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October 7 was an 'inside job'…
by GuidoJ. Posted onJune 1, 2024
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“Anyone who wants to thwart the creation of a Palestinian state
should support Hamas
and transfer money to Hamas. .
THIS IS PART OF OUR STRATEGY.”
Prime Minister Netanyahu
Addressed to his Likud party in the Knesset MARCH 2019*
October 7 was an 'inside job'…
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We have it right here on the site, right from the start, based on available evidence. Netanyahu COMPLETELY planned the horrors of October 7 and ensured that they could take place in peace. 'Quietly' means that, for example, the Israeli army only took action after 6 hours (!!!). This while the border areas between Gaza and other Palestinian areas are one of the most heavily guarded areas IN THE WORLD. Watch this video, where you will see one piece of evidence after another. ABOUT NETANYAHU'S CONSCIOUS START/INITIGATION OF THIS VIOLENCE.
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To have a motive, just like a FALSE FLAG ATTACK, to bomb GAZA, waltz in and destroy the Palestinians. Where there used to be 'precision' bombing, the COMPLETE destruction of buildings AND population turns out to be the INTENDED OBJECTIVE.
Of course, you cannot imagine a more gruesome act of treason, in which the Israeli victims in the border areas with Gaza had to be the victims in order to 'provide' worldwide motivation for the Israeli massacre. From the beginning we have published articles in which It becomes OBVIOUS that this gruesome massacre can be attributed to Netanyahu and his murder brigade, and to no one else. (Click HERE for an overview of these articles).
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The first evidence on October 7
Look at this first article (HERE), in which you can see the video of a TV station in Gaza being destroyed by Israeli fighter jets.j We post this Tweet from Jack Straw below. Israeli fighter jets...? Nothing could be further from the truth; the building is being BLOWN UP with explosives from below... And that is of course a prepared plan, because how can Israeli troops equip a building in the middle of the city with explosives and immediately blow it up...!?
Did this happen with the 'cooperation' of Hamas?? Or has the Mossad had the opportunity to undermine this building...? Realize that this issue alone argues not against but in favor of a false flag attack...! Did you know that Hamas was founded WITH THE SUPPORT AND INFLUENCE OF ISRAEL, to fight Yassar Arafat's Palestinian AL FATAH movement from within...? The Israeli army, with essential support from MOSSAD, has always been, from its inception and to its core, allied with Hamas.
Watch this video, which makes it more than clear that Israeli leaders were not only informed in advance about upcoming attacks and then allowed them to happen, but that they especially created the possibilities for this attack in advance. When you know that Netanyahu was one of the inventors of the 911 attacks, in which young Israelis who were there, later casually misspoke and said that they were there 'TO FILM THIS EVENT'...!
FALSE FLAG OPERATION:
'WIPE GAZA OFF THE MAP'
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Was it a false flag operation? “As a former intelligence officer, I find it impossible to believe that Israel did not have multiple informants in Gaza and electronic listening devices along the entire border wall that would have picked up movements of groups and vehicles. In other words, the whole thing could be a fabric of lies, as is so often the case.” (Philip Giraldi, October 2023)
US intelligence says it was not aware of an impending Hamas attack. “You would have to be almost hopelessly naive to believe the state media line that the Hamas invasion was an Israeli 'intelligence mistake.' The Mossad is one of, if not the most powerful intelligence agency in the world.” Israel's plan to wage all-out war against Palestine was foreseen before Hamas's launch of 'Operation Al-Aqsa Storm'.
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This was not a failure of Israeli intelligence, as the media claims. On the contrary. Did Netanyahu and his vast military and intelligence apparatus (Mossad et al.) have prior knowledge of the Al Aqsa Hamas attack? Revealed by the New York Times:
“Israeli officials obtained Hamas's battle plan for the October 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it took place, documents, emails and interviews... The approximately 40-page document, which Israeli authorities codenamed 'Jericho Wall', outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of devastating invasion that led to the deaths of approximately 1,200 people.
