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Sunday, September 28, 2025

All the news YOU CAN'T HANDLE from tweets on X ..... September 13 - 20, 2025

 

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Sunday, September 14, 2025

Three items for your "must read" : September 14, 2025

Important articles.  Please try and find the time to access the links and read them in their entirety.

 

https://thegrayzone.com/2025/09/12/charlie-kirk-netanyahu-israel-assassination/

Charlie Kirk refused Netanyahu funding offer, was ‘frightened’ by pro-Israel forces before death, friend reveals

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A Trump insider and longtime friend of Charlie Kirk tells The Grayzone how the assassinated conservative leader’s turning point on Israeli influence provoked a private backlash from Netanyahu’s allies that left him angry and afraid.

The source said anxiety spread within the Trump administration after an apparent Israeli spying operation was uncovered.

Charlie Kirk rejected an offer earlier this year from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to arrange a massive new infusion of Zionist money into his Turning Point USA (TPUSA) organization, America’s largest conservative youth association, according to a longtime friend of the slain commentator speaking on the condition of anonymity. The source told The Grayzone that the late pro-Trump influencer believed Netanyahu was trying to cow him into silence as he began to publicly question Israel’s overwhelming influence in Washington and demanded more space to criticize it. 

In the weeks leading up to his September 10 assassination, Kirk had come to loathe the Israeli leader, regarding him as a “bully,” the source said. Kirk was disgusted by what he witnessed inside the Trump administration, where Netanyahu sought to personally dictate the president’s personnel decisions, and weaponized Israeli assets like billionaire donor Miriam Adelson to keep the White House firmly under its thumb.

According to Kirk’s friend, who also enjoyed access to President Donald Trump and his inner circle, Kirk strongly warned Trump last June against bombing Iran on Israel’s behalf. “Charlie was the only person who did that,” they said, recalling how Trump “barked at him” in response and angrily shut down the conversation. The source believes the incident confirmed in Kirk’s mind that the president of the United States had fallen under the control of a malign foreign power, and was leading his own country into a series of disastrous conflicts....................................................

 

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https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-disengagement-2005-genocide/ 

How Israel’s Gaza ‘disengagement’ planted the seeds of today’s genocide

Enraged by the 2005 withdrawal, the national-religious camp worked to brand territorial concession as a disaster — with ethnic cleansing as the only solution.

By Daniel Levy September 10, 2025
  

In August 2005, when Israel implemented its “unilateral disengagement plan” in Gaza, it came as a rude jolt to the settler movement. The plan entailed the removal of 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip and an additional four in the northern West Bank, with a total of approximately 9,000 settlers relocated. The atmosphere in the country at the time felt as if a tipping point had been reached: it was Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, a stalwart of the Israeli right, who ordered the withdrawal of the Israeli military and illegal settlements from occupied Palestinian territory.

Twenty years later, how Israel conducted the withdrawal of its settlements from Gaza — and subsequently narrated the fallout — can be understood as a critical juncture in the demise of the two-state paradigm. It was also a harbinger of what is now replacing it: not just separating from the Palestinians, relegated to shrinking Bantustans, but annihilating and erasing them.

In the decade after the withdrawal, Israel’s right-wing national-religious camp, with Likud at the helm, succeeded in deeply embedding the idea that a withdrawal of settlements could never be repeated. This presaged the dominance since October 7 of what were long considered extreme positions, where Israeli officials openly advocate for the completion of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians that was left unfinished in the original Nakba of 1948. And after the Hamas-led attacks, it was the national-religious camp that was the quickest to recalibrate and identify a moment of opportunity........

 

...............After October 7, only one narrative resonated widely in Israel, from the extremes of the fringe hilltop youth all the way up to the military establishment: whatever was done to Palestinians, they had brought upon themselves. Take former army intelligence chief Aharon Haliva’s claim that killing 50,000 Palestinians, including children, was “necessary,” or then-army chief of staff Herzi Halevi’s promise to his wife on the morning of the attacks that “Gaza will be destroyed.”............

 

.................Center-left politicians made no attempt to argue that Hamas, having participated in elections, could and should be integrated into the political process, as had happened with countless armed resistance movements in liberation struggles throughout history. Nor did they push back against the siege and blockade of Gaza, the collective punishment of the civilian population, or the multiple rounds of destruction and killing that preceded October 2023. Indeed, when erstwhile Israeli (so-called) opposition leader Benny Gantz launched his political career in December 2018, he sought legitimacy by highlighting his own mass killing exploits in Gaza. .....

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https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2025/gunshot-palestine-children-israel-war~v1819649/

Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, which spoke with the doctors who are among the last international eyewitnesses.

