show notes. https://www.youtube.com/@truthovercomfort9162/videos   https://www.bitchute.com/channel/jc56qKZUGuFj/   https://rumble.com/user/TruthOverComfort https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/ Tik Tok @truthovercomfort https://www.tiktok.com/@truthovercomfort Twitter @truthovercomfo2 - https://twitter.com/truthovercomfo2 Instagram truthovercomfort30 - https://www.instagram.com/truthovercomfort30/ Show Notes Guantanamo Bay Files Wiki Leaks Collateral Murder April 5th 2010 Wiki Leaks Afghan War Logs Twitter Banned Me I was banned after publishing the JD Vance Dossier Ken Klippenstein Sep 26, 2024 Substack Audio Reveals What John Kerry Told Syrians Behind Closed Doors By ANNE BARNARD SEPT. 30, 2016 NYT Row between Wikileaks and Guardian over security breach Julian Assange told the Guardian that the password for the files was temporary, says the paper 1 September 2011 WikiLeaks Founder Charged in Computer Hacking Conspiracy Thursday, April 11, 2019 Clinton Calls Assange Tool Of Russian Intelligence Politico 16th October 2017 Julian Assange: Sweden drops rape investigation 19 November 2019 BBC MPs call for inquiry into role of CPS in Assange case The Australian-born journalist is being held in Belmarsh prison in London as he fights being extradited to the United States. Alan Jones Thursday 16 May 2024 The Independent Wikileaks Spy Files Russia 2017 Propaganda Blitz: How the Corporate Media Distort Reality Paperback – 20 Sept. 2018 by David Cromwell Edwards & David Cromwell Iraq war logs: US turned over captives to Iraqi torture squads This article is more than 14 years old Nick Clegg calls for answers to 'extremely serious' abuse reports, but says it is up to US to answer for its own forces David Leigh and Maggie O'Kane Sun 24 Oct 2010 The Guardian WikiLeaks: Afghan vice-president 'landed in Dubai with $52m in cash' This article is more than 13 years old Ambassador in Kabul reports pervasive 'wealth extraction' by establishment and apparent powerlessness of US to stop it Jonathan Steele and Jon Boone Thu 2 Dec 2010 The Guardian Julian Assange at Parliamentary Assembly hearing, ahead of a plenary debate on his case: 'I pleaded guilty to journalism' Parliamentary Assembly session Strasbourg 1 October 2024 WikiLeaks: Egyptian 'torturers' trained by FBI The US provided officers from the Egyptian secret police with training at the FBI, despite allegations that they routinely tortured detainees and suppressed political opposition. By Steven Swinford 09 February 2011 The Telegraph See last item - AQ is on our side in Syria" UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05789138 Date: 10/30/2015  - Wiki Leaks Leak: US diplomats push plane sales The US government plays an active role in marketing and selling locally made Boeing planes, new WikiLeaks cables reveal 25th Feb 2011 Aljazeera

911 can be a touchy subject, you may be like me and not have a consolidated view, are undecided, have questions, or you may feel the likelihood of an inside job is low, nevertheless, the day remains to have many strange phenomenons and questions. The official line the Bush administration could not see an attack like this coming, is a clear lie, no matter your overall view of 911 Truth, shown by the governments documents and words themselves. Whatever you may think, this interview should provide information you may have not been aware of, and all though we did not cover everything, it will provide a starting point to follow the links discussed. Whatever your view, there is no hiding from previous administrations working with terrorists, bin laden, Al-qaeda in previous conflicts to achieve geopolitical goals, which led to their rise and these attacks, if you believe the official story In this interview I had James on the 4th time, this time to discuss the 911 attacks. We discuss the lies that the Bush administration could could never have imagined an attack like this, proven by the many pre 911 war Games with similar scenarios, including one specifically with Bin Laden's face on the first page. We also discuss the many war games on the day of 911, that confused the response shown by the NORAD tapes released by Vanity Fair and whether the war games were coincidence or intentional. On top of this, we spoke about the investigations into 911 insider trading, of investors appearing to have foreknowledge of the attacks, shown by the activity of trades with airlines and other companies in the days coming up to 911. We discussed the explosions reports in the towers, building 7, the pentagon, Pennsylvania, AQ Links and other general questions. I highly recommend watching all of James documentaries and others listed below. Previous Video - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-example-of-a-politicians-hypocrisy-public-deceivery-bilderberg-mi6-bp-david-lammy-sunak Previous Interview - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/dave-decamp-ukraine-korea-russia-china-israel Please feel free to comment if I have missed any links in the show notes. https://www.youtube.com/@truthovercomfort9162/videos   https://www.bitchute.com/channel/jc56qKZUGuFj/   https://rumble.com/user/TruthOverComfort https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/ Tik Tok @truthovercomfort https://www.tiktok.com/@truthovercomfort Twitter @truthovercomfo2 - https://twitter.com/truthovercomfo2 Instagram truthovercomfort30 - https://www.instagram.com/truthovercomfort30/ James Corbett Links The Corbett Report Documentaries False Flags: The Secret History of Al Qaeda 911 Trillions Follow The Money 911 War Games 911 Suspects 911 Whistleblowers Show Notes 911 Commission 2 decades after 9/11, the men accused of orchestrating the attacks still await trial Politics Sep 9, 2022 PBS Episode 428 – Torturing the Truth by Corbett | Oct 10, 2022 2005 CIA interrogation videotapes destruction 911 Commission KSM Planes Operation  - Page 153 Pentagon Hit 911 Security Footage Amalgam Virgo is an annual NORAD field training exercise, meaning that real aircraft are deployed and actual personnel are used to “simulate” real-life situations. Planning Document , featured a picture of Osama Bin Laden surrounded by airplanes - Page 1 “Vigilant Guardian ” is an annual command post exercise involving all levels of NORAD command. Vigilant Guardian 01 was a week-long war Exercise  described as a “simulated air war,” and, just two days before 9/11, it had involved a simulated terrorist hijacking of a civilian passenger jet by terrorists intending to blow the plane up with explosives over New York City" 9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes How did the U.S. Air Force respond on 9/11? Could it have shot down United 93, as conspiracy theorists claim? Obtaining 30 hours of never-before-released tapes from the control room of NORAD's Northeast head-quarters, the author reconstructs the chaotic military history of that day—and the Pentagon's apparent attempt to cover it up Vanity Fair By Michael Bronner October 17, 2006 Radar Blips 9:30 AM" UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: You know what, let’s get rid of this goddamn sim. Turn your sim switches off. Let’s get rid of that crap." RM1_DAT2_Channel2_MCC_Op [ TRANSCRIPT , Page 30] (False radar injections still on) Cheney Gave Order to Shoot Down Jets By Esther Schrader June 18, 2004  LA Times Agency planned exercise on Sept. 11 built around a plane crashing into a building By John J. Lumpkin, Associated Press Boston “CAPT. BRIAN NAGEL: Sim…or, sorry, northeast weapons. CAPT. TAYLOR: Hello, this is Captain Taylor calling from Cheyenne Mountain test control. NAGEL: Yes. TAYLOR: What we need you to do right now is to terminate all exercise inputs coming into Cheyenne Mountain. NAGEL: Yes. Can you call 6180 extension for that, please? TAYLOR: 6180? NAGEL: You bet, he’ll give you that. TAYLOR: I’ll do that. NAGEL: OK, thank you. SOURCE: DRM2_DAT1_Channel_20_SD2_TK.zip  [ TRANSCRIPT]” MAJ. GEN. LARRY ARNOLD: We were in the process of launching aircraft all over the country during that timeframe. We had multiple aircraft called hijacked all over the country. SOURCE: September 11 Commission Hearing, June 17, 2004 GEN. MYERS: In fact, as General Arnold said, we fought many phantoms that day. […] We got many aircraft calls inbound that morning that turned out to be phantoms. SOURCE: September 11 Commission Hearing, June 17, 2004 SGT. ZUBON: You guys watching the news? NEADS TECHNICIAN: Yeah, they’ve got it on in the battlecab right now. ZUBON: Oh, do they? NEADS: Yeah. ZUBON: Yeah, I’ve been watching it for about ten minutes, and I said “I wonder if they’re—did they suspend the exercise?” NEADS: Not at this time, no. ZUBON: Not yet? NEADS: But I think they’re going to. I don’t know. (Laughing). ZUBON: Yeah, I would imagine. NEADS: Things look pretty horrific out there. SOURCE: 0915 Not at this time UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: You know what, let’s get rid of this goddamn sim. Turn your sim switches off. Let’s get rid of that crap. SOURCE: RM1_DAT2_Channel2_MCC_Op   [TRANSCRIPT] MALE SPEAKER: Right. I understand that. I’m talking about— I think there’s somebody training up in the Falcon Acts area right now. BACKGROUND MALE: No. BACKGROUND MALE: Falcon. Stand by. Let me— MALE SPEAKER: Just in general anybody that’s training. BACKGROUND MALE: Anybody in training, send them home? Missions are Falcon send them home? BACKGROUND MALE: Right. BACKGROUND MALE: Yeah, go ahead and send them home. MALE SPEAKER: OK, fine. SOURCE: RM1_DAT2_Channel2_MCC_Op   [TRANSCRIPT] NORAD Tapes Reveal Sept. 11 Chaos August 4, 2006 NPR ala Donald Rumsfeld Tower 7 Denial We Are Change Final Report on the Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7, Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1A) Published November 20, 2008 Architects & Engineers For 911 Truth A Structural Reevaluation of the Collapse of World Trade Center 7 Project Info Lead Researcher(s) J. Leroy Hulsey March 2020 118 Witnesses: The Firefighter’s Testimony to Explosions in the Twin Towers by Graeme MacQueen August 2006 William Rodriquez Allen M. Poteshman University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Unusual Option Market Activity and the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 Probes into 'suspicious' trading CNN September 24, 2001    “Highly publicized allegations of insider trading in advance of 9/11 generally rest on reports of unusual pre-9/11 trading activity in companies whose stock plummeted after the attacks. Some unusual trading did in fact occur, but each such trade proved to have an innocuous explanation. For example, the volume of put options — investments that pay off only when a stock drops in price — surged in the parent companies of United Airlines on September 6 and American Airlines on September 10 — highly suspicious trading on its face. Yet, further investigation has revealed that the trading had no connection with 9/11. A single U.S.-based institutional investor with no conceivable ties to al Qaeda purchased 95 percent of the UAL puts on September 6 as part of a trading strategy that also included buying 115,000 shares of American on September” 911 Commission  Page 499 Wiki 911 Advanced Knowledge ANTONIO MORA: “What many Wall Street analysts believe is that the terrorists made bets that a number of stocks would see their prices fall. They did so by buying what they call ‘puts.’ If you bet right the rewards can be huge. The risks are also huge unless you know something bad is going to happen to the company you’re betting against. DYLAN RATIGAN: This could very well be insider trading at the worst, most horrific, most evil use you’ve ever seen in your entire life. ANTONIO MORA: One example, United Airlines. The Thursday before the attack more than two thousand contracts betting that the stock would go down were purchased. Ninety times more in one day than in three weeks. When the markets reopened, United’s stock dropped, the price of the contracts soared, and someone may have made a lot of money, fast. DYLAN RATIGAN: $180,000 turns into $2.4 million when that plane hits the World Trade Center. ANTONIO MORA: It’s almost the same story with American Airlines. DYLAN RATIGAN: That’s a fivefold increase in the value of what was a $337,000 trade on Monday (September 10, 2001). ANTONIO MORA: All of a sudden becomes what? DYLAN RATIGAN: $1.8 million. ANTONIO MORA: And there’s much more, including an extraordinarily high number of bets against Morgan Stanley and Marsh & McLennan, two of the World Trade Center’s biggest tenants. Could this be a coincidence? DYLAN RATIGAN: This would be one of the most extraordinary coincidences in the history of mankind if it was a