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Israel to get more 'aggressive' with Russia - MP


RT
Mon, 04 Mar 2024 08:31 UTC
Ukrainian protesters flyers in Tel Aviv, Israel
© Sergey Ponomarev / Getty ImagesUkrainian protesters distribute flyers at a rally to commemorate the anniversary of Russia-Ukraine conflict on February 23, 2024 in Tel Aviv, Israel
West Jerusalem will ramp up its Ukraine aid to retaliate for Moscow's alleged backing of Hamas, Amir Weitmann has claimed.

An Israeli lawmaker has suggested that his government will take a harder line against Russia by boosting its support for Ukraine because it sees Moscow as somehow involved in the Hamas war against West Jerusalem.

"Israel will take a more aggressive stance against Russia," MP Amir Weitmann told US media outlet Business Insider in an article published on Saturday. He added that amid its current battle with Hamas, his government doesn't have munitions to spare, but if the war in Gaza ends before the conflict in Ukraine, "Israeli weapons would find their way" to Kiev.

Weitmann made his comments in response to plans by Israel - revealed on Wednesday at the UN - to provide an early warning system to help Kiev counter Russian airstrikes and drone attacks. The announcement by Gilad Erdan, Israel's permanent representative to the UN, did not "come out of the blue," the lawmaker said.

Comment: See also:

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Kremlin responds to German military 'Crimean Bridge attack' leak


RT
Mon, 04 Mar 2024 08:23 UTC
Kremlin
© Getty Images / agustavop
The recording shows that the West is directly involved in the Ukraine conflict, Dmitry Peskov has said.

The leaked recording of German military officials discussing a possible strike on the Crimean Bridge is further proof that the West, and Berlin in particular, are pursuing a hostile policy toward Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan last week released a transcript and audio recording of what was claimed to be a conversation between four senior German military officials. The latter are heard discussing plans to hand over Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine in a way that would help them avoid accusations of direct involvement in the conflict.

Speaking to reporters on Monday, Peskov stressed that German officials "de-facto" discussed strikes on the Crimean Bridge, noting that Moscow had already summoned the German ambassador to Russia, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, to lodge a protest over the recording.
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Best of the Web: Vladimir Putin and Tucker Carlson: The Geopolitics of Dialogue

Alexander Dugin
The Postil Magazine
Mon, 04 Mar 2024 22:21 UTC
painting tucker carlson putin intrview
© The Postil Magazine
Why is Tucker Carlson's interview momentous for both the West and Russia?

Let us start with the simpler part — Russia. Here, Tucker Carlson has become a focal point of convergence for two different — polar — segments of Russian society: the ideological patriots and the elite Westernizers who nevertheless remain loyal to Putin and the Special Military Operation (SMO). For the patriots, Tucker Carlson is simply ours. He is a traditionalist, a right-wing conservative, a staunch opponent of liberalism. This is what walking to the Russian Tsar looks like in the 21st century.

Putin does not often interact with the brightest representatives of the fundamentally conservative camp. And the attention that the Kremlin pays him kindles the heart of a patriot, inspiring him to continue the conservative-traditionalist course in Russia itself. Now it is possible and necessary to do so: the Russian authorities have decided on an ideology. We have taken this path and we will not turn away from it. But patriots are always afraid that we will turn back. No.
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Hunter Biden's Chinese legal 'client' threatens to sue unless first son pays back $1 million

Miranda Devine
New York Post
Sun, 03 Mar 2024 21:58 UTC
Dr. Chi Ping Patrick Ho hunter biden legal fees
© Associated PressDr. Chi Ping Patrick Ho, former Hong Kong home secretary and deputy chairman of an NGO funded by CEFC China Energy. Ho claims Hunter Biden did no legal work for him.
Hunter Biden was paid $1 million by Chinese firm CEFC to act as attorney for its employee, Dr. Patrick Ho, but now Ho is threatening to sue the first son within seven days unless he gets the money back — because he claims Hunter did no legal work for him.

Ho sent a legal letter to Hunter last week requesting that their attorney-client agreement be terminated immediately and threatening legal action unless he receives a detailed list of services provided by Hunter and reimbursement for the unused funds, as laid out in the 2017 contract.

Ho's letter, sent by Hong Kong law firm Huen & Partners to Hunter's attorney Abbe Lowell in Washington, DC, set a deadline of seven days for the repayment of any remaining funds.
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SOTT Focus: Netanyahu's Messianic Coalition Partners Want an All-out Regional War. Gaza is Just a First Step

Ehud Olmert
Haaretz
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:40 UTC
Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir
© Eliyahu HershkovitzIsraeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir
The supreme aim of the far-right duo National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is not the occupation of the Gaza Strip.

Even settlement throughout the devastated Strip is not the final goal of the bunch of messianic hallucinators that has seized power in the state of Israel. Gaza is just the introductory chapter, the platform this gang wants to build as the foundation upon which the real fight they are eyeing will be conducted: the battle for the West Bank and the Temple Mount.

The ultimate aim of this gang is "purging" the West Bank of its Palestinian inhabitants, cleansing the Temple Mount of its Muslim worshippers and annexing the territories to the state of Israel. The way to achieve this goal is blood-soaked. Israeli blood, in the state and in the territories it has been controlling for 57 years now, as well as Jewish blood in places elsewhere in the world. As well as a lot of Palestinian blood, of course, in the territories, in Jerusalem and if there is no alternative - also among Arab citizens of Israel.
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Operation Al-Aqsa Flood: The Defeat of the Vanquisher

Jacques Baud
The Postil Magazine
Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00 UTC
Bk cover
© Max Milo/KJN
We are pleased to bring you this excerpt from Colonel Jacques Baud's latest book, which deals with the genocide in Gaza currently being carried out by Israel. The book is entitled, Operation Al-Aqsa Flood: The Defeat of the Vanquisher. We will update this page as soon as this book becomes available. In the meantime, here is the excerpt:

Doctrinal Apparatus Ill-Suited to an Asymmetrical Conflict

The BETHLEHEM Doctrine

This doctrine was developed by Daniel Bethlehem, legal advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu and then to British Prime Minister Tony Blair. It postulates that "states are entitled to preventive self-defense against an 'imminent' attack." The difficulty here is to determine the "imminent" nature of an attack, which implies that the terrorist action is close in time and that there is a body of evidence to confirm it.
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Germany caught out by leak of secret Ukraine war talks


CNA
Sun, 03 Mar 2024 03:14 UTC
missiles
© Jung Yeon-Je/AFPKyiv has long been clamoring for Germany to provide it with Taurus missiles, which can reach targets up to 500km away.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised on Saturday (Mar 2) a full investigation after a recording of confidential army talks on the Ukraine war was circulated on Russian social media, in a huge embarrassment for Berlin.

A German Defence Ministry spokeswoman confirmed to AFP that the ministry believed a conversation in the Air Force division was "intercepted".
"We are currently unable to say for certain whether changes were made to the recorded or transcribed version that is circulating on social media."
The head of Russia's state-backed RT channel, Margarita Simonyan, posted on Friday the 38-minute audio recording of what she claimed were German army officers discussing potential strikes on Crimea in a Feb 19 videoconference. In the recording, discussions can be heard on the possible use by Ukrainian forces of German-made Taurus missiles and their potential impact.

Topics included aiming the missiles at targets such as a key bridge over the Kerch strait linking the Russian mainland to Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014. The discussions also cover the use of missiles provided to Kyiv by France and Britain. Kyiv has long been calling on Germany to provide it with Taurus missiles, which can reach targets up to 500km away.
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Hamas delegation joins mediators at Gaza ceasefire talks in Cairo

Bethan McKernan
The Guardian
Sun, 03 Mar 2024 11:55 UTC
S&RGaza
© Anadolu/Getty ImagesSearch and rescue efforts after Israeli attacks in Rafah, Gaza
Israel indicated to have provisionally accepted six-week hostage and truce deal, but Palestinian official says: 'We're not there yet'...

A Hamas delegation was in Cairo on Sunday for talks on efforts to broker a ceasefire in the war in Gaza after indications that Israel had provisionally accepted a six-week phased hostage and truce deal before the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Qatari and US mediators also arrived in the Egyptian capital on Sunday, according to the state-linked Al Qahera News.

Talks involving Israeli negotiators took place in the Qatari city of Doha on Saturday and Hamas is expected to respond on Sunday or Monday as time runs out before the unofficial deadline of 10 or 11 March, when Ramadan starts. The month of fasting is often accompanied by an uptick in violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, even in quieter years.

A Hamas official said that if Israel were to meet its demands - which include a complete military withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and stepped-up humanitarian aid - this would "pave the way for an agreement within the next 24-48 hours". Another unnamed Palestinian official told Reuters, however, that a ceasefire deal was still not imminent, saying: "We're not there yet."

Comment: Israel is determined to offer nothing. So far it is right on target.

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Hezbollah detains Dutch armed group in Beirut suburb


The Cradle.co
Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:00 UTC
soldiers
© APHezbollah fighters hold their group's flags at a rally in Nabatiyeh, southern Lebanon, November 7, 2014.
Foreign intelligence agencies are reportedly seeking information to assassinate Hezbollah operatives...

Hezbollah security personnel arrested six Dutch nationals in the southern suburbs of Beirut last Wednesday, Al-Akhbar reported on 2 March. The men were found in possession of military-grade weapons, ammunition, and equipment.

The Dutch government claimed the six men were part of a special group sent to evacuate its nationals if the war between Hezbollah and Israel expanded.

Hezbollah handed over the men to the Lebanese Intelligence Directorate, where they were interrogated and kept in detention until early Friday morning.

Sources speaking with Al-Akhbar said the six men claimed to be members of the Dutch military, simulating an evacuation attempt from inside the southern suburb. Contact with them was lost after they entered the southern suburb and were stopped by Hezbollah security personnel. Two employees of the Dutch embassy residing in the southern suburb allegedly participated in the failed simulation.

However, journalist Hasan Illaik of the Lebanese news outlet Al-Mahatta reported that the embassy employees were not Dutch nationals.
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Russia is monitoring NATO's 'provocative' Nordic Response drills that are 'near line of engagement' - diplomat


TASS
Mon, 04 Mar 2024 18:40 UTC
Aleksandr Grushko
© EPARussia's ambassador to NATO, Aleksandr Grushko
"All of this activity is further weakening European security, creating additional risks in northern Europe," Alexander Grushko noted© Russian Foreign Ministry/TASS

MOSCOW, March 4. /TASS/. Russia is following NATO's Nordic Response 24 drills, in which new members Finland and Sweden are taking part, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told reporters.

"The military is monitoring them; all necessary means are available. Our political stance is well-known: We think that these drills are of a demonstrative and provocative nature," he said.

"Any military exercise, especially near the line of engagement, increases the risks of military incidents. So from the point of view of ensuring Russia's defense capability, all necessary measures are being taken," the senior diplomat stressed.

Comment: Inciting, or forcing, Russia to respond seems to be the point: Korybko: Transnistria could become the tripwire for a wider war

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