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Menu There is no diplomatic solutionIsrael should declare three nos;
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
@Inna1
Actually, I think it is you who are confused.
The BM was violated by the US coup in Ukraine which took place BEFORE Russia seized the Crimea. When the US violated the BM, it was legally moot. The coup resulted in a violation of provisions 1, 2 and 3 of the BM. The US coup also violated the UN Charter, the Helsinki Final Act,and the OSCE Charter, all of which REQUIRE that the rights of minorities within each nation be PROTECTED rather than PERSECUTED as came to be the preference of the newly US supported govt of Ukraine.
Is this the same 8yrs that Ukraine’s armed forces carried out a war on the ethnic Russian population in the Dombas? Recall that this was when Ukraine’s army, complete with Nazi units, took control of much of the Dombas as far as Marioupol, as it openly shelled and flew bombing missions on the local population. If the Dombas was under Russia’s control, how were the Ukrainian forces able to do any of this. Notably these are the same Ukrainian forces which were pushed back following Russia entering the war and actually did take control, but this was in 2022, not 2014. Also, if Russia controlled the area as you claim, how is it that Azov was in Marioupol where it was cited for war crimes by international, aka anti-Russian, human rights organizations.
Which constitution are we speaking about? Is this the Constitution which was adopted after the US coup in 2014 which required Ukraine to seek NATO membership, or the one which existed before it which maintained its neutrality as agreed in the BM (back to the above cited BM violations)?
Ironically, the Russian occupation of Crimea was so unpopular that not a single Crimean casualty took place while Russia occupied it.
Is this really what you meant to type? Because I think you off by about $23.5 billion, just in weaponry, and this doesn’t include the most recent donative to the cleptocratic clutches of the captain Green Tshirt.
the West is not helping enough.
This is so ridiculously false, I don’t think it merits a response.
Actually I would argue that Ukraine needed good leadership, but instead Ukraine has been led by the corrupt US leaders rather than even the corrupt Ukrainian leaders, which has left the Ukrainian people to deal with the consequences of being a dispensible element in the US’ failed attempt to regime change Russia. Unfortunately for Ukraine, Ukrainians were not choosing the choices chosen, and the consequence of this is that Zel and his ruling (ruining?) buddies have amassed fat offshore bank accounts and marvelous housing arrangements outside of Ukraine as the fields of Dombas have come to lie thick with Ukrainian dead serving US rather than Ukrainian interests. Very sad, but also very predictably.
Good rule of thumb for the 21st Century, don’t become a proxy in America’s forever wars, as it quite predictably never turns out well for the proxy. Ukraine foolishly failed to understand this fact, and now they are reaping the consequences for their failure to do so.
@Sebastien Zorn
“Ukraine bombed Eastern Ukraine for 8 years killing 14,000 people before Eastern Ukraine petitioned the Russian Federation for membership “. Sir, it seems that you have no idea of what the Russian Federation did and doing in Ukraine.
USSR collapsed in 1991, and Ukrainian borders, including Crimea and Donbas,
were recognized by the UN. In 1994, Russia, the USA, and the UK signed the Budapest Memorandum supporting the independence of Ukraine in its internationally recognizes borders. Under Clinton’s pressure, Ukraine returned the Russian Federation 1300 nuclear warheads, lots of weapons, thousands of rockets, machinery, etc., manufactured and stored on the Ukrainian territory before the USSR collapsed. She did not have to do that, but under the pressure and promised support – she did. Then there came Obama, who imposed embargo on selling weapons to Ukraine. Trump revoked the embargo, but it was too late.
In 2014 Russian “green men” invaded Crimea and then Donbas region of Ukraine. Ukraine did not kill 14,000 people, where did you take this number from? Ukraine could not throw the Russians out of Crimea and Donbas because she did not have weapons. For 8 years Russia was holding Crimea and Donbass under her control. It was not an active war, Ukraine did not have strength to fight back. “Referendum” on membership in RF that you mentioned was fake and violated Ukrainian Constitution. It took place on invaded territory with people held under gunpoint.
