I've got to say this...with a happy-happy heart...you do real well with the Israeli politics and Government along with the residents and citizens of Israel...kudo's to you for that..

PERHAPS, and this is just me talking here...you do a much better job with Israel that you do with the U.S. Politics, Government and the intent of the U.S. as designed...maybe you should stick with Israel and leave the U.S. to those that dont follow along with the activist media, the Communists, the Socialists and those that cant conjure up an original thought of their own...jussayin

 

Al Jazeera condemns Israel’s killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
Qatar-based media network says it holds Israel responsible for killing ‘in cold blood’ its veteran correspondent in occupied West Bank.


Al Jazeera urged the international community to condemn and hold the Israeli forces accountable for the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh [Al Jazeera]
Published On 11 May 202211 May 2022

Below is Al Jazeera Media Network’s statement on the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh:

In a blatant murder, violating international laws and norms, the Israeli occupation forces assassinated in cold blood Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Palestine, Shireen Abu Akleh, targeting her with live fire early this morning, Wednesday, May 11, 2022, while conducting her journalistic duty, clearly wearing a press jacket that identifies her a journalist, covering the Israeli occupation forces storming of Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.


https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/11/al-jazeera-condemns-israels-killing-of-shireen-abu-akleh

 

Shireen Abu Akleh: Al Jazeera reporter killed by Israeli gunfire
Israeli forces shot Abu Akleh in the head while she was on assignment in Jenin in the occupied West Bank.


Shireen Abu Akleh was covering Israeli raids on Jenin in the occupied West Bank [Al Jazeera]
By Zena Al Tahhan
Updated:
9 hours ago

Ramallah, Occupied West Bank – Israeli forces have shot dead Al Jazeera’s journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

Abu Akleh, a longtime TV correspondent for Al Jazeera Arabic, was killed on Wednesday while covering Israeli army raids in the city of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank.

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She was rushed to a hospital in Jenin in critical condition, where she was declared dead shortly after, at 7:15am (4:15 GMT), according to the ministry and Al Jazeera journalists.

Abu Akleh was wearing a press vest and was standing with other journalists when she was killed.

Another Al Jazeera journalist, Ali al-Samoudi, was also wounded by a bullet in the back at the scene. He is now in stable condition.

The head of the medicine department at al-Najah University in Nablus confirmed that Abu Akleh was shot in the head. He said that her body was transferred for an autopsy based on an order from the public prosecution.


Abu Akleh’s body was carried out of the university coated in a Palestinian flag, after which she will be taken to the Istishari Hospital in Ramallah.

An official funeral will be held for her tomorrow morning at the Palestinian presidency headquarters in Ramallah.

‘No confrontations’
Al-Samoudi and other journalists at the scene said there were no Palestinian fighters present when the journalists were shot, directly disputing an Israeli statement referencing the possibility that it was Palestinian fire.

“We were going to film the Israeli army operation and suddenly they shot us without asking us to leave or stop filming,” said al-Samoudi.

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“The first bullet hit me and the second bullet hit Shireen … there was no Palestinian military resistance at all at the scene.”

Shatha Hanaysha, a local journalist who was standing next to Abu Akleh when she was shot, also told Al Jazeera that there had been no confrontations between Palestinian fighters and the Israeli army. She said the group of journalists had been directly targeted.


“We were four journalists, we were all wearing vests, all wearing helmets,” Hanaysha said. “The [Israeli] occupation army did not stop firing even after she collapsed. I couldn’t even extend my arm to pull her because of the shots being fired. The army was adamant on shooting to kill.”

The details of Abu Akleh’s killing are still emerging, but videos of the incident show that she was shot in the head, said Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim.

“What we know for now is that the Palestinian health ministry has announced her death. Shireen Abu Akleh was covering the events unfolding in Jenin, specifically, an Israeli raid on the city, which is north of the occupied West Bank, when she was hit by a bullet to the head,” Ibrahim said, speaking from the Palestinian city of Ramallah.

In her last email to the network, Abu Akleh sent a message to Al Jazeera’s Ramallah bureau at 6:13am (3:13 GMT) in which she wrote: “Occupation forces storm Jenin and besiege a house in the Jabriyat neighbourhood. On the way there – I will bring you news as soon as the picture becomes clear.”

Separately on Wednesday in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said an 18 year old Palestinian, Thaer Mislet-Yazouri, was shot dead by Israeli forces in the town of al-Bireh, near the illegal settlement of Psagot.

Shock and grief
Abu Akleh, who was a dual Palestinian-American national, was one of Al Jazeera’s first field correspondents, joining the network in 1997.


Grief and sorrow filled the Al Jazeera offices in downtown Ramallah as the news quickly spread and dozens of colleagues, fellow journalists, friends, and Palestinian figures poured in, including Palestinian politicians Hanan Ashrawi and Khalida Jarrar.

Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar said that Abu Akleh was the voice of Palestinians and was killed by “the monstrosity of Israeli colonialism and occupation”.

“Shireen was always my voice from the prison cells,” Jarrar told Al Jazeera, adding that a month into her last detention by Israel, Shireen was the first person she saw at her court hearings.

“Shireen was our voice. It is unbelievable. It is a crime, it is all clear – intentional and direct targeting. She was targeted. It’s clear,” said Jarrar.

The Palestinian presidency condemned the killing, saying in a statement that it holds the Israeli occupation responsible.

Palestinian Authority (PA) government spokesperson Ibrahim Melhem described it as a “comprehensive crime committed against a well-known journalist”.


“The killing was deliberate… There will be an autopsy by Palestinian medics, which will be followed by a report including all the details of the killing,” Melhem told Al Jazeera.

“However, all the witnesses present at the scene of the crime ensures that it was an Israeli sniper that committed the crime in a deliberate way.”

Yair Lapid, the Israeli foreign minister, said Tel Aviv was offering a “joint pathological investigation” into Abu Akleh’s “sad death”. He added that “journalists must be protected in conflict zones”.

One of Abu Akleh’s former colleagues, Mohammad Hawwash, who knew her for more than 25 years, said she was a “real journalist”.

“Shereen was a professional and unbiased journalist who conveyed the reality and events as they are,” Hawwash, 70, told Al Jazeera.

Palestine TV correspondent Christine Rinawi, who was often with Abu Akleh in the field in Jerusalem, said the late reporter was a “professor in the world of journalism.”


“We would meet for hours in the field, we would be arrested together, we were wounded together. Shireen was a message throughout all her journalistic life, and even in her martyrdom, she is a message,” Rinawi told Al Jazeera.

“This is a sad day, a black day. There are no words to explain the pain that we are all going through,” she added.

The Israeli military said its soldiers had come under attack with heavy gunfire and explosives while operating in Jenin, and that they fired back. It added that it was “investigating the event”.

Al Jazeera’s offices in the Gaza Strip, in a building that also housed the Associated Press, were bombed by Israeli forces during an offensive a year ago, and Palestinian and international journalists say they have been regularly targeted by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem.

Many in Palestine and abroad took to social media to express their shock and grief.

“Israeli occupation forces assassinated our beloved journalist Shireen Abu Akleh while covering their brutality in Jenin this morning. Shireen was most prominent Palestinian journalist and a close friend,” wrote Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Kingdom.





Those who knew her described her as brave, kind and a voice for the Palestinians.

“Shireen was a brave, kind and high integrity journalist that I and millions of Palestinians grew up watching,” wrote Fadi Quran, an activist at the campaign group, Avaaz.

“Horrified to hear of Israel’s killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin! Shireen has boldly covered Israel’s aggression in Palestine for over two decades,” wrote Huwaida Arraf, a Palestinian-American activist and lawyer.

“In disbelief,” wrote Salem Barahmeh, a Palestinian activist. “We grew up to her reporting on the second intifada. She was our voice. Rest in power and peace. Another day, another tragedy.”





Giles Trendle, Al Jazeera’s managing director, said the network was “shocked and saddened” by the death of Shireen Abu Akleh.

“We have had a history throughout the world but particularly in this region, where we have had tragedies,” he said, calling for a transparent investigation of the killing of Abu Akleh.

“As journalists, we carry on. Our mission is to carry on. We will not be silenced,” said Trendle. “Our mission is always to carry on to inform the world what is happening. And that is more important ever.”

Source: Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/11/shireen-abu-akleh-israeli-forces-kill-al-jazeera-journalist

 

Either she did something she should not have done, or it was a legitimate mistake. In either case I do not care.

 

@stumbler cares.
Whatever it takes to demonize the "shithole country" he so hates, eh?

 

I'm going to take a moment here to make some comments on what this comment is. This is possibly the most level-headed representation of what the conversation of diversity really is about. "For an upper middle class White family diversity is a chinese american family next door... ...being the victim of black criminals." All of that within those few sentences encapsulate the disconnect of the well-to-do from the rest of the country in ways that I couldn't improve upon if I tried, so I won't. Having said that, I also agree that the people choosing the side of the palestinians, with regards to the middle east, are disillusioned and have a disconnect from what I call, "a moral compass for true north" all to their own. In full disclosure, I also feel the same can be said about those who foolishly side with the occupying force called israel.

That blood-soaked sandbox in the middle east, now known as israel, was at one time occupied by all three branches of what is called the abrahamic faiths, and truth be told it still is to this day (albeit a very one-sided occupation). The Christians that were once a sizeable portion of the population in and around that area have either died, been killed or are barely holding on since being caught between the two other factions in the region with zero to minimal support from those that share their faith. I'm not certain the precise amount monetarily but it goes without saying that the bulk of the dumb-dog pastors and preachers here in america haven't even thought to send supportive money to the starving Christians in the area and instead think it some biblical imperative to, "stand with the nation of israel." I haven't the time nor the patience to unpack such a ludicrous misrepresentation of the biblical text but suffice it to say that is NOT what The Bible means when saying that those that stand with israel will he bless.

To go to the heart of the subject matter and to confine my input it to only the paradigm of today's theology I'd say that the two "semite" tribes can fight over that blood-soaked litter box called the middle east all they want. No where in their squabble is there any imperative for me to take a side in their multi-generational cat fight. If they wish to fight over what I would characterize as "ABC gum" which is no longer of value to the tribes of the covenant, I say let 'em. It won't bring them any closer to God nor will it somehow rescind the curse they will endure from the blood and death of Able from being on their posterity. (This isn't about just Jesus my dude, this goes back well to the very beginning of The Bible and is a continuous thread throughout)

When I run across these types of characterizations - the post I'm commenting to, not the paragraph above - which are foolish and downright wrong. I immediately realize that I'm dealing with someone that either has never taken the dust off their own Bible and just allowed it to sit on that table in their foyer, or they haven't allowed it to collect dust quite so terribly only because it sits upright on a bookshelf and taken down on sunday to read their pre-planned kindergarten narrative someone has cherry picked for that particular sunday. Almost entirely those hand holding sessions now called church are just a way for 501(c)(3) entities to reach into the pocket of the masses and is in no way the true account of what, or more precisely who, The Bible truly is representative of. If you will allow me this moment I'd like to call to your attention to a select number of passages that are contained in The Bible and also some that are found in the many tomes called the talmud which the jewish people, orthodox and secular alike, place above The Old Testament in order of importance.

...... ... .......

Actually, better yet I believe that the place for this type of conversation isn't here. So, I'll be leaving out certain parts of substance, the meat and potatoes if you will, of what it is I intend to bring to your attention. You can also think of this as a chance for you to research the hinted at narrative for yourself and see that I'm not just fool or a hate-filled bigoted individual ( which I can hear the war drums beating for already ) and I will get to see if you have the mental acuity above a fourth grader and the fortitude to do some learning through reflection on your own. I will first leave a list of Bible verses that point to a set of information regarding the covenant with the chosen tribes and I implore you to truly reflect on what group of people that speaks of. Is it the jews of today?... Some other group?... No one at all? Then I will leave a curated set of passages in the collection of books known as the talmud for you to ponder the first set of info with as supportive material about the narrative I hope to convey (Yes, curated. I'd be happier with my skin peeled from flesh, then the flesh from the bones if I ever have to read the entirety of that sacrilegious effrontery to God). If you have read the lists I leave and still have questions, feel free to ask but only after you have sought the information first and somehow have been left wanting.

Genesis ch.17 vs.4-6
"... as for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations."
"... for a father of many nations I have made thee."
" and I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee."
Genesis ch.22 vs.16-18
16)"and said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son..."
17)" That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies."
18)"and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice."
*CONTEXTUAL CAVEAT*
Abraham's son was named Isaac and the blessing that God laid out followed him. He had two sons named Jacob and Esau which Jacob was later renamed "Israel" with his offspring later known as the Israelite people....
Malachi ch.2 vs.2-3
"I have loved you" saith the Lord. Yet ye say, "Wherein hast thou loved us?" "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" saith the Lord: "Yet I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness."

There are many more to illustrate the point but I leave you with these to start your journey. Now, the talmud....
Gittin 57a: ..."Jesus (yeshu) is in hell boiling in hot excrement."
Sanhedrin 104b: "Jesus was sexually immoral and worships a brick."
Kethuboth 11b: "When a grown man has intercourse with a little girl, it is nothing."