According to the NYT, “Israeli officials dismissed it as ambitious and ignored specific warnings.” Nonsense. The Israeli intelligence apparatus was fully aware of what was happening well in advance. It was part of their 'False Flag' agenda..! Let us be under no illusions, this Israel 'false flag' operation is a complex military-intelligence undertaking, carefully planned, in collaboration and coordination with US intelligence services and the Pentagon.
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Israel has been a de facto member of NATO (with special status) since 2004, which entails active military and intelligence coordination, as well as consultation regarding the occupied territories. In this section we will provide evidence for the Netanyahu government's False Flag Operation. Focus on the following topics:
1. The History of Israeli False Flags
2. Netanyahu's Affirmative Mea Culpa Statements
3. Testimonies from Members of the Israeli IDF- 1. The History of Israeli False Flag Operations
Numerous Israeli false flag operations have been carried out over the past 25 years and have been recorded: carefully documented. Although they are criminal in nature, including the deaths of innocent Israelis, they are barely recognized by Western governments and the media.
The historical record confirms that the purpose of these false flags is to cause Israeli deaths which then serve as a means to justify attacks against Palestinians.
The late Prof. Tanya Reinhart confirmed the 1997 formulation of a False Flag Agenda entitled 'The Green Light for Terror'. This scenario consisted of promoting (staging) suicide bombings against Israeli civilians, citing ' Bloodshed as Justification to Wage War on Palestine' :
“…This is the 'green light for terror' theme that the Military Intelligence Service (Ama”n) has promoted since 1997, when its anti-Oslo line was consolidated. This theme has been repeated by military circles ever since and eventually became the mantra of Israeli propaganda.
The 'Justified Revenge Operation' of 2001; based on the execution of a false flag. The blueprint, entitled ' The destruction of the Palestinian Authority and disarmament of all armed forces' , was presented to the Israeli government by Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz on July 8, 2001. This attack would be launched, at the government's discretion, after a major suicide bombing in Israel, killing and injuring many, with the bloodshed as justification.”
- (Tanya Reinhart, December 22, 2001)
“…Israel's invasion plan – reportedly called 'Just Revenge' – would be launched immediately after the next high-fatality suicide bombing, would last about a month and is expected to result in the deaths of hundreds of Israelis and thousands of Palestinians. Israeli False Flags, which consist of deliberately inflicting Israeli casualties as a means to justify a broader attack against Palestine, are DÉJÀ VU I should mention that the 'False Flag' of October 7, 2023 is more sophisticated than those outlined above.”
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, October 12, 2023.
Israel's False Flag Operation is a criminal enterprise launched by the Netanyahu government (with the support of its intelligence service) against innocent Israeli men, women and children. Official Israeli IDF sources confirm 1,200 Israeli deaths among fighters and civilians (including 'friendly fire' by the IDF). About 50% of the victims are Israeli citizens. In contrast, the number of deaths among Palestinians (at the time of writing) is on the order of 30,000, of which at least 10,000 are children.
- 2. Netanyahu's affirmative statements:
“Money to a faction within Hamas” as part of an intelligence operation? It is worth noting that Netanyahu has acknowledged - as illustrated above - that money has been transferred to a pro-Israel intelligence faction within Hamas:
“Hamas was treated as a partner to the detriment of the Palestinian Authority to prevent Abbas from making progress toward the establishment of a Palestinian state. Hamas was promoted from a terror group to an organization with which Israel negotiated through Egypt and was allowed to receive suitcases containing millions of dollars from Qatar through Gaza border crossings.” (Times of Israel, October 8, 2023)
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state should support supporting Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” he [Netanyahu] told a meeting of his Likud party's Knesset members in March 2019 . “This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”[Netanyahu] (Haaretz, October 9, 2023, emphasis added)
- 3. Testimonials from members of the Israeli IDF
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3.1 “I served in the IDF 25 years ago, in the intelligence service. It is impossible that Israel did not know what was going to happen. A cat moving along the fence activates all troops. So this? What happened to the “strongest military in the world”? How come the border crossings were wide open?
