Israel Unleashes Hell On South Lebanon With Giant Mystery Bomb As War Escalates
(Update: 2115ET): Massive escalation along the southern Lebanese border is very clear at this point, as Israeli jets have pounded Hezbollah positions through much of Saturday.
Al Jazeera correspondents have confirmed that "Israel’s military launched 400 attacks on Lebanon on Saturday and Hezbollah fired rockets at the Ramat David base near the city of Haifa, in their largest exchange of fire since the war on Gaza began."
Another indicator of the escalation is that Israel is apparently beginning use much bigger bombs compared to much of the past nearly year of internecine fighting. The below widely circulating footage shows a large flash and skyscraper-size fireball, resulting in some viewers speculating it was likely a heavy bunker-buster bomb, or possibly even a tactical nuke of some sort. Whatever it was, there's never been anything like it used on Lebanon (that we know about).
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/idf-says-180-targets-eliminated-southern-lebanon-us-lauds-good-outcome-beirut-strike
The country is burning and this is their priority!
#CapturedState
US House Passes Bill To Label Products From Jewish Settlements In West Bank As 'Made In Israel'
The US House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that designates products from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank as originating from "Israel".
This bill, titled the "Anti-BDS Labeling Act," solidifies a Trump-era policy that critics argue undermines Palestinians' UN-recognized territorial claims and champions Israel’s annexation efforts while directly targeting the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, sending a clear message against those advocating for the Palestinian side. The policy, introduced by then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2020, was viewed by some as pushing the boundaries further than Israel’s own efforts. Now, it stands on the cusp of becoming permanent US law.
The bill, sponsored by Republican Congresswoman Claudia Tenney of New York, passed with a vote of 231 to 189 and received support from 16 Democrats, including some of the party’s most pro-Israel members.
It mandates that products from the occupied West Bank and Gaza no longer be labelled together but separately, effectively erasing the recognition of their unified identity. Products would read either "West Bank" or "Gaza" rather than "West Bank and Gaza".
The proposal further stipulates that products from the majority of the occupied West Bank will be labelled as "Product of Israel" or "Made in Israel."
Critics warn that the legislation complicates efforts to support Palestinian rights by making it harder to boycott products from illegal Israeli settlements.
Opponents, including Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan), condemned the bill as a step toward ethnic cleansing, saying, "A ‘yes’ vote for this bill is erasing the existence of Palestinians." She added: "Yeah, that’s right - Palestinians also have a right to exist."
Tlaib, the sole Palestinian-American member of Congress, highlighted the troubling trend of conservative lawmakers inciting hostility toward Arabs, Muslims, and Palestinians. She pointed to a recent hearing where Senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) echoed alleged racist sentiments, telling Arab-American expert Maya Berry that she ought to "hide [her] head in a bag."
"The provisions of this bill, Mr Speaker, carry hateful and discriminatory implications," Tlaib said. "We must unite against it and vote no."
The bill goes to the finance committee next week. Should the bill pass in the Senate, it would further complicate efforts by advocates for Palestinian rights to support Palestinian-made products while boycotting Israeli goods. "Consumers deserve to know if a product comes from an illegal Israeli settlement before making a purchase," wrote the Institute for Middle East Understanding Policy Project.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-house-passes-bill-label-products-jewish-settlements-west-bank-made-israel
IDF raids Al Jazeera office (VIDEO)
Heavily armed Israeli soldiers have barged into the pan-Arab TV channel’s studio in the West Bank on Sunday
Israeli soldiers in full combat gear entered Al Jazeera’s office in Ramallah in the West Bank in the early hours of Sunday. They ordered for the studio to be closed for 45 days, the channel said.
The clip posted by the Qatari-owned channel shows armed IDF troops walking down the hallways and entering offices while being filmed by Al Jazeera’s camera crew.
“There is a court ruling for closing down Al Jazeera for 45 days,” a soldier told al-Omari, according to Al Jazeera,
“I ask you to take all the cameras and leave the office at this moment,” he added.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1837654882393677849
Disregarding Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent warning that enabling long-range strikes would place NATO in a state of war with Russia as “bluster and saber-rattling,” Johnson argued that these steps are necessary to “send the crucial message to the Kremlin.”
“The message is: that’s it. It’s over. You don’t have an empire any more. You don’t have a ‘near abroad’ or a ‘sphere of influence’. You don’t have the right to tell the Ukrainians what to do, any more than we British have the right to tell our former colonies what to do,” he asserted.
“It is time for Putin to understand that Russia can have a happy and glorious future, but that like Rome and like Britain, the Russians have decisively joined the ranks of the post-imperial powers, and a good thing, too,” he continued.
The West, Johnson argued, “must abandon any idea that the Ukrainians will do a deal” or “trade land for peace.”
“We in the West would be mad to try to impose that outcome,” he added.
https://www.rt.com/russia/604441-boris-johnson-over-russia/
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Published on May 1, 2012
In a rare public appearance, The Obama Administration’s Information Czar Cass Sunstein gave a lecture at the NYU Law School in NYC yesterday, prompting Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange to attend. Watch as Luke confronts Sunstein multiple times on an academic paper he co-authored back in 2008 entitled “Conspiracy Theories” in which he called for cognitive infiltration of conspiracy groups by the government
Little known fact: Cass Sunstein is married to Samantha Powers (the US Ambassador to the United Nations) and the two of them worked on Obama’s 2008 election campaign. She was a senior advisor to Obama’s transition team along with Zbigniew Brzezinski who orchestrated the Grand Chessboard Strategy using Georgia and Ukraine against Russia.
https://youtu.be/4OIiOztc52g
In the post election 2016 atmosphere, a crackdown on sites that did not follow the government line was rolled out by the US Deep State utilizing their flagship propaganda tool The Washington Post and an untraceable recently formed group calling themselves PropOrNot. The near entirety of the US and UK alternative media were placed on a PropOrNot list along wth a number of Russian news sites. Any site that exposed US corruption and/or media collusion during the election 2016 process was placed on the list. The list has now been disseminated to Facebook, Google and other Internet giants, as well as government authorized “fact checkers’ to limit the ability of these sites to influence public thought.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/whos-behind-propornots-blacklist-of-news-websites/5560970 – by Pam Martens
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/12/05/wpost-wont-retract-mccarthyistic-smear/ – by Norman Solomon
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/11/27/washington-posts-fake-news-guilt/ – by Robert Parry
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/06/media-complicity-is-key-to-blacklisting-websites/ – by Norman Solomon
The US government has also been deliberating as to whether or not to enact government measures directly against sites that have been placed on the PropOrNot list, therefore stifling free speech and creating fear of reprisals for sites and individuals producing information that does not suit the governments interests. Paradoxically, all of the government techniques being employed are completely un-American. They are in complete contrast to the First Amendment………..as they abridge the freedom of speech.
ISRAEL SECRETLY PAYING SALARIES OF SYRIAN REBELS ON GOLAN HEIGHTS BORDER: REPORT
Excerpt: Israel is secretly supporting Syrian rebels operating near its occupied Golan Heights territory, providing money, food, fuel and medical supplies, according to fighters who claim to receive the aid.
Israel has previously treated wounded Syrian rebels in its hospitals but interviews with rebels conducted by the Wall Street Journal suggest that Israel is directly supporting opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the six-year-long civil war.
http://www.newsweek.com/israel-secretly-paying-salaries-syrian-rebels-golan-heights-627155