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1. Russia clearly understood what was going on in Syria, with mercenary troops armed to the teeth with modern U.S. weapons and fleets of brand new commercial vehicles. They proceeded to slaughter these forces from the air, and the USA had to stand by and watch while ‘their’ mercenaries were decimated(coming to their aid would have been an open admission of the USA’s complicity in the lies).
   The American MSM did their best to cover up the lies but, the Russians won the day.

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   Comment by Brian Harry, Australia | July 11, 2018 | Reply

2. Evangelical Christian Zionists led by their controlling Jewish Zionists are the 5th column in USA .
   neocons in charge of US Middle East policy , as Gen Wesley Clark pointed out , channeled maximum efforts into effecting regime changes by supporting proxy terrorist mercenary armies to create well publicized  Arab Springs “everywhere” while giving the USA plausible deniability.
    
   Millions of “brown people”have been murdered , countries devastated, homes & infrastructure destroyed & the instigators of these WAR CRIMES are today walking free OPENLY claiming “Innocence”.
   
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   Comment by trueman2u | October 17, 2019 | Reply

3. THE ISRAELI ASSASSINS

   “DANGEROUS LIAISON: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE U.S.- ISRAELI COVERT RELATIONSHIP by Andrew Cockburn/Leslie Cockbure
   Brian Lamb:
   Leslie Cockburn, what was the most interesting part of writing this book?

   Leslie Cockburn
   THE INSIDE STORY OF THE U.S.-ISRAELI COVERT RELATIONSHIP”:
   There are a number of things. For example, one particular part which I found most interesting was we talk about Israeli operations in Colombia and some of the Israeli commandos who trained the hit squads of the Medellin cartel. It turns out that they had trained us in Israel as well when they were between trips to Colombia. These were the same people who also trained most of the top commanders in the Guatemalan military and also trained the Contras. They had a firm that was under license to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and then they’d turn up in the jungles of Puerto Boyac in Colombia. So, we had a lot of adventures, I must say.

   Brian Lamb:
   Do the Israelis lie to the public?

   Leslie Cockburn:
   In talking about this kind of stuff — covert operations, national security subjects — there is censorship in Israel. So a lot of these things can’t even be discussed. We talk about in the book the Israeli nuclear program and break some ground on this. We talk about the Israeli chain of command, that it takes the prime minister, the head of Mossad and the defense minister to make the decision to push the nuclear button.

   Brian Lamb:
   Is this the nuclear facility at Dimona?

   Leslie Cockburn:
   That’s correct.

   Brian Lamb:
   Is that the only nuclear facility they have?

   Leslie Cockburn:
   It’s an enormous nuclear facility. But what we’ve discovered . . .

   Brian Lamb:
   Did you try to go there?

   Leslie Cockburn:
   Oh, I’ve been to Dimona, yes.

   Brian Lamb
   Inside?

   Leslie Cockburn
   No, no, no. That’s very difficult.

   Brian Lamb:
   Where is it?

   Leslie Cockburn
   It’s down in the Negev. It’s out in the middle of nowhere, and what happens is when you go to Dimona, if you happen to stop the car and take a picture of it or film it or whatever, you’re out of there very quickly. One defense intelligence agency friend of ours said that he had more flat tires in front of Dimona than anywhere else in Israel. But what we also have discovered was that Israel not only has nuclear weapons, but sophisticated tactical nuclear weapons just like we do. Remember the American Army used to have nuclear land mines, for example, all over Germany.

   Well, the Israelis, we’ve discovered, have nuclear land mines seated on the Golan Heights and at one point Ariel Sharon, who is, of course, famous for the invasion of Lebanon and whatnot, went to [Menachem] Begin and said, “Look, you’re busy,” and had a terrible relationship at the time with the chief of Mossad. He wanted to take over sole control of the nuclear button, and Begin, fortunately, said no. But this kind of thing — I mean this is why the Israelis have gone wild for the book and they’ve serialized it in Ma’ariv and written about it in Ha’aretz because they can’t talk about this sort of stuff unless it’s been printed abroad before.