Something is very wrong here, something very strange is going on, this series of events is very unusual and not typical of the Israeli defense system. To me, this surprise attack looks like a planned operation. On all fronts. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd say this feels like the work of the Deep State. It feels as if the people of Israel and the people of Palestine have been sold to the higher powers once again.
(Statement Efrat Fenigson, ex-IDF intelligence officer – October 7, 2023)
- 3.2 Commander of the Kerem Shalom Battalion
“Something isn't right for me here!!! This is a mystery I can't find an answer to. I happen to know how things work in Gaza and at the border.
I was the commander of the Kerem Shalom (Rafih) sector, I was in charge of the Kissuf sector, I know the fence very well, I know how the army works there. I was in the Shatti refugee camp in Gaza, I was in charge of the Jibaliya refugee camp, I laid ambushes on the fence and deep in the area. I met Gazans, ate and breathed Gaza. The obstacle is built in such a way that even a fox cannot get past it:
Set alerts according to 3 pressure levels. She must warn when she is cut. There are 24/7 forces responsible for getting to the point where there is an alarm in the fence within a few minutes, if not seconds. Do at least one penetration exercise every day. Each subdivision has a standby squad whose job is to augment the force in an emergency. Observations scattered along the border cover every inch of it. The female observers are champions of identification. They don't miss.
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They detect movement before it approaches the obstacle – day and night. At problematic points (dead areas) they place a tank with observation and detection capabilities and terrifying firepower. In some cases snipers are deployed in the field. Every day before sunrise there is a “dawn alert” procedure. At this hour all troops are awake (in this case also the hour when hundreds of terrorists entered Israel). The night shift alternates with the day shift.
The commander of each force inspects the axis to ensure that no infiltrations have occurred during the night. Trackers who walk on the axis know how to recognize tracks. They know who crossed the fence, how many and even when. So how on earth can a Palestinian tractor drive towards the fence without anyone reacting to it? How did the tractor manage to sabotage the gate and provide access to Israel for an hour without anyone responding? How could all this happen under our noses?
Where has an entire division gone? Where have 3 brigades gone? Who swallowed 9 battalions? What happened to 36 companies? Where has gone an entire regular infantry brigade that usually outnumbers the elite? Where have all the reserve battalions gone that supplement the regular army? Where have thousands of soldiers gone? Someone here needs to explain!!!”
- (Statement by General Herzl Halevi, October 2023)
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- Is Egypt involved? Secret Bilateral Talks
The stated goal is to wipe Gaza off the map through mass murder and total destruction, creating the conditions for the exclusion of Palestinians from their homeland: A 'Second Nakba'. The implementation of Netanyahu's 'War of Preparedness' requires Egypt's support in triggering the exodus of Palestinians from Gaza to Sinai, where the installation of extensive refugee camps is being considered.
There is evidence of bilateral meetings between Cairo and Tel Aviv for that purpose. The C-option plan drawn up by Israeli intelligence (see above) states that “ Egypt is obliged under international law to grant passage to the [Palestinian] population.” What is being considered by the Israeli Ministry of Intelligence (Option C above) is: “the forced and permanent relocation of the entire Palestinian population of Gaza to the Egyptian peninsula of the Sinai Desert” with tent camps for refugees.” The plan includes a list of countries “that agree to accept [the Palestinians] as refugees.”
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- Bilateral Israel-Egypt Intelligence Agreement?
In 2021-22, Egypt and Israel were involved in "secret bilateral talks" on "the extraction of natural gas off the coast of the Gaza Strip." The media reports point to 'Egyptian mediation'. Were these negotiations conditional on Egypt playing a key role in setting up refugee camps in Sinai, which would facilitate the mass deportation of Palestinians from Gaza?
It is worth noting that the Palestinian Authority led by Mahmoud Abbas was also involved.
“Egypt managed to convince Israel to start extracting natural gas off the coast of the Gaza Strip, after several months of secret bilateral talks. This development... comes after years of Israeli objections to extracting natural gas off the coast of Gaza on [perceived] security grounds,
British Gas (BG Group) has also done business with the government in Tel Aviv. What is telling is that the civilian branch of the Hamas government in Gaza has been bypassed regarding the exploration and development rights of the gas fields; T he field, located about 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of the Gazan coast, was discovered in 2000 by British Gas (now BG Group) and is estimated to contain more than 1 trillion (1,000 billion) cubic feet of natural gas.