Putin knew that Trump would give Ukraine enough weapons to win the war. That is why Putin did not start an active war when Trump was a POTUS. Biden refused to support Ukraine. Lend-Lease did not start, despite of the fact that both parties supported it and Biden signed it. Globalists’ puppet Biden is not supporting either Ukraine or Israel.
Now Ukraine is bleeding, her sky is not protected, she does not have enough weapons – the West is not helping enough. If you read the bills “Financial help for Ukraine” you will see how little money goes for weapons. In fact Ukraine does not need money, she needs weapons, and Lend-Lease could save her, but it did not start.
It’s a long story, but Mr. Zorn, your information is absolutely wrong. Laura is right.
Wow, Russia has a “Ministry of Enlightenment?” Bhutan has a “Ministry of Happiness.” So, is Putin a Buddhist? 😀
“On Putin’s initiative, Soviet writer Alexander Fadeyev’s highly ideological novel “The Young Guard,”[10] which was written under the direct supervision of Stalin, expresses the Soviet ideology of the 1940s, and tells about the exploits of very young Komsomol members who died for the Soviet state, has been included on the list of compulsory reading books since September 1, 2023. Today, Putin finds this novel to be highly beneficial for the education of the young Russian generation.[11]”
“In instructing about “active citizenship,” teachers have to communicate to students and their parents that pursuing personal interests and a comfortable life leads to personal moral decline, while serving the country is the only true and highest value. The guidelines also mandate that teachers should incorporate the topic of heroism into every lesson of “Conversations about Important Things,” instilling in children the idea of self-sacrifice.[7]”
https://www.memri.org/reports/putin-raises-new-generation-war
Banzai! 😀
Just to put things in perspective:
Shockingly people on this site are still defending Russia.
Biden sold cluster bombs to Ukraine and then lectured Israel about collateral damage. It’s hypocrisy all around.
@Peloni True. And amazing, considering Putin has refused to call Hamas a terrorist organization, which the U.S. has, at least. Was it just that interviewer or do they not care about the content as long as the U.S. and Ukraine are condemned?
@Sebastien
Also, the interviewer actually treated Mudar with respect, and agreed that Mudar had made many important valid points, rather than ridiculing him, or giving him the great eye roll, or cutting him off with rapid-fire mischaracterizing questions.
Western media doesn’t care about the answers offered, as their interviewers already know what the set narrative is suppose to be, and nothing else is allowed to be aired without being treated with great disdain, great ridicule, and ruthless abuse.
Western journalism used to be about getting answer, but now it is all about doubting anything that doesn’t support the state sponsored narrative.
Putin was born on October 7, 1952.
@Laura Well, Ukraine bombed Eastern Ukraine for 8 years killing 14,000 people before Eastern Ukraine petitioned the Russian Federation for membership but it’s a moot point because Russia is allied with our enemies.
However, what Mudhar Zaharan said is right. He just omitted blaming Russia so they let him say his piece, amazingly. I’d be surprised to see this on Western legacy media which has been painting Israel as the aggressor.
@Laura
Can you elucidate on this? It sounds rather specific, as even the neocons aren’t making this claim. Of course, many of them are making vague statements that ‘Russia must have been involved’ which is usually all a neocon needs to start a new war, but your statement suggests something much more tangible. Or am I perhaps misreading your comment?
@Laura
I only wish this had been the true history of the West in recent decades.
Libya, Iraq, Serbia? These are just three such invasions but they are the most notable of recent US military adventurisms.
Madeline Albright acknowledged that killing 500,000 children was a fair price to pay to gain US objectives in Serbia. 1,000,000 civilians died in the US invasion of Iraq which was based upon the US being anthraxed with US manufactured anthrax stolen from a US biolab and used to manipulate the votes of two US Senators who were blocking the passage of the patriot act. The US hunt for Ghaddaffi came at the cost of one of the most progressive developed nations in Africa, just to prevent him from choosing to deal with Russia as he saw fit as a sovereign nation. We could go further into discussing the slaughters associated with the US Arab Spring, or the US designed civil war in Syria, all while providing Iran an umbrella under which it could develop its nuclear program to threaten all the Sunni states who were suppose to be US allies, not to mention Israel.
