Whistleblower comes forward with allegations that Obama communicated directly with Solemani

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http://archive.is/YmMSL

https://twitter.com/Doranimated/status/1215600795602837505

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1215600795602837505.html

'''Kerry would have us believe that the JCPOA contained rather than enabled Iran. In response to this ludicrous and reckless contention, I must become a whistleblower. I know for a fact that the Obama admin sent letters - plural - directly to Soleimani.

The president put us on a path toward conflict and turmoil with Iran.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/opinion/john-kerry-trump-iran.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

I urge the press and Congress to excavate that correspondence. I challenge former senior Obama officials — Susan Rice, John Brennan, John Kerry, Ash Carter and President Obama himself — to divulge all they know about the Soleimani messages and agree to have them declassified.

And I also challenge those former officials to divulge all they know about — and to declassify — presidential correspondence w/ Khamenei & Rouhani. Now that the public has a better understanding of who Qassem Soleimani was, it has a right to understand the messages in context.

If Trump’s conversation with Zelensky was in need of a public airing, then surely we are justified in seeing the messages to Soleimani. Obama officials, we know, have nothing to hide. They say they’re proud of their Iran “containment” policy, so why would they pose any obstacle?

It’s my patriotic duty to be a whistleblower. Feel free to thank me for my service. But please don’t reveal my identity. I must remain anonymous. I didn’t want to play this role, but history & destiny compelled me to stand & be counted. That, and my desire for a good laugh.

Here’s the key passage from Kerry’s oped that reveals the mindset that generated the correspondence. Team Obama believed Iran & its proxies were allies against ISIS. But 1) Soleimani was building those proxies to throw us out of Iraq. 2) Those proxies are vicious sectarian actors that murdered innocent Sunnis with abandon. They created the vacuum in Iraqi Sunni communities into which ISIS moved.

Is it hard to believe that the administration reached out to Soleimani in the same spirit that Obama reached out to Khamenei?

The president has written to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to lay out shared U.S.-Iranian interests in combating insurgents, and to spur progress on nuclear talks.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/obama-wrote-secret-letter-to-irans-khamenei-about-fighting-islamic-state-1415295291

Here’s a sample of the sweet nothings Obama whispered in the Ayatollah’s ear

Israelis don't want to be America's pawns in the Middle East any longer. We've suffered enough

http://archive.is/8U6t9

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/iran-trump-us-middle-east-iran-israel-palestine-iraq-soleimani-a9277511.html

When I was nine years old, my family and I, all wearing gas masks, would huddle in our bomb shelter, which doubles as my parents' closet. It was the Gulf War, and Saddam Hussein was lobbing Scud missiles at Israel in retaliation to the US and its allies invading Iraq.

In 2003, in the ramp-up to the second Iraq war, tensions were high again: I took my gas mask to the bar in which I worked. People sat with their brown boxes to their sides, sipping beer and waiting to hear whether the air siren would sound.

It's been this way ever since I can remember. Besides the direct daily conflict with Palestinians and tensions with our neighbors, every time the White House gave out a "special statement" about the region, we Israelis began to brace ourselves for the unknown.

It was no surprise that this week, as tensions between Iran and the US were higher than they've ever been; as the prospect of another war that would devour the region seemed imminent; as family members from all around the world messaged each other on Whatsapp groups about World War Three, Iran threated to destroy Haifa, my birth town, as revenge against the US. Haifa is known as a place of coexistence. It is the town of Ayman Odeh and Emil Habibi, where ex-Soviet immigrants, Arab communists, factory workers, and theoretical physics students from the Technion institute drink beers together in small bars on the port.

Israel is one of the US's most reliable and most loyal allies and in the Middle East, US policy is seen as almost synonymous with Israel's. When protests break out in the Middle East, the Israeli flag is burned together with the American one; we are known as the “little devil”, while America is the great demon.