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An official from Egypt's intelligence service told Al-Monitor on October 22, 2022, on condition of anonymity:
“An Egyptian economic and security delegation has been discussing with Israel for months about allowing natural gas extraction off the coast of Gaza.”
Was the issue of the refugee camps in the Sinai Desert discussed behind closed doors? It is worth noting that the agreement with Egypt was reached a year before Israel's genocidal attack on Gaza. Following the completion of the Israel-Egypt consultations on economic and security issues, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed, which was rubber-stamped by the Palestinian National Authority (PA):
“The Egyptian [intelligence] official explained that Israel demanded the start of practical measures to extract gas from the Gaza fields in early 2024, to guarantee its own security.” (Al-Monitor, October 22, 2022)
May truth prevail in reversing the course of history. Those Western politicians who unequivocally condone the atrocities against the people of Palestine are complicit in committing crimes against humanity.
- In solidarity with the people of Palestine.
Based on the Nuremberg Charter, what is needed is a grassroots campaign that encourages: Israeli, American and NATO fighters to “disobey unlawful orders” and “leave the battlefield , ” both in Israel and in ALL US theaters of war and NATO. Abandoning the battlefield as a means of criminalizing war is based on Principle IV of the Nuremberg Charter which defines the responsibility of combatants “to refuse orders from the government or a superior…”.
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Meet Miriam Adelson, this is one of the billionaire zionists that funds the illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank…
Adelson is also handing Donald Trump over $100,000,000 in bribe money for his 2024 campaign in return for Israel to take full sovereignty of the occupied West Bank…
These American politicians have sold the soul of America to Israel, whilst pretending to be America First…🇺🇸🇮🇱
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Interesting set of wires today indicating that some anti-air has entered the theater:
Hezbollah fires air defense missiles at Israeli war jets violating Lebanon’s airspace and carrying out mock raids in an attempt to terrify kids, which obliged them to move back behind the borders: statement
Hebrew media: In unusual and angerous incident, Hezbollah published video showing the destruction of an air defense bomber
Islamic Resistance fighters fire a guided missile at an “Iron Dome” platform in Ramot Naftali barracks, directly hitting and destroying it: statement
Hebrew media: It seems that the Iron Dome is no longer of use to us in repelling Hezbollah missiles
Hebrew media: Estimations that Hezbollah attack on Iron Dome platforms will cause huge, unbearable losses
Former Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Israeli Occupation Army, Ya’ir [Lapid]--
Golan: Netanyahu has lost the North as well as his conscience and posed an existential threat to the state of “Israel”
While in an official statement:
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In support of the oppression of the Palestinian people and response to the American-British aggression against our country, the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out two joint military operations with the Iraqi Islamic Resistance.
According to a statement read by the Yemeni military spokesman General Yahya Sarea, the first operation targeted two ships carrying military equipment at the port of Haifa, while the second targeted a ship that violated the decision to ban entry to the port of Haifa in occupied Palestine.
The two operations were carried out with a number of UAVs, and the strikes, by Allah’s help, were accurate, General Sarea said.
“The joint operation on Haifa port comes in response to the massacres of the Israeli enemy in Rafah area, and the Israeli enemy shall expect more specific joint operations during the next period of time, until its brutal and criminal aggression stops and its siege against our people in the Gaza Strip is lifted.”
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Israeli airstrikes on UN-run school kill at least 40 Palestinians | Al Jazeera NewsFeed
Family Trump and Kushner's... yes.. this is important to know... people are just closing their eyes...if somebody is talking that those families are complicit for genocide!!!Everything was planned few years back... intogathet... Bibi, Trump, Kushner etc... people still do NOT believe!!!
