War Crimes
Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, has passed a controversial one-sided bill that will instruct military courts to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in acts of “terror”, but will not impose the same penalty on Jewish Israelis convicted of killing Palestinians.
The law, which enters into effect within 30 days, was approved on Monday in the 120-seat Knesset by 62 lawmakers, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with 48 voting against it and one abstention.
www.aljazeera.com - Israel’s parliament passes death penalty bill targeting Palestinians
the United States has made a tremendous uh strategic blunder that the war is not going well for either the United States or Israel. And in fact, I think we will find that the war is going to go worse and worse as time goes on. And the situation is now entirely in favor of the Iranians. They're of course taking tremendous levels of damage by the bombing campaign
When a government begins to prepare children for war, it is not because it has run out of options. It is because it prioritizes ideology over human life. It reflects a system that is willing to sacrifice its own population to maintain power or pursue a broader geopolitical objective. That is always the hallmark of regimes that are under extreme pressure, both internally and externally.
www.armstrongeconomics.com - Sending Children to War — History Repeats in Iran
Here we have a pure airdriven campaign with bad targeting, bad intelligence. Because if it was good intelligence, they wouldn't be launching missiles at us today, now would they? If it was good intelligence, they wouldn't have a regime in place that continues to tell us to pound sand, now would they? People need to wake up and understand that Pete Hegseth is the most incompetent Secretary of Defense. I won't call him Secretary of War because Congress hasn't designated him as such, and I'm a believer in Congress and the Constitution. So, he's the Secretary of Defense. He's very incompetent. doesn't know what he's doing and therefore he's unable to, you know, pass on to the president any, you know, insight or wisdom. The president is simply just babbling nonsense. You know, they don't even brief this guy, right? The president gets a short video presentation every day, update on the war. He has no idea what's going on. He's just looking at, you know, images put together by some combat camera crew designed to make the president happy. It's war porn. And this president appears to like it and then believes it. But I'm telling you right now, nothing is happening in Iran that resembles anything that Pete Hexith or President Trump is saying.
– Is the Iranian government negotiating either directly or indirectly with the Americans as President Trump has been claiming consistently for the past week or so?
– I can say with 100% confidence that no negotiations are taking place. No negotiations have taken place either. What does happen is that messages are exchanged sometimes through Oman now through Pakistan that is not new. This has been going on for many years and some or from let's say Russia or some other third party. Sometimes the messages are direct we through the Swiss embassy or other means because sometimes when there's a concern that third parties may be pursuing their own interests and there must there's something that's very must be they must make sure that it's passed along with precision. Sometimes the messages are sent directly, but there are no negotiations taking place and the Iranians have no interest in any ceasefire at all.
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– In fact, the belief here is that escalation is on its way, that a major assault by the Americans will happen and there will be a lot and that the belief is that the Americans will start increasing attacks and the Israeli regime uh on vital infrastructure and we've already seen that happen and these attacks of course are fully coordinated. So, the Israelis are now bombing. They bombed a key pharmaceutical factory, which is a crime against humanity. They've been bombing uh key industries. They've even been bombing poultry farms across the country. So, you can imagine they're just striking at anything uh that they think can hurt ordinary Iranians. And of course, the Iranians are going to retaliate. And I think that today probably and tomorrow Iranians are going to be hitting hard in response. But I think it's quite possible that on Friday because you you have a three-day weekend and the markets will be closed for three days. I think there's a good chance that Trump will escalate during that period.
now that the United States has decided to amend the Monroe Doctrine which was never popular in Latin America uh to exercise hegemony through purely military intimidation. So I you know there's clearly a new world emerging. It doesn't look like a very nice one. Um and um I think in the case of the Gulf uh there are possibilities which are sort of interesting. Um uh there's a possibility of an Islamic panislamic cooperation. You could turn over with the Pakistanis doing the med the the mediation. You could use the organization for Islamic cooperation which has 57 members uh to provide to come up with common rules based on Islam there. The the differences in doctrine between Shiism and Sunni Islam are very minor. Um uh there are differences in practice, worship practices and expectations and different schools of thought but the lore of Islamic state craft uh is something they have in common. Uh Iran of course has its own pre-Islamic tradition as well. uh but there is possibility uh to uh construct a new conser cooperative security architecture in the Persian Gulf. Perhaps that might inspire Europe to do the same. Um Europe needs a cooperative security arrangement, not uh a a security architecture that uh is based on confrontation between uh Russia and the rest. So um uh yeah I think there's some possibilities here but who are the statesmen? Where's the bismar? Where's the pollin? Where's the um you know where's the medish uh to put all this together?
you had an F15 Eagle. It was shot down in southwestern Iran. The pilot was rescued, but the weapon system officer is still missing. You had an A10 Thunderbolt, you know, the Warthog. It was shot down and crashed into the Persian Gulf. A pilot was reportedly recovered. You had two pave hawks. These are big Air Force helicopters. They are part of the combat search and rescue operation. They were both hit. One crash landed cross border in Iraq. Reportedly all crew rescued. Then there's the KC135 Strat tanker that was doing an emergency squawk of SOS landing near Tel Aviv. And last but not least, there was the F16 Wild Weasel that was doing also an emergency squawk over Saudi Arabia near the Iraq border. That was around and then it later disappeared from flight radar. So they don't know if it landed or crashed. And so yeah, bad day for the Air Force.
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he [Trump] repeatedly lied. He for example claimed that the that it was Iran that was behind the bombing of the USS Cole. That was al-Qaeda. That was those were the guys that attacked us on 9/11. That wasn't Iran. He repeated the lie that Iran's the number one sponsor of terrorism. Oh, no. that the numbers simply don't back that up and his own numbers from the government. He then went off on, well they chant death to America. Yeah, Mr. President, I wonder why that is. Could it have anything to do with the fact that we backed Saddam Hussein for eight years in a war that used chemical weapons which we the United States provided to Iraq. Let's be clear about that. and provided Iraq with all the intelligence that the CIA and NSA could collect that would help Iraq attack and kill Iranians, killing more than 300,000 of which 70,000 were civilians. Could that have anything to do with why they chant death to America?
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