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The enemy within... Netanyahu faces his biggest threat yet from furious Israeli public

Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture Foundation
Tue, 03 Sep 2024 18:28 UTC
Israel
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The Israeli public mood is turning decisively against the rule of Benjamin Netanyahu following the recovery of six dead hostages.

Israel claims the hostages were shot execution-style by Hamas fighters as their troops closed to rescue them. Hamas says they were killed by Israeli bombardments. Israeli media report that autopsies show bullet wounds. But given the torrent of lies put out by Israeli authorities about the Gaza violence one may never know.

For the Israeli public, those grim details don't seem to matter now. The anger is because the hostages could have been spared if Netanyahu engaged in ceasefire talks to prioritize the rescue of captives.

After 11 months of genocidal war on Gaza and the West Bank, Israeli exasperation with Netanyahu's failure to get hostages home has reached boiling point.

At the weekend, Tel Aviv and other cities saw their largest protests against Netanyahu's uncompromising policy of "defeating Hamas". The country's biggest labor union has called for a general strike to force an immediate ceasefire in order to secure the release of nearly 100 hostages.

"We getting body bags instead of a [ceasefire] deal," said Arnon Bar-David, the head of Israel's trade union Histadrut as up to 500,000 protesters closed down transport routes into Tel Aviv and other cities Sunday.

Private businesses and public services are also voicing support for a state-wide walk-out. Israel's economy is on the verge of collapse from the nearly year-long war on Gaza and neighboring countries.

Angry families of hostages and a large public support movement accused Netanyahu of "playing Russian roulette" with the lives of those held captive in Gaza by Palestinian resistance Hamas.
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Venezuela accuses US of 'piracy' after Maduro's plane is seized


RT
Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:34 UTC
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The US decision to seize a plane used by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is blatant "piracy," the South American country's foreign minister, Ivan Gil Pinto, has said.

On Monday, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) confirmed media reports that its agents had seized a Dassault Falcon 900EX Aircraft allegedly linked to the Venezuelan leader and his inner circle.

Washington claimed that the aircraft "was illegally purchased for $13 million through a shell company and smuggled out of the United States," adding that it was seized in the Dominican Republic and transferred to Florida by US request "based on violations of... export control and sanctions laws."

The DOJ alleged that the plane was bought through a Caribbean-based company and delivered to Venezuela in April 2023. Since then, it has been used by the Maduro government, including to transport the Venezuelan leader himself to other countries, the department claimed.
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West wants 'total control' over Ukraine - Putin


RT
Mon, 02 Sep 2024 16:29 UTC
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The Ukraine conflict stems from long-standing Western ambitions to control the country, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. The Russian leader made the comments in an interview with Mongolian newspaper Onoodor, ahead of his visit to the country on Monday.

"For decades, they [the West] have sought total control over Ukraine. They funded nationalist and anti-Russian organizations there; they persistently worked to convince Ukraine that Russia was its eternal enemy and the main threat to its existence," Putin stated.

The Russian leader referred to the 2014 Maidan coup in Kiev, saying it was orchestrated by the US and its "satellites" and driven by "radical neo-Nazi groups" in Ukraine, which, Putin claimed, continue to determine the country's policies.

The Kremlin has listed the "denazification" of Ukraine as one of the key objectives of the current military operation.

"The hatred for everything Russian has become Ukraine's official ideology. The use of the Russian language has been increasingly restricted, and the canonical Orthodoxy has been subjected to persecution, which now has come to the point of a direct ban," Putin added.
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West brands all inconvenient facts as 'Kremlin propaganda' - Putin


RT
Mon, 02 Sep 2024 16:22 UTC
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While Russian media attempts to convey Moscow's position on global issues, Western states hide the truth by dismissing every inconvenient fact as "propaganda," President Vladimir Putin has said.

Putin gave an interview to the Mongolian newspaper Onoodor ahead of his visit to the country on Monday. Among other things, he was asked about press freedom and how the West can champion it while suppressing Russian media.

"Almost all Western countries where our journalists try to work are creating obstacles for them, banning Russian television channels and directly censoring our media and online resources," Putin said, noting that this obviously "runs counter to the democratic principles of freedom of speech and the free flow of information."
The West, which claims to be a model of freedom, has opted to hide from inconvenient facts and the truth by launching a blatant bullying campaign against Russian journalists and indiscriminately labeling them as 'Kremlin propagandists.'
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Mongolia told ICC to 'get lost' with Putin warrant - Medvedev


RT
Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:19 UTC
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The International Criminal Court's (ICC) arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin turned out to be a meaningless scrap of paper, his predecessor Dmitry Medvedev has said. Medvedev's comments came after Putin arrived in Mongolia, a signatory to the ICC, which issued a warrant for the Russian president's arrest in March last year, without facing any obstacles.

Writing on Telegram on Tuesday, Medvedev, who now serves as Deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council, mocked the Western reaction to Putin's visit to Ulaanbaatar. "The servile European Union has reportedly expressed 'concern' to Mongolia over the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin," he said.

However, the Asian country "has just told the ICC and Eurodegenerates to go do to themselves something that Russians and Mongols found a word for together, back in the 13th century" and get lost, Medvedev suggested.