The reaction in Israel to the threat of annihilation was minimal. The Israeli army announced it was closing Mount Hermon, the ski resort located in the contested Golan Heights, a site on the border with Syria that's a potential target for rocket fire by pro-Iranian militias. And many Israelis dismissed the threat, saying Iran would never attack Israel because our air force would destroy Tehran.

Yet, in this almost-catastrophic moment, what has gone unquestioned is the fact that Israel has bound its fate with the US. It seems like Israelis have gotten used to being threatened by proxy, to being the pawns used by others in a larger geopolitical game. By accepting this reality, we are losing both a grip on our security and the potential benefits of being a genuine and essential part of the region.

This situation didn't happen overnight. It is a culmination of a lot of complex moves in our region.

Israel's alignment with the US has not been since time immemorial. Even though there was support for the state in its early years, past American presidents made cold and calculated decisions before they came to Israel's aid, also intervening on behalf of its enemies, like in the Suez Canal Crisis. It was after the 67 War that Israel became one of the biggest recipients of foreign aid, and the relationship subsequently tightened, at times, to the point of a gordian knot.

In Israel, the problem begins with the fact that some in the Israeli-Jewish population haven't fully grasped that we're a part of this region, not a “villa in the jungle” (a sad statement made by former PM Ehud Barak). Then, there's Israel's half-a-century occupation that makes it a non-partner with all the countries in the region. It's easy for leaders in Iran and the UAE to blame Israel for many things because it is guilty of the charge of controlling an Arab population. Any acceptance is dependent on Israel ending the occupation.

But aligning with the West isn't entirely Israel's fault. It's easy to categorize Israel as "colonial," but it has struggled hard to be accepted in the Middle East. Unlike old colonial powers, even early Zionist leaders saw Jews and Muslim Palestinians living side by side. In Israel, Jews still speak Persian and Arabic, proud of their roots; they tell stories about their family histories in Baghdad, Tripoli, Aleppo, and Shiraz.

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>>7772710 (Part 1)

Despite ebbs and flows in relations between our neighbors and us, there is a sense of wanting to belong; it is no surprise that even Israel Katz, the hawkish minister of the exterior, talked about restoring the Hejaz railway between Tel Aviv and Jeddah. And this feeling is reciprocal: even in 2002, at the height of the second intifada, the Arab League offered to normalize relations with Israel in exchange for recognizing a Palestinian state. Instead of calling for our destruction, they reached out for peace. They recognized that Israel isn’t going anywhere.

For many Israelis, this is apparent: the language we speak and the culture we hold dear is much closer to our neighbors in Beirut than to the Protestant ethos and mores of the people of New Hampshire. And even as the horrendous conflict continues between Israelis and Palestinians, as well as an occupation, there's still a sense that our fate is dependent upon and alongside our neighbors nextdoor — not with our American allies overseas.

To me, this shared sense of destiny became crystal clear Tuesday night: as the crisis unfolded, I was sitting in my apartment in New York, texting back and forth with one of my closest friends since I moved to the US, an Iranian journalist. We both felt the same dread, sparked by similar memories of war. The feeling was that if Tehran goes, Haifa will go as well. In the midst of this conversation, I got a text from my neighbor, a Syrian artist, a Christian who grew up in the Jewish Quarter of Damascus, asking me how I was doing.

Even though all of us live in the US now, our families, our history, our language was on TV, just behind the NBC reporter standing the Middle Eastern night. And not only Israelis or Iranians or Palestinians: Iraqis and Lebanese and Syrians and Kurds and Yemenites all have been caught in the crossfire at one time or another.

For Israel to find its place in the region, it needs to step out from the American shadows and reach out to its neighbors directly and boldly, not as an act of capitulation, but with the confidence and belief that no one is going anywhere. Israelis need to make clear that, just like many Iranians aren't fully aligned with their government's actions, so do we oppose the most nationalistic and militaristic tendencies of our elected officials. Of course we need to protect ourselves from malign actors — but we can do this by aligning ourselves with moderate forces in the Arabic world. Israelis need to offer solidarity to the citizens in the region and work with organizations that want to accept us. We Israelis are strong, but we need to be courageous and take more risks, not for the sake of some utopian "new Middle East" but in the realization that on the world’s battleground, we are all targets.

