Approaching Midnight > UNSC Celebrates Palestinian Violence; China is Enemy Number 1 Now; Young Americans See Gloomy Future

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It was about 13 years ago I first started saying that America would have to abandon Israel before Armegeddon could occur. That would also hold for the UN, although the UN has never embraced Israel but has been almost singularly focused on destroying it.

UN holds solidarity event with Palestinians on anniversary

of recognizing Israeli statehood

 November 30, 2021

By Aryeh Savir/TPS

 

UN holds solidarity event with Palestinians on anniversary of recognizing Israeli statehood

Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan (UN Photo)

 

The pro-Palestinian conference on “Solidarity with the Palestinian People” was held in the United Nations General Assembly on Monday.

On the 74th anniversary of the United Nations decision to recognize the Jewish People’s right to statehood and the partition Plan on November 29, the UN held only a solidarity event with Palestinians while ignoring the founding of Israel and the history of massacres and expulsions of 850,000 Jews from Arab Countries and Iran.

The pro-Palestinian conference on “Solidarity with the Palestinian People” was held in the United Nations General Assembly on Monday. The conference, intended to strengthen support for the Palestinians “right of return,” was attended by the President of the GA, the President of the Security Council Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez of Mexico, the Palestinian Authority’s Ambassador to the UN, and representatives of Palestinian civil society.

 

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan, in cooperation with the World Jewish Congress, held a protest in response to the conference and attacked the UN’s “blatant disregard of the massacres and expulsions of Jews from Arab countries and Iran.”

As part of the campaign, trucks bearing signs arrived at the UN headquarters and showed those entering the building pictures of Jewish refugees who were expelled from Arab countries and Iran, along with a demand to stop erasing Jewish history.

On November 29, 1947, the UN recognized the Jewish people’s right to a state. The Jews accepted the partition plan and the Arab countries rejected it and attacked Israel. At the same time, they persecuted, massacred, and ultimately expelled the Jewish communities in their own countries.

“Shockingly, this atrocity is completely ignored by the UN. Instead, the UN has the audacity to hold a solidarity event for the Palestinians on the anniversary of the Palestinians own decision to choose violence,” Erdan said at the protest. “And on the day that the Palestinians chose violence, the UN also dares to advance the outrageous, the false ‘demand of return,’ a demand that would lead to the total obliteration of the Jewish state.”

“By advancing and amplifying on the one side the false and dangerous narrative of the Palestinians and by silencing, the true stories, the tragic stories of the Jewish refugees who were expelled from the Arab countries and from Iran, the UN is erasing Jewish history and distorting the truth and we will never allow this to happen,” he stated.

“We are here today to tell the UN and the international community that our story will never be silenced and our history never erased,” the Israeli envoy declared.

On Iran’s nuclear aspirations, Erdan said that the international community resumed negotiations with Iran, “the world’s number one sponsor of terror, negotiations that might endanger the future of the Jewish state. Israel cannot accept a fundamentally flawed deal that only delays a nuclear Iran by kicking the can down the road. We believe that joining the old Iran deal is a grave mistake that would lead to a nuclear Iran.”

The trucks with the signs traveled to major sites in New York City throughout the day and will continue to do so in the coming weeks.

Most Americans view one nation as ‘enemy’ – poll

1 Dec, 2021 07:07

Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning in Hong Kong, 2017. © Anthony Wallace/AFP

The number of Americans who believe China is the biggest threat to the country grew significantly in just three years, a new survey has shown. More people want to see US troops “concentrated” in East Asia.

More than half of Americans (52%) see China as the greatest threat to the country, according to a Beacon Research poll that was commissioned by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute (RRPFI), a conservative think tank, and published on Wednesday. By comparison, 14% said Russia was the main threat, and 12% said the same about North Korea.

Only 21% listed Beijing as the chief threat to the US in 2018, when RRPFI published its first annual national defense survey.

Additionally, 65% respondents said they considered China an enemy, while 23% said they viewed it as an ally.

“There is bipartisan consensus about the threats we face. For the first time, a majority of respondents say a single nation poses the greatest threat to the United States: China,” RRPFI said in a statement.