In fact, the US has been well out of control since the fall of the Soviet Union, drunk on its power and committed to doing insane things, only some of which are listed here, and none of which were to protect the US or US interests. As Mudar describes them well, the US intel agencies have been using radical insurrectionist in pursuit of their war mongering goals.
I wish him every luck in ending this war mongering reign of terror coming from the US. It would be a welcome change to see the US supporting US objectives, and aiding US allies rather than destroying them.
Have it your way, Tanna. I’ve had my fill of Putin apologists and I won’t even bother arguing about it anymore. If you’re still defending that demonic monster, there’s nothing I can say that will change your mind at this point. Kind of like people defending hamas.
Laura, your misinformed. There is no such thing as, “Russia’s unprovoked invasion.”
The only war mongers are in the kremlin. The west didn’t invade anybody, Russia is the invading warmonger. What kind of idiots are still pushing Russian propaganda, even now knowing putin is Israel’s sworn enemy and I happen to know that Israel believes Putin had a role in 10/7. Enough of this site parroting putin talking points. What’s wrong with some of you?
This coming from the scumbags who have been relentlessly bombing the sovereign nation of Ukraine for almost 2 years. The audacity of those Russian pigs to say Israel has no right to self-defense. No sense of irony. Of course, these are the same rabid dogs who think Ukraine has no right of self-defense against Russia’s unprovoked invasion. Russians have to be the worst people on earth next to muslims. Let’s hope the Mossad has its sights set on putin, who I’m absolutely certain is also behind October 7.
@EveRe1
Yes, I too found myself bewildered by the writings of Gil-White some years ago. His savvy grasp of history and logic led to a far greater understanding of much of what I had previously held to be true. His observations provided clear explanations where previously only questions had loomed ever present. This being said, I have to confess that it was not I who initially shared the link to Gil-White’s most recent video, but rather, like you, I read it when Felix shared it along with the link to Gil-White’s substack which was started last spring.
Regarding the US and Hamas vs Israel and Netanyahu, I am not convinced that the preservation of Hamas is actually the American goal, but rather that doing so should cost Israel dearly, in men, treasure and morale, leaving Israel’s publlic disheartened, and more malleable to US designs. It is fair to acknowledge that much of Israel’s leadership is well convinced of Israel’s need to follow where the US leads, yet Israel’s public has been less supportive of such demands in recent years placed upon them by the pro-Iranian junta in the US.
Notably, Bibi has stood as the greatest obstacle to this unlimited domination by the US, but he also failed to act to do more than challenge the US on key issues rather than pulling the plug as he had declared to do back in 1996 when he promised to end Israel’s dependence on US ‘aid’. Still, even in Bibi’s move to oppose US influence when he judged it intolerable to accept, he too failed to fully demonstrate Israel’s independence, her right to sovereign decisions all too often when the US demanded otherwise.
This is how the status quo came to be, as a compromise between what the US wanted, and the most that Israel would succumb to give. In truth, Israel needed to demonstrate an even greater sense of its own interests, but instead off shored its military needs to the US, and along with it, much of her sovereignty.
So the question at current would seem to be, not whether Israel will defeat Hamas, but rather the means and methods by which their destruction willl be achieved. As Gil-White has demonstrated clearly, the US is pursuing a realignment away from Israel and towards Iran, and even still, Israel seems to lack the wherewithal to do more than congratulate Biden as he stymies Israel’s need to respond to the threats from all the elements of the Iranian crescent and most of all to Iran itself.
For example, I know that many people see the interactions of the families of the hostages as being the real impetus which led Bibi to accept the recent deal at such a critical moment. Yet, I think this too is much more about placating the US demands while ignoring Israel’s needs. Of course, I think a deal for their return was always going to be accepted, and that the price was all that needed to be set. In fairness, with the terrorist Qatar acting on behalf of the Iranian allied US, this might have been the best deal which could have been gained, but I would argue that using two Iranian supplicants, Qatar and the US, to negotiate on behalf of Israel should be seen as some form of dirty pool, in which Israel could never gain a decent proposal to accept.