Door Maud Effting en Willem Feenstra

It is March 2024, and this is his first day. A Palestinian nurse is guiding him through the hospital. Then, suddenly, his gaze lands on two young boys lying utterly still in their beds. They look no older than eight or ten, he estimates. Their heads are swathed in bandages. They are on ventilators. The rest of their bodies are intact.

“What happened?,” he asks.

The nurse barely speaks English. But she points to their heads. “Shot, shot,” she says.

At first, Sidhwa assumes she’s mistaken. Are they shooting at children? Minutes later, looking at the scans, he sees she was right.

When they step into a second room, they find two more boys, in the same condition.

“I thought: what the hell?” he says over the phone to de Volkskrant, his deep voice steady. “How is it possible that, in this small hospital, four children are lying here with gunshot wounds to the head — all admitted within the past 48 hours?”

The four boys are all slowly dying. That evening, Sidhwa makes a note in the diary on his phone. But there’s no time to reflect. Not yet.

In the thirteen days that follow, he sees nine more children with single gunshot wounds to the head or chest — children who were likely shot deliberately. “I started to wonder if my hospital was near some crazy sniper,” Sidhwa says. “Or a drone team killing children just for fun.”

Back home, at a medical conference, Sidhwa meets an American colleague who had worked in another hospital in Gaza just before him. When Sidhwa brings up the children, the man nods. “To my surprise, he said: ‘Yeah, I saw that too — almost every day.’’”

The doctor in question, Thaer Ahmad, confirmed this account to de Volkskrant.

“That was the moment,” Sidhwa says, “when I decided: I have to find out what’s really happening here.”...........

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Friday, September 12, 2025

Some tweets from platform X which best covers some of the news of the last few days. September 12, 2025

 

Posted by MariaS at 16:24 0 comments

A couple of items worth reading: Australia does the bidding of Israel; Families torn apart for having been born in the Riviera of the Middle East

https://thegrayzone.com/2025/09/09/israeli-tip-preceded-australian-claim-that-iran-plotted-bombings/

 

Israeli ‘tip’ preceded Australian claim that Iran plotted bombings

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A new report suggests Israel played a key role in establishing the narrative that Iran was behind attacks on Jewish-focused establishments in Australia. The still unproven claim has since been used to poison relations between Tehran and Canberra.

Israeli spies provided Australia’s top intelligence agency with a “tip off” regarding at least one of the recent explosions at Jewish community buildings which Canberra has publicly blamed on Iran, according to Australia’s Sky News.

“Confidential sources have confirmed that Israel provided ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organisation) with a tip off, or lead, in relation to one of the firebombings,” the outlet acknowledged, though it insisted “the vast majority” of what it called “extensive leg-work” on the opaque investigation was carried out by Australian intelligence.

While the late 2024 explosions at a kosher restaurant in Sydney and Adas Israel Synagogue in Melbourne caused no injuries and little damage, Canberra has exploited the alleged bombings to justify recent diplomatic aggression against Tehran, which culminated in the expulsion of Iran’s ambassador on August 26.

Iran’s foreign minister lambasted Australia’s “ridiculous and baseless” claims, noting that the country has no incentive to target a Jewish-owned restaurant halfway across the world and that it “makes zero sense” for Tehran to do so. It’s described Australia’s termination of diplomatic ties as an attempt to provide cover for the Israeli genocide..

The designation came just one week after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a brazen personal attack on Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, whom he trashed as “a weak politician who betrayed Israel and abandoned Australia’s Jews.” The timing of Australia’s demolition of its relations with Iran, which occurred just one week later, has sparked widespread speculation that the decision to expel Tehran’s diplomats was an attempt to appease Israel...........

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/09/the-gaza-family-torn-apart-by-idf-snipers-from-chicago-and-munich

The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich

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Tue 9 Sep 2025

Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians

Daniel Raab shows no hesitation as he watches footage of 19-year-old Salem Doghmosh crumpling to the ground beside his brother in a street in northern Gaza.

“That was my first elimination,” he says. The video, shot by a drone, lasts just a few seconds. The Palestinian teenager appears to be unarmed when he is shot in the head.

 Palestinians walk amid rubble of destroyed buildings

 

Raab, a former varsity basketball player from a Chicago suburb who became an Israeli sniper, concedes he knew that. He says he shot Salem simply because he tried to retrieve the body of his beloved older brother Mohammed.

“It’s hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesn’t really interest me,” Raab says in a video interview posted on X. “I mean, what was so important about that corpse?”

A five-month investigation by the Guardian, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) and Paper Trail Media, Der Spiegel and ZDF has identified six people shot by Israeli snipers on 22 November 2023. And through interviews with survivors, witnesses and relatives, reviews of death certificates, medical records and geolocated images we revealed how a family from Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood was torn apart in a few hours by men who grew up in Naperville, Illinois and Munich, Germany.

