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Dutch foreign minister Timmermans: Violence by Israel on Gaza is 'unacceptable'

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Dutch foreign minister Frans Timmermans
Foreign minister Frans Timmermans says the violence being wreaked by Israel on Gaza is 'unacceptable'.

In an opinion piece in the NRC on Tuesday, Timmermans calls for an independent inquiry into the bombardment of UN schools and a hospital.

He writes that the Israeli bombardment and the Hamas rockets 'only increase the hate, the fear and the hopelessness'.

However, he does not point the finger of blame, saying that only once the fighting stops can the underlying reasons for the violence be dealt with.

Comment: It seems that recent protests in the Netherlands, during which protesters asked Timmermans to 'stop the apartheid', and a petition (of 40,000 signatures) that called on the Dutch government to impose sanctions on Israel (which was personally handed over to Timmermans five days ago), may have contributed to Timmermans finally speaking out against the violence committed by Israel. It remains to be seen however whether Timmermans, or the Dutch government, will take any action against Israel. Currently this seems unlikely as the Netherlands seems to be more involved with banning protests, and supporting the West's agenda in Iraq.


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Senior intelligence officers: Obama should release evidence

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Preface: With the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine turning a local civil war into a U.S. confrontation with Russia, former high-level U.S. intelligence veterans released a statement today urging President Obama to release what evidence he has about the tragedy and silence the exaggeration and rush to judgment. (The whole post is a must-read; but we at Washington's Blog have added bolding for emphasis.)


Signatory Bill Binney - the former senior technical director at the NSA, and a man who battled the Soviet Union for decades - tells Washington's Blog:
In my analytic efforts to predict intentions and capabilities down through the years, I always made sure that I had multi-factors verifying what I was asserting. So far, I don't see that discipline here in this administration or the IC [i.e. the United States intelligence community].

Comment: A voice of sanity from former intelligence officers in a sea of lies, deception and spin. But I wouldn't hold my breath ... What the authors don't (want to?) realise, is that the treatment of the Obama administration (and many others before him) with the facts on the ground are deliberate. The agenda behind is not to find the truth, but to use (or even better set up) situations, in which a hegemonial agenda can be pushed - in this case the isolation of Russia, which at this stage is the only country left that can oppose Washington militarily; to prevent Russia and China to leave their old enmity behind; and to save the dollar hegenomy.


Megaphone

UK foreign office minister Baroness Warsi quits in protest at government policy on Gaza

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Foreign Office minister Baroness Warsi today dramatically resigned in protest at the government's policy on Gaza.

The first Muslim woman to serve in the Cabinet posted a message on Twitter announcing she 'can no longer support Govt policy on #Gaza'.

The loss of the former Tory party chairman will put pressure on David Cameron, who has refused to say whether Israel's actions in Gaza are 'criminal'.

In a statement posted on her Twitter feed, she said: 'With deep regret I have this morning written to the Prime Minister & tendered my resignation. I can no longer support Govt policy on Gaza.'

Arrow Down

U.S. government caught using humanitarian HIV program as a front to foster Cuban dissent

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Regular readers of Liberty Blitzkrieg will recall that earlier this year I highlighted how the U.S. government covertly created a "Cuban Twitter" called ZunZuneo in a failed attempt to overthrow the island nation's regime.

The elaborate plot was implemented under the umbrella of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which is responsible for overseeing billions of dollars in U.S. humanitarian aid.

If you need a refresher, check out the post: Conspiracy Fact - How the U.S. Government Covertly Invented a "Cuban Twitter" to Create Revolution.

Well we now know that USAID went a lot further than that. Another scheme to unseat the Cuban government has now been revealed. This time with even more immoral foundations, and which could disrupt genuine humanitarian relief efforts the world over.

Incredibly, the U.S. government used an HIV program as a front to foster dissent amongst Cuba's youth.

The HIV-prevention workshop was even referred to as the "perfect excuse to recruit political activists." Despicable.

Star of David

Out-Hitlering Hitler: Israeli official calls for concentration camps, ethnic cleansing of Gazans

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This man has no soul: Moshe Feiglin called for concentration camps in Gaza in his action plan
An Israeli official has called for concentration camps in Gaza and 'the conquest of the entire Gaza Strip, and annihilation of all fighting forces and their supporters'.

Moshe Feiglin, Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset and member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling Likud Party, posted the inflammatory message on his Facebook page at the weekend.

He lays out a detailed plan for the destruction of Gaza - which includes shipping its residents across the world - in a letter he addressed to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The message, which received more than 2,000 likes on his page, lists four action points which he wants to be enforced as soon as possible.

Feiglin details the first one as 'defining the enemy' and states: 'The strategic enemy is extremist Arab Islam in all its varieties, from Iran to Gaza, which seeks to annihilate Israel in its entirety. The immediate enemy is Hamas. (Not the tunnels, not the rockets, but Hamas.)'

He says another important part of his plan is the 'conquest of the entire Gaza Strip, and annihilation of all fighting forces and their supporters.'

The Gaza war, now in its fourth week, has left more than 1,800 Palestinians dead.

Comment: Perhaps it is Feiglin who needs a new home: preferably one about 6 feet by 4 feet, with lightly padded walls, and a thin slot for his daily, limited-calorie 'diet'. Perhaps Bibi can keep him company, too.