Of course, this brings me back to the recollection that Israel has for too long found itself caught in a US pigeon hole, from which it has foolishly been digging itself deeper and deeper over the years. So, I don’t know that Bibi has the means to extricate Israel from this captured position, held fast in the grip of its American ally, but her fate would seem dependent upon her doing so. Hence, hopefully Israel will find the will to end its supplication to the Iranian addled Americans, because the consequence of digging itself ever deeper in the control of this Iranian proxy is not serving her interests, but is rather placing her in a position of ever greater threat of annihilation.
@EvRe1 Jonathan Pollard said the same thing in recent interviews on Youtube. I agree. Israel can and must be self-sufficient
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/08/russia-turns-against-israel-by-taking-sides-in-the-war-with-hamas.html
I want to thank you @peloni1986 for posting the video with Fransisco Gil-White some days back. I had learned about Fransisco Gil-White some 15 years ago, having come upon his work during my own personal search for information on Israel’s history. So I went back to his website and read a most informative and actually brilliant investigation into the US relationship with Iran:
https://hirhome.com/iraniraq/ITAM-conf-eng.htm
It explains in great detail the background for the statements Mudar Zahran makes in this video, and without which I would find it difficult to piece together and make full sense of.
Gil-White traces back support for Iran not just to George Bush Jr, but further, and further, and further in US history to Jimmy Carter:
“So, from the very moment that Ayatollah Khomeini’s regime began, Washington became its protector. This is interesting because everybody recognizes that the previous ruler, the Shah of Iran, had been a US ally, but CENTCOM was not created to protect the Shah, but to protect Khomeini’s theocratic and terrorist regime.
“Support for Ayatollah Khomeini’s regime, therefore, began with Ayatollah Khomeini, during Jimmy Carter’s presidency.”
CENTCOM itself, was created for the purpose of protecting Iran!
The US government has had a pro-Iranian policy since the very beginning of the Iranian revolution. Except for Donald Trump, every single President has protected Iran and funded Iran at Israel’s expense.
In addition, Gil-White explains how the Oslo “Peace” process essentially engineered an Iranian statelet to be placed within the boundaries of the land Israel won in 1967! This is the West Bank, run by the PA, whose roots began with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al Husseini, who was a Nazi. Arafat too was a Nazi, and Abu Mazen’s politics are no different. When Israel left Gaza, Gaza too became an Iranian statelet, inside the borders Israel won in 1973.
So the US government under ALL presidents, except President Trump, have had and will have explicit plans to support Iran and radical Islamic movements and to undermine Israel’s existence in every possible way.
This is an existential threat to Israel, or should I say, this has been THE existential threat to Israel since her formation.
Now all US Presidents running for election run on a “pro-Israel” platform but every President except for Trump has openly lied about this. None are pro-Israel, all are pro-Iran. But they cannot run on that platform. So they lie.
Israel has been caught in a vise between the genocidal efforts of the US government (unbeknownst to the people of the United States) and the genocidal efforts of Iran and all of Iran’s proxies throughout the Middle East.
So what Mudar Zahran says is, the problem isn’t the Palestinians per se. The problem is radical Islamism, which has been funded by the US, the EU, the UN, etc.
Going forward, since 10/7/23, (or 7/10/23) Israel is going to need to re-evaluate their ties to the US.
It is very possible that Israel’s existence has depended upon the US because the US is determined to control Israel, and control radical Islamic groups for maximum war purposes, to maximize military profits. The US has found they maximize military profits by keeping the conflict stirred just about to the boiling point, by funding BOTH Israel AND the radical Islamic elements in the Middle East and playing them off against each other.
It is possible that it could be worse for Israel if Israel refuses the “help” of the US, although it is difficult to imagine how it could be any worse for Israel.
If it could be worse for Israel to refuse the US “help” and the conditions for the US “help,” that could explain Netanyahu’s behavior in going along with this devastating hostage deal just when the IDF was making tremendous strides in destroying Hamas.
It is clear that the US does not want Hamas destroyed. Netanyahu has said he is determined that Hamas be destroyed.
Who will win? Netanyahu and Israel or the US and Hamas?
Could it be that until an Israeli PM comes along who finds a solution to the problem of not accepting US “help,” Israel will be caught in this death grip between genocidal Islamists and a genocidal US government, rendering Israel a sovereign but crippled state?
I am curious what others think.
Mudar: