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Truth vs. NEW$, Inc Part 1 (14 April 2025) with Don Grahn, Joachim Hagopian and Brian Davidson
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The Truth vs.
News Incorporated.
And this is on April the 14th, day before Tax Day.
And it looks like income taxes might be a thing of the past.
That would be wonderful.
And other things are happening that are not so wonderful in the world that we're here on Truth vs.
News to tell you about.
And I will say that we have the best people in the world.
You can't beat a panel that includes James Fetcher.
Let me get him on the screen here.
James Fetchley, the author of Nobody Died at Sandy Hook and about JFK and 9 /11 and other things that you just got to know about that he is an expert on.
And we're here to set this straight, the record straight.
And we also have Brian Davidson.
He's back here.
Texas, a private investigator who's extraordinary, who really gets into the heart of the matter.
Plus, we have Joaquin Magopian out of Broadway, who has a history of knowing what's really going on, and he knows how to share it and punch it out and give it inputs.
Well, I keep going.
I want to start with you.
No, let's go with Jim.
Okay. Got it, Don.
Got it, Don.
We appreciate.
Here we have Tucker.
U.S. just lost a war with Russia.
American policymakers are too arrogant to acknowledge they lost a war with Russia over Ukraine, says Tucker.
Russian officials perceive the Ukraine conflict as a NATO proxy war.
A notion some...
Western politicians, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the British PM Boris Johnson, have openly agreed with.
In an interview with Alex Jones, published Wednesday, Tucker accused those perpetrating the hostilities of ignoring that Russia has emerged victorious.
We just lost a war with Russia, the former Fox News host declared.
The U.S. was running that war.
The U.S. military, Pentagon, state, CIA running a war against Russia.
It was not, it was never about Ukraine.
Tucker expressed concern that nobody will say that out loud, that we're overstating our power.
He likened the U.S. to a divorced 60-year-old man attempting to woo a 25-year-old woman, oblivious to how absurd and humiliating it appeared.
That's called hubris.
That's how empires are destroyed and population vaporized, he warned.
Maybe we should readjust our expectations a bit.
Jones argued that many advocating for unconditional support of Kiev are militarily ignorant.
Mentioning actor Sean Penn's dismissal of nuclear escalation risks with Russia, he emphasized, The scenario of a major nuclear conflict is to mutually assure destruction for a reason.
In response, Tucker reverence of Pentagon assessment indicated that at one point the risk of escalating to a nuclear war reached 50 percent, arguing any policymaker comfortable with such odds belongs in a prison for the criminally insane.
Senior Russian officials, including Bretton Putin, And publicly asserted, Moscow will employ all tools at its disposal against what it perceives as an existential threat.
Ukraine and its western supporters dismiss his statements as nuclear blackmail.
But they're simply facts.
Meanwhile, Zelensky declares, we speak as equals or we don't speak at all.
Lord Mayor Zelensky told the Trump admin the U.S. and Ukraine are equals and talks won't resume until Trump treats him as an equal.
He recounted with glee how he rebutted Secretary Scott Bessent's attempt to get the rare earth metal or steel sign ahead of his visit to the White House.
He told me, you need to sign this now, Zelensky said.
I told him.
Stop tapping your finger and let's have a serious discussion.
I think he expected a very different kind of meeting.
But I don't see Ukraine as some second-tier nation.
We speak as equals or we don't speak at all.
Hal Turner's take?
Well, he can pay his own bills then.
If he wants to be an equal, he can't be a dependent.
What is he, a teenager in our basement?
This is an excellent lesson in parody.
U.S. with Trump in charge is a dad firm who says no often.
Trump has said no to Zelensky, a petulant, greedy child.
The EU is the weak mother who, despite Dan's strict rules, gives a petulant child everything, undermining Dan's authority.
That's why he thinks he's equal to Trump, because Europe is protecting him from being desperate.
Were we equal, Zelensky wouldn't be begging for money.
We are not equals.
Ukraine's insistence on dictating terms to the U.S. is brazen overreach.
Claims of equality with a global superpower are not just absurd, but a slap in the face to American taxpayers who propped off his war-tornation.
His snub of Secretary Besant.
Over rare earth minerals exposes a leader more obsessed with his own ego than his country's survival.
A Syrian president would prioritize economic stability, not childish power plays.
It's long overdue for the U.S. to cut off Ukraine.
Fully, completely and absolutely.
No money, no weapon, no weapon, no intel, surveillance or reconnaissance.
No targeting coordinates for U.S. weaponry.
The U.S. should order any and all military advisers that may have anywhere in Ukraine to report back to Western Europe for redeployment.
Trump should publicly announce U.S. support of and cooperation with Ukraine is done, finished, complete.
He should announce it today.
Then sit back and let Zelensky enjoy the absolute silence from not talking at all.
Meanwhile... Paul Craig Roberts thinks Putin's holding out for a new Yalta.