Gaza Coastal Property Could Be Valuable; Israel Must Send Civilians To…: Trump's Son-In-Law Kushner
I don't remember if this video is here! More and more, we know, why Israel doing genocide in Gaza or now more and more also in West Bank... People have to listen this more than once... Somewhere I red, that Kushner's will build in Gaza Trump Hotel... yes???
Jared Kushner SALIVATES Over Gaza Ethnic Cleansing Opportunities
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🇱🇧⚔️🇮🇱Zionist media is stunned by the success of Hezbollah's "Elkosh" operation, north of "Hurfesh" in northern occupied Palestine. The operation, which killed at least one IOF soldier and wounded 11 with explosive drones yesterday, highlights Hezbollah's ability to evade detection and execute qualitative operations.
Zionist military correspondent Yoav Zitun wrote that the operation "demonstrated how much Hezbollah has succeeded in the last eight months in turning Al-Jalil not only into a deserted land by its inhabitants but also into a research and development laboratory for weapons, to manufacture precise and lethal weapons in preparation for a large-scale confrontation with 'Israel.'"
He added: "In Wednesday's incident, two relatively small but precise explosive drones were launched in a coordinated manner. They infiltrated 'israeli' territory and reached their target south of 'Elkosh' without being detected by the 'israeli' army's detection systems. No alarm was sounded, and from the army's perspective, this is the worst-case scenario. Not only did the precision aerial weapons manage to penetrate 'israeli' territory without being intercepted, but no warning was issued."
"The target on Wednesday was carefully and precisely chosen by Hezbollah. The drones flew at a low altitude towards the reserve forces camp of the 143rd division in 'Elkosh.' Because of the low altitude, there was no detection or identification, and therefore no alarm was triggered."
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🇱🇧⚔️🇮🇱A drone was shot down a short while ago by a surface-to-air missile launched by Hezbollah a short while ago.
This was a "Kochav" Hermes 900 drone, one of the largest and most expensive aircraft owned by the Israeli occupation Air Force. The drone caught fire and crashed in a village in southern Lebanon.
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This is what the mainstream media *doesn’t want you to see*…
Israeli forces using banned white phosphorus ammunition’s in over 17 towns and cities in Lebanon…
If Hezbollah rained white phosphorus over Tel Aviv there would be wall to wall coverage and every major leader would be saying it’s the worst war crime in modern era…💔🇱🇧
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🇾🇪A statement issued by the Yemeni Armed Forces
Triumphing for the oppression of the Palestinian people and in response to the American-British aggression against our country.
The Yemeni Armed Forces carried out two joint military operations with the Iraqi Islamic Resistance, the first targeted two ships carrying military equipment in the port of Haifa.
While the second targeted a ship that violated the decision to ban entry to the port of Haifa in occupied Palestine.
The two operations were carried out with a number of UAVs, and the strikes, with allah's help, were accurate.
The joint operation on Haifa port comes in response to the massacres of the Israeli enemy in Rafah area, and the Israeli enemy shall expect more specific joint operations during the next period of time, until its brutal and criminal aggression stops and its siege against our people in the Gaza Strip is lifted.
The Yemeni Armed Forces call on all Arab armies to participate in supportive operations in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance consistent with their religious and humanitarian duty towards the Palestinian people.
Allah is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs, the best protector, and the best helper
Long live Yemen, free, beloved and independent
Victory belongs to Yemen and to all the free people of the nation
Sanaa
Dhul-Qi’dah 29, 1445 AH
June 6, 2024 AD
Issued by the Yemeni Armed Forces
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US seeks to block Houthi revenues in possible threat to Yemen truce: Report
Latest pressure campaign comes as US says peace plan cannot move forward if Red Sea attacks persist, Bloomberg reports.
The United States and its allies are increasingly seeking to block funds from reaching Yemen’s Houthi group, a push that could jeapordise United Nations-led efforts to end the civil war in the country, Bloomberg News has reported.
According to the report published on Thursday, Washington is looking to block major parts of a UN peace plan that the warring parties in Yemen adopted in December unless the Houthis cease their attacks on international shipping lanes.
