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Whistleblower exposes Donald Trump’s secret plot against China
February 18, 2024
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Nazi’s attacks on Syria take a new and unexpected direction

VANESSA BEELEy

“Israel stood by our side…We wouldn’t have survived without Israel’s assistance” – including weapons the Netanyahu regime supplied. Spokesman for one extremist group in Syria 2017

Video of the Israeli aggression against eastern Aleppo. One target was an ammunition store which continued burning for 2-3 hours:

Israeli aggression against Syria takes a new turn – escalation or desperation?

Official statement from the Syrian Ministry of Defence:

At 1:45 am, the Israeli enemy launched an air attack from the direction of Athriya, southeast of Aleppo, targeting several points in Aleppo countryside, in conjunction with a drone attack carried out by terrorist organizations from Idlib and Aleppo western countryside, in an attempt to target civilians in Aleppo city and its surrounding.

The aggression resulted in the martyrdom and injury of several civilians and soldiers, and material losses to public and private property.

Aleppo Under Attack

Israeli warplanes infiltrated Syrian airspace via Jordan. They used the Syrian airspace over the illegal US base in Al Tanf (on the border with Jordan) to proceed towards the depths of the central Syrian Badia or desert area at low altitude to avoid detection. The missiles were fired from the Athriya area with U.S. cover towards several targets in the eastern Aleppo suburbs that until December 2016 were occupied by the Western-midwived terrorist gangs.

Simultaneously terrorist groups in Idlib (north-west) dominated by HTS (Al Qaeda) launched a massive attack with suicide drones on civilians in Aleppo City in an attempt to divert the Syrian Air Defence teams.

The Israeli aggression targeted the Jibreen area of eastern Aleppo, close to the Aleppo International Airport and the Ibn Al Khaldoun psychiatric hospital whose patients were terrified having already endured the five year occupation by the same terrorist gangs.

This combined attack was intended to stretch the capability of the Air Defence in defending Aleppo against the dual attacks.

Israel not only targeted Jibreen, it also targeted Kfarjoum to the West of Aleppo.

Sites hit included a gas station, weapon depots and various buildings and is considered as the most intensive attack on the Aleppo governorate by Israel – so far there are at least 30 martyrs (the number is still expected to rise) including women and children. Friends in Aleppo described it as “judgement day”, the explosions were so loud and the attack so intense.

These are people who lived through war since 2012.

There were also Syrian Arab Army martyrs and from Hezbollah units in the area. Some of the names of the martyred Hezbollah fighters:

Ahmad Jawad Shhemeh, 1964

Mustafa Ahmad Makkeh, 1984

Ibrahim Anis Al-Zein, 1982

Ali Mohammad Al-Haf, 1982

Mustafa Ali-Nasif , 1991

A sixth fighter is reported to have died from his wounds.

Explosions continued for at least two hours due to the interception of the Syrian Air Defence combined with the fire and explosions from the weapons depots.

The day before at 5.50pm Israel had carried out a failed assassination attempt against a farm in Bahdaleyah town next to Sayyeda Zainab in the southern Damascus countryside. The farm was completely destroyed but the Hezbollah fighters had evacuated minutes before the strike and escaped. Two civilians were injured.

The two attacks within eight hours demonstrates Israel’s mounting desperation to inflict damage upon Hezbollah bases and fighters in Lebanon and Syria which is known to be the backbone of the resistance and a safe haven for the Hezbollah forces who were instrumental in the liberation of specific Syrian territory from US allied terrorist groups since the regime change war began in 2011.

Both aggressions targeted Hezbollah sites. The attack on Aleppo was unexpected – it is far away from the southern Lebanon front and logistically speaking it is not a natural target for Israel.

Therefore it can only be interpreted as an Israeli attempt to expand the war against Hezbollah specifically while triggering an escalation from the north-western Al Qaeda groups to further pressure the Syrian Arab Army forces and Air Defence teams and to distract the Syrian-based Resistance groups away from any attacks on Israel.

Lebanese journalist Qassem Qassem recently said:

I believe that the intensity of the clash and escalation with the Israeli enemy has increased and that the moment of heading to a battle that may develop into a war is approaching.

I believe that the Israeli enemy is preparing itself for a military campaign against Lebanon, and is now working to get rid of some of the obstacles it has, such as ammunition and the American green light.

I believe that the visit of Security Minister Gallant comes in the context of preparing for the attack on Lebanon and not for the Rafah operation.

Most Israeli military analysts speak with certainty about launching a campaign against Lebanon and that it is a matter of time.

All of this may be for exaggeration, but I believe that the time for exaggeration for Israel ended on October 7, especially after it faced the existential threat.

What this does show is that Israel is cornered. It is losing the ground war in Gaza against a relatively ill-equipped, starving and besieged Palestinian Resistance while the IOF forces on the ground in Gaza commit hourly atrocities against civilians, all caught on camera. Israel’s image as the ‘most moral army’-’only democracy in the middle east’ is irretrievably destroyed.

Article in the Telegraph. Reported by The Cradle:

Israeli intelligence officials told The Telegraph that the government’s stated goal to “eradicate Hamas” in the Gaza Strip has become unachievable after the US “turned its back” on Tel Aviv by abstaining during a UN Security Council (UNSC) vote earlier this week.

“If you’d asked me this a month ago, I would definitely say yes [we can eliminate Hamas] because, at that time, the Americans were backing Israel,” an Israeli intelligence official told the British daily, reportedly suggesting this assessment “had now changed.”

“The US doesn’t support going into Rafah, which they did before, so the cards right now are not good, meaning Israel has to do something dramatic and drastic to change the momentum and climate,” the source added, highlighting that “pressure is mounting on Israel to reach some sort of a deal, which means Hamas could survive. Both Hamas and the Iranians are playing on that.”

In the north on the border with Lebanon the 200,000 settlers and businesses that fled the conflict are destined to never return. Yemen has effectively blockaded an arterial sea route and even with the aid of the ‘normalised’ Abrahamic Accords regional countries like UAE, Jordan etc Israel’s economy is dying and military morale is on its knees.

The veils have been lifted. Israel is trying to expand the war to gain a victory which will ensure its survival. It has clearly demonstrated its allegiance to the Zionist-allied Al Qaeda factions in Idlib and is losing face globally. It has isolated itself even from the U.S. thanks to Netanyahu-hubris. It is trapped and flailing but perhaps at its most dangerous.

It is worth noting that ISIS attacks have also been increasing exponentially since October 7th, many coming from the US illegal military base at Al Tanf, used by Israel to launch attacks on Syria.

It is no longer possible to deny that the clear and present axis of terrorism in Syria is US-UK-Israel-Turkey-EU-Jordan-ISIS-Al Qaeda. The battle lines are no longer blurred, they are crystal clear. Those Palestinian supporters still promoting Idlibistan as a beacon of support for Palestine should take note.

Will Israel maintain escalation? What will the U.S. and U.K. do with elections looming? Whatever the outcome the Resistance is ready. Israel, the Zionist colonialist settler state, will not win this war.

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Many thanks to Syrian journalist and researcher Ibrahim Wahdi for his help in compiling this information. You can follow him on Twitter or Telegram or at Press TV.

Whistleblower exposes Donald Trump’s secret plot against China

 By: Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury

VT Condemns the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS by USA/Israel

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Source: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State.

In a bombshell revelation, a former US official, shrouded in anonymity, has blown the lid off a clandestine operation orchestrated by then-US President Donald Trump. According to a report by Reuters on March 14, 2024, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was purportedly greenlit to engage in covert activities targeting Chinese social media platforms. The objective: to sway public opinion within China against its government. This disclosure, while alarming, sheds light on the murky world of geopolitical machinations and covert interventions that often fly under the radar of public scrutiny.

The reported authorization by President Trump, if true, underscores a disturbing trend of the US employing covert means to influence political dynamics in foreign nations. However, for many observers familiar with US foreign policy, such revelations may not come as a shock. The United States has a long and storied history of interventionism, employing tactics ranging from propaganda campaigns to outright regime change operations, often facilitated by intelligence agencies like the CIA.

Despite the gravity of the allegations, both the CIA and the Biden administration have opted to remain tight-lipped, neither confirming nor denying the existence of such operations. This opacity raises questions about the motives behind the disclosure and underscores the challenge of discerning truth from misinformation in the realm of covert operations.

One glaring aspect of this revelation is the portrayal of the US as a victim retaliating against perceived cyber threats from China and Russia. This narrative conveniently masks the aggressive posture adopted by the US in its strategic competition with other global powers. By framing its actions as defensive measures, the US seeks to justify its covert interventions as necessary responses to external provocations, thereby legitimizing its hegemonic pursuits.

Furthermore, the reported tactics employed by the CIA, including the use of fake online personas to disseminate anti-government narratives, offer a rare glimpse into the modus operandi of US intelligence operations. Such revelations serve to demystify the covert strategies employed by the US and highlight the extent to which foreign public opinion is manipulated through targeted disinformation campaigns.

Of particular concern is the revelation that the CIA’s operations extend beyond China, encompassing regions such as Southeast Asia, Africa, and the South Pacific. This underscores the global scope of US efforts to shape narratives and influence perceptions, especially regarding initiatives like the Belt and Road Initiative. By sowing seeds of doubt and disseminating negative portrayals of Chinese initiatives, the US aims to undermine China’s influence and disrupt its development agenda.

Critics have lambasted the CIA’s actions as a blatant violation of international law and a destabilizing force in global affairs. Renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs has denounced the CIA’s disregard for the rule of law, warning of the catastrophic consequences of its unchecked power. Moreover, mainstream American media’s complicity in perpetuating CIA-generated narratives has come under scrutiny, raising questions about journalistic integrity and the role of the media in holding intelligence agencies accountable.

Analysts warn that the true intentions behind the CIA’s operations may be far more sinister than initially perceived. By diverting China’s resources and attention towards countering cognitive warfare, the US aims to impede China’s development and disrupt its strategic objectives. However, China remains steadfast in its commitment to pursuing its own development agenda, undeterred by external interference.

Ultimately, the exposure of US covert operations serves as a cautionary tale about the perils of unchecked power and the importance of transparency in international relations. As the world grapples with the implications of such revelations, it is imperative to remain vigilant against covert interventions and uphold the principles of sovereignty and non-interference in the affairs of sovereign states. Only through concerted efforts to expose and condemn such actions can the international community hope to safeguard global stability and uphold the rule of law in an increasingly complex and interconnected world.

Macron believes Ukraine could fall soon

The French president reportedly voiced the sentiment at an Elysee Palace dinner

By:  Jonas E. Alexis, Senior Editor

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Source: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State.

French President Emmanuel Macron believes Ukraine might be defeated on the battlefield in short order, the French edition of Politico reported on Wednesday.

The outlet’s Playbook section spoke with several members of the president’s party who had attended a working dinner at the Elysee Palace the evening before. While most of the discussion centered on the upcoming European Parliament elections, the Ukraine conflict also came up.

“Ukraine could fall very quickly,” one of the outlet’s sources quoted Macron as saying.

Macron ramped up his rhetoric about Ukraine a few weeks after a number of French nationals fighting on behalf of Kiev were killed in a Russian missile strike. At a meeting of EU leaders in Paris in late February, he refused to rule out the possibility of a NATO intervention in Ukraine.

Though the idea was quickly rejected by almost all members of the US-led bloc and its secretary-general, Macron doubled down, declaring there would be “no limits” to French support for Kiev and calling Russia an “adversary.” Meanwhile, the French Army’s Chief of Staff Pierre Schill announced that the country’s military was “ready,” presumably for a war.

Moscow has strongly condemned Macron’s remarks and cautioned NATO against taking further hostile moves. According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the deployment of Western soldiers to Ukraine would make direct conflict with Russia “inevitable.”

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Marine Le Pen, a prominent member of the opposition National Rally party and Macron’s rival in the 2022 election, accused the president last week of “hijacking” the Ukraine issue for the sake of domestic electoral politics. Polls have shown that the French support helping Kiev with weapons and money, but draw the line at getting involved directly with boots on the ground.

Concerns that Kiev might be losing the war appear to be based on several French military assessments leaked earlier this month to the outlet Marianne. One report, following Kiev’s summer offensive, concluded that Ukraine could not win the conflict by military means. Another described the Battle of Avdeevka as a Ukrainian rout and had the French military “in cold sweat,” according to Marianne.

A few days later, the daily Le Monde claimed that Macron’s talk of possibly sending troops dated all the way back to June 2023, when the Ukrainian counteroffensive was just starting. General Schill also told the outlet that Macron’s public statements have been “foremost a political and strategic message” to Russia about France’s “will and commitment,” rather than an actual escalation.

Debunking the UK media fake: Did Chechen troopers really cut Ukrainian soldier’s legs and arms?

 By: Lucas Leiroz

VT Condemns the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS by USA/Israe

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Source: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State.

By Edvard Chesnokov / Moscow, Russia

Promoting Critical Race Theory, the UK along with the West desperately fight against ‘white suprematism’ — from toppling colonial monuments to staging promotional videos about Muslim militants among the British army.

But when it comes to Chechnya — a predominantly Muslim land in the Caucasus which has become the part of Russia 165 years ago — the Western media uses a quite opposing narrative. It depicts thousands of Chechen troopers fighting alongside the Russian army in Ukraine as violent killers who brutally slaughter innocent Ukrainian neo-Nazists — apparently following the German racist propaganda of WW1 and WW2 which claimed itself ‘the protector of United Europe from the wild Asian Horde’.

Surprisingly, just 25 years ago, the Western position on Chechnya was also absolutely different. At that time, Baron Frank Judd, the ex-UK foreign ministry and the then-international rapporteur on Chechnya (just imagine an opposite: London would let a Russian authority to visit Northern Ireland and to write an official report on violence outbreaks there) was traveling across Northern Caucasus to check human rights at the territory where terroristic attacks of the local Al Qaeda branch used to spark nearly every day. You know, at that time, during Vladimir Putin’s first term, only a decade after the USSR bloody dissolution, Chechnya was an extremely dangerous place and the new Kremlin leader worked hard to reintegrate it into Russia.

Thereby, for Mr. Judd’s reviews, the pro-Kremlin Russian troops deployed in Chechnya were bad guys, while the Chechen paramilitants were good guys; in 2003, he even argued against the local plebiscite which would approve the reunification of Chechnya and Russia — the that-time analogue of the 2016 Scottish independence referendum when the same London authorities campaigned for the eternal unity of their Lowlands and the British analogue of Highland Chechnya.

The reason for such a dual approach is clear: if you fight against Russia’s Putin, you’re a freedom fighter; if you fight alongside Putin, you’re a dangerous aggressor no matter your religion or nationality.

But back to our story. On March 4, 2024, The Times issued a sensational article entitled ‘I was a prisoner of war. Russia traded me on the black market’ — as if there also were some white, official and London-approved market for trading the prisoners of war (PoWs). Beneath, in the subtitle, the leading British newspaper promised to reveal the story of how ‘president Putin’s forces’ sent Ukrainian PoWs to Chechnya where one of the captives had had its legs and hands cut.

As a decade-experienced journalist, I teach students at the media faculty of one of the leading Russian universities. With all my respect, such an article does not suit even a first-year student’s draft, not to mention the 239-year outlet.

The only fully truthful fact in this article are the words in its subtitle that the Chechens fighters, as well as most Russians, are loyal to Vladimir Putin. Speaking about the main topic, the PoWs at the Ukrainian conflict, The Times cites only one side, such as Petro Yatsenko, a member of the Kiev team on the PoWs’ affairs. Thereby, the newspaper violates the basic media standard of opinion balance, totally silencing the Russian position regarding the case.

In Moscow, there are well-known media persons moderating an extremely complicated PoW-exchange process. One of the most notable of them is Shamsail Saraliev, the Chechen member of the Russian parliament. Almost every month he posts unique videos with recently-released ex-PoWs which   hundreds of thousands of views on his social, but the English journalists even did not try to approach anybody on the Russian side.

Despite the subtitle of the article announcing the story of ‘Ukranian PoWs (in plural form) in Chechnya’, the body text exposes the single story of Vyacheslav Levitskiy, a former Ukrainian soldier.

According to The Times, having captured this 41-year old man in the town of Adveevka (Donetsk People’s Republic), the Russian squad ostensibly tortured him to recognize ‘the wavelength of the Ukrainian military radio’.

The problem of this quotation is that wavelength is a physical term necessary for mathematicians; the military men on the battlefield would be more likely to ask about frequency, but even this plot is absurd as most of radio communications at the frontline are hardware encrypted. This means, The Times fed its readers with hoax and the author has not even basic knowledge in war science.

Then Levitskiy was taken by the Chechen troopers and was relocated to Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, where the Chechens cut all his legs and hands — as it was pointed out in the article’s caption. Doesn’t it sound terrible?

But let the other side speak. Anatoly Shariy, an independent blogger who criticised both Moscow and Kiev throughout the conflict, revealed a video testimony of Levitskiy. The footage was made in Russia, prior to the former soldier’s release to Ukraine during a round of the PoW-exchange.

So this is the story: after a brutal fight on the frontline, Levitskiy — according to his own testimony in the above-mentioned video — got both his legs injured and had to lay for 10 days in the trenches with frostbitten hands. His feet became gangrenous. Then he was captured by the Russians. As it was impossible to repair his severe injuries on the ground, he was moved to the Grozny hospital. ‘[The Chechen doctors] have brought me back to life’, he says. All in all, they treated him well, and the man was returned to his home country.

Moreover, Shariy cites the testimonies of Chechen doctors who recall Levitskiy’s diagnosis and the treatment protocols — a data massive that is easily to check and hardly to fabricate.

So this is the real story of how ‘Chechens cut all four limbs of a Ukrainian PoW’.

But back to the main problem of the article, its bombshell caption, ‘the Chechen black market of the Ukrainian PoWs’. Such a claim has neither a single evidence, nor even a single mention in the very same text it entitled. Just imagine that I would issue an article under caption ‘King Charles is dead’ and write a story about my home British Shorthair kitten in the body text.

Another part of the story — that ‘some Chechens in Chechnya feel sympathy for Ukraine and want to combat Russia along with Ukraine’ — is a pure example of modern post-truth journalism: such anonymous claims are basically unverifiable. On the other hand, in reality, we see thousands of Chechens fighting among the Russian army against what they call ‘Western satanists’ in Ukraine.

It is not even boulevard-press journalism. It is an Islamophobic, chauvinistic, Geobbels-style pamphlet objected to depict the Chechen ethnic minority as ‘danger’ to Western Europe. So when the current UK shows its anti-racist and anti-colonial attitude, do not let yourself be distracted. Modern Great Britain is the same when its soldiers executed the Hindus and Muslim freedom fighters after the Sepoy Mutiny in 1859.

Do 90% of Nazi Jews Support Genocide?

 By: Kevin Barrett, Senior Editor

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[Listen to my argument with Richie Allen]

Do more than 90% of Israeli Jews support the genocide of Gaza, i.e. the current “military operation”? Richie Allen doesn’t think so. During my appearance on his show yesterday he challenged me to cite polling data.

Unfortunately, no pollster in Israel will ever ask flat-out: “Do you support the genocide of Gaza?” Nor have any asked a more polite version of the same question: “Do you support or oppose Israel’s current military campaign in Gaza?” (I argue that well over 90% would say they support it, while less than 10% would say they oppose it.)

Poll results were also hawkish when it came to the use of force in Gaza: 57.5% of Israeli Jews said that they believed the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were using too little firepower in Gaza, 36.6% said the IDF was using an appropriate amount of firepower, while just 1.8% said they believed the IDF was using too much fire power, while 4.2% said they weren’t sure

So we are going to have to extrapolate. Fortunately (though unfortunately for the Palestinians) this is an easy extrapolation. Time’s “What Do Israelis Think of the War with Hamas?” includes the following paragraph:

Poll results were also hawkish when it came to the use of force in Gaza: 57.5% of Israeli Jews said that they believed the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were using too little firepower in Gaza, 36.6% said the IDF was using an appropriate amount of firepower, while just 1.8% said they believed the IDF was using too much fire power, while 4.2% said they weren’t sure

Let me repeat that. Fewer than 2% of Israeli Jews think the IDF is “using too much fire power” in Gaza.

Richie Allen might argue that those numbers may have changed since the poll was taken in November. But he would be grasping at straws. There is no evidence whatsoever of any significant change. Essentially nobody, I repeat nobody, in Israel is protesting against the IDF’s wholesale massacre of Palestinians. The “left-wing” Israelis are protesting Netanyahu’s failure to get the Israeli hostages returned. But they are completely indifferent to the genocide of Gazans. In fact, “indifferent” is probably the wrong word. To the extent that any Israeli Jews are saying anything about Palestinian suffering and death, they are wildly celebrating it.

This poll wasn’t an outlier. During a previous massacre of thousands of Gazan civilians, 2008’s Operation Cast Lead, “a poll taken the day after the start of the operation showed 81 percent of the Israeli public supporting the operation, with only 12 percent opposed.” Since 20 percent of Israel’s population are non-Jewish Arabs who disproportionately opposed the massacre, that means that virtually the entire Israeli Jewish population supported it. Polls during subsequent “mowing the lawn” operations gave similar results.

So if fewer than 2% of Israeli Jews think the IDF is “using too much fire power” in Gaza, does that mean that Israeli Jews, as a group, are raving genocidal lunatics that need to be dealt with in the same way that mad dogs are dealt with?

That comparison is unfair—to mad dogs. It is also unfair to some of the 140,000 or fewer Jewish Israelis (out of a total population of around 7 million) who, by way of thinking that Israel is “using too much fire power,” may actually oppose the genocide that is being

in their name. God bless that minuscule minority of non-genocidal Israelis. As for the other 98%…maybe the Jewish Autonomous Oblast would make a good re-education facility.

Extract from my conversation with Richie Allen

Going back to the days I was on radio in Spain, it is morally and it is wrong on every level to take hostages, regardless of who you are. We know what the IDF and the Israeli police have done to the people of Gaza for decades and decades: Reprehensible things, disgusting things, crimes against humanity. But two wrongs don’t make a right. And keeping people for months, you know, in terror, because they must be terrified, the hostages. And never knowing when they’re going to go home. That’s wrong, Kevin. And I can’t support that. I support the people of Palestine and their rights to their land, the right of return, all of that, pre-67. I know my history. I know Israel should not exist. Not legally. It has no legal basis, of course. It has no legitimacy in law internationally.

But don’t keep hostages. Don’t do that. It’s terribly wrong. I hear what you’re saying, you know, that it’s leverage, but you’re describing human beings with loves, with families, with cares, with ambitions. You’re describing them as leverage. They’re not. They’re human beings, Kevin.

Well, yeah, that’s a good point, Richie. But remember that Israel is holding 10,000 Palestinians hostages and it systematically practices torture on them and sexual abuse. Before October 7th, Israel was holding, at that point, 6,000 or however many thousands of Palestinian hostages. Now it’s 10,000. So, if the Palestinians try to grab a few hundred hostages in order to get their own 10,000 plus hostages released..

It’s true that inn war, people have to do terrible things. And so the onus is on whoever starts the war. In this case, it was these genocidal lunatics who crossed the seas because they believe that their god gave them this land thousands of years ago. They have a many-thousand-year-old real estate deed, and it has apparently no statute of limitations on it. So they have the right to come over and massacre and expel the people who live there.

So it’s obvious who started this. And when a war is started, when they attack you, when somebody commits that gross of an evil, you have the right to fight back. You know, Richie, if some gangsters came and massacred members of your family, God forbid, and expelled you from your house, set up shop in your house, would you have the right to use force to get your house back? Family members are dead and others they’re holding and torturing. Do you have the right to pick up a gun and go after them to get your house back?

I say you do. I say if you don’t pick up a gun and get your house back, you’re committing a grave moral wrong. And anybody who isn’t fighting Zionism with a gun right now is committing a grave moral wrong. And obviously that’s the case for the direct victims of this, the Palestinians.

Well, I don’t have any fight with Zionism, and I don’t feel that I should be compelled to pick up a gun against an ideology. I’ll use my my voice and my my journalism to…

They’re Antichrist, they’re not just an ideology.

Well, we could be here all night discussing that. I don’t agree with that characterisation of people. You know, like I said, I used to interview Zionists about these things. And while they were very extreme, ideologically extreme, there were still human beings raising children, you know, who believed.

I interviewed Norman Finkelstein many times over the years, Kevin. For some reason, he doesn’t return my emails these days, but that’s fair enough. He might have a good reason as far as he’s concerned. But Norman said to me once, he said, Richie, you see a lot of the children of Israel, not all of them, but see a lot of them as victims because from the moment they can talk and the moment they can understand what they’re being told, they are told, you know, that the Arabs are evil and that God has given you, as you said, the right to be here. And that terrifies these kids effectively.

So you’re calling people, you know, the Antichrist. These are people, many of them, who’ve been brought up within a cult, really, you could argue, a sect. And they’re victims in some way, aren’t they? That’s a legitimate area of research, I think. What say you?

Yes, I agree completely. I translated and published Laurent Guyénot’s book From Yahweh to Zion, which is probably the best critical book ever written on Jewish identity politics and its connection to religious tradition. And the conclusion of that book is that the leaders of Judaism, even long before Zionism, some of those leaders abused their people and told them that the other groups of people around them were evil. “So go and smash their gods and steal their stuff and give it to Yahweh,” meaning give it to the high priests of Yahweh, which are the people who organized the whole racket.

The Jews are traumatized from a very early age. And we could get into what Sigmund Freud would say about the circumcision of newborns, but that certainly does leave a—

Hang on there now. I was circumcised.

So was I. And in any case, you know, the various kinds of psychological abuse and torture that are meted out in that tradition to make them a people (who shall dwell) apart, brainwashing children into believing that the goyim, all the other tribes, all the non-Jews, are out to get them.—that creates a kind of mentality that ultimately leads perfectly nice individual people to become part of a group that is a tribal psychopath. That is, it’s a tribe that treats other tribes or nations the way that a psychopathic individual treats other human beings.

And so that’s the problem we have. Yes, the vast majority of Zionists are basically decent people, but their group mentality is psychopathic.

I remember talking about this over the years, me being a history graduate. There are no moral grounds for Israel to exist. We could talk about Sykes-Picot, the Ottoman Empire, what the British and French did. Obviously the Balfour Declaration. But it’s only this biblical thing that is their case, really. Golda Meir once said, this country exists as the accomplishment of a promise made by God himself. It would be absurd to call its legitimacy into account. And he’s channeling God’s alleged, what did God say? “Unto thy seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the Euphrates.”

But let me read you this from Fred: “Kevin is exaggerating about the number of Israelis wanting to rid the world of the Palestinians. I lived there in 1981 as a kibbutz volunteer. And yes, there are a lot who want to get rid of the Palestinians, but I wouldn’t say even 50%. You know, he’s wrong. He’s exaggerating,” says Fred. And then Fred says “Kevin is right that the massacres will only get worse once the hostages are freed because the IDF won’t have to worry about killing them.”

Fred spent time in a kibbutz He said, no way is every Israeli or is most of them or are most of them wanting to kill the Palestinians. That’s his opinion.

Well, I think he’s right about the 1980s. But there’s been a real change in Israel since then. Israel’s been taken over by these ultra extremist lunatics. Now, I think the governments in the 80s and before were really nearly as evil as the current government. But they were much better at hiding it. And they talked a different talk. And so public opinion in Israel was very, very different then than it is today.

And part of the issue has been demographics. The liberal elites in Israel are having very few children, very small families, while the more radical elements are having the larger families. And that’s one of the factors that’s driven the rise of Likud. They’re the heirs of Jabotinsky, the ultra-terrorist lunatic. Basically the whole world considered this guy one of the worst terrorists of all time.

But now the party that’s been ruling Israel for decades is the party of Jabotinsky. And now even crazier people are in the coalition with that party. And that has conditioned public opinion in Israel.

And I think the other thing that he misses is that — since October 7th, you know, it rhymes with September 11th, and, as you know, shortly after September 11th, if you took a poll in America: “Should we go, kill all the Arabs or kill all the Muslims?” you would have gotten a surprising number of people saying yes. Because there is this kind of shock effect when the country is attacked that could lead people to kind of get into that kind of mentality.