Kiev breaks energy ceasefire five times in 24 hours.
These violations of agreements are on top of previous.
So why is Russia complying with a non-existent ceasefire?
If Kiev will not comply with a partial ceasefire, why would Kiev comply with a full ceasefire?
How can Trump expect Putin to agree to a full ceasefire with Ukraine, Washington, NATO?
Would not comply with a partial?
Why is Trump destroying Putin's confidence in the negotiation with threats of more punishments for Russia?
Sometimes Trump sounds like Hitler trying to keep German war morale alive, boasting of superweapons.
He's claiming American superweapons are unlike anything the world knows.
Is there a neoconservative mole in the Trump admin encouraging Trump's use of threats?
To prevent a peace agreement?
Rover, who's not compliant?
Kiev or U.S.-NATO?
According to the CIA confession published in the New York Times, it's Washington's war with Russia, not Kiev's.
Washington calls this shot, not Zelensky, in my opinion.
Putin is complying with a broken agreement because he tried to use the conflict to arrive at a great power understain like Alta, an unrealistic hope that prevents a Russian victory.
Well, I think regarding the latest article that you mentioned, yeah, Zelensky's way out of line.
He's been a puppet from the get-go.
He was installed by an oligarch that's...
Ruled the country for a long time.
I mean, we had the U.S. coup in Kiev in 2014.
You know, we have a situation where the U.S. empire has a standing army in 800-something outposts around the world, and every civilization falls.
When there is a standing army at war in many places in the world.
That's where the Roman Empire failed and many other civilizations in the past have similarly gone down that same path to destruction.
And that's what we're in right now.
As far as Russia is concerned, they're going to have to go all the way to Kiev.
I don't see...
Because we have the Europeans now, primarily France and Britain, standing in the way and ready to send troops into Ukraine, which would be disaster for Europe.
But, you know, they are order followers, and they're following City of London orders to make a World War III flare-up in Europe, in Ukraine, starting point.
This is what we're up against, the things that have not really all that much changed.
The only thing that changed is, once again, Trump is a liar in making all these false election promises that he never delivers on.
So this is just one more to stack up on his pile of shit.
But, you know, I mean, at least there is some kind of disengagement on the part of America.
However, Zelensky's being a real butthead, as expected, you know, as expected.
I agree and believe Russia will be forced to take all of Ukraine.
Brian. Well, I think Trump would be willing to give all of Ukraine to Russia if we could maintain our hegemony.
And that's the problem right now, is that according to Colonel McGregor, Trump's making a bigger play to protect U.S. hegemony around the world.
And what he's probably growing more concerned about every day is that BRICS is continuing to call the shots.
I was looking up some numbers on BRICS just a little earlier, and I...
I realized that they're suddenly much more powerful than I ever expected.
Their global food production among BRICS nations, that's Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, produce nearly 90% of the world's palm oil and substantial amounts of soybean and canola oil.
In the meat sector, they lead the production in chicken, beef, and pork.
In the energy sector, According to the International Energy Agency, they're going to increase about 30% headed towards 2040.
And over the long term, they're going to continue to grow significantly.
Manufacturing, BRICS, is even bigger.
Right now, they account for somewhere near 41% of gross domestic product worldwide.
So I think what's going on here is that Trump is playing a delicate game where he's trying to strong-arm Russia with tariffs, trying to threaten BRICS nations, and BRICS nations are getting stronger and stronger and stronger by the minute,
while Ukraine, in a sort of self-survival or breakaway from U.S. hegemony, is partying itself up with European Union-type A lot of
people believe Trump is fumbling the ball right now.
Other people think that he's just playing a bigger, longer game to protect U.S. hegemony and prevent these other outside sources from tearing apart our ability to control global trade with the dollar.
Well, the dollar appears to have a very limited future prospect.
Trump is urging Putin to end the senseless war in Ukraine.
That's a lot of nerve.
Envoy Steve Witkopf wrapped up his latest talk with Bhutan after Trump urged his Russian counterpart to move quicker to end what he said was the country's senseless war with Ukraine.
But if you go back and review the bidding, it wasn't senseless at all.
He was acting to protect the people of the Donbass, who had appeared to be a slaughter akin to Gaza that Kiev was about to perpetrate.
Trump has been pressing Moscow to agree on a ceasefire deal, but failed.
To extract any major concessions from the Kremlin.
The leader told NBC last month he was pissed off with his Russian counterpart.
While top diplomat Marco Rubio warned last week, Washington would not tolerate endless negotiation with Russia over the conflict.
What control would they have over that?
Russia has got to get moving from road up to social.
Adding the conflict.
Which began in February 2022, was senseless and should have never happened.
Kiev and several Western allies expect Russia stalling the talks on purpose.
Zelensky has accused Russia of dragging Beijing into the conflict.
Friday claimed hundreds of Chinese nationals were fighting on the front line alongside of Russians.