Israeli snipers killed four members of the Doghmosh family that day, and injured two others. Their story illuminates patterns of killing by Israeli troops, who have repeatedly treated unarmed men between 18 and 40 in Gaza as targets.................

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Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Interesting read and watch ............ September 9, 2025

 The article from Whitney Webb is from 2023.  It also now relates to the new investigation of  the involvement of JPMorgan and Epstein taken up by an investigative editor from the NYT. (see Democracy Now video at second link below for more details on that and many other new discoveries including Trump's birthday card to Epstein, which he claims is a forgery).

 

Additionally, Webb had this to say on X today:

 

 

 

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2023/04/investigative-series/crowning-the-king-of-wall-street/

Crowning the King of Wall Street

In addition to intimate associates of Leslie Wexner, JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon’s ascent to the highest tier of Wall Street power also depended heavily on the Crown family – whose deep ties to organized crime and the military-industrial complex made them one of the richest, most powerful and most corrupt families in America. 
 
 
Whitney Webb
April 27, 2023
 
 

Whether for his controversial comments on private property seizure by governments and corporations or his coming testimony in the JPMorgan-Jeffrey Epstein case, Jamie Dimon – the CEO of JPMorgan – has been in the news a lot lately. While Dimon’s comments often receive media attention by virtue of the power he wields on Wall Street and the U.S. banking industry at large, most know very little about Dimon’s time before JPMorgan and how he came to lead one of the largest, most powerful banks on Wall Street and in the world.

As detailed in Part 1 of this series, Dimon’s rise to the top was made possible by his connections, and those of his benefactors, to networks where intelligence, organized crime and corporate power intermingle. As noted there, many of the same elite circles that gave rise to Jeffrey Epstein, namely those around Leslie Wexner, also played a key role in Dimon’s selection to be the CEO of Bank One – the position which directly led to his becoming the head of JPMorgan......

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 https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/9/epstein_book

 

Jeffrey Epstein & JPMorgan: How the Largest U.S. Bank Enabled the Sexual Predator’s Crimes

 

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Monday, September 8, 2025

Catching up with the ways of our world ............. September 8, 2025

 

Article from 2020

15 December 2020

 https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/truth-behind-israeli-propaganda-expulsion-arab-jews

 

Israel's outrageous fabrications about the immigration of Arab Jews to Israel in the 1940s and 50s are an attempt to mask the injustices meted out to Palestinians

Israeli propaganda about the "expulsion" of Arab Jews from Arab countries in the late 1940s and early 1950s continues without respite. Earlier this month, Israel's UN ambassador, Gilad Erdan, informed UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that he "intends to submit a draft resolution requiring the international body to hold an annual commemoration for the hundreds of thousands of Jews exiled from Arab countries due to the creation of the State of Israel," according to a report in Ynet. 

 

Israel's fabrications about the immigration of Arab Jews to Israel are so outrageous that the country holds a commemoration on 30 November each year. This date just happens to coincide with the ethnic cleansing by Zionist gangs of Palestine, which began on 30 November 1947, a day after the UN General Assembly adopted the Partition Plan. The choice of date seeks to implicate Arab Jews in the conquest of Palestine, when most had no role in it.  

Erdan alleges that, after the establishment of the Israeli settler-colony, Arab countries "launched a widespread attack against the State of Israel and the thriving Jewish communities that lived within [the Arab world]". Israeli fabrications, with which Israel always hoped to force Arab countries into paying Israel billions of dollars, have a second important goal: to exonerate Israel from its original sin of expelling Palestinians in 1948 and stealing their land and property. .......................

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https://original.antiwar.com/joshua-frank/2025/09/04/gazas-looming-cancer-epidemic/

 

Gaza’s Looming Cancer Epidemic

The Many Ways Bombs Can Kill

by | Sep 5, 2025 | 7 Comments

Originally appeared at TomDispatch.

Honestly, can you believe it? Only a couple of weeks after Israeli forces targeted and killed four Al Jazeera journalists in a tent outside al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, it happened again. This time, at least five journalists, including one who “had reported for The Associated Press on children being treated for starvation at the same facility,” died in a second Israeli air strike on Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, after rescuers (and journalists covering them) rushed to deal with the initial strike on the top floor of one of that hospital’s buildings. All told, in fact, it seems that nearly 200 journalists and media workers of various sorts have been killed (or should the word be slaughtered?) since the war in Gaza began.

Even for wars, such figures are staggering — and, of course, they’re only part of the almost unimaginable toll of dead and wounded in that remarkably small 25-mile strip of land that’s been the focus of Israeli devastation since the nightmarish Hamas attack on Israel occurred almost two years ago.............