That's three from both sides of that argument and I will leave the rest up to you to find through personal dedication to God and his Son. In that, I have end on that we all fall short of the glory of God and none are pure enough to stand before Him without the redemption of His Son.... I hope I have conveyed an initial "jumping point" for you to descend into the belly of the beast a false idolator and come out the other side a true soldier for God and His people. What will follow now will be a sort of cliff notes for the mentally deficient so I ask that you not start your search here but only if you end up without closure to the story should you read these thought guiding questions:

1.) After reading the passages above for Genesis, are the jews of today the father of many nations?
1a.) Are they exceedingly fruitful?
1b.) Have kings come from them?
2.) Are their progeny found all over the earth?
2a.) If not, why?
2b.) If so, in what proportions to the rest of the earth they?
2c.) Do their numbers resemble the sand on the seashore?
2d.) Why, or why not?
3.) Which of the two sons that Isaac bore (Jacob and Esau) are the covenant to apply?
3a.) Jacob, or Esau?
3b.) Why? Biblical teachings for your choice?
4.) If the jews of today are NOT the chosen people of God, then what nation of people is?
4a.) Evidence?

I'm fairly certain that this could misconstrued as "hate" ( as an aside, hate speech is still speech which is protected via the first amendment... it's in the named description of what they even call it - hate "SPEECH." Troglodytes, I swear, geez. ) To that I say to those that dislike my information: "You have no one to be angry with but your own people and your crude, medieval practices." Still, since we find ourselves at the crossroad we are currently at in the west this will likely see me having this scrubbed from the discourse and my account being banned. I truly disapprove of this as a policy and wish only to have a voice so as to inject some reason and logic in the discourse that has taken place here. If I'm to be shot down by the usual suspects then at least I can say I'll be vindicated if even one person sees this and takes to heart what I provide and seeks further information for themselves. I wish all who happen upon this blessings of good will and hope that life doesn't burden your feet during your travel. The world has seen enough of that for our people as of late and no more is wanted. Until the days when this clay no longer can burden the spirit within our people from all the evils it desires to make us chase after, farewell.

p.s. If this somehow makes to the end of the week without being scrubbed and my account not being removed I must say that my adversary has either become so brazen by the usual handling of this information by the indoctrinated masses that they care not who knows because they know not one in a million will look it out for themselves or they truly may have turned a new page ( the few in attendance at least ) and maybe the blessings of Christ will be given to them as well. Provided they renounce their vile teachings and ask for forgiveness in the name of Christ. I hope this to be the case because remember, it is the twelve tribes, not the eleven.

 

Sure its ok for the Israel military to murder US citizens. Just ask the American hating treasonous conservative/Republicans.

Israel will not investigate Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing
The Israeli military believes the investigation would lead to controversy in Israel; Abu Akleh family not surprised, calls for transparent probe.

Israeli police confront with mourners as they carry the casket of slain Al Jazeera veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during her funeral in east Jerusalem [Maya Levin/AP Photo]

By Al Jazeera Staff
Published On 19 May 202219 May 2022

The Israeli military is not planning to investigate the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, according to Israeli media, leading her family to reiterate their call for a transparent probe into her shooting.

Israel’s Military Police Criminal Investigation Division believes an investigation that treats Israeli soldiers as suspects will lead to opposition within Israeli society, the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz reported on Thursday.

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The Jerusalem Post also confirmed the report.




Abu Akleh, 51, was killed by an Israeli soldier last Wednesday, according to witnesses and colleagues who were present when she was shot while covering an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

In response to the report, Abu Akleh’s family said they were not surprised by the Israeli military potentially not investigating her death.


“We were expecting this from the Israeli side. That’s why we didn’t want them to participate in the investigation,” the family said in a statement to Al Jazeera. “We want to hold whoever is responsible for these acts accountable.”

“We urge the United States in particular – since she is a US citizen – and the international community to open a just and transparent investigation and to put an end to the killings.”

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The veteran reporter, who lived in occupied East Jerusalem, was a US citizen. She spent nearly three decades covering the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.


‘The army is untouchable’
On the day she was killed, Abu Akleh was wearing a helmet and a vest clearly marked with the word “press”. She was hit in the back of the neck, in the small space between the helmet and the vest. Shots continued to be fired when colleagues and bystanders attempted to help Abu Akleh.

The Abu Akleh family received reassurances from the US government that her killing would be investigated.