coincidence.” (SOURCE: 9/11 Wall Street Blames Put Option Inside Trading On Terrorists   ANTONIO MORA: ABC News has now learned that the Chicago Board of Options Exchange launched their investigation into the unusual trading last week. That may have given them enough time to stop anyone from profiting from death here in the U.S. It may also give investigators, Peter, a “hot trail” that might lead them to the terrorists. PETER JENNINGS: Thanks very much. As a reminder of the complications here, the Secretary of the Treasury said here today of this investigation, “You’ve got to go through ten veils before you can get to the real source.” ANTONIO MORA: Yeah. PETER JENNINGS: Thanks, Antonio. (SOURCE: 9/11 Wall Street Blames Put Option Inside Trading On Terrorists ) “What we found makes us sure that people connected to the terrorists must have been trying to profit from this tragedy,'' he told European finance ministers and central bankers” September 24, 2001 MARKET IMPACT `Insider trading' by terrorists is suspected in Europe BY WILLIAM DROZDIAK   Washington Post Service, Miami Herald   “Further details of the futures trades that netted such huge gains in the wake of the hijackings have been disclosed. To the embarrassment of investigators, it has also emerged that the firm used to buy many of the "put" options – where a trader, in effect, bets on a share price fall – on United Airlines stock was headed until 1998 by "Buzzy" Krongard, now executive director of the CIA. Until 1997, Mr Krongard was chairman of Alex Brown Inc, America's oldest investment banking firm. Alex Brown was acquired by Bankers Trust, which in turn was bought by Deutsche Bank. His last post before resigning to take his senior role in the CIA was to head Bankers Trust – Alex Brown's private client business, dealing with the accounts and investments of wealthy customers around the world.” Mystery of terror 'insider dealers'   Chris Blackhurst Sunday 14 October 2001 The Independent   Robert Baer We Are Change   Rumsfeld 2.3 Trillion Missing September 10th 2001 Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil by Michael Ruppert Continuity of government Ptech Indira Singh 911 Citizen Testimony   Yassin Kadi Indira Singh on Yassin Kadi  and Ptech Gov clients  Bush & Cheney, Behind Closed Doors By Joel Roberts April 28, 2004 CBS Were Israelis Detained on Sept. 11 Spies? ByABC News January 6, 2006 “Dekkers says that both Atta and al Shehhi never displayed any behaviors that would have labeled them as terrorists. At one point, he says, the two men were on the verge of being kicked out of the school because they did not appear to be taking their training seriously and were too busy fooling around and not listening to their instructors. They had to be warned, and went on to become average students, Dekkers said.” American who trained al Qaeda pilots still wonders, 'Why me?' By Rich Phillips, CNN Senior Producer May 4, 2011 CNN

In this interview me and Jeremy discuss if Israel is a racist state. We discuss Israeli law, settlements, settlers, government language and more. Previous Video - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-example-of-a-politicians-hypocrisy-public-deceivery-bilderberg-mi6-bp-david-lammy-sunak Previous Interview - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/dave-decamp-ukraine-korea-russia-china-israel Please feel free to comment if I have missed any links in the show notes. https://www.youtube.com/@truthovercomfort9162/videos https://www.bitchute.com/channel/jc56qKZUGuFj/ https://rumble.com/user/TruthOverComfort https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/ Tik Tok @truthovercomfort https://www.tiktok.com/@truthovercomfort Twitter @truthovercomfo2 - https://twitter.com/truthovercomfo2 Instagram truthovercomfort30 - https://www.instagram.com/truthovercomfort30/ Jeremy Hammond Links Jeremy Hammond Books Website - https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/ Show Notes The United Nations Created Israel  Mandate for Palestine League of Nations Israel Nation State Law 2018 UN top court says Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal   19th July 2024 BBC East Jerusalem   Judea and Samaria ‘These are biblical lands promised to us’: Jewish settlers in West Bank hope Gaza conflict will help their cause Jason Burke in south Hebron hills, West Bank Sat 18 Nov 2023 Temple Mount Movement Human Rights Council Hears that 700,000 Israeli Settlers are Living Illegally in the Occupied West Bank – Meeting Summary (Excerpts) UN Status of Jerusalem Movement and Access in the West Bank | August 2023 UN Bezalel Smotrich ‘Bordering on anarchy’: IDF chief sounds alarm after right-wing mob overruns 2nd base Removed from Sde Teiman facility, activists storm Beit Lid base, where soldiers suspected of abusing Gazan are held; ministers and coalition MKs fuel and join hours of protests By Emanuel Fabian July 2024 Times Of Israel Far-right Israeli minister says he would build synagogue at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque Israel's far-right national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir said Monday that he would build a synagogue at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, a holy site in Islam also held sacred by Jews as the Temple Mount. Ben Gvir, who has repeatedly ignored the government's long-standing ban on Jews praying at the site, filmed a video statement during a recent visit to the compound in which he reiterated his opposition to any ceasefire in the Gaza war 26/08/2024 France 24 Armenian Christians under siege by Israel 11th April 2024 The Grayzone Israelis Blocking Aid Convoys  - Clip This article is more than 4 months old Israel to reopen Erez crossing into Gaza after Biden sounds warning over protecting civilians Fri 5 Apr 2024 The Guardian Israeli soldiers are filming themselves mocking Palestinians | Al Jazeera 18th Jan 2024  - Video Israel troops continue posting abuse footage despite pledge to act 17 May 2024 BBC   Photos, videos of IDF soldiers playing with Gazan women’s lingerie go viral Military says breaches of orders and IDF code of conduct are dealt with, but does not say whether soldiers in viral posts with hundreds of thousands of views have been disciplined By Reuters 29 March 2024 Times of Israel  ‘Our hearts burn’: Gaza’s olive farmers say Israel war destroys harvest By Linah Alsaafin and Ruwaida Amer Al-jazeera On 6 Nov 2023 6 Nov 2023  Trump Israel Lobby