That includes $1.5bn to be paid by Saudi Arabia to civil servants in Houthi-controlled areas, as per the UN roadmap, Bloomberg reported, citing an unidentified source.
An anonymous State Department official told Bloomberg that agreements tied to the UN plan can only proceed if the Houthis stop their attacks, while adding that the US still supports peace in Yemen.
The Houthis have been attacking ships in the Red Sea and firing missiles and drones at Israeli targets in a show of support for Palestinians in Gaza, drawing anger from US President Joe Biden’s administration.
The US and its allies have been bombing Houthi targets in Yemen since January, but the military campaign has not deterred Houthi attacks. The Houthis pledged to continue targeting Israel-linked ships as long as the war on Gaza, which has killed at least 36,654 Palestinians, goes on.
Most recently, on Thursday, the group said it targeted two vessels at Israel’s Haifa port.
Banks ordered closed in Houthi territory
In March 2015, a Saudi-led military coalition launched what would become a years-long offensive in support of Yemen’s internationally recognised government against the Iran-allied Houthis who had taken over the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
The fighting, which set off a major humanitarian crisis, turned into a protracted conflict, with the Houthis staying in control in Sanaa and other major population centres, and the Saudi-backed government remaining in the southern city of Aden.
The warring parties in April 2022 agreed to a ceasefire, which expired in October of that year. But the fighting has largely been paused amid diplomatic efforts to find a lasting resolution to the conflict.
The December UN roadmap included the “implementation of a nationwide ceasefire, payment of public sector salaries, resuming oil exports, opening of roads in Taiz and other parts of Yemen” and the easing of remaining restrictions on Sanaa Airport and Hodeidah Port.
Still, tensions between the Houthis and the internationally recognised government have remained high, especially over economic issues. The US push to squeeze the Houthis’ finances risks exacerbating them further.
In January, the Biden administration designated the Houthis as “global terrorists” over their Red Sea attacks, a move that enabled sweeping financial sanctions against the group.
According to Bloomberg’s report on Thursday, the latest US effort comes as the Central Bank of Yemen, which remains under the Saudi-backed government’s control, moved to suspend operations at banks in Houthi-controlled areas, including Sanaa.
The central bank’s governor cited a failure to comply with orders for all financial institutions to move their headquarters to Aden.
The action is expected to stifle Houthi access to foreign currency and dry up the liquidity of the group. It was done with the support of the US and Western allies, Bloomberg reported, citing four people with direct knowledge of the situation.
Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi had called the move against Sanaa-based banks an “American effort for the benefit of Israel”, adding that the US is trying to drag Saudi Arabia into that initiative.
“It’s a dangerous game – a game of adding fuel to the fire,” Al-Houthi said last month.
The office of the UN’s special office to Yemen, led by Hans Grundberg, has repeatedly said the Houthi Red Sea attacks and “related international military responses in Yemen” threaten the fragile truce in Yemen.
After years of war, Yemen continues to face one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, according to the UN, with more than 18 million people in need of aid and more than 17 million food insecure. About 4.5 million people in the country remain displaced.
Meanwhile, stop-start payments of public sector salaries have hastened the collapse of healthcare, sanitation, water and education services, according to the UN.
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The latest resignation from the Biden administration came into effect just this Monday for Major Harrison Mann. Formerly an official at the Defense Intelligence Agency, and an active-duty U.S. army officer, Mann made headlines for a resignation letter he shared last month to his Linkedin page criticizing the “nearly unqualified support for the government of Israel.”
In one of his first TV interviews since leaving his post, Mann explains to Mehdi the reasoning behind his decision, the role US agencies play in Israel’s ethnic cleansing, and how others in government share his views - but are afraid to air them.
“I also suspected and have increasingly learned even in national security circles that my views are not particularly uncommon or controversial,” says Mann.
Mann, who is Jewish-American, compared the treatment of Palestinians today to the way in which Jews were treated in the run-up to the Holocaust: “It was very easy for me to see in the Palestinians another unwanted population, the way that Jews were in Europe.”
“It’s appropriate to invoke ‘Never Again’”: Jewish-American Soldier Quits and Blasts Biden Admin