Israeli authorities initially said Palestinian fighters were responsible for her death, circulating video of Palestinian men shooting down an alleyway.


However, researchers from the prominent Israeli human rights group Btselem found the spot where the clip was filmed: 300 metres (985 feet) away and with no line of sight to the location where Shireen was shot. Al Jazeera’s Sanad news verification and monitoring unit also conducted an investigation and reached a similar conclusion.

Israel later backtracked from its suggestion and said it would open an investigation into the killing.


Previous investigations into the killings of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers have led to controversy within Israel – many Israelis believe soldiers should not be prosecuted for such acts.

“The reason for this is that you would actually have to open a criminal investigation into a serving Israeli army officer or soldier on an active military operation. That’s something that Israeli politics in this current climate finds absolutely untenable,” Al Jazeera’s reporter Imran Khan said from West Jerusalem.

“The government would be attacked if that investigation took place. The opposition would use it to make political ground.”

“Also, generally with Israelis itself, they see the army as being untouchable, as being defenders of Israel and therefore anything that they do on a military operation is untouchable,” he said.


The Ha’aretz report also said there was “no suspicion” of a criminal act, with the soldiers questioned saying they thought they were firing at a Palestinian fighter, despite witnesses and Al Jazeera journalists reporting that there was no shooting in Abu Akleh’s vicinity.

Bullet fragments were retrieved from Abu Akleh’s body but the Palestinian Authority has declined to give the evidence to Israel, saying the latter has a long history of not investigating the deaths of Palestinians properly and merely issuing light sentences or warnings to its soldiers who have carried out killings.

Source: Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022...vestigate-killing-of-shireen-abu-akleh-report

 

@stumbler
Did you forget that your savior is now in the white house is the one you're bitching about?
You do know Trump is no longer in the White House, or President, right?
Is he an "American hating treasonous conservative/Republicans"?

You can't even keep your propaganda squared away anymore, can you?

 

During the War in Vietnam I joined the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee. That was the left wing of the American Socialist Party. The American Socialist Party was running itself into the ground. It opposed U.S. entry into the Second World War, and supported the War in Vietnam. It is a long story, and incomprehensible to anyone not versed in in fighting on the extreme left. Anyway, the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee later evolved into Democratic Socialists of America. Democratic Socialists of America has over 92,000 members and chapters in all 50 states. Nevertheless, it does not run candidates, as the Socialist Party did, but helps Democrat Party candidates win, while trying to move them to the left.

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Democrats More Positive About Socialism Than Capitalism
Gallup, AUGUST 13, 2018

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- For the first time in Gallup's measurement over the past decade, Democrats have a more positive image of socialism than they do of capitalism. Attitudes toward socialism among Democrats have not changed materially since 2010, with 57% today having a positive view. The major change among Democrats has been a less upbeat attitude toward capitalism, dropping to 47% positive this year.

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Young Americans Increasingly Prefer Socialism.
The Heritage Foundation, Jul 13th, 2021

Young Americans like socialism. That’s one finding of a new Axios/Momentive poll surveying American attitudes toward topics such as economic inequality, capitalism and socialism, and government’s role in the economy.

Among Americans aged 18-24, the poll reports that only 42 percent of those surveyed regardless of political affiliation have a positive view of capitalism, while 54 percent have a negative view.

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Speaking for myself, I no longer believe in socialism, but I do not dislike it. I accept capitalism, but I do not like it. I think it is foolish for anyone who does not get most of his income from interest, rent, and/or dividends to support capitalism with any enthusiasm.

 

I have read those quotes many times on anti Jewish websites. Jews to not claim infallibility for the Talmud. Anyone who has known and liked as many Jews as I have knows that they often disagree.


These are some passages that I like:

It is forbidden to rob the idolator.
- V. Baba Metzia, 2, 5.

Even a non Jew who speaks words of wisdom is called a wise man
- Medigillah, 16

The just among the Gentiles are priests of God.
- Eliyahu Zula, 20

The righteous among the Gentiles will hav a share in the World to Come.
- Yalkut Shimeoni, Prophetic Section 296

To rob or defraud a Gentile is worse than to rob an Israelite.

- Tosefta Baba Kamma, 10, 15.

 

As soon as the Palestinians stop attacking Israel the Israelis will will stop killing Palestinians.

 

Not even bothering to read certain posters is a real time saver.

And now I agree completely. The US taxpayers should not be forced to pay for Israel's war crimes.