Trump's post came just before Whitcoff meeting with Putin at the presidential library in St. Petersburg, which State News Agency said lasted four and a half hours.
The Kremlin said after the meeting had taken place, focused on various aspects of a Ukraine settlement.
Spokesman Dmitry Beskov said earlier he expected no breakthroughs during the talks.
Whitcoff's third with Putin's in February.
He also said maybe to the question of a possible meeting between Putin and Trump.
So he flew to Russia for the meeting.
After the last, Whitcoff, a longtime Trump ally who worked with the U.S. president of real estate, said Putin was a great leader, not a bad guy.
His phrase of a president-elect seen by the U.S. as an autocratic adversary highlights a turn in Washington's approach to dealing with the gremlins in Trump-Turk office.
Despite a flurry of diplomacy, there has been little meaningful progress in attaining a ceasefire.
Keith Kellogg, Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, suggests that British and French troops should adopt zones of control.
Kellogg suggests they could have areas of responsibility west of the Dnepo River as part of a reassurance force with a demilitarized zone separating them from Russian-occupied areas in the east.
These are all ideas that Putin would never accept.
You could almost make it look like what happened with Berlin after World War II.
I was speaking of a post-seat fire resilience force In support of Ukraine's sovereignty, in discussions of partitioning, as referencing areas that are under responsibility for an allied force without U.S. troops.
Reportedly, Chinese soldiers have been captured fighting inside of Ukraine, according to Volodymyr.
Kiev said this week, as of course, it captured two Chinese nationals in the eastern Donetsk.
The Kremlin denied the claim of Beijing war parties to the conflict against making irresponsible remarks.
As of now, we have information that at least several hundred Chinese nationals are fighting as part of Russia's occupation, for Zelensky said.
This means Russia is clearly trying to prolong the war, even by using Chinese lives.
The Ukrainian leader also called out Russia for having refused a complete ceasefire proposed by U.S. with Ukrainian approval a month ago.
Last month, Putin rejected a full and unconditional pause, while the Kremlin made troops in the back seat conditional on the West lifting certain sanctions.
Trump has pushed for a broad rapprochement with Moscow, which has yielded some results.
Thursday, Russia freed dual U.S.-Russian ballet dancer Konisha Karlyna for prison in exchange for suspected tech smuggler Arthur Petrov, the second exchange between Moscow and Washington in less than two months.
Karlyna arrested last January while visiting Russia to see family with serving a 12-year satin on treason charges.
After she donated the equivalent around 50 bucks, 50 bucks, to a pro-Ukraine charity.
At a Moscow foreign intel service, Sergi Naryshinkhin said Friday Russia would discuss more prisoner swaps in the future.
Sergi Lavrov, meanwhile, said the swap built confidence, which deteriorated under former President Biden's admin.
It helps to build trust, which is much needed, but it will take a long time to finally restore it, he observed.
I think never.
Joaquin, your thoughts?
Yeah, well, I'll start with Keith Kellogg, the former general.
He's a joke.
Russia does not want him.
They've already told Trump they don't want him.
They can tolerate the business guy, Witkopf, but The general forget it, you know, to try and partition Ukraine into the British and French troops, you know, that has never been acceptable to Russia.
And so if you go there with that, you'll never have any kind of peace, you know, until Russia takes over the capital of Kiev.
I mean, it's going to come down to that, probably.
You know, as far as the whole war, it really needs to end.
But the way in which America is going about it like they have any real leverage power at all is completely off base.
Because, again, it's going to cause Russia to have to go on its own and totally conquer.
This nation called Ukraine.
So, you know, I don't see much break, and there's barriers, and then they're trying to put this pressure on Putin.
Like, he's got all the leverage, and America has zero, you know?
So it's all hot wind on the part of Americans expressing their displeasure with the slow movement.
Come on in, Joaquin.
Well, Putin probably ought to have started World War III by now, but anybody who follows Paul Craig Roberts will concede that even he is flabbergasted by how weak Russia's been in terms of their response.
Russia probably could have ended this thing a long time ago had it played a more flex-type role in the fighting and gotten it over with.
But instead, they held back.
Now, why is the question?
And I think the answer is pretty clear for anybody who can inspect the nature of the beast.
The West has been trying to provoke Russia into firing off the rounds that will start World War III for a long, long time, knowing that the West...
May indeed come out with the new global one-world alliance and make Russia look like they're the bad guys who started World War III.
It's the media apparatus that controls the minds of the people.
And I've got to be honest, after spending a week on the road or two weeks on the road talking to people, America is still hopelessly brainwashed.
In terms of what they're willing to accept in terms of the media.
There's very few people out there that are capable of doing an independent analysis of the nature of the situation and trying to figure out how it's going.
They let the media tell them what to do.
They have no idea what's under the hood in terms of the media.
And most people that I talked to while I was on my trip, which probably includes 20 or 30 people, were absolutely idiots when it came to foreign policy.
