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Azaria's legacy: Settlers execute Palestinians, soldiers destroy video evidence, media parrot the lie

Yossi Gurvitz
Mondoweiss
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:06 UTC

Abed al-Fatah al-Sharif, 21, on street in Hebron before he was executed. March 24, 2016.

Let's begin with the facts. About two weeks ago, on April 3^rd, a Palestinian named Muhammad 'Abd Al Fatah, a resident of the Hirbat Qais near Silfit, stoned several cars with Israeli registration plates near the Beita village square. A settler named Yehoshua Sherman fired several shots at 'Abd Al Fatah from within his vehicle; then Sherman left his vehicle, and advanced towards 'Abd Al Fatah, who was taking cover, and he and another Israeli shot him several times, wounding him; the two, advancing towards the bleeding and unarmed Al Fatah, murdered him as he lay bleeding on the ground.

So far, everything according to SOP, standard operating procedure.

Immediately afterwards, the IDF Spokesman announced 'Abd Al Fatah was killed "while carrying out a knife attack."

There was no knife and no knife attack, but hey, it's the IDF Spokesman. Lying is what it does.

So far, everything according to SOP.

Comment: What Guvitz fails to mention is that Azaria was a medic as well as a soldier. It is a measure of the perversion of Israeli society that someone supposedly trained in saving lives feels no compunction about shooting a wounded human being because they are the wrong kind of human being.

Where the money goes: Billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's secret charity activities

Kate Briquelet
The Daily Beast
Tue, 16 Apr 2019 17:32 UTC

Billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein may have stopped trumpeting his million-dollar donations to charities in light of accusations he molested dozens of underage girls. But he continues to quietly distribute his wealth-including to the nonprofits of Deepak Chopra, Elton John and a doctor linked to President Trump-through a shadowy private foundation called "Gratitude America, Ltd.," The Daily Beast has learned.

Gratitude America, Ltd. was launched in 2012 to back "organizations around the world that seek to celebrate the United States of America and the American Ideals," the group stated in its application for tax-exempt status. Those ideals, the nonprofit added, include "liberty, equality, democracy, individualism, unity, and diversity." At the time, Epstein was three years out of jail, but disturbing allegations from his alleged victims, including one who claimed Epstein kept her as a "sex slave" for his famous friends, continued to hound him.

Epstein apparently needed some favorable news to change the narrative and embarked on a public relations crusade that depicted him as a renowned "science philanthropist," rather than a convicted sex offender.

Comment: Charitable donations are a time-honored method of defending a questionable reputation, or rehabilitating a damaged one. Yet even in this activity Epstein can't seem to do it cleanly.

'Wikileaks' revelations reporting the depth of U.S.-Israel relationship has been a great resource to us

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 16:56 UTC

Yesterday the New York Times published a juicy piece about Democratic Party apparatchik Neera Tanden that included a revelation from the Wikileaks dump of documents from the Democratic National Committee in 2016: Tanden hosted Benjamin Netanyahu for a fawning interview at her thinktank, the Center for American Progress, even as Netanyahu was trying to undermine President Obama's Iran deal, so she could recruit a pro-Israel board member, Jonathan Lavine, who gave the organization $1 million last year.

The Times' reliance on Wikileaks to provide important information about our political process is a timely reminder of the public role of the man dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy last Thursday, headed for criminal proceedings related to his obtaining and publishing government documents. Julian Assange is a journalistic source. I've been in the news business for a long time and I've always been told to protect sources. And by the way, not all these sources had great character or reputation. That wasn't the point. The First Amendment protected news gathering, and sources are a critical element of the process.

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Palestinian prisoners win a notable battle with Israeli authorities after hunger strike

Helena Cobban
Mondoweiss
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 16:17 UTC

© Ayat Arqawy/APA Images
Palestinians take part in a Palestinian Prisoners' Day protest in the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 17, 2019.

Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli jails won a small but significant victory April 15 when the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) agreed to several key demands voiced by 400 prisoners who had been on an open-ended hunger strike. Under the settlement, the IPS agreed to provide three-times-weekly access to (supervised) payphones so prisoners could call their families. It moved numerous prisoners from solitary cells back to the general population and made other concessions to the hunger strikers.

The hunger strikers' apparent victory came just two days before Palestinian Prisoners' Day, an observation held annually on April 17 to draw attention to the plight of the thousands of political prisoners held - many for very long terms and many without any fixed term at all - in Israel's broad network of military prisons.

The Egyptian government played a role in mediating the April 15 settlement - presumably in connection with its ongoing efforts to de-escalate the hostilities between Israel and Hamas.

The prisoners most engaged in the hunger strike were from Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front, and the Democratic Front. Few prisoners from Fateh participated, though there were indications that if the hunger strike had continued many more prisoners from all factions would join in on April 17.

Massive pro-Assange protest erupts in Ecuador's capital - President Lenin quashes it with riot police

RT
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 10:49 UTC

Riot police have attacked scores of people who flooded onto the streets of Ecuador's capital and branded their president a "traitor." Protesters were venting anger at the decision to hand Julian Assange over to the UK.

The massive rally in Quito was held to voice unease over the role Ecuador played in arranging for Julian Assange's arrest last week in London. The situation became more tense when police - wearing heavy riot gear - clashed with protesters, using batons to chase them down the street.

A Ruptly video shows some protesters being beaten and taken to the ground amid the demonstration.

Comment: A SOTT reader in Quito, Ecuador informs us that:

Approximately 20,000 citizens of all ages and backgrounds - although especially lower income workers and middle class social-media users - took part in a peaceful protest.

The people were seriously pissed! Chants and cries inundated the streets:
"Traitor! Traitor!... Free Julian Assange... You betrayed our Sovereignty!... Out with the Son of a Bitch!... Lenin Moreno, You're going down!"
There were a considerable amount of activists with Anon Guy Fawkes masks. The historical center was made inaccessible by riot police and at around 7:30pm, some of the younger men couldn't contain their indignation and things got violent, from both sides: stone throwing, tear-gas bombs, swinging batons...

At the moment of this writing, the privately-owned mass media has kept the general public seriously misinformed of international reactions to Assange's arrest event...

From RT: Roger Waters slams UK as accomplice of US Empire in Assange saga:

"To think that the UK has become such a willing accomplice and satellite of the American Empire that it would do such a thing in contravention with all laws, moral, ethical, and actual legal restrictions is absolutely, stunningly appalling and makes me ashamed to be an Englishman.

"If we let the UK get away with allowing him to be extradited to the United States, we allow the United States government, at their whim, to torture him and to detain him possibly for the rest of his life."

Chief architect of Notre Dame: 'We installed new detection system in 2010, and completely rewired the cathedral, so the fire wasn't caused by electrical short-circuit'

Sott.net
Thu, 18 Apr 2019 11:55 UTC

Former chief architect/engineer of Notre Dame Cathedral, who oversaw renovation of its electrical wiring and installed a modern fire detection sytem in 2010

French media reports citing an interview with the former French Inspector-General for Historic Monuments Benjamin Mouton, who oversaw the installation of state-of-the-art fire prevention systems in the Notre Dame Cathedral in 2010, and who was responsible for the building from 2000 to 2013, cast doubt on today's leak to the Associated Press that the fire was likely caused by an electrical short-circuit.

Benjamin Mouton was interviewed live on TV on Monday evening as the fire continued to burn the 850-year-old symbol of French culture and history. Here's what he had to say:

"I don't understand this at all. The fire's spread is extremely curious. With really old oak like that, it's super-hard, so you'd need a lot of smaller wood to first get the fire hot enough for the oak beams to burn.

In 2010 we replaced all the electrical wiring, so there's no way this was sparked by a short-circuit. We put new wiring in place according to modern standards. And we went even further; we installed state-of-the-art fire protection and detection systems in the cathedral.

At all times, there are always two men on standby in the Cathedral, day and night, to go investigate anything the moment an alarm goes off, then if necessary to call the fire emergency services.