‘Our Tax Dollars are a Part of This': Ocasio-Cortez Condemns Killing of Al-Jazeera Journalist

 

The two billion dollars we give every year to Israel is money well spent. Israel is surrounded by enemies who since 1948 have tried to destroy Israel. The Israelis are people like us.

 

America supports Israel because they are our only democratic ally in the mideast.
Money well spent.
Now Stumbler, he'd probably like to see Iran nuke Israel, and for that matter, if they nuked this "shithole country" he'd probably be good with that, so long as he wasn't in the target area. Cause he knows a shit stained American flag isn't much protection against radiation.

 

I agree with your first two sentences.

I doubt that even you believe in the last two.

 

Sounds a lot like Russia warning about keeping NATO out of Ukraine...

Israel Warns It Will Use "Right To Self-Defense" To Keep Nukes Out Of Iran
Sunday, Jun 05, 2022 - 07:10 AM
By OilPrice via RFE/RL

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has told the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog that the Jewish state is ready to use its "right to self-defense" to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear weapons.

In a meeting with IAEA chief Rafael Grossi on June 3 in Jerusalem, Bennett accused Tehran of deceiving the world about its atomic activities. Bennett “expressed Israel’s deep concern regarding Iran’s continued progress toward achieving nuclear weapons while deceiving the international community by using false information and lies,” his office said in a statement.

The Israeli leader “emphasized the urgent need in mobilizing the international community to take action against Iran, using all means, in order to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear weapons."

Bennett's warning comes amid stalled efforts to revive a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers aimed at preventing Iran from developing atomic weapons. The landmark deal lifted most sanctions in exchange for Iran's curbing its nuclear activities.

The deal collapsed after President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement and reinstated biting sanctions on Iran. Efforts by the administration of President Joe Biden to revive the deal began in Vienna in April last year but have since fizzled out.

Grossi's visit came after the global nuclear watchdog on May 30 said it still had questions that were "not clarified" despite long-running efforts to get Iran to explain the presence of nuclear material at three undeclared sites. Bennett said Israel prefers diplomacy but "reserves the right to self-defense and to action against Iran in order to block its nuclear program should the international community not succeed in the relevant time frame."

Israel was a staunch opponent of the 2015 nuclear deal and welcomed the Trump administration’s unilateral withdrawal from the agreement.

Israel is widely believed to be the only atomic power in the Middle East but the country refuses to confirm or deny that it has nuclear weapons.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti...ll-use-right-self-defense-keep-nukes-out-iran

 

See, if biden would quit trying to help iran get the bomb, Iran might survive.

 

This really needs to happen unless the US wants to be accessory to murder again like the MBS murder of Jamal Khashoggi. All the evidence so far points to a deliberate assassination of a journalist by Israeli forces. And the US needs to get to the bottom of it and not be an accessory to it.


Romney, Ossoff call for probe into journalist’s killing in West Bank
by Olafimihan Oshin - 06/07/22 9:03 AM ET

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Sens. Mitt Romney (R-Utah.) and Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday asking him to launch an investigation into the death of American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

In their letter, the lawmakers ask the State Department to launch a “full and transparent” probe into Abu Akleh’s death and call for accountability as well.

Abu Akleh, who worked for Al Jazeera’s Arabic language channel and was one of the region’s most recognizable journalists, was shot and killed last month during a raid conducted by the Israeli military.


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Abu Akleh was covering the raid in the city of Jenin, which is controlled by the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank region of the country.

“The killing of a U.S. citizen and of a journalist engaged in the work of reporting in a conflict zone is unacceptable,” the senators wrote in their letter. “All over the world, journalists pursue truth and accountability at great personal risk. Press freedom is a core American value, and we cannot accept impunity when journalists are killed in the line of duty. We insist that the Administration ensure a full and transparent investigation is completed and that justice is served for Ms. Akleh’s death.”

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The senators also insisted that the Biden administration ensure “a full and transparent investigation” into Abu Akleh’s killing, asking for an update within 30 days.

The letter comes as U.S. officials, including President Biden, have publicly condemned the killing of Abu Akleh and called for an investigation to determine who is accountable for Abu Akleh’s death.


Israeli authorities have launched a separate investigation into Abu Akleh’s killing, with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett saying that Palestinian armed forces might have killed the veteran journalist. Al Jazeera, however, as well as journalists with Abu Akleh at the time of her death, have blamed Israeli forces, and a Palestinian investigation concluded Abu Akleh was deliberately shot and killed by Israeli soldiers. Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz called the investigation’s findings a “blatant lie.”



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