 

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https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/8/headlines/nearly_900_arrested_at_palestine_action_protest_in_the_uk

Nearly 900 Arrested at Palestine Action Protest in the U.K.

HeadlineSep 08, 2025

 

In London, police arrested nearly 900 people Saturday at a protest against the U.K. government banning the group Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act. It is now illegal for anyone in Britain to show support for Palestine Action. Protests against the ban have been mounting for weeks.

Tamara Abood: “Ordinary people who have never been on protests in their lives are, you know, reckoning with their conscience. They’re thinking, 'I cannot keep sitting, day in, day out, and on my sofa watching this abject horror and do nothing.' And so, the extraordinary thing is, you know, the images, the most powerful images we’re seeing, are of, you know, disabled, middle-aged, elderly white people being carted off by the police for the crime of saying, 'Stop killing children.'”

In other protest news, organizers say over 110,000 people took to the streets of Brussels on Sunday in a major pro-Palestine rally that came days after the Belgian government announced it would soon recognize Palestinian state and impose sanctions on Israel......

 

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Saturday, September 6, 2025

What an eye-opener of an article ! A must read ! .......... September 6, 2025

 Please access Shaun King's link below for the full article and ready yourself for the nasty surprises.

 

https://www.thenorthstar.com/p/israels-75-year-playbook-of-false

 

๐Ÿ”ฅ Israel’s History of False Flags: Assassinations, Massacres, and Blame Shifted to Arabs and Muslims

For decades Israel killed, lied, and blamed others: King David Hotel, Lavon Affair, Lillehammer, Sabra & Shatila. These are not theories — they are facts, and Gaza is next in line

Shaun King
Sep 02, 2025
  
 What a “False Flag Operation” Really Means

Before I ever wrote the news for a living, I read it. And one thing that always bothered me was how writers would throw around names of people, places, and terms — but almost never stop to just explain them. Sure, people can Google things. But I always told myself: if I ever became a writer, I’d take the time to break it down in plain English so all of my readers, no matter their background, could follow along.

So let me define what a false flag operation is, OK?

The term comes from old naval warfare. A warship would sail under a flag that wasn’t its own — maybe the enemy’s flag, maybe a neutral one. Then, at the last moment, it would attack. The point was deception: to commit an act of violence but trick everyone into believing someone else was responsible. Over time, the phrase came to mean any violent or criminal act carried out secretly, then blamed on another party.

And here’s the thing: Israel has used this tactic again and again — sometimes against Arabs, sometimes against Americans, sometimes even against its own allies — to frame others for its crimes. These are not rumors. They are not “urban legends.” For years I thought they were conspiracy theories, too. But I dug in, verified them, fact-checked every detail I could. And the truth is undeniable: Israel is perhaps the most prolific modern state in using false flag operations, almost always blaming Arabs and Muslims to turn the world against them.

And I challenge you: fact-check every single example I’m about to give you. In fact, you should always do that anyway. Don’t just take my word for it.

Built on Terrorism and Deception

Let’s also be clear about the timeline. The first major false flag operation we’re covering happened in 1946 — two years before the official founding of the State of Israel. That’s important. It means that long before Israel was even declared a nation, its militias were already using deception, violence, and terrorism as their operating principles.

Think about that. Israel likes to present itself to the world as a plucky democracy surrounded by enemies. But its very birth was midwifed by bombs planted in secret, disguises meant to fool the world, and massacres that were blamed on others. This is not opinion. This is fact.

And just as they framed Arabs in 1946, they frame them now in Gaza. When Israel bombs a hospital and says Hamas was hiding inside, it is the exact same script. When they starve children and call it “self-defense,” it is the same deception.


 
 
 
 
 

The King David Hotel Bombing (1946)

Our first case is infamous in the region, but almost unknown to most Americans. On July 22, 1946, the Zionist militia known as the Irgun, led by Menachem Begin (who would later become Prime Minister of Israel), carried out one of the deadliest terror attacks in the history of British rule in Palestine.

Their target was the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, the headquarters of the British administrative and military command. Disguised as Arab workers, the Irgun operatives smuggled milk churns filled with explosives into the hotel’s basement. The bombs went off, collapsing an entire wing of the building.

The result: 91 people killed — British officials, Jews, and Arabs alike. Dozens more were injured. It was a massacre.

And here’s where the false flag part comes in: at first, Zionist leaders denied responsibility. They pushed the idea that Arabs had carried out the bombing. Only later, once the dust settled and international outrage cooled, did Begin and others admit the Irgun had done it — and even glorified it as a strike for independence.

That’s how Israel’s political class works: commit the crime, deny it, wait until it’s safe, then reframe it as heroism. You’ve seen it. I’m just putting words to it.....................

 

 

 

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