_{The current director, Bill Burns, a longtime employee of the State Department, brought his ill-informed and destructive views to the CIA.}

By Mitchell Bard     February 8, 2023

(JNS) When it comes to a history of failure, bad intentions and antisemitism, it is difficult to top the U.S. State Department, but the CIA’s record is as bad or worse, just not as well-known. The current CIA director, Bill Burns, a longtime employee of State, brought his ill-informed and destructive views to the agency.

Before addressing Burns’ latest inaccurate analysis and harmful activities, let’s briefly review a few lowlights of the CIA’s history in the Middle East.

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T. Belman. Ettinger said the US/NATO led invasion of Libya in 2011 was “motivated by noble values of human rights” namely “to prevent a massive slaughter of non-combatant Libyans by Gaddafi” No, that was just the reason given. Why Gaddafi got a red card sets out the real reason. It was to protect the economic interests of Britain and France in Libya and North Africa. Russia and China were growing too powerful there.

Similarly, Ettinger believes that Blinken/US is wrong to believe in the Palestinian cause rather than to have malevolent goals. I believe they are motivated to maintain their own power in the ME at Israel’s expense.

The goal of the US/NATO policy is to extend their hegemony. To this end they undermined the independence of Libya and Serbia, to name a couple, and are trying to do the same to Russia. Also, they align with the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran for the same purpose. They claim to do so in order to extend democracy or to uphold the R2P. Wrong. Its all about self interest

Secretary Blinken’s well-intentioned, but misguided, human rights-driven policy has ignored the only choice facing the United States in the Middle East: that between pro-US human rights violating Arab regimes, or anti-US human rights violating Arab regimes.

By  Yoram Ettinger       5.2.23

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s Jan. 29-31 visit to Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian Authority marked another milestone in his well-intentioned – but erroneous – Middle East legacy. It has backfired on vital US interests in general, and the pursuit of regional stability and peace in particular.

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T. Belman. Gantz said “the interference of the political echelon in the operational work of the police in the context of the demonstrations damages the deepest foundations of our democracy and is intended to terrorize it.” He is so wrong. It is for the political echelon to establish the rules of engagement or to decide to appease the enemy or to fight it. In America, only Congress can declare war, not the army nor the President.

It is for the government to decide whether to enforce the law, not the Police Commissioner.

National Security Minister summons commander of the Jerusalem District of the Israel Police to reprimand him following left-wing protest.

Israel National News

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Thursday evening summoned the commander of the Jerusalem District of the Israel Police to reprimand him in the wake of what he described as “the loss of control of the police in the capital city to a group of anarchists”, during a protest of left-wing activists led by the Crime Minister movement.

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L. Goudsmit. . This is an excellent summary and analysis by Michael Rectenwald. A former Marxist and professor at NYU, he speaks with the knowledge, passion, and clarity of a former leftist who made The Turn.

by Michael Rectenwald November 21, 2021

I’ll begin by addressing the elephant in the room. Isn’t the Great Reset simply a “conspiracy theory” concocted and circulated by “rightwing extremists?” The so-called conspiracy theories run something like this: the Great Reset is a plot hatched by a technocratic global elite to establish a socialist-communist New World Order. The Great Reset will abolish the property rights of the majority, as well as individual and national sovereignty, and wipe out the last vestiges of personal freedom. It uses covid-19 and climate change as pretexts to enslave what will remain of humanity, using never-ending lockdowns, experimental vaccines, and pervasive and inescapable surveillance.

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“The move went unnoticed at first by major media, which was clearly the intent of the administration,” the ZOA stated. It is also a “stab in the back” to Ukraine.

By Atara Beck, World Israel News

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, greet each other as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi stands at right, July 19, 2022. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Last Friday, “moments before the end of the workday, the Biden administration notified Congress that nonproliferation sanctions on the terrorist regime of Iran were being waived to allow Rosatom, Russia’s state-owned energy company, to profit without sanctions,” the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) noted in a press release this week.

Washington Free Beacon was the only news site to report the event, apparently based on the deliberate timing of the notification.

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Caroline Glick Show

T. Belman. In other words, “strength in unity and not in diversity”.

By Kathleen Brush, AM THINKER

Listening carefully during the State of the Union, you could hear roaring laughter in Beijing when President Biden again said that J6 was the greatest threat to America since the Civil War. Biden is China’s perfect stooge. China has a long-term mission to retaliate against the West, with a bullseye on America, for a Century of Humiliation (1839-1949). To succeed, China must have political and racial unity and opportunities to strike, like an American president driving political, racial, and military disunity and invested in the mythical J6 monster.
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By Jack Hellner, AM THINKER

The National Enquirer was fined $187,500 by the Federal Election commission for squelching a story about Donald Trump because they said it was a prohibited in-kind contribution to influence an election.

Here’s the story from the Associated Press:

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by Victor Rosenthal

Like the proverbial old soldiers, anti-Jewish lies never die. But they don’t fade away, either. No matter how often they are proven false, they come back to incite hatred and motivate murder. Blood libels against Jews can be found before the Common Era and as recently as 1912. The pogrom-inspiring Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a forged document purporting to be the minutes of a meeting between Jews who conspired to promote war and revolution throughout the world, created around the turn of the twentieth century and thoroughly debunked in the 1920s, is still a best-seller in Muslim countries – and dozens of versions are available in the US as well.

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Scott Ritter

Number of illegal Arab buildings demolished in Jerusalem more than doubles since last year, with similar rise in Judea and Samaria. Same for Area C.

By David Rosenberg, INN   8.2.23

Israeli authorities destroy an illegal home in the village of Duma, February 2, 2023Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90

The number of enforcement operations carried out against illegal Arab buildings in Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem rose sharply under the new Netanyahu government this year.

According to data collected by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, (OCHA), the number of illegal Arab structures in Jerusalem which were demolished from January 1st through February 7th of this year is more than double the number reported during the same period last year.

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T. Belman, Wikipedia opens with “Nonie Darwish (Arabic: ???? ?????; born Nahid Darwish, 1949) is an Egyptian-American writer,^[1] founder of Arabs for Israel movement, and is Director of Former Muslims United. Darwish is an outspoken critic of Islam.^[1][2] The Southern Poverty Law Center has described her as an anti-Arab^[3] and anti-Muslim^[4] activist.”

I knew her and published her stuff 15 years ago. I am honoured that she would post such an informed comment.

I think she is much more realistic than Mansur.

Most Muslims who try to distinguish between Islam and Islamism have good intensions, such as Mr. Salim Mansour who describes Islamism as “An ideology fascistic and totalitarian in impulse and action, masquerading as religion.” Meaning that because Islamists are engaged in radical politics and power, then it can’t be a religion, meaning it can’t be Islam. But why not? Every aspect of an Islamist’s beliefs is found in the Koran, Sunnah and all the holy books of Islam. The Islamist did not get his/her ideology outside of Islamic holy books.

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