Explaining what concerns them the most about China, those polled cited China’s economic practices (20%), military build-up (19%), alleged human rights abuses (17%), and foreign policy (13%). Separately, 23% said they were concerned with Beijing’s AI technology, and another 23% said they were concerned with supply chain vulnerability.

The number of Americans who think the US should concentrate its military forces in East Asia grew from 16% in 2019 to 37%, the survey shows. “Conversely, the percentage choosing the Middle East dropped from 37% in 2019 to 17%,” Beacon Research said.

This will make it much easier politically for the USA to abandon Israel.

US-Chinese relations deteriorated significantly in recent years after Washington launched a trade war against Beijing during the Donald Trump administration. The countries also clashed on the world stage over issues ranging from allegations of hacking and espionage, to Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as accusing each other of stoking military tensions in the South China Sea.

This is part of the strategy to sell weapons systems to south east Asia. 

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said earlier this year that China represents America’s “biggest geopolitical test of the 21st century.” 

China has repeatedly said the US should abandon what it considers a Cold War mentality. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin in June urged the US not to view Beijing as “an imaginary enemy.” 

This would be a reference to the Cold War with the Soviet Union and the heating up of tensions with Russia in recent years. It's all an excuse to sell weapons without regard for the phenomenal risks.

Young Americans see US democracy as failed – poll

1 Dec, 2021 15:26

©  REUTERS/Mike Segar

A national survey of 18-to 29-year-old Americans shows more than half believe US democracy has either “failed” or is “in trouble,” and a significant portion also sees the potential for civil war.

Of the 52% polled who said they’ve lost or are losing faith in America’s democratic system, 39% described the country as a “democracy in trouble.” Another 13% of respondents called it a “failed democracy,” according to research released on Wednesday by the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School.

Of the more than 2,100 young Americans surveyed for the poll, only 7% said they believe the US is a “healthy democracy,” while another 27% consider it a “somewhat functioning democracy.”

Unsurprisingly, those who identified as Republicans were the most concerned about the state of the US under the leadership of Joe Biden – a Democrat with sinking poll numbers as he attempts to address numerous crises, including the Covid-19 pandemic, supply chain issues, and record inflation.

Biden’s approval numbers among young voters in the Harvard poll represented declines similar to other recent surveys. Only 46% of respondents to this survey said they approved of the president’s job performance – a 13% drop from a similar poll that was taken by the group in April. 

While Democrats expressed the most faith in the country, 45% said the US is either a democracy in trouble or one too far gone. Only 11% of those self-identified Democrats called the US a “healthy democracy” in the poll. Meanwhile, over half of Republicans and independents agreed that the US has failed or is in trouble, with 70% saying they held a negative view of the state of the country. 

In perhaps the polling’s most startling findings, 35% of the young Americans surveyed said they saw the potential for a second civil war in their lifetimes, while a quarter of those polled believed they could see a US state secede within their lifetime. 

How about we trade Ontario and Quebec for Montana and Idaho?

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The USA and Other NATO Countries Hiding the Truth From UN in the Douma Chemical False-Flag Op.

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Russia slams ‘disgraceful’ ban on founding OPCW chief, sacked under US pressure, from speaking at UN Security Council on Syria

6 Oct 2020

FILE PHOTOS: Former OPCW Director Jose Bustani and chemical products shown to Western journalists in Douma, Syria

© EVARISTO SA / AFP; REUTERS/ Ali Hashisho

An ex-OPCW chief, sacked under US pressure, has been barred from briefing the UN Security Council about a controversial probe into an alleged 2018 chemical attack in Syria. Russia called it a “shame” and published his speech.

Jose Bustani, a Brazilian diplomat who led the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) from 1997 until 2002, was invited by Moscow to speak at a UN Security Council meeting about the so-called “Syrian chemical dossier,” but his appearance was blocked at the last minute by Belgium, Germany, Estonia, France, the US and the UK.  

“What has happened now is yet more sad proof that Western delegations fear the uncomfortable truth,” Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, stressed while addressing the UN global body on Monday. 