Do you remember the Howard Stern show on the morning of September the 11th? I remember it well. I was working in radio in Waterford in Ireland and some of the lads who worked there were fond of Stern. So they would get in the mail, they would receive tapes of Stern’s shows, because the internet wasn’t such a big thing. You couldn’t download radio. So about a week or so after we got the tapes from Stern’s show, Stern was basically advocating going in and wiping everybody out on the day.

So you’re right. It does tend to stimulate that sort of talk. “Yeah, let’s kill them all.” You’re right, Kevin. I’ll give you that. Yeah. Okay.

And the current government has encouraged that and stoked it and kept it at that kind of level. So I do think that Fred really should take a look at the polls. I’ll find some and send them to you, Richie. And I will eat my proverbial hat if fewer than 90% of Israeli Jews don’t support this genocide and if the majority don’t want to make it worse.

I’m not being stubborn when I say I don’t believe it. I’m not calling you a liar. I know you’re not a liar. I’ve known you for years. When you claim that you’ve seen or read something, you’ve never left me down. So I’m not calling you a liar. I do not believe in their hearts that they want to get rid of the Palestinians. Not so many of them. I’d be a fool to think that none of them do. I think they obviously do. But look, I won’t…I’ll give you the final word on that.

The Myth of the Temple of Solomon II: Ostentation in Brazil

The work explores elements of the Jewish faith applied in an unorthodox way to the neo-Pentecostal evangelical Christian church and its theology of prosperity, which is growing in Brazil.

The construction of the headquarters of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, the UCKG, in Sao Paulo invokes the biblical description of the Temple of King Solomon. In the first video we showed how this work seeks to bring Brazil closer to an Israeli narrative used in Jerusalem to try to replace the ancient historical heritage represented by the Islamic Al-Aqsa Mosque with Jewish religious symbols.

While this plan faces strong Palestinian resistance, in Brazil it manifested in the ostentatious Temple of Edir Macedo.

The imposing set of buildings and gardens is set in a gigantic area and displays columns up to 56 metres high, which rise high above the roofs and old sheds of the old working-class neighbourhood of Bras, in Sao Paulo. Part of the area was designated as the site for a housing project; four blocks of 744 units as outlined by the Housing and Urban Development Company of the State of São Paulo, according to Veja magazine in 2014. But the blueprints remain and the land was sold to the UCKG.

Faith, allegories and symbolism

The work explores elements of the Jewish faith applied in an unorthodox way to the neo-Pentecostal evangelical Christian church and its theology of prosperity, growing in Brazil.

At the inauguration, Bishop Edir Macedo, founder and head of the church, responsible for the construction, dressed in rabbi’s attire, which is reserved for Jewish religious leaders trained in the study of the Torah.

The celebration was covered in allegories and symbolism.

The guides dressed in costumes from the time attributed to King Solomon, almost a thousand years before Christ. Gold paint was used to imitate the gold which is abundant in the temple described in the Bible. Ancient olive trees, the symbol of Palestine, were imported from Uruguay to imitate the Mount of Olives, located in Jerusalem, an important place where Jesus preached to his disciples and where he was captured by soldiers of the Sanhedrin, guided by Judas the traitor.

With this religious, architectural and scenographic environment, the head of the Universal Church spoke to the invited guests, among them the then Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.

But the great impact of the work in Brazil – inaugurated in 2014 – was the very boldness of the venture.

READ: Al-Aqsa Mosque: Islamic institutions warn Israel against expansion of Magharbeh Gate

Inspired by a trip to Israel

The building had been planned for four years, according to TV Record, a national television network linked to the Universal Church, after a visit by Bishop Edir Macedo to Israel. The film about Macedo’s life, entitled Nothing to Lose and released in March 2018, recalls what he describes as his pilgrimage to Mount Sinai in Egypt. At that time, the pastor found himself cornered by dozens of lawsuits with accusations of fraud and money laundering. After the trip, in which he said he sought spiritual help, the lawsuits were shelved, as if by a miracle, on the grounds of lack of evidence, while his detractors went from accusers to targets of the justice system, as contained in the film. Macedo complained of persecution, including from the Catholic Church.

After four years of planning, as reported by the programme Domingo Espetacular, on TV Record in 2016, another four were set aside for the construction of the temple, which mobilised up to 1,500 workers a day, in an area 126 metres long, 104 metres wide and 56 metres tall. In the temple, the main nave accommodates 10,000 people on chairs imported from Spain.

The complex has a museum which highlights what would have been the 12 tribes of Israel, screens measuring 20 square metres and a parking lot with 2,000 spaces for cars, 241 for motorcycles and 200 for buses. It has 60 apartments for pastors and 335 bathrooms for the faithful. In addition, it has 36 Children’s Bible School (EBI) rooms with capacity for 1,300 children, television and radio studios and an auditorium for 500 people, as detailed in Wikipedia.

The total cost declared was 685 million Brazilian real ($353 million at 2014 values), money attributed to donations from the faithful. The expenses could have been even greater if there had been no exemption from public fees.

READ: The myth of the Temple of Solomon and the struggle for Jerusalem

Palestinian stones

Veja Sao Paulo magazine reported, at the time, that around 40 properties were purchased in Bras to accommodate the project.

Together, these would have paid City Hall an Urban Property and Territorial Tax (IPTU) of around three million Brazilian real ($1.54 million) per year.

As a result of its religious purpose, however, the Universal do Reino de Deus sought tax exemptions. This was ratified by the Federal Senate on 17 February 2022 with constitutional amendment nº 116, which released any church, of any denomination, from paying IPTU.

Some 17,000 truck trips were needed to remove and flatten the earth. In spite of this, the work was registered with City Hall as a renovation project, which reduced the fees related to the construction. After approving the registration, the municipal official was absolved of claims of corruption.

The temple was also exempt from import duties on the decorative stones that covered the facade and that were imported from Israel.

To make the Sao Paulo temple similar to the buildings of the pre-Christian era of Jerusalem, 39,000 square metres of stones were removed from Hebron, a Palestinian city occupied by Israel.

The outcrops, cutting and hand-cutting of these stones are characteristic of the entire occupied West Bank. According to scholar Hilmi Salem, from the Institute for Research in Sustainable Development in Bethlehem, the geological group of this rock, is the backbone of the Palestinian mountains. It is collectively known as the “Stone of Jerusalem”, “Stone of the Holy Land” or “Stone of Palestine”.

Upon arriving in Brazil, the cargo was taxed at customs at around 85,000 Brazilian real in today’s values. But the Universal Church appealed, claiming that the stones are sacred and, in October 2020, the Federal Regional Court of São Paulo (TRF-3) also exempted it from this tax.

Nearly eight years since the church opened, suspicions have been raised about the proceeds of donations to the Universal Church involved in the Temple. Journalist and writer Gilberto Dimenstein, author of the book The Kingdom: The Story of Edir Macedo, reports on a lawsuit filed by bishops from the Universal Church in Angola over illegal money leaving the African state for Israel and Brazil.

In another case, a pastor who took care of the construction in São Paulo was accused by the Universal Church of fleeing with 30 million Brazilian real ($6 million) of embezzled funds. According to Isto É Dinheiro magazine, in 2021 he was in charge of building a second temple in Brazil, on a 55,000-square-metre site in Taguatinga, one of Brasilia’s satellite cities.

READ: PA official warns Israel against ‘Judaisation’ of gate to Al-Aqsa compound

Ties with the occupation of Jerusalem

Neo-Pentecostal evangelical churches have grown in the country in recent decades, gaining political strength and presence and also contributing to increasing Brazil’s ties with Israeli plans to Judaise Jerusalem.

Jair Bolsonaro, who was elected president of Brazil in 2018 with the support of evangelical sectors of society, especially neo-Pentecostals, visited Israel the following year and signed the book that accompanies the model of what would be the reconstruction of the alleged Temple of Solomon, a Judaisation project of the Al-Aqsa Mosque area, according to a report in O Verbo.

He also tried to move the Brazilian embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, like a few other countries that, under pressure from the US, started to support Israel’s illegal annexation of Jerusalem.

An opulent display of wealth

Illuminated by its 10,000 LED lamps, the Bras temple is now part of the urban and tourist landscape of Sao Paulo. It has already received more than 20 million visitors in the eight years since it opened, according to data collected in 2021. It is also a demonstration of the opulence of the Universal Church, strongly characterised by the so-called “prosperity theology”, by which the display of wealth is not limited to the faithful, but is also an obligation of pastors and their temples.

It challenges in size the main symbols of the Catholic Church, such as the basilica of Aparecida in the State of Sao Paulo, and Christ the Redeemer Church in Rio de Janeiro. The imagery fed by the media at the time of the inauguration speaks of a conveyor belt taking the tithes of the faithful to the church coffers. The institution, however, denies that such a thing exists anywhere in the complex.

Regardless of the controversies surrounding the work or the existence or not of a Temple of Solomon, it is controversial that the temple of Edir Macedo is linked to the state of Israel, an occupation state, accused of appropriating the holy city of Jerusalem, ethnic cleansing and apartheid, according to Amnesty International and numerous other human rights organsiations.

DOWNLOAD: The myth of the Temple of Solomon, extravagance in Brazil and the race for Jerusalem

The US’ double standards towards Iran and ‘Israel’

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein (2nd R) attends a bilateral talk with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (4th L), during the ministerial meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on June 8, 2023 [AHMED YOSRI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images]

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein (2nd R) attends a bilateral talk with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (4th L), during the ministerial meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on June 8, 2023 [AHMED YOSRI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images]

On Monday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)’s summit that the Iranian regime is the biggest danger facing Israel because it has repeatedly threatened to attack Israel and destroy it.

