President Trump is close to approving over $100-billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and to aid Israel so it they can maintain military dominance in the Middle East. US weapons contractors will supply all sides of the arms race, and that market will grow to more than $300-billion over the next decade. […]
Israel’s Housing and Construction Minister Yoav Galant called for the assassination of Syrian President Assad following yesterday’s US State Department claim that the Syrian regime was using a prison crematorium to hide mass killings outside Damascus. […]
Israel implied that it was responsible for the missile strikes at the Damascus airport in Syria that they claim was a depot for weapons imported from Iran by Hezbollah militants. Earlier this week, Israeli forces bombed a military camp for pro-Syrian forces. There is no doubt that Israel is waging war against Syria. […]
Israel: Last month the FBI discovered that hundreds of death threats against Jewish facilities in the US were perpetrated by Michael Kaydar, a 19-year old Jewish man who claims to have a brain tumor and to be autistic. Actually, he is high-functioning entrepreneur who ran a cyber-terror supermarket on the dark web, offering services such as threatening phone calls to private homes for $40 and threatening school massacres for $80. Kaydar threatened a former Pentagon official that he would kidnap and murder his children. […]
Bogie Yaalon, former Defense Minister of Israel, said that in the past ISIS once fired on Israel and then apologized, showing collaboration between them. [Allies apologize when they accidentally cause harm to their partner.] […]
The Trump administration’s growing use of bombing campaigns in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen has neoconservative war hawks rooting for armed confrontation with Iran. Regime change in Iran is the open goal of Prime Minister Netanyahu on behalf of Israel. Trump has named Iran “the number one terrorist state”. […]
Israel is crossing over the border to carry out airstrikes on weapons shipments to Hezbollah, which is allied with Syria and fighting ISIS. Syria responded by threatening to use scud missiles against Israeli planes if they continue. Israel responded by saying it would take out Syria’s air defenses without blinking an eye […]
Syria, in response to an attack by Israeli forces, fired anti-aircraft missiles and says that one of the attacking planes was shot down. Israel says that the attacks were aimed, not against Syria, but against Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a military force from Lebanon fighting against ISIS, so these attacks are viewed as an Israeli defense of ISIS. […]
]Israel is barring anyone from entering the country who supports BDS (boycott, divestiture and sanctions) or who opposes Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The new law is creating bitter conflict between right-wing Zionists, who are supported by neocon Republicans in the US, and left-wing liberals who are supported by the Democrat party in the US. Adding drama to the issue is the fact that President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has close ties to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. […]
Copyright 2017 G. Edward Griffin