Dave Decamp returns to the show for the 4th time, this time to discuss the developments in Asia. We discuss Ukraine's invasion of the the Kursk region of Russia, provocative actions against China, through regional alliances/exercises, Russia's growing alliance with North Korea, tensions with South Korea/US and Israel. Previous Video - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-example-of-a-politicians-hypocrisy-public-deceivery-bilderberg-mi6-bp-david-lammy-sunak Previous Interview - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/connor-freeman-how-israel-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas Please feel free to comment if I have missed any links in the show notes. https://www.youtube.com/@truthovercomfort9162/videos   https://www.bitchute.com/channel/jc56qKZUGuFj/   https://rumble.com/user/TruthOverComfort https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/ Tik Tok @truthovercomfort https://www.tiktok.com/@truthovercomfort Twitter @truthovercomfo2 - https://twitter.com/truthovercomfo2     Instagram truthovercomfort30 -   https://www.instagram.com/truthovercomfort30/   Daves Links https://www.youtube.com/@antiwarnews/videos   AntiWar.com   https://twitter.com/DecampDave   https://original.antiwar.com/author/Dave_DeCamp/   Show Notes Praying for Armageddon - Al-Jazeera Documentary 19th March 2024 Dave Decamp Christians Early stages of Ukrainian counteroffensive ‘not meeting expectations,’ Western officials tell CNN Jim Sciutto By Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent June 23, 2023   NYET MEANS NYET: RUSSIA'S NATO ENLARGEMENT REDLINES Date:2008 February 1 WIKI Leaks  - Tweet Bennett Speaks Out   240:33-2:43;03 Zelensky's Life, War Broke out because not NATO Wish Renouncing Concessions (Territorial and Ukraine defense guantreas were an issue too) 2:55:20-257:25 Different leaders have different perspectives 259:28-302:34 the west curbed a ceasefire for wrong or right in his mind South Korea and US begin largest war games in years amid North threats Protesters stage a rally to oppose the joint military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea in front of the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 22, 2022. By Euronews with AP • Updated: 22/08/2022   North Korea fired more than 100 artillery rounds - South military Reuters November 2, 2022 Reuters   A US nuclear-powered sub arrives in South Korea, a day after North Korea resumes its missile tests BY HYUNG-JIN KIM AND KIM TONG-HYUNG Published 4:51 AM BST, June 16, 2023 AP   US drone strike ordered by Trump kills top Iranian commander in Baghdad Zachary Cohen Hamdi Alkhshali Angela Dewan By Zachary Cohen, Hamdi Alkhshali, Kareem Khadder and Angela Dewan, CNN Sat January 4, 2020   February 15, 2023 State Department vows US will defend Philippines if necessary after China ship blinds crew with military laser Fox News Joe Biden again says US forces would defend Taiwan from Chinese attack 19 Sep 2022 The Guardian Ukraine's surprise advance into Russia a dilemma for Biden ally Tom Bateman State Department correspondent 15 August 2024 BBC British Challenger 2 tanks have been used inside Russia by Ukrainian troops, Sky News understands By Deborah Haynes, Security and Defence Editors Thursday 15 August 2024  “NATO allies don’t harbor reservations on the incursion, though consider it unlikely that Ukrainian forces will be able to hold Russian territory — even if it takes weeks for Moscow to force them out of Kursk, the official said. The action is at least crucial to show that Kyiv can challenge the Kremlin, according to a NATO official familiar with briefings on the Kursk action” Ukraine Plotted Incursion to Throw Kremlin Off Balance By Alex Wickham, Andrea Palasciano, and Andra Timu August 13, 2024  "THE PRESIDENT: I’ve spoken with my staff on a regular basis probably every four or five hours for the last six or eight days. And it’s — it’s creating a real dilemma for Putin. And we’ve been in direct contact — constant contact with — with the Ukrainians." August 13, 2024 Remarks by President Biden After Air Force One Arrival | Kenner, LA “There should be no Russian who goes to sleep without wondering if they’re going to get their throat slit in the middle of the night... You gotta get back there, and create a campaign behind the lines” Ukraine’s window of opportunity is closing   by Jonathan Sweet and Mark Toth, Opinion Contributors 12/07/23 The Hill “In my mind, and all of my friends, this money doesn’t help Ukraine,” he said. “Our country has too much corruption. “The new money will just prolong the war, and civilians and the military are tired. People want peace and negotiations. Not the continuation of the conflict,” he added.” Frontline Ukrainians Fear New Aid From U.S. Will Be a Disaster MAKE IT STOP   Anna Conkling Apr. 25, 2024 The Daily Beast “But what did Trump do to get the weapons flowing? He created a loan system. They're sitting on 10 to $12 trillion of critical minerals in- in Ukraine. They could be the richest country in all of Europe. I don't want to give that money and those assets to Putin to share with China. If we help Ukraine now, they can become the best business partner we ever dreamed of, that 10 to $12 trillion of critical mineral assets could be used by Ukraine and the West, not given to Putin and China. This is a very big deal how Ukraine ends. Let's help them win a war we can't afford to lose. Let's find a solution to this war. But they're sitting on a gold mine. To give Putin 10 or $12 trillion for critical minerals that he will share with China is ridiculous” Transcript: Sen. Lindsey Graham on "Face the Nation," June 9, 2024 CBS  - Youtube Concerns mount as Russia and North Korea commit to a mutual defense pact June 20, 2024 NPR North Korea drops trash balloons on the South 29 May 2024  BBC Donald Trump uses sanctions more keenly than any of his predecessors The Economist Nov 24th 2019 Analysis | Trump Is Desperate for Miriam Adelson's Cash. What Will She Expect in Return? The former president and convicted felon is holding a fire sale on future presidential authority. Miriam Adelson wants to be his biggest donor, but in return she wants Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank Nettanel Slyomovics Jun 3, 2024 “In addition, unfettered delivery and distribution of aid is needed. We expressed our support for the defense of Israel against Iranian aggression and against attacks by Iran-backed terrorist groups. We called on Iran to stand down its ongoing threats of a military attack against Israel and discussed the serious consequences for regional security should such an attack take place.” Joint Statement from the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Italy on the Middle East Joint Statement from the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Italy on the Middle East From: Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street and The Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer KCB KC MP 12 August 2024 Iran warned its allies 72 hours before attack, foreign minister says DPA April 14, 2024 Yahoo News Japan and US upgrade military ties citing threat from China as ‘greatest strategic challenge’ US defence secretary says China is 'engaging in coercive behaviour, trying to change the status quo in the East and South China Seas’ Guardian staff and agencies Mon 29 Jul 2024 U.S. sends $500 million in defense funding to Philippines amid concern over China By — Jim Gomez, Associated Press   By — Matthew Lee, Associated Press   Politics Jul 30, 2024 PBS US, Japan, Australia and the Philippines to stage military drills in disputed South China Sea By  JIM GOMEZ AP April 6, 2024 2nd Thomas Shoals   U.S. would defeat China in a war over Taiwan, Joints Chiefs head says By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times - Monday, July 22, 2024 Over 80% of Taiwanese favor maintaining status quo with China: survey 02/23/2024 Julian Assange pleads guilty in court on US Pacific island Jonathan Head BBC News 25 June 2024 Aukus pact will turn Australia into ‘51st state’ of the US, Paul Keating says Former prime minister argues Australia has made itself a target by aligning with American ‘aggression’ towards China Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Martin Farrer and Daniel Hurst Thu 8 Aug 2024 The Guardian

Todays guest Connor Freeman explains how Israel and Netanyahu governments propped up Hamas, through Qatari money, in order to split the West Bank from Gaza and prevent a Palestinian state. As crazy as this sounds, it is an open secret and openly discussed in Israeli/US media before and after October 7th. Previous Video - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-example-of-a-politicians-hypocrisy-public-deceivery-bilderberg-mi6-bp-david-lammy-sunak Previous Interview - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/matthew-hoh-the-us-obsession-with-iran Please feel free to comment if I have missed any links in the show notes. https://www.youtube.com/@truthovercomfort9162/videos   https://www.bitchute.com/channel/jc56qKZUGuFj/   https://rumble.com/user/TruthOverComfort https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/ Tik Tok @truthovercomfort https://www.tiktok.com/@truthovercomfort Twitter @truthovercomfo2 - https://twitter.com/truthovercomfo2     Instagram truthovercomfort30 -   https://www.instagram.com/truthovercomfort30/   Connors Links Conflicts Of Interest Twitter - https://x.com/FreemansMind96 https://libertarianinstitute.org/   https://antiwar.com/   Show Notes October 26, 2023 Netanyahu’s Support for Hamas Backfired Connor Freeman and Scott Horton Antiwar.com "People on the right said similar things. One of the mantras being repeated was that of newly elected MK Bezalel Smotrich, who in 2015 told the Knesset Channel that “Hamas is an asset and Abu Mazen is a burden,” referring to Abbas by his nom de guerre. In April 2019, Jonatan Urich, one of Netanyahu’s media advisers and a Likud spokesman, told Makor Rishon that one of Netanyahu’s achievements was separating Gaza (both politically and conceptually) from the West Bank. Netanyahu “basically smashed the vision of the Palestinian state in these two places,” he boasted. “Some of the achievement is related to the Qatari money reaching Hamas each month.” A Brief History of the Netanyahu-Hamas Alliance For 14 years, Netanyahu's policy was to keep Hamas in power; the pogrom of October 7, 2023, helps the Israeli prime minister preserve his own rule Ada Raz Oct 20, 2023 Haaretz ZeroHedge debate on Israel/Gaza with Cenk Uygur, Dave Smith, Dennis Prager and Batya Ungar-Sargon 17th April 2024 For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces The premier's policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from By Tal Schneider 8 October 2023 Times Of Israel Israel gave major to aid to Hamas By Richard Sale Feb. 24, 2001 UPI Analysis: Hamas history tied to Israel By Richard Sale June 18, 2002 UPI US-trained Palestinian security forces now key to peace by Seth J. Frantzman, opinion contributor - 03/30/18 The Hill UK spends millions training security forces to control Palestinians in West Bank and Lebanon British aid projects supporting Palestinian security forces appear to be as much about helping to stop threats to Israel, the occupying power, as they are about enhancing Palestinian state-building. MATT KENNARD, MARK CURTIS and PHIL MILLER 20 May 2021 Declassified UK UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)Palestinian Security Sector Capability Accountability Sustainability and Inclusivity Programme in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Gaza Strip | The humanitarian impact of 15 years of the blockade - June 2022 UNICEF What to Know About the Arab Citizens of Israel WRITTEN BY Kali Robinson March 9, 2023 CFR 15 years of blockade and health in Gaza (July 2022) Format News and Press Release Sources Health Cluster WHO Posted 9 Oct 2022 US plotted to overthrow Hamas after election victory Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington Tue 4 Mar 2008 The Guardian “The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process. And when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and you prevent a discussion on the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem. Effectively, this whole package called the Palestinian state, with all that it entails, has been removed indefinitely from our agenda. And all this with authority and permission. All with a presidential blessing and the ratification of both houses of Congress. The disengagement is actually formaldehyde. It supplies the amount