“We are clear-eyed about the many dangers that Israel faces in all of their forms. But there is no danger that Israel faces that is graver than the one posed by the Iranian regime,” Blinken said, pointing out that the Iranian regime “routinely threatens to wipe Israel off the map.”

He claimed that Iran “continues to provide weapons to terrorists and proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas, who reject Israel’s right to exist. It exports its aggression throughout – and even beyond – the region, including by arming Russian forces with drones that are being used to kill Ukrainian civilians and destroy its infrastructure. And in turn, Russia is providing sophisticated weaponry to Iran.”

READ: US VP says Israel needs ‘independent judiciary’

It is clear that Blinken is carrying out the job of defender of Israel and justifier of its crimes very well. Seventy-five years after it was created on the blood of Palestinians, Israel still needs advocates and propagandists to defend it, justify its actions and whitewash its crimes.

But, why is the US so worried about the threats to wipe Israel off the map? And why does it never question who was wiped off the map to make way for the occupation state?

In its criticism of Iran’s alleged support of proxies in the region, America overlooks its actions around the world.

As a Palestinian and a son of a refugee, who was expelled along with his family from the coastal city of Al-Ramlah, I know about the massacres of the Zionist gangs which were carried out to wipe Palestine and the Palestinians off the map. My father told me how he walked about 60 kilometres with his brothers, sisters, father and paralysed mother from Al-Ramlah to Gaza.

His family were torn apart as some had decided to flee the massacres being carried out by the Zionist gangs by heading to the West Bank, then to Jordan and elsewhere. He told me how much suffering and agony they experienced under the Zionist occupation and how they felt when they were being forced out of their homes.

My father’s family is one example of hundreds of thousands of other Palestinian families who suffered the same fate. They were all wiped off the map of historic Palestine and replaced with Zionists.

READ: Saudi Crown Prince, Blinken had ‘candid’ talks in Jeddah – US official

But these families are not mentioned in Blinken’s speech.

The US has a number of proxies ranging from rogue states, authoritarian regimes and terrorist groups that it helps to suppress freedoms, change cultures, steal natural resources or maintain free markets for US products.

The US claimed to be toppling Saddam Hussein in Iraq because he possessed weapons of mass destruction, but it has become clear that these claims were false pretexts to justify attacking the oil rich state and put in place a proxy regime that keeps its eyes closed as its resources are stolen.

The US also supports the Egyptian regime led by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, who came to power in a bloody military coup which ousted the country’s first-ever freely elected President Mohamed Morsi. Al-Sisi is the US proxy who is in power to ensure countries neighbouring Israel are ruled by those deemed to be its ‘friends’.

At the same time, the US has its proxies in Syria who are being used to fight Turkiye and maintain an environment which requires US troops to remain on the ground, all the while, it is stealing oil from the country. Links have also been made between the US and organisations it has previously classified as terrorists.

READ: US says there’s no greater danger to Israel than Iran

The US is playing the same politics as Iran, the difference is that Iran isn’t a global superpower and can be used as the local boogeyman that needs to be quashed to make the world a safer place. All the while, it is Israel that is damaging regional politics, killing people and breaking international law everyday. While the US continues to support it and use it to its benefit.

Permanent Apartheid in Palestine: This is why Nazi wants to reactivate E1 Plan

A picture taken from the E1 corridor of the occupied West Bank, showing the illegal Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the background on 16 June 2020 [Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images]

A picture taken from the E1 corridor of the occupied West Bank, showing the illegal Nazi JEWISH settlement of Maale Adumim in the background on 16 June 2020 [Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images]

The Israeli government is at it again, actively discussing the construction of thousands of illegal settlement units as part of a massive settlement expansion scheme known as E1.

Though Israeli construction in the East Jerusalem area has supposedly been halted under international pressure, the Israeli government has found ways to keep the plan alive.

It did so through constant expansion of the various settlements in the name of ‘natural expansion’, confiscation of Palestinian land and the ruthless yet routine demolition of Palestinian homes.

But why does Washington, Israel’s main defender and benefactor, oppose, at least verbally, the construction in E1, while turning a blind eye to illegal construction throughout the West Bank?

The answer lies in the fact that E1 will further expand the Jerusalem municipal boundaries, minimise any Palestinian demographic presence in the city (from the current 42 per cent to about 20 per cent), and prejudice any political solution that includes East Jerusalem.

East Jerusalem is a Palestinian city, occupied by Israel during the June 1967 war. It is recognized by the United Nations and international law as part of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Israel should have neither legal rights nor jurisdiction there.

Washington, which rarely cares about the rights of Palestinians, is concerned that, without East Jerusalem as part of the political equation, any discussion of a ‘two-state solution’ will become forever obsolete.

In other words, the US is more worried about the political, not territorial consequences of the Israeli decision. Indeed, the US’s entire political program in Palestine and Israel is situated within the two-state solution template. Without it, Washington’s role would cease to serve any purpose.

READ: Netanyahu postpones meeting on controversial settlement plan

This is precisely why US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, criticized Israeli settlements during his speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on 5 June.

Though he covered the habitual US commitment to Israel’s security, describing it as “non-negotiable” and “ironclad”, he also warned against “any move toward annexation of the West Bank … disruption of the historic status quo at holy sites (and) the continuing demolitions of homes.”

South Africa (Mandela) stands with Palestine - Cartoon [Sabaaneh/MiddleEastMonitor]

South Africa stands with Palestine – Cartoon [Sabaaneh/MiddleEastMonitor]

These steps, and more, will “damage prospects for two states”, the cornerstone of US foreign policy in the Middle East.

Israel, on the other hand, is neither interested in a two-state, one-state nor any ‘solution’ to its military occupation and apartheid in Palestine. Instead, Tel Aviv is working towards a specific end, a formula of permanent domination, one that would satisfy its quest for ‘security’, demographic superiority and ‘defensible’ borders.

It matters little that Israel’s vision for its own border lines is largely inconsistent with international law. All that matters to the current, in fact, all Israeli governments, are the ‘national interests’ of the country’s Jewish population, whose future has been linked to the crushing of political aspirations and civil rights of the country’s native Arab, Palestinian inhabitants.

Jerusalem’s particular significance stems from two factors: one, its historical, spiritual, economic and administrative centrality to all Palestinians and, two, the fact that it has been the Holy Grail of Israel’s settler colonialism in Palestine for the last 75 years.

A quick look at the map of Occupied East Jerusalem is enough to explain Israel’s ultimate motive in the Palestinian city: Maximum land with an absolute Jewish majority.

READ: Israel to impose 65% tax on human rights groups critical of the occupation state

For this to take place, much work has to be done, namely ensuring the territorial continuity between the massive illegal Jewish settlement of Ma’ale Adumim and Jerusalem.

Israel’s motives are not a secret. A long report by the Zionist Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs champions and illustrates Tel Aviv’s objectives in detail. The report warns against allowing “security and urban discontinuity between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim, or the reversion of Jerusalem to a border-town status … that would preclude the city’s eastward development.”

The reference to ‘eastward development’ is particularly dangerous, as many illegal Jewish settlements have purposely been planted in various parts of the West Bank, all the way to the Jordan Valley for the sole purpose of linking them all up, thus dividing the West Bank into two main regions, south and north.

Considering the current administration and ‘security’ divisions of the Occupied West Bank, a major territorial division will deny Palestinians any sense of physical continuity, let alone statehood. In other words, apartheid will become permanent and, from Israel’s perspective, also sustainable.

As for the westward expansion, connecting Ma’ale Adumim to the so-called “metropolitan Jerusalem” through construction in E1 will help Israel resolve a fundamental component of its expansionist strategy. According to the Zionist Jerusalem Centre, such a merger will “incorporate both settlement and security as two vital, complementary components of Israel’s national interest.”

And, wherever there is Israeli construction in Occupied Palestine, there is always the destruction of Palestinian properties and confiscation of land.

According to the European Union Office in Palestine, in 2022, 28,208 illegal settlement units “were advanced” in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, compared to 22,030 in 2021. A higher number is expected in 2023.

As for Palestinian home demolition, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) paints a grim picture: in the first quarter of 2023 alone, 290 Palestinian structures in East Jerusalem and the West Bank were demolished or seized. This represents an increase of 46 per cent, compared to the same period of the previous year.

East Jerusalem has had a major share of this destruction, specifically 95 homes and other structures between 1 January and 28 March, according to the World Council of Churches. The outcome has been the displacement of 149 Palestinians. Among them, 88 children have been rendered homeless.

READ: Israel to discuss settlement plan to divide occupied West Bank into two parts

The price of Israel’s major plans in East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank is not just humanitarian. It is essentially political, aimed at cutting off Palestinian communities from one another, isolating Jerusalem completely, and ensuring a Jewish demographic majority for generations to come.

Though Secretary Blinken tries to emphasise the danger of such actions to the two-state solution, the real danger lies in the fact that such measures threaten the very fabric of Palestinian society and the political future of the Palestinian people.

Israel’s quest to reactivate its E1 plan requires not just mere condemnation, but tangible and decisive action, especially as Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government is more unhinged than ever before.