When Israel becomes a part of the region, it will stop being synonymous with the west and US interests and instead become a real bridge between east and west.

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>>7772698

That image reminds me of this series. Have a link to one of my favorites.

>>7772811

You posted that you posted it. You didn't even claim to have found it.

Please, grow up. You fucked up. It's fine. But this is embarrassing.

>>7772832

Did someone tag you?

>>7772859

Didn't realize it was archived post. Makes sense.

UConn student arrested for saying n-word must complete community service, bias training

http://archive.is/wip/CnBeU

https://campusreform.org/?ID=14190

One of the two University of Connecticut students arrested in October for using a racial slur has learned of his punishment.

As Campus Reform reported at the time, Jarred Karal was arrested after another student recorded him walking through a campus parking lot shouting "n*gger." Karal was seen with two other individuals, one of whom was also arrested. The men were "play[ing] a game in which they yelled vulgar words," according to the police report.

"The two students both were charged under CGS 53-37, ridicule on account of creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race," UConn spokeswoman Stephanie Reitz said. "A third person had accompanied them as they walked outside of the apartments, but the police investigation determined that individual had not participated in the behavior."

Nearly three months later, a judge has accepted Karal's application for accelerated rehabilitation, under which he'll be on probation for six months, be required to complete 20 hours of community service and take diversity and bias training, according to WVIT-TV.

Karal originally faced up to 30 days in jail. The case involving the other student who was arrested, Ryan Mucaj, is still ongoing.

The Connecticut state statute under which the two men were charged has been criticized by free speech advocates.

University of California at Los Angeles law professor Eugene Volokh, in a column for Reason, called it "obviously unconstitutional, because it suppresses speech based on its content (and viewpoint), and because there's no First Amendment exception for speech that insults based on race or religion."

The free speech nonprofit Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, told Campus Reform in October, "FIRE is deeply concerned by the investigation and arrest of two students by the University of Connecticut Police Department pursuant to a statue that any reasonable police officer would have known is unconstitutional. However offensive the use of a racial epithet, not directed at any person, the First Amendment protects offensive language, and neither the University of Connecticut nor its police officers may abridge students' First Amendment rights."

>>7772922

He wrote it from NYC while claiming his Israeli heritage which I'm not allowed to point out because implying anything about dual loyalty of Israelis in the US is considered anti-semitic.

You tell me.

>>7772935

Pepredge anon remembers when that library was raided.

>>7772939

>>7772896@DeptofDefense Rough Waters! 🌊

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>>7772896 @DeptofDefense Rough Waters! 🌊

>>7772949

"n*gger" apparently. I think it's pronounced "Word that only black people can say because Jews control the media, legislatures and court system and are looking to divide the country so if a white person says the word the court system will destroy the white person to create racial tension which helps the jews take over the country, but you can't say that because the cabal will kill you and your family for even getting close to saying something like that you fucking bigot anti-semite."

Could be wrong. But I think that's how I've heard it pronounced.

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>>7773004

He has to do community service and is on probation and almost went to jail.

Who the fuck are you fooling with this nonsense?

>>7773130

Stupid fucking nigger tier take here.

She shouldn't have walked down the street dressed like that, she knew she'd be raped.

Except instead of rapists raping, it's the fucking tyrannical state government destroying him for saying a word.

Where is POTUS? We defend POTUS when he says things the media doesn't like. Why isn't he defending the kid?

And saying the kid shouldn't use the word? Why because he's white? Go fuck yourself nigger. Niggers say that word all day every day on the fucking radio and no one says shit. You're a cuck. You're the reason we're in this mess, so kindly shut the fuck up and let the adults discuss how to handle this.

>>7773198

Thanks for admitting you have nothing to add to this conversation about freedom of speech, because you don't believe in it. I'd call you rabbi, but you might call the cops on me, so I'll say "fellow human" instead.