The ex-president went on to argue that the ICC - which he labeled a "half-baked 'court'" - should be afraid of "a scenario where some madman tries to carry out their illegal arrest warrant. [...] In that case, their lives would be worth no more than the piece of paper on which this sh*tty statute is written," he warned.
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German chancellor 'alarmed' by right-wing election success


RT
Mon, 02 Sep 2024 15:08 UTC
Olaf Scholz
© Patrick Pleul / picture alliance via Getty ImagesFILE PHOTO: Chancellor Olaf Scholz, traveling as an SPD member of the Bundestag.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) to be kept out of local government following the party's success in regional elections at the weekend.

The AfD claimed its first-ever regional election success on Sunday, earning victory in the federal state of Thuringia, according to projections. It also came a close second in Saxony. German authorities have described the party as "far-right" and "extremist."

"The results ... are worrying," Scholz said in a statement to the media, speaking in his capacity as an MP for the Social Democratic Party (SPD). "Our country cannot and must not get used to this. The AfD is damaging Germany. It is weakening the economy, dividing society and ruining our country's reputation."

The conservative opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was the AfD's main rival in both states, while the SPD and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) - both members of the current ruling "traffic light" coalition, along with the Greens - both finished outside the top three. Instead, left-wing newcomer the BSW, led by MP Sahra Wagenknecht, came third in both elections.
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Hungary vows to defy Western 'blackmail'


RT
Mon, 02 Sep 2024 14:35 UTC
Peter Szijjarto
© Sputnik / Viktor TolochkoFILE PHOTO: Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto.
Hungary will continue to insist on a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine conflict as soon as possible despite Western pressure to change its stance, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said.

In an interview with the Russian business daily RBK on Monday, Szijjarto acknowledged that not all of Budapest's partners appreciate its calls to end hostilities between Moscow and Kiev. Hungary has consistently refused to send arms to Ukraine, called for an immediate ceasefire, and criticized Western sanctions against Russia as ineffective and self-defeating.

"When I present a position for peace, I get stigmatized, they say that I am pro-Russian, pro-[President Vladimir] Putin, that I am almost a Russian spy, that I am a Kremlin propagandist," Szijjarto said.

The foreign minister also noted that "the intellectual level of the debate [on resolving the Ukraine conflict] is not very high," explaining that Hungary has seen "only stigmatization," and no counterarguments in response to its stance.
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Soros-funded group tells Mongolia to arrest Putin


RT
Mon, 02 Sep 2024 14:18 UTC
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The George Soros-funded organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the government of Mongolia to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin during his trip to the country, which it says would be in accordance with the Asian state's obligations as a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Putin arrived in Mongolia on Monday at the invitation of the country's president, Ukhnaa Khurelsukh, to attend a ceremony commemorating the 1939 Battle of Khalkhin Gol, in which Soviet and Mongolian forces defeated the Imperial Japanese Army.

Ahead of his visit, HRW, which has received over $100 million from Soros' Open Society Foundations, issued a statement on its website warning Mongolia against allowing Putin to enter the country.

"Mongolia would be defying its international obligations as an ICC member if it allows Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit without arresting him," the HRW's senior international justice counsel, Maria Elena Vignoli said, claiming that welcoming the Russian President would "undermine the crucial principle that no one, no matter how powerful, is above the law."

Comment: The principle that no one is above the law has long since been undermined.

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Ukraine's Kursk gambit failed - Putin


RT
Mon, 02 Sep 2024 07:06 UTC
Russian President Vladimir Putin.
© Sputnik / Alexander KazakovRussian President Vladimir Putin.
Moscow will deal with the "Ukrainian bandits" who tried to destabilize the region, the Russian president said

Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk Region has failed to achieve its intended goal of halting the advance of Moscow's forces in Donbass, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday.

He stated that Russia has been making great strides in key areas of Donbass, advancing at a pace that has not been seen in a "long time."
"The Russian armed forces are taking control of territories not by 200, 300 meters at a time, but by square kilometers," Putin said.
The president added that Kiev's provocation in Kursk Region would inevitably fail and that Moscow would "deal with the Ukrainian bandits" who have entered Russian territory with the aim of destabilizing the situation at the border.

Comment: See also:

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Globalists are trying to escalate the Ukraine war into WWIII before the US election

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:00 UTC
Atlantic Council
The purpose of NATO involvement in the Ukraine War has, to me, always appeared obvious. Ukraine has nothing to do with the interests of the western public, nothing to do with the security of Europe and nothing to do with the economic advancement of the United States. Yet, NATO and the globalists have been politically interfering in the region since at least 2014 and preparing the ground for an eventual war with Russia.

To be clear, I don't favor Russia any more than I favor Ukraine. The Kremlin has long had its own ties to the globalists, as I have outlined in numerous articles. How deep those ties go is up for debate - Maybe the honeymoon is over and Russia is truly done trying to get a seat at the globalist table. What I do know is that western elites want a world war and they have done everything in their power to start one.


Comment: The "Kremlin has ties to the globalists" is a major misnomer that has been deconstructed here many times before. And in many different ways.


Look at it this way: What if you were to make a list of all the covert and overt NATO operations in Ukraine and then flipped script? What if Russia was pursuing all the same agendas of destabilization, control and arms proliferation in Mexico (as the Soviets did in Cuba in the 1960s)? If the US invaded Mexico preemptively it would be completely understandable.
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