of formaldehyde that is necessary so there will not be a political process with the Palestinians. The disengagement plan makes it possible for Israel to park conveniently in an interim situation that distances us as far as possible from political pressure. It legitimizes our contention that there is no negotiating with the Palestinians. And we educated the world to understand that there is no one to talk to. And we received a no-one-to-talk-to certificate. That certificate says: (1) There is no one to talk to. (2) As long as there is no one to talk to, the geographic status quo remains intact. (3) The certificate will be revoked only when this-and-this happens – when Palestine becomes Finland. (4) See you then, and shalom.” Top PM Aide: Gaza Plan Aims to Freeze the Peace Process "The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process," Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's senior adviser Dov Weisglass has told Haaretz, Oct 6, 2004 Haaretz Exclusive | 2,279 Calories per Person: How Israel Made Sure Gaza Didn't Starve State forced to release 'red lines' document for food consumption in the coastal Strip following legal battle; official: state has right to determine who it assists. Amira Hass Follow Oct 17, 2012   As the Hamas Team Laughs from Gideon Levy Feb 19, 2006 Haaretz Operation Cast Lead “Although not necessarily reflecting a GOI consensus view, Yadlin said Israel would be "happy" if Hamas took over Gaza because the IDF could then deal with Gaza as a hostile state. He dismissed the significance of an Iranian role in a Hamas-controlled Gaza "as long as they don't have a port."” Military Intelligence Director Yadlin Comments On Gaza, Syria And Lebanon 2007 June 13  - From: Israel Tel Aviv To: Group Destinations Arab Israeli Collective | National Security Council | Secretary of State | United States European Command “Israeli and international media have reported that Netanyahu’s plan to continue allowing aid to reach Gaza through Qatar was in the hope that it might make Hamas an effective counterweight to the PA and prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. PA officials said at the time the cash transfers encouraged division between Palestinian factions… Shlomo Brom, a former deputy to Israel’s national security adviser, told the New York Times that an empowered Hamas helped Netanyahu avoid negotiating over a Palestinian state, saying the division of the Palestinians helped him make the case that he had no partner for peace in the Palestinians, thus avoiding pressure for peace talks that could lead to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.” Qatar sent millions to Gaza for years – with Israel’s backing. Here’s what we know about the controversial deal By Nima Elbagir, Barbara Arvanitidis, Alex Platt, Raja Razek, Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN and Uri Blau, Shomrim December 12, 2023 https://www.timesofisrael.com/mossad-chief-top-general-visited-qatar-begged-it-to-pay-hamas-liberman-says/ “Then-U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin, who was in charge of finance for the campaign to reelect Donald Trump and who is Jewish, agreed to a request from Netanyahu and sent an additional letter to Doha, this time from Washington, in effect, ensuring Qatar that the funding of Hamas would not be considered funding terror” Top Secret: In a 2018 letter, Netanyahu asks Qatar to fund Hamas In letter seen by handful of people, PM urges Doha to deliver $30 million to Gaza monthly, claiming funding Hamas would preserve regional stability and avert humanitarian crisis Nir (Shoko) Cohen Ynetnews 05.05.24 Israel has approved ‘largest West Bank land grab in 30 years’, watchdog says Peace Now says approval of more than 12 sq km is biggest since peace process began in 1993 Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem and Peter Beaumont in London Thu 4 Jul 2024  Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago A blueprint reviewed by The Times laid out the attack in detail. Israeli officials dismissed it as aspirational and ignored specific warnings NYT By Ronen Bergman and Adam Goldman Reporting from Tel Aviv Nov. 30, 2023 Buying Quiet’: Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gambled that a strong Hamas (but not too strong) would keep the peace and reduce pressure for a Palestinian statecBy Mark Mazzetti and Ronen Bergman Reporting from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem NYT Dec. 10, 2023 Mowing The Grass “Israeli authorities approve plan to “legalize” five settlement outposts unauthorized under Israeli law; settlers from those outposts have carried out 27 attacks against Palestinians in 2024.   Since 7 October, OCHA has recorded 28 incidents of airstrikes, during which 77 Palestinians, including 14 children, have been killed in the West Bank, including two during the reporting period.  At least 200 houses sustained damage during a recent operation by Israeli forces in Nur Shams* Refugee Camp in Tulkarm, a UN assessment finds.” Humanitarian Situation Update #186 | West Bank 03 Jul 2024 UN “GENEVA (5 July 2023) – Israeli air strikes and ground operations in the occupied West Bank targeting the Jenin Refugee camp and killing at least 12 Palestinians may prima facie constitute a war crime, UN experts said today. “Israeli forces’ operations in the occupied West Bank, killing and seriously injuring the occupied population, destroying their homes and infrastructure, and arbitrarily displacing thousands, amount to egregious violations of international law and standards on the use of force and may constitute a war crime,” the experts said. Between 3 and 4 July, Israeli forces killed at least 12 Palestinians, including five children, and injured more than 100 Palestinians, in one of Israel’s biggest military operations in the occupied West Bank in years. The attacks forced thousands of Palestinians to flee and damaged infrastructure, houses and apartment buildings. “The attacks were the fiercest in the West Bank since the destruction of the Jenin camp in 2002,” the UN experts said.” Israeli air strikes and ground operations in Jenin may constitute war crime: UN experts 05 July 2023 "It is more important now to look ahead. Well, the strategic purpose, to create a situation in which Hamas will not exist as a body with military capability, is correct, in