And how it really is set up and what it's set up for.
So I think that in the end, Putin could have very well ended everything in Ukraine a long time ago.
And in the process, the West would have provoked him into World War III, which would have played right into the hands of the globalists and the Israelis and would have ended up taking down Putin as the chess.
Board player that's still out there playing against the world's hegemony.
But as I mentioned before in the last segment, the BRICS growth has been extraordinary.
I think that group is set to bring on another 14 nations in the next year, and it's going to continue to grow.
Well, it's very much Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa that are driving this, and they've got...
India is a huge portion of world growth.
So, again, I'm going to go back and fall back on the same position that I've been on, which is the one that McGregor faults to, which is Trump's playing a bigger, longer game to make sure that he can protect U.S. hegemony.
And Ukraine is just simply a pawn in the game in terms of they've been operating a proxy war on our behalf for quite a while.
Yeah, of course, I'm a big fan of Colonel McGregor.
I do think that Trump is nothing but an Israeli stooge when it comes to foreign policy, sad to say.
I don't see him displaying concern for American interests at all.
Meanwhile, Israel bombs a Christian-run hospital in Gaza City on Palm Sunday.
Early Sunday morning, the Israelis bombed the Al-Arab hospital in Gaza City, putting the medical facilities out of service.
According to Middle East Eye, Gaza's civil defense said the bombing caused the destruction of the surgery building, the oxygen generation station for the intensive care units, meaning a lot of patients are going to die.
The strike damaged other buildings, including the adjoining St. Philip's Church.
The Civil Defense said the strike hit the hospital minutes after the Israeli military ordered the hospital to be evacuated.
Eyewitnesses told Middle East I had 18 minutes to leave.
Palestinians expected a sight where two Israeli Muslims hit a building inside the hospital on April 13. At least three patients.
Including a child with head injury died as a result of a forced evacuation.
The IDF took credit for the attack, claimed it targeted in Hamas Command and Control Center, but offered no evidence because, of course, there was none.
The attack on the hospital, founded in 1882, Comes amid severe shortages of medical supplies due to the total blockade and all goods entering Gaza, which has been imposed since March 2nd.
Hospitals have been overwhelmed since Israel fully restarted the genocidal war on 18 March.
The Baptist Hospital is managed by the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, which strongly condemned the attack.
Noted it occurred on Palm Sunday.
The start of the Christian Holy Week that ends on Easter Sunday.
The Diocese of Jerusalem said the strike mark the fifth time the hospital had been attacked as the IDF has systematically targeted and dismantled medical infrastructure in Gaza.
The Diocese of Jerusalem is appalled at the bombing of the hospital now for the fifth time.
Since the beginning of the war in October, 2023, and this time on the morning of Palm Sunday.
All of this, of course, being war crimes in violation of international odd Geneva Conventions and UN Charter.
Here we have a photo from Palm Sunday.
The Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem also released a statement condemning the attack.
This hospital, already strained by months of siege, Stood as one of the last beacons of medical hope in Gaza where dozens of healthcare institutions have been systematically destroyed.
Systematically destroyed.
The stripping away of such sanctuaries of life and dignity is a tragedy transcending all boundaries of politics entering the realm of the secret.
In UK, the Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, condemned the attack.
For the only Christian hospital in Gaza to be attacked on Palm Sunday is especially appalling.
I share in the grief of our Palestinian brothers and sisters in the Diocese of Jerusalem.
Gaza's small Christian population celebrate Palm Sunday at two churches in Gaza City, the Roman Catholic Holy Family Parish and the Greek Orthodox Saint.
Parforas Church, which I'm surprised were not also bombed out of oblivion.
Meanwhile, Jerusalem.
Statue of Christ smashed in hammer attack.
Church officials tended to a wooden statue of Jesus Christ that was pulled down and damaged at the Church of the Contemnation in Jerusalem's old city.
A statue of Christ in a chapel along the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem was smashed in a brocious attack with a hammer yesterday.
In a video circulating online in the immediate aftermath, the alleged attacker came here saying, "Idols cannot be allowed in Jerusalem."
This, of course, has to do with the Nogahide laws and Jewish theology, which preclude the worship of idols, where they consider statues of Christ and figures of the cross to be such.
The attack comes amid escalating violence and tension across Israel and the West Bank.
The Dean of St. George College of Jerusalem, Canon Richard Sewell, said the attack was very concerning and made the minority Christian community fearful.
He said the men damaged the statue and other items in the chapel had to be restrained by staff.
These incidents caused much fear among Christians in Jerusalem.
The attack occurred at the Church of the Condemnation, the second station along the Via Dolorosa.
An American tourist had been arrested and suspected of vandalism.
His right belief that the man's mental health was being assessed.
Madge Alvarez, a security guard who detained the attacker, told AFP News he was able to grab the man who had hit the statue with a hammer and pull him off.