He said the six countries had “made history” because the Security Council has never voted “on the presence or absence of a briefer proposed by the [UNSC] president.” Prohibiting the former OPCW director-general from speaking was a “shame and disgrace,” Nebenzia concluded, promising to publish Bustani’s statement after the meeting. 

UK envoy Jonathan Allen said that Bustani is not in a position to “provide relevant knowledge or information.”

Shortly afterwards, the undelivered speech appeared on the website of the Russian mission to the UN. In it, the sacked OPCW chief raised “serious questions” over “whether the independence, impartiality, and professionalism of some of the organization’s work is being severely compromised, possibly under pressure from some member states.”

As a major example, Bustani cited an OPCW investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons in the Syrian city of Douma on April 7, 2018. Western governments, and media outlets, maintain that forces loyal to Damascus dropped two gas cylinders as part of an offensive against jihadist forces, killing scores of civilians. 

The allegations were used as a pretext for a major US-led airstrike against Syrian government forces later that year. The OPCW launched a probe into the “chemical attack,” and in early March of 2019, the final report by the Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) of the OPCW stated that there were “reasonable grounds” to believe that canisters filled with “molecular chlorine” were dropped from Syrian aircraft in Douma. 

The final report gave credence to the Western show of force by implicating the Syrian government of Bashar Assad in conducting the attack, which the Syrian authorities vehemently deny.

Shortly after the release of the OPCW report, an internal memo by OPCW engineers was leaked, suggesting the canisters were likely just placed at the site of the “attack,” and did not come from the skies. Still, the final report did not include such information, and a senior OPCW official reportedly ordered the removal of “all traces” of the dissenting opinion, according to WikiLeaks.

Months later, Bustani noted that he was invited to an expert panel which heard the testimony of an unnamed OPCW investigator, who came forward with damning evidence that his own organization had engineered a report based on a flawed conclusion and likely deliberately steered toward the outcome favored by the West.

That expert provided “compelling and documentary evidence of highly questionable, and potentially fraudulent conduct in the investigative process,” Bustani’s statement recalled. The Brazilian diplomat had been so stunned by the testimony that he personally called on the OPCW to be “resurrected to become the independent and non-discriminatory body it used to be.”

However, he continued, the chemical weapons watchdog did not respond to any calls for greater transparency about the controversial Douma investigation. The probe was “hidden behind an impenetrable wall of silence and opacity, making any meaningful dialogue impossible.” 

In conclusion, Bustani called on Fernando Arias, the current OPCW chief, to hear the grievances of OPCW inspectors who voiced dissenting opinions on the Douma incident. They “have dared to speak out against possible irregular behavior in your organization,” Bustani argued, adding that it is “in the world’s interest that you hear them out.” 

Bustani noted that he had been removed from his OPCW position “following a US-orchestrated campaign in 2002.” Back then, he was trying to send chemical weapons inspectors to Iraq prior to the 2003 US invasion there. A UN tribunal ruled that his sacking was unlawful. 

Search this blog for 'Douma' for numerous articles by exemplary journalists and others who question the veracity of the chemical drop in Douma. There is no question, after reading all these reports, that it was a false-flag operation, if, in fact, it happened at all.

US No Longer Recognizes Israeli Settlements as Breaking International Law - Pompeo

In a Monday statement, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Washington no longer regards Israeli settlements in the West Bank as violating international law, reversing the Obama administration’s position and taking no legal position on the question or that of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank itself.

Pompeo announced the US would repudiate its previous legal opinion on the status of the settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The US will no longer adopt a position on the legality of those settlements, breaking with the Obama administration’s decision that they did violate international law.

The settlements are home to more than 600,000 Israelis, who live mostly in settlements scattered across the territories, which Israel seized from Jordan in 1967 in the so-called Six-Day War.

However, the West Bank is also home to 2.7 million Palestinian Arabs, with another 327,000 living in East Jerusalem.

Since 1978, the Legal Adviser of the Department of State has regarded Israeli civilian settlements in the occupied territories as explicitly contravening the Fourth Geneva Convention. However, When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, he reversed that decision; Pompeo indicated Monday the US was returning to the Reagan-era position.

“There will never be a judicial resolution” to the conflict, Pompeo said, noting it can only be solved by negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians.