fact necessary. Those who hope that the 22 settlements that were attacked will be repopulated and that parents will agree to raise children there, must prove by actions that there is no longer a threat. This goal cannot be achieved by bombardment from the air, and it is doubtful whether it is right to risk a prolonged ground operation. Therefore, the State of Israel has no choice but to make Gaza a place that is temporarily, or permanently, impossible to live in." This is not revenge. It's either us or them Giora Eiland YNET October 10th 2023  (retired Major General of the Israel Defense Forces and a former head of the Israeli National Security Council) - The U.S. Should Think Twice About Israel’s Plans for Gaza   Oct. 15, 2023 NYT It's time to rip off the Hamas band-aid Opinion: In the wake of recent events, Israel cannot be satisfied with any other goal than the elimination of Hamas in Gaza as a military and governing body; Anything less would be an Israeli failure Giora Eiland| 10.12.2 Ynet News Netanyahu boasts of thwarting the establishment of a Palestinian state ‘for decades’ PM says his opposition to Palestinian statehood has only intensified since Oct. 7, vows Israel to ‘maintain full security control over all territory west of the Jordan River’ By ToI Staff 20 February 2024 April 2023 Al-Aqsa Mosque Attack What’s behind the Ramadan raids at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque? April 4th 2023 Al-Jazeera   It’s Time to Confront Israel’s Version of “From the River to the Sea” Far from being a mere slogan, the phrase captures both the longtime ambitions of the Israeli right and the reality Israel has imposed on Palestine since 1967 Rashid Khalidi November 22, 2023  The Nation “The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable… therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.” —Likud Party Platform, 1977 - Virtual Jewish Library Knesset votes overwhelmingly against Palestinian statehood, days before PM’s US trip Motion backed by coalition along with some MKs from Gantz's party; vote could further irk Democrats who support two-state solution and are critical of how Israel has fought in Gaza By Jacob Magid  18 July 2024 The Times of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu Corruption Trial   Road to Redemption: How Israel's War Against Hamas Turned Into a Springboard for Jewish Settlement in Gaza The IDF has taken control of 26% of the Gaza Strip, building bases and paving roads. Israel's religious right is already advancing towards its target. This is how it looks through the eyes of Israeli soldiers Yarden Michaeli and Avi Scharf Jul 8, 2024 Haaretz Opinion | Israel's First Unanimous War Gideon Levy Dec 13, 2023 UN report: Palestinian detainees held arbitrarily and secretly, subjected to torture and mistreatment 31 July 2024 Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center By CNN's International Investigations and Visuals teams May 11, 2024 As protesters back troops accused of abuse, a debate erupts on military morality in war Family members of reservists suspected of torturing a Gazan detainee say soldiers should be thanked, not prosecuted, as area outside Beit Lid becomes latest ideological flashpoint By Canaan Lidor  31 July 2024  Times Of Israel  Dozens of Protesters Storm Israeli Army Base Where Soldiers Suspected of Abuse of Palestinian Detainee Are Held   Soldiers attempted to stop dozens of protesters who stormed into the base and entered the military court building inside, as the demonstrators called them 'traitors' Bar Peleg Eden Solomon Jul 29, 2024  Haaretz Ben Givr Twitter Kill Prisoners Post  Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza IDF says it ‘completely rejects’ charge that its soldiers deliberately fired on any of the thousands of civilians killed in Israeli offensive by Chris McGreal Tue 2 Apr 2024  The Guardian “WASHINGTON, June 28 (Reuters) - The Biden administration has sent to Israel large numbers of munitions, including more than 10,000 highly destructive 2,000-pound bombs and thousands of Hellfire missiles, since the start of the war in Gaza, said two U.S. officials briefed on an updated list of weapons shipments. Between the war's start last October and recent days, the United States has transferred at least 14,000 of the MK-84 2,000-pound bombs, 6,500 500-pound bombs, 3,000 Hellfire precision-guided air-to-ground missiles, 1,000 bunker-buster bombs, 2,600 air-dropped small-diameter bombs, and other munitions, according to the officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly.” Exclusive: US has sent Israel thousands of 2,000-pound bombs since Oct. 7 By Humeyra Pamuk and Mike Stone   June 29, 2024 Reuters  “Currently, only 14 per cent of areas in #Gaza are not under the “evacuation orders”. Every other day, the Israeli Authorities issue these orders forcing people to flee, creating havoc + panic.  Quite often, people have just a few hours to pack whatever they can & start all over again, mostly on foot or on a crowded donkey cart for those who can afford it. Almost everyone in Gaza has been impacted by these orders. Many were forced to flee on average once a month since the war began nine months ago.  A man told our @UNRWA teams recently that  he was forced to flee twice within 10 hours.  People continue to search for safety: the most precious, the most nonexistent. This evacuation tactic only brings more misery, fear and suffering for people who have nothing to do with this war.  The people of #Gaza are not pinballs or chess pieces, they are people” Philippe Lazzarani UN Commissioner General 28th July 2024 How Netanyahu Has Systematically Foiled Talks to Release Hostages From Hamas Captivity Michael Hauser Tov Jul 10, 2024 Haaretz Earlier on Friday, Israel's Channel 12 reported on a tense exchange between Netanyahu and the defense chiefs, in which Shin Bet head Ronen Bar said, "It feels like the prime minister doesn't want the framework that's on the table." Turning to Netanyahu, he added that if that is the case, "you should tell us.”...  