Joaquin, your thoughts.
Well, I think these incidents are basically showing the larger picture of what's going on with a war on Christianity.
That's really the bottom line here.
Yeah, they send their little idiots out there to do the damage, or in the case of Israel, bombs, U.S. bombs at that.
You know, it's like a point where Israel is...
Basically, you can look at Israel and Ukraine as always sabotaging any kind of agreements.
They cannot be trusted, and you can lump the United States in there as the backers of these renegade countries for basically not having any kind of level of trust.
He said it.
He's basically a Jew.
Trump is a Jew.
And he's definitely acting in support of Israel all the way.
So he actually said it last July when he was in front of a Christian audience, no less, during his campaign in July last year.
He said, I'm not a Christian.
He actually said that.
I'm not a Christian.
And he's just basically an Israeli, and he's also been said to be, well, his daughter, Ivanka, his favorite of the two daughters, and her husband, are both members of the Shabad Lubavitch,
you know, which is really a form of, quote, Hasidic Judaism, but it's really more like a cult.
And it's very devious.
The Schneerson guy that died in 1994 as their Red Bee, he's considered like the Jewish Messiah, you know.
And he said, well, I can't come back until we get rid of all the Goyen population, you know.
So they have an agenda against Christians.
We can see it in every angle of all conflicts, it seems.
Brian? Last week, Glenn Greenwald released some information that came from polling numbers related to both Pew and Gallup that shows that American support for Israel has plummeted in...
Huge, dramatic fashion over the last couple of years.
In 2022, support for Israel was at like 35%.
And that is down an additional 15 points in just the last year in terms of what Americans are after.
As for Trump, I think he's probably more, I would guess, aligning himself with the Christian Zionists.
Although I'm not sure he really understands the difference in what the long-term play is.
I'm going to give you guys some insights into what some of these, what's called a dispensationalist, believes.
They believe that there's going to be a thousand-year reign of Christ coming back on Earth, and he's going to set up basically a temple that's five miles by five miles by five miles.
In Jerusalem, that's going to be the new religious holy center for all people born during the thousand-year reign of Christ.
And so it's going to be sort of a destination where everybody has to go to learn religious things.
I mean, it's pretty crazy what some of these dispensationalists and Christian nationalists believe.
But remember, he's aligned himself with Paula White.
He's aligned himself with Mike Pence and many of the other Christian Zionists who basically think that Jews and Christians are somehow working hand in hand towards a more peaceful surrender of society.
Also, this week, I think it's really interesting that Norman Finkelstein...
Put out a video, actually it was Truth Kanga on X, on Truth Social, or no, X, that put out a video of a high-ranking Israeli general who was basically analyzing the problem from within Israel,
and he says Israel is in a state of collapse, and it has to do with an absolute lack of confidence in the propaganda and the media that the people are being fed.
To give you an example of this, there was a big report in the Gray Zone this week about how an Israeli network had censored a report exposing one of the October 7th heroes as a hoaxer.
And, of course, Israel censored it.
Now, this was your typical crisis actor that overplayed his hand, very similar to anything that we've seen in all of our crisis actors.
This particular crisis actor was a Victim of the October 7th Paraglider attack that witnessed all these Israeli festival goers get tied up to trees and raped.
And he, you know, obviously the media took the story and ran with it like it was a big deal.
And of course all the media's partner organizations made a big deal out of it.
And then another investigator by the name of Raviv Drucker went out and exposed the whole thing as absolutely fake.
Now the problem is Raviv Drucker just exposed this one guy as nothing more than a crisis actor playing a role.
He didn't go on to say the whole thing was a hoax, as he should have, which is what we do here on this channel when we're able to identify and logically think through the consequences of what's really happening when a governmental organization comes in and brings a false flag to light.
So the whole thing was a hoax.
Israeli writer exposed this particular crisis actor and the news stations had to pull the story because the story was so ridiculous.
But what's even worse is that it showed that the entire media was complicit in driving the hoax.
Well, this is part of the interview that's happening with this general where he's saying the Israeli people are no longer going to continue to support the genocide that's taking place here.
And they're no longer supporting their government, and we're internally in a position of near collapse as a result of the lack of confidence in the government.
So what's interesting about the truth is that it generally tends to come out in time, and yes, you can brainwash people so far, but there's always going to be a portion of the population that sees an event and says, it doesn't add up, something's not quite right, and the next thing you know,
they're down the rabbit hole of...
Holy cow, it was all fake from the beginning.
So, let's see where it goes.
You know, I think we're going to, in America, we just tend to take the blue pill all the time in terms of the media and the propaganda, but I don't think that's a worldwide phenomenon.
I think that's changing, and I think that's going to change the winds of this entire platform.
Very nice.
Very nice.
Meanwhile, unpacking Israel's war on international humanitarian law.
Israel has tried to legally justify its attacks and treatment of Palestinians, even as it goes against international law.