I am really stunned that this [the fire] has happened. It's incomprehensible."

Husband killed, wife fighting for life after being attacked by pet deer in Victoria, Australia

Ashlea Kunowski
9news.com.au
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 10:16 UTC

Moyhu deer attack

A 47-year-old man has died and his wife is fighting for life after they were attacked by their pet deer in north-east Victoria.

Paul McDonald was feeding the deer at his property in Moyhu, near Wangaratta, about 8.20am today when the animal attacked.

"At some point while he was in the enclosure he was attacked by the deer," Acting Senior Sargent Paul Purcell said.

Mr McDonald's wife, Mandi, 45, and their son rushed to provide assistance when they heard a noises.

Mandi entered the enclosure and was also attacked before the couple's son dragged her away from the family pet.

French journalist: France is burning - two churches are vandalized each day & no one gives a f*ck

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Thu, 18 Apr 2019 09:49 UTC

French journalist Maxime Lepante warns that France's history is "in the process of burning down" as a result of two churches being vandalized every day and that political and religious leaders don't "give a f*ck."

Lepante highlighted recently released statistics that show there were 1062 anti-Christian acts in 2018, compared to just 100 anti-Muslim acts. Throughout 2018, no less than 875 churches in France were targeted.

"Two churches were vandalized per day," said Lepante, adding, "This government, this regime....including the Pope, including the cardinals, shut their mouth, say nothing when our churches are being vandalized, and in contrast, the minute there is a mosque that has a pot of pork sausage in front of it, there's immediately arrest and prison for the person who did it....apologies from the whole of France, the stigmatization of racism and so on, it's an absolutely unbearable double standard!"

The MSM's cringiest hot takes after Notre Dame fire

Igor Ogorodnev
RT
Thu, 18 Apr 2019 09:49 UTC

© Thomas Samson, AFP/Getty Images
Flames and smoke billow around the gargoyles decorating the roof and sides of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019. - A huge fire swept through the roof of the famed Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris on April 15, 2019, sending flames and huge clouds of grey smoke billowing into the sky.

Watching perhaps the most visceral act of live destruction on TV since 9/11, it was hard to find the right words. But that didn't stop the media reaching for the wrong ones.

After all, what better time to push your political agenda?

"At a moment like this, how foolish it seems to pretend that we are not all Europeans. We stand with France in its hour of heartbreak. We will never, ever, turn away," is the note on which the Guardian finished its editorial, as the fire was still rummaging inside Notre Dame Cathedral.

Notre Dame Cathedral worker claims Paris' largest church was DELIBERATELY set on fire

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Mon, 15 Apr 2019 06:20 UTC

The famous Notre Dame cathedral in Paris is on fire, with one worker claiming that the blaze was deliberately set.

The roof of the historic building has completely collapsed.

"The cause is not yet clear, but officials say it could be linked to renovation work," reports the BBC.

However, TIME columnist Christopher J. Hale tweeted, "A Jesuit friend in Paris who works in #NotreDame told me cathedral staff said the fire was intentionally set."

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Society's Child

Azaria's legacy: Settlers execute Palestinians, soldiers destroy video evidence, media parrot the lie

Where the money goes: Billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's secret charity activities

'Wikileaks' revelations reporting the depth of U.S.-Israel relationship has been a great resource to us

Palestinian prisoners win a notable battle with Israeli authorities after hunger strike

Massive pro-Assange protest erupts in Ecuador's capital - President Lenin quashes it with riot police

Chief architect of Notre Dame: 'We installed new detection system in 2010, and completely rewired the cathedral, so the fire wasn't caused by electrical short-circuit'

Husband killed, wife fighting for life after being attacked by pet deer in Victoria, Australia

French journalist: France is burning - two churches are vandalized each day & no one gives a f*ck

The MSM's cringiest hot takes after Notre Dame fire

Notre Dame Cathedral worker claims Paris' largest church was DELIBERATELY set on fire

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