The report also quoted the head of the Missing and Captive Soldiers Division in the IDF, Maj. Gen. (res.) Nitzan Alon, who told Netanyahu: "You know that all the parameters you've added [to the framework] will not be accepted and there will be no deal." Mossad chief David Barnea stressed to Netanyahu, "There is a deal on the table. If we delay, we could miss the opportunity. We have to take it.”” Israeli Defense Chiefs Believe Netanyahu Isn't Interested in Gaza Deal, Top Official Says Senior member of Israel's negotiating team describes 'a chasm' between Netanyahu and top defense officials over the hostage deal; TV report quotes heated exchange in which PM accused them of being too 'soft' Michael Hauser Tov Jonathan Lis Bar Peleg Aug 2, 2024 Haaretz Hostages' relatives detained at Capitol during Netanyahu visit as demonstrators outside are pepper-sprayed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was addressing legislators on Capitol Hill, drawing activists advocating for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war July 24, 2024 By Alexandra Bacallao and Doha Madani  NBC Trump to drop Sudan from terror list in presumed prelude to Israel normalization Northeast African nation, under strong pressure from Washington, would become 3rd Muslim-majority country in two months to formalize ties with Israel By Jacob Magid TOI 19 October 2020 "My right, my wife's, my children's, to roam the roads of Judea and Samaria are more important than the right of movement of the Arabs," said Mr Ben Gvir, using a biblical term for the West Bank. He then addressed Mohammad Magadli, an Arab Israeli journalist in the studio, saying: "Sorry Mohammad, but this is the reality, that's the truth. My right for life comes before their right to movement.”” US condemns Israeli minister Ben Gvir's 'inflammatory' Palestinian comments By Tom Bateman BBC News, Jerusalem 25 August 2023 Itamar Ben Gvir How Bezalel Smotrich rode unfiltered radicalism and unforgiving politics to power The Religious Zionism leader’s political ascent has been marked by extreme positions from the start. He now stands on the cusp of having the ability to realize his far-right vision Jeremy Sharon By Jeremy Sharon 30 Nov 2022  Times of Israel Hannibal directive IDF spokesman says Hamas can’t be destroyed, drawing retort from PM: ‘That’s war’s goal’ Hagari calls Hamas 'an idea rooted in the hearts of the people,' also says it will stay in Gaza unless alternative found; PM reiterates war aims, amid divisions with defense brass By ToI Staff 20 June 2024 Times of Israel “We are bringing in aid because there is no choice,” Smotrich says at a conference in Yad Binyamin hosted by the Israel Hayom outlet. “We can’t, in the current global reality, manage a war. Nobody will let us cause 2 million civilians to die of hunger even though it might be justified and moral until our hostages are returned. Humanitarian in exchange for humanitarian is morally justified, but what can we do? We live today in a certain reality, we need international legitimacy for this war.” Smotrich: Might be ‘justified and moral’ to cause 2 million Gazans to die of hunger, but world won’t let us The Times of Israel 5 Aug 2024 “Qatar hosted the Taliban at the request of the government of the United States, the Qatari foreign minister’s special envoy on counterterrorism told Al Jazeera. Mutlaq Al Qahtani said the Gulf country hosted the Taliban “by request of the US government” and as part of Qatar’s “open-door policy, to facilitate talks, to mediate and to bring peace”” Qatar hosted Taliban ‘at request of US government’ Qatari FM envoy on counterterrorism says Qatar ‘was facilitating talks between the US, Taliban and Afghans’ Al-Jazeera 11 Jun 2017 Qatar Centom  Praying for Armageddon - Al-Jazeera Documentary 19th March 2024 Dave Decamp Christians

This video is a long clip/section taken out of our previous interview Obama, Trump, Qanon, Musk And Hopium : An Interview With James Corbett. The section I have posted focuses on Trump and Obama, which I thought was fitting for Trumps actions in this coming election against Biden. We have seen Trump make new promises about releasing documents, changing certain policies, but also less reported, his role in passing the Ukraine bill, attracting huge donors for his promised Israel policies and other recent contradictions to his previous comments and platform. Although some may argue Trump was better than other presidents, he followed a similar pattern of breaking campaign trail promises, like Obama, Biden and many others. Full Interview - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/obama-trump-qanon-and-hopium-an-interview-with-james-corbett In todays video, I conducted an interview with James Corbett, about the concept of Hopium, and his documentary featuring it. We discuss Obama, Trump, Qanon, Musk and more. Hopium is intertwined with society in politics, religion, idols and general life. As with Obama and Trump, this belief of someone coming to save society, like a superhero or divine figure, followed a pattern of disappointment and egregious lies. The initial Echo on James does not continue. Feel free to skip in and check yourself. Also, the beeping from our previous interview has been fixed. I did edit in some text to state this, I am unsure why it is not appearing. The Corbett Report is an independent, listener-supported alternative news source. It operates on the principle of open source intelligence and provides podcasts, interviews, articles and videos about breaking news and important issues from 9/11 Truth and false flag terror to the Big Brother police state, eugenics, geopolitics, the central banking fraud and more. He started The Corbett Report website in 2007 as an outlet for independent critical analysis of politics, society, history, and economics. Since then he has written, recorded and edited thousands of hours of audio and video media for the website, including a podcast and several regular online video series. https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1801-james-corbett-on-obama-trump-q-musk-and-hopium/ Previous Video - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/naftali-bennett-let-s-the-cat-out-of-the-bag-about-the-west-and-ukraine Previous Interview - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/matthew-hoh-the-us-obsession-with-iran Please feel free to comment if I have missed any links in the show notes. https://www.youtube.com/@truthovercomfort9162/videos https://www.bitchute.com/channel/jc56qKZUGuFj/ Twitter @truthovercomfo2 - https://twitter.com/truthovercomfo2 Instagram truthovercomfort30 - https://www.instagram.com/truthovercomfort30/