Nazi: Border guards were killed in a ‘pre-planned’ attack

Egypt-Israel boder [Wikipedia]

Egypt-Nazi boder [Wikipedia]

  • Nazi: Border guards were killed in a ‘pre-planned’ attack
  • Egypt-Nazi boder [Wikipedia]
  • Nazi probe has found that the killing of three Israeli border guards at the occupation state’s border with Egypt was a “pre-planned” attack, Nazi media revealed yesterday.
  • The Egyptian soldier, 22-year-old Mohammad Salah Ibrahim, “carried out a pre-planned attack as he knew the area very well.”
  • According to i24 news, the Nazi occupation army believes that he acted alone, stating that after he was killed, he was found to be carrying two combat knives, a copy of the Holy Quran and six magazines for his assault rifle.
  • The Times of Nazi reported that the Nazi army claiming Ibrahim had planned a larger attack on the Nazi soldiers.
  • Nazi and Egypt are working on more in depth investigation into the incident to identify how such an event could happen without being noticed.
  • This is the first case in which Nazi soldier has been injured or killed by an Egyptian soldier over the past decade, Haaretz said.
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An Israeli probe has found that the killing of three Israeli border guards at the occupation state’s border with Egypt was a “pre-planned” attack, Israeli media revealed yesterday.

The Egyptian soldier, 22-year-old Mohammad Salah Ibrahim, “carried out a pre-planned attack as he knew the area very well.”

According to i24 news, the Israeli occupation army believes that he acted alone, stating that after he was killed, he was found to be carrying two combat knives, a copy of the Holy Quran and six magazines for his assault rifle.

The Times of Israel reported that the Israeli army claiming Ibrahim had planned a larger attack on the Israeli soldiers.

Israel and Egypt are working on more in depth investigation into the incident to identify how such an event could happen without being noticed.

This is the first case in which an Israeli soldier has been injured or killed by an Egyptian soldier over the past decade, Haaretz said.

60 Years Ago, JFK Tried to Stop the Nazi Bomb

David Ben-Gurion, Nazi’s founding prime minister, would resign the day after Kennedy’s final letter to him. Kennedy wrote the US “commitment to and support of Israel could be seriously jeopardized”.

By: SAM HUSSEINI

Kennedy and Ben-Gurion

[I’ve unlocked the piece “Dueling — or Logrolling — Apartheids”.

[This will likely be one in a series of articles on the Kennedys and Israel. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for president, recently said: “I support Israel. My family has a long relationship with Israel.” He then escalated his pro-Israeli remarks in an interview with Glenn Greenwald which I reacted to on Twitter in real time.]

Below are letters between John F. Kennedy and two successive prime ministers of Israel, David Ben-Gurion and Levi Eshkol, in the spring and summer of 1963. Kennedy was insisting on inspections of Israel’s nuclear facility at Dimona in the early summer. Kennedy would be assassinated on November 22. Lyndon B. Johnson would then take a much more lax posture toward Israel’s nuclear weapons program. Nixon would end inspections completely and the US government would adopt a policy of refusing to acknowledge the reality of Israel’s nuclear weapons arsenal. Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s last article, published on New Year’s Eve 2020, was an admonition to the then-incoming Biden administration to change this. The sub-headline read: “The Coverup Has to Stop.”

I raised this issue at two State Department briefings early this year and was told to take up the matter — with the Israeli government. Even “The Squad” now refuses to acknowledge Israel’s nuclear weapons arsenal.

From The Letters of John F. Kennedy by Martin W. Sandler, bold added.

May 18, 1963

Dear Mr. Prime Minister:

I welcome your letter of May 12 and am giving it careful study.

Meanwhile, I have received from Ambassador Barbour a report of his conversation with you on May 14 regarding the arrangements for visiting the Dimona reactor. I should like to add some personal comments on that subject.

I am sure you will agree that there is no more urgent business for the whole world than the control of nuclear weapons. We both recognized this when we talked together two years ago, and I emphasized it again when I met with Mrs. Meir just after Christmas. The dangers in the proliferation of national nuclear weapons systems are so obvious that I am sure I need not repeat them here.

It is because of our preoccupation with this problem that my Government has sought to arrange with you for periodic visits to Dimona. When we spoke together in May 1961 you said that we might make whatever use we wished of the information resulting from the first visit of American scientists to Dimona and that you would agree to further visits by neutrals as well. I had assumed from Mrs. Meir’s comments that there would be no problem between us on this.

We are concerned with the disturbing effects on world stability which would accompany the development of a nuclear weapons capability by Israel. I cannot imagine that the Arabs would refrain from turning to the Soviet Union for assistance if Israel were to develop a nuclear weapons capability—with all the consequences this would hold. But the problem is much larger than its impact on the Middle East. Development of a nuclear weapons capability by Israel would almost certainly lead other larger countries, that have so far refrained from such development, to feel that they must follow suit.

As I made clear in my press conference on May 8, we have a deep commitment to the security of Israel. In addition, this country supports Israel in a wide variety of other ways which are well known to both of us. …

I can well appreciate your concern for developments in the UAR [United Arab Republic]. But I see no present or imminent nuclear threat to Israel from there. I am assured that our intelligence on this question is good and that the Egyptians do not presently have any installation comparable to Dimona, nor any facilities potentially capable of nuclear weapons production. But, of course, if you have information that would support a contrary conclusion, I should like to receive it from you through Ambassador Barbour. We have the capacity to check it.

I trust this message will convey the sense of urgency and the perspective in which I view your Government’s early assent to the proposal first put to you by Ambassador Barbour on April 2.

Sincerely,

John F. Kennedy

—

Jerusalem, May 27, 1963

Dear Mr. President,

I have given careful consideration to your letter of May 19 and to Ambassador Barbour’s explanation of your policy in the conversations which I have had with him. Let me assure you, at the outset, Mr. President, that our policy on nuclear research and development has not changed since I had the opportunity of discussing it with you in May 1961. I fully understand the dangers involved in the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and I sympathize with your efforts to avoid such a development. I fear that in the absence of an agreement between the Great Powers on general disarmament, there is little doubt that these weapons will, sooner or later, find their way into the arsenals of China and then of various European states and India. In this letter, however, I propose to deal not with the general international aspect on which you express your views so clearly in your letter—but with Israel’s own position and attitude on this question.

In our conversation in 1961, I explained to you that we were establishing a nuclear training and research reactor in Dimona with French assistance. This assistance has been given on condition that the reactor will be devoted exclusively to peaceful purposes. I regard this condition as absolutely binding, both on general grounds of good faith and because France has extended military assistance of unique value to Israel in her struggle for self-defence, from the Arab invasion of 1948 down to the present day.

In the same sense I informed you in 1961 that we are developing this reactor because we believe, on the strength of expert scientific advice, that within a decade or so the use of nuclear power will be economically viable and of great significance for our country’s development. I went on to add that we should have to follow developments in the Middle East. This is still our position today.

Between us and France there exists a bilateral arrangement concerning the Dimona reactor similar to that which we have with the United States in the reactor at Nachal Sureiq. While we do not envisage a system of formal United States control at the Dimona reactor which the United States has not helped to establish or construct, as in the case of the reactor at Nachal Sureiq, we do agree to further annual visits to Dimona by your representatives, such as have already taken place.

The “start-up” time of the Dimona reactor will not come until the end of this year or early in 1964. At that time, the French companies will hand the reactor over to us. I believe that this will be the most suitable time for your representatives to visit the reactor. At that stage they will be able to see it in an initial stage of operation, whereas now nothing is going on there except building construction.

I hope, Mr. President, that this proposal meets the concern expressed in your letter of May 19.

In 1961, you suggested the possibility that a visit be carried out by a scientist from a “neutral” country. This idea is acceptable to us, but a visit by an American expert would be equally acceptable from our point of view.

I appreciate what you say in your letters, Mr. President, about the commitment of the United States to Israel’s security. While I understand your concern with the prospect of a proliferation of nuclear weapons, we in Israel cannot be blind to the more actual danger now confronting us. I refer to the danger arising from destructive “conventional” weapons in the hands of neighboring governments which openly proclaim their intention to attempt the annihilation of Israel. This is our people’s major anxiety. It is a well-founded anxiety, and I have nothing at this stage to add to my letter of May 12 which is now, as I understand, receiving your active consideration.

Yours sincerely,

D. Ben-Gurion

Sandler notes: “Kennedy was far from satisfied with Ben-Gurion’s reply, particularly his attempt to stall any inspection in Dimona.”

June 15, 1963

Dear Mr. Prime Minister:

I thank you for your letter of May 27 concerning American visits to Israel’s nuclear facility at Dimona. I know your words reflect your most intense personal consideration of a problem that is not easy for you or for your Government, as it is not for mine.

I welcome your strong reaffirmation that the Dimona will be devoted exclusively to peaceful purposes. I also welcome your reaffirmation of Israel’s willingness to permit periodic visits to Dimona.

Because of the crucial importance of this problem, however, I am sure you will agree that such visits should be of a nature and on a schedule which will more nearly be in accord with international standards, thereby resolving all doubts as to the peaceful intent of the Dimona project.

Therefore, I asked our scientists to review the alternative schedules of visits we and you have proposed. If Israel’s purposes are to be clear to the world beyond reasonable doubt, I believe that the schedule which would best serve our common purposes would be a visit early this summer, another visit in June 1964, and thereafter at intervals of six months. I am sure that such a schedule should not cause you any more difficulty than that which you have proposed. It would be essential, and I take it that your letter is in accord with this, that our scientists have access to all areas of the Dimona site and to any related part of the complex, such as fuel fabrication facilities or plutonium separation plant, and that sufficient time be allotted for a thorough examination.

Knowing that you fully appreciate the truly vital significance of this matter to the future well-being of Israel, to the United States, and internationally, I am sure our carefully considered request will again have your most sympathetic attention.