   Brian Lamb:
   Ma’ariv and Ha’aretz are what?

   Leslie Cockburn
   They’re two very large Israeli papers. Ha’aretz is the kind of New York Times of Israel and Ma’ariv is the conservative paper.

   Brian Lamb:
   You point out in your book that one of the things you did differently with this book is you’ve had a lot of translations of a lot of Hebrew in Israeli newspapers. Why?

   Andrew Cockburn
   Because there’s an amazing amount of information that appears in Hebrew — the Israelis feel comfortable about this because if it’s in Hebrew it’s like it’s among themselves — that doesn’t get translated into English.

   They are very conscious of the feeling that Hebrew is like a code. Not many people outside Israel actually speak it. So if you can say something in Hebrew, it’s almost like saying it in secret. We discovered that, for instance, the Hebrew press in Israel is very, very good, and there are a lot of good journalists. There are very good newspapers. An amazing amount of information that never finds its way into the dispatches of foreign correspondents from Israel, very few of whom actually speak Hebrew, nor does it appear in the English-language Israeli papers like the Jerusalem Post.

   Someone said to us,
   “Do you know what the function of the Jerusalem Post is?”
   We said, “What?”
   He said, “It’s to give the American ambassador a happy breakfast.”
   So they’re very conscious of, “Hebrew is for us and English is for everyone else.” We also found with books and also some diaries and documents there was a treasure trove. The Israelis, of course, are good at keeping secrets. It’s not like they spill everything out and they have to have freedom of information. But there is still a wealth of detail and information and color and a lot of what you need to know to understand the connection we’re talking about in Hebrew.

   Brian Lamb:
   How did you get it translated? Was it expensive?

   Andrew Cockburn
   Yes, but we thought it was worth the investment.

   Brian Lamb:
   Can you give us an example of something that you learned that was in Hebrew that we never saw in English?

   Andrew Cockburn
   Sure. The ’67 war, for example. The people’s general view of the 1967 war was all the Arabs sort of ganged up on Israel and may have even attacked Israel and the Israelis fought them off and won the great victory which got them the West Bank that people are arguing about today.
   In fact, let me give you a quick background. Let me put it this way:
   We found a book of memoirs written by a guy who was the military aide to the then-prime minister of Israel. It was a guy called Israel Lior. He gives an account in this book which has never been translated into English. It’s available only in Hebrew; in fact, wasn’t even a bestseller there. He gives an account how on June 3, 1967 — two days before the war broke out — he was at the home of the prime minister and they were waiting for the head of Mossad to come back from Washington. The head of Mossad had been sent to Washington to get permission, to get the green light, to launch the war. He explains, “We knew we could win” — he’s explained already in the book –
   “The generals were hot to go. They weren’t really scared of the Egyptians or anyone else, but they wanted to go ahead with this and the prime minister had been saying, ‘No, we can’t do it. We can’t attack until we have American permission.'”

   Andrew Cockburn:
   He gives this very vivid description of how Meir Amit, the head of Mossad, comes back into the room at midnight. The high command is sitting around, and this being an Israeli meeting the air is thick with cigarette smoke. Amit walks back in and they say,
   “Well, what is it? Is it war or no war? Will they let us go?”
   Amit says,
   “Well, I’ve been given to understand, the Americans have told me that they will bless us if we crush Nassar, and that’s it.”
   They started the war on Monday morning. He’d been to Washington and he’d seen Richard Helms, the head of the CIA, and a very few other very senior officials, also including, certainly, James Jesus Angleton, and they got permission to do it. So that was something that had never been in English. Once you’ve read that, you understand that things are a bit different from the kind of histories you read in English.

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   Comment by Dave Rubin | July 26, 2020 | Reply

   • 1967, that was the War when the Israel Airforce, attacked the unarmed “USS Liberty” in International Waters in the Mediterranean Sea, killing and wounding 205 American sailors, and President Johnson called back the US Navy who went to its aid. Such was/is the power of Israel over the ‘mighty’ USA.

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     Comment by brianharryaustralia | July 26, 2020 | Reply

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