However, the Trump administration has previously recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital, a position also opposed by the United Nations. Pompeo clarified the US was taking no position on the "final status" of the boundaries of the city.

The United Nations has regarded the settlements as illegal, with numerous resolutions denouncing both the Israeli occupation as well as the civilian settlement of those lands as unquestionably illegal, calling on Israel to abandon the projects.

The UN Security Council is hopelessly antisemitic, dominated by Muslim countries and antisemitic western leaders like Obama.

In recent months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to push forward with incorporating the West Bank settlements into Israel proper, a move widely interpreted as a prelude to annexation.

Israel's foreign minister praised Pompeo's comments, saying Israeli welcomes the US decision and thanking the Trump administration for its support.

American Hypocrisy over Israel May have been Out-Done by UK

If you have been reading this blog for a couple of years you will know I am not a fan of Theresa May. Her third attempt to start an inquiry into child sex abuse is sputtering along barely moving. Her obscene remarks in parliament in an attempt at humour have not helped to endear her to me. Now, after the UK played a critical role in the writing of the most recent antisemitic UNSC resolution, she has the nerve to complain about John Kerry's antisemitic complaints about Benjamin Netanyahu. It's too late P.M. T.M.; you blew it!

British Prime Minister Theresa May rebukes U.S.

over Israel criticism

By Eric DuVall, UPI

British Prime Minister Theresa May condemned a speech by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday, during which Kerry harshly criticized the Israeli government's policy on Palestine. May said the United States should refrain from critiquing the domestic political process of an ally. File Photo by Monika Graff/UPI | License Photo

LONDON, -- British Prime Minister Theresa May offered a rare rebuke of the United States, condemning a speech by Secretary of State John Kerry attacking Israeli settlements on Palestinian land.

The statement, released by 10 Downing St. on Thursday night, comes as the Obama administration's final days tick down and after President-elect Donald Trump criticized the U.S. decision not to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements.

The U.N. resolution, which Israel has accused the United States of brokering, calls the settlements a "flagrant violation" of international law that endangers the increasingly distant possibility the Israelis and Palestinians will be able to reach a lasting two-state peace deal. Great Britain acted as a go-between in crafting the resolution, which Israel deeply opposed, making Thursday's rebuke all the more surprising, The Washington Post reported.

In a speech Wednesday, Kerry labeled the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "the most right-wing in Israel's history, with an agenda driven by the most extreme elements."

May, who leads a conservative British government, responded Thursday, saying through a spokesman the United States should refrain from critiquing the domestic politics of an allied government.

May does "not believe that it is appropriate to attack the composition of the democratically elected government of an ally," a spokesman for the prime minister said. "The government believes that negotiations will only succeed when they are conducted between the two parties, supported by the international community."

It is not appropriate to attack... Isn't that exactly what the UK did in the UN? So what she's really saying is that it is not appropriate to be seen to attack.... You should be more subtle, more sneaky, like a snake!

T.M. should have kept her mouth shut rather than joining Obama and Kerry in their last minute slide from any semblance of decency and good character into a desperate pettiness.

The comments come as U.S. allies prepare to rewrite the diplomatic playbook once Trump assumes the presidency. Trump was publicly outraged by the U.S. decision not to veto the U.N.'s Israeli settlement resolution and has said he supports the Israeli government's claims to land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Why Israel must control the West Bank and Golan Heights... 

video 5:03

To do otherwise would be just suicidal. The USA knows that and, surely, the UK does too. So stop the BS and tell the world you want Israel to be destroyed so Muslims can live in peace. Oh, wait, there are no Muslim countries living in peace. Must be the Jews fault! Surely, once all the Jews are dead, the Muslims will be happy and stop killing each other and raping little English girls.

Merry Christmas, Mr Netanyahu - Barack Hussein Obama II

Obama gifts Netanyahu with a stab in the back

just as I said he would years ago

I first wrote about America abandoning Israel in 2008, and reiterated it on this blog in 2011. As Europe turns more and more antisemitic, partly due to the rapidly increasing Muslim population, and partly due to the propaganda coming out of Palestinians that is being soaked up and regurgitated by left-leaning news media, Israel is becoming more and more isolated. 