Sincerely,

John F. Kennedy

The next day, June 16, 1963, Ben-Gurion, who had been Israel’s leader since its inception in 1948, abruptly resigned from office citing “personal needs”. Sandler notes: “Many believed his resignation was due in great measure to his dispute with Kennedy over Dimona.”

The National Security Archives, which describes Kennedy’s letter as “akin to an ultimatum,” reports that Ben-Gurion resigned before Kennedy’s letter was delivered. This could theoretically mean that Ben-Gurion actually did resign for other reasons — or it could mean Ben-Gurion was tipped off about the Kennedy letter and resigned to avoid receiving it.

Sandler adds: “In a letter to Ben-Gurion’s successor, Levi Eshkol, Kennedy left no doubt as to what the U.S. response would be if ‘we were unable to obtain reliable information’ about the intent of the Dimona project, a threat that, according to one conspiracy theory, led to Israel’s role in Kennedy’s assassination.” I should say I’ve heard that Kennedy was assassinated because he said he wanted to “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces” a thousand times over the years but I’d never heard about the notion that Israel was a factor or a motive until recently. I hope to write assessing this theory. See Wade Frazier’s recent thoughts on the issue.

July 4, 1963

Dear Mr. Prime Minister:

It gives me great personal pleasure to extend congratulations as you assume your responsibilities as Prime Minister of Israel. You have our friendship and best wishes in your new tasks. It is on one of these that I am writing you at this time.

You are aware, I am sure, of the exchanges which I had with Prime Minister Ben-Gurion concerning American visits to Israel’s nuclear facility at Dimona.

Most recently, the Prime Minister wrote to me on May 27. His words reflected a most intense personal consideration of a problem that I know is not easy for your Government, as it is not for mine. We welcomed the former Prime Minister’s strong reaffirmation that Dimona will be devoted exclusively to peaceful purposes and the reaffirmation also of Israel’s willingness to permit periodic visits to Dimona.

I regret having to add to your burdens so soon after your assumption of office, but I feel the crucial importance of this problem necessitates my taking up with you at this early date certain further considerations, arising out of Mr. Ben-Gurion’s May 27 letter, as to the nature and scheduling of such visits.

I am sure you will agree that these visits should be as nearly as possible in accord with international standards, thereby resolving all doubts as to the peaceful intent of the Dimona project. As I wrote Mr. Ben-Gurion this Government’s commitment to and support of Israel could be seriously jeopardized if it should be thought that we were unable to obtain reliable information on a subject as vital to peace as the question of Israel’s effort in the nuclear field.

Therefore, I asked our scientists to review the alternative schedules of visits we and you had proposed. If Israel’s purposes are to be clear beyond reasonable doubt, I believe that reasonable doubt, I believe that the schedule which would best serve our common purposes would be a visit early this summer, another visit in June 1964, and thereafter at intervals of six months. I am sure that such a schedule should not cause you any more difficulty than that which Mr. Ben-Gurion proposed in his May 27 letter. It would be essential, and I understand that Mr. Ben-Gurion’s letter was in accord with this, that our scientists have access to all areas of the Dimona site and to any related part of the complex, such as fuel fabrication facilities or plutonium separation plant, and that sufficient time be allotted for a thorough examination.

Knowing that you fully appreciate the truly vital significance of this matter to the future well-being of Israel, to the United States, and internationally, I am sure our carefully considered request will have your most sympathetic attention.

Sincerely,

John F. Kennedy

The new Israeli prime minister Eshkol would stall for more time. The National Security Archives reports that the first inspection at Dimona didn’t happen until January 1964, some six months after Kennedy said he wanted — and may have been further delayed “because of Kennedy’s assassination”.

See more information in pieces from MondoWeiss (which summarizes reporting from books by Seymour Hersh and Avner Cohen on the matter), Jewish Virtual Library, Haaretz and related documents at the State Department.

See the in-depth paper, “The Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program” by John Steinbach.

Terrorist Attack in Moscow. Russian Diplomat blames US for Claiming that Ukraine is not Involved

 By: Fabio G. C. Carisio

VT Condemns the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS by USA/Israel

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Forty people have been killed and more than 100 others have been injured, according to preliminary data, in a terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall near Moscow, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) reported.

“According to preliminary data, as a result of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall building 40 people were killed and over 100 were injured,” the FSB said. Special services are conducting a search effort, measures are underway to provide assistance to those injured.

Moscow: “US reaction to terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall raises questions”

The reaction of the US authorities to the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall raises big questions, in particular, as to the reasons why the White House takes the liberty of claiming right away Ukraine was not involved in the incident, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.

“There are also reactions [to what happened at Crocus City Hall] that raise more questions. This certainly concerns comments from Washington, which said it saw no signs that Ukrainians might be involved in the terrorist attack,” Zakharova said on the Rossiya-24 television channel.

“What makes officials in Washington draw any conclusions in the midst of the tragedy about anyone’s non-involvement is a big question,” Zakharova said. “If the US or any other country has reliable evidence on this matter, they should immediately share it with the Russian side. If there is no such evidence, then neither the White House nor anyone else is in a position to postulate anyone’s innocence.”.

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Russia to request UNSC meeting over terror attack in Moscow

Moscow will request a United Nations Security Council meeting in the near future following the terror attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall music venue, Russian Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador at Large Rodion Miroshnik said.

“Our diplomats will raise this issue (the Crocus City Hall terror attack – TASS) at a UN Security Council meeting. I am sure they will demand that the Security Council hold a meeting in the near future so that the global majority, the biggest international organization may condemn these actions,” he said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 television channel.

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Incident at Crocus City Hall near Moscow

Unidentified gunmen went on a shooting spree at the Crocus City Hall music venue in the town of Krasnogorsk in the Moscow Region before a concert by the rock band Picnic. Later an explosion rocked the building, starting a fire.

Eyewitnesses said that there were dead and injured people. TASS has compiled the main information about the incident so far.

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Circumstances of the incident

– A group of unidentified gunmen armed with assault rifles went on a shooting spree in the lobby and then inside the concert hall just before a concert by the rock band Picnic, eyewitnesses told TASS. According to them, there are dead and injured people.

– Musicians of the band Picnic were not harmed during the shooting, its director Yury Chernyshevsky told TASS.

– An explosion occurred in the building starting a fire. The Emergencies Ministry’s department for the Moscow Region said that about one third of the Crocus City Hall building was engulfed in fire, with thick black smoke rising.

– The building’s rooftop is almost entirely engulfed in fire and has partially collapsed. The smell of smoke has spread to nearby neighborhoods.

– A TASS correspondent reported that there are still people inside the building, some can be seen in the windows.

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Rescue efforts

– Special law enforcement agencies are taking all necessary measures following the incident, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Public Relations Center said.

– The SOBR and OMON special police units of the Russian National Guard have been dispatched to the Crocus City Hall. As TASS reported, they have already arrived at the scene.

– More than 30 regional ambulance crews and more than 20 Moscow ambulance crews have been sent to the Crocus City Hall, the Moscow Region’s health ministry said.

– Firefighters have evacuated about 100 people from the basement of the burning building, and are now rescuing people from the rooftop.

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Response from authorities

– Moscow Region Governor Andrey Vorobyov said that he was on his way to the scene. A crisis center has been set up, he added.

– Myakinino subway station, which is next to the concert hall, is operating as usual, Moscow’s transport department said.

– Traffic on the Moscow Ring Road in front of the Crocus City Hall is restricted along both lanes, the transport department wrote on its Telegram channel.

– Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that he had ordered that help be provided to all victims of the tragedy.

– The entire world community needs to condemn this horrendous crime committed at the Crocus City Hall, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

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ISIS and AQIS continue to expand activities in Bangladesh

 By: Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury

West Bengal madrassas, Al-Qaeda cadre, Global jihad, Terror activities, ISIS, AQIS, ISIS-Bangladesh, Fundamentalist Islamic state

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Recently, two top-rung kingpins of Islamist jihadist outfit Islamic State (ISIS) were nabbed by law enforcement agencies in India after they entered the country with a notorious plot of sabotage activities.

According to media reports, acting on intelligence received from sister agencies, a Special Task Force (STF) team was deployed to the Dhubri sector in India to intercept the ISIS suspects, who also were wanted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

In the evening of March 19, 2024, the STF team launched a manhunt in the international border area and intercepted two suspects in the early hours of March 20 at the Dharmasala area of Dhubri after they had crossed the international border. Assam Police Chief Public Relations Officer Pranabjyoti Goswami in a statement said, “Both of them were apprehended and brought to STF office at Guwahati”.

The arrested ISIS cadres have been identified as Harish Ajmal Farooqi alias Harish Ajmal Farukhi and Anurag Singh alias Rehan. Police said that Farooqi is a resident of Uttarakhand’s Dehradun while Anurag Singh is a resident of Haryana’s Panipat.

Anurag Singh got converted to Islam while his wife is a Bangladeshi national, Goswami added.

Pranab Jyoti Goswami said, both individuals are described as highly indoctrinated and motivated leaders/members of ISIS in India, involved in various activities including recruitment, terror funding, and planning terror acts using improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

“They had furthered the cause of ISIS in India through conspiracies to carry out recruitment, terror funding and terror acts by means of IEDs at several places across India”, the police official said.

Although Islamic State has been gradually expanding its footprint in Bangladesh for years, authorities in Dhaka have been consistently denying existence of ISIS in the country.