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Meanwhile, in Ukraine: Kiev deploys more ballistic missiles to Donetsk region

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Tactical Operational Missile Complex "Tochka"
Kiev keeps deploying missile launchers, including SS-21 (Scarab) and multiple rocket systems Uragan and Smerch in Donetsk as it "wants to continue the war" in eastern Ukraine, Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

"The Ukrainian army continues deploy Tochka U [which NATO refers to as SS-21 or Scarab], Smerch [the BM-30 Tornado] and Uragan [the BM-27] missile complexes to Donetsk. How many more lives will this weapon take? However, the Kiev authorities, it seems, are no longer concerned about the lives of civilians, military and militias. Kiev wants to continue the war," Russia's Foreign Ministry said in its statement, which was posted on its website.

Representatives of the Donetsk self-defense forces have also said that the Ukrainian army is "trying to close in on Donetsk, aiming its strikes on Krasnogorovka and Mariynka, which remain under militia control."

In July, Human Rights Watch accused the Ukrainian army of using Grad missiles to attack densely populated areas in Donetsk.

In its statement, issued July 25, the rights organization said that its "investigation on the ground strongly indicates that Ukrainian government forces were responsible for the attacks that occurred between July 12 and 21," despite the fact that "Ukrainian government officials and the press service of the National Guard have denied using Grad rockets in Donetsk."

Comment: Kiev continues to take a page out of Israel's playbook. These people belong in cages, not halls of government.


Wine

Conscience by peer pressure: Hypocrite French PM Hollande finally urges action on 'massacres' of Gazans

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French President Francois Hollande has described Israel's killings in Gaza as "massacres" and called for action to end the violence. This comes a day after an IDF airstrike hit another UN-run school, leaving 10 civilians dead.

"When I see what is happening with the Christians in Iraq, the minorities in Syria, massacres every day. What is happening too in Gaza, massacres ... we have to act," AFP quoted Hollande as saying at a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I on Monday.

Earlier in the day, one of the strongest condemnations of Israel's tactics in Gaza came from French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who said that security concerns do not justify "the slaughter of civilians."


Comment: Even the meaningless canard of Israel having the "right to defend itself" is wearing itself thin in the eyes of the world public, and now, its leaders. Israeli brutality and monstrosity are becoming too obvious to deny.


As Fabius was making his remarks Monday on Sunday's attack, Israel destroyed a house in a Gaza City refugee camp, killing an eight-year-old girl and wounding 29 other people. This was immediately taken by the Palestinians as a violation of Monday's seven-hour ceasefire.

"How many more deaths will it take to stop what must be called the carnage in Gaza?" Fabius said in a statement, following the Sunday bombing of a UN-run school which claimed 10 lives, who sought shelter from the carnage outside, AFP reports.

Comment: Once every few years, the urge to let some blood and kill some children just becomes too much for Israeli 'authorities'. They're the state equivalent of a serial killer.


War Whore

Hypocrite! British PM David Cameron endorses criticism of Israel's attack on UN school

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Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, has endorsed the United Nation’s recent criticism of an IDF attack on a UN-run school in Gaza.
David Cameron has endorsed the United Nation's recent criticism of an IDF attack on a UN-run school in Gaza, which culminated in ten casualties. UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, condemned the assault as a "moral outrage" and "criminal act".

Cameron failed to indicate if he wholly agreed with Ban Ki-moon's condemnation of Israel's recent strike, however, merely emphasizing that the event had brought about "an appalling loss of life," and civilians should not be targets.

Reflecting on the IDF's destruction of the school, the PM defended the UK government's position on the Gaza crisis, stating the coalition had clearly called for "an immediate, comprehensive, humanitarian ceasefire."

"We want this conflict to stop - and we obviously think that it's an appalling loss of life," Cameron said in an interview with the BBC. He added that the "fastest way to stop this conflict" would be if Hamas ceased firing rockets at Israel.

Stormtrooper

Client-state Ukraine will follow in lockstep with U.S. in imposing sanctions on Russia

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Within a few days Ukraine plans to impose measures against Russian companies working within its borders. The sanctions will affect the financial, energy and military sectors similar to those already imposed by the US and EU.

The Ukrainian State Fiscal Service has listed up to 1,000 entities with over 50 percent Russian capital, Kommersant cites a person in the Ukrainian government. However the sanctions will be imposed on only a part of the list, mostly those companies related to Russian state enterprises.

Experts suggest the measures have more of a political message and will barely affect the Russian companies in Ukraine.

"There is no reason to expect the scale effect of sanctions, but Ukrainian businessmen will be forced to search for new markets and to reconfigure business structures so they are not connected with Russia," Kommersant quotes Andrey Novak, the head of the Committee of Economists of Ukraine.

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Russian business leaders trust Putin and won't pressure him over sanctions

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Gennady Timchenko
The big Russian businesses hurt by Western sanctions against Russia won't even think about putting pressure on President Putin, because the interests of the state are at stake in the conflict, says a reputed presidential 'inner circle' figure.

"This is out of the question," Gennady Timchenko, who is one of the few Russian businessmen personally targeted by the US-championed sanctions, told ITAR-TASS.

"In any situation Putin is guided by the interests of Russia. Period. There can be no compromise about it,"he said. "[Captains of industry] wouldn't even thing about discussing it. Sanctions pose certain difficulties, but they are trivial next to the scale of the state's goals."

Timchenko is the owner of the private investment group Volga Group and former co-owner of oil trader Gunvor Group. He is estimated to worth between $12 billion and $16 billion.