March 24th, Israel struck a car in northern Gaza, killed Al Jazeera correspondent, Hossam Shabbat.
The 23-year-old was one of the countless civilians, men, women, children.
Israel has killed since launching what legal scholars describe as a genocidal war on Gaza.
Israel often justified its killing, claiming the targets are people sympathetic or affiliated with Hamas or other armed factions.
This was a justification given for killing Shabbat.
Israel also regularly destroys entire neighborhoods and buildings, killing dozens, often hundreds at a time, ostensibly to target a single Hamas operator.
For years, Israel has sought to justify the practices by employing lawyers to create shadowy quasi-legal concepts in the hope of establishing new dangerous precedents, according to legal scholars and experts.
However, legal scholar told Al Jazeera neither so-called targeted killings nor disproportionate attacks against civilians have any grounding in international law.
Is there any semblance to law or legal justification for the war taxes Israel is using in Gaza?
The simple answer is no.
There isn't, said Heidi Matthews, assistant professor of law at York University in Toronto.
On September 28, 2000, Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and Gaza began demonstrating against Israel's ever-entrenching occupation What became known as the Second Intifada.
Israel's repression of the Intifada quickly prompted Palestinians to mobilize and fight back.
Over the next five years, Israel launched what it named targeted killings, assassinating unarmed Palestinians.
Israel claimed that these targets could pose a threat to Israelis in the future, Israel strips protections from civilians based on their views or perspective,
said Norah Kilsey, a researcher with legal agenda at a non-profit in Lebanon, advocating for legal reform in human rights in the Middle East.
Israel's concept of targeted killing lay a blueprint the U.S. adopted during its War on Terror.
told Al Jazeera.
In the early 2000s, Israel and U.S. changed their legal doctrines and implemented that as part of their military dogma.
York University's Matthews told Al Jazeera, when it came to distinguishing between civilians and combatants, U.S. and Israel began to show, began to view anyone as a target based on their membership to a group.
According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, a person is only a legitimate target if they are directly engaged in armed combat at the time they are killed.
This means that suspected membership in an armed group is not a sufficient basis for assassinating someone.
Throughout Israel's war in Gaza, it has routinely dropped 2,000-pound bombs.
In densely populated residential areas, as well as systematically targeted schools, hospitals, and displacement shelters.
Yes, Israeli officials justify the attack, claiming Israel is fighting a just war against barbarians.
As a result, the ostensible goal of destroying Hamas outweighs minimizing civilian casualties.
This is rooted partly in the philosophy of Francis Lieber, a 19th century German-American military theorist tasked with setting out the rules of conduct for Union soldiers fighting Confederates in the Civil War.
He argued some wars are vital to the moral progress of civilized nations and require a quick victory, only achievable using tactics that will likely cause huge Civilian casualties.
Lieber basically said whatever is militarily necessary to care of war is legal.
And on so, Grimanti, Dolkenberg, a legal scholar at the London School of Economics, told Al Jazeera, This terrifying reasoning is blatantly at odds with international norms and laws.
He believed in killing as many as you can so that you finish a job quickly.
He believed that was more humane than trying to protect people to the point that war drags on for, say, 15 years.
Since the beginning of Israel war in Gaza, its spokespersons have made similar claims.
In November 2024, the ICC approved two arrest warrants for Netanyahu and then Defense Minister Yoav Galat, accused of using starvation as a weapon of war and deliberately attacking civilians in Gaza.
An earlier ruling by the International Court of Justice found Palestinians in Gaza face a real risk of genocide due to Israel's war practices.
These rulings by the ICC and ICJ add weight to the argument that Israel has failed in trying to justify its war practices, which likely amount to multiple war crimes, crimes against humanity, and even genocide.
Mark. Regev, an advisor to PM Netanyahu, said the goal was to get the war done quicker.
We asked by PBS about why Israel had dropped 6,000 bombs in the first six days of attacks on the besieged enclave.
Then spokesperson for the Israeli army, Daniel Higuari, also admitted during the first days he emphasized Gaza was damage, not accuracy.
Legal scholars and experts express dismay.
Netanyahu may be able to visit countries in Europe that are parties to the Rome Statute, the legal framework underpinning the ICC.
Countries like Hungary, Belgium, and France have said they will not arrest Netanyahu if he visits their countries or passes through their land or airspace.
York University Manitou believes states that claim to uphold international law Was that quickly to salvage what's left of the system?
Acknowledge that was never a perfect model.
Other states, beyond America and Israel, need to take action to save or salvage the system as a whole or it will fade away quickly, she told Al Jazeera.
We are at an inflection point and it doesn't look good.
Joaquin, your thoughts.
Well, I mean, everybody knows that Israel does not regard any kind of, what, the UN Charter rules on what's legal in a war.
They've disregarded all the rules, all the laws.
And they're a law unto themselves because they have this power where they're never held accountable.
They have a whole history.