It may be mentioned here that, ISIS-Bangladesh is a network of Islamic State supporters based in Bangladesh. It officially acknowledged the network in 2015. ISIS-Bangladesh includes among its members some veteran Bangladeshi terrorists intent on overthrowing the Bangladeshi Government to establish a fundamentalist Islamic state.

ISIS-Bangladesh has killed dozens, including a US citizen, and wounded more than 200 since its formation in 2015. It has a footprint in major cities throughout the country, while it has at least several dozen members.

One of the dastardly jihadist attacks of ISIS in Bangladesh was the one at Dhaka’s Holey Artisan café in July 2016, where 22 innocent civilians, a large segment of whom were foreign nationals were brutally murdered.

Over the past several years, more than 40 people belonging to minority communities, mainly Hindus, have been brutally murdered by machete wielding radicals. They had also not spared Muslim secular writers, publishers, and bloggers for raising their voices against extremist ideology.

ISIS owned the attack, and published pictures of several dead victims while the gunmen were still holding hostages inside the café, in its propaganda news website Amaq al-Akhbariyah.

On December 1, 2017, Reuters reported that the Bangladeshi authorities are in possession of communications between the architect of the attack and Abu Terek Mohammad Tajuddin Kausar, an ISIS militant born in Bangladesh but living in Australia. Kausar explicitly approved the attack and advised the five radicals to target non-Muslim foreigners and expatriates.

Investigations conducted in the aftermath of the attack have identified at least three terrorist suspects with ties to Canada. Tamim Chowdhury, identified as the mastermind of the Dhaka attack, was a Canadian citizen raised in Ontario and educated in chemistry at the University of Windsor. Chowdhury travelled to Syria for militant training after graduating in 2012, and Bangladeshi officials believe he is linked to a group of Islamic radicals in Alberta known to counterterrorism analysts as the “Calgary cluster”.

Following Chowdhury’s death during a police raid in August 2016, ISIS published an article in its Rumiyah magazine describing him as the “Former Head of Military and Covert Operations of the Soldiers of Khilafah in Bengal”.

Tahmid Hasib Khan, a Canadian citizen and University of Toronto student, was initially believed to be a hostage in the Dhaka café but was subsequently detained by Bangladeshi authorities. He was arrested after video footage filmed by witnesses and militants within the bakery emerged, depicting Khan holding a gun and smoking cigarettes with the militants.

Although in October 2016, investigators from the Bangladeshi counterterrorism unit released a statement clearing Tahmid Hasib of any links to the attack and a Dhaka court acquitted him of terrorism, according to credible sources, Khan was released at the frantic persuasion of Canadian authorities, especially Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

In the same year, two days after two militants had blown themselves up to evade arrest at Sitakunda in Chittagong, a suicide bomber — believed to be an ISIS activist — on March 17, blew himself up near a camp of the Rapid Action Battalion at Ashkona in Dhaka. On March 24, another suicide bomber attacked a police box and blew himself up in Uttara, near Dhaka Airport. On the same day, the army, police, and RAB began an operation at a suspected den of banned Islamist militant Jama’atul Mujahedeen Bangladesh (JMB) at a house in Shibbari area of Sylhet city in northeastern Bangladesh. By March 26, six people, including two policemen, were killed in terrorist bomb blasts and grenade attacks in Sylhet; and later two terrorists blew themselves up. ISIS has owned all these attacks.

According to my own research, Islamic State succeeded in establishing its existence in Bangladesh by forming franchise with local jihadist outfits such as Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB), Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) which was later rebranded as Ansar Al Islam (AAI), although it was later reported in the media that AAI has formed alliances with Al Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS). ABT or AAI has been implicated in crimes including brutal attacks and murders of secularist bloggers from 2013 to 2015 by branding them as Kafirs.

According to the Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium, the ABT is an Al Qaeda inspired Islamic extremist group in Bangladesh that started its activities during 2007 as the Jama’atul Muslemin funded by different Afro-Arab NGOs. The group ceased to operate when funding ended. It resurfaced during 2013 as the ABT. Ansarullah Bangla Team is a front group for AQIS.

A 2013 report identified Muhammad Jasimuddin Rahmani as the spiritual leader of ABT. He was inspired by Anwar al-Awlaki, who had been killed by the US. Rahmani was suspected of building an Islamist terror network in Bangladesh for about minimum 5 years. They shared their views on a website called “Ansarulla Bangla Team”. The server of the website was located in Pakistan. Muhammad Jasimuddin Rahmani was the Imam of Hatembagh mosque, Dhanmondi, and has been regularly maintaining contacts with covert representatives of ISI at Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka. The organization had a presence on Facebook where it was publishing propaganda and names its targets. Many of its supporters online are also supporters of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir and Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), while it is also alleged that ABT was maintaining connections with several leaders of ultra-Islamist Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).

The ABT claimed responsibility for some of the prominent murders and attacks of atheist bloggers, including Ahmed Rajib Haider, Asif Mohiuddin, Avijit Roy, Oyasiqur Rahman, Ananta Bijoy Das and AKM Shafiul Islam.

On 21 November 2022, two of the men sentenced to death for the murder of US citizen Avijit Roy escaped from a courtroom in Dhaka, assisted by men on motorbikes armed with chemical sprays.

According to the case statement, Ayman alias Moshiur Rahman, 37, Sabbirul Haque Chowdhury alias Akash alias Konik, 24, Tanveer alias Samshed Mia alias Saiful alias Tushar Biswas, 26, Riazul Islam alias Riaz alias Suman, 26, and Md Omar Farooq alias Noman alias Ali alias Saad, 28, took up the plan to attack police to snatch away the accused at the plan and instruction of Ansar Al Islam militant wing leader Mohammad Ziaul Haque alias Sagor alias Big Brother alias Major Zia (sacked).

Although Bangladesh authorities have repeatedly claimed that these jihadist terrorists are under radar and would be arrested “soon” according to the latest media report, the two death row convicted militants, who were snatched away from police custody from the premises of a Dhaka court, have not been arrested even after 15 months.

In December 2021, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken through its Rewards for Justice (RFJ) office offered a reward for information on the terrorist attack in Dhaka that left US citizen Avijit Roy dead and his wife Rafida Bonya Ahmed seriously injured. Blinken authorized a reward of up to US$5 million for the information leading to the arrest or conviction in any country of anyone involved in the murder of Roy and the attack on Ahmed.

The US State Department in its statement said:

Two related groups have claimed responsibility.  Ansarullah Bangla Team, an al-Qa’ida-inspired terrorist group based in Bangladesh, claimed responsibility for the attack.  Shortly thereafter, Asim Umar, the now-deceased leader of al-Qa’ida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), posted a widely circulated video claiming that AQIS followers were responsible for the attack on Roy and Ahmed.

In 2016, the Department of State designated AQIS as a Foreign Terrorist Organization under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order 13224, which provides authority to sanction terrorists and those who support terrorists or terrorist acts.

ISIS-AQIS recruitment nets in Bangladesh

For years, Islamic State (ISIS) and AQIS – Al Qaeda branch in the Indian Subcontinent have been trying to lure and recruit new jihadists from the madrassas while these jihadist outfits have been using Tablighi Jamaat as front vessel for the recruitment purposes. Similarly, jihadist recruitments are taking place within madrassas in India whereas Tablighi Jamaat also plays a key role in the recruitment process.

A 2018 India Today investigative report found that “several madrasas in Kerala are teaching the theo-fascist variety of Islam” and Wahhabism. Funded by Afro-Arab nations, especially the Gulf countries, madrassas have been indoctrinating impressionable minds to establish a worldwide caliphate by continuing global jihad.

In 2019, Indian broadcast network NDTV published a detailed report on the jihad recruitment going on in West Bengal madrassas, highlighting how Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) used some madrassas in the Burdwan and Murshidabad districts for recruitment of young men to jihadist terror activities.

In 2020, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in India revealed that an Al-Qaeda cadre had planned to run a jihadist training camp under the façade of operating a madrassa in West Bengal, and had already raised funds for the purpose.

But even before this revelation, an exclusive report in Firstpost brought to the fore the fact that although Indian madrasas have not been as involved in jihad terrorism as their counterparts in the neighboring Islamic nations, their jihad recruitment was indeed very real. By teaching that women are inferior beings and non-Muslims are kafirs (infidels) they initiate their students into fanatical thinking.

In a 2017 article, Indiafacts quoted retired IPS officer Ram Ohri: “According to a conservative estimate during the last two decades Saudi Arabia alone has rolled out nearly 90 billion dollars for the propagation of Wahhabi Islam through the establishment of thousands of mosques and madrasas. On a rough count, more than 25 per cent of the 90 billion petro-dollars are believed to have been pumped into India, Nepal and Bangladesh [and Sri Lanka] for establishing more madrasas. Additionally, huge sums were transferred from other Muslim nations, including Pakistan, to establish lakhs of madrasas in India and other countries of South Asia to step up the campaign of global jihad”.

Back in 2020, the Jammu and Kashmir authorities booked three teachers of a Siraj-ul-Uloom at Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district; according to police sources, 13 students of the madrassa had joined various terror outfits, and one of its alumni, Sajad Bhat, turned out to be the jihad suicide bomber who carried out the 2019 Pulwama attack, killing 40 India CRPF personnel.

After a high-intensity explosion took down an entire building of a madrassa in Banka, Bihar in 2020, Hari Bhushan Thakur, a local politician, stated:

“Madrasas are meant to provide the education of terrorism in Bihar. Hence, we have demanded a ban on such institutions in Bihar”. While Thakur received a major backlash for his statement, one is left wondering how this mass of explosives made its way into an educational institution.