The UN seems incapable of focusing on anything else as there is sheer hatred of the Middle East's only real democratic and free society. They have no complaints about Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, ISIS, the Taliban, al Queda, or Russia's takeover of the Crimea. They don't complain about beheadings, children bought and sold as sex slaves, people being burned alive, thrown off tall buildings, or whipped for being a woman. 

Massacres account for nothing compared to the nightmare of Israel building homes on the West Bank on land they won after being attacked by several Arab states. It is also land the Palestinians have lived on for less than 100 years and Jews have lived on for millennia.

The UN has made itself obsolete and redundant as it has become a political entity with the obvious goal of destroying Israel. It has completely abandoned any pretense of impartiality and fairness, and along with it goes the legacy of Barack Hussein Obama as his true colours are revealed in his last days. America is fortunate the new President is a supporter of Israel or else it would be sorely judged by God for this evil deed.

Netanyahu halts Israeli funding of UN bodies

in revenge for ‘crazy’ resolution

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) told President Obama (C) that Israel was not considering a full-scale invasion, as Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas remains wary. © Tim Sloan

Israel has suspended its multimillion dollar contribution to a number of United Nations bodies and is reevaluating its relationship with the organization, after the UN Security Council passed a resolution on Israeli settlement construction.

“I instructed the Foreign Ministry to complete within a month a re-evaluation of all our contacts with the United Nations, including the Israeli funding of UN institutions and the presence of UN representatives in Israel,” Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said on Saturday while addressing the nation.

“I have already instructed to stop about 30 million shekels ($7.8 million) in funding to five UN institutions, five bodies, that are especially hostile to Israel ... and there is more to come,” he added without offering any further details."

Netanyahu harshly criticized President Barack Obama for his decision on Friday to abstain from vetoing the resolution that declares settlements as having “no legal validity.” The resolution passed 14 to zero, with the United States abstaining.

The resolution demands that Israel “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the 'occupied' Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem.”

The resolution “doesn’t bring peace closer. It pushes it further away,” Netanyahu said Saturday, calling the document “crazy.”

President Barack Obama’s administration constituted a “shameful ambush” by allowing the resolution's passage, Netanyahu said in his first public comments since Friday’s vote.

“Half a million ... are being slaughtered in Syria, tens of thousands are butchered in Sudan. The Middle East is up in flames, yet the Obama administration and the UN Security Council choose to set upon the only democracy in the Middle East,” Netanyahu told his television audience.

Netanyahu said that by abstaining the US has violated a pledge made by former president Jimmy Carter who promised Tel Aviv that Washington would not dictate peace terms to Israel at the UN Security Council.

In a statement after the vote on Friday, Netanyahu’s office personally accused Obama of failing to “protect Israel against this gang-up at the UN,” accusing the administration of working “behind the scenes.”

The UNSC was initially scheduled to vote on the resolution presented by Egypt on behalf of Palestine on Thursday. But Cairo pulled its text at the last minute after Netanyahu allegedly exerted heavy pressure on Egyptian President Abdel Sisi.

Netanyahu also lobbied with US politicians, particularly Trump’s team, urging the US to veto the “anti-Israel resolution.”

US not only abstained, it was behind new resolution

In an unexpected twist of events on Friday a new resolution on the same subject authored by New Zealand, Malaysia, Venezuela and Senegal was introduced to the UNSC and passed.

The US abstention during the vote signaled a drastic shift in the US' long-standing support for Israel – its closest ally in the Middle East. The Obama administration choosing not to support Israel contrasts Trump’s vocal support for Israel and its settlement activity.

Obama’s last minute diplomacy also contradicted his earlier pledge to gift Trump a “smooth and efficient” transition, which he promised the Republican immediately following his victory.

Earlier on Saturday, a senior Israeli official told Haaretz that US diplomacy “revealed the true face of the Obama administration,” adding that “now we can understand what we have been dealing with for the past eight years.”

Israel, the source added, is convinced that Washington acted behind Israel’s back with regards to drafting and advancing the resolution. “We know about it from Arab and international sources,” he added.