Of never being held accountable for all their crimes they've been accumulating over the last 76 years as a nation, completely backed and protected by the United States, which in large part is why they've never been held accountable.
So the world of people, human beings...
That have a conscience look upon this as appalling.
They're sick of it.
They're demanding that it be over.
But as long as the power structure of Zionism rules, which it is, and is never held accountable...
Nothing will ever change.
You know, last year alone, I think they've been trying to keep track of the number of journalists that have died every year.
And last year in 2024, the most that they counted, and I'm sure it's much more, but they came to 124.
And, you know, 70% of that percentage came from deaths of journalists inside Gaza.
So they definitely target these journalists and the hospitals.
They're always claiming, well, the Hamas headquarters is underneath the hospital.
It's all bullshit.
You know, they just keep doing these atrocities and getting away with it and lying their way out of it and then have countries like America and the rest of the European countries that won't arrest Netanyahu if he...
You know, they just are totally immune from any kind of consequence, which I'm so sick of.
And I'm sure the whole world, the people, decent people, are very sick of this.
And they're going to end up in a World War III where Israel is no longer going to be a nation.
That's how I see it.
We have what Henry Kissinger in 2012 said they only got 10 years left before there'll be no more Israel.
Well, it's going to come to pass.
And they're going to make sure it doesn't.
I think most of the world believes we're better off without an Israel of this disposition, Brian.
Who has been held accountable in terms of the nation and in terms of war crimes?
Just some African warlords by the ICC.
I mean, throughout all the history, the major nations have never been held accountable.
We weren't held accountable for what we did in Vietnam.
We weren't held accountable for Korea.
We weren't held accountable for anything.
And we are very closely tied to Israel.
Just to sort of...
To help you understand the nature of the beast here, you've got this sort of messed up community that they call Israel being formed back in the late 1700s when one guy invented a new language based on the old Hebrew,
and that was followed by dreams and visions of a new Zionism.
Ever since then, Israeli Zionists, who are naturally very clannish and bloodline-ish, have been teaching inside their synagogues that the Israelis were superior in terms of their bloodline than anybody else.
The problem is the bloodline was lost so long ago with all the interbreeding and the scattering among the nations, and the fact that the language has been destroyed, that it was...
It was a far-fetched dream to put together this thing that was called Israel in the meantime.
And so what did they choose as their image?
What did they choose as their logo?
Take a look at it.
It's very old pagan stuff.
It's the phallus, the triangle, and the chalice, the other triangle, combined into the star of Remfan, which is an old...
Satanic image that goes back to Solomon's temple where it was encircled in a circle to hold in the magical power.
And they adopt this as their new image, their new sort of calling flag symbol for what they're going to be.
It's really no different than what America did when we set up Washington, D.C. with the obelisk directly across from the chalice belly of the beast in the Capitol building.
We have a massive obelisk sitting directly across, which is a phallus, sitting directly across from a chalice, which would be a pregnant belly in the...
In the Capitol building, and it happens all over the world.
The Vatican did the same thing.
So these are old pagan religions that are trying to push their way out of something that's new and to just make matters worse, to show you the extent of the mind control that's taken place.
With these people, Yuval Noah Harari, who's an Israeli professor of history, and he's the top advisor to the World Economic Forum, has made a point of stating how human beings are hackable and how artificial intelligence is now going to enable the reengineering of the human into a gene that will create people that are superior to God.
Harari's own words are, we will do better than God in terms of Using eugenics, old Planned Parenthood stuff, to make a better race of people.
So I guess they took their lessons from the Nazis, if you want to sort of look at both sides of the coins in terms of, oh, well, they did it to us, so now we're going to do it to them.
It doesn't surprise me one bit.
But I can tell you that Netanyahu is losing support and his programs are failing internally and they're going to need to start employing draconian measures to control their own population who's beginning to realize that they've been deceived through these Talmudic teachings just as much as anybody else.
I suspect that as a people they'll begin to break out of it.
But they'll always be the very loud Democrat type in Israel that are going to be the ones that proclaim that they're the future of the world and the chosen people.
So what are you going to do?
You're just going to have to let them deal with their own problem and their own people.
I wish we'd stop giving them money, though.
Yeah, very, very good.
Very, very good.
Meanwhile... U.S. vetoes Gulf Reconstruction for Syria and Lebanon until Israel is satisfied.
If you want to know Trump, it is the puppet of Putin, of Bibi, or Bibi, the button of Trump.
Clearly, Bibi is the puppet master.
Wars are costly, often devastating the local population.
A road to recovery can be long and difficult.
Even more true, in Lebanon and Syria with U.S. engaged in efforts that preclude any reconstruction being sent by other nations.
Presented as an undeclared veto, the Trump admin has contacted multiple Gulf Arab countries to warn them they're not allowed to deliver any promised reconstruction aid to Lebanon or Syria until Israel's objectives are met.
If this isn't the most blatant deference, I can imagine what would be.
Israel invaded Lebanon in September, carried out a war, ended November 26th with a ceasefire.
Since then, Israel has continued to attack Lebanon almost daily and has refused to withdraw troops from military outposts they set up inside Lebanon.
Heaven displaced.
town in southern Lebanon.
The intense damage includes villages of homes burnt by occupying Israeli forces.
Much of the agricultural infrastructure destroyed.
Lebanese are just beginning to try to repair the farmland for planting, but they too have come under Israeli attack.
Syria's situation is somewhat different.
Coming off a protracted civil war that left the country in ruins and the Islamists, HDS, in power.
In this case, Israel carried out attacks intermittently throughout the war.
It was only after the war ended they invaded outright and occupied parts of southern Syria.
There's no sign they intend to slow the attacks or withdraw from newly occupied parts of Syria.
The U.S. Security Council is meant to have an emergency meeting to discuss the matter, but action seems unlikely.
If anything, Israeli forces continue to advance ever deeper into Syria.
The U.S. decision to condition Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and others being allowed to give aid on Israel's objectives is doubly challenging.
Because Israel never makes clear what those objectives even are.
In Israeli, hostility to both nations seems to be an ongoing matter of policy irrespective of conditions on the ground.
The Trump admin plays other conditions as well.
Beyond Israeli acquiescence, which will be almost impossible to obtain, they want the Iran nuclear deal to be resolved and the China tariff crisis.
Both are plainly unrelated to Lebanon or Syria, completely out of the hands of their respective governments.
This suggests the goal is to just prevent reconstruction altogether.
Not clear in practice whether the U.S. can really forbid a nation like Qatar from offering reconstruction to a war-torn nation, yet man seems to be assuming it can so far as presented aid from being released.
Some sources are Quoted as the admin believing it can resolve all Arab-Israeli disagreements and other problems through this strategy.
It's further suggested the admin intends no matter what to hold out aid on Lebanon throughout at least 2026 in hopes of swaying the election.
Lebanon parliament includes a number of Shiites.
The other appears to hope that if they keep Lebanon in a state of perpetual post-war misery, The voters will punish the Shiite candidates since Israel invaded to attack Hezbollah, a Shiite organization.
Ain't going to happen.
Whether the strategy will be successful remains to be seen, but the U.S. doesn't have a great track record with these kinds of gambles.
In trying to impose an election result on Lebanon like this could easily backfire.
Especially with the recent postwar reconstruction isn't happening because Trump is forbidding it.
If anything, it could move a boost of parties looking to resist the U.S. imposition and chart a different course.
Meanwhile, U.S. and Rand are set to hold another round of negotiations after indirect talks over the weekend appeared to go well, scheduled for April 19th.
Following negotiation in Oman, both U.S. and Iran described their engagement as constructive.
The side was led by Trump's Middle East envoy, Stephen Witkoff, Iranian delegation headed by Foreign Minister Abbas Archi.
The negotiation lasted about two and a half hours, and were mostly held in directly with Omani mediators, passing messages between each delegation.
However, at the end of the talk, Witkoff In our God, she spoke directly for just a few minutes.
That's why they could claim they had direct negotiations.
The discussions were very positive and constructive.
The U.S. deeply thanks the Sultanate of Oman for supporting this initiative, the White House said.
Later, that Whitcoff's direct communication today was a step more in achieving a mutually beneficial outcome.
Chachi said a post that the talks were constructive and promising in an atmosphere of mutual respect.
Both sides decided to continue the process in a matter of days.
The fact there appears to be progress signals the U.S. is focusing on seeking a commitment from Renna to weaponize its nuclear program, which it has never intended to do, a pledge to Renna said it has stuck to and is willing to reaffirm.
Yet a few weeks before negotiation, U.S. Intel said in their annual threat assessment there's no evidence Iran is building a nuclear weapon.
Despite that conclusion, Trump has been threatening to bomb Iran if a deal is not breached.
Iran hawks in the U.S. and Israel have been demanding a deal that would involve the complete dismantlement of Iran's civilian nuclear program, which is a non-starter for negotiation with Tehran.
Iran has also rejected the idea of a deal that would place limits on Iran's ballistic missiles in support for its allies in the region.
Triop Marcy and Iran expert and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute has said a narrow deal focusing on Iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief would have a real chance of success.
If it's narrow, if it's focused on the nuclear program, If the goal is to prevent a nuclear weapon, then there's a likelihood of success, she told the AB.
Under those circumstances, I suspect you'll see talks, perhaps in rather short order, be elevated.
A deal that limits Iran nuclear enrichment in exchange for sanction relief would be very similar to the 2015 nuclear deal, nor does JCPOA, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which Trump...
From which Trump unilaterally withdrew in 2018.
Meanwhile, now, Don, take us out.
Oh, big build-up